Vitor Vilela

Big time news. Alice was born today! I'm a very happy dad. I'll be a little less active over the coming weeks, but for the best reason.

Every Tuesday, I bring a new video! This time, to celebrate the new SA-1 Root release, here's all differences between the SNES Contra III, Contra Spirits and Super Probotector! All of them now with slowdown removed. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsR0...

It's time for revenge!! Let's give them a flashy welcome!! Contra III SA-1 now works with all three versions: The Alien Wars (USA), Contra Spirits (Japan) and Super Probotector (Europe)! No more slowdown, no matter the region or language! Download: github.com/VitorVilela7...

This is a long-time request from a lot of people that loved the Super Probotector and the Contra Spirits version but they weren't compatible with the SA-1 patch due to the code differences between them. Now my SA-1 patch support all versions.

The 'vibe' Dittoers are everywhere. Be careful. This is the reason I'm posting less frequently.

New early-access video - Contra III vs. Spirits vs. Super Probotector, all differences. This is mostly based on the SA-1 regional work + the approach used for Super R-Type comparison videos. Will be available on Tue for everyone on YouTube as well. Link: www.patreon.com/vitorvilela/...

If you have interest in adding a custom language for SimCity SA-1, let me know! Right know we have English, Portuguese, German, French and Japanese support. I'm working in a way that it's just a matter of receiving a list of strings and pick which games picture to use.

Today is YouTube day!! This video I share how I'm running SNES CPU and SA-1 CPU in parallel to make SimCity SA-1 run over 10x faster than the original game. youtu.be/qQOyd0FmG44

We are getting close for a big release, which one are you most interested? Comment on this post: - SimCity SA-1 - Super Metroid SA-1 - Top Gear II SA-1 - Other (plz comment!) The answers will help me prioritizing next releases 👀

Hi everyone, Contra Spirits SA-1 is now available for download as early-access on Patreon. I did some tests myself and if no issues are reported it should be available for everyone in the next week. Support me for more enhancement hacks in the future :) Download: www.patreon.com/vitorvilela/...

Tuesday, time for a new video. Here's the full difference between American, European and Japanese versions of Super-Type. SA-1 Root patch now supports all of them youtu.be/CQHlfdz0oIM

Top Gear SA-1 will still take a while to launch. It's not a trivial game, even if SA-1 is only called for road and object terrain generation, which in theory is an easier conversion compared to Super Metroid SA-1. Some of the car and object interaction routine still need to be moved to SA-1 regs.

There is a lot of object<->object interaction that works by using PPU and CPU multipliers and an inverse table that assumes that the S-CPU registers are being used. These are being written to work with SA-1 directly.

It's been a while since I shared last SimCity SA-1 update because I was thinking some very complex things with SA-1 Character Conversion DMA and with the terrain generator, but I did it. I got animations to work and 10,000 maps support on the game. #1,000-#1,999 are the alternate maps from original

And finally, #2,000-#9,999 are additional maps done by re-feeding seed in another way, so you can have much more maps on the game with a cheap change. When you click on the map, there's a full screen view (made with Mode 7) and the animations work as well.

It's been a while since I shared last SimCity SA-1 update because I was thinking some very complex things with SA-1 Character Conversion DMA and with the terrain generator, but I did it. I got animations to work and 10,000 maps support on the game. #1,000-#1,999 are the alternate maps from original

The game used to generate the terrain, then another routine converted to a bitmap using SNES format. Now, while the game generates the terrain, it stores its pixel to the bitmap buffer, which at every frame SA-1 Character Conversion DMA converts instantly to SNES GFX format, becoming an animation.

Thank you all for the feedback here. GenAI for coding is indeed bad as well. Coding is also a form of art (algorithm, games); There's concerns regarding learning in the future (both for future engineering and as human beings) as well the unsustainable methods that companies are using right now.