NES

5-Star

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Emulator

Frame rate: 0 FPS
Speed: 0 %
Uptime: 0:00
Controller: Keyboard

Emulated console

CPU: Ricoh 2A03 (6502), 1.79 MHz
Memory: 2 KB RAM
Video: PPU, 256×240, 54 colors
Video memory: 2 KB VRAM
Sound: 5 channels: 2 pulse, triangle, noise, DPCM
Cartridge: Mapper 4 · MMC3 / TxROM, 64 KB / 16 KB
Emulator core: FCEUmm (EmulatorJS)

About 5-Star

Platform: NES
Developer: Wendel Scardua
Year: 2023
Genre: Platformer
Players: 1
License: Homebrew

Wendel Scardua's Ludum Dare 53 game about delivering takeaway for a restaurant called 5-Star.

You load orders into the van, then carry the boxes on foot through side-scrolling streets to each customer. The more boxes you stack, the slower you walk and the lower you jump, and falling into a pit loses the whole stack. Cats snatch any box you walk into, and birds swoop on boxes left on the ground, though jumping near a bird while empty-handed scares it off for a moment.

Fast deliveries earn bigger tips, and the final score is the total of tips. Every lost box costs the restaurant one of its five stars.

How to play

Controls: A jumps, B picks up a box or hands one over at a customer's door, and Down plus B drops a box.

Facts

An entry in the Jam category of Ludum Dare 53 (April 2023). From about 60 ratings it averaged 3.79, placing 350th overall, and scored best for Theme with 4.42 (75th).
A tool-assisted speedrun of the game was published on TASVideos in November 2023.

Cartridge

Mapper: 4 · MMC3 / TxROM
PRG / CHR: 64 KB / 16 KB
Mirroring: Vertical
Saves: Yes

81,936 bytes · CRC32 BFCACDF0 · MD5 ce0bcb4795765839141f3f3602bdc1c0

Keyboard controls

D-pad: ← ↑ ↓ →
A: Z
B: X
Start: Enter
Select: V

Steam Controller

D-pad: D-pad
A: A
B: B
Start: Start
Select: Select

Xbox controller

D-pad: D-pad
A: A
B: B
Start: Menu
Select: View

DualSense controller

D-pad: D-pad
A: ✕
B: ○
Start: Options
Select: Create

Keys and controller buttons can be remapped with the Controls button under the game. Save and Load keep a snapshot of the game in your browser. Steam Controller works as a gamepad through Steam Input. On phones, on-screen buttons appear.