Couple Who Ran ROM Site to Pay Nintendo $12 Million
Crackdown on ROM sites and emulators could spell an existential threat to retro gaming. Continue reading Couple Who Ran ROM Site to Pay Nintendo $12 Million
Category Archives: emulation
Arduino Provides Hands-Free Focus for Digital Inspection Scope
With surface-mount technology pushing the size of components ever smaller, even the most eagle-eyed among us needs some kind of optical assistance to do PCB work. Lots of microscopes have digital cameras too, which can be a big help – unless the camera fights you.
Faced With a camera whose idea of autofocus targets on didn’t quite coincide with his, [Scott M. Baker] took matters into his own hands – foot, actually – by replacing mouse inputs to the camera with an outboard controller. His particular camera’s autofocus can be turned off, but only via mouse clicks on the camera’s …read more
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Slack on the SNES via Satellite
We love seeing hardware and software from bygone eras getting a new lease on life through modern hacks, as longtime readers can surely attest to. Why leave this stuff to rot in a closet somewhere when it can be pushed into service today? Granted it might not always be the most efficient way to accomplish a task in the 21st century, but at least you’ll net some precious Internet Points for originality.
As a perfect example, take a look at this project which lets you read Slack messages through a Super Nintendo game. If your first thought was that such …read more
Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator
The Internet Archive has launched a free, browser-based Commodore 64 Emulator with over 10,500 programs that are “working and tested for at least booting properly.” Interestingly, the emulator comes just before the launch of Commodore’s own C64 Mini. “… Continue reading Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator
You Already Own a Machine That Can Play Classic PlayStation Games
It’s really easy to emulate the PlayStation on an SNES Classic, a PC, or an Xbox One. Continue reading You Already Own a Machine That Can Play Classic PlayStation Games
Metroid, Zelda, and Castelvania Auto-Mapped with NES Emulation & Heuristics
The NES was one of the flagship consoles of the glorious era that was the 1980s. Many of the most popular games on the platform involved some sort of adventure through scrolling screens — Metroid, Super Mario, and Zelda all used this common technique. For many games, keeping track of the map was a huge chore and meant mapping by hand on graph paper or using the screenshots published in Nintendo Power magazine. These day’s there’s a better way. [Daniel] set out to automatically map these huge two-dimensional worlds, developing software he calls WideNES to do it.
WideNES is an …read more
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DEF CON 2018: Hacking Medical Protocols to Change Vital Signs
LAS VEGAS – In recent years there has been more attention paid to the security of medical devices; however, there has been little security research done on the unique protocols used by these devices. Many of the insulin pumps, heart monitors and other … Continue reading DEF CON 2018: Hacking Medical Protocols to Change Vital Signs
Nintendo’s Offensive, Tragic, and Totally Legal Erasure of ROM Sites
The damage that removing ROMs from the internet could do to video games as a whole is catastrophic. Continue reading Nintendo’s Offensive, Tragic, and Totally Legal Erasure of ROM Sites
Lawsuit Threat Shuts Down ROM Downloads On Major Emulation Site ‘EmuParadise’
Following Nintendo’s recent lawsuits against ROM sites LoveROMs and LoveRetro, a major ROM repository called EmuParadise announced it will preemptively cease providing downloadable versions of copyrighted classic games. While no lawsuits have been file… Continue reading Lawsuit Threat Shuts Down ROM Downloads On Major Emulation Site ‘EmuParadise’
VCF East: The Desktop ENIAC
The ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, is essentially the Great Great Grandfather of whatever device you’re currently reading these words on. Developed during World War II for what would be about $7 million USD today, it was designed to calculate artillery firing tables. Once word got out about its capabilities, it was also put to work on such heady tasks as assisting with John von Neumann’s research into the hydrogen bomb. The success of ENIAC lead directly into the development of EDVAC, which adopted some of the now standard computing concepts such as binary arithmetic and the idea …read more