Treasure Stack

Download: TreasureStack.nes Emulation via JSNES

Instructions

In Treasure Stack, chests and keys will fall from the top of the screen in pairs. Your task is to stack the chests together by color and place keys next to them to unlock them.

You can grab blocks in front of you by pressing S. Watch for the blinking cursor to see your target. You can press UP + S to grab blocks falling above you, or DOWN + S to grab them below you. You can even split stacks by jumping and time your grab in the air!

Similarly, you can drop held blocks in front of you using S, or below you using DOWN + S. You can even place stacks below you no matter how tall the stack is!

About

This is a demake of the game by Pixel Lakes of the same name on Steam, Switch, and XBOX One. My business partner and I worked on it as contractors to implement netplay, make the XBOX port, and add Steam integration. At some point I joked that the game's assets were a perfect fit for a NES port. Then... I made an NES port because I thought it was too funny not to. I even got to demo it alongside the real game at a local game convention. :D

ROM Map

Here's a fun visualization I like. This is all the data in the ROM file interpreted as the NES's native graphics format. Each pixel represents 2 bits, and is arranged into tiles. It's fun to "see" the whole thing, and how little there really is. You can kind of see where the various data segments are, and even see a bit of the graphics even when they are compressed.