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Watch an Original NES Run Netflix

Posted by samzenpus on from the watch-and-play dept.

sarahnaomi writes with this story about a NES running Netflix. I don't know how you get Netflix to play on an original Nintendo, but it's been blowing my mind for the last 18 hours or so. Netflix posted the video with painfully little explanation. I have tried in many ways to get in touch with the Netflix developers who did what you see above, but no one is getting back to me, so here are some wild speculations."

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  1. Explained By Devs by Anguirel · · Score: 4, Informative

    As linked in an update to the article, the devs discuss it here.

    "The video frames were converted to tilesets and stored in the rom image. For playback, the memory mapper (MMC3) is used to swap between the frames without having to rely on too much CPU." They intended to attempt a Raspberry Pi trick, but ran out of time.

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  2. Re:umm.... it is called homebrew by garyisabusyguy · · Score: 4, Informative

    You win the internet today

    From on update to the linked story:
    "The original plan we had was to stick a Raspberry Pi in the cart to handle networking and video conversion," one of the devs wrote. "Due to time and resource constraints we ended up building a standalone rom."

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  3. Re:FAKE by adolf · · Score: 3, Informative

    The NES had no hardware for any kind of networking, dial-up modem or otherwise.

    The NES has an expansion port on the bottom. It was never used for anything commercially, but was rumored to have been intended for a modem, and was apparently developed into an unreleased accessory to gamble at home with the Minnesota State Lottery.

    Video.

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