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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. Hoax by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why post silly bait and hoaxes on Slashdot? The only way this would be possible would be stripped guts and a NES case.

    We're not that stupid, but clearly the editors are.

  2. umm.... it is called homebrew by Fallen+Kell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its a homebrew cart with the video and images hardcoded into the chip. There is no networking being done with the video streaming. One of the videos even leaks that when the one developer says something to the effect of "In all its 2 bit glory, as that is all that would fit in 512k".

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    1. 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. 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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  4. Did everyone miss, or forget.. by ckatko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... the real 8088 Corruption demo? (8088 @ 4.77 Mhz, CGA text-mode Soundblaster)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    And the sequel, Domination (CGA in graphics mode):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...