The OUYA Android-based gaming console is getting ready for its debut: the stated beginning shipping date for Kickstarter backers is March 28. At launch, it sill isn’t clear exactly how many software titles the console will offer, but a new report suggests that at the very least, early backers will have emulators to play with on the small, inexpensive console. → Read More
This is very, very neat. It’s a portable N64 called the D64 that can actually be used to play multi-player games. Gadget of the year, right here. → Read More
Here’s an interesting hack to start your day. Modder Hasse has a brother with a disability; he’s only able to use one hand. The brother also likes to play video games, and with the way joysticks or controllers are set up now, you pretty much have to use both hands. Hasse wanted to help his brother out, so he designed and hacked a N64 Gamecube controller into one-handed use, allowing… → Read More
So you really want a portable Nintendo 64 unit. Well, modder Evil Nod can build you one, using a Sega Game Gear, and a N64. The end result may not be ergonomically correct, but at least you’ll be able to take your N64 games with you. [via Technabob] → Read More
Apparently the iPad has been hacked. Who knew? And what’s the first you do with a hacked iPad? You run emulators, of course! This here is a video showing an N64 emulator running Super Smash Bros and Super Mario 64. → Read More
Good news, gamers with taste. Rare announced today that the Xbox Live Arcade version of Banjo-Tooie, the 2000 sequel to 1998′s Banjo-Kazooie on the N64, will be released on Wednesday, April 29. That’s exactly two weeks from today. → Read More
Ha (n. Peter)! Presenting the best video of the day, the latest episode of GameTrailers’ Screw Attack. It’s sort of a retrospective on the game WWF Wrestlemania 2000 for the Nintendo 64. I’d say that it’s still the best wrestling game to this date, and that includes WWF No Mercy. God did No Mercy slow down a lot. → Read More
Banjo-Tooie, the sequel to Banjo-Kazooie, will be released on Xbox Live Arcade this April. Like the BK XBLA port, BT’s graphics will be updated: 1080p and a smooth frame rate. I seem to recall BT having a pretty rough frame rate back on the N64, so this is more than merely a new coat of paint. → Read More
Those of you who grew up during the N64 generation should be prepared to spend 1,200 Microsoft points tomorrow. That’s when Banjo-Kazooie comes out on Xbox Live Arcade. (I guess the release date was moved back a week? Oh, well, time better spent playing Street Fighter.) It’s pretty much a straight port, but with a 1080p resolution and a fully working Stop N Swop, the subject of… → Read More
How’s this for ingenuity? USA! USA! USA! In what can only be described as the ultimate in convergence devices, some guy on eBay is selling a Wii with a Nintendo 64 cartridge slot that actually plays real games. What’s most impressive is that the whole thing looks pretty natural, with the slight exception of the side panel jutting outwards a bit to make room for the N64 controller port. → Read More
This homebrew N64 console – JonJandran’s Darth 64 – contains a complete N64 motherboard and controller in a case that looks pretty damn nice. He has a list of features including a headphone jack and a Gamecube style joystick and D-Pad. He reports that you can actually take this thing apart with a screwdriver, which is impressive for a piece of homebrew hardware. → Read More
What’s taking so long for GoldenEye to be released on the Nintendo Wii Virtual Console? Rare’s Nick Burton says the number of licensees involved will more than likely prevent the game from ever being available on Virtual Console, saying the game is in “no man’s land.” Says Burton: It’s incredibly hard to solve because there’s so many license holders involved. → Read More
I like to keep things “real,” so let’s get it out of the way right now: this kid is probably smoking cannabis out of a Nintendo 64 controller. Don’t give me that, “it could be tobacco” nonsense, either. He doesn’t look a day over 14, and smoking tobacco out of a pipe (especially a pipe that looks like a cheap St. Marks bowl) doesn’t enter into a… → Read More
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