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September 19th, 2013, 12:46 Posted By: wraggster
Many Hackaday readers might remember the days of buying modchips from somewhat questionable sources. These little devices connect to a gaming system to circumvent security measures, allowing you to run homebrew games (and pirated games, but lets not focus on that). [Guillermo] built an open source hardware Gamecube modchip based on the XenoGC.
The XenoGC was a popular modchip back in the Gamecube days, and its source was released in a forum post. A Wiki page explains how to build a clone of the device based on an ATtiny2313. Most modchips were closed source, but this project lets you look at how they work. You can browse the XenoGC source on Google Code to learn more about the exploit itself. You’ll find the AVR code, which manipulates the DVD drive over a serial interface, in the XenoAT folder.
[Guillermo]’s hardware is available from OSHPark, so you can easily order boards. He’s also hosted the design files on Github. With one in hand, you can start building homebrew for the Gamecube, which can probably be picked up for around $25 nowadays.
http://hackaday.com/2013/09/17/an-op...dware-modchip/
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September 19th, 2013, 12:42 Posted By: wraggster
For reddit user [the_masked_cabana], button mashing has taken on a whole new meaning. His gigantic NES controller coffee table makes it hard to punch in the Konami code without breaking a sweat.
Even before discussing the electricals, this is one impressive build. Each component was cut from multiple layers of MDF and assembled with screws, glue, and putty. Once they were sanded smooth, he used layers of carefully applied Krylon paint to achieve a plastic sheen that is remarkably faithful to its 5″ counterpart. For the more precise lettering, custom cut vinyl stickers did the trick.
Of course, looking the part is only half the battle. Tearing apart an original NES controller, he soldered wires to the button connections and ran them to eight arcade style buttons located under the replica button covers. A collection of bolts and springs keep everything aligned and produce the right kind of tactile feedback to the user. A removable cable in the back provides the connection to the console.
If a four foot NES controller isn’t practical enough for you, he also added some storage space in the base and a removable glass cover that converts the controller into a coffee table. For more details on the build, check out the reddit discussion. You can also find an eerily similar working NES controller table in this geeky coffee table roundup from five years ago.
http://hackaday.com/2013/09/18/funct...-coffee-table/
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September 19th, 2013, 12:33 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo has announced a planned digital release for an HD Wii U version of Wii classic Wii Sports.
It will be called Wii Sports Club and can be purchased in a number of ways, CVG reports.
All of the five included sports – tennis, bowling, golf, baseball and boxing – can be played for one day for £1.79. Alternatively, they can be purchased permanently on an individual basis for £8.99 a pop, although only tennis and bowling will be available initially.
Upon downloading the pack for the first time users will also be given 24 hours of free access.
Furthermore, every game will include online multiplayer and Miiverse functionality, although users will require a MotionPlus controller as apparently each has “more refined” controls than the originals.
NintendoLife meanwhile reports that in the US Nintendo has revealed plans to give away a month’s free access to Wii Fit U. Access to the game after that period will require the purchase of a $19.99 Fit Meter accessory that tracks a user’s daily physical activity.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/wii-s...s-free/0121234
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September 19th, 2013, 12:29 Posted By: wraggster
Capcom’s Monster Hunter 4 has sold a ton of copies out of the gate and, according to the latest charts in Japan, 3DS sales are benefiting because of it.
VG247 reports on Japanese analysis firm Media Create’s sales charts, showing the game moved more than 1.7m copies in just its first two days of availability. For comparison’s sake, the runner-up in the software category – AKB1/149 Renai Sousenkyo – sold 27,052 copies in its first five days.
The weekly charts also show a significant spike in both the 3DS LL and older 3DS model. The LL followed up last week’s 60,077 total with 236,700 units sold this week, while the earlier generation 3DS moved 40,092 units – versus 19,114 the week before.
