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    The NES, also known as Famicom, launched in 1983 in Japan and 1985 in North America, where the video game industry was headed downhill due to a deluge of poor games and over-saturation. Nintendo's second home console became an enormous success, establishing consoles as a mainstream market in Japan and pulling the North American industry back to its feet.

    Which language was NES games developed in?

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    #1  Edited By synt4x

    Yeah, topic says it all.

    Was it only assembly language that was used or did they use C or something on the NES as well?

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    #2  Edited By keyhunter

    www.google.com

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    #3  Edited By TheKidNixon

    Engrish?

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    #4  Edited By CL60
    keyhunter said:
    www.google.com
    What this guy actually means is, I have no idea and I feel like getting my post count up.
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    #5  Edited By synt4x

    Well that's easy for you to say, but I certainly couldn't find anything about it. Found a yahoo answers page on it but it was removed, and it had no answers when I checked the page on google cache. I'm fairly sure it was 6502 assembly language but I would just like to know for sure.

    Edit: Whoops, I didn't notice other people had answered :P
    It was meant to keyhunter.

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    #6  Edited By JJOR64

    Wow, I actually have no idea.  I don't think it's C+.

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    #7  Edited By Axersia
    synt4x said:
    Well that's easy for you to say, but I certainly couldn't find anything about it. Found a yahoo answers page on it but it was removed, and it had no answers when I checked the page on google cache. I'm fairly sure it was 6502 assembly language but I would just like to know for sure.
    Yes, the NES used the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor and programming was done in its respective assembly language.
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    #8  Edited By oraknabo

    If there were scripting languages used to make things easier, they were usually developed in-house and not popular languages like C.

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    #9  Edited By synt4x

    So they didn't have "real" languages at all for the NES? I mean, for the C64 which also uses the 6502 cpu they had BASIC(which I wouldn't call a real language lol) and C and stuff. Why not for the NES?

    EDIT: Thank you for your serious answer btw :)

    EDIT2: oraknabo: ah I see. Well thank you guys for your answers.

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    #10  Edited By OutOfBounds9000

    Yes,the NES games were C+
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    #11  Edited By ahoodedfigure
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    #12  Edited By TylerKinkade

    *C++ no. More like C.

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