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[Link] PlayStation 2 Gets A Seamless Media Center Makeover
Read: 4/7/2022 hackaday.com
We often see Raspberry Pi boards of various flavors stuck inside vintage computers and the like. [El Gato Guiri] has instead installed one inside a PlayStation 2 Slim, and rather artfully at that. The result is a tidy little media center device.
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[Link] 25 years later, this museum figured out how to stop screen cheating in GoldenEye
Read: 10/5/2022 www.pcgamer.com
Screen cheating has always been the bane of split screen gaming. There's nothing quite like sneakily creeping around corners only to find out your opponent has been right there waiting for you. Not out of any deduction or skill, just their ability to look at your portion of the screen. GG indeed.
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[Link] Doctor Apologizes for Ranting About ‘Console Wars’ From Operating Room
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
The anesthesiologist, who goes by Dr. Shreeveera on Twitter and his YouTube channel, filmed himself supposedly in an active operating room where he had just anesthetized a patient and was preparing for an invasive procedure to remove a gallbladder.
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[Link] ESP8266 Based WiFi Game Boy Cartridge Browses WikiPedia
Read: 19/12/2021 hackaday.com
[Sebastian Staacks] came across his old Game Boy and was wondering (as you do) what happened to recent attempts at getting a WiFi interface wedged into a standard cartridge. After a while the conclusion was that people had been scuppered by approaching the problem in a way that made it too hard.
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[Link] Bridging Game Worlds With The ‘Impossible’ Pokémon Trade
Read: 8/12/2021 hackaday.com
Transferring hard-earned Pokémon out of the second generation GameBoy game worlds into the ‘Advance Era’ cartridges (and vice versa) has never been officially supported by Nintendo, however [Goppier] has made these illicit trades slightly easier for budding Pokémon trainers by way of a custom
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[Link] Nintendo's YouTube Video For Its Switch Online Upgrade Is Its Most Hated Video Ever
Read: 8/11/2021 www.techdirt.com
Well, this is moving fast. We had just been discussing Nintendo's announcement for a new tier of Nintendo Switch Online services.
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[Link] Modded GBA SP Does Its Best Switch Impression
Read: 2/11/2021 hackaday.com
The whole idea behind the Nintendo Switch is that the system isn’t just a handheld, but can be converted into a more traditional home game console when placed into its dock.
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[Link] In Defence Of ROMs, A Solution To Dying Games And Broken Copyright Laws
Read: 17/10/2021 www.kotaku.com.au
Various game emulation sites are pulling down their software libraries, or ceasing to exist entirely, following a lawsuit filed by Nintendo against one of the largest of their kind.
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[Link] The Absolute Girth Of This Very Wide Game Boy
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
Last year, The Retro Future made a very long Game Boy, and honestly where else do you go from there other than making a very wide Game Boy Advance. There is no practical reason to do this. The video itself is called “I made the GameBoy Advance wider for no reason”.
[Link] Court Orders RomUniverse to Destroy Pirated Nintendo Games and Stay Offline
Read: 14/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A California federal court has ordered the operator of the now-defunct pirate site RomUniverse to destroy all copyright-infringing games within two weeks.
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[Link] After 20 Years Of Attempts, 'Impossible' Goldeneye Trick Hails New World Record
Read: 14/8/2021 kotaku.com
For more than two decades, Goldeneye 007 players have been trying to figure out how to get the fastest time on the game’s hardest level without grabbing an out of the way piece of body armor to help them survive.
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[Link] PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings
Read: 8/8/2021 www.polygon.com
2021 marks the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.
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[Link] Super Mario Kart Hacker Restores Long-Lost Level Editor
Read: 10/6/2021 kotaku.com
Last year’s massive Nintendo data breach, dubbed the “Gigaleak,” revealed a trove of Nintendo secrets including human characters in Animal Crossing, alternate versions of the fourth-gen Pokémon games, and an F-Zero character model that bore shocking resemblance to Beavis and Butthead’s Beav
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[Link] Morrowind Rebooted The Original Xbox Without You Ever Noticing
Read: 16/4/2021 hackaday.com
The original Xbox was well-known for being based on basic PC hardware, and among developers, well known for having just 64 megabytes of RAM which even at the time wasn’t a lot to be working with.
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