AllDarnDavey
Active member
In case anyone isn't the best pixel artist or is looking to get a bit of a headstart, you can find many tilesets at itch.io.
https://itch.io/search?q=tileset
Lots of pixel art tilesets that you can purchase for around the price of a trip or two to Starbucks, and even a few free ones if you look hard enough (be sure to check the useage rights). I suggest looking for ones marked as 16x16 tiles, or 8x8 (which you can combine to create 16pixel metatiles). Also look for ones with limited color pallets, as I haven't found any that fit the NES color requirement perfectly, but ones with already reduced colors are easier to reduce a bit more.
I'm still playing around in NESmaker, getting comfortable with the limitations, and trying to find ways to optimize to squeeze out more detail. But with a handful of tilesets I picked up from https://aamatniekss.itch.io/
It wasn't too hard to convert to NESmaker and create some nice screens pretty quickly.
https://itch.io/search?q=tileset
Lots of pixel art tilesets that you can purchase for around the price of a trip or two to Starbucks, and even a few free ones if you look hard enough (be sure to check the useage rights). I suggest looking for ones marked as 16x16 tiles, or 8x8 (which you can combine to create 16pixel metatiles). Also look for ones with limited color pallets, as I haven't found any that fit the NES color requirement perfectly, but ones with already reduced colors are easier to reduce a bit more.
I'm still playing around in NESmaker, getting comfortable with the limitations, and trying to find ways to optimize to squeeze out more detail. But with a handful of tilesets I picked up from https://aamatniekss.itch.io/
It wasn't too hard to convert to NESmaker and create some nice screens pretty quickly.