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Malicious sent us to a little tutorial about transforming that old
Nintendo into a PC. This guide will even make your controllers work, although it seems to me that a nintendo that has survived this long might be a cherished heirloom tho. Does anyone else think that Super Mario 3 might have been the best game ever? Course very few people make good sidescroller/jumpers in the era of the 3D console.
...the X-box PC!
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well, one of the best, Track and Field. I remember trying to do the 100 dashes and having you thumb fall of becuase you had to punch the controller so hard.
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Do you ever think we will reach a point where a comptuer has been modded into every possible thing? I"ve seen a toaster, vcr, and now a nintendo. If i could find the link to the guy who modded a computer into a RC i would post it.
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There is a resurgence of 2D games, sort of. Contra for PS2 is a good example.
I think it's obvious that the original Metroid was the best game ever. That thing creeped me out and got my heart racing with only 8 bits.
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http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/nespc/ for more info and http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/ for many more like it.
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Just because the linux people want to be like NetBSD doesn't mean they are wrong.
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Did you know that in japan it had modem option? Limited runs of "online" shopping and stock trading was done.
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
Huh. When someone fits a PC into a Game Boy, *then* I'll be impressed!
You must think in Russian.
Not EVERYONE reads the articles!!
it's about replacing the guts of a nes with normal pc parts, and does not mention running linux at all
It's been slashdotted - does anyone have a mirror (preferable with images)?
I just picked up an Atari Super Pong for $15 at a hamfest. Works! Will start porting Linux to it this weekend.
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Tecmo Super Bowl (NES). By far the best sports game, if not the best game in general. Anyone else agree?
And not every article about doing something cool with hardware needs a "not everything has to be made to run linux" comment. It was fun for whoever did it, and that's reason enough.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
When someone fits a PC into a Game Boy
What about a Pocket PC into an Xboy?
No wait, the rumored Xboy IS a Pocket PC!
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It's a shame that Kirby's Adventure came out so late in the life cycle of the NES, but this one is about as good as it can get in a 2D platformer. I won't argue whether it's better than SMB3 or not because they're both great. Shameless plug for my NES Contra site here.
This is the NFL, which stands for "Not For Long" if you keep making those bulls*** calls.
If you mod your Nintendo, you won't be able to log into NES Live!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
Didn't anyone else have a BASIC cart for their Atari 2600?
I preferred Super Mario Brothers 2. Such a total departure from the first game made it unique. I remember my grandmother fought people in a Target to get a copy for my birthday. :)
I also played the original Japanese game it was based on Doki-Doki Panic. Ahhh fun times...
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From what I understood, alot of the first generation 3D consoles were terrible for making 2D games. I always attributed this to the sudden disappearance of the side-scroller.
There are some neat 2D-type games for the 3D consoles though. My favorite example is one of the Mystical Ninja (Goemon) game for N64. It's a side-scroller game in 3D. The 3D is used to direct the player (in a straight line) to secret areas in the fore/background of the main path, or just to have the straight-line path cross over in the 3rd dimension. The end effect is really neat.
I don't know if many people are developing new innovative 2D games, but the scene isn't dead. A few friends and I are working on a PC sequel to NES's Blaster Master. It will be a platform game, constantly switching between 2D and 3D, but always remaining platform (with the exception of certain play modes).
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When the first step is to gut the existing components and install a motherboard and CPU, is that really considered making a PC out of your Nintendo? Sounds more like just a project to make a PC fit into the old Nintendo case...
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
A troll who gets to Meta-Mod? No wonder why slashdot has gone to shit.
their website was also running on the NES... IIS on a 8 bit platform is a double plus ungood
When I was growing up I never had any game consoles. My dad and grandfather each had 286/386/486/etc over time and each started with Apple][gs - so I had access to games on those - but was never allowed a console (mainly due to money, no ethics on behalf of my parents or anything).
:) ).
My friends had the consoles though and I would play them when I went over to their houses.
As a result, I liked games that I could pick up quickly and not die immediately without lots of experience (Zelda was bad for that, Excitebike was GOOD!!).
I never really got good at any of the games since I wouldn't get much time to play (none of my friends wanted to watch me play, but they were fine with me watching them
Then the summer of '99 after I graduated college, I had a month to kill before I started my job - so I spent it at my dad's girlfriend's house sleeping and then playing her son's Super Nintendo. He had some special game pack that had all of the Super Mario games on there.
I played so much that I had some sort of injury to my right hand - specifically thumb blisters.
I finally got to beat each of the series but I kept going back to one to play it over and over - loved it - I *think* it was SM3 - not sure though. Whichever one first introduced Yoshi the dinosaur - I loved it (although the one just before that was pretty cool too).
I've played variants since then and never liked them that much.
Now I have a PS2 and suck at pretty much all of the games to the point where I get too frustrated to play for more than 10 minutes - except at the Tiger Woods golf game - I rule at that.
What were the traits of SM3? I'm not sure if that is the one that I really loved - I think so, but I don't recall the names of all of them and which did which in the series.
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"Course very few people make good sidescroller/jumpers in the era of the 3D console."
Klonoa 2!
