Modders shrank a normal Wii motherboard to a fraction of its original size while retaining all functionality, allowing you to play games exactly like the original. Tito from Macho Nacho Productions just posted a detailed look at the Nintendo Kawaii project.
Nearly 20 years after the original ZSNES was essentially retired, the team behind it has revived it with a fresh new emulator known as Super ZSNES. The brains behind this project, zsKnight and Demo, decided to start from scratch and rebuild the entire thing from the ground up, resulting in Super Nintendo games that look and run great on today’s computers, phones, and tablets.
Project Kwokcade spent a long time looking for one of those rare Nintendo 3DS retail displays that used to be found in stores around the world. To be honest, original units don’t show up for sale very often, and when they do, the price is just a little out of reach for most collectors, so he decided to be creative and take a new approach. Instead of waiting, he switched to 3D modeling software and began creating each component from scratch.
Chris Hackman had a dream growing up in the late 1990s that was shared by countless other gamers: a Game Boy Color that could be worn like a watch. He never imagined it would happen, yet here we are, and it is called the Time Frog Color, his latest project.
Nintendo released an overview trailer earlier today, providing a glimpse at what Yoshi and the Mysterious Book is all about. The clip immediately sets the tone for some laid-back fun with Yoshi and his island companions, who are enjoying themselves on a calm little island until a talking book named Mr E appears out of nowhere and crashes into the scene. The impact manages to wipe all memory of the weird little creatures that lived within the pages of the book.
Mega Man 64, a 3D version of the PlayStation original, rocked up the Nintendo 64 scene in 2000. As players put on Mega Man’s boots and explore 3D realms of wrecked towns, underground dungeons, and mechanical monsters, the game managed to combine a flurry of shooting action with light puzzle solving and a story entwined with ancient technology and a mysterious lady named Roll. Nowadays, one solo developer known as RaieFox has taken this same game under their wing, naming it the MegaMan64Recomp project, and it now runs as a native application on modern PCs.
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In 1974, Nintendo kicked off their coin-operated arcade era with Wild Gunman. This game required players to step up, pull a handgun from a holster, and face off against some unfriendly live-action gunslingers on a projection screen. Footage came from authentic film reels filmed on site in Japan, capturing the wild west-style shootouts in all their gritty grandeur. Timing was everything here. You could only draw and shoot after your eyes flashed and the word “FIRE” appeared on the screen. Get it right, and you’ll come out on top. If you mess up, draw too soon, or miss your shot, you will lose the duel.
Programmers have managed to cram the original Mac OS X onto a Nintendo Wii from 2006, a piece of hardware that is nearly 20 years old. Bryan Keller, the brains behind this, spent a year and a half developing tools to make it happen through a project called wiiMac. The result lets the Wii boot into Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and handle basic tasks even if the experience moves slowly on such limited hardware.
BigRig Creates came across an animation online that caught his attention: a purple Nintendo GameCube with a small Jacuzzi on top of it, complete with bubbling fluids and illuminating accents. He was immediately taken back by the concept and wanted to make it a reality.
Mario Party games have always been the real deal at bringing people together around a TV screen, and it all began with the first title on the N64 all those years ago. The fourth one, Mario Party 4, was released in 2002, and it was the moment when eight dependable party friends, as Mario, Peach, Yoshi, Waluigi, Luigi, Princess Daisy, Donkey Kong, and Bowser, all came together for the first time in a board racing showdown on the GameCube that had them all rolling the dice for some silly minigames.