Inside Contra (NES, 1988)
Inside Contra (NES, 1988) is a retro teardown made by Jason O'Connell (hurtz2k) in Des Moines, Iowa.
Compressed graphics, sprite extraction, and 6502 code from an annotated disassembly.
- What it is
- Retro teardown
- Made by
- Jason O'Connell (hurtz2k), Des Moines, Iowa
- Tags
- Teardown
- Where
- Read
- Part of
- Retro lab on Plain Weird
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