Complete NES/Famicom development Doc?

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone here knows of a complete development document(pdf or something) for NES/Famicom development. Something similar to what the actual developers would have been given to learn I guess.

Or do I just have to keep going to different sites/forums for each topic I need to learn?

 

I think I have a couple of documents on the subject. I'll get back to you when I get home.

In the meantime you can check out www.nesdev.com if you haven't already.

 

NESDEV is probably the best source for such information. Just about anything you could want to know about the NES is on there. If you are looking to do homebrew development or something like that you might want to join the forum over there.

 

Yea, NESDEV probably is the closest I'll get to what I want. Homebrew is what I'm going for. I've been trying to decide on NES or original Gameboy, but since I can't find hardly anything for the gameboy I'm probably going for NES.

 

Hey!

So I just remembered that all the documents I had were on my phone who is now dead...
I can point you to an other ressource online: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=7155

Are you planning to code directly in Assembler or will you use an other language and compile it?

 

Assembler. I've went through the nintendoage resource before, but tutorial like lessons don't work well for me for some reason.

 

NintendoAge is not the place to learn about the NES. NESDEV has a lot of information and an active forum.

There is a lot of information out for the Gameboy as well but I'm not aware of a community equal to NESDEV which you could get input from for the original Gameboy. There are people at NESDEV that know about the Gameboy but it doesn't have all the documentation and such. When i wrote a Gameboy emulator I used documents I found various places. They might be available on romhacking.net in their documents section.

 

Hm? You can find official CGB manual around as well as PAN docs and other programming manuals w/out problem. There's small Gameboy Development Wiki and forums, also NESDev has it's own GBDev subforum. There's even Duo's GameBoy ASMSchool still around.