useful_links.txt

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# I'm going to be putting this and other tutorials at embed.com/nes
https://www.embed.com/nes

# NES DEV has some great forums with a very helpful community, and a great forum for Newbies
http://forums.nesdev.com/viewforum.php?f=10

# NES DEV also has a wiki that is a great reference
https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki

# NERDY NIGHTS is the best known NES game dev tutorial on the web
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=7155

# NINTENDO AGE has a forum called "The Brewery" for NES Homebrew games
http://nintendoage.com/forum/categories.cfm?catid=22

# My personal favorite 6502 assembly reference.  There are many others
http://www.obelisk.me.uk/6502/reference.html

# CA65 Control Commands reference
https://www.cc65.org/doc/ca65.html#toc11



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# The CA65 assembler is one of the tools you get with CC65.  Available at this link
https://www.cc65.org/

# MESEN is my favorite NES emulator.  It has some great debugging tools.  
# I've included a copy in the tools folder
https://www.mesen.ca/#Downloads

# Visual Studio Code is the editor I use
https://code.visualstudio.com/

# I've used Notepad++ in the past, but I've switched to VS Code.  Notepad++ is a simpler editor
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v7.6.html

# YY-CHR is a CHR ROM editor
# I've included a copy in the tools folder
https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/YY-CHR

# Shiru's website has some great tools
http://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml

# Gimp is an open source & free image editor.  I typically aseprite and photoshop with yy-chr,
# but Gimp has many fans... and it's free
https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

# Aseprite is my favorite pixel art tool.  It's not free, but it's reasonably priced.
https://www.aseprite.org/




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| SHAMELESS PLUG from Rick Battagline               |
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| I make web games for a living, and if you want to |
| help me out please play them when you're bored at |
| work. (win, win)                                  |
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| classicsolitaire.com                              |
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| icardgames.com                                    |
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| candymahjong.com                                  |
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| embed.com                                         |
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| I plan on making this and other tutorials and     |
| NES Game ROMS available in the near future at     |
| https://www.embed.com/nes                         |
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