Category: Nintendo
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Nintendo DS Lite Upper LCD Replacement
This is not a “how-to” but rather a commentary on this task. My oldest son complained of a damaged upper screen on his Nintendo DS Lite so I thought, “meh, how hard can it be?” Without doing an real research on it, I purchased the replacement screen, watched a couple YouTube videos and I started…
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mGBA | Game Boy Emulation on Linux
I have received quite the number of comments about emulating the Game Boy on modern hardware and all the work that is going into it. I learned so much about the extensive community around emulating Game Boy games and the technology, research and absolute passion that goes into it. Though I was given many suggestions,…
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GB Boy Colour Repair
Last year’s Christmas present to my oldest boy (2017), started to misbehave in such a way that made playing it no longer enjoyable. This GB Boy Colour, a Game Boy Color clone, likely not made with the highest quality components started to have switch problems. It either wouldn’t turn on or turn on and immediately…
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Nintendo is Suspending Netflix Service to the Wii
I received a very unfortunate message on my Wii when trying to play an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation using Netflix — Nintendo will suspend all video streaming services on Wii – including the Netflix Channel – after January 30, 2019. I don’t know how many people out there still use the Wii…
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River City Ransom: Underground on openSUSE Linux
Sometime in the early 1990s, when it was still a thing to rent Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges from a video store, a friend and I came upon this game, “River City Ransom” which, to our understanding was supposed to be similar to “Double Dragon II”. It was but FAR better. “River City Ransom” is referred…
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Wii Console Repair and Homebrew Hack
The Nintendo Wii, in my belief, was the best video game console ever created. It was a very popular family-unifying gaming counsel. Instead of the typical behavior of the gaming system monopolizing a single person’s time, this brought family together much like you would have on family game night. A vehicle of interaction. The Wii…
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Wii U Pro Controller on openSUSE Linux
I don’t do much serious gaming on Linux but I do like to play the occasional Steam or older games in an emulator. I have historically liked the PS3 controllers in Linux. There is nothing you have to do to get it to work. Plug the dongle in a USB, pop in some batteries and…