This was a big one, I hope you all like it :D

@eliteedit8696

2 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE SUCH A HARD WORKING MAN

@masterquest91

2 жыл бұрын

I subbed because of this

@Darthborg

2 жыл бұрын

You are going to regret your intros to these videos being on KZread by explaining to people how KZread functions work of subbing and being notified.

@mazdnd

2 жыл бұрын

Loved it!

@tr48092

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you are doing ok. Excited for future videos

As a professor of computer science and someone who grew up on the NES, I'm loving your videos! Maybe it's a bit early in your career for this, but if you were to set up a Patreon, I and probably many others would subscribe.

9 ай бұрын

+1 patreon and discord comunity

@robertmazurowski5974

8 ай бұрын

I am a self taught programmer. Is learning about NES in depth a good introduction to understanding how computers work?

@axiomeffect1025

8 ай бұрын

Indeed

@skylo706

6 ай бұрын

​@@robertmazurowski5974 Its great for understanding how hardware and assembly works and you can translate that to modern day computers as well. I would also advice you to learn C, if you havent already

These videos are criminally under viewed. Keep it up I think once people find you this channel will blow up

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!

@tylermcnally8232

2 жыл бұрын

Seems niche though.

@adalbertofelipe

2 жыл бұрын

I watch the ad in his videos, because this guy deserve a lot of views and money for his great work!

@MaxibillionPegasus

2 жыл бұрын

oi, these videos are not popular because they're very niched.

@ChaosAT

2 жыл бұрын

If u safe it from an emp proof setup and rebuild it after and emp

This is one of my favorite videos on YT no joke. This is actually good for someone learning computer hardware in general as well.

@NesHacker

Жыл бұрын

Awesome, if you like this one you’ll probably like next month’s video too :)

Just discovered your channel and have been binging all your content. You are an awesome explainer of complicated things, an incredibly valuable skill. Really great.

@NesHacker

5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much :)

I truly wish I had access to this video 12 years ago when I was teaching high school math and engineering. I could've probably used this one video for an entire semester.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Holy cow, haha

I would buy a whole DVD of this material dude. AMAZING stuff here!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, appreciated. But shouldn’t I release it on VHS so it’s era appropriate to the NES?

@calliestudios

2 жыл бұрын

@@NesHacker DO IT

@joemck85

2 жыл бұрын

@@NesHacker Be sure to include an interactive presentation and quizzes along with the VHS tape, on a NES cartridge. Maybe even throw in a Nintendo Power magazine with additional reading material and tips for using the presentation and quiz software.

@GriZmio

8 ай бұрын

@@NesHackerHow can i buy one of those?

Your channel is such a gem, honestly. The videos are well recorded, sound is really good, animations are very well done, graphics are well designed and very explanatory, even the video thumbnails have excelent visual consistency. I've been harassing my friends to check out your material for weeks now. Such amazing work!

It makes me so happy that the internet is flush with people that still produce content for this aging hardware. Even the younger generation can benefit greatly from understanding the basics of the old 8-bit and 16-bit systems, as the underlying technology is still functionally relevant today, just greatly expanded upon and made smaller. It's also great for older legacy systems that are still in use today. At the height of the Y2K scare, there was a booming demand for people that could code in raw assembly, COBALT, and FORTRAN, as they were widely used in the older systems still used by government facilities, power plants, and flight systems. Regardless, I'm just glad to see people sharing this knowledge with others, and your videos are super approachable and fun to watch.

This is one of the best technical explanation videos I've ever seen. It's absolutly fantastic

@NesHacker

6 ай бұрын

Just wait for my next one…

Just wanted to highlight your EXCELLENT approach to computing fundamentals! In particular, found your explanation of buses to be really well done

Found this video out of curiosity, and wow, this is really phenomenal! I'm watching currently as an EE student in the U.S., and it's amazing to see something like the system architecture on an NES cartridge presented in a way that's interesting and engaging, while also not shying away from giving a level of detail in your technical overview that would I think be very daunting if presented otherwise. Amazing stuff, thanks for the video!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Right on, I am glad you enjoyed it.

