Writing NES Games! with Assembly!!

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Shows how a playable NES game gets built in 6502 assembly with the CC65 toolchain, moving from a black screen to a bouncing ball sprite that reads controller input and runs at 60 fps. Details the NES PPU: 256×240 resolution, 8×8 tiles, a 54‑color palette with 25 usable colors, ROM board layout (program and character ROMs) and Zelda battery persistence. Debugs with FCUX under Wine and verifies behavior with two unit tests.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:58PICTURE PROCESSING UNIT
3. 7:36NMI INTERRUPT
4. 9:47LUA SCRIPTING
5. 11:11NEXT STEPS

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