Projects

A list of NES projects.

See also:

• Tools
• Emulator Tests

Games

Game	Date	Author	Genre	Notes
2-in-1 Geminim/Siamond	2008-06-25	Sivak	Puzzle	2 games based on Nim and Simon.
Alter Ego	2011-12-16	shiru	Puzzle
Attribute Zone	2014-02-13	zzo38	Puzzle	Puzzle game involving Famicom PPU limiations.
Battle Kid: Fortress of Peril	2010-02-22	Sivak	Platform
Battle Kid 2: Mountain of Torment	2012-12-05	Sivak	Platform
Chase	2012-01-04	shiru	Action	Simple maze chase game as part of an NES C programming tutorial.
Concentration Room	2010-07-08	Damian Yerrick	Puzzle	Card matching game.
Famicom Hangman	2012-09-30	zzo38	Puzzle	Word guessing game.
Haunted: Halloween '85	2016-10-30	Retrotainment Games	Action
Lan Master	2011-06-09	shiru	Puzzle
Lawn Mower	2011-06-30	shiru	Action
Mystic Pillars	2008-11-25	Sivak	Puzzle	Columns clone.
NESert Golfing	2019-01-31	rainwarrior	Sports	2D golf game based on Desert Golfing.
Nomolos	2010-08-16	Gradual Games	Platform
Nova the Squirrel	2018-06-03	NovaSquirrel	Platform
RHDE	2014-07-19	Damian Yerrick	Action	Fort building game inspired by Rampart.
Super Bat Puncher	2011-05-31	Morphcat Games	Platform
Super NeSnake 2	2008-05-31	MatrixZ	Action	Nibbles clone.
Super PakPak	2010-07-28	fuzb	Action	Spacewar!/Thrust/Gravity force style game.
Thwaite	2011-12-08	Damian Yerrick	Action	Missile Command style game.
Zooming Secretary	2011-12-29	shiru	Action

Compilations

• Action 53 - NESDev homebrew compilation series

Unfinished Projects

• Apex - Side-scrolling adventure/exploration game by Dr. Floppy
• Desert Bus 3D - Desert Bus for the NES by Retro Pixel Games Studio
• Elemental Solitaire - solitaire card
• Fire Below/Stars Above - Platform game
• Mega Man 9 proof of concept
• President - Super Mario Bros. style side-scroller engine by Damian Yerrick (on hiatus)
• Project P - Platform game
• Ramses Game

Unsorted

Games that were linked from the original NESDev homepage. Should be organized into the table above.

• Fighter F-8000 by Kalle Suikola. Texts in Finnish. Source code. 2008-03-10
• Galaxy Patrol Enhanced by Michael Martin.
• 2003 MiniGame Compo multicart packed and menu'd by Memblers, music covered from C64 Wizardry, sound code by Bananmos, FilePack code by Mickael Pointier. Features all the NES games entered in the 2003 MiniGame Compo.
• BoxBoy by Neil Tew. An action puzzle game. By controlling 4 seperate characters, arrange the boxes in the correct order before they drop off the screen. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (4KB category), placed 9th of 37.
• Bomber 4K by RoboNes. Perilously fly over 3 cities and destroy each one to win. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (4KB category), placed 31st of 37.
• Escape from Pong by Halley's Comet Software. You play as a Ping Pong ball, trying to escape from 12 paddle and obstacle-filled levels. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (1KB category), placed 12th of 26.
• Galaxy Patrol by Michael Martin. Fly through the starfield, avoid stars and collecting fuel. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (4KB category), placed 36th of 37.
• BKG Graphics Test by Beneficii. A little maze game. A map editor is included.
• Manhole Program by KZ-S, Graphics by misaki, special thanks to Norix.
• Masmix v0.6 beta, code by Wojciech Andralojc, sprites by Kamil Chlodnicki, levels by Monika Subocz.
• Matrix v0.6 beta, code by Wojciech Andralojc, sprites by Kamil Chlodnicki, levels by Monika Subocz.
• Chess v0.0 beta by Matrixz. (not working?)
• Froggy by Rob. A 1Kbyte Frogger clone. Released at 2002 MiniGame Compo. Finished 55th out of 62. No source.
• Sack of Flour, Heart of Gold version 1d by Bob Rost, Matt Longnecker, Andrew Klein, Mark Hall, Mike Raisman, and Mark Stehlik.
• Pong by Paul Talbot.
• Sokoban by Johannes Holmberg. A version of Sokoban for NES.
• Zero Pong v3.0 by Zero-Soul.
• The Duel by Bokudono. A small game that pits Mario against a jumping goomba in a fight to the finish. Here is the source. (Comments are in spanish)
• D-Pad Hero v.1.1 by Kent Hansen and Andreas Pedersen. A NES version of Guitar Hero (SnowBro)
• BombSweeper v.5 by SnowBro. A clone of a Nintendo "Game & Watch" puzzle game of the same name. No sources.
• Junkrom (Tony Young)
• Mouser (Tony Young)
• Elite by Ian Bell and David Braben. There never was an NTSC release of this game, but later hack was released which allowed it to run on an emulator (with the right settings). Won't work on a real NES or accurate emulator. No sources. [site]
• Russian Roulette demonstrates how to read the Zapper's trigger. It's probably the only Zapper game that works on HDTVs. (Damian Yerrick)
• ZapPing (part of ZapRuder test ROM) A table tennis game for one or two players using two zappers. Source code. (Damian Yerrick 2011-09-18)

