Posts tagged with Nintendo
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Hnefatafl, Viking Chess for Game Boy
On The Royal Game of Ur, getting two Game Boys to talk to each other using the link cable proved to be quite difficult. I got $50 worth of tokens and burned them all on this feature. Getting semi-decent music was a hurdle too, and I’m still not quite happy...
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Creating Cheats for my Own Game Boy Game
While the computer games I played in my childhood often came with cheat codes baked into the game that allowed you to pass parts where you got stuck, for handhelds like the Game Boy specialized hardware was needed. One of my most prized possessions from my childhood was such a...
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Revisiting a 20-Year-Old NDS Project with AI
Almost twenty years ago, during my PhD in bioinformatics, I needed to brush up on C++. Our lab was doing comparative genomics, studying how genomes evolve at the structural level, particularly the effects of whole genome duplications in plant genomes. One of the key tools we used, i-ADHoRe 2.0, had...
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The Royal Game Boy of Ur
Years ago, a documentary on “The Royal Game of Ur”, one of the oldest known board games, nearly 5,000 years old, instantly piqued my interest. When I later heard Dr. Irving Finkel discuss it on a podcast, the fascination came flooding back. But this time, I had an idea: build...
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How to Upgrade Your Nintendo 3DS with USB-C Charging
Are you tired of fumbling with your Nintendo 3DS charging cable? Do you wish you could use a modern, reversible USB Type-C connector instead? With a few common tools and a little know-how, you can add a USB Type-C port to your Nintendo 3DS charging cradle in no time! In...