No Carrier (a.k.a. Don Miller) has released glitchNES, a ROM (read: game cartridge) that makes user-controlled visuals on the old school Nintendo Entertainment System, with results that resemble the effects of circuit-bending. glitchNES is free, open source, and runs well on NES hardware and in accurate emulators, e.g., Nestopia. Get it from No-Carrier.com.
As Don says in an interview on True Chip Till Death, “I really hope that it will be used by people to do live visuals at chip shows or other music events. However, I think it is fun just to tinker with – changing graphics and playing around with it in an emulator.” glitchNES is eminently hackable: it’s just over 300 lines of code, including white space, and the graphics are easily changed with a tile editor (see the readme). Given a little time to get used to 6502 assembly and read up on the NES and its pecularities, and you’ll soon be hacking up your own version of glitchNES. After all, that’s just what I did for my last two shows at 8static and South by Southwest with a pre-release version of the ROM. Thanks, Don!
[…] # glitchNES – NO CARRIER/Don Miller’s glitchNES is an open source software project for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This software causes graphical glitches similar to hardware circuit-bending. The current version is 0.1 (initial release). Link via CDM […]
[…] Muchos de nosotros podemos recordar repetidamente estar intentando cargar cartuchos de NES que, por una u otra razón, decidieron exhibir pantallas cambiantes de bits aleatorios en lugar el juego que debían mostrar. El software de difusión abierta de interferencias No Carrier’s hace las exploración de esos reinos accidentales del arte digital fácil. Alterar el código a tu gusto luego cargarlo en tu emulador de programa favorito. Aunque tu tal vez sientas la necesidad inflexiva de golpear un cartucho a la primera visualización de los resultados , estas imágenes probablemente complementaran tu próximo desempeño de afinación de chip bastante bien. [a través de Create Digital Motion] […]
[…] Many of us can recall repeatedly trying to load up NES cartridges that, for one reason or another, decided to display shifting screens of random bits instead of their intended game. No Carrier’s open source glitchNES software makes exploring those accidental realms of digital art easy. Alter the code to your heart’s content then load it up in your favorite emulator program. Though you may feel the reflexive urge to blow into a cartridge upon first viewing the results, these visuals would likely compliment your next chiptune performance quite nicely. [via Create Digital Motion] […]
[…] Many of us can recall repeatedly trying to load up NES cartridges that, for one reason or another, decided to display shifting screens of random bits instead of their intended game. No Carrier’s open source glitchNES software makes exploring those accidental realms of digital art easy. Alter the code to your heart’s content then load it up in your favorite emulator program. Though you may feel the reflexive urge to blow into a cartridge upon first viewing the results, these visuals would likely compliment your next chiptune performance quite nicely. [via Create Digital Motion] […]
[…] Many of us can recall repeatedly trying to load up NES cartridges that, for one reason or another, decided to display shifting screens of random bits instead of their intended game. No Carrier’s open source glitchNES software makes exploring those accidental realms of digital art easy. Alter the code to your heart’s content then load it up in your favorite emulator program. Though you may feel the reflexive urge to blow into a cartridge upon first viewing the results, these visuals would likely compliment your next chiptune performance quite nicely. [via Create Digital Motion] […]