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NES Goes Under The Knife
Thanks to Nintendojo for their continuing Family Computer (NES) 20th anniversary special, which is still adding new game reviews and content, but now has 'under the knife' dissection pages for both the original Japanese Famicom and the classic American NES, showing the consoles disassembled and analyzed. The rest of the site has mini-reviews of some classic NES titles, and info on oddities like I Am A Teacher: Super Mario Sweater: "Japanese appliance and sewing machine maker Royal Industries Co., Ltd. saw an opportunity to cash in with the Nintendo Famicom Disk System. Selling pixel art sweater design software for a mere 2900 yen (about $24), the company could make a fortune taking orders for custom sweaters! It sounds crazy, but it must've seemed like a good idea at the time."
The Minnesota state lottery had a cartridge and modem. More info can be found here:i ngdom/s pecial/lottery/
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I hope ROMs aren't illegal or a lot of old BIOS makers are in trouble. Seriously, though, the question isn't whether ROMs are legal or illegal any more than it's a question of whether or not mp3s are illegal or not. ROMs and mp3s are just a medium. Whether you have redistribution rights (the right to copy and then distribute again) is an issue for which copyright infringement might be occuring.
As for SNES games, you wouldn't be able to run SNES games on a GBA advance at full speed inside any nature of emulator. Now, a converter might be made, though I doubt that'd be likely given how different the snes and gba are (ie, you could write some stub code to fill the voids, but I doubt it in software could ever run in an adequately fast time to allow for real time action), but your mention of the lack of buttons is a pretty good deal breaker as far as the possibility of playing snes games directly.
And finally, you're probably thinking of the GP32 (gamepark 32), which already supports running various emulators includes snes9x. As far as I've heard, though, no gba emulator has been ported to the gp32 yet, but that's more a point of it not happening yet, I think.
You mean aside from the Game Axe (mass produced), or Portendo (someone's personal project), or anything else I probably missed?
* Q
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He is now known as "koitsu" and he "maintains" parodius.com.
Selling pixel art sweater design software for a mere 2900 yen (about $24), the company could make a fortune taking orders for custom sweaters! It sounds crazy, but it must've seemed like a good idea at the time.
Why do people insist on making predictions about things beyond their experience? (I mean, aside from being a slashdot reader.) Knitters can be quite high-tech. You have knitting machines that use punchcards and machines that use electronics. Even hand-knitters trade what are essentially pixel patterns for sweaters.
And we'll throw in the sewing machine crowd as well with a slightly more modern gaming machine--in matching color! (If you'll forgive the dupe.)
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(If you've never heard of knitting machines/knitting frames before, count yourself lucky. My wife's got three of them hidden away in the basement.)