you may have seen a ‘76000 in 1’ (pirated-nintendo-in-a-joystick) for sale at a kiosk in your local strip mall. though it probably has 50-100 nes roms at best, it’s great retro fun in a small, cheap package
you may have seen a ‘76000 in 1’ (pirated-nintendo-in-a-joystick) for sale at a kiosk in your local strip mall. though it probably has 50-100 nes roms at best, it’s great retro fun in a small, cheap package
if you’ve got a gameboy advance, a gba flash cartridge, and a gps receiver that outputs nmea, then you can turn your gameboy advance into a cool gps mapping receiver.
mikhail sharonov created a nice litle application that assists you in importing and calibrating up to 20 raster maps. the software will then output a gba rom file that you can run on your device. with a few minor software updates, he was also able to get the microsoft branded gps to work (the one which comes with microsoft streets and trips 2005). hot!
here’s a quickie for nintendo ds fans. you can easily make a usb power cable so you can charge your gameboy from your latop’s usb port instead of using the big wall wart.
it’s nintendo ds week here folks, well, not really, i’m just trying to get a few nintendo posts up as things “start” to develop. over on the gbadev forum, it looks like someone dumped the rom of metroid prime, at least the start of it. why is this good? one, figuring this out will get us all started on developing games, content, applications and more. and two, i know i’d like back up my roms the ds cartridges are tiny and bound to get lost, ideally i’d like to store them all on one big ole’ monster card.
meet nitro, an open source project that aims to let you tunnel your nintendo to any other ds anywhere in the world. it’s pre-alpha, but hey, poke around and see if you can get it going.
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there was a bit of debate when the nintendo ds launched and if the signal actually interfered with televisions. one hack a day investigator pretty much confirmed it. so, there might be some cool hacks to tune it in better or something else, like jamming it.
“I read somewhere about DS interference on old TVs. My wife has this cool old Sony Watchman so I decided to see if I could pick up the DS. It did…”
hmm, i’m not too sure about these hacks, but figured by posting it up, we’d all figure out the scoop. apparently with a fairly simple mod you can play gameboy & gameboy color games, and also “double” the range of the wireless, i’m a little skeptical about these, but i might sacrifice on of the ds units to try it out.