Posts tagged with retrogaming
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Hnefatafl, Viking Chess for Game Boy
On The Royal Game of Ur, the link cable nearly broke me. It was by far the hardest feature of that project, burning through most of $50 in API credits before it finally worked. Music was a close second, the part I was least happy with. So when I set...
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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...
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GameBoy Zero Builds
About a year ago I build a GameBoy Zero (a Raspberry Pi Zero in a gameboy shell) and this weekend I finished a second one. You can see some picture of the first one (black case) and the new one (transparant, blue shell) below. While I thought about doing a...