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ELI5: How did they develop games for the NES/SNES?
gpt
In the corresponding assembly language. Back then there weren't really C compilers for for 8 or 16 bit micros. Not to mention these devices had very little memory and CPU performance available, so you had to squeeze out every bit you could. This involved a lot of cheap hacks to manipulate the hardware that wouldn't be possible using a higher level language.