FCEU V1.6 Released (New Zelda + MMC5 support added!!!)

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Interesting.
Given FCEU's accuracy goal I'm surprised to hear there was an unsupported mapper still.

Personally I've never been a Nintendo fan. Not to say I dislike the machines, but pretty much everything they've released has something about it that I've disliked. Graphics for Nintendo systems for example,... Ive never really liked the look. NES is barely an upgrade from the Spectrum, and Snes only adds extra color and hardware tricks (obscenely low resolution graphics, even for its time). Then the N64 came along, and that looked worse than the Snes at times. Worst 3d image quality ever.

Some good games, but there's just something about Nintendo machines that's been consistent all along, and although I cant really articulate what that something is, I don't like it. Maybe it's the feel, maybe the look, .... whatever it is it's remained all along. Seems to polarise people though.

On a related note (albeit sidebar), I only just last night found out about  the NES game "Sweet Home".
Essentially a precursor to the Resident Evil games. In fact it seems Resident Evil started life as a remake. Although there's differences, there's definitely enough similarities to show R.E's legacy.

[fishy_fiz]

Ive been playing a bunch of NES games on my PSP lately. Seems there's more ROM hacks than official titles these days  :-) Would be interesting to find the origins of some of them. Some I think are unofficial pirate ROMs, but lord knows where others have stemmed from. Stuff like Final Fight3, Earthworm Jim, Mortal Kombat 2/3,..... none are official games, but they surely can't be hacks of other ROMs.
 
That w.i.p. SMB hack looks quite interesting. It's pretty cool what some people get up to in their spare time.

While I've been playing quite a few NES games, Im on a bit of an SMS kick at the moment. Graphically it's a pretty nice 8bit console. At times it even rivals the Amiga (16 colors for background tiles, plus 16 extra colors for hardware sprites (plus a few modes to allow 64 colors onscreen at once).
Would be interesting to see what people come up with nowadays for older systems like these. While the capability of these machines hasn't increased over time, development tools and so on have. I've got a bunch of SMS graphics that I've been doing, and not to toot my own horn, but they look better than most of what was around during it's heyday.
Shame the SMS ROM hacking scene isn't as big as that of the NES.

And by the way, "Home Sweet" rocks  :-)
Manages to capture quite a bit of the Resident Evil atmosphere, but without the graphics.