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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · 3d

Rebecca Heineman needs our help. She’s currently fighting cancer, and I can only imagine how hard that must be. Please consider supporting her.

Rebecca worked on many beloved SNES classics at Interplay -- including Another World, The Lost Vikings, Battle Chess and many more.

Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · 3d

Hey, everyone.

It's been a while since I shared news here. Apologies, it's quite challenging maintaining multiple social medias while having so many real life duties.

How are you been all? Any interesting news in the last 1-2 years?

I promise to be more active here from now!

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Mar 10

I finally got a new PC! A laptop as always. I have great expectations for this new hardware.

By the way It's the first time I'm using Windows 11, any hints for someone that is been using Windows 10?

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Zasheir @zasheir.bsky.social · Nov 28

Super Mario World widescreen hack on top with the original on the bottom CRT!

Thank you @hackervilela.sneslab.net for making this possible! github.com/VitorVilela7...

#snes #supermarioworld #retrogaming

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Dec 31

And finally... I have a SMW ROM hack being worked on. It's a really important SMW hack and I will finish it.

That's it. If you need anything from me, please reach me! I'm all open for new thoughts and I'm free to help. Be positive that we are advancing and 2025 will be amazing.

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Dec 31

We have SnesLab, my community focused on the development of SNES tools and projects -- be sure to check it out! I have some incredible things planned in 2025 and 2026, some cool long-term run tools that will be useful for all SNES ROM hacking communities. (+)

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Dec 31

...holding me were resolved and 2025 looks a really clean, nice path open for a great year.

Looking ahead, I have high hopes for the projects in progress. SA-1 SimCity is nearby done and I plan to return Super Metroid soon... (+)

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Dec 31

Hello everyone! Happy New Year!!! 🎉✨

I hope you’re all having an amazing time this week. I’m really excited about 2025!

2024 flew by so quickly. While I had a lot of personal challenges to deal, 2024 was really important year for myself. A lot of things that were... (+)

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blizzz @blizzz.ovh · Nov 21

Area 88 EN Plus is a retranslation of UN Squadron that rebalances the mission rewards to encourage the use of mid tier planes and cuts down on grinding. Firing is now full auto. Compatible with @hackervilela.sneslab.net's FastROM hack.
Download: blizzz.ovh/files/area88...

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Oct 18

It's paused right now as I had some difficulty dealing with a big ROM. Working on smaller one to figure out if there's a more efficient way to handle larger ROMs

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Oct 17

Hello everyone!! Seeing a lot of new followers recently - welcome you all!! If any if you need something feel free to drop me a message!

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Oct 3

Yeah

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Oct 3

Never had a chance to play it yet, but from gameplay it seems possible :)

kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · Oct 2

Wonder how feasible Shovel Knight would be on the SNES?

I feel that mode 0 is nothing short of an unexploited goldmine for the homebrew community!

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IronFairy - Fernanda Dias @ironfairy.bsky.social · Sep 22

it's post a random game in your collection Saturday

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Reino do Cogumelo @reinodocogumelo.bsky.social · Sep 22

A espera acabou! O Reino recebe com muito orgulho o preservador, ROM hacker e dublador independente @maxwelolinda.bsky.social, dos canais MaxwelThuThu e MaxwelSeven, para uma entrevista exclusiva! Confira:

Entrevista: MaxwelThuThu fala sobre as iniciativas de restauração de Lost Medias, fandubs, ROM hacking e muito mais

Imagem: Reino do Cogumelo • Arte: Ramucho99 (Melo), jãnsin (Maxwel) O Reino do Cogumelo recebe com muito orgulho o preservador, ROM hacker ...

www.reinodocogumelo.com

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

We have to implement the functions, just like how the ROMs inside the DSP chip also implement the same things as well.

I once did implement a few DSP-1 functions on SA-1 on a project involving mode 7 over worlds

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

Terraria is possible on the SNES as well! Just give me the game source code =)

Emerald Fox @emeraldfox.bsky.social · Sep 21

Imagine Terraria

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

Dá tranquilo... SA-1 aguenta 8 MB, um cartucho com um mapper especial dá uns 12MB. E mesmo se tudo der errado, da pra usar o MSU-1 que cabe até 4GB =)

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

One day, we will be able to play Stardew Valley on the SNES

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

In TL,DR:
- Most enhancements chips are barely used, specially SA-1.
- DSP-n chips can be fully customized by what your ROM needs.
- OBC-1 was useful for about 1 year before FX/SA-1 chips.
- ST-018 has a lot of lost potential due of its hardware design.

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

4. ST-018. The most powerful enhancement chip ever made. But the lack of a data bus between it and the SNES makes it impossible to be used in more impressive applications. You can only use it make "answers" (e.g. AI), but can't make it produce "graphics" or "music" or "effects".

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

SA-1 multiplication/division is a killer feature. You have no idea how many games does some ridiculously slow operations because the SNES doesn't have 16-bit multiplication or division.

Something that can be done in 20 cycles costs 500 cycles because there was no 16-bit hardware division available.

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

You could use a C to ASM compiler and even if the code was barely optimized, it performed ok on the SA-1 CPU. So it was an interesting option, even if you didn't use all CPU features.

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

3. SA-1. There's some theory that people used the chip only for anti-piracy protection, without using the CPU effectively.

And the games that used SA-1, they mostly focused on speeding up game development. You didn't have to worry a lot about optimizing the game or writing direct ASM code.

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Vitor Vilela @hackervilela.sneslab.net · Sep 21

Depending on how intense your game is, it might help you processing the game about 10-15% faster. Given that we had no coprocessors as SA-1 and Super FX, this seemed very useful if you had no more spare time available on the SNES CPU, even with FastROM.

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