A Famitsu report has Monster Hunter 4 selling even more than Media Create’s numbers state, claiming the game moved 1.875m copies in the timeframe. Regardless, it seems clear Capcom has a system seller on its hands.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/monst...launch/0121283
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September 19th, 2013, 12:25 Posted By: wraggster
Hiroshi Yamauchi died this morning at the age of 85.
Yamauchi became Nintendo president back in 1949, succeeding his grandfather. He immediately recognised the potential of electronics and was the man responsible for the publishing Shigeru Miyamoto’s Donkey Kong in 1981, kickstarting the company’s transition to what we know it as today.
Despite having no background in gaming, he oversaw the entire publishing process and was personally responsible for the release of nearly every major Nintendo hit for over two decades.
He continued in his role until 2002, overseeing the launches of the NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance in the process. He was succeeded by current president Satoru Iwata.
Yamauchi remained a member of the Nintendo board until 2005 although he maintained a significant stake in the company – helping him to become one of the richest men in Japan.
A statement from Nintendo given to MCV said: "Nintendo is in mourning today from the sad loss of the former Nintendo president Mr Hiroshi Yamauchi, who sadly passed away this morning."
In a world where the word legend is criminally over-used, Hiroshi Yamauchi is a man certainly befitting of the title. MCV offers its condolences to his friends and family.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/forme...d-away/0121313
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September 19th, 2013, 00:30 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo will visit train stations in Waterloo, London and Manchester Piccadilly in a celebration of all things 3DS.
Entitled 'National StreetPass Day,' the event – which takes place at September 28th – will feature 'real-life StreetPass games' and competitions.
Gamers can compete in Mario Kart 7 and Luigi's Mansion 2 contests
Proceedings start 9am and Luigi and Pokemon characters will be there to wandering around for photo opportunities.
StreetPass Day events will also be present at Eurogamer Expo and, of all places, the Cycle Show in Birmingham.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/3ds-c...london/0121277
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September 18th, 2013, 02:22 Posted By: wraggster
Who wants to sift through a spreadsheet or massive lists of text? This is the 21st century, and as such we expect information to be presented to us in an entertaining and stylish manner. Enter: Pop Chart Lab's NES Nebula piece, which presents over 700 NES releases spanning 1984 to 1993.
Super Mario Bros. is represented in the middle, with every subsequent release spiraling out from the center. Just about every game you'd expect is represented here, including Ice Climber, Donkey Kong, Hogan's Alley, River City Ransom and so many, many more.
The Nebula of NES Games is 24" by 36" and comes either as a standalone print for $32, in a framed print package for $142, in a print mounted on panel for $92 or as a print with hanging rails for $62. Orders will begin shipping on September 20.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/09/17/tr...s-handy-chart/
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September 18th, 2013, 02:16 Posted By: wraggster
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, the fifth game in the main series of Ace Attorney titles, is slated for released on 24th October, publisher Capcom has announced.Being an eShop only offering on 3DS, Dual Destinies is a budget priced affair, ringing in at €24.99 / $29.99.Capcom also unveiled how longtime Phoenix Wright fan-favourite sidekick Pearl Fey looks in her more grown up teenage form. Last we saw her in 2004's Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations she was but a wee little lass, though her fashion sense has remained remarkably the same.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ed-for-october
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September 18th, 2013, 02:14 Posted By: wraggster
To celebrate the release of Pokémon X & Y, the Pokémon Company has re-launched its "Gotta Catch 'Em All" promotion with a treasure hunt open only to US citizens.
The "Gotta Catch 'Em All" promotion will run for four weeks, with new clues and challenges arriving each week. Once participants have located the codes hidden in videos and across the internet, they will need to enter it over at the official site to proceed with the hunt.
 The first clue can be found in the new Catchatronic music video uploaded onto the Pokémon YouTube channel overnight.
Each code entered will unlock a virtual Poké Ball revealing a digital gift, a Pokémon and a chance to win one of the prizes.
