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  • 360 Hack Pack - The Ultimate Xbox 360 Starter Pack | Alex
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    Everything you need to hack an Xbox 360, ready to be copied onto a USB drive in one download!
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  • An Ode To The Game Boy Advance | Brain Baking
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    In March 2001, Nintendo introduced an advanced portable model to the gaming market with the release of the Game Boy Advance (GBA, codenamed Advanced Game Boy or AGB). Equipped with a modernized 32-bit ARM CPU running at twice the speed of the Game Boy Color (GBC), this small device was more than capable of playing SNES-like games—still at the price of only two AA batteries.
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  • Fixing E.T. for the Atari 2600
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    It turns out that E.T. isn't a bad game after all. With a few simple changes we were able to dramatically improve an already good game by eliminating the most common complaints. With a few additional changes, we were able to clear up any confusion for players who care about the score, and were confused by the differences between what the manual claims and what actually happens in-game. Next time someone tells you that "E.T. for the Atari 2600 is the worst game ever made" you can tell them that this is not the case. It's been fixed, and you know how.
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  • It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself | Robert Heaton
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    My son asked if I’d beaten my game. I explained that I’d transcended it by creating a mathematical representation of its entire possibility space. He asked if that meant “no.”
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  • The Elite source code family tree - Elite on the 6502
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    In this article, I'm going to try to work out exactly how 6502 Elite was developed over the years, by looking for clues in the original source code and digging through the game binaries. Software archaeology, here we come...
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  • Give Your Animal Crossing Villagers The Gift Of Linux | Hackaday
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    thanks to the work of [decrazyo] there’s a piece of furniture that you can add to your Animal Crossing house that will never get old: an x86 emulator that boots Linux. As explained in the video below, this trick leverages the fact that Nintendo had already built a highly accurate Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator into Animal Crossing on the GameCube, which could be used to run a handful of classic games from within the player’s virtual living room. But it turns out that you can get that emulator to load a user-provided ROM from the GameCube’s memory card, which opens the doors to all sorts of mischief.
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  • Firefly Zero blog
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  • Firefly Zero: modern handheld game console with multiplayer
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    A modern handheld game console with effortless multiplayer. It's fun to play, alone or with friends, and easy to program.
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  • The story of Rogue - Spillhistorie.no
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    Rogue is one of the most influential games of all time. Even if you haven’t played it, you’ve definitely played several games that have Rogue’s DNA in them. It became so popular when it was released for UNIX-based systems in 1980 that it created its own genre, which we still know as ‘roguelike games’. Even in the decades when these games were niche experiences, the genre was important. The action role-playing game Diablo built directly on the roguelike genre, which means that all the games that followed in Diablo’s footsteps also have their roots here.
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  • Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
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    Released in 2004 for the Nintendo GameCube, Zelda: FSA made use of the wack-ass peripheral known as the GCN-GBA link cable. By hooking these cables up to your Game Boy Advances, you and three friends could play through a cooperative adventure through a land of shittily scaled sprites and bizarre graphical effects known as Hyrule. At the end of each level, everyone gets judged by the game and their heroic cohorts and through a variety of criteria (mainly money), there's a winner for each level. Cooperate and compete. Nintendo's done that a couple of times now.
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  • Be skeptical of reporting on Luigi Mangione’s gaming habits | Polygon
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    No, Among Us doesn’t turn someone into an assassin
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  • Solitomb is a demon-fighting prototype which mixes Balatro and solitaire, from the maker of Slipways | Rock Paper Shotgun
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    Solitomb, a solitaire-based dungeon crawler in which you fight demons by building hands of playing cards. It's currently - heywaitaminute - a pay-what-you-want PICO-8 prototype by designer Jakub Wasilewski where "all money earned goes towards making the bigger version possible." Like Slipways, it already seems like a frightfully clever piece of design.
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  • As public perception of AI sours, crowdfunding platforms scramble | Polygon
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    While the ethics of this technology’s ecological and social impact are debated, use of the technology comes with repeated controversy. This instance of AI-assisted art from the company that made the award-winning Star Realms deck-building game has caused some to take to social media in disappointment and frustration. A few fans of the company state they won’t purchase another game by Wise Wizard, with at least one store stating it will no longer be stocking the company’s products. This anti-AI sentiment is not unanimous, however. Projects like Wonders of the First, Grimcoven, and Terraforming Mars still raised millions of dollars from thousands of backers as recently as June of this year — giving crowdfunding platforms an incentive to keep AI projects on the site, as long as the money is still there.