For an encore, they could fit the recently evicted NES guts into that old Dell case over there...
I have just succeeded in porting Linux to Linux! Linux now runs Linux! I haven't been able to get the sound to work, though.
For a good sidescroller/jumper in the age of 3D, check out Viewtiful Joe, being released by Capcom in September.
I've also heard of a Castlevania project in the works by Konami as well - let's hope this one is a 2D sidescroller along the lines of Symphony of the Night
Note to self: Just because you CAN run a webserver on an NES doesn't mean you should.
Never approach a vast undertaking with a half-vast plan.
Most of the used, old box-style NES consoles are completely useless nowadays and can be had for a few dollars at any random junk sale, as about 98% will hardly play any old NES cartridges without a lot of fiddling around and resetting, and many will go to a blue screen or pop up random garbage during the game.
Turning them into a NESticle machine is their only salvation -- though the only problem is getting TV out, which the article does not cover.
SMB 3 might of had some of the best graphics seen on the NES but hardly the best game *ever*. If you're talking about the 8-bit era it's highly debatable. If you're talking about the 16-bit era it's out of the question.
Mario 3 was a really great game. However, IMO it is slightly overrated by its market sucess. There were far less popular games that were a even better than Mario. For example: StarTropics, Crystalis, The Immortal. They don't make games like they used to...
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Don't mod this up, because it's reallt not /.ed. The Eds would never do that to us... ;)
I would NEVER, EVER mod it to do this. The NES as it is STILL provides me with hours of entertainment, something most PC games these days can't do. Turning it into something like a webserver would totally ruin it for me.
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More interesting than the article itself is the motherboard. You can pick up a micro ITX board for $90 here. I think you could gut out an old CDROM drive, pop in this board, put a laptop HD and CDROm inside, and have your very own LittlePC. LittlePCs run around $900, you could probably build one a lot cheaper (and have a lot more fun doing it).
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The best game for NES was Zanac. It was arcade
quality and it was such an obscure title that it
sold for $10 in a lot of stores. That was the
best game I ever owned. I think my second
favorite would be Dragon Warrior 1. Then there's
always Metroid.
"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself."
how to mod your NES to make it a projectile from a 5 story building.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
I still break out the 8bit to play smb2. It's just a fun game to play.
Even the newer Mario games, while good games, do not nearly have the same 'fun' factor. There just to frustrating.
I still think that the ending to SMB2 is ones of the best in all gaming history. I still remember the first time I beat it. It was the coolest ending. I can still hear the ending music in my head...
I wish they could return the games to that level of fun. Even if the graphic's lack by today's standards.
Sean D.
"Hmm. I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers!"
Take, for example, this Famicom Four Player tech doc, and an unfinished report on how to re-wire your Four Score, which leads to the ability to play Four Player Famicom Games or a four player game of Game-Genie Enhanced Super Dodge Ball
As far as this article, any monkey with a stick can figure out how to slap a PC together in any type of chassis they want, be it NES, fishbowl, beerkeg, whatever..... I'm not impressed.
Of course, the amusing thing about this is that you're right. Linux really does run Linux now...
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/07/27/155322 6&mode=flat
alot of the first generation 3D consoles were terrible for making 2D games.
Do you mean first generation as in systems such as Jaguar and 3DO that never caught on, or do you mean the first generation of game consoles with real 3D hardware? The Sega Saturn had excellent 2D games such as NiGHTS. The problem with the PlayStation is that in the beginning, Sony would not approve any 2D title because Sony wanted to market the system as a 3D console. Of course, Sony had to change that when people were still buying 2D games for the Super NES.
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I'm going to do something nobody has done for a long time. I'm going to go out and buy an ATX motherboard along with all the ancillaries (spelling?) and stick them in a metal box with holes in the front for my CD-ROM drive and floppy drive. The front will also have suitable buttons for power and reset. Round the back I think I should be able to find suitable openings for those PCI cards I'm going to put on the Mobo. Do you know what, I'll give it a name, a PeeCee! Nobody cares anymore. Yes, ITX mobos were once cool, but now you can get them just about anywhere for less than £100.
At Mini-ITX.com.
There was a even a company selling converted NES-to-PCs or kits or something. Ah! Here's the link.
They also do Atari 2600s and Amiga 1000s (I would never defile my A1000!).
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It has to be River City Ransom. I had those eye-chart passwords memories, stomped ass for hours to get the Texas Boots and Zeus' Belt...
Man, someone should make a MMORPG from River City Ransom. Everyone gets their own gang, and when they die, they say BAAAAAAAAARFF!
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Tomba! and its sequals are fantastic side scrollers on the Playstation platform.
They can be a little hard to find, even on eBay, but they are totally worth it. Tomba! is definetly in my top 20 on the Playstation.
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The tutorial has more info, but as it has been slashdoted, you can read about another NES casemod here.
The good old times... when games gave random garbage on the TV and you had to blow the games, or lick 'em. And sometimes even put 2 games one of top of each other.
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Course very few people make good sidescroller/jumpers in the era of the 3D console.
:-)
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My via ITX board here has a TV-out on it.. so I suspect it's pretty straightforward.
