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18 Megapixel Game World Maps
Via Joystiq, some beautiful maps of old school game worlds as displayed on a wall-mounted series of displays. From the article: "The HEyeWall is a modular large-scale screen consisting of several rear-projection units for creating enormous high-resolution displays. The total resolution shown here is about 6000x3000 pixels (18 Mpixels). Alexander stands next to the display in these photos to give you an idea of the scale."
How soon can I use this as my computer screen?
I'm wallpapering my house with these.
...if you were able to look at one of those Zelda maps without immediately getting the theme song stuck in your head.
That's ridiculously cool.
When I think of game maps, I think of the printed ones that used to come in the box with most RPGs.
I've got the giant Blood Omen map from the official strategy guide and Vvardenfell from Morrowind framed on my walls (and the absolutely enormous Mordor map that my sister got me a few years ago, although that's not really game-related).
Waiting for me to pick up frames, I've got Might & Magic II (I seems to have been misplaced), the two Star Saga games, and a few others. I guess I like the idea of relics of a fictional world, as if part of them were made real.
Nice display, though. He should put Zebes (the Super Metroid version) up on it.
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I love that game.
Oh... um.. nice maps, too.
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Looks like in a the Zelda 3 pics, he's holding a GameBoy up, with what I imagine is the same game on it. Nice!
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
What a waste. Methinks some pixel doubling is afoot.
I'd be more impressed if that display was made of colour ePaper. I mean, I know ePaper isn't designed for motion, but a wall-sized ePaper that you could change to have any game world map would be cool. Sort of like supergeek wallpaper.
Wow, I guess this is what passes for news these days. Maps like these have been around for ages, but slap them on a LCD projector and have some guy stand in front of front of it to project a cool looking shadow and you have a news story. Insert "move along people" line here
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When I was eleven or twelve, my brother and I sat down with our rented copy of Zelda 1, and proceeded to draw out a completely accurate world map, one screen at a time. We were playing it on our grandma's ten inch, black and white screen. It got really hard in the northeast corner of the world, where all those sword-chucking centaurs lived.
Man, but those were good times.
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I'm assuming this is a series of reasonably precisely aligned projector screens pointed at a large wall.
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I can finally find the old Zelda dungeons without wandering around aimlessly for an hour.
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Print out the image on paper, tape it together, and hang it on the wall of your dorm room.
That's what I intend on doing with one of those, at least. Either one of the Link to the Past overworld maps or something from Chrono Trigger that I'll likely have to map myself (the Millennial Fair, maybe).
Not that I don't appreciate the subject matter, but it's a little odd that they should pick images with far fewer than 18 megapixels of detail in them to show off an 18 megapixel projector :)
.. when they've mapped out Nethack.
No, really. I'm stuck.
google earth erm... i mean google hyrule! hey i can see my digital house!