Yeah part of this tweet is due to my preference for SMB3 lol

Unlike Valve, Nintendo can count to three. But it they often can't count to four. E.g. they never made a fourth Super Mario Bros. game, a fourth Pikmin game, a fourth Paper Mario game, a fourth 3D Mario game.

Proto Challenge presents...

A lot of Nintendo 3DS system software prototypes + a very early prototype of Kid Icarus Uprising!

This release has been a long time coming, and we're happy to finally have it all working on retail hardware for anyone to try.

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This is a prototype of the unreleased Game Boy Color version of 40 Winks! This build has 6 playable levels and 2 playable characters (Ruff and Tumble). It seems to have been from very far along in the game's development.

archive.org/details/40-w...

UPDATE 3/31/25: The ROM we previously released is discovered to have been a bad dump. We have uploaded the good dump here, and the bad dump remains along with it for posterity. [archive.org page]

About this - was the original file modified by someone? And the new one is the unmodified dump?

Today, we bring you a prototype of Mario's Picross for the Game Boy! Dated January 23rd, 1995, this build comes a few months before release and contains different puzzles, a different Super Game Boy title screen, and other graphical differences.

archive.org/details/mari...

Today marks 15 years since the 3DS released. To celebrate, we'd like to announce that in March, we'll host Proto Direct: a live stream showcasing newly found game prototypes for 3DS and other systems too! We'll announce an exact date/time at a later date.

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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

Does anyone want to play that new NSMBW Co-Op mod online using Dolphin?

GitHub - RibShark/OmniDrive Contribute to RibShark/OmniDrive development by creating an account on GitHub.

Introducing OmniDrive! A firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based optical disc drives manufactured by Hitachi-LG Data Storage that enables features that allow for better, more complete reading of discs, including proprietary game discs.

github.com/RibShark/Omn...

We finally have a photo of the previously unseen Zelda 1 art on display at the Nintendo Museum.

The cartouche in the top right, subtitled "THE MAP OF HYRULE," depicts 3 fairy/goddess figures unfolding a cloth (making the world?). Miyamoto's signature is on the bottom right.

PicoIDE An open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for vintage computers

The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

Speaking of Virtual Boy, here's a clip from a Video Boy VUE, a tool from Intelligent Systems for showing Virtual Boy games on a TV or monitor. In 2021 I wrote up an article examining the hardware: hcs64.com/video-boy-vue/

Does anyone know why the Pi Pico debug probe might be giving a "JUNK" error?

Does anyone know why the Pi Pico debug probe might be giving a "JUNK" error?

The PlayStation 2 is a High Definition console YouTube video by dodaxo1234567890roll

Possibly the first 3D PS2 game to run in 1080i www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFoX...

Does anyone recall if any of the Nintendo leaks had GBA e-Reader tools in them?

(not my photo, but its of the Protractor souvenir you can unlock in-game)

Question: how many degrees off was the WarioWare Twisted gyroscope nearer to its release in 2005? I'm not sure if this is hardware degradation or if its normal?

Well there you go I made a micro post of it lol
luigiblood.neocities.org/micro/2025-1...

The big "VGM Sound Sources" (game soundfont) spreadsheet list sound CDs/synths and has a "wanted CDs" list. But where are the download links (or dat/hash file) for the actual CDs/synth data?

After 6 years working on BlueRetro, the time has come for me to move on and focus on my family and my real job.

Thank you to everyone who contributed, tested, reported issues, or supported the project over the years.
Your involvement made BlueRetro what it is today.

Used for 2005 events too, including ones featuring 2005 pre-final demo of NSMB.

Changes to our infrastructure - Archive Team Over the recent months, some major changes have been made to the infrastructure behind many of the Archive Team projects. The tracker, backfeed, Gitea, transfer.archivete.am, and other services run on...

Websites don't just magically appear on the Wayback Machine, someone has to actually archive them. Sometimes that's Internet Archive themselves. Sometimes that's the ArchiveTeam community saving entire websites before they shut down. And they could use your help paying for their big servers :)

Honestly I thought they wouldn't slop-ify Prime 4, since its meant to be a "hardcore" series. I guess Kirby is the only Nintendo franchise that's been left untouched.

Prime 4 basically doesn't have any of the original Prime devs, does it? Did Nintendo not give them the memo that its good to keep your devs around?

Prime 4 might be the first Nintendo game that had a cross-platform release (like Twilight Princess and BOTW) where the version on the newer console is significantly higher fidelity?

Valve should bring back E3 just for Half-Life 3. They shouldn't debase themselves by going on the "Game Awards".

Maybe, maybe not.

The big "VGM Sound Sources" (game soundfont) spreadsheet list sound CDs/synths and has a "wanted CDs" list. But where are the download links (or dat/hash file) for the actual CDs/synth data?