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NES Goes Under The Knife 25
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."
expansion slot (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:expansion slot (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.megspace.com/entertainment/nesk
Re:expansion slot (Score:2, Funny)
Now, if I could get mail order brides over this modem....although...with 16 KB of RAM, I wouldn't get to see much of her before she arrived.
Re:expansion slot (Score:3, Interesting)
The port probably exists in case Nintendo decided to do the same thing in other countries.
Re:expansion slot (Score:1)
That slot was intended for use with a floppy disk drive. The drive shipped in Japan, but was never released in the US.
The only vestige of it in the US release are certain software titles (like Excitebike) that have "Save/Load" options on the menu that do nothing. (It's my understanding that the Japanese Famicom releases of these titles are identical and those menu options access the floppy drive.)
now I wouldn't mind one of those sweaters.... (Score:3, Interesting)
CharlesP
Re:now I wouldn't mind one of those sweaters.... (Score:2, Funny)
Y0SHi (Score:5, Interesting)
I think he dropped out of the emu scene on bad terms... not sure.
Re:Y0SHi (Score:2, Informative)
Anyone tried to portable-ise a NES yet? (Score:4, Interesting)
Assuming we had schematics, circuit layouts, etc and didn't have to pull apart old systems for parts, it would be trivial to fit all the silicon you would need in one chip. Then its a matter of minimalising the analogue components, which is basically all your I/O (screen / AV out, controls). If I had the full schematics and access to a fab I could do it myself....
Some big company with lots of money should license this idea from me. I want my Mario All-Stars on a handheld!
Re:Anyone tried to portable-ise a NES yet? (Score:3, Interesting)
Albeit illegal, because ROMs are always illegal no matter what, regardless of what some stupid site said about having the original copy and 24 hours (but that doesn't mean I don't have any because they stopped selling the games...), it is possible to put SNES games on your Game Boy Advance with the aid of a special flash cartridge that uses ROMs from your computer. It can also hold, of course, GBA
Re:Anyone tried to portable-ise a NES yet? (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Even then, you need to shift the ROMs.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Imagine a por
Re:Even then, you need to shift the ROMs.. (Score:1)
I have one, and if you did too you would know why it didn't take off.
The whole point of the Game Gear is that it's "portable" (as in easy to carry around).
The problem with the Game Gear though is tha
Re:Anyone tried to portable-ise a NES yet? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Anyone tried to portable-ise a NES yet? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Anyone tried to portable-ise a NES yet? (Score:1)
MURDERER! (Score:2, Funny)
Arrogance. (Score:3, Informative)
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 [studioknit...chines.com] and machines that use electronics [studioknit...chines.com]. Even hand-knitters trade what are essentially pixel patterns for sweaters.
And we'll throw in the sewing machine [sewingmachinestore.com] crowd as well with a slightly more modern gaming machine--in matching color! (If you'll forgive the dupe [slashdot.org].)
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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.)