About Me
TakuikaNinja, Local Kiwi Nerd. Probably spends too much time on research & development hobbies pertaining to 8-bit Nintendo consoles, especially the Famicom Disk System. Barely has the time to play games for said hardware because of it.
Okay, this third-person perspective is hard to write in. I blame the Wii U Famicom Remix games, along with GameCenter CX videos on Nintendo eShop, for making me end up with this hobby. The Wii U is also responsible for my love of the Splatoon series.
Notable Works
Research & Development
See my repositories for:
- FDS test programs: It’s (current year) and FDS emulation is still not good enough.
- FDS BIOS Dumper program, because apparently no one else thought of dumping it to disk.
- Several Proof-of-Concept ports of cartridge games to disk format, mostly to replicate bootleg disk ports.
- Archived & recreated Disk BASIC from hacking magazines.
- Documented an IPL interface present in Namco FDS games:
- IPL.MAIN disassembly
- IPL-demo example program
- Mesen2 Lua script
- Arduino interface recreation
Blog posts about some of these projects are coming soon.
Other projects:
- Forgotten in Time (NESmaker demo)
- Misc. game hacks, mostly to fix DPCM bit-reversal and other bugs.
- Misc. original games.
Game Music
This excludes standalone original + remix albums and game jam contributions.
- Fight of the Phoenix (NESmaker)
- XenoCreeps (NESmaker demo) - Main theme arranged as shop theme in final version(?).
- Tiny Robbers (NESmaker)
- Pinky! (NESmaker) - Original & Xmas Editions.
- Paws N’ Play (NESmaker)
- Force Bot (NES, Prototype) - One composition present in final release.
- Mirror World (PC, OHRRPGCE) - Battle theme.
- Doodle World (NESmaker) - Original & Deluxe/Redrawn OSTs.
- Doodle World 2 (NESmaker)