Assembly Notes

My Tutorials

Beginner-aimed Nonsense

• Thinking like a Programmer (I'm gonna make you use Python for a hot second, DO NOT SKIP THIS)
• SNES Assembly for the Absolute Beginner
• SNES Assembly for the not-as-much-of-a Beginner
• SA-1 conversion and programming under that patch

Debuggers and such, how to

• Mesen-S / Mesen2 Course
• bsnes-plus Course
• Digging into Hex Editors with Shex

UberASM basics and advanced

• Insertion
• How UberASM works
• My First ASM: Press up for higher powerup status
• ASM and Uber cooperation through Flags and Indexes
• Enemy altering LevelASM
• Generators in LevelASM
• Add more

GPS blocks

• Insertion
• Learning the Offsets
• What the Pre-Packaged Routines Do
• Tutorial: Making a block that changes slippery status
• Tutorial: Custom Mushroom only block
• Tutorial: Using the custom bounce sprite patch
• Tutorial: 32x32 block
• Add more

PIXI Sprites

• Insertion and per-level sprites
• The basics of sprites
• Pre-packaged Routines
• The basics of shooters
• The basics of cluster sprites
• The basics of extended sprites
• Generators in PIXI
• Homing movement
• Circle movement
• Basic Boss
• TBD

The Art of Patches

• Insertion
• Hex Editing
• Hijacking

OW Sprites Patch by Ice Man

• Basics of the Patch
• (OW Sprite coding)

Register Idiocy

• Windowing basics
• HDMA basics
• Color Math basics
• Uploading Colors to Palette in code
• How the Back Door spotlight works
• How Roy/Morton/Ludwig HDMA works

Background Modes

• Background Mode 0 basics (2bpp 4 layers)
• Background Mode 2 basics (offset per tile)
• Background Mode 5 basics (hires mode)

Background Mode 7

• Preparing Mode 7 graphics
• Basic Mode 7, using Easy M7 patch by ExE_Boss, HuFlungDu, mathie
• Recreation of carol's Black Omen effect (ours works on accurate emus!)
• Recreation of the old Mode 7 OW tech demo

Personal Notes

How to do Thing

• Applying trigonometry to SMW
• Data decompression routines
• Faster ExecutePtr
• Indirect HDMA and double buffering
• Reading code from other hacks
• Geiger's Debugger (I want to read code from old hacks)

My thoughts on ASM object design (block, sprite, etc)

• Making a worthwhile enemy
• Boss design pointers
• TBD