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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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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.
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!
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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).
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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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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
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.
i'm amazed that i survived - an airbag saved my life.
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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Back in the day, a grocery store near my house-- I say near my house. It was 3 miles away. 10 minutes on a fast bike-- got an NES Choice Ten standup machine. It had a few titles in it, but the one I noticed as being most prominent was a strange game labeled 'SMB3' in blue without any logos or identifying marks.
Curious, I put a quarter in and got my 300 seconds of playtime. I selected 'SMB3' and was rewarded with the home play version (not the later choice ten version where you could select the level) of 'Super Mario Bros. 3'.
"This has to be a hack of some kind," I said, "Like that stupid Skater Brothers rip of Super Mario".
Mind you, this was more than four months before 'Wizard' had hit theaters and about six before you could actually buy SMB3 in stores. They weren't even advertisting SMB3 in Nintendo Power. Of course, back then, video games didn't quite have the 3 years of hype before release they tend to now. The only thing that I can figure is that the owner of the arcade machine managed to get a beta copy of the game or had a friend in Nintendo USA who 'fixed' his Choice-10 roms for him with the new game.
To my surprise, however, SMB3 was not a hack or a copy of an existing game. It was its own game, and a surprisingly good one at that. I came the next day with my allowance-- $10 in quarters. 12000 seconds... a little more than 3 hours of game play. As a matter of fact, I spent the next three saturdays like that. I must have blown $80 just on that one stupid Choice Ten machine.
By the time 'Wizard' was released in theaters, SMB3 was old hat to me. 'Wizard' was merely confirmation that I had somehow gained access to the real deal.
After 'Wizard', summer was approaching, so I could start to mow lawns for money. On the day of release, I called Wal-mart (35 minutes away on bike) every 15 minutes. When the truck finally came in and they had release copies, I got the electronics manager to promise to hold a copy for me. I biked up, only to find that he had sold all the copies he had (35, I think) to a dealer. Of course SMB2 had been fetching insane prices at Christmas a few years previously, so it was seen as a good invenstment to buy all the copies of an popular videogame you could and resell them.
I finally managed to get a copy the next week, which I promptly brought home and played after carefully re-reading the manual for about an hour at a local Wendy's. My brother, the bastard, ratted me out for spending my lawn-mowing money on a video game (A big no-no in my house, especially since my grades were starting to slip). My mom took the game away and hid it. Luckily for me, she didn't destroy it.
SMB3 was and still is a hell of a game. I still play it from time to time.
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What I liked is as soon as Jimmy Woods (The Wizard) got the whistle, the girl with them said "use the whistle to warp to the next level" or something like that and I remember thinking "how the fuck does she know that?"
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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