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My daughter doesn't code, but she and another friend of hers do a lot of work to find, get and set up game emulators and related wares. Motivated to do light "
by Roboprog 13y ago
My daughter doesn't code, but she and another friend of hers do a lot of work to find, get and set up game emulators and related wares.
Motivated to do light "sys admin" work, but not coding, I guess.
- ZoFreX 13y agoDoes they play Megadrive games? If so I know a really cool nerdy trick: Sonic & Knuckles was a pretty awesome Sonic installment for the Megadrive that had a really weird cartridge. On top, it had a flip-open cartridge slot... You could plug in Sonic 2 or Sonic 3 to play through those previously existing games with the Knuckles character. Awesome! So how do you play the games like that on your emulator? Turns out it's really simple: > cat snk.bin sonic3.bin > sonic3nk.bin Or on Windows, as I first learnt it (I had no idea what the command actually did back then, it was magic to me): > copy /b snk.bin + sonic3.bin sonic3nk.bin Suddenly I have a brand new game to play! How it works: When you plug another cartridge into the top of Sonic & Knuckles the console sees both games combined as a contiguous block of memory, which is equivalent to concatenating together the binary dumps of the cartridges. More details about this are available on this slightly horrific but very thorough webpage: http://www.emulationzone.org/projects/s&k/thesis.htm http://www.emulationzone.org/projects/s&k/thesis.htm
- thearn4 13y agoVery cool - thanks for sharing!
- ceol 13y agoNurture that. It's how a lot of developers get started: by tinkering and tooling.
- jlees 13y agoI got into programming by figuring out how to cheat at games when I was small; another common route is writing mods/addons (which I also did, later on). Don't knock the instincts even though it's not writing code!