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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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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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Did you know that in japan it had modem option? Limited runs of "online" shopping and stock trading was done.
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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
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?
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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If you mod your Nintendo, you won't be able to log into NES Live!
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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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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...
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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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
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.
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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how to mod your NES to make it a projectile from a 5 story building.
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Of course, the amusing thing about this is that you're right. Linux really does run Linux now...
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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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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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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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Haw! Now that you mention it, I remember who made Olympic Decathlon... MICROSOFT!
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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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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
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!
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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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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.
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It goes something like that, at least.
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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
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.
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 ;-)
There were a few exploits like that, simply because SMB was probably the hugest game ever created at that point, with the possible exception of the Zelda games. I have roms for all the Mario and Zelda games, so I'll compare them and see. I suspect that SMB3 is larger than even quite a few snes games.
Some of the exploits were left in on purpose or purposefully included in the first place as 'easter eggs'. Some of them were obvious coding errors.
The reset items trick was something that a few players did after beating the game to start over with all the inventory intact. If you timed your reset to hit just before the game credits stopped, you could usually do this.
Another was the keypad combination that would let you reenter any non-moving area, even destroyed castles. Since hammer brothers dissapeared after you killed them and airships took you to the next level, this would obviously not work.
If you won an airship level while wearing the Frog, Tanuki, or Hammer suit, the king would greet you with a non-standard text string.
Many places in the game, there are 'infinite lives' locations. The first one that comes to mind is the mushroom sprouting pipe in 1-2, I think. If you had a leaf, (and a racoon tail), you could float down. If you timed it right, you could float down just slow enough to land on a mushroom, kill him, jump off, and float down again on top of the next one. If you had your timing down, you could run out the level timer doing this, racking up massive extra lives... to a total of 99, I think. Unlike the 'Eternal Turtle' exploit in SMB1 (In 3-1 and 7-1... doesn't seem to work in 'Allstars'), the life counter in SMB3 did not roll over at 128, so you could get as many lives as you wanted this way. Another location was in the desert world. You could throw a turtle shell into the space between two pipes and then watch mushrooms walk into it. Each mushroom would eventually be worth an extra life.
The one that strikes me as the most obvious coding error was in the end-of-game encounter with Bowser/King Koopa. For those in the know, depending on which route you took through his castle, Bowser had a different difficulty. There were either three or four layers of blocks for him to punch through, depending on how you reached him. In reality, however, there were two Bowsers in the game, one for each location. Here's the trick, though. The two areas they fought in (one with three layers of blocks and one with four layers of blocks) were connected. If you could fly, you could travel back and forth between the two, and have both alive at the same time. If both of them were alive, neither one could shoot fire!
Ah, them were the days, when you were intent on finding *all* the secrets of a game and had months on end to do so.
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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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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.
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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.
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Both sides spend all their time on Slashdot modding members of the other side to death in a computer game based on "discussions."
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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.
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