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McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by circuit10 »

foldor wrote: post #134
circuit10 wrote: post #10

If it’s only officially playable through an emulator I wonder why didn’t just use a modern game engine to make something in a pixel art style? This is definitely more interesting though

It gives it enough authenticity to make headlines. A generic html game wouldn't have made any where near the same buzz.

Do they advertise it as a Game Boy Color game anywhere? I wouldn’t be surprised if they can’t (or rather don’t want to risk it) for trademark reasons

Edit: The game page itself doesn’t mention it but the article has information on how it was made and by who so they must have got the information somehow, maybe the developer talked about it

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by binji »

This is using my gameboy emulator, binjgb[0], on the website! (well one of my gameboy emulators, heh [1][2]) It's been used as the emulator for GB Studio for a little while now, but I don't know how often people embed it in their websites, so it's really cool to see.

[0] https://github.com/binji/binjgb [1] https://github.com/binji/pokegb [2] https://binji.github.io/raw-wasm/badgb/

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by wintogreen74 »

poisonarena wrote: post #21
bigyikes wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food? The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad. Just because something is an advertisement doesn’t make it bad. I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.

For me, it's the McChicken. The best fast food sandwich. I even ask for extra McChicken sauce packets and the staff is so friendly and more than willing to oblige. One time I asked for McChicken sauce packets and they gave me three. I said, "Wow, three for free!" and the nice friendly McDonald's worker laughed and said, "I'm going to call you 3-for-free!". Now the staff greets me with "hey it's 3-for-free!" and ALWAY…

>> when I'm in a rush but want a great meal that is affordable, fast, and can match my daily nutritional needs.

Huh. My experience with McDonald's: never met daily nutritional needs, no longer affordable and struggling to be fast.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by wintogreen74 »

yamazakiwi wrote: post #106
gowld wrote: post #65

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It's a Canadian thing https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/mcchicken-sauce-p...

I'm concerned that it says "Mayonnaise Style Sauce Packet" and thank you for bringing that to my attention!

probably no eggs, which is what holds the oil and water together

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by ForHackernews »

willis936 wrote: post #79
bigyikes wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food? The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad. Just because something is an advertisement doesn’t make it bad. I think this is pretty cool. Maybe I’ll buy some McDonalds today too.

If anyone can find a spark of counterculture in 2023 I encourage it. There is no longer a battleground for the soul of society. It's safe to say the suits won.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by tjohns »

Looking at the grimacesbirthday.com, I'm trying to figure out someone extracted a GameBoy ROM from that page.

It looks like everything is implemented inside a WASM blob, containing what looks like binjgb (based on the strings).

I'm assuming the game itself is also included in the data section at the end of the WASM blob. Are there any good tools for reverse engineering that? (Or am I missing a more obvious way of extracting the ROM?)

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by ksaj »

yamazakiwi wrote: post #106
gowld wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a Canadian thing https://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/product/mcchicken-sauce-p...

I'm concerned that it says "Mayonnaise Style Sauce Packet" and thank you for bringing that to my attention!

Mayonnaise Style Sauce ingredients: Soybean oil, Water, Liquid egg yolk, Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Mustard seeds, Mustard bran, Xanthan gum, Potassium sorbate, Calcium disodium EDTA.

Miracle Whip ingredients: water, soybean oil, sugar, vinegar, modified cornstarch, egg yolks, salt, mustard, spices, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium EDTA, dried garlic.

Thankfully you don't have to be too concerned. It's for the same reason Miracle Whip doesn't actually call itself mayonnaise, and Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise does. Mustard, garlic, etc., are not mayonnaise ingredients.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by pawelmurias »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #84
sosodev wrote: post #52

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The article states that the game was made by a member of the gbc homebrew community.

Why did they decide to make a retro game and then hire a member of the gbc homebrew community? The choices behind this are interesting. Even after somebody successfully convinced corporate to fund this game it's surprising someone else didn't say "we could do this in Unity for half the price." It really only makes sense to me if someone on the corporate ladder was already a fan of the gbc homebrew community, or close…

If you want something retro is seems a lot easier to just get someone who made a quality homebrew game to make you one rather than search for some generic Unity shop and have them make something good that looks sufficently retro.

Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

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Post by megablast »

golergka wrote: post #41
pcthrowaway wrote: post #28

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I think this is pretty cool too, but um.. > Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad. But massive corporations (with maybe ~1% or fewer exceptions) don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good, and this leads them to profit-seeking behaviours that ha…

Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?

So therefore anything that produces profits that pays pensions is a good thing? Wow.
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