Does anyone else watch these videos with their significant other and popcorn too? Love your content.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

You’re comment made my day :D, thanks for watching!

Great video as always, I really love how you explain and show these things! And you're right, assembly code starts to have more sense when you understand what actually happens at hardware level.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :D, yeah it really hits you what’s going on when you know the hardware on these older architectures.

It's so cool to see how one of my favorite consoles works! Great detailed video!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

I used to wonder about how it all worked when I was a kid. I was very happy when I finally sat down and learned it. Glad to know you feel the joy too.

Your presentation is one of the most complete and compact of general computer architecture - not just old 8 bits 6502-based! Excellent job!!!

Super nice that you made the effort to put complex information in this easy to understand format! Keep it up

Best Mario 3 play I've seen in years @4:10

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, I am so happy you pointed that out. I was trying to record something cool and I did that, then laughed until I was crying and decided "Nope. That's it, that's my clip for that segment."

These videos are great... I have always wanted to look at the assembly at some NES games to understand how the games were actually built, but actually programming assembly seems even more interesting. Looking forward to your NES videos and appreciate the hard work!

This is seriously my guilty pleasure as an FDS enthusiast. Can't wait til you discuss it, if ever. Also it might be interesting to discuss how palettes are generated and why there are so damn many across multiple emulators.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

I really want to do a video on it, but there is so much to cover since most people outside Japan aren’t aware of it and how it worked.

Super cool video. I was looking for a video that would explain the hardware on a level like this!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

I really wish I would have had it when I was learning the system, for sure.

I'm an old nerd going back to school for electrical engineering. This stuff is still a bit above me but still fascinating. Definitely going to keep checking back as I learn more

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! I’d be lying if the thought hadn’t crossed my mind to go back and get a formal education in EE. I’m technically only trained in CS, but I dabble in electronics as a hobby.

Excellent video, thank you so much for this. One humble request: could you at some point create a video in which you show step by step how a chunk of audio data is processed? Like a jump sound FX for instance.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! A full treatment of the APU and how it works is on my list and I’m definitely planning on doing a video on it.

I've never coded anything but this is so interesting. I love retro console system architecture. BTW you have a great voice for explaining things

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It’s taken me a bit, but I feel like my presentation voice is starting to get passable :)

Love how the information is straight to the point, great format.

After all these years,the nes is still an amezing beast.

This is a great channel. Please keep it up. I recommend that you make a video that explains exactly what happens when you turn on the NES with or without a cartridge inside and what happens when you press the reset button.

So glad I stumbled on to this channel, surprisingly well explained, and animated as well!

@NesHacker

Жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks! Glad you like it 😄

Been eagerly awaiting your next video! Definitely will give a full watch. 👍

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :D

you don't know how awesome this video is. I'm still extremely new(1 day) so it's a lot to take in but i appreciate the effort you put into this for new players. thank you

So well done, thank you for making it so easy to follow!

hope to see more from you soon. keep up the awesome work

When you get to explaining the programs themselves, can you give a visual overview of what the components you just showed in this video are doing during program execution, from power on? Then can you show some examples of game code from some of the games that have had commented disassemblies made of them? It would make stepping through a debugger easier to follow, and help those who are trying to improve their rom hacking skills.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

This is a fantastic suggestion! I have been working on my animation skills and trying to move towards this style of explanation, so I hope I can live up to what you’re seeing in your head someday.

@norvin41granada91

2 жыл бұрын

@@NesHacker were looking forward to that sir. Thanks. New subscriber here.

@retrogamestudios7649

2 жыл бұрын

Time for a master class, wake up get coffee brewing and start setting up the tripod.....get a move on.....

Your 100K subscriber milestone should come soon. The animation quality and transitions are smooth, you have a great speaking voice, you present the information in a format that's easy on the eyes yet still retains technical knowledge. Very informative videos and great channel you got going. I hope you unbox your first plaque from KZread in the future :3

@NesHacker

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, yeah thar plaque does feel closer and closer every day ☺️

Great video. You could have made a 20 part, 4 hour series but instead it's very efficiently presented while not being confusing. I really appreciated this. Thanks!

