>Was worried about getting the Mario Game & Watch
>Only place with preorders was fucking Amazon, and it sold out within minuts
>Launch day, it's available to order everywhere
HURRRRRRRR, I fucking hate that shit
>Only place with preorders was fucking Amazon, and it sold out within minuts
>Launch day, it's available to order everywhere
HURRRRRRRR, I fucking hate that shit
@coolboymew I'm thinking about getting it since it has already been hacked. Nobody has loaded alternate ROMs on it yet, but it would be the perfect emulation device for me.
https://gizmodo.com/nintendos-new-game-watch-hacked-a-day-before-its-offi-1845664049
@xianc78 jesus, already lol? I was hoping for this, but damn, that was quick
The bad news is that is kinda only has nes like buttons, but that could be damn enough for NES, TG-16, SMS and GB/GBC games for example
The only bad news is that it only has 8mb of storage along with only 1mb of RAM IIRC. 1mb of RAM should be plenty for the mentioned consoles however. You probably won't have an entire rom collection on it, but 8mb should still be plenty of games
The bad news is that is kinda only has nes like buttons, but that could be damn enough for NES, TG-16, SMS and GB/GBC games for example
The only bad news is that it only has 8mb of storage along with only 1mb of RAM IIRC. 1mb of RAM should be plenty for the mentioned consoles however. You probably won't have an entire rom collection on it, but 8mb should still be plenty of games
@coolboymew I actually meant for stuff like NES, SMS, and GB/GBC games. I'm also hoping for custom clock software so there can be alternate themes instead of the Mario ones.
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>The bad news: based on stacksmashing’s explorations it doesn’t appear as if the USB-C port on the new Game & Watch is connected to the CPU or anything other than power wires. It seems it’s for charging the internal battery only, which means that anyone wanting to swap out the pre-loaded ROM files, or completely replace the firmware, is going to need to open up their device and use custom hardware to re-flash it.
Oof, that's pretty bad news tho'
>The bad news: based on stacksmashing’s explorations it doesn’t appear as if the USB-C port on the new Game & Watch is connected to the CPU or anything other than power wires. It seems it’s for charging the internal battery only, which means that anyone wanting to swap out the pre-loaded ROM files, or completely replace the firmware, is going to need to open up their device and use custom hardware to re-flash it.
Oof, that's pretty bad news tho'
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@coolboymew Ugh, and I'm more of a software person than a hardware person. I only soldered once in my entire life and that was something WAY simpler than this. I was expecting this to be a simple Linux-based device, but it seems like Nintendo learned from their mistake with the NES and SNES Classic.
@xianc78 yeah, looks like it might just be a better idea getting one of those portable emulator machines instead