Music

Music albums in NES ROM form.

• Vegavox - Alex Mauer / NO CARRIER (2007)
• Vegavox II - Alex Mauer / NO CARRIER (2009)
• Embered Recollections - Heosphoros / miau / KeFF (2009)
• Teletime - Animal Style / NO CARRIER (2010)
• MOON8 - rainwarrior (2010/2012)
• NOFX Cover Cart Vol. 1 - HeavyW8bit (2012)
• DENDYcompo II - 8081netlabel / Rubel (2014)

Music tools and toys.

• NES Audio Tools - Tools by Neil Baldwin: NTRQ (native tracker), PR8 (rhythm), and PULSAR (sequencer)
• GLITCH02 - Randomized music experiment by Neil Baldwin
• SuperMagic Music Maker - Interactive music experiment by Neil Baldwin

Unsorted

Music demo programs that were linked from the original NESDev homepage. Should be organized with material above.

• Paranoiz by nurv. A noise channel editor.
• DMC-Based Saw Waves by blargg. Information about how this accomplished, and an NES ROM and MP3. Off-site link.
• Years Behind by Retrocoders. This music rom features covers and original music. Compatible with PAL NES only. No sources.
• New nes music format by Kevin Horton. A new format to store/replay NES music, similar to C64's psid format.
• GZS Generator of sound signals. Sergey Ryumik.
• Sound testing program by SnowBro. It lets you toggle the bits of the sound registers.
• NES Sound Test Music code. Plays the Goldrunner song. Lasse Öörni (Cadaver)
• Fade to Black by Fredrik Schultz and Morgan Johansson (authors of A/NES). It's a picture of Metallica with a nice rendition of 'Fade to Black'. No source code.
• Sound testing program by Morgan Johansson. Test the sound registers.

Demos

In progress: organizing demos below into this table.

