Zelda Moding
2023 - 1 Month
Moding Zelda NES
Zelda NES - Assembler
Solo Project - Moding
Game Programmer - Reverse Engineering
Context
In November 2023, for our studies, we were asked to modify the game of our choice.
My choice was the first Zelda game, to understand how such an old game works and how far I can modify it.
What have I modified
- Music of the main menu
- Various Sprites and color paterns
- Level Design of the World
- NPC's text
- Warp doors destination
What were the difficulties?
- Memory limitation
- Understanding what each part of the memory corrresponds to
- Knowing how to console uses certain parts of the memory and what trick to use to make the modification stay
- Found the informations to modify correctly the game
What was learned from that?
- How a game this old works and what tricks were used to optimize it