Nintendo made a surprise reveal today, with an unannounced Star Fox Direct showcasing a completely new game for the Switch 2. Fox McCloud and his team return to save the day (and the Lylat system) from the villain Andross… again, but don’t worry, this game adheres to the traditional formula of Star Fox 64, albeit with additional polish to make it shine on modern hardware.
Players who swapped Game Boy Advance cartridges as kids will remember the thrill of returning to Hyrule for the final time in 2004. That was the year The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap was released, a game that many people overlooked but provided one of the series’ most original ideas to date. Fast forward to now: an unofficial native port allows you to run the game natively on Windows or Linux, without the need for an emulator or the hassle of an odd setup.
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.