Collaborate Disseminate
It was foolish to think that the adventure of the Mario Bros. would ever exist outside of the castle walls of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Except for that one time it did. The Hudson Soft company was a close collaborator with Nintendo, and parlayed that favor into being tasked with …read more
Continue reading That Super Mario Bros. C64 Port Was Too Good For This World
The only question we have about [mitxela]’s DIY vector graphics game console is: Why did he wait five years to tell the world about it?
Judging by the projects we’ve seen before, from his tiny LED earrings to cramming a MIDI synthesizer into both a DIN plug and later a USB plug, [mitxela] likes a challenge. And while those projects were underway, the game console you’ll see in the video below was sitting on the shelf, hidden away from the world. That’s a shame, because this is quite a build.
Using a CRT oscilloscope in X-Y mode as a vector …read more
Continue reading Delicious Vector Game Console Runs Pac-Man, Tetris, and Mario
The only question we have about [mitxela]’s DIY vector graphics game console is: Why did he wait five years to tell the world about it?
Judging by the projects we’ve seen before, from his tiny LED earrings to cramming a MIDI synthesizer into both a DIN plug and later a USB plug, [mitxela] likes a challenge. And while those projects were underway, the game console you’ll see in the video below was sitting on the shelf, hidden away from the world. That’s a shame, because this is quite a build.
Using a CRT oscilloscope in X-Y mode as a vector …read more
Continue reading Delicious Vector Game Console Runs Pac-Man, Tetris, and Mario
Speedrunner kosmickid12 used old and new glitches to trim precious milliseconds off the game’s world record. Continue reading Watch a Speedrunner Break the ‘Super Mario Bros.’ World Record
Hacker Matthew Earl used Python to extract raw visual data from Nintendo’s code. Continue reading How a Hacker Used Python to Extract the Source Code for ‘Super Mario Bros.’
Just this summer, the Nintendo Entertainment System had its 35th release anniversary, and even after years of discontinuation, it is still going strong in the hacker community. Exhibit A: [Matthew Earl]. For one of his upcoming projects, [Matthew] needed to get his hands on the background images of the NES classic Super Mario Bros. Instead of just getting some ready-rendered images and stitching them together, he decided to take care of the rendering himself, once he extracts the raw game data.
Since there is no official source code available for Super Mario Bros, [Matthew] used a disassembled version to get …read more
Continue reading Find Your Level – Extracting NES Game Data Using Python
Picture it: Halloween, 2018. You want to go to a party or take the kids out trick-or-treating, but remember what happened last year when you weren’t there to answer the door? A pack of wild children blew their allowances on 48 rolls of the cheapest toilet paper ever printed, and it took you four full hours to get all the sodden, dew-laden wads out of your rose bushes.
Halloween is a time to fear things like hobgoblins and the possibility of The Purge becoming a thing, not sugar-fueled children who are upset that you left out a bowl of Sixlets, …read more
Nintendo’s new little cutie carries a lot of essentials, but not all of them. Continue reading The Best NES Games Not Included in the ‘Classic Edition’
Once thought impossible, a time of 4:56 has been achieved. Continue reading Super Mario Bros. Speedrun Record Shattered By a Matter of Milliseconds
[Andrew Peterson] was looking for a way to indulge in his retro gaming passions in a more contemporary manner. His 3D NES emulator “N3S” for Windows brings Nintendo classics to the HoloLens, turning pixels into voxels, and Super Mario into an augmented reality gingerbread man.
To run NES games on the HoloLens, [Andrew’s] emulator uses the Nestopia libretro core. Since AR glasses cry for an augmentation of the game itself, the N3S re-emulates the NES’ picture processing unit (PPU), allowing it to interpret a Nintendo game’s graphics in a 3D space. [Andrew] also put together a comprehensive explanation of how …read more
Continue reading HoloLens NES Emulator For Augmented Retro Gaming