Tool to compile Family Basic program to .NES file

Started by lbarasc, June 09, 2013, 11:48:58 pm

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lbarasc

Hi,

I discover a tool to compile Family Basic program to .NES file : STTONES

So you can easily develop small game on NES with BASIC language and compile it !

How it works ? STTONES convert VirtuaNES savestates of Family Basic to .NES ROM file.

Tutorial :

1 - Run Family Basic V3 rom on VirtuaNES

2 - Type your program on Family Basic, don't run program before convert it with STTONES

3 - Save state with VirtuaNES, it creates .st0 file on VirtuaNES state folder)

4 - exit VirtuaNES

5 - drag and drop your .st0 file to STTONES.EXE it creates .NES file !

6 - Run your .NES rom file on emulator or

download the STTONES1000.zip on skydrive :

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=6A3C379B3DAD5FFE!514&authkey=!ABUgo06dB-h0IPg

Step by step operations (Japanese but screenshots) :

http://messatu.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/sttones-%E4%B8%80%E8%88%AC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E2%98%86%E3%81%A7%E3%81%99/

I hope it we help us to easily develop on Famicom.

P

I tried making a full demo with both code and BG graphics. I had to try many times until I could make a standalone without the game to throw errors that shouldn't be there. Running the game before doing a save state doesn't seem to matter.

Here it is anyway, my Robot Fan Game demo!
Download link: http://speedy.sh/FQgCe/robfan.zip
Alternate download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ggyc1l

Tell me if anything's wrong or If I should upload it again. Also could anyone with a flash cart test and see of if it works on real hardware please?

ramidavis

Skydrive download is dead, can you re-upload somewhere else?

UglyJoe

Quote from: P on June 12, 2013, 04:16:11 pm
Also could anyone with a flash cart test and see of if it works on real hardware please?


Works on an NES via PowerPak.

P



keikeikei

P The links to your demo are also dead I really wanted to see our game  :'(

P

It's actually just a joke and to test SSTONES. It's not really a game (spot the Rockman X reference), and it also doesn't use ROB at all (it was made before UglyJoe found a way to program ROB with Family Basic).

I wish there is a way to upload files more permanently. Anyway here it is again (until it gets downed again):
http://www.filedropper.com/robfan

I eventually did make a real ROB test program in assembly language based on UglyJoe's code. It's over here: http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=11445&p=131368#p131336

lancuster

Hi, guys. Can you please tell me how can I load Nestopia savestates to this program? No matter how much I tried - the final obtained ROM is broken. :(

verteks

Probably it is impossible - Nestopia has different save state file format than VirtualNES. To convert Nestopia save states you need to write your own converter.