..don't panic
Abuse, although not incredibly recent, was a pretty good game, side-scroller in the era of Doom/Quake
Download it and try it out. Now only if Crack Dot Com had released Golgotha....
I confirm, Super Mario 3 was the best game ever.
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Yes, it's about time we start seeing modern operating systems on older and older equipment. Linux on an Atari 2600, complete with its simulated wood grain front, would be ideal. There's nothing quite like simulated wood grain that says, "Modern."
I thought Zero Wing was the best game ever. Take off every zig!!!
That is not a good example. When I heard games like Contra we're being brought out for the PS2, I was excited to think they took a classic, updated it, and made it fun for today's consoles. Leave the story and the bosses, but update it. Kinda like what the did for Metroid on the GC. But no...it was the exact same game as 15 years ago. EXACT. Leaving it 2D would have been fine, but at least make the game a little more challenging.
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When the traffic normalizes, I'll remove the mirror.
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The NES had a 6502 family processor. The joke in this case would be
lsr...lsr...sta...jmp! jmp!
To learn how to program the NES, go to nesdev.
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Turning them into a NESticle machine is their only salvation
NESticle is a disgustingly inaccurate emulator. FCE Ultra is much more accurate.
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Does anyone else think that Super Mario 3 might have been the best game ever?
Quite possibly. Though it's a pity battery backups on the cartriges werent common back then. It was a real pain having to replay the game every time you wanted to get further in it. Naturally I never had that much time to spare at once, so I never got very far.
*sniff*
I'm sure there was a lot of fun in that game that I missed.
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You forgot the obligatory link to the story.
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Let's see a PC made to fit inside a ZX Spectrum (Timex 1000 for you Americans?)
;-)
Then I'll be impressed.
Common guys, who can forget the original Zelda? The best role playing game ever. Link runing around Hyrule looking for the tri force was the best.
Kinda cool though, get a emulator to run on this thing and you can play all your old games too.
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I don't remember any blue screens back then, but you had to change your keyboard every other month. They obviously had a deal with keyboard makers.
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what function would be served by the power pad on this pc?
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My parents wouldn't buy me a Nintendo until I was 13, so I grew up sucking at every game; except one: LIFE FORCE!!!
Every weekend, my friend (who was a game master) and I would get a pizza, bag of chips, some candy, and pop, sit down in bean bags and play Life Force from beginning to end. Not a dead-easy game; you had to pay attention; but oh what fun, and how multi-player reliant, and how re-playable. Anybody hear me on this? Perhaps not. It was overshadowed by the likes of Contra and such; but the game was a treasure for the nerdy kid who could never get his hands on a controller.
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.... the blue screen of death, we can get the flashing blue screen of death. How convenient. :)
"If the good lord had intended us to walk, he wouldn't have invented roller skates." -Willy Wonka
Personally, The best game for that system (the 8 bit NES) was Metroid.
It changed everything.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
IMHO, SMB2 was a big letdown. SMB3 was superior to SMB2, but it was a bit too complex for being the best side-scroller. They were almost leaning in towards the rpg side of the side-scroller world with the complexity. I still think the original Super Mario Brothers was the best side-scroller ever. Simple, and done just right.
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What's the point of that? To see what kind of new cases we can slap PC parts into. Frankly, I'm a little tired of this being a hot news item.
My dad wanted to throw out my NES. Can you believe it? Throw out a perfectly good a-few-generations-ago console? It's actally catching dust in our garage now, so it's much better off. How could you just toss out precious heirlooms willy-nilly like that? I'll never part with any PC hardware either. As long as it works, I'll let it sit in a box somewhere.
Mark
Someone get this guy a cupon for a course in photography please! (Either he's really bad, or my vision is going at the tender age of 17... NOOOOO!)
your right, it has to be modd'd to run NetBSD instead!
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night for Playstation. An awesome sidescroller that came out a few years ago around the same time as Castlevania for the N64 and blew it away. Its probably on my top 10
This is the only person that's posted anything CORRECT in this thread.
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Course very few people make good sidescroller/jumpers in the era of the 3D console.
Did anyone else play Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project? Full-on 3D, but gameplay was a good, old-fashioned side-scroller.... Duke even jumped the same way as the original Duke Nukem!
M$ has lowered prices of some of its games as a result of an increase in losses and moves to lower prices by competitors according to this CNN article
Not everyone can read the articles, as they become unreachable more often than not. That's not to say jumping to conclusions is an acceptable practice, though.
Does anyone know of a way to hack a light gun to work with a PC NES Emulator for all those oldie light gun games like Hogan's Alley and such?
That would be worth more to me than modding a NES into a PC.
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woop love that game.
With your pinky and the next finger over constantly pushing down, all you have to do it use your other hand to push down on the oposite side and when you come back up, the side that your fingers are resting on come back down. Like a see-saw. With that combo you can tear up the track and field.
Already did that... but it's really hard to type anything into the console because the cursor keeps moving around on the bottom of the screen! ;-)
Way back when -- in my "band" days I wrote a song called Super Happy Zone which is what we called the sections where Mario/Luigi would jump into the coins.
