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SimCity + SA-1: Performance with enhanced experience

Hello everyone! My SA-1 ROM hacks are known mostly as performance improvement patches. Games that used to run poorly either with slowdown (Gradius III, Super R-Type) or low frame rate (Race Drivin'...

My Health - What happened? And what now?

Hello everyone! Hope you all are fine.

Writing this post after a long time without activity brings me mixed feelings: mixed because while I'm happy to write once again to Patreon, I feel very...

Importance of Emulation for Hardware Preservation - Part 1

Hi! This is the part 1 of my monography "IMPORTANCE OF EMULATION FOR HARDWARE PRESERVATION", which I used for getting my bachelor degree at computer engineering. This part focuses ...

Race Drivin' SA-1: Two Years Release. Grab the FastROM version here!

After two years, Race Drivin' SA-1 continues to be one of my favorite SA-1 versions. I also made a FastROM version of it, but I believe I never had the change to release it to everyone before.

[PT-BR] Importância dos Emuladores para a Preservação de Hardware - Parte 2

Hi! This is the part 2 of my monography "IMPORTANCE OF EMULATION FOR HARDWARE PRESERVATION", which I used for getting my bachelor degree at computer engineering. This part focuses ...

[PT-BR] Importância dos Emuladores para a Preservação de Hardware - Parte 1

Hi! This is the part 1 of my monography"IMPORTANCE OF EMULATION FOR HARDWARE PRESERVATION", which I used for getting my bachelor degree at computer engineering. This part focuses o...

Happy 2023! What's the expectations for this year?

Hi! First of all, I hope you all had excellent holidays. 2023 is finally here and I personally I'm excited for this year. For who wasn't aware, 2022 I was very busy for several reasons, with the ma...

New Contra III SA-1 Update - Now working on hardware

Hi. More good news! After fixing Gradius III and Super R-Type, which you can download the pre-release here...

New Gradius III and Super R-Type updates - Download here

Hi everyone! Hope everything is okay.

As some might be aware, some of my SA-1 patches doesn't seem to work with specific SA-1 cartridges. The reason seemed unknown so far, but recently Jonas ...

The state of SA-1 ROM Hacking - Part I - Game Conversions

Hi! For sharing more information about the SA-1 enhancement chip, what are the expectations for the following years and the possibilities of the co-processor, I'm making a small series of articles ...

Looking for suggestions on Super Metroid SA-1

Hi! It's been a while since I wrote the last post here - for the past months I'm been more busy than usual on my university and in addition, I was having some difficulty in adapting Super Metroid t...

Happy Holidays and Great 2022! It's time for a small 2021 restropective.

Hi! 2021 was a great year... and challenging too. I think the first semester was completely amazing. We got Super R-Type & Race Drivin' SA-1 patches which show...

Super Metroid Disassembly is 100% complete

Finally after a long time investing hours disassembling each block, sorting out what's code and what's data and figuring out the processor modes I'm happy to announce that the Super Metroid is now ...

Status Update + Ideas for new Patreon content

Hi! I'm aware you all have noticed an activity decline over my Patreon and this has a direct correlation of the current on-going projects: Super Metroid SA-1 (currently focused) and Super Mario Wor...

Progress Updates - Super Metroid SA-1, incoming Super FX games, next steps for widescreen games

Hi! I have not been able to share much updates lately - I often forget that most of my work is programming and reverse engineering based and sometimes even if you are doing a lot of work you usuall...

Poll: Is FastROM sufficient for U.N. Squadron?

For who missed, I recently released a test version of U.N. Squadron with FastROM support. It increases...

TEST NOW: U.N. Squadron (Area 88) with 3.58 MHz FastROM

Hi! I'm happy to share the beta version of the FastROM (3.58 MHz) patch for U.N. Squadron. This patch is part of the SA-1 Root conversion of the game for understan...

TEST NOW - Super Mario World Widescreen v1.10 - Now with 2:1 + 16:9 + 16:10 support

Hi! I'm happy to share with you all the release candidate version of SMW Widescreen v1.10. This version adds support for 2:1 screens (with PAR enabled - SMW Extrawide), 16:9 screens (with PAR disab...

Roadmap - July/2021

This publication was originally planned to be done around 10 days ago, but it had to be postponed by personal reasons and because of the recent events. Apologies for anyone who was waiting for the ...

Internal poll - what are you currently looking for?

Now that Super Mario World Widescreen was released I would like to hear what are your current int...

TEST NOW - Super Mario World Widescreen (16:9 + SA-1) - Beta v0.2

As promised on the first beta thread, today I'm releasing the 2nd beta patch of SMW Widescreen.

TEST NOW - Super Mario World Widescreen Patch (16:9 + SA-1 Pack) - Beta v0.1

Finally after a long time, almost 5,000 lines of code, 100 KB of ASM files and many days improving the game I'm happy to bring the first beta version of the game.

This is an exclusive downloa...

The rare SA-1 cartridge just reached Brazil - but the government decided to tax it this time

The rare SA-1 cartridge which was dumped and made available for everyone and sent to me - for further re...

A Thank You Post. For Everything So Far!

I'm been reflecting myself about what I'm been doing and working lately. The more I think about the currently work in progress SNES projects, the more confident I feel about my future. I re...