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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] 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] Coder Spends 1,200 Hours Piecing Together Diablo's Source Code
Read: 29/11/2021 kotaku.com
If not for a few oversights on Blizzard’s part, the original Diablo’s source code would likely be lost to time. However, thanks to those oversights and some serious dedication from one coder, people can now see (and tinker around with) what makes Diablo tick.
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[Link] Ocarina Of Time's Source Code Has Been Reverse Engineered
Read: 29/11/2021 kotaku.com
In 2019, the source code for Super Mario 64 was reverse engineered, leading to all kinds of wonderful mods and even ports to systems like the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. Now it’s Ocarina of Time’s turn.
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[Link] The ‘Dune’ Porn Game Is Not a Terrible Adaptation
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
With the release of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune in theaters this month, a look back at the erotic visual novel based on the book, that deserved more fanfare than it ever received. Dune is a horny franchise.
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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] Command & Conquer: Red Alert remains one of the most intense and imaginative strategy games ever made
Read: 6/11/2021 www.pcgamer.com
For more of Command & Conquer's past, and a look back at the whole strategy genre, check out our beefy history of the strategy game, from 1972 to now. Released in November 1996, Command and Conquer: Red Alert was developed in just 14 months. That's a staggeringly short turnaround for a game.
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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] Hacking An Obsolete Yet Modern Calculator
Read: 1/11/2021 hackaday.com
The gold standard for graphing calculators, at least in the US, are the Texas Instruments TI-84 series. Some black sheep may have other types, but largely due to standardized testing these calculators dominate the market.
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[Link] ESP32 Clock Pushes Outrun Graphics Over Composite
Read: 19/10/2021 hackaday.com
We’ve covered plenty of clocks powered by the ESP32, but this one from [Marcio Teixeira] is really something special. Rather than driving a traditional physical display, the microcontroller is instead generating a composite video signal of an animated digital clock.
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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] This Week In Modding: Legendary Skyrim Mod Deleted, DMCAs Issued, And More
Read: 15/8/2021 www.thegamer.com
New ways to play Skyrim, and DMCA takedown notices - yep, it’s been a pretty standard week in the modding community.
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[Link] Team Fortress 2 Fans Are Rebuilding The Game With Latest Tech
Read: 15/8/2021 kotaku.com
An independent group of developers recently announced their intentions to port Team Fortress 2 to the upcoming Source 2 engine, and the early results of their work—an aptly named project known as Team Fortress: Source 2—already look amazing.
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[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] Diablo 2 Resurrected Open Beta Date Leaked
Read: 9/8/2021 comicbook.com
It looks as though the open beta date for Diablo II: Resurrected, which is the upcoming remaster of the classic loot-action game, has leaked ahead of its formal announcement.
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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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[Link] Pretending to be Pixar in 3D Movie Maker, Microsoft's weird 1995 animation studio for kids
Read: 9/4/2021 www.pcgamer.com
This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 354 in March 2021. Every month we run exclusive features exploring the world of PC gaming—from behind-the-scenes previews, to incredible community stories, to fascinating interviews, and more.