The singer told me (later) that the song had all this meaning for him and he thought it was a really amazing piece of occult writing and that I must have read a lot of Crowely (who I only knew by reference through Jimmy Page and Ozzy) to have so carefully written an ode to some God or another.
When I told him it was about Super Mario Bros he laughed nervously and ran out of the house.
Haven't seen him since I swear!
This
tutorial about transforming that old Nintendo into a PC
Really, this is just a very-much-not-unique-or-novel story on taking a mini-ITX board and stuffing it into some random thing.
Next we'll see:
Jim sends us a tutorial about transforming that old empty Whitman's Sampler box into a PC
Pam sends us a tutorial about transforming that old kitty litter box into a PC
Ned sends us a tutorial about transforming that old lunch box into a PC
Oh yeah...I remember where I've already read all this stuff...
Nice ditch effort to bolster the story, Taco: Does anyone else think that Super Mario 3 might have been the best game ever?
Technique #4- if a story topic is lame, just add a few (unrelated) topics to the story in a shotgun approach to digging up interest.
My friends and I still enjoy playing 2 player SMB3 sometimes, and we enjoy "trash" talking it up, as well. My favorite "burn":
Dude, why's your Luigi red?"
Yep, we're geeks...
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Geddit? Famicom -> PC
I r so funnay
Why waste a perfectly good (and excelent) gaming machine on a PC? Why?
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A company once sold an NES clone with a disk drive, called Doctor PC Jr. It had BASIC, Logo, and a word processor, and it could also run Famicom (Asian NES) games.
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I think they have an NES Web Server...
Linux really does run Linux now...
Who wouldn't run a sandbox to test an app?
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My wife has an orig NES console. I always wanted to build a eeprom cartridge for it so that I could store her games ROMs on a CD and reload them as desired onto the eeprom. Does anybody know of any projects that have specs condusive to creating such a cartridge?
Some of her cartridges are already dying so we don't use them very often.
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Basicly, the there's a Japanese story about a Tanuki (bah, racoon) outsmarting a Fox in a transformation contest. Essentially, it start in many cases with the Fox transforming into a statue, stealing riceballs offered up to the statue by the Tanuki. After revealing himself, it was time for the Fox to see if he could find a transformed Tanuki. Overconfident, he came across a king's caravan, and called out for it to stop and the Tanuki to reveal himself. However, the Tanuki had not even transformed, and merely watched as the Fox was assailed by the king's army.
:)
It goes something like that, at least.
http://www.knosp.com/projects/nespc/index.html
or did the whole "installed a MB, HD, CD and Ports into a....." phenom kinda peak at the whole "In a Pizza Box" story from way back in the /. dino days?
(+1 Funny) only if I laugh out loud.
I recall one evening while me and my younger brother were playing SMB3, my brother threw this temper tantrum over one particular map somewhere around world 5 or so; in his rage he slammed his fist down on the desktop, near the NES. When he did, the NES reset the game and started him over at the intro screen. Pissed, he said a string of choice words and stomped off. I picked up the controller and started a new game, and on a whim checked Mario's inventory; it still retained all of my brother's items from his previous game ;-) So there I was, in the first world, with a few Tanoki suits, a Whistle, and a few other assorted not-supposed-to-haves. That was pretty cool ;-)
I'm working on doing this at the moment to a NES of mine that went bad. I have some suggestions to anyone else that is going to do this...
First of all, making the front ports the PS/2 ports is kind of a waste, because then only the mouse and keyboard plug into them. Instead, wire them up to USB ports, so you can make small Nintendo plug -> USB plug adapters, so you can plug any device into the front of it, even Nintendo paddles, with the help of a USB -> Parallel adapter (and you could probably even fit that inside a NES paddle).
However, it's nice to see that fixing the power button is so easy to do, I was honestly having some trouble getting it to work right (at the moment, you have to tap the power button twice real quick when turning it on, since the NES power button is a toggle switch).
Also, don't settle for just a CD/DVD-ROM drive. You can also get slim floppy drives, such as the one shown here, and fit both of them inside the case.
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You are thinking of World Class Track Meet.
I know everyone gets those two confused, but Track and Field does not support the powerpad, as it came out long before the powerpad.
The Legend of Zelda
In fact, even more than 15 years later, I still think that The Legend of Zelda is the best video game I've ever played. Bar none.
Nintendo, if you're listening, I would pay another $50 to see this game ported 100% exactly to my GBA or even PC - assuming I could get an authentic 2 button controller to go with it. :-)
(Yes, I've played it on Mame, and the sound and gameplay isn't quite the same.)
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The vast majority of NES systems need little work to get past the problems you are talking about, and for what it's worth, those problems show up on every cart-based system.
First of all, the easiest and most successful thing to do would be to replace the cartridge connector. These are all pretty cheap on eBay, right around $10, just search for "NES 72".
Secondly, the blinking red light problem is a result of the NES not finding the on-game security chip. Really annoying when the game title screen pops up just for a second over and over again. There's an easy workaround: Disable the NES security chip. Basicly, you'll break pin 4 of the CIC chip, and that's it. http://nintendope.iodized.net/thisoldnes/lock.txt
when someone talks of side scrollers one must mention Castlevania: Symphony of the night. Yes i know its not an "old" game, but it is the best sidescroller i have played.
