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I'm pretty sure the PS2 is considered retro now too.
The PS2 was released as far from now, in 2000, as the Atari 2600 was to it, in 1977.
That just blew my mind.
McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
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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.
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…
You think that finding a way to get food in front of people at the largest possible scale and the lowest possible marginal price hasn't helped anyone at the individual level? In your own words, they don't base their practices on good or bad. Meaning their actions should be statistically uncorrelated with doing help or harm. You can say its not a good or ethical company, but you can also say its not a bad or unethical company either. It just is, and that was kind of the point.
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#163Looking 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 ext…
But the blog post says the ROM was already extracted?
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Curious which technique they use to bypass the Nintendo logo on boot
Either it's in the console ROM, in which case it's not a problem, or it's in the cartridge ROM, in which case I'd imagine it's just a matter of replacing the raster data with something else.
It's in the game, but the console famously checks that the code for the logo is present, and refuses to run any game which doesn't have the code in place.
It was used as a way to prevent anyone unauthorized making games. If you copy the logo, you have violated trademark and copyright law, and if you don't copy the logo, your game won't run.
Detail here: https://catskull.net/gameboy-boot-screen-logo.html
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Relativism is used as a universal cudgel to reason that some short-term good of limited scope, outweighs a widespread long term bad behavior.
Moral objectivism is more popular than moral relativism.
ie Some good does not outweigh lots of bad.
> Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?
It's difficult to take your comment as anything but raw trolling, as it intentionally chooses to strawman limited benefit by ignoring obvious consequence.
Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
#166Title is a bit misleading - it’s a ROM for an emulator, it isn’t a game that you could play on an actual Gameboy, were you still to own one.
I just tried the rom out on my flashcart, and it boots and plays on a real gameboy.
Still different. A normal Gameboy doesn't include a flash cart, it only plays physical games, no mere ROM files.
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#167This isn't even the first legitimately interesting video game connection to McDonalds, weirdly. Treasure is an influential game development studio that did a lot of really interesting work in the mid to late 90s, responsible for games like Gunstar Heroes, Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, Bangai-o, Silhouette Mirage, Dynamite Headdy, Mischief Makers, Alien Soldier, and others. They were a bunch of ex-Konami developers (who…
Not even the only McDonald's branded game of the era! I played MC Kids growing up on NEWS and it also was a dramatically better game than it had any right to be. Not quite the same storied history but still recommend playing if you're looking for some hidden NES gems.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the Atari 2600, Game Boy, etc., the first cartridges were nothing more than a ROM chip on a printed circuit board. Later games sometimes included a lot more functionality on the cartridge (battery-backed save RAM, bank switching hardware, etc.) which does make things complicated very quickly. Today, programmable logic is sometimes used to replace old custom IC designs used in cartridges, or to design something ne…
> For the Atari 2600, Game Boy, etc., the first cartridges were nothing more than a ROM chip on a printed circuit board. We've actually come full circle on this one. If you ever disassemble a Nintendo Switch Game Card that has a black area above the metal contacts, it doesn't even have a PCB. It's just a ROM chip, with metal contacts on the bottom shaped differently than your standard BGA pattern, contained in plasti…
What functionality does the PCB add?
Re: McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious which technique they use to bypass the Nintendo logo on boot
Either it's in the console ROM, in which case it's not a problem, or it's in the cartridge ROM, in which case I'd imagine it's just a matter of replacing the raster data with something else.
Why is it not a problem if it's in the console ROM? How do they get around it?
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#170The era where "retro" meant "NES" is behind us, now retro means Game Boy Color, PS1, and Quake-era PC aesthetics. To wit, the developers of Shovel Knight (the premier NES platformer homage) are developing a GBC-styled Bloodborne-like called Mina the Hollower: https://www.yachtclubgames.com/games/mina-the-hollower/ (though sadly it's not designed to run on original hardware).
In the late 90's to early 2000's, I considered "retro" games to be anything from the beginning of time right up the the NES. So, roughly anything that fell out of popularity about 10 years in the past. It didn't seem weird because in the late 90's, we were calling everything in the '80's retro. All that funky synth music and hair was pretty weird and alien to those who grew up on either side of it, after all. The mos…
"anything that fell out of popularity about 10 years in the pas"
So... Xbox One and PS4 launch games?