game and watch got hacked one day before release

loler55

Well-Known Member
OP
Member
Joined
Jan 4, 2012
Messages
1,045
Trophies
1
XP
1,911
Country
Gambia, The
EmpDuLmXUAMQNoQ.jpg

https://twitter.com/ghidraninja
 

MikaDubbz

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Dec 12, 2017
Messages
3,857
Trophies
1
Age
36
XP
7,323
Country
United States
How much storage does it have? I'd just wanna add all the missing NES Mario Bros games and mario spinoffs, so Super Mario Bros 2/USA, Super Mario Bros 3, Mario Bros., Dr. Mario, Wario's Woods, Yoshi, NES Open Tournament Golf, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, Wrecking Crew, and fuck it maybe even Mario is Missing and Mario's Time Machine too, just for the sake of being complete (and yes I'm aware Mario pops up in games like Punch Out, but I'm focusing only on games where Mario characters are playable).
 
  • Like
Reactions: Lostbhoy

hippy dave

BBMB
Member
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
9,889
Trophies
2
XP
29,439
Country
United Kingdom
Exciting. What he's done so far tho is through connecting to internal chips/contacts, I hope there turns out to be a nice USB-accessible hack at some point.
Anyway like I said elsewhere when this gadget was announced, the most important thing to get running on it isn't more NES games, but the simulations of all the original Game & Watch games.
 

Seriel

Doing her best
Member
Joined
Aug 18, 2015
Messages
3,298
Trophies
3
Age
24
Location
UK
XP
6,005
Country
United Kingdom
How much storage does it have? I'd just wanna add all the missing NES Mario Bros games and mario spinoffs, so Super Mario Bros 2/USA, Super Mario Bros 3, Mario Bros., Dr. Mario, Wario's Woods, Yoshi, NES Open Tournament Golf, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong 3, Wrecking Crew, and fuck it maybe even Mario is Missing and Mario's Time Machine too, just for the sake of being complete (and yes I'm aware Mario pops up in games like Punch Out, but I'm focusing only on games where Mario characters are playable).
128kb:
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ryccardo

MikaDubbz

Well-Known Member
Member
Joined
Dec 12, 2017
Messages
3,857
Trophies
1
Age
36
XP
7,323
Country
United States
It actually has 8MB.
https:/twitter.com/ghidraninja/status/1326857188158136320

Then that changes things, I'll be generous and say everything there takes up 1MB (SMB1 is 41kb, Lost Levels is 73kb, can't imagine the clock and Ball take up another 900kb, but I'll assume that regardless and see how close to those 7 extra mbs I can get with the games I suggested:

Mario Bros: 41kb
Super Mario 2/USA: 257kb
Super Mario 3: 385kb
Dr. Mario: 257kb
Donkey Kong Original Edition (version with all 4 levels): 65kb
Donkey Kong Junior: 25kb
Donkey Kong 3: 41kb
NES Open Tournament Golf: 257kb
Wrecking Crew: 41kb
Wario's Woods: 513kb
Yoshi: 257kb
Yoshi's Cookie: 193kb
Mario is Missing: 257kb
Mario's Time Machine: 257kb

That adds up to 2846kb, leaving still over 4mb of space for other games (or what I'd do is add all the best NES Mario hacks from there like Super Mario 3Mix or Mario Adventure). So that's pretty cool, in theory this could be like a complete NES collection of all Mario-related offerings, or I bet you could load all the NES Classic games on it and have a portable NES classic.
 
Last edited by MikaDubbz,

gamesquest1

Nabnut
Former Staff
Joined
Sep 23, 2013
Messages
15,153
Trophies
2
XP
12,247
I'm liking that they are using a joy-con battery to power it, as for storage, I guess it wouldn't be too difficult to just swap out the SPI chip for a slightly bigger one (granted your still pretty limited with it being an spi chip) but as long as the system is capable accepting a larger chip (I wouldn't imagine they didn't bother putting any hardware checks or anything in place) I would imagine you could make up a little 20 in 1 game system for novelties sake, but I guess the limited storage makes the system less appealing to people looking for a little emulation system, hopefully people figure out how to interface with it via usb and can reprogram it whenever they want to swap out games, would make it at least a little bit more useful, but overall its going to be limited to a novelty item rather than a fairly useful little device like the snes/nes mini consoles ended up being useful as a emulator box
 

Site & Scene News

Popular threads in this forum

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    I'll reformat and have a 3tb raid0 m. 2 at least
    +1
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Lmao that sold out fast
    +1
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Yeet the cat.
    +1
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Good idea
    +1
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    i thought everybody knew cocktails are like 75% ice
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Yeah but not like this.
  • Veho @ Veho:
    It's not like they're complaining that their Slurpee is 99% ice or something, but if the cocktail calls for "shot of vodka, shot of vermouth, shot of gin, shot of Campari, three shots of juice, squirt of lemon" and ends up being a thimbleful of booze, that's a problem.
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    the funny thing is cocktails in norway are only allowed to have 1 20ml shot of booze
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    so..... yeah
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    we're used to only having a thimbleful of booze
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Booo.
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    same thing if you want whisky on the rocks or something, you can't get a double
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    but you could buy as many shots of whisky (or anything else) as you want and ask for a glass of ice and pour them in
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    it's dumb
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Maybe.
  • Veho @ Veho:
    There was a comparison of the number of Ibuprofen poisonings before and after they limited the maximum dosage per box or per pill (i'll look that up). No limit on the number of boxes you can still buy as many as you want, so people argued it was pointless.
  • Veho @ Veho:
    But the number of (accidental) poisonings dropped because drinking an entire package of ibuprofen pills went from "I need a new liver" to "I need a new box of Ibuprofen".
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Here we have ketoprofen that used to be prescription-only because of the risk of toxic dosages, but then they halved the dose per pill and sell them in bottles of six pills apiece instead of twenty and it doesn't need a prescription any more. Yes you can buy more than one bottle but people simply don't.
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Usually accidentally overdose of ibuprofen here is from people taking like cold medicine then ibuprofen for a headache and the combination is over what they need
    Veho @ Veho: https://imgur.com/gallery/QQkYnQu