Or forget buying a new pin cartridge connector. Take your NES apart and fix the connector yourself. It's amazingly easy (I have ZERO skills at stuff like this, and I found it to be really easy).
There's a tutorial at www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/nesrepair
My NES now works perfectly.
Best strategy/war game for the NES.
Much better then Nobanaga's Ambition, which while groundbreaking and all that, only had a sliding "dick factor" for probabilities instead of decent AI (I know it's 8-bit, but did you ever try it on level 5? Ridiculous. Same with the SNES version) Shingen was as deep, but with a better battle system, and after being tied to Shinano province for so many games, I have always had a soft spot in my heart for those crazy Takedas. Even if in RL they were for the most part "not-nice" people.
Zelda was fun, but best (console)rpg ever. Not a chance FFIII, Chrono Trigger, Lufia2. Zelda wasn't that good compared to the greats.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
if you buy a nes, gut it, put a pc inside... is it legal to run an nes emulator on it ? :)
Anyone interested in NES gaming (and have an old Dreamcast) should check out NesterDC: http://nemesis.kaz.ac/~fumihit/nesterdc/ (this seems to have the most current version, which I just noticed is up to version 7.1 stable... I have a 6.x version and totally forgot about it!)
Ability to quick-save the game, and save to the VMU. The emulation seemed as perfect as I've ever seen... I've played SMB3 and Metroid quite a bit... (even TMNT1)
Newer versions I believe support Game Genie although the last version I tried, which was a 6.x version, Game Genie support was a tad strange (you had the make directories containing files containing the game genie codes; couldn't type them in outright)
All in all, the best reason for me to keep my Dreamcast laying around!
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It would be a total shame to waste such a great console as the original NES on something so...useless and unoriginal as this mod. I bought my NES with birthday/allowance/savings money in April of 1985 (86? whenever it first came out), and it's been played on pretty much continuously ever since by me, my siblings, and now my wife, who never had one as a kid. Despite all this abuse, the thing's still in great shape...I had to get one of those replacement cartridge readers from EBay for $20 a year ago, but it was an easy install, and it works like a charm now. Why destroy such a good machine?
Oh, and as for greatest game ever...my vote definitely goes in for SMB3...but you can't forget Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a runner-up!
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4-P Simultaneously with the GBA Link cable. I've played with 2 other people for hours on end. Excellent game. SMB3 is still better in my book, I wish they'd do a 4-P mode on all their games though.
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I have but two words to say to you people: Dragon Warrior. The first and best.
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I really, really enjoyed playing Mario 3 as a youngster on an original Nintendo, but I never finished it -- until about 4 months ago, when I started playing it in an emulator on my PC. Totally beat it then :)
Why not fix it up and get it working again? Most of the problems with the power button blinking & fuzziness on the screen has to do with dust in the connector. It takes 5 minutes to fix. Take the light gray top off, unscrew the black cartridge holder, and with a qtip clean the connector using a diluted rubbing alcohol solution (9:1 water to alcohol). Clean each game by rubbing both sides of its connector & the edge with the same solution. You'd be amazed at how much crap accumulates on those connectors. I bought a 'broken' NES + 50 games off ebay for $15. Fixed it up, and now between Slashdot and Ten Yard Fight I have no life...
When I was young, a friend of mine and myself bought cartridges which include multiple games: mine was built with 63 low quality (but complete)games, and the one of my friend with 10 complete games, like SMB3(Japanese version, I leave in France), Heavy Barrel,... The name of his compilation was explicitely "The 10 best games of NES".
I can just remember the names of 2 of the 10 games, and I would like you to help me to remember the others!
More over, how could this be possible??? It seemed to be legal cartridges, but was it? Does anyone has any information about this???
damn i cant believe no one mentioned this game yet.. only game i can remember using the gun with.. that game was awesome, got to pick between those disc's and the ducks.. definately one of the best games i can remember playing.. and then there was that track game with the mat.. damn my entire family used to play that game for hours.. happy times.. anyways with the page /.'d (i guess) any mention of the gun and/or running mat working?
I still play my NES and after 10+ years the games I still play must be among the best but have not been mentioned yet. When I am alone, Mike Tyson's Punch Out gets the most tick while RC ProAm rules in a crowd. How many people have beaten Tyson?
I'm not the actual YOU FAIL IT troll, but he seems to be lacking right now, so I just thought I'd fill in for him and say YOU FAIL IT.
BT
This Mod doesn't really interest me. An NES Mod that would interest me is one that would make the thing work! I have an NES from prob mid-late 80s and it only works like 1/20 tries. What a pain. I would love to have some mod where you could change out some part or mod the connection or something to make the thing work better. Anyone have any links/ideas? Blowing on the cartridges just doesn't seem to work anymore.
I think my principles are reachin' an all time low
So, does anyone know how the gun worked? Any way you could turn the gun into a quasi-mouse. You aim the gun and shoot to click. If you hooked the machine up with a tv-out graphics card, that could be a pretty cool setup. Just an idea.