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  • LAN Party House
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    We built a(nother) house optimized for LAN Parties.
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  • Knock Off: The Battle for Imagination
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    The game’s setting is a truly unique twist on the genre, featuring action figure toys engaged in friendly battles within a young boy’s bedroom. These battles are fueled by the imagination of children, creating a hidden world where these toys come to life. The plot intensifies with the introduction of a powerful new toy, whose elitist views lead to a head-to-head clash with the older knock-off toys. The destiny of imagination rests in your hands.
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  • Eye of the Beholder for Commodore 128 - Ultimate Gaming Rig Setup - YouTube
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    In November of 2022, Eye of the Beholder for C64 and C128 dropped like a dragon roar heard 'round the realm. In this video I demonstrate what is one of the best ways to fully enjoy this incredible gaming experience. I use vintage hardware with a touch of modernity for the storage option.
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  • Eye of the Beholder for Commodore 128 - Ultimate Gaming Rig Setup - AmigaLove
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    Anyway, in this video I demonstrate what - for me - is the ultimate way to play this incredible game. In fact, I'll say it. I think it is easily the greatest game ever made for the C128. And, in my opinion, the C128 is the best way to play it - rather than the much more common C64 - for several reasons.
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  • Oasis
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    Oasis takes in user keyboard input and generates real-time gameplay, including physics, game rules, and graphics. You can move around, jump, pick up items, break blocks, and more. There is no game engine; just a foundation model.
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  • Mark Moxon: "I am delighted to announce my …" - Universeodon Social Media
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    I am delighted to announce my latest hack: Elite 3D. This is BBC Micro Elite, but in anaglyph 3D. To enjoy the third dimension, you'll need a pair of 3D specs; red-cyan is a good choice, but five different types are supported.
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  • Can we do the thing people do when fictional history is made and pretend that the games from UFO 50 were our childhood games? : r/ufo50
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    I grew up in the 2000s, around the mid 2010s I discovered emulators and started playing a bunch of LX games. I remember playing some of them for hours at a time. Now the collection is out and I'm replaying them all. UFOsoft really just knew what they were doing
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  • POLYBIUS on Steam
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    POLYBIUS is a fast, trippy tunnel shooter playable on a normal screen or in VR. 50 levels of blissful trance shooting action are set to a blistering soundtrack. The PS4 version was EDGE Magazine’s VR GOTY in 2017, and the PC version of the game was even used as the basis for a NIN music video.
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  • UFO 50 Reddit is roleplaying as if the LX console was real | Polygon
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    It started on Wednesday with a simple thread prompt from redditor DorikoBac: “Can we do the thing people do when fictional history is made and pretend that the games from UFO 50 were our childhood games?” DorikoBac, too young to have owned an LX in the ’80s, imagined discovering UFO Soft via emulators in the mid-2010s.
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  • Elite 40th Anniversary
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    Today, 20th September 2024, is the 40th anniversary of the day the world first experienced Elite, the 3D space trading and combat game written by Ian Bell and David Braben, first on the BBC Microcomputer in conjunction with Acornsoft. To commemorate this, I have added further sources (Apple, Atari, C64, NES, SNES (unfinished) "Elite"; and BBC "Elite II" (unfinished)) to the Elite Archive.
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  • Arcade Authorship – High Score Table Credits – The History of How We Play
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    It’s an open secret that with the advent of the high score table in arcade video games, designers would hide their signatures in lieu of being directly credited for the games themselves.
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  • Crochet DDR mat is cute and functional - Polygon
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    Made with yarn, conductive thread, and an Arduino
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  • Contact’s manual was formatted like a LiveJournal - Tiny Cartridge 3DS - Nintendo Switch, 3DS, DS, Wii U, and PS Vita News, Media, & Retro Junk
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    Contact’s manual was formatted like a LiveJournal
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  • Remember When Blockbuster Video Tried Burning Game Cartridges On Demand? | Hackaday
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    Machines at these stores had the ability to flash 16 Mb and 32 Mb EEPROM cartridges containing Sega Genesis games. The flashing process only took 45 seconds on average
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  • Underrun – Making Of - PhobosLab
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    I participated in this year's js13kGames, a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Underrun, a twin stick shooter using WebGL.