The range of prizes up for grabs has been outlined by NintendoLife:
- Nintendo 3DS console
- Nine Pokémon trading cards and figure box
- 20 Pokémon Black and White 2 Official Pokédex and guide
- 16 Pokémon plush toys
- Four Pokémon X game download codes
- Four Pokémon Y game download codes
The competition will end on the global release date for Pokémon X & Y, October 12.
Pokémon X & Y will see the return of the first generation starters, as well as the introduction of thePokémon Bank, a paid service to store up to 3000 Pokémon online.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...tober-release/
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September 18th, 2013, 02:13 Posted By: wraggster
Mighty No. 9, a modernised spiritual successor to Mega Man, will now be developed for Xbox 360, PS3 and Nintendo's Wii U, following a huge backing for the game on Kickstarter.
The "classic side-scrolling action game" is being developed by the co-creator and longstanding custodian of the Mega Man series, Keiji Inafune, and immediately gained significant backing from the community. Following its reveal on Kickstarter in early September, the project had raised more than $800,000 within three days.
Now with the initial funding target met, Inafune's team is listing additional rewards if further milestones are reached. The team pledged it would port the PC game to current-gen systems if funding surpassed $2.2 million - a goal which was achieved on Monday.
The next major stretch goal is $3.3 million, which would result in versions for PS4 and Xbox One. Fourteen days remain on the Kickstarter page.
Following Capcom's decision to cancel an internal Mega Man project, Inafune announced in October 2010 that he would resign as head of development at the publisher. Later he established his own company, Comcept.
His work at the corporation covers numerous successful series over three decades, from Onimusha to Dead Rising and Mega Man.
Mighty No. 9, now in pre-production, follows the story of Beck - a character with a reconfigurable body who bears a striking resemblance to the Mega Man character. It is said the new game "takes the best aspects of the 8- and 16-bit era classics you know and love, and transforms them with modern tech, fresh mechanics, and fan input into something fresh and amazing"."You play as Beck, the 9th in a line of powerful robots, and the only one not infected by a mysterious computer virus that has caused mechanized creatures the world over to go berserk. Run, jump, blast, and transform your way through six stages you can tackle in any order you choose, using weapons and abilities stolen from your enemies to take down your fellow Mighty Number robots and confront the final evil that threatens the planet!"
The estimated release date is spring 2015.
Comcept's core team features developers with extensive experience at Capcom and have contributed to numerous Mega Man projects. Staff includes Naoya Tomita (level designer of the original Mega Man) and Manami Matsumae (who composed the soundtrack of the original).
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ps3-and-wii-u/
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September 18th, 2013, 02:10 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo has announced it will hold National StreetPass Day, a UK-based event created to encourage 3DS owners to gather and StreetPass, play games and win prizes.
 National StreetPass Day will be held on in the September 28 at at Waterloo Station in London and Manchester Piccadilly Station from 9am.
In addition to enjoying StreetPass activities on the Nintendo 3DS, a number of real-life StreetPass games will also take place, so attendees can take part in a real Puzzle Swap games (with contributing their own pieces to larger Puzzle Swap panels by playing Nintendo 3DS games).
Exclusive StreetPass bags are up for grabs at the event for those that take part in the Mario Kart 7 or Luigi's Mansion 2, or for those with the most Mii characters in their StreePass Mii Plaza.
A costumed Luigi will also be in attendence, joined by new Pokemon starters Oshawott, Tepig and Snivy.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...-september-28/
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September 18th, 2013, 01:50 Posted By: wraggster
Capcom has shipped 2m Monster Hunter 4 units out to retailers just days after its arrival on Japanese shelves.
The publisher announced the milestone for the latest effort in its popular action RPG, claiming that the game has had more shipments in its first week than any other third-party 3DS title in Japan.
VG247 further reports that actual sales figures for the game’s launch week are expected to arrive next week, adding that total sales for the franchise now exceed 25m copies.