Mario Bros. doesn't scroll (unless you count the slightly-flawed GBA conversion) and thus does not qualify as a scrolling platform game. It was more different from the SMB 1/SMB 3 style than even SMB 2 was. For another thing, I didn't want to go all the way back to Donkey Kong.
Hint- to create a SuperFoo, first you need a Foo
Not always. Was Clark Kent "Man" before he was "Superman"?
Will I retire or break 10K?
SMW IS a great game, but for my money, Zelda Ocarina of Time (N64) is the best video game ever made. Closely followed by FF7 (PSX). At the moment I'm enjoying Ico (PS2) a lot, very atomospheric.
My 0.02 Euros
Well, not a trick really - it was just the coolest bonus for winning a game ever, IMHO... when you won the game, if you started over without reseting the machine you would find yourself with a full inventory (27 items) of "p-wings" ... these are very rare items in the game up to that point, and allow you to fly continuously through a whole level, provided you don't get hit.
You could then explore all sorts of stuff that would have been impossible before... lots of hidden things to find, etc. What a blast!
For a while my friends and I would start an SMB3 session by winning the game (we got it down to a 30 minute process using both warp whistles) and then we'd go to some of the more difficult worlds with our p-wing collection and have a ball.
Damn those were good times... I don't think there's any game out there that's been more fun, or had more replay value for my dollar.
Cheers!
From the website:
Best of all, the NES service is free (very small fee for the SNES client).
"Jesus saves, but everyone else in a 10 foot radius takes full damage from the fireball."
...is all you needed to know to play a Kanomi game. Contra and Life Force were awsome!
There's no place like ~/
The last time this kid got a piece of ass was when his finger went through the toilet paper.
I really don't see the point in this one, he could have just used a mini-itx case and glued on the parts, would have been alot less work, not to mention cooling and the enclosed power supply.
Add to that the fact that a working NES is actually worth something, and that most non-functioning NES decks can be repaired with a basic knowledge of any VCR repair shop for $30, this suddenly doesn't seem like a worthwhile mod.
But if it gives the high school kids something better to do than shoot each other.....
An external PC Power supply would solve a lot of heat and space issues in small machines... anyone know if these exist?
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
Buy it on E-Bay. That's right, item number 3401552448. Be the life of the next LAN party, amaze your friends...
... And install an NES emulator! That'll throw people for a loop, when you shut down Super Mario Brothers and get an X desktop ;)
I don't know if only one game can be considered the best, with there being so many genres. IMHO, Super Mario Brothers 3 does deserve to be named the best side scroller.
Adventure-wise though, I'd go with Zelda. It was RPG, it was action-based, it was both! Add some quality 8-bit music and you have a game you can't put down (for long). Shameless plug for the Open Source Zelda project I'm a part of.
"Blaster Master" all the way. *That* was a masterpiece of NES programming. The graphics were excellent, the music was jamming.. the play control was flawless; everything about the game was fantastic.. Too bad sunsoft seems to be gone.. *sigh* (Anyone know what happened to them?)
Other favorites include Castlevania, Megaman, Bionic Commando.. ahhh.. the memories.
I got a computer inside my Xbox!!!!! OMFG!!
Gosh, I'm really getting nostalgic! Anybody know of any _good_ up-to-date non-3D Shoot'em Ups? I'm so sick of 3D-this and 3D-that games.
One of the main reason I bought a GBA was to be able to play Gradius and the likes. Of course, there's always M.A.M.E., but I would love to see some modern graphics, high resolutions etc.
As long as every great game gets it own thread, I believe that Solar Jetman was among the 10 best Nintendo games ever. Good old Rare... stupid Microsoft purchacing them =(.
Some other top 10 games that deserver mention:
River City Ransom
Super Dodge Ball
Bionic Commando
Zelda
Zelda 2
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Metroid
I'll leave the other 2 open.
"Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil." -Philips
Is the small board used, and that this really isn't all that remarkable.
Go to Mini-ITX.com and go see some other cool mini-board mods.
I'm working on mine!
Later
Josh
Now there is one beige box that wouldn't look bad beside the TV
I already put PC into my old wrecked Marantz(R) CD player - 3,5" hdd, normal size CDrom (old Mitsumi 8x for now), microAtx Biostar board (M6VLQ with Celeron 1200 MHz, with onboard Fast ethernet and graphic card), only ATX power is placed outside, on back panel, but nobody can see it since there is tape player (also Marantz(R)) standing above. Only diskette drive is missing, but who cares. My SuSe linux has bootable cd's so why worry...
I can't wait for the technology to evolve so that I could be able to put entire PC into my old Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ :-D
I'm not insane. My mother had me tested.
How about Double Dribble actually saying "Double Dribble" at the title screen? That was freakin' amazing.
The damn computer talked.
Crazy.
Tecmo Super Bowl was indeed an awesome game, but...
What about Baseball Stars??
You won games, which got you money, and then you could "power up" your players.. one of the first (if not *the* first) sports game where you could name your players.. that was so awesome. (until the memory accidentally got erased...)
