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The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)

VblankEntertainment · 399K views · 2013-02-27 · 10:45

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Making-of video about ROM City Rampage, the NES version of Retro City Rampage, covering how the game's core was crunched to run on real 8-bit hardware and how NES games are made.

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Recommended as a fascinating look at fitting a modern game into NES constraints.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2014–2022

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anon9001 · 2019-09 · Strong recommendation

If you like this, you should also check out the work around Retro City Rampage. RCR is a GTA1 clone for multiple platforms from a few years back, but the developer also made a real NES ROM of it. Here's a great talk about that process: [VIDEO] (I'm not related to the project, but it's one of the few games I've 100% completed because it was just so good)

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broahmed · 2017-02 · Recommendation

There's also a fascinating video of him getting the core of the game to run on NES spec constraints (think 8-bit CPU, 10KB of RAM): [VIDEO] (~11 mins) It offers insight into how old-school game developers worked within the limitations of the hardware they designed for.

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corysama · 2014-12 · Recommendation

Here's a fun video on how a modern 8-bit style game was ported to actually run on an NES. [VIDEO] You would probably enjoy the book Racing the Beam [LINK] For a collection of (mostly consumer-oriented) behind-the-scenes material, check out [LINK] Or, if you want to get really technical [LINK]

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