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Screensavior!

Do you love the original Nintendo Entertainment System?

Do you love computers?

Do you hate staring at a bland boring cycle of photos, images, or colors that are designed to "save" your screen?

Fear not, I think I have found the solution to your problem.  It's called the UberNES ScreenSaver, courtesy of UberNES.  Here's a look at it in action:



The program allows you to display the "Demo Mode" of your favorite NES ROMs and tile them to fill up your idle workspace (like a dual-monitor set-up seen above) with old-school greatness.  You can even set up your own videos to play, highlighting great moments in videogaming history.

What is "Demo Mode"?  Think about that arcade you used to go to...that roar of digitalized grunts and colorful sprites.  You might have a sample of the gameplay running (X-Men the Arcade Game always comes to mind) or prologue of the fun.  Once you pop in a quarter or swipe the card at the local Dave & Buster's, everything stops and the game begins.  Now times that by 30 (60 if you're thinking dual-monitor)...never boring, alway changing, constantly awesome.  Best of all, if something grabs your attention at the time, it's no more than a few clicks away from playing!


Now the program itself breaks no rules, but you need to own a copy of the different ROMs to load into the program.  So unless you have a USB Cartridge reader and download your old collection onto your CPU, don't go scouring the internet for illegal copies of your favorite games.  I'm S.O.L. because I don't have any Nintendo games here with me, but if you do, do yourself a favor.  Download UberNES ScreenSaver here, give thanks to the development team here, and enjoy!

[via OhGizmo!]

*p.s. sorry about the crappy title

Hardest Super Marios Bros. Levels of All Time

These are easily some of the toughest Super Marios Bros. levels you will ever see in your entire life.  Thank god they weren't this hard when I was a kid, otherwise I probably would have put a food through my SNES!!



Somebody modded the heck outta this second video.  It still looks tough, but it's more of a "look what I can do video", not a "aren't you glad you're not playing" approach like the last one.  It took me 30 seconds to notice that Mario's face is a bit off.  Also, he does this funny "Superman" pose when he does a normal jump.  Classic.



[via TechEBlog]

SFIV - MegaMan Style!!

I've looked at a whole bunch of stuff on the internet today, but this might've been the coolest thing I've seen all day:

A member of the Capcom forum who goes by Speedbrkr took my favorite fighting game and gave it a retro classic look.  Most gamers can't say they were any good at the Mega Man (or Rockman depending on where you live) franchise titles, but nearly every gamer can appreciate the style, big pixelated eyes and everything.  He even went as far as organizing the roster in proper order but with the classic "blue warp" stage select backdrop!

Much respect to Speedbrkr for gracing the net with his skills.  You can check out the original thread on the Shoryuken forums here.

[via Technabob]