RELEASE Homebrew "Famidash", a new fanmade demake for the NES of Geometry Dash by kandowontu

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Homebrew games for retro consoles have seen a rise over the years thanks to new tools and community-made development kits, which help a lot in the process of creating brand-new games for older consoles.

This past month, romhacker and developer kandowontu, also known for his Starfox EX romhack for the original Starfox and several FastROM hacks for over 60 titles for the SNES, alongside a team of artists and other coders, have been working lately on a new homebrew game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) titled "Famidash", a demake of the popular rhythm-action platformer indie game Geometry Dash developed originally by Robert Topala on 2013 (also be found on Steam).

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Famidash is currently being developed in what seems to be a combination of C language alongside 6502 assembly, which makes for an interesting combination given how most retro games were entirely developed in assembly language, only starting using C around the time the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 came along.

For those interested in trying it out, Famidash is currently in a beta/demo stage, but developer kandowontu is pushing fixes frequently on the Famidash GitHub repository with the latest update being v4.05.1 released just a week ago.

Famidash source code at GitHub
Famidash Discord server