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The Legend of Zelda unofficial remaster released for NES Emulator, Mesen
Now here is something that completely passed under my radar. Earlier this week, a team of modders released an HD overhaul mod for the NES version of The Legend of Zelda. This overhaul mod uses Zelda 1 Redux as a base, and allows PC gamers to experience a faithful remaster of this Zelda game on the PC via the NES emulator, Mesen.
Going into more details, this Mesen HD Pack increases the internal resolution, improves textures and audio, and brings new animated environments. Additionally, it increases frame count for running, introduces breakable tile hints, and faster text printing. Not only that, but this mod also comes with some gameplay tweaks. For instance, it increases the bomb upgrade amount, and allows for faster health refills.
Nintendo says Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. will be continually shipped to retailers through roughly March 2021
The Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. system won’t be around forever, but it will be distributed for a few months. Nintendo’s website for the product has updated and says it “will continue to be shipped to retailers through approximately March 31, 2021, and will be available for purchase while supplies last.”
If you’re in North America and are hoping to secure a pre-order, you might be out of luck. The official website no longer has a notice about reservations and instead says Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. will be “releasing November 13th”.
Discussing RaspberryPi Compute Module 4
Dominic Plunkett and Eben Upton discuss the creation of the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.
Pwnagotchi – Pwn all the wifi
Pwnagotchi is a modern day take on the Tamagatchi of the 90s, but with a Cyber Security twist. This digital pet derives his happiness by sniffing WPA and WPA2 handshakes which can then be run through hashcat to guess the password. Two or more Pwnagotchis in range of each other will communicate and split the workload. The Pwnagotchi can also send its stats back to the internet to rank your Pwnagotchi against other Pwnagotchis from around the world.
Secrets of the Nintendo Game Boy Boot Logo | MVG
The Nintendo Game Boy has a clever form of Anti Tamper that made it difficult for unofficial and bootleg games to be developed for it and it was all thanks to the Nintendo Logo thats displayed when you power on the handheld. Lets take a closer look at the Boot process of the Game Boy.
Zelda 2 – Behind the Code
An Explanation of Fairy Warp Glitch, Objects, Elevators, and more…
DIY Pin Pointer Metal Detector
A traditional metal detector can locate a burried item and give you a rough location of the object belw the ground
A pinpointer enables you to pin down an object’s location, make a smaller hole when digging, and extract the item. Also, it can be used as handheld metal detector used by emergency responders to conduct security screening of individuals at access control checkpoints.
Holographic FlexLED
FlexLED is my attempt to create a very simple POV display! This video shows the second prototype I have created.
What Happened to MIDI? | Nostalgia Nerd
Remember the days when you had to define a separate music card and sound card for DOS games? When your mate’s Wavetable Soundblaster AWE32 was the bees knees? When you had a vast collection of .MID files to listen to? Ahhh, the days of MIDI. What happened to those days? Where did FM Synth and Wavetable cards disappear to? Let’s delve in.