"Truth is not decided by majority vote" consensus gentium -- Norman Geisler
It's a religous war. You see, you've got these guys in blue stripes claiming there are Articles, and the guys in red stripes (which also means they're in charge) persecute the ones in blue stripes.
Both sides spend all their time on Slashdot modding members of the other side to death in a computer game based on "discussions."
What's this Submit thingy do?
Try Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project. As side scrollers go, it rules. It takes full advantage of the 3D accelerators available and has the action move around buildings, curved objects, etc. You are still set into a left-right track that you progress through, but it twists around. The graphics are pretty nice and it's got the Duke Nukem humor.
If you never liked side scrollers, don't bother. It has the stereotypical end level bosses that can only be killed if you hit the secret weak spot X times. It has a constant stream of unintelligent mobs attacking you. The only innovation is the newer prettier graphics.
OK - NO longer is putting PC parts into a nintendo, rc-car, toaster, vcr, shoebox or somewhere else that they were not originally designed to be incased in, VERY COOL. It is on the border of "im a loser with too much time on my hands, and not enough computer talent to do something useful/creative".
SLASHDOT - stop posting front page articles concerning the newest/latest/greatest dumb ass ideas on howto put a power supply and some parts into a shit casing.
ITS NOT THAT AMAZING.
Check out Klonoa 2 on the PS2 for a great 2.xD scroller. The backgrounds are 3D and there are some elements greater than 2D. However, it is a very satisfying 2D-style experience.
I believe the code is up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A. Hitting start was just to start the game. Your code would probably work because the extra B-A-select-start wouldn't interfere with the code.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
I'm surprised that no one's mentioned this to you... but if you had READ his page, he's planning on running WinXP, and was considering win2000 if he couldn't get his controller working on it. It's a very interesting page, and you might want to consider reading it. It's not about modding a nintendo to run windows, it's about modding a computer to fit in a nintendo case.
~Jon
This space for rent, inquire within.
Well, first of all, I don't think it's *that* unusual for an NES box to still be fully functional these days. Mine sure is, after having been put into production use (so to speak) for almost 15 years now. Back in the good old days, they knew how to make consoles that would *last*. :)
Apart from that, SMB3 was great indeed, and it was amazing to see what could be gotten out of the NES's rather humble hardware, but I personally think that the best game ever released may have been Metroid. SMB3 and the original Legend of Zelda were close runner-ups, though.
Oh, and don't forget classics like Gradius and Ice Climber, too! :)
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Remind me not to buy a digital camera like the one that guy used on his website.
Man, are the pictures ever blurry & grainy.
Interesting site, tho.
is Little Nemo's adventure in nightmare land. Anybody else remember it? It was at least as creative as Smb3. I think it used to be a comic I think. Fun game
Ansi's and stupid tricks!
I have one, but it stop's reading my rom cd's after a while. Here's a fix I figured out, when the drive fails (usually after 2 months of regular use). Put a 2nd roms cd on top of the one you want to play, and then jam the drive shut. Then do up up down down left right left right b a start.
But Contra has to be the best simultaneous 2 player game ever. I wonder how many people have a few brain cells permanently dedicated to the Contra 30 man code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, select, start)?
...unless it's the same guy:
http://mini-itx.com/projects/nespc/
Orange
Definitely Final Fantasy 3 (US) for the super NES..
best platformer = tough call between mega man 3 (nes) and mega man x (snes)
...was never released for the NES.
it was only available on the SNES.
?Who controls the past now, controls the future.
Who controls the present now controls the past.?
I admit it. I'm officially converted. And... I officially apologize.
I've been playign Metroid Prime on the Gamecube for a few weeks now. I thought a First-Person-Perspective Metroid was just the stupidest idea EVER. However, 1/3 of the way throught the game, it is AMAZING how much this game feels like a Metroid game. Anyone else feel this way? It's such a brilliant and fun game and one of the best games I have seen or played in years. How they made this FPS have the same feel as the side-scrollers of the Metroid universe is amazing.
Actually, the famicom (japanese NES) modem was planned on being brought over in a few different variations were almost produced. The first was a general consumer version that you could (theoretically) use to play 2 player games via the phone lines. It came very close to production (even had an ad featured in nintendo power), but the company went out of business and it was never released. The other was released by the Minnesota State Lottery that was supposed to allow player to play lottery games from home. It came very close to a public release, but was shot down when people began to submit their fears that people would "hack" there nintendo and gamble on other peoples money. You can find more information about it at http://www.megspace.com/entertainment/neskingdom/s pecial/lottery/index.html
"But the smell-o-scope is brilliant I tell you! Just think of the astronomical odors you'll smell thanks to me!
I don't know if you know about this game called Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. It has a kiddy title, and a kiddy appearance, but ANYONE who plays it know how much it rules! AND... as a bonus, there are tons of hidden NES games in it! Punch-Out, Pinball, Ice Climber, etc. Others are RUMORED to be there too (Zelda, SMB, etc).
n/t
C Pungent
if someone would be nice enough to get me some game genie codes for a NES game known as SHIGEN THE RULER, i would be really happy (infinite money is nice) its a super tough rpg which i cant beat.... ive been trying for 7 years.
