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Re:Writing a Program in Pokemon Blue by jds375 on Saturday November 30, 2013 @07:20PM (#6825388)
This was my favorite part of playing around with old Pokemon games. It's actually unfortunate you can't do them in the newer games
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Re:Writing a Program in Pokemon Blue by liuyanghejerry on Saturday November 30, 2013 @10:24PM (#6825927)
I think it's mostly because old games written in ASM, while newer ones in C/C++.
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Re:Writing a Program in Pokemon Blue by ekimekim on Sunday December 01, 2013 @03:41PM (#6829199)
More importantly, new hardware has proper memory protection, so instead of cool tricks you just get segfaults...
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Re:Writing a Program in Pokemon Blue by jimmaswell on Saturday November 30, 2013 @11:38PM (#6826129)
Writing an entire game in ASM must be a pain.
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Re:Writing a Program in Pokemon Blue by anon_java_hater on Sunday December 01, 2013 @12:18PM (#6828147)
What are you implying?
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