I had always pictured in my mind the music to Code Name Viper being played by a Jazz band, or the ending to Strider done in a Japanese style, or the music to Kirby's Adventure and Wrecking Crew with a Calypso flavour. So, it's pretty neat to be able to do that now, and so easily too!

Well, anyway. Enough of the dramatics. What I've done is make some programs that play music on systems different from what they were intended. I am a real huge fan of videogame music, and I thought it would be cool to listen to NES music on the C-64, and vice-versa. So, the first program that I made, NESSIDPlay, plays music from Nintendo games on the Commie. It really works, albeit in a really hacked way. Some songs sound a little burbly, but others, like the Super Mario Bros. theme song sounds pretty good.
I also experimented with playing C-64 music on the NES. So, I made a simple program that plays SID register dumps on the NES. I haven't developed this as much as NESSIDPlay, because the NES is much more limited memory-wise and DOS-wise. So, I've left C64Play for now. To check out both music players, check out the links below.

Ian continued programming on his own after Elite. He worked on a 3-D Battlezone-type game for the NES, but he couldn't find any interested publishers for it. So, he released it in ROM format to the public. Because of the programming tricks that Bell used, and because the game requires extremely accurate timing, no NES emulator currently is able to run the game. Emulating this game should be the ultimate goal for any aspiring emu-coder; if you can do this, then you can pretty much do any other game accurately.

Here are some images of the tank game. Click on the image to see a full-screen version.

All right, I'll drop this. It's not really a game, since you can't shoot anything. But, you can move your tank all around the game map, and the terrain (specks on ground, trees, etc.) rotate, scale, and move past you. There is a moving object in the shape of a flying saucer that rotates around the game map as well. In the most developed version of the game, the player can press the "B" button to change the moving object into other things, such as another tank, a space ship, a missile, a fence, and even a house! In this same version, two players can each control a tank in their own separate views of the scene, with the split going down the middle of the screen.
In summary, this is a neat piece of code that shows what the NES can really do! It's by no means as sophisticated as modern 3-D games, but considering the hardware it's running on, it's impressive. The game always runs smoothly enough to get a good sense of motion, even in the two-player mode. I urge NES emulator coders to check this game out, and endeavour to make your emu accurate enough to run this. Good luck!