Demo	Date	Author	Type	Notes
GrayBox (missing)	2008-07-09	Sean Kelly	Unknown	Tribute to NES' 25th birthday.
Commando	2008-10-07	Siudym	Simple	Movable sprite.
NEStress	2002-07-31	Flubba	Test	NES emulator test demo. Source code.
Deadline Console 2004	2004-05-10	Opius, Nullsleep	Multimedia	Invitation intro with animation and music. deadline
NESmas	2003-11-29	Mic	?	A small christmas greeting demo. Source code. (Not working?)
Overtest	2001-10-19	Alastair Bridgewater	Test	Tests the CPU's overflow flag. Source code.
Raster Demo	2003-02-18	Norix	Graphics	Spinning VirtuaNES logo raster effect with falling leaves.
TANESPOT	2003-01-27	Jonathan Liss	Multimedia	"A Tribute to All NES Players Out There", PAL NES demo (Swedish), placed 3rd of 4 in the Oldskool demo category of Dreamhack 2002.
demo	2002-10-07	Siudym	Graphics	Displays peace symbol. Made with a hex editor.
Diffusion Chamber	2002-04-16	Michael Martin	Graphics	Simulation of gas diffusion. P65 source code.
Jumpy demo	2001-09-23	'Rwin	Simple	A jumping sprite demo. NESASM source code.
Scroll demo	1999-12-15	HollowOne11	Graphics	Dissassembled and modified from Ultima 2. Source code. (Not working?)
Palette Test	1999-03-18	Loopy	Graphics	Displays all the colors on the screen at once. NESASM source code.
Colour bar program	1998-10-03	Mark Knibbs	Graphics	Displays color bars. Source code.
Game Genie	1990-05-08	Codemasters	Tool	A dump of the ROM used in the Game Genie. Galoob has kindly given permission for free distribution.
Deadfish	2013-06-08	zzo38	Tool	Deadfish programming language interpreter, for Family BASIC Keyboard. Source code.
Copper Bars	2004-07-05	Quietust	Graphics	Copper bars demo. Source code.
SMW Stomper	2004-07-04	Quietust	Graphics	A demonstration of mid-frame vertical scroll adjustment, showing the Super Mario World castle "stomper". Source code.
Scanline.NES	2003-06-13	Quietust	Test	Original version of a test of emulator PPU accuracy (note that in this version, the final test's text should NOT be readable). Updated version: here.
The Tao of 007	2004-06-29	Quietust	Multimedia	"Official game of the defunct Project: Sachen." Graphical demo with random voice samples. Source code.
GITS2	2002-10-06	Sergey Ryumik	Test	PAL TV test program.
GITS	2002-01-20	Sergey Ryumik	Test	Television quality test program. Also available: Russian version with extended information.
Bill World	2002-09-08	abonetochew	Graphics	Displays a level background for a game. Source code.
Blocks	2002-06-30	abonetochew	Graphics	Displays the Super Mario Bros. 1-1 background with scrolling. Source code.
Megaman X Sprite	2000-05-27	abonetochew	Graphics	Displays a Megaman sprite from the SNES game, Megaman X. Kinda buggy. Source code.
Boing	2001-02-18	Mankeli (HNO3)	Graphics	Sprites animating with a curved path. Source code.
City	2001-05-08	Mankeli (HNO3), Zonzki	Multimedia	City background demo with music and animated text. Sound engine by Bananmos.
NES Scrolling Test	2004-01-09	Lasse Öörni (Cadaver)	Graphics	Multidirectional scrolling test program, also detects PAL/NTSC. Uses MMC1 mapper + one screen mirroring. Source code.
Tank Demo	1992-01-30	Ian Bell	Graphics	A demo of an unfinished 3D tank game, using the pseudo-bitmap graphics engine from Elite. Source and information here.
Power Pad Test Program	1999-10-14	Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux	Test	Power Pad test program. No source.
Snow Intro	1999-06-06	Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux (Repulse)	Multimedia	Code by Repulse, graphics by _Bnu, and music by Random, which was re-done for the NES by Memblers. The music code was written by Bananmos.
ppu_off_colors2	2005-07-14	Blargg	Graphics	Displays horizontal and vertical rainbow palette effects with PPU rendering disabled. Source code.
Full palette demo	2006-03-11	Blargg	Graphics	Displays entire 400+ color NES palette with minimal pixel glitches. Source code. (thread)
Tall Pixel	2009-12-09	Damian Yerrick	Graphics	Stretches a still background image to 150% of its vertical size. Source code.
DPCM Split	2010-06-22	Damian Yerrick	Graphics	Shows how to abuse APU DMC timers to create a more-or-less reliable scroll split. Source code.
DPCM Letterbox	2010-08-16	Damian Yerrick	Graphics	Shows a more mature version of using the APU DMC timers that hides the background outside a 256x160 pixel window, all done in NMI and IRQ handlers so that your main thread can set it and forget it. Source code.
Password save demo	2010-07-20	Damian Yerrick	Simple	Allows the NES to remember 32 bits of a game's state across a power cycle. Source code.
Sprite Cans 2011	2011-04-23	Damian Yerrick	Multimedia	A demo that displays 64 rotating soda cans. Music by Ray Lynch covered by Damian Yerrick. Source code.
Zap Ruder	2011-09-18	Damian Yerrick	Test	Demonstrates how to read the Zapper's photosensor. It includes several still test patterns and ZapPing game. Source code.
Eighty	2014-04-25	Damian Yerrick	Test	Test program for the Four Score, including signature detection and compensation for DMC DMA bit deletions. Source code.
little things	2022-10-17	Damian Yerrick	Compilation	A collection of Damian Yerrick's early and one-off NES works. Source code.
GNOME vs. KDE	2000-07-08	Damian Yerrick	Multimedia	An unfinished 2-player Bingo style game. Music by Tony Young covered by Damian Yerrick, sound code by Bananmos. Source code.
Who's Cuter?	2000-08-14	Damian Yerrick	Graphics	"Take the survey and report the results." A slideshow of graphics. Source code.
Sprite 0 test	2000-06-12	Damian Yerrick	Test	A "sprite 0 hit" compatability test for emulators. Source code.

