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Grand Theftendo Homebrew port of GTA III to NES
Derek Rose writes "Grand Theftendo is a port of Grand Theft Auto III for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It is Grand Theft Auto III running on an 8 bit, 256×240 resolution, 2 bit colour x 2 bit palette, 1.79 Mhz system, written entirely in 6502 Assembly Language! It includes the entire Portland city!
More info here: Forever Geek on Grand Theftendo"
This is one man's project for fun--something that I'm sure is much more personally satisfying (for him) than hunting down bugs in ethernet driver code.
/. audience could relate to that concept.
If I have to read one more comment proclaiming that a true geek/hacker has just wasted his time when they could have be working on Project gSnore, I think I am going to vomit all over my pants.
It's called a hobby, and I would like to think that the
Someone get this man a beer. The greatest system (NES) + the most addictive non-puzzle game of all time = Motherfucking genuis.
I think this guy hit a sweet spot with his assembler! Looks to me like it's almost C!
I could see his tools leading to growth in the homegrown retro games arena
Someone give this man a job (how could he possibly have a full time job and time enough to do this?). The amount of work and spectacular hacking that has gone into this effort is amazing.
He built his own interface to the console, he built his own assembler, in fact he built every single tool used to create the game.
He coded it from scratch over 2 years from assembler. What source code would he mess with anyway? It's not like you can hack the 3d engine from the orignal into the NES.
Anyway, how long have you been Lord of Open Source Project Assignments anyway? Exactly why does he have to do something for you instead of for himself? What are you doing to benefit the good of mankind? I see you haven't taken that long walk off the short pier yet.
It looks like a tremendous piece of work, especially since the guy seems to have developed almost the entire toolchain by himself. I suspect he's deluding himself about not violating any of Rockstar's copyright, though.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I'd say you playing GTA is more a waste of time than him programing the NES.
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
No effort? What about the money up front that would be required to produce those GBA carts and packaging? Could it be that an evaluation was made and the ROI was found to be not worth the investment? There's more the video game industry than just the coding of the games, tough guy.
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Quake is ported to a TI-83.
I'd criticize this for being a pointless and ridiculous project, but I'm a huge believer in the motto, "Because I can."
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Christ. Some people just don't get it.
He's doing this because he wants to and he enjoys it. A lot of us have high esteem for this work. This is what hacking's all about.
From Nintendo AND Take Two, in five, four, three, two...
Why this kind of genius is wasted on these projects which look like a suit bait? The guy is amazing, but should be developing as an indie, trying to get positive attention from industry.
It's being intellectually dishonest to act as though the reason the old Sierra games weren't rereleased is because no one wanted to design the box art. It's a business. Tasks don't fail to be performed because they're tedious or boring - tasks fail to be performed because the company makes a determination based on what will bring in the cash.
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We're all happy that you have a gifted friend. But I'm certainly not +1 interested: you've added exactly zero content to the discussion. Anybody could claim to be his friend say 'trust me', but it would only be worth modding up if by virtue of knowing the guy you have some insight into is development process, anecdotes from the creation of this game, some knowledge above and beyond what's in the pages linked to from the article.