So in doing some research on early development groups producing code for the Famicom, I've been accumulating a list of the different shops involved. An eventual goal is to step through some of these titles and see what things looked like in the first year or two, especially with non-Nintendo devs like Hudson and Namco. That may reveal if there was any sort of "starter code" Nintendo may have sent around or if everyone started from scratch. Mostly I'd be curious about super basic stuff like stepping over the controller bit strobe or audio subsystem bits.
One point of curiosity is the role Intelligent Systems (or its predecessor org) may have played. On Wikipedia (yes I know, grain of salt) this table lists Intelligent Systems as a developer on a number of early titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N ... stem_games
Some examples include: Mario Bros., Tennis, Duck Hunt.
However, looking over at the Intelligent Systems article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Systems, the history section indicates they formally began in December 1986: "Intelligent Systems started when programmer Toru Narihiro was hired by Nintendo to port Famicom Disk System software to the standard ROM-cartridge format that was being used outside Japan on the NES." The December 1986 date comes from an old company history page IntSys themselves published:
Does anyone know if it is safe to assume any of these titles prior to 1986 were *developed* initially by the various Nintendo R&Ds, and that the Intelligent Systems connection is isolated to the international ports? Where this matters is whether one expects to find "Intelligent Systems"-isms in these early titles as they were originally produced or if that sort of thing would be isolated to changes observed in international versions.
One point of curiosity is the role Intelligent Systems (or its predecessor org) may have played. On Wikipedia (yes I know, grain of salt) this table lists Intelligent Systems as a developer on a number of early titles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N ... stem_games
Some examples include: Mario Bros., Tennis, Duck Hunt.
However, looking over at the Intelligent Systems article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Systems, the history section indicates they formally began in December 1986: "Intelligent Systems started when programmer Toru Narihiro was hired by Nintendo to port Famicom Disk System software to the standard ROM-cartridge format that was being used outside Japan on the NES." The December 1986 date comes from an old company history page IntSys themselves published:
So my assumption here is them being listed in that table implies that they were involved in perhaps some sort of internationalization efforts. All the titles I mentioned predate the FDS by a couple years. I'm wondering if this implies they may have been involved in mapper upgrades for international language ports of early NROM titles as well.設立
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Does anyone know if it is safe to assume any of these titles prior to 1986 were *developed* initially by the various Nintendo R&Ds, and that the Intelligent Systems connection is isolated to the international ports? Where this matters is whether one expects to find "Intelligent Systems"-isms in these early titles as they were originally produced or if that sort of thing would be isolated to changes observed in international versions.
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