JavaScript Super Mario Kart

So now you take this, and write a NodeJS server, and you could have yourself 2 player SNES through a web browser.

Sry.. it does not feel good. It's like alpha stadium. No collision detections, the sprites flickers sometimes, no gifts and stuff. Its like the first lesson of a game development tutorial, where you learn to add basic movement to your sprites.

A couple months ago I couldn't sleep and modded vNES[1] to run on a server and host a WebSockets server, and wrote a Javascript client to interact with it so you can control it from the web page. All people looking at the page can simultaneously control the player; I was looking to eventually allow two different people to use controllers 1 and 2 for real multiplayer.

I'm only sure it runs in Chrome, and it gets all sorts of screwed up when more than one person is trying to use it, but you can check it out running Startropics here:

http://balwiki.com/pub/vnes/

Controls are:

  D-Pad = Arrow Keys
  D = A
  F = B

To me, the two most impressive things are that 1) vNES has been running through screen on my server for months straight without an issue, and 2) Startropics has as well.

[1] http://www.thatsanderskid.com/programming/vnes/index.html