this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
86 points (97.8% liked)

RetroGaming

20705 readers
168 users here now

Vintage gaming community.

Rules:

  1. Be kind.
  2. No spam or soliciting for money.
  3. No racism or other bigotry allowed.
  4. Obviously nothing illegal.

If you see these please report them.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Xylinna@lemmy.world
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
gts@lemmy.world
86
Programmer gets a NES to emulate a PC, and it's as ridiculous as it sounds (www.techspot.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Rekall_Incorporated@lemm.ee to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

So basically

Physical PC
  |__GameCube Emulator
     |__Animal Crossing NES Emulator
         |__Emulated IBM in NES

?

Holy fuck

[–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago 
Physical PC
  |__GameCube Emulator
     |__Animal Crossing NES Emulator
         |__Emulated IBM in NES
             |__VM running Linux
                 |__ NES Emulator
[–] smeg@feddit.uk 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

By hacking the NES emulator inside Animal Crossing – while running on a GameCube emulator – decrazyo managed to run the PC version of Tetris at a mind-numbing 30 seconds per frame

This is insane in so many ways, serious respect

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Last time I saw 30spf it was written on a sun cream

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

This comment is S-tier. Cheers!

[–] Shawdow194@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Up next: Doom

[–] Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

The reason doom exists is because they figured out how to run Mario on a PC

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

As is tradition.