Capcom has yet to make any mention of a western release for the game, but the title’s predecessor Monster Hunter 3 did eventually make it out of Japan.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/monst...copies/0121136
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September 17th, 2013, 00:10 Posted By: wraggster
Nintendo in Japan has recognised a growing consumer demand to unify online accounts across the 3DS and Wii U, according to an executive at the company.
Dan Adelman, Nintendo of America's head of business development, said Nintendo has definitely "heard that feedback many times from both inside and outside the company". However, he was unable to commit to unifying the consoles' online accounts for customers.
 "It's definitely something that we're very much aware of. All development for the infrastructure really happens out of Japan, so we've kind of communicated this need in the market, and they're very much aware of it and working towards really just always improving the eShop," he toldDestructoid.
Currently, owners of 3DSes and Nintendo Wii Us must maintain separate online accounts for purchasing games, managing data and collecting bonus items. This puts Nintendo in an unflattering contrast to Sony, which has unified its PlayStation Network across PS3, PS Vita and PS4 systems.
Adelman, a Nintendo executive who was working at Microsoft when the company launched Xbox Live Arcade, spoke highly of the Wii U's appeal for indie games developers.
"I think indie developers by their very nature are open to taking risks," he said.
"They don't have big shareholder communities that they have to answer to. It's really trying something new and taking the path less taken."
He said it was his personal ambition to help get indie games recognised within the wider casual market.
"If you talk to someone outside of the gaming industry, someone who doesn't necessarily follow [or] read all the blogs and keep up with the latest news, a lot of them are really unaware of a lot of these games. They've never heard of them, don't know that they even exist. So right now, it's a little bit of a niche audience of people who follow all of these games.
"But I'm personally convinced that if you get these games into people's hands and they try them, they'll be shocked. They'll be surprised at how good these games are.
"So I spend all of my time playing indie games; frankly, it's been a while since I played a full retail game just because there's so much great stuff out there."
It was claimed in the Destructoid article that as many as 80 per cent of Wii Us have established a connection to the internet.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ii-u-accounts/
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September 16th, 2013, 01:23 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.emucr.com/ WiiFlow v4.2 is released. WiiFlow s a Wii Game, Channel, Wiiware, Virtual Console, and Savegame Emulator intended for use with legal backups. USB Loader project, based on WiiFlow 1.1 by Hibernatus.
WiiFlow v4.2 Changelog:
Hey everyone, finally its time again for a release here! 
Now we do move up to 4.2 because of all the big additions to wiiflow!
The main new features are
-a FTP Server
-a File Explorer
-a Language Downloader
-a Path Selector for both wiiflow paths and Emulated NAND paths
-a custom banner downloader
-a WAD Installer for Emu NAND Channels
-an automated MIOS installer for different GC games
-a new Source Menu feature to select multiple coverflows to display at the same time
I hope that includes most of the important changes.
You can find the FTP Server and File Explorer in the Home Menu of WiiFlow
The WAD Installer is used via the File Explorer, you can also uninstall Channels now from your Emu NAND using the same way as for every other game
The Language Downloader is located in the general settings as well as the Path Selectors
The custom banner downloader are in the per-game settings, mainly downloading GC banners
To use the automated MIOS installation just use the new "mios" folder in your wiiflow main folder, copy in dm.wad for diosmios, dml.wad for diosmios lite, qfusb.wad for quadforce usb, qfsd.wad for quadforce sd and mios.wad for the regular mios, the wads you need to copy in depend on your personal usage
To use the new Source Menu features just go into the startup settings and enable Multisource, you can use the + button to select more than one source then.
WiiFlow now also has full compatibility to UStealth, a tool to hide your HDD from the WiiU question if you want to format it, check out gbatemp.net/threads/352786 for more details about that tool.
now this is just the list of big things, yet again they are alot of smaller additions and as always bugfixes, cleanups and speedups.
To find out more about the new release you can join the irc channel #wiiflow on irc.abjects.net or just go to the gbatemp.net wiiflow thread and just ask what you want to ask.
