i'm just wondering

No, Nintendo games were written in hard-coded assembly made for their console machines. Those machines have special hardware-based game functions that let the game do things like scrolling, sprites, etc. without having to program anything.<p>
You can make games on the computer just like the Nintendo games but you'll have to make your own scrolling engine, graphics, etc. and it is usually easier to do.<p>
-Xotor-

: No, Nintendo games were written in hard-coded assembly made for their console machines. <p>
No they are not (anymore). Modern N64 games are most often written in C on a P.C. linked to a N64 through a cable through a special plug-in card. The C is ofcourse compiled to the appropriate machine instructions, but heck, that is through for every language <p>
I have friends developing for the playstation using the same technique (although they use a modified action replay cartridge, or some other, similar dirty trick).<p>
Just felt the need to correct you there, Xotor. Not even gameboy-titles are directly written in assembler anymore afaik.<p>
Greetz,<br>
The Watcher^TUHB

: No, Nintendo games were written in hard-coded assembly made for their console machines. Those machines have special hardware-based game functions that let the game do things like scrolling, sprites, etc. without having to program anything.<br>
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: You can make games on the computer just like the Nintendo games but you'll have to make your own scrolling engine, graphics, etc. and it is usually easier to do.<br>
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: -Xotor-<br>
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: i'm just wondering<p>
well actually the low level functions<br>
are mostly already built into the hardware<br>
of course depending on the console, but<br>
that is one of the many reasons why games<br>
created on let's say the N64 which I like a lot =)<br>
are "relativly" very small in size.<p>
I mean big parts of the game engine already exists<br>
within the hardware. <br>
So the cartridge games will have stored the <br>
instructions to control the hardware in a correct<br>
way to make a game, and of course all the picture<br>
data, and the text, (story), sound etc, etc.<p>
Please correct me if I'm wrong =)