Integrate by-author stuff below into table above.

stuff by Chris Covell

Homepage

• FDS Disk Lister FDS program that lists disk contents.
• FDS Test 2 FDS programs, one plays music from Ai Senshi Nicol by Konami while displaying the FDS Wave-RAM, the other is an FDS version of the Stars SE demo.
• Sayoonara A nice demo, with something extra. Ripped music. No sources.
• Super Fighter demo A 1-screen demo related to Super Fighter. Code by Chis Covell, music covered by Memblers (original by Young Soung Wing), and sound code by Bananmos.
• Raster Bar demos Some raster demos.
• Stretch demo A vertical scaling demo.
• Full Screen demos 4 demos that show full-screen graphics with interlacing.
• CMC'80s An excellent demo. The music isn't original, as it was ripped from the game "Magician".
• Polar demos Some demos that rotate and expand sprites. Neat.
• Motion Some demos that do low resolution full screen animation.
• Wall A demo that shows transparency effects.
• Wavy CMC logo with good scrolling effects and palette cycling.
• Mega Man jet A picture of Megaman flying above some clouds.
• Solar Wars A freeware Scorched Earth type of game. Code, graphics, and design by Chris Covell, music by Memblers, and sound code by Bananmos. Here is the source code.
• Stars SE An intro with a Martin Galway tune done on the NES by Memblers. The sound code was written by Bananmos.
• Amiga! logo
• Atomic Shows a neat pic, and cycles through some palettes.
• Palette test program
• Game Genie decoder A useful program for converting GG codes to CPU and ROM hex values.
• Interlacing demo 3 demos showing an interlacing effect, and one more shows dithering.
• NESA player NESA (NES/Audio) is a logged audio format recorded by an emulator on Amiga called A/NES. Made mostly obsolete by the NSF format.
• MacOS A demonstation of bitmapped graphics on NES.
• Moby Shows the cover of Moby: Everything is Wrong in a neat (but buggy) pseudo-interlaced mode.
• Colour test program Set the hue and luminance values and see the NES color.
• Zelda title screen simulator

stuff by Memblers

E-mail

• Munchie Attack Eat all the food that you can, while avoiding the deadly shuriken. Inspired by 'Fast Food' on the 2600 VCS. 2003 MiniGame Compo entry (4KB category), placed 26th of 37.
• Hot Seat Harry A 1023 byte game for one or two players. Press the A button as fast you can to shock your opponent. [homepage] Released at 2002 MiniGame Compo. Finished 52nd out of 62. No source.
• Dropoff 7 The story of Dropoff 7, played through the NES's Delta-modulation channel.
• Halloween Intro A small program for Halloween. Doesn't do much. Code/graphics/music by Memblers, sound code by Bananmos.
• RTC A demo entered into the Y2Kode programming competition, recieved 2nd place out of 6 entries. This version is buggy and not recommended for a real NES.
• NES Test Program v1.3 Write to any register/RAM location with this program.
• Visual Player Shows some sprites to go along with the Silver Surfer NSF rip, with music by Tim and Geoff Follin.
• Visual Player Source Source code for the program. Can be modified to work with other NSF rips. Send me an email if you're interested in a newer, enhanced version of this.

ROM hacks

• Double Crossing: The Forbidden Four -- a hack of The Legend of Zelda to add a menu and three NROM games

Applications

• ADOS NES : an operating system project

Hardware

• NES Classic Controller for Wii
• MMC1 Development Cart
• NESDEV1 Development Cart
• Battery holder