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SmileBASIC for Wii U - "Official" Megathread

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Our only hope is someone dumps the SmileBASIC BIG rom and we translate the japanese text in it.
ROM means "Read-Only Memory". I don't think there's really a way to edit it unless you can hack it.
ROM is an antiquated term, it pretty much means nothing now.
Nowadays I believe the term floating around is either CIA (3DS) or ISO (Wii U)
Or you can use ROM and not have to memorize 500 different terms. It's still read-only, just from the point of view of the system/emulator.

Our only hope is someone dumps the SmileBASIC BIG rom and we translate the japanese text in it.
ROM means "Read-Only Memory". I don't think there's really a way to edit it unless you can hack it.
ROM is an antiquated term, it pretty much means nothing now.
Nowadays I believe the term floating around is either CIA (3DS) or ISO (Wii U)
It's a pretty general term. CIAs and ISOs are still ROMs.

https://twitter.com/rain_games/status/857968238579380224/photo/1 So here is an announcement for a delay (but NOT a cancellation) for a Wii U e-shop release, that is also going to be released on other consoles. A small, yet bright, golden ray of hope beams out from the clouds of cancellations, as the Wii U sun sets.

A cancellation is a cancellation, you can't say it's only a delay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHa_ERwJni4 Axiom Verge is getting a physical Wii U retail release... (and for PS4, PSV, NSwitch) So it looks like THIS might be the final retail Wii U game. (and since I'm switch-less and own the digital copy on PS4/Vita, I'm going to pick this up on Wii U! It's mostly for that sweet documentary and the bonus is the physical copy of the game, with the extra goal of sending a message to Nintendo That I want to buy games for the system and sticking it to them for shutting down most of the Wii U games in development and saying that they wanted Zelda to be the last one. ) So this is not a maybe, but a real thing! hope is still thin for SmileBasic Big.

To be more accurate, "FUZE Code Studio" for the Nintendo Switch may be an alternative to SmileBASIC for Wii U - it's set to come out next summer.

To be more accurate, "FUZE Code Studio" for the Nintendo Switch may be an alternative to SmileBASIC for Wii U - it's set to come out next summer.
You have to wonder if Smileboom fell out of good graces with Nintendo after Smilebasic 3ds was hacked. Still, very glad to see a legit homebrew solution surface for the Switch, never though that would happen. Fuze even uses a BASIC dialect, which is good news for this community.

Not worth buying a switch for (unlike SB would be), but if I had a switch I'd definitely get it. From what I've seen, it's a lot simpler than SB, and I doubt it has anything like SB's sprites or BG, so I don't think making games will be practical.

Thankfully, FUZE Basic seems to not support labels, so that can finally die. If the Switch version is free, we could have a SmileBASIC killer. Also, just to test it out, I installed FUZE Basic on my Pi, and guess what's the first demo program. I'd still buy SmileBASIC Wii U if it came out tho

Not worth buying a switch for (unlike SB would be), but if I had a switch I'd definitely get it. From what I've seen, it's a lot simpler than SB, and I doubt it has anything like SB's sprites or BG, so I don't think making games will be practical.
Calc and I explored the PC version a bit. It'sā€¦ eehh.

SmileBASIC killer.
FUZEBasicSource

It's not designed to compete with SB FuzeBASIC is a learning tool (also they have a physical computer, which is kind of cool), while SB is designed for making games (and definitely not for learning how to program)

It's not designed to compete with SB FuzeBASIC is a learning tool (also they have a physical computer, which is kind of cool), while SB is designed for making games (and definitely not for learning how to program)
Isn't Smileboom making a tiny physical computer?

Yeah, Fuze BASIC feels taped together, while SmileBASIC is more stable, especially when it comes to the example programs (half of them don't work). It also handles functions and sprites really weirdly. I really hope that, if they make a new SmileBASIC for the Switch, it will have better handling of arrays and colors. Also the "SmileBASIC killer" post is what happens when you are sleep deprived and try to do things

Yeah, Fuze BASIC feels taped together, while SmileBASIC is more stable, especially when it comes to the example programs (half of them don't work). It also handles functions and sprites really weirdly. I really hope that, if they make a new SmileBASIC for the Switch, it will have better handling of arrays and colors. Also the "SmileBASIC killer" post is what happens when you are sleep deprived and try to do things
I would get a Switch for SmileBASIC Switch Edition if it had backwards compatibility. I'm not willing to wait for good games to come out or to make some at launch. What kind of programming language includes broken example programs? Even SiMPLE's (the world's suckest pl) example programs all worked right.

Yeah, Fuze BASIC feels taped together, while SmileBASIC is more stable, especially when it comes to the example programs (half of them don't work). It also handles functions and sprites really weirdly. I really hope that, if they make a new SmileBASIC for the Switch, it will have better handling of arrays and colors. Also the "SmileBASIC killer" post is what happens when you are sleep deprived and try to do things
I would get a Switch for SmileBASIC Switch Edition if it had backwards compatibility. I'm not willing to wait for good games to come out or to make some at launch. What kind of programming language includes broken example programs? Even SiMPLE's (the world's suckest pl) example programs all worked right.
I would be fine to have both if SmileBoom actually had a Switch version for SB, anyway. It might be silly, but I might look forward to it next year

It's not designed to compete with SB FuzeBASIC is a learning tool (also they have a physical computer, which is kind of cool), while SB is designed for making games (and definitely not for learning how to program)
Isn't Smileboom making a tiny physical computer?
I don't think so, but that would be totally killer.

Fuze Basic has a physical computer. They even sell a version with red function keys, which really appeals to me - I was a fan of the BBC home computers.

It's not designed to compete with SB FuzeBASIC is a learning tool (also they have a physical computer, which is kind of cool), while SB is designed for making games (and definitely not for learning how to program)
Isn't Smileboom making a tiny physical computer?
I don't think so, but that would be totally killer.
They actually are: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itmedia.co.jp%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F1705%2F27%2Fnews029.html&edit-text=&act=url Surprised none of you has made a thread on this. It's a mini working replica of the MZ-80C vintage Japanese computer. It's called PasocomMini MZ - 80C and it runs a version of Smilebasic. Unfortunately it's limited edition and Japan only.

It's not designed to compete with SB FuzeBASIC is a learning tool (also they have a physical computer, which is kind of cool), while SB is designed for making games (and definitely not for learning how to program)
Isn't Smileboom making a tiny physical computer?
I don't think so, but that would be totally killer.
They actually are: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itmedia.co.jp%2Fnews%2Farticles%2F1705%2F27%2Fnews029.html&edit-text=&act=url Surprised none of you has made a thread on this. It's a mini working replica of the MZ-80C vintage Japanese computer. It's called PasocomMini MZ - 80C and it runs a version of Smilebasic. Unfortunately it's limited edition and Japan only.
That looks like something the guys at the vintage computer festival would love to get their hands on. (while they mostly show off actual vintage computers, there was a replica computer on the floor this year.) The other interesting thing is the smileBASIC emulator on PC, is this available to us yet?