Archive for July, 2018

Visual Controller Test v1.1 (Wii misc)

Visual Controller Test by Mr. Reaper is a button testing/pressing application for Wii. Release notes: * Added visual feedback for the G Force readings, so you can shake your Wiimote or Nunchuck around furiously to see if gravity sensors are working in every direction

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Video: NES Programming #42 – Stronger, Better, Faster

Michael Chiaramonte goes on with his NES Programming tutorials. Quote: So, instead of working on collision today like I intended I ended up working on optimization of the code using Mesen’s awesome debugger and event viewer. I wasn’t feeling comfortable with the performance we were seeing in NMI and worked to get a better understanding of what was going on [&hellip

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The Retro League Podcast – Episode 443 – Accidentally Religious

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games. This week: This week we are having trouble understanding any non-American sports and maybe some American sports too. We’ve found one of the best pinball arcades that happens to be in a laundromat, but the Atari name-holders have dropped [&hellip

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Video: NES Programming #41 – MMC3 Banks Fixed And World Collision Attempt #1

Michael Chiaramonte shows us more NES Programming. Quote: In this episode, I got the MMC3 banks swapped properly to show our game sprites, but it’s still not 100% clear why. I’ll play around with this and then explain it once I have a better understanding (hopefully Monday). After that, I talked about how I wanted to make world collision work [&hellip

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The Retro Hour EP129 – The History of Hacking (misc)

The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK. Content: We chat to legendary “phone phreaker” John Draper AKA Captain Crunch about hacking, the Homebrew Computer Club and how he helped Woz and Steve Jobs start Apple. https://soundcloud.com/the-retro-hour/the-history-of-hacking-with-captain-crunch-the-retro-hour-ep

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