What a beautiful and deep explanation! Very thanks!!! 😁

I don't have enough underlying knowledge to understand half of this but still find it really interesting.

I can't believe I wasn't subbed to this channel before. Fixed now!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

That’s why I remind everyone every video! ;)

Awesome channel! I found it today, already subscribed and just finished watching all videos. Gotta sleep now (it's 1:52 in Australia now, haha). Thank you!

Wow! Thanks for all the information one place! And a easy to follow style!

The only time in my life where I instantly hit like and subscribe out of request.

@NesHacker

8 ай бұрын

You know I started just asking at the end, cause I figured if you watch to the end it’s more likely that you’ll do both 😂

Love that youtube suggest me this channel your video and explainations rocks!

You sir, in my pov, are a legend. It was about time someone like yourself, gifted the earths with your attention to detailed explanations some of us have been wanting to know, but never knew it. This is all very interesting, as it may help me develop a product I've been dreaming of for quite some time now... ... ... *thinking of ways to apply this new knowledge to idea in my dreams*... ... ... time will tell, but very interesting subject none-the-less. Thank you.

excellent video, first time viewer, you popped up after searching for NES console bending.

Thank you for this information! I enjoyed seeing in detail what gave me such strong core memories as a child

Am I developing for or messing around with an NES right now? no. Did I still watch this video through entirely because it's fascinating? yes. I've screwed around with things like game genie codes, and I even developed my own that fixes the shortened Mushroom sound in SMB3. That's the most I've ever done with an NES or 6502 Assembly.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's fun to just mess around and look at carts then dig into their code and stuff. There are all sorts of levels to NES hacking, and it can be fun at all of them.

I wish I knew about this channel when I was doing my final project in college. I was trying to make an old school gaming console with the z80 processor, but it was so hard that I just gave up.

Your videos are amazing for somebody that is trying to learn bare metal programming in general and game dev history!

That was a very easy to follow thorough explanation.

This is a well-organized video and explanation of computer architecture. Thank you.

Thank you for the breakdown. It helped me understand a lot of CS concepts better.

I love your channel. Very high quality content. Keep going!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the kind words :)

Excellent video! I was always fascinated by my childhood computers and never really understood how they worked until much later. While it's all still a bit overwhelming and hard to follow, I get the general concept. I even started to write a few things in assembly for use in emulators. They were nothing of any major significance but it was fascinating to learn how these systems used and interpreted data and memory locations which gave me a much broader scope of the talent required to code on these old 8-bit machines. C# is much easier than assembly!

Watching videos like these has really helped me learn about computer science and apply previous knowledge as well. He explains it so clearly and thoroughly, making new (for me) concepts very understandable.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

CS is really cool, but often taught in the most bland ways :/

@lars1588

2 жыл бұрын

@@NesHacker I wouldn't know because I've just started learning, but I believe you.

holy crap! a channel i can actually learn stuff from! you go super dude!

I really enjoy your videos. Great graphics work to make things understandable and enough information to be useful even to people that already know a lot about the topics. I look forward to more of the heavy duty video topics you mentioned.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

It's somewhat entertaining, perhaps even more so if you already have a base level of knowledge about 8-bit systems or the NES in particular. Glad you liked it. They are fun to make but take a lot of effort.

Amazing work. Keep it up!

I love these videos and your background music is fire!!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, so so sooooo many people hate the background music. To the point where I am highly considering just tossing it for the next video xD

@Krahfty

Жыл бұрын

@@NesHacker Im in both boats. It IS hard to follow what you're saying over music mainly because its so catchy and i cant help but want to bob my head and zone out what you're saying haha, also if you do read this who is the artist? its a great track

just found this in my feed. GREAT video

@NesHacker

9 ай бұрын

Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!

You have a new subscriber my guy! I appreciate the content! Learned so much!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, I am glad you like my stuff.

Really good video - and really get explanation and graphics to describe it.

Great video... Just wish you continues making more.

Thanks a lot for all your explaination! I’m a 34 years old french IT guy who is currently experiencing his mid Life crysis way too early ;) Back in the good old days with 8 bit consoles and computers. I’m restoring the old VIC-20 of my family and it’s facinating that the NES uses the same CPU. One more subscriber!