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  • Raspberry PiBoy – Building a Handheld Gaming System from Walnut and Carbon Fiber – MICHAEL K CASTOR
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    Portable Raspberry Pi enabled gaming system projects seem to be everywhere. The concept is relatively simple; get an old GameBoy (or other old portable) shell, stuff in a Raspberry Pi Zero as well as some switches, LiPo battery and charger, an LCD screen, and maybe an audio amplifier and you’re set (except for the giant mess of wires.)
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  • The New Wave Of Indie Arcade Cabinets Continues To Look Beautiful
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  • Nintendo Switch - Matt Gemmell
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    The main feature, of course — even the eponymous feature, if you like — is that it’s neither tethered to your TV, nor an exclusively squint-inducing handheld device. This is a fundamentally humane and grown-up move. I have a home office, but I don’t want a man cave or boy’s room or whatever you might call it. I’m married, and I like my wife. I prefer to be in the same room as her, even if we’re both doing different things and only periodically talking to each other (this is also one of the fab things about marriage). The Switch lets me shut off the TV but keep playing, without having to go to another room. I keep all my games stuff in the living room.
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  • TIC-80 tiny computer
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    TIC-80 is a fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games.
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  • Boyfriend Dungeon is all about dating your weapons, and it looks rad - Polygon
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    Ever wanted to date your sword? Here you go
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  • R-COIL by viTekiM
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    R-COIL is a space combat arcade game where your weapon and your thruster are connected and your bullets push back.
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  • Self-Care Jam - itch.io
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  • Cloudy Gamer: Playing Overwatch on Azure's new monster GPU instances
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  • Game Design Idea Inspiration and Execution
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    Ideally, you should have a project where the following 3 things are well balanced: Your desire to have the game made Your desire to make the game Your skill If you choose a project with only 2 of these things, the game will ultimately fall flat.
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  • Ian Bell's Text Elite Page
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        Text Elite is a C implementation of the classic Elite trading system in a text adventure style shell. I originally coded this to formalise and archive the definition of the Classic Elite Universe, but have released it, with sources, now that Christian Pinder has publicly reverse engineered BBC Disk Elite trading into C.
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  • txtelite port compilable on unix : gcc -o txtelite txtelite.c -lm
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    txtelite port compilable on unix : gcc -o txtelite txtelite.c -lm Raw
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  • www.automaticromantic.com/static/misc/pytxtelite.txt
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    Conversion of Ian Bell's txtelite.c 1.2 (and parts of 1.4) to python (2.5, maybe earlier)
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  • www.calormen.com/l33t/jselite.js
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    Textual version of Elite trading
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  • PocketC.h.i.p. the Roguelike machine - PocketC.H.I.P. - Next Thing Co. - Bulletin Board System
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  • REDDER by anna anthropy
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    Redder is essentially what Metroid would have been if it had been created by Stanley Kubrick
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  • Twinkle Star Sprites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    The gameplay, which can be characterized as a combination of a fixed shooter and a versus puzzle game, uses combinations of shots, as well as timed power-ups to attempt to damage the opponent. These attacks also serve as counters to the opponent's attack.
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  • Atari Star Raiders Source Code : Atari : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
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  • Sega-16 – Unofficial Shmups Glossary
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    Bulletmagnet from the Shmups forum has compiled this awesome glossary of shmup terms, which is great for those just getting into the genre, as well as those with questions about what certain terms mean or are called. Some terms were also taken from the Shooter Lingo section of the now-defunct shmup site Starbase299.
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  • Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures - mGBA
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    From a GBA emulation perspective, the games were especially interesting. The average Game Boy Advance game is extremely buggy, and the platform itself contains a number of safeguards to prevent games from crashing. As a result, emulators tend to need to be bug-compatible with the original hardware to ensure that the games actually work. However, the Classic NES Series goes above and beyond the average game in an attempt to ensure they don’t work in emulators.
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  • DIY X52 Pro + Chair mod
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    Shopping list: VESA Mounts X52 Pro Heavy Duty Velcro
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  • Overview | PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy | Adafruit Learning System
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    Celebrate the 25th anniversary of that classic gaming device by building your own with 3d printing and DIY electronics from adafruit. In this project we'll use a raspberry pi and TFT touch screen to make an epic DIY gamegirl.
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  • Atari 800 - Best Game Pack :: Atari 800 - Best Game Pack : Releases
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    'Atari 800 - Best Game Pack' is an All-In-One game pack includes the best Atari 8-bit games, screenshots, adverts, covers, manuals, the spreadsheet of high scores club and easy-to-use front-end
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