Grand Theft Tendo

November 16, 2004 12:20 PM

GrandTheftTendoFor those of you still rockin' the 8-bit NES, but want to play GTA III on it.
posted by mathowie (19 comments total)

wow, now that's a real labour of love.
posted by the cuban at 12:25 PM on November 16, 2004

This is why I'm a little scared about my choice of degree, Computer Science. I don't have this kind of autistic genius.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 12:33 PM on November 16, 2004

Finally, a game I could actually manage to play.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:33 PM on November 16, 2004

still in development?

*whine*
posted by modofo at 12:51 PM on November 16, 2004

Damn, that is insane! Kind of neat and all too but I think I'll be happily sticking with my PS2 and copy of GTA: SA. The nearly nekkid chicks are way better!

This is an impressive project though.
posted by fenriq at 1:03 PM on November 16, 2004

How is he going to get this on the cartridges?

(is that a stupid question? I really don't know.)
posted by norm at 1:07 PM on November 16, 2004

norm, I assume it will be a ROM for downloading and using on an NES emulator.
posted by modofo at 1:17 PM on November 16, 2004

You can use a flash linker.
posted by Mossy at 1:19 PM on November 16, 2004

> I don't have this kind of autistic genius.

Welcome to middle level management. *hand*.
posted by NewBornHippy at 1:21 PM on November 16, 2004

This is awesome.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 1:39 PM on November 16, 2004

Holy hell, this guy even built his own assembler for this.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 1:39 PM on November 16, 2004

The kid's a genius
posted by channey at 1:41 PM on November 16, 2004

I could have sworn this was a double post. But I'm too lazy to investigate...
posted by McBain at 2:47 PM on November 16, 2004

Wow, that's really cool. I recently purchased the collector's addition of Madden that features a few of the old games - including the 8 and 16 bit versions. I thought it'd be fun to relive the games I spent hours on as a pre-teen, but I found them weak, confusing, restricting and incredibly annoying.

This looks really cool but I bet it's not much fun to play.
posted by b_thinky at 2:53 PM on November 16, 2004

really is similar to the original versions.
posted by NationalKato at 3:08 PM on November 16, 2004

norm, I assume it will be a ROM for downloading and using on an NES emulator.

that's boring. I actually HAVE an NES, and was thinking I'd get a new game for it.
posted by norm at 3:14 PM on November 16, 2004

I'm sure it'd be possible to play it on a real Nintendo, but you'd need an EPROM cart or something to write the code to.
posted by neckro23 at 3:29 PM on November 16, 2004

Does anyone know of a reliable, online place that sells flash carts? I askMe-d this question a few months ago and didn't really get much of a response. It would be keen to play this on an NES.
posted by hughbot at 4:03 PM on November 16, 2004

Holy shit, it's a thing to play Sierra games on your GBA. I didn't even realize such a thing existed.
posted by Stan Chin at 4:17 PM on November 16, 2004