niconiconi on Nostr: Fun fact: The full 6502 machine code of the NES game F1 Race was reverse engineered ...

Fun fact: The full 6502 machine code of the NES game F1 Race was reverse engineered in China in 1994 by an independent developer 于春, who later wrote a 400-page NES programming [textbook](https://archive.org/details/01_20260210_20260210_1009/%E4%BA%8E%E6%98%A5%20and%20%E5%BC%A0%E6%96%B0%E8%8E%B2%20-%201995%20-%20%E4%BB%BB%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82%E6%B8%B8%E6%88%8F%E7%BC%96%E7%A8%8B%E6%8E%A2%E5%AF%86%20%28Exploring%20Secrets%20of%20Nintendo%20Game%20Programming%29/) about it, making him a little-known NES ROM hacking and homebrewing pioneer worldwide, possibly one of the few NES experts in the world who didn't sign an NDA. Why? To make 8 millions of <del>Nintendo game console clones pretending to be</del> educational home computers in the country actually be educational as advertised. This was also the only surreal opportunity in the world for someone to become a national hero politically, for the service of REing Nintendo games. #retrocomputing #retrogaming #NES #NESdev #小霸王学习机