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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 brennopost »

binji wrote: post #142

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/

Thank you for your emulators. I've used pokegb as reference to my own emulator, and used binjgb debugger to fix many issues.

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

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Post by TillE »

hospitalJail wrote: post #7

>Just be sure to order some McDonald’s to support them. Who knows… if we keep eating McDonald’s, they might keep producing these oddball retro gaming related projects. >I, for one, will NEVER stop eating McDonald’s. You have my word. Uh... hail marketing! Nothing quite like getting nostalgia exploited for corporate profits. But hey, its important to support... uh... 'retro gaming?'

If you see something obviously stupid, consider for a moment that the author may not be entirely serious.

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

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Post by gchamonlive »

ssnistfajen wrote: post #204
splatzone wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

McDonalds makes ~$23 billion per year. You deserve something.

Please read the licensing terms in their GitHub repo first before making a comment.

What you can do isn't necessarily the same as what you should do. McDonald's missed an opportunity to make this even cooler by compensating the developer. A couple thousand dollars in the right place can be more effective than millions in marketing. It just shows the company cares.

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

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Post by lostgame »

mattl wrote: post #91
hbn wrote: post #5

That would have been cool if they did a run of physical cartridges, with the box and everything. Limited Run Games does runs of physical Gameboy cartridges still. They have to restyle things to not have Nintendo branding, but it can be done.

Curious which technique they use to bypass the Nintendo logo on boot

There is a way you can hack it by changing the logo somewhere through the second check.

But couldn’t you also write an exception in the emulator itself? (I’m actually not sure - just genuinely curious!)

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

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Post by mysterydip »

I know there's articles and comments saying "why", so here's a couple opinions off the top of my head:

- retro games cater to the demographic who would know who Grimace is.

- it makes news for novelty, if it was just another webgame there probably wouldn't be articles about it

- the target platform has virtual machines for every modern OS and the web, so maximum reach.

- the target platform has had decades of enthusiast development support, making IDEs and libraries.

- the target platform is fixed. No fear of some instruction or device being deprecated during development or in the future.

- the devs you could contract this out to would most likely have a depth of knowledge on the system. And any of their portfolio could be evaluated against others in a 1:1 fashion.

- It has "just enough" capability to make a game that can entertain a broad audience for the time it needs to.

- why not? just some fun.

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

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Post by dumpsterdiver »

makapuf wrote: post #210
ssnistfajen wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please read the licensing terms in their GitHub repo first before making a comment.

I have the right to stand up in front of a music performer, invite friends to come over and listen to the great show, receive expensive gifts from my friends for their great evening and then give nothing to the street performer. Its my right !

I mean... yeah. In the meantime you haven't taken anything from that person; they are performing on a public street. On the contrary, similar to a packed restaurant, your presence might signal to others that there is something worth experiencing where you and your friends are crowded. This could in turn benefit the person you're crowded around by bringing more wallets within earshot. So you haven't actually given nothing, you've given your attention, and you've advertised for that person as if you were wearing a giant chicken suit spinning a sign and shouting, "Hey everyone, check out this person! Their music is good enough to attract a crowd!"

The fact that your friends in this scenario would weirdly shower you with expensive gifts after inviting them to watch a street musician perform doesn't negate the free advertising you've provided.

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

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Post by binji »

Andrex wrote: post #207
binji wrote: post #142

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/

If this is the same emulator ejected by GB Studio when it exports to web, that makes sense. All GB Studio projects on Itch.io likely use your emu too! https://itch.io/games/made-with-gb-studio 725 listed so far (lots of asset packs and tech demos I'm sure, but still.)

heh, good point! Most of the older ones are using GameBoy-Online[0] instead, since that was the GB Studio default for a while. But I think everything since GBStudio 3 should be binjgb.

[0] https://github.com/taisel/GameBoy-Online

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

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Post by binji »

brennopost wrote: post #211
binji wrote: post #142

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/

Thank you for your emulators. I've used pokegb as reference to my own emulator, and used binjgb debugger to fix many issues.

Glad they've helped! There are plenty of better emulators, but I'm pretty proud of binjgb for being small, pretty fast, and pretty accurate.

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

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Post by doubled112 »

consentreality wrote: post #71
RobotToaster wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The progress that was made in the last 23 years doesn't feel as massive as those first 23 years, does it?
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