Wrong, and I quote from NesterDC's latest README.txt file:
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Status of NesterDC-7.1
Supported
* almost fullspeed emulation
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NesterDC does NOT draw every frame, so that it can play games at full speed. So you are still better off with a low latency Linux, FCE Ultra, some playstation to usb adapters, and a really fast CPU. I am a huge NES nerd, own tons of the real thing, and emulate the rest. I make sure to use the best emulation possible, so I do my homework.
The "blinking NES" syndrome is easy to cure. Unless some severe dirt/corrosion has appeared on the contacts, it is normally* caused by the internal 72-pin connector (between the cartridge and the NES's main board) losing its spring over time...the contacts no longer touch all pins on the cartridge. To fix this, you can open the NES and carefully pry on the contact pins to bring them back into firmer contact with the cartridge. Alternatively, you can get a replacement connector from various sources (aftermarket, NES freaks, EBay?).
:)
* The "Blinking" is also controlled by the NES's security lockout chip; foreign/pirate/unlicensed cartridges or failure of the CIC (security) chip on either the cart or the NES will cause it. My NES experienced this after the CIC chip or some supporting chip mysteriously blew out. (Tip: Do not connect arbitrary circuitry to the NES expansion slot.) To remedy, find the CIC and either sever Pin 4 (or ideally, unsolder this pin from the board and tie it to ground) or find some other way to force the voltage levels on this chip. More details on disabling the CIC should be available via Google search
Caveat Emptor is not a business model.
Several people have mentioned other games/rereleases in the series, but:
SMB All-Stars, released for SNES, is really *the* version to get if you like any of: SMB, SMB: LL, SMB2, and SMB3. Unlike, say, the Ninja Gaiden trilogy re-release, Nintendo actually redid all the graphics in 256-color (vs. 16 IIRC on NES) and sound, so the games look gorgeous and sounds great. (They also fixed the bugs, too -- so no world -1.)
I played SMB Advance for GBA recently and was sorely disappointed: it is *not* merely a port of the version released on SMB All-Stars. You now have a score, and they've modified some of the enemies, if not the levels. For instance, in the second room of 1-1, you're running along only to encounter a huge shyguy (pink things w/ the white masks) -- about 1/3 each height and width of the screen. (SMB Advance also includes a port of the original Mario Brothers game.)
Thankfully, the GBA has a fair number of other decent platformers, etc.: Metroid Fusion, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (and a couple others I don't care for, but I think I'm the only one), a Klonoa game. Haven't tried Kirby but IIRC it's actually a new game rather than a re-release or port. And of course don't forget that there's no region-lockout crap on GBA, so US systems can play Euro and Japanese games and vice versa. I've had good experiences with NCSX.com and VideoGameDepot.com (the latter now owned by CartMart, IIRC).
Don't forget the Strider[0] sequel for Playstation.[1] The levels are rendered in 3D, but the gameplay is entirely 2D. The 2.5D style nicely complements the game, which is absolutely great -- and a considerable challenge if you don't make use of the infinite continues. (The game actually comes with two CDs, one of which contains the original Strider game, but they mislabelled them, so the S2 disc contains the original and vice versa.)
:)
Last post in this thread, I swear.
[0] Remember Strider? The first console game so colossally huge they needed a *whole megabyte* to fit it in?
[1] Don't confuse this with Strider 2 for Genesis/MegaDrive, which is doubleplustripe.
If there were articles, I might of read them, but I prefer the pictures!! :-)
Who knew life could be this funny?
Secret of Mana.
Oh how I cried when I found out that it was never released outside of Japan.
Oh how I sang when I first played the rom through snes9x.
And yes, I would BUY that game for my ps2/xbox/cube/I don't care just release it please
...or you could just buy a PC from Walmart for $200 that comes with everything you need in full size and upgradeable.
I thought we were in the context of Mario platform games that scrolled in 2D or 3D. And no I'm not talking about Donkey Kong '94 for Game Boy either.
Will I retire or break 10K?
The _only_ reason that there were no BSODs is that it was a Non-Windows(tm) game, on a self-booting floppy.
Look at all the happy creatures dancing on the lawn...
My all time faves on the NES? The Megaman and Castlevania series, Legacy of the Wizard (a game which you could literally and irrecovacably become stuck in), and Blaster Master. Can't forget Mike Tyson's Punchout and Contra.
Some of my best gaming memories were on that system, man. I'll never forget it.
- IP
I guess that's what you call "Wintendo".
Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands!
/usr/ucb/which sense (Bourne shell)
Try:
[Where is Jimmy Hoffa? (C shell)
^How did the^sex change operation go? (C shell)
"How would you rate BSD vs. System V?
%blow (C shell)
'thou shalt not mow thy grass at 8am' (C shell)
got a light? (C shell)
!!:Say, what do you think of margarine? (C shell)
PATH=pretending!
make love
make "the perfect dry martini"
man -kisses dog (anything up to 4.3BSD)
i=Hoffa ; >$i; $i; rm $i; rm $i (Bourne shell)
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