I wrote the music engine they used in this game... never thought I'd see the day haha :)
That's pretty cool! Is this a new development or something that was reused from decades ago?
McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game
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#52The questions it raises are almost more interesting then the game. Why GBC? Did someone have a canceled but mostly finished mcdonalds game laying around since the late 90's and finally the right person at mcdonalds heard about it and got corporate to let them publish it as a marketing tie in?
The article states that the game was made by a member of the gbc homebrew community.
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#53I can't quite tell if this is written by an LLM (and aided by a person, re: the developer is known) or the writing style is just so prolific that LLMs cant help but ape it. I think it's because every sentence is pretty short. These sentences end up being related, and should probably be just one paragraph. The writing style seems to separate everything out, I can say this might be what gives the impression of a LLM gl…
I call this the Twitter effect.
Artificial limitations encourage the use of short and snappy communications.
Also, who can be bothered to read through a paragraph today?
I live my life one sentence at a time.
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#54I'm kind of shocked the physical tooling exists to make a Game Boy cartridge and chips more than anything else.
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 new.
For games more complicated than a simple ROM chip, the Game Boy presents an interesting challenge: the cartridge is both very small and it needs to be able to run off battery power. That excludes using both a high-power-consumption modern SoC or FPGA, or using lots of discrete logic.
But if it'll fit in 32 KB, it's 3D print a case, order a PCB, and program a standard Flash chip.
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#55The 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).
The GBC was closer to a NES in capability than the SNES.
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#56Earlier 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.
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…
> don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good
Exactly - they base it on profit and people who think this is good react accordingly
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Hey, good for you finding something that you like, but god damn if this doesn't read like ad copy. If you're not getting paid by them, you should be. You probably already know this, but fast food 5 times a week is basically putting in a request for health problems.
Right. My experience in this realm is often the store employee either charging me or acting like I'm stealing from their personal savings account by asking for extra sauce.
e: Wow, I got sniped big time.
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#58The 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).
I'm pretty sure the PS2 is considered retro now too.
Many in the community, such as the long-running Retronauts podcast, use 10 years as the line when something becomes "retro". By that definition, the PS4 becomes retro later this year.
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#59Title 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.
You can burn it to a ROM.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm no expert, but I thought we should prefer farm raised, no? Seems weird to advertise they are wild caught when that's a big concern with over-fishing in the wild.
Pick your poison. Wild caught can deplete wild fish and farmed fish pollutes the environment. I spring for wild caught whenever possible.
There's a third option...