Reverse Engineer Super Mario 64 REA Super Mak 64

How Reverse Engineering Super Mario 64 Led to the Super Mak 64 Game

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Reverse Engineer Super Mario 64 REA Super Mak 64
Stefan has watched other people talk about game feel without ever nailing the exact numbers that make a character land and jump the way Super Mario 64 does. He decided the only reliable path was to pull those numbers straight out of the original binary, check them twice, and then force a new game to match every one of them. The tool that made the extraction possible is called REA, short for Reverse Engineer Anything, an open project that lets coding agents inspect software on a local machine and return evidence instead of guesses

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Jackery Explorer 100D Portable Power Station

Jackery Explorer 100D Redefines Portable Power With a Palm-Sized Design

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Jackery Explorer 100D Portable Power Station
Most portable power stations ask you to leave them at home or in the car because their size turns every outing into a logistics problem. Jackery’s Explorer 100D measures about 4.6 by 3.4 by 3.4 inches and weighs roughly 1.87 pounds, small enough to rest in one hand or disappear into a backpack, purse, or carry-on without forcing a reshuffle of everything else you already packed.

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Rocket Lab Founder Peter Beck Jetson One eVTOL Personal Flying Machine

Rocket Lab Founder Peter Beck Finds Pure Joy During First Jetson One Flight Over California

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Rocket Lab Founder Peter Beck Jetson One eVTOL Personal Flying Machine
Sir Peter Beck stepped into the open cockpit of a Jetson One on a California field and rose into the air with little more than a single four-axis joystick in his hand. The founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, the man who built the Electron rocket that has flown dozens of successful missions and who is now developing the larger Neutron vehicle, had come for a test hop in the single-seat electric aircraft. What followed was a short, controlled flight that left him calling the experience a revelation.

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Apple Pippin 1996 Release Console

Fascinating Look Back at the Apple Pippin, the 1996 Console That Sold 42,000 Units and Then Vanished

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Apple Pippin 1996 Release Console
In December 1994, Apple stood on a stage in Tokyo and introduced Pippin as a licensed multimedia platform built around a stripped-down Macintosh. Bandai, already deep into toys and children’s entertainment, signed on as the first manufacturer. The plan called for a living-room box that could play CD-ROMs, connect to early internet services, and run a simplified version of Mac OS without forcing families to buy a full computer. Apple would supply the design and collect modest royalties. Bandai would handle the hardware, the packaging, and most of the financial risk.

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