@theleviathan3902

11 ай бұрын

I lost interest at "French"

This is great! I learned a lot about computers as a kid because of the OG NES.

Very good video. Thanks for the effort!

This is so cool, currently taking a microprocessor systems class right now and I had no idea the NES used machine code, I was surprised to see some of the lines of code familiar with me lol

I just tell you 1 thing my man. Thank you. This is exatly what i was looking for.

@NesHacker

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome :)

What a brilliant explanation! Thank you!

I used NESmaker to make a really cool NES prison themed adventure game. So, this was cool and helpful. I will definitely have to watch the rest of these for research. Awesome channel. (It would be cool to learn 6502 assembly)

Dood, absolutely fantastic video!

Another very useful video. Thanks.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks for watching!

Great deep dive into the system! BTW where from shirt?!

Great video, awesome shirt, well done sir!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I loved this shirt the minute I saw it, though I was a bit sad as it would have been perfect for “NES Controllers Explained”.

high quality content with not enough views! looking forward to more

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

WikiNES right here...this video is a treasure.

Not all KZreadrs have huge knowledge of NES (some can only look at functionality and games and just review them in playing games), so this is special KZread channel for sure. And you can even program yourself same games on NES. That is not what we see from every channel. Thanks a lot for deep explanation. Already watched other videos, so it's interesting to know about NES system, and we can see how clever it's designed, especially in the future. You need make sure console can hold it for long time or it will quickly obsolete for new gen games (the PCs for example with floppy drive need everything in home to play many as possible - makes them more expensive). NES is designed in expandable way, makes console itself less expensive.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I feel like a lot of other channels have the "game reviews" or "cool stories" angle kinda covered. I just wanted a place to show people how to make games and mess around with old hardware.

Damn you explain things well. Good work!

@NesHacker

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! I say words good sometimes 😂

This might be the deepest one of the NES hardware videos out there

Fantastic video! This might be a weird takeaway... But I'm really curious how you did all the graphics and animations for this video? They not only did a great job of supporting your narration, they were also just fun to watch!

Neat stuff, glad I have a background in computer architecture

Thanks for making this video !

This video is amazing to understand microprocessors

More videos, pleeeeeeease, your videos are amazing!

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

Working on a new one about the CIC right now :)

@pfever

2 жыл бұрын

@@NesHacker Aweeeeesome! :D

Author's description in the first 52-seconds mirrors what Tim Cain (of Fallout 1) recently said about generalists. Cheers.

outstanding!!! you're great... thanks for sharing knowledge...

@NesHacker

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely, I’m happy to share. Thanks so much for watching!

I love all this explanation, these video greetings are great,greetings from chile 🇨🇱 👍

@NesHacker

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Amazing! Thank you!

This is very fascinating.

Love the video, I’ll have to watch it a few times lol

New to your channel, excellent content!

As a computer science / software engineer, this has completely illuminated how the hardware works for me.

I know this is a lot of work. Thank you very much.

@NesHacker

8 ай бұрын

You are very welcome! It can be a lot of work but it feels worth it :)

Really good video!

Wow, you explain it very well I can only imagine how long it took you to put those graphics together!

@NesHacker

7 ай бұрын

Putting them together wasn’t so bad… learning how to use all the tools to make graphics took forever 😂

Awesome brief of how 8 bit systems tie their hardware together to accomplish things. Only suggestion would be to include a blurb at the end about system timing, which helps explain how fast these chips are getting selected to address memory and perform their instructions in a coordinated way.

@NesHacker

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like the rabbit hole goes so deep. I had to stop somewhere.

I'll promise myself to come back here in a few years and already understand everything :)

Dude. Insist on these videos. Seryoulsy, this is awesome!

I am in heaven. This..........there's no words how insanely technical + disgustingly on-point with your animations you've created. It's beautiful. If you're still on the bench about Patreon, don't be. I'll be the first to sub.

Fantastic video, thank you 😊

I have understood nearly nothing, but impressive what someone can tell about electronics if he knows it by heart.