The Super Mario Game & Watch Has Been Hacked Already, And It Could Fix That Unfortunate Bug

NES nothing, I want the Game and Watch Galleries on there.

Can’t wait for the comments declaring this illegal, and that the site supports piracy. Popcorn at the ready!! Stand strong!!

"powered by an STM32H7B0VBT6 chipset, which comprises of an ARM Cortex-M7, 128 KBytes Flash and 1024 KBytes of RAM."

This is not how "comprise" is used. Try "powered by an STM32H7B0VBT6 chipset, which is comprised of an ARM Cortex-M7, 128 KBytes Flash and 1024 KBytes of RAM."

This isn't correct either, but it's closer to what you're trying to say.

One day, they're gonna open one up and find its powered it black magic.

Wow, small memory....

So, will it run the NES Catalog?

Wow that's really interesting stuff there...

@AnnoyingFrenzy I’m hoping for a tiny disgruntled imp.

Those Y screws, they surely are an effective way to keep people from messing with stuff. At least it kept me from opening a GT 740 yesterday.

Ok but does it run Crysis?

So that second tweet means that there is at least an NES emulator built in, and we could load other ROMs in it

Fans: "4 Gb RAM is unacceptable for a 21st century portable device!"

Nintendo: "Yeah, we feared that would be overwhelming for you guys. How about a 1 Mb RAM portable device, then?"

@Bl4ckb100d The parts list told us that.
This is yet another off the shelf SoC and probably an opensource emulator with some ROMs. I wonder if NIntendo dumped carts or if someone will catch them selling roms downloaded off the internet again.

@RazumikhinPG

More important would be Doom... Doom has to be on any Machine, Calculators, Printers, Tooth Brushes and of course a Watch and Game Device.

Can it run doom?

@Moon Almost certainly. But can it run Crysis?

@Moon that is exactly the question in my head 😉

@AnnoyingFrenzy what about white magic? So racist 🤪

Thank goodness for hackers, all types of them. Looking forward to be able to put ROMS on it

@StevenG either way, it's their property and legally speaking there's nothing we can do about it really. Do you know any other SBC consoles based on this same SoC?

@Bl4ckb100d You can buy those bits online at least.

@Jokerwolf Actually I was asking to see how easy porting other emulators would be

@Bl4ckb100d anything 8bit will be possible at the very least.

Looks like it uses the same battery as the Joy-Con.

Damn.. I thought it was going to contain a little wheel with a hamster running around in it.

People are already tearing it down and I can't even pre-order it yet

What's the point of hacking an expensive collectors item versus being able to play nes roms on literally anything else.

But CAN IT PLAY CRYSIS?

This thing really should have included 2, 3, world and some more game & watch games. At 50 bucks that would have been entirely appropriate.

@StevenG Do people still think that after Nintendo has released a bunch of -unreleased- retro games on VC? If they held onto DK:OE, surely they must have SMB too.

Nintendo is only guilty of using a homebrew method of storing NES roms, it doesn't prove anything. AFAIK they've never used an open-source emulator either.

@Bl4ckb100dOn the same one? no. On ones close enough that it doesn't really matter? Sure.

Surely people of had enough of playing NES ROMs by now? Most of them just haven’t stood the test of time

Is Nintendo blind or stupid at this point when it comes to retro game offerings? Sure someone is going to hack it to dump ROMs of games they want to play on it! Why not actually offer a complete library of these classic games, have it tied to our accounts so we can enjoy them legally for years to come? I would love to buy and play VC games on switch and simply transfer them on to the Switch 2 or whatever Nintendo will call its successor and future still hardware! Their lack of basic understanding of consumer wants is really why a lot of companies in the game industry are reporting losses!

You all fighting about playing NES games. When I Just want this to become the substitute for a GAMEBOY / COLOR mini classic.

Let me dump GAMEBOY roms and I’ll be happy

@TG16_IS_BAE funny MS hasnt taken down any videos of the new xboxs being ripped apart inc ones they sent to YT lol. plus whats the odds Nintendo got the ROm online lol

Cool I guess, though I have little interest in hacking mine as I mostly bought it as a collectors item, though I do wish they included more games

I'll play mine a few times on the odd occasion but mostly it'll just be proudly sitting on my shelf next to my mario 30th anni amiibo

@Rodan2000 You think? I feel 8bit era had aged like a fine wine

Tho I am somewhat biased as I mostly play older games anyway and even very early 3d games doesnt bother me

@StevenG Yeah even tho I bought one and have all these mini consoles, they are just single board computers, simple stuff, in a fancy shell

I still can never resist tho, they just look so damn good on my shelf lol
Itd be far more awesome if they used fpga for any future mini consoles

@gaga64 That's a Terry Pratchett reference right? - just about my favourite fiction writer. LOVE the guards sub-series.

kinda hoping they can hack that usb c port to take a headphone adapter - which it may do out-of-the-box (but I doubt it).

I only want to add some nes games, like mario bros 2 usa and mario bros 3.

@Moon I think we all know it can

Can't wait for my one scheduled for Fri or Sat delivery.

@brunojenso that’s where I was going, yeah. My all time favourite author.

Hacked!! i can't wait to load the entire game & watch library.
https://twitter.com/ghidraninja/status/1326947506224238594

No hackers • No hackers • No hackers • No hackers • No hackers

@Cosats what is it to you if you already bought the system, Nintendo made the buck and mostly probably, if you can pay something like this... you are suscribed to NSO, which gives you access to the same games you would be dumping into the system?

It even, in a twisted turn of events, makes people who were on the fence about this... buy it. People on Twitter are ordering the system after they knew it could be hacked.

So, THIS is helping Nintendo make extra sales. Amazing right?

@Dtbahoney "is comprised of" is accurate, but it's likely someone whose 1st language isn't english.

As I’m in the US and pre-orders were not offered - I’ll be setting up a chair in front of my local GameStop tomorrow morning before they open. Absolutely not missing out on this. Buying 2 - one to open and play/hack. One as a collector’s item!

@GameOtaku except Nintendo are not reporting a loss they're making an absolute mint, outselling every other console with the switch, their success story isn't one of a company that doesn't know what it's doing, the Japanese are light years ahead of us in everything and the Nintendo brand is one of the most successful brands in history.

@nesgary77
They still don’t know squat about releasing retro content in a timely and consumer friendly way.

@TG16_IS_BAE in my country at least (USA) it is perfectly legal to tear it down like this. You own the device, and any software that is needed for it to perform as advertised. Nonessential addon software, like games, however, are licensed for use instead.

Oooh motherboard porn!

@LeighDappa
We have an account system now. You can even tie your 3ds to it so getting the games we have already purchased shouldn’t be that big of a stretch. I’ve no idea why they felt compelled to restart their retro offerings every gen instead of keeping it the same and just continue to add to the library.

I was running Quake on mine last year.

More than enough space to add a bunch of Game & Watch ROMs.

If anyone has been paying attention...

Currently...this will NOT be easily hackable.

The USB port on the side seems to be JUST FOR CHARGING.

It will require you opening the unit and using a cheap programmer to flash it.

Seems a waste of time