Weirdness: Homebrew Programmer Emulates a Macintosh Plus on 3DS

I remember having some old Macs at secondary school and there was a little pool / billiards game. Kept us entertained until Super Maze Wars came out on our new colour Macs ^_^

Oh, my.....
Another hacking 3DS system... >_<

inb4 vaporwave joke

It's always interesting what hackers come up with.

Does battle chess work? If so, i might buy an extra 3ds ...that and some programming mouse game was all I can remember of old school macs.

"Because they can..."

Very much a reason why many do the things they do. A lot though is because they want to see if they can. When I made Megaman 2 PTC, it was because I wanted to see whether it could be done, using a BASIC language. Turned out I could.

Was playin with this earlier today. Had it for my ds years ago and had quite a few of my favorite old mac games on the go.

Sorry, but I'm still gonna complain about the price of Macs. $600 for a computer half as powerful as many $300 PCs is ridiculous. $1200 for a Mac with screen when you could pay $600 for a 4K Monitor and $200 desktop is also ridiculous.

Too bad the title didn't have an NX joke, something like - No, this is not the NX unveil you've been waiting for.

Totally Rad!!!

Oh awesome, I was just thinking about this the other day. There was an older emulator on the original DS, the screen is obviously almost twice as small as the Mac's, but it wasn't really all that bad to play around with.

@NTELLIGENTMAN Macs are not actually overpriced if you actually compare specs (weight & size matter)

@NTELLIGENTMAN
This is starting to get old... Why do you think most music producers, artists etc use Mac computers instead of PCs?
Don't want to be the devil's advocate here, but what you pay is design, sturdiness, and the fact that their OS is made to work perfectly on the set of hardware they've chosen, as opposed to Windows, which has to work on an infinite number of hardware combinations.

Anyway, yeah, most things mankind has accomplished were made "because I can", can't see nothing wrong there

I want to play Brickles!

@Anti-Matter So? Someone writes homebrew for the 3DS people lose their minds.

@mikegamer
I don't want to hack any kind of video games. I quit from playing illegal software and or hacked video games long time ago. Just knowing another hacking methods made me concern and worried. Sorry about my worries. >_<

And why not for the Amiga?

Now, get Shufflepuck Cafe for Mac running on there, with the ability to use the touchscreen to control the bat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di8P3skzq2A

Note: The game would be shown on the top screen and you'd use the bottom screen like a separate touch-pad basically.

@Anti-Matter Funny how people think emulators are illegal. I suggest you look into the various cases of companies versus smaller companies that write commercial emulators and cheat devices (like Game Genie) before labeling said software as being illegal. It's not:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/Sony_v_Bleem.htm
https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/203_F3d_596.htm
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/780/1283/1445354/

In all cases, emulators are ruled as being legal by supreme court judges, you cannot copyright hardware, but the distribution of copyrighted code is, but in these cases, emulators are almost always reverse-engineered to avoid violation. They're definitely gray, but not illegal.

I suggest you research this before trying to prove otherwise.

Also by that same vein, if they truly are illegal, then this would mean the Virtual Console is the same, as those are emulators, same with the Xbox 360, it uses an emulator to play Xbox games, or the PS3 using PS2 emulation. Emulation is emulation, they're legal under US law. Deal with it.

@Discostew Legendary work. Are you up to anything interesting nowadays?

@everyone Seriously, Discostew is a legend. Google 'mega man 2 petit computer' to see what he did. Nowadays it's be front page news - and it's a shame petit computer was taken off the eshop, and the sequel never made it to EU...

@NTELLIGENTMAN

honestly PC's are cheap for a reason... I just want something that works

@mikegamer
Okay, i've read those articles but still... i felt guilty if i have to play illegal software. Before i owned my first original 3DS XL, i used to be played hacked Wii with illegal game copies, NDS Lite with illegal software inside a Cartridge, PC game with illegal copies. But it was the past, now i start from zero again by buying only original games. Sure, i know Virtual Console is 'Emulate' older games. The emulation inside Wii U to read Wii or VC to read older game are still fine for me because it run my original games. What make me afraid is just only the illegal software, hacking methods (Homebrew, Jailbreak, etc) and GameShark. Emulation is okay for me, as long not free emulator that i can download from internet in order to play illegal ROM. I just feel guilty to play illegal ROM again...
Sorry...

@toxibunny Unfortunately, nothing outside of homebrew. Been working with StapleButter on blargSNES some time back, but nothing since then. MM2PTC could have been ported over to SmileBASIC, but that would have caused a copyright issue for distribution on SmileBoom's servers.

@Anti-Matter Again, legal software, the games are not, they're very shady, even when you back them up, that's all I'm gonna say.