Drawing Characters on the NES

As we continue to learn about the NES for our emulator, its time to look at sprite rendering. This is used for characters and other dynamic information on the screen.

This is #10 in a series on building an NES emulator.
If you'd like to learn more about the NES, check out the first video in this series:    • Building a NES Emulator #1 - NES Arch...  

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00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Foreground and Background layers
00:45 - High level sprite rendering
01:14 - What is a sprite?
02:10 - OAM
02:40 - OAM MMIO
03:40 - OAM Layout
05:00 - Centering a sprite
06:23 - OAMData test program
08:08 - OAMDMA
10:00 - Conclusion. Next up: Backgrounds.

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