Collaborate Disseminate
Analogue’s high-end variation on the Super NES comes with a cheaper price tag than its NES predecessor and a design meant for 4K TVs. Continue reading The Analogue Super NT Is the Best Way to Play Super Nintendo Games
For those of us not old enough to remember, and also probably living in the States, there was a relatively obscure computer built by Microsoft in the early 80s that had the strong Commodore/Atari vibe of computers that were produced before PCs took over. It was known as the MSX and only saw limited release in the US, although was popular in Japan and elsewhere. If you happen to have one of these and you’d like to play some video games on it, though, there’s now a driver (of sorts) for SNES controllers.
While the usefulness of this hack for …read more
Continue reading An Old Video Game Controller on Even Older Computer
Chiptunes are the fantastic, bleeping musical renditions of the soundchips of retro consoles past. Performers of the art overwhelmingly favour the various flavours of Game Boy, though there are those who work with such varied machines as the Commodore 64, Sega Genesis, and the Nintendo Entertainment System. A little more off the beaten track in the chiptune scene is the Super Nintendo, but [kevtris] has struck out and built a chiptune player for SNES-based music.
The heavy lifting is handled by an FPGA, which emulates the SNES’s S-SMP sound processor, and handles loading the music from the SPC-format files. Being …read more
A niche community of heroes keeps the crude hacker spirit alive in Mario. Continue reading Why ‘Super Mario Maker’ Didn’t Kill the Mario Hacking Community
Because Nintendo doesn’t understand it achieved perfection in 1990. Continue reading Upgrade Your Bulky Wii Remote into a Comfortable SNES Controller
YouTuber details how he made tiny SNES emulator with clay, a Raspberry Pi computer, and other assorted materials. Continue reading Awww, Look at This Tiny Super Nintendo
Clay is a shapeless raw material that’s waiting to be turned into awesomeness by your creativity. So is the Raspberry Pi. [Dorison Hugo] brought the two together in his artfully crafted SNES micro – a tiny retro gaming console sculpted from clay.
For his build, [Dorison] assembled two halves of a little case from sheet plastic, which both together have about the size of the components that will go inside the sculpture: a Raspberry Pi Zero and a USB hub. He then moulded clay on the outside of the two halves, using them as a scaffold for the actual case. …read more
From function to finesse, here are the greatest slabs of plastic that stored our video games. Continue reading 25 Video Game Cartridges, Ranked
The mid 90s were a weird time for video game hardware. There were devices that could play videos from compact disks. Those never caught on. Virtual reality was the next big thing. That never caught on. The Sony PlayStation was originally an add-on for the Super Nintendo. That never caught on, but a few prototype units were produced. One of these prototype ‘Nintendo Playstations’ was shipped to a company that went into bankruptcy. Eventually, the assets of this company were put up for auction, and this unbelievably rare game console was bought by [Terry Diebold] for $75.
[Terry] allowed [Ben …read more
This is a hacking and gaming tour de force! [Seth Bling] executed a code injection hack in Super Mario World (SMW) that not only glitches the game, but re-programs it to play a stripped-down version of “Flappy Bird”. And he did this not with a set of JTAG probes, but by using the game’s own controller.
There are apparently a bunch of people working on hacking Super Mario World from within the game, and a number of these hacks use modified controllers to carry out the sequence of codes. The craziest thing about our hack here is that [Seth] …read more
