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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.
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it's about replacing the guts of a nes with normal pc parts, and does not mention running linux at all
Tecmo Super Bowl (NES). By far the best sports game, if not the best game in general. Anyone else agree?
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.
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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...
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
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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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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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
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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Last time I checked, the best NES emu for the Dreamcast only ran games at 100% speed when every other frame was drawn. Hence, it wasn't emulating games at full speed and frame rate. Because of the way that many primitive sprite based games did graphical effects, drawing every other frame can cause bad unwanted artifacts. For example, when your avatar gets hurt in a NES game, usually, the sprite representing him is drawn every other frame. If you have bad luck, your sprite could be drawn on frames that aren't drawn because you are dropping frames. This results in your sprite being nearly invisible.
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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