NES Programming with 6502 Assembly

27h 55m 3s
English
Paid
November 8, 2024
This course is a full immersion into the world of the Nintendo Entertainment System. We will learn to program games for the NES using the Assembly 6502 language, exploring the fundamental elements of computer architecture. The unique design of the NES is the ideal environment for mastering key concepts of low-level programming. By the end of the course, you will have practical knowledge of the 6502 assembler, a deep understanding of NES hardware, and a completed project of your own simple game that we will create together from scratch. We'll start with small examples and gradually combine everything into a final project that demonstrates how a simple game for the NES is structured.

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# Title Duration
1 Motivations & Learning Outcomes 09:42
2 How to Take this Course 02:59
3 Placing the NES in History 09:55
4 NES Hardware (Console) 27:03
5 Opening the NES Cabinet 03:50
6 NES Hardware (Cartridge) 09:40
7 Binary Numbers 19:22
8 Hexadecimal Numbers 12:45
9 6502 CPU Pinout 13:25
10 6502 CPU Registers 10:10
11 6502 CPU Status Flags 23:26
12 The Assembler Flow 12:06
13 Popular 6502 Instructions 17:54
14 CA65 Assembler 02:47
15 Installing CA65 on macOS 01:52
16 Installing CA65 on Linux 01:57
17 Installing CA65 on Windows 09:08
18 iNES Header 16:40
19 Our First Assembly Code 14:42
20 Assembler & Linker 06:01
21 FCEUX Emulator 07:51
22 Our First Assembly Bug 07:50
23 Addressing Modes 06:45
24 6502 Warmup Exercises 08:22
25 6502 Warmup Exercises (Solution) 15:23
26 Makefiles 03:25
27 CPU Memory Map 12:36
28 Clearing RAM Addresses 12:27
29 NES Graphics & the PPU 17:09
30 Picture Frame & VBlank 09:39
31 PPU Memory Map 20:28
32 Background Color 07:51
33 NES Initialization Code 17:30
34 Include Files 06:40
35 Resetting PPU Address Latch 02:32
36 Sending Multiple Bytes to the PPU 11:49
37 Unnamed Labels & Subroutines 06:47
38 Editing CHR Tiles 12:20
39 Loading Nametable Tiles 12:58
40 Nametable Attributes 09:13
41 Loading Attribute Bytes 10:45
42 Creating Dynamic Macros 08:27
43 Declaring Variables 07:18
44 Measuring Game Seconds 04:05
45 Pointers 08:49
46 Loading a Full Nametable 14:23
47 Full Nametable Code 07:35
48 Exercise: Displaying Text 05:04
49 Displaying Text 08:12
50 Other Tile Editor Apps 05:35
51 NES Sprites 15:20
52 Hello Mario 11:20
53 OAM Decay 02:14
54 Hiding Sprites Off-Screen 05:04
55 Sprite Flickering 03:25
56 Include Nametable Files 02:25
57 Exercise: Hello Goomba 01:22
58 Hello Goomba 04:02
59 Bitwise Instructions 11:07
60 Controller Architecture 13:48
61 Controller Input Routine 10:36
62 Implementing Controller Input 04:43
63 Checking Button Presses 13:57
64 Moving Sprites with Button Presses 03:57
65 Button Constants 05:54
66 Integer & Fractional Position 25:24
67 Velocity & Acceleration 17:09
68 Signed Velocity 06:56
69 Intercalating Animation Frames 11:11
70 Multiple of Powers of Two 02:27
71 Mirroring & Scrolling 13:29
72 Horizontal Background Scrolling 16:36
73 Swapping Nametables 14:40
74 Bitshifting Operations 11:50
75 Load Background Dynamically 05:11
76 A Method for Dynamic Scrolling 23:07
77 Starting the AtlГўntico Code 16:13
78 Drawing Column of Tiles Off-Screen 21:58
79 Loading Initial Nametable Tiles 11:37
80 Loading Attributes Off-Screen 26:46
81 Scroll Split Screen 07:14
82 Sprite-0 Hit Implementation 11:56
83 Separating Game Logic & NMI 12:15
84 Running Game Logic Once Per Frame 07:14
85 Saving Registers in the Stack 03:30
86 Counting Game Loop Passes 04:47
87 Macro to Push & Pull Registers 02:31
88 A Discussion on Buffering 08:22
89 Array of Actors 13:34
90 Adding & Removing Actors 09:15
91 A Routine to Add Actors 17:54
92 Coding the Routine to Add Actors 13:23
93 Template to Loop Actors Array 06:29
94 Rendering Actors 33:36
95 Updating Actor Position 12:28
96 Limiting One Missile Per Button Press 06:18
97 Deleting Actors 16:52
98 Relative vs. Absolute Jumps 05:26
99 Spawning Submarines 15:45
100 Spawning Airplanes 06:07
101 Random Numbers using LFSR 24:34
102 8-Bit LFSR Example 09:21
103 Random Airplane Position 12:54
104 Adjusting Airplane Position 05:09
105 Sprite Collision Check 18:22
106 Missile-Airplane Collision 24:44
107 Check Point Inside Bounding Box 13:26
108 BCD Representation 17:48
109 Routine to Increment Score 10:29
110 Buffering Background Tiles 29:49
111 Increment Score on Airplane Hit 02:34
112 Background Collision Check 10:44
113 CHR Bank Switching 21:38
114 Game States 06:10
115 Title Screen State 10:13
116 Title Screen Nametable 18:21
117 Title Screen Menu Items 10:18
118 Drawing Menu Item Arrow 07:23
119 Exercise: Menu Item Palette Selection 03:58
120 Menu Item Palette Selection 05:15
121 RLE Compression 10:13
122 A Python Script to Encode RLE 14:56
123 A Routine to Decode RLE Data 10:06
124 Title Screen RLE Decoding 07:07
125 APU 14:32
126 Introduction to FamiStudio 39:48
127 Square Channel Ports 19:57
128 Triangle, Noise, and DMC Ports 13:13
129 Musical Notes & Period 17:21
130 Using a Sound Engine 16:03
131 FamiStudio Sound Engine 18:27
132 Some Notes on Chords & Voicing 03:50
133 Playing FamiStudio Music Code 14:07
134 Playing Missile Sound Effect 04:55
135 Playing Explosion Sound Effect 07:02
136 Fixing Button Press/Release Bug 06:53
137 Fixing VRAM Buffering Address 03:48
138 Clipping Tiles Left & Right 21:10
139 Calculating Tile Screen (-1,0,+1) 29:32
140 Removing Actors Off Screen 11:54
141 Fixing Explosion SFX Bug 06:42
142 Developing NES Games with C 04:53
143 C NESLib Examples 32:03
144 Conclusion & Next Steps 19:25

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1 6502 Warmup Exercises
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