What other "console maker" would you like?
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MistSonata
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Still waiting for the VirtualBoyMaker...
Tengen Games North
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I am not going to wish for any other "console maker" until NES Maker is a reality and that will be enough for me until I've made at least a dozen games and that would probably take several years. Right now I am still unsure if even one game idea will get made, in collaboration or solo.
abstractlion
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A 'gameboy color maker' would be pretty cool
tornotlukin
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Mega drive for sure! That must be a complicated affair.
MrElephant
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Joe, with your ability of making a NES gamemaker, I think it would be totally possible for you to make a Gameboy gamemaker as well. It handles a lot of the processes the same as the NES, but a lot of things are different as well. There was even a FC converter that allowed the user to convert NES games to gb, but it could only translate 25KB roms.
MistSonata
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MrElephant said:
Joe has already said that he's not going to create any other "maker" software apart from NESmaker.
MrElephant
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I don't remember reading or hearing that, but I'll take your word for it. Thanks for letting me know.
RandomKidGaming
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I would love a gameboy maker + gameboy color maker. You get the option at the beginning of your project if you want this to be mainly for gameboy, only for gameboy color, or somehow both! it would basically be the same thing, except if you picked being able to play it normally on both handhelds, you can switch between them when designing assets!
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iridium_ionizer
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I know it's not quite the same, but if you wanted a gameboy game (without figuring out how to hard code all of the assembly) couldn't you just make it on NESmaker and limit your palette groups to all the same kind (grayscale or green-grayscale)? Yes, you would lose out on the better stereo sound. But it is close enough to get most of the same effect unless you are actually flashing it onto a gameboy cartridge.RandomKidGaming said:
Of course SNES and MD/Genesis are the obvious targets, but it would be interesting to see what could be done with NEO-GEO since it was more or less the pinnacle of 2D-only gaming hardware. Also it didn't get a full library of games (because it wasn't as popular and it was arcade focused) so I think there are whole genres that were left out.
Dirk said:
You wouldn't HAVE to make better graphics (just look at any of the retro games on Steam), but you would be able to. I'd really like to see a Turbo Grafx 16 maker as that was a very fun system. Or a DOS maker? Yeah, probably it won't happen, but there's seriously very few resources on DOS dev these days (most are from dead sites and contain links that lead nowhere) and virtually no open source game libraries for dos.
CutterCross
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As much as I would love to see something like this for DOS, with the amount of graphics/sound settings and the varying amount of RAM across all sorts of DOS machines, it would be an absolutely insane challenge to find a way to develop an easy-to-use game development tool for all those systems.
What I would personally like to see is a C64 Maker.
What I would personally like to see is a C64 Maker.
CutterCross said:
I agree, however it could be focused on most popular choices (320x200 256 color VGA for graphics and sound blaster for audio, maybe even Adlib) and build engine around those, just like NES Maker wouldn't be easy to port to say MMC5.
//edit: And I agree C64 maker would be a cool idea, though maybe a harder sell than NM or Dos Maker are. Plus, there isn't any easy SID tracker that I'm aware of (as easy as FamiTracker).
Karakara | Karetro
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GBA and SNES aren't that hard, with a bit of googling and DevKitPro, you can make a game with C.