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Heyo! The manuals for Fire and Rescue and Gunhawk are up on itch now. Enjoy! :)

Good idea!
I can make that happen. I'll try to get it up sometime this week. If it's not up by the end of the week, poke me in case I got side-tracked.

That is a perfectly rational response!

Oh, that's quite strange!

I'll email you to work out what's up.

It's a pretty good time. I've been around the block a fair bit on C/C++ game dev, so the nesdoug.com tutorials were a great fit for me. I like being able to / having to break rules of "good" coding practice to make things work on the NES.

Ha! Thank you for playing and trying the Konami code.
Orphea was my first attempt doing something on the NES. I thought it was just going to be a little weekend lark, but I enjoyed making NES games so much that it's now a thing I do regularly.

Oh awesome! I'm sorry I missed it. I'll have to check it out in the VOD!

This is my first time hearing of it. But that looks interesting.
I wonder what approach their using exactly and how hard it would be to implement directly into my game.
Hmmm...

Ha ha! Yes!
I was actually there last Tuesday to meet with the owner and gift them these games. I looove their 80's living room space.

Thank you! That was the exact vibe I was going for!

The emulator core is fixNES ( https://github.com/FIX94/fixNES )

I'm writing the UE5 integration code myself. If you'd like to see the code (with the understanding that it's super prototype-y and messy right now), DM me on Twitter.

When I was testing, I was using OS Version 2.15. Could that be it?
Once I'm done with the convention this weekend, I'll try changing my OS version and see if that reproduces the bug.

Hi Joe,

I just picked up an Everdrive N8-Pro and the Zapper seems to be working on mine. Do you know which version of the OS you're running? You can check it by hitting SELECT at the Everdrive menu and selecting Device Info.

You should be able to select the gamepad control method by pressing Select then Start at the input selection screen. Select and Start are usable in all menus that let you make a choice.

Incidentally, depending on the emulator you use, you may be able to tweak settings to allow mouse clicks / screen touches to emulate lightgun zaps. That's what I do with the copy of FCEUX bundled in the zip file version of Gunhawk.

Thank you!
I definitely appreciate the heads-up.

Interesting.
I have an Everdrive N8 I use for testing, but I don't have an N8-Pro, so I'm not familiar with N8-Pro specific features. I don't suppose there are some settings in the N8-Pro that could be a factor. Would I be correct in presuming that your Zapper is plugged into controller slot 2?

Also, regarding the Zapper not working. Are you getting any response when you pull the trigger? If so, does it flicker the screen to black when their are targets on the screen (either in the 2-choice menus or when enemies are on screen)? 

Last aspect to check, what type of device are you playing the Everdrive on? Is it a stock NES or a third-party machine like a Retron? Is the device plugged in directly to a CRT TV or does it go through another device along the way?

Sorry for the volley of questions. These are just what came up as I started thinking about what might be going on.

I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, I don't have control over what payment methods this site offers...

It uses NROM, i.e. mapper 0.

I will be doing an official physical release later (hopefully before the year is out), but let me know if you have any trouble getting it onto the donor cart.

There are some bugfixes and the main character has a new sprite.
You can use the old sprite by holding the B button during the title screen.

And the time limit goes down with every world 7 loop, until clearing stages isn't humanly possible.

Thank you for the video!
You are a true Scholar and a Gentleman.

Awesome! Thank you for the review!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the game!

Oh my gosh, that is so awesome!

The Speed Running Community is crushing it. Crushing it, I say!

Holy Crud, that's so awesome!

I better signal boost this so you have some competition. :)

Nice! I love it

For real?
That's so cool!

Oh thank you so much! 
I don't have plans to continue Orphea itself specifically, but I have lots of other games in the oven for NES.  Some of the ideas are definitely influenced by lessons learned from Orphea.

Oh, thank you so much!
That makes me really happy to hear that.

Thank you! We're getting close. Doing QA and last minute bug fixes right now.

For sure!

It's slow going because there's so much on my plate, but this one should be ready real soon.

Thanks!

A little necro-reply to link in a reference for the process I used to upload games to my NES Classic:
https://www.lifewire.com/add-games-nes-classic-4586505

I can't speak to the PowKiddy, but I did put Orphea on my NES Classic for some on-the-tv, real controller fun.
I imagine the general process is to connect a compatible device to your computer (usually using USB) and then transferring the ROM file into the appropriate folder on the device (varies by device.)
For the NES Classic, you have to hack it slightly to allow the installation of custom ROMs. This is relatively easy as it involved downloading a customized OS flashing program that overwrites the NES Classic operating system with a version of the operating system that displays custom ROM files. Once I flashed my NES Classic, I could connect it to my computer and copy Orphea on to it. Voila!

Okay, I think I know what the issue is (and some of the reasoning behind it.) Here's what I can do. I'll temporarily make the game paid for the minimum of $1 and then put it on 100% sale. That way, you can register it in your library. 

Huh... what a wacky spec. I presume this is with the itch.io Launcher, yes? I haven't actually used it in years. I'll check it out to see if there's an easy fix I can do on my end.

If you're comfortable sharing more info about your use case, would you mind contacting me by email at rob-at-skyboygamesDOTcom? I'd like to make sure I have details straight in case I need to log a bug with itch.io.

I super appreciate the gesture.
Do you need it to be PWYW for the dropping a few bucks part or the add to the library part? Or both?

Thank you TigerClaw, that really makes my day.

Thank you for the feedback, Qupe.

I'm not sure if I'm going to develop this one more directly, but I might. I do have a vision for it that goes in more of a Rygar/Guardian Legend sort of direction, but to do that there are a bunch of tech hurdles I need to figure out. Basically, I need to grind levels on NES dev so I can unlock the Advanced Memory Mapper skill.

That's awesome!
Thank you for featuring my game!

Thank you so much for doing a video!

I'm not sure if I'll be adding more content to this game in particular, but I might spin it off into something more full-fledged. I put this together for a weekend game jam as a way to learn about developing for NES. There are plenty of ideas that ended up on the cutting room floor because of the jam deadline.