Thanks to everyone still supporting the project, especially to fledge68, Ayatus, mamule and all the beta testers and contributors behind the scenes!
Have Fun!
https://code.google.com/p/wiiflow/
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September 16th, 2013, 01:15 Posted By: wraggster
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Nintemulator SVN r23123 is compiled. Nintemulator is a work in progress multi-system emulator. Plans for emulated systems are NES, SNES, N64, GB/GBC, GBA, NDS.
Nintemulator SVN Changelog:
r23123
FC: Simplified NMI behavior, re-added loading INES files for test roms.
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r23122
FC: Removed unnecessary "Cart" class, that only served as an itermediary between the Database and the Board class. Also removed irrelevant data from the database, still need to remove duplicate entries!
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r23096
FC: Added INES loading as a fail-safe if game isn't found in database. Still incomplete because I can't give two shits about INES. Only added it to get test roms running again.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hub5cs
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September 16th, 2013, 01:13 Posted By: wraggster
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GBA.js Git (2013/09/12) is released. Jeffrey Pfau released a new GameBoy Advance emulator. The project began last July. The first prototype took him five weeks. But it has worked for several weeks and several hours a day online prior to the first public version. The program runs on JavaScript. It is available online and works in a modern web browser. It runs on Chrome 20, Safari 6.0, Firefox 15 + (without sound) or Opera 12. It should also run on Internet Explorer 10. Firefox and Opera are particularly slow, it is better to use Safari or Chrome.
As a matter of law, no rom is provided on the official website. However, you can load these roms on your machine. The emulator does not handle compressed files. So please only download roms decompressed. The application sometimes crashes if the file has special characters.
Currently all parts of the GameBoy Advance hardware are implemented. You can save and load backups, send on your machine or your machine. GBA.js is able to take screenshots. It can set the emulation paused. It supports games containing real-time clocks (eg Pokemon).
GBA.js Git Changelog:
* Move hex from console.js to util.js, fixing SIO logging
http://jpfau.github.com/gbajs/
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September 16th, 2013, 01:08 Posted By: wraggster
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Dolphin Git 3.5-2383 is compiled. This is the trunk of Dolphin Project. Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Dolphin is a Gamecube, Wii and Triforce (the arcade machine based on the Gamecube) emulator which supports many extra features and abilities not present on the original consoles. It has a partial Wii support and plays most Gamecube games.
Dolphin Git changelog:
- Create blank ini file before editing it, if it doesn't already exists. This prevents the editor from prompting to create it.
- Made defaults "explicitly defaulted" for PolarSSL Fixes issue 6601
- Merge branch 'global-user-directory'
- [ARM] slwx/srwx/srawx implementations.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nxnlvk
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September 16th, 2013, 01:02 Posted By: wraggster
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DeSmuME SVN r4768 is compiled. DeSmuME is an open source Nintendo DS(NDS) emulator for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. DeSmuME supports save states, the ability to increase the size of the screen and it supports filters to improve image quality. DeSmuME also supports microphone use on Windows and Linux ports, as well as direct video and audio recording. The emulator also features a built-in movie recorder.
DeSmuME SVN Changelog:
r4768
purge WX from the project
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r4767
goodbye, wxdlg
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r4766
gpu-low impact bugfix to coloreffect up/down. just a tweak to the previous re-engineering which seems to still be holding up.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/dmo9ok
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September 16th, 2013, 00:57 Posted By: wraggster
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Cen64 Git (2013/09/15) is compiled. Cen64 is a Cycle-Accurate Nintendo 64 Simulator.
Cen64 Git Changelog:
* Update refs.
* Fix several bugs, particularily VR4300 CP1 related.
* Add instruction support: DMFC1, DMTC1, (VR4300) and LBV (RSP).
* Patch peripheral interface ROM transfers.
* Force audio interrupts to not fire at random.
* Embed a build type of RSP/RDP into binary.
* Print build types for RSP/RDP in usage menu.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/lf7axk
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