I enjoy emulation greatly. I’m guilty of downloading very old video games for which the hardware is either difficult to source (anything older than NES at this point, or the more obscure consoles) or for which the physical cartridges are obscenely expensive and not offered on Virtual Console or the like. (Example:…

That’s my guess. They’re using Havok still; most likely what’s happening is, there’s a mechanism to have an object ignore collision by object groups that the programmer sets up. The trampoline is probably trying to set the opponent up to ignore itself, but using the wrong flag (or logic) and accidentally ignoring the…

It would be way cooler if you could write a program to take *any* pixel-art based input and automatically generate the pattern for you. I have no idea how this craft works though; would you end up having to change yarn colors on every pixel boundary? Or is there some way to work with more than one yarn color at a time?

Probably because it’s one of the only games the emulator can successfully *boot.* An incomplete emulator is going to have trouble booting proper games that make full use of the system, but simpler games sometimes boot and run anyway, as they don’t rely on advanced features, or are more tolerant of bugs.

A combination of command blocks and scoreboard values; most maps like this are using hidden scoreboard objectives like you would variables in a normal programming language. You can then use the /testfor command as a sort of conditional, and come up with some pretty crazy logic that way. Combine that with redstone…

Holy cheezeballs that is amazing. What a find!

This is a surprisingly common misspelling, and we have supermarket balloons to blame. Con-GRAD-ulations is a really common phrase to put on balloons and cakes intended for recent graduates, and it’s so darn common that I think people assume that’s the right spelling.

How do these artists have the patience for this kind of work on the Wii U’s tablet? That’s a lot more free time than I possess.

It’s actually a whole video; the music is an essential part of the experience.

Get good at support. *Instant* queues, usually met with cries of “OMG Finally, let’s start already.”

I *love* the dead poets society reference. That’s a lovely touch on the part of the NOA localization team.

I don’t think it would be a bad idea at all for the console to support region locking, but leave it up to the developers to actually enforce it / tick the flag that enables the feature. That would remove the blame from Nintendo entirely, and appropriately redirect the public’s ire toward the publishers who want the…

N64 games hold up well at their *original resolution.* It’ll still look good if you play it upscaled (not sure if the 360 version does this?) but the textures being super blurry is much more obvious.

I just feel like they lost so much potential. Plus, good shader work could make the Utah Teapot look nearly that good, minus the extra geometry on the top.

This is the one mouse shortcut that I prefer over its keyboard equivalent, mostly because I find Ctrl+Shift+Esc to be really wonky with my left hand. It’s a personal preference.

Or both. Possibly in reverse order.

For what it’s worth, I agree with you on the price issue. We charge $130 at a minimum for a restore, and Windows 8 like, ... It isn’t exactly rocket science to go through the motions. I think we should have a lower cost option for resets in the wake of windows 8; we’re still priced there based on the complexities of…

A shame really; it would shake up the formula in so many good ways. For a game that preaches so heavily about teamwork, I’m surprised the battle focus is still effectively solo.

I happen to work for the Geek Squad, and I like to think that we count. Though, take that with a grain of salt; if you’re tech savvy enough to run all of the tools you mentioned, and also do troubleshooting from outside the OS (using a recovery environment) then you can already do nearly everything we’re going to do…

My two favorite composers from the N64 era? Say no more; done and done.