Collaborate Disseminate
When it comes to the six original Mega Man games there is a clear dividing line between the first three and the last. Mega Man 4 introduced the charging shot …read more Continue reading Mega Man Hack Drops Charge Shot, Adds Classic Style
Would it have been too obvious to call a game about soccer playing RC cars, Soc-Car? Well [Martin] thought so and opted to call his Nintendo GameCube homebrew game, Retro …read more Continue reading Rocket League Inspired Homebrew Reverses onto Nintendo GameCube
Super Mario Sunshine always felt a little under-baked when it came to 3D Mario games. Whether it was wonky camera controls, aggravating coin quotas, or the inclusion of a sentient …read more Continue reading Super Mario Sunburn Mod Shines Up a GameCube Favorite
Word of Sony shutting down PlayStation storefront servers for PS3 this summer spread like wildfire on the internet Monday. The discourse in comment sections were filled with anti-DRM rhetoric and …read more Continue reading Digital PlayStation 3 Purchases May Only Live As Long As Your PRAM Battery Without Sony Servers
“I don’t get mad when people rip me off. I actually think its kinda cool, because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” — Ben Heckendorn
For some “hacking things together” can mean heavily borrowing from other’s work in order to make a new, derivative work. Though longtime hardware hacker, …read more
Continue reading Clone Console Cribs Ben Heck’s Classic SNES Caché
Going back to classic games can be a difficult experience. The forward passage of time leaves technology to stagnate, while the memories attached to those old games can morph in mysterious ways. Therein lies the problem with how you remember a game playing versus the reality of how it actually …read more
Continue reading Zelda II Redux ROM Hack Plays How You Remember The Original
Console launch season is upon us. A time for billion dollar corporations ingratiate themselves with “Johnny Consumer” by promising the future of entertainment is finally available to one-and-all. The focus of this new generation of consoles has been the battle for 4K supremacy between Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. …read more
Continue reading Xbox Series S Teardown Shows a Glimpse at the Future
Consoles are obsolete the minute they are released. The onward march of silicon innovation ensures that consoles never are able to keep up with the times, but technical superiority rarely results in being remembered. That kind of legacy is defined by the experiences a device provides. A genre defining game, …read more
Continue reading Console Identity in the Age of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series
Nintendo wasn’t always in the videogames business. Long before Mario, the company was one of the foremost producers of Hanafuda playing cards in Japan. From 1930 until 1959, Nintendo ran its printing business from a four-story art deco style building that featured distinctive plaques at the front entrance. We now …read more
Continue reading 3D Print a Piece of Nintendo History Before the Real One is Gone
The modern ideal of pixel art is a fallacy. Videogame art crammed onto cartridges and floppy discs were beholden to the CRT display technology of their day. Transmitting analog video within the confines of dingy yellow-RCA-connector-blur, the images were really just a suggestion of on-screen shapes rather than clearly defined …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi 4 and the State of Video Game Emulation