February 24, 2010
Super Mario Galaxy 2 hits 5/23: Yoshi! Drills! 2D gameplay!

Check out the trailer…it looks like they managed to take the best parts of Super Mario Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros. Wii (minus the multiplayer) and combine them into one solid new title.

September 23, 2009
Is your PC obsolete? OnLive brings the cloud to PC gaming

Thin client + 5Mb Internet connection = no more $1500+ “gamer rigs?”  For now, it’s just a demo, but I’ve been hearing this was coming for a few months now.  The best part of the whole thing is that if this takes off, one of the main reasons home users still use Windows will be GONE.

September 17, 2009
JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator

Wow.  This guy wrote a NES emulator in, get this, Javascript.  Yes, Javascript.  You’re going to want to give this a try using Chrome, though…the JS engines in other browsers will only give you about 5 frames per second (compared to 50+ using Chrome!).

August 21, 2009
Hack Your Wii for Homebrew without Twilight Princess

July 1, 2009

How to get Transport Tycoon Deluxe to Run in Windows 7

Update 16 FEB 2010: I’ve noticed that this post ranks very highly on Google for “Transport Tycoon Deluxe Windows 7” so I decided to write a new post detailing how I actually play Transport Tycoon these days: with the excellent open-source remake OpenTTD, which runs on Windows and Linux.  My new post is available here.

If you’re trying to run the classic simulation game “Transport Tycoon Deluxe” in Windows 7, you may get an error upon startup when the game can’t find dplay.dll.  Here’s what you need to do:

  • Go to C:\Windows\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-directx-directplay4_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7100.0_none_e80363be14f8ec68 (substitute your Windows installation path for C:\Windows if necessary).
  • Copy dplayx.dll to your Transport Tycoon installation folder.
  • Rename the new copy of the file to dplay.dll.

How to Automount a drive in DOSBOX

Dosbox is a DOS emulator that lets you play your old games on Linux, Windows, Mac, etc.  This tutorial shows you how to auto-mount your DOS folder so that it’s ready to go each time you fire it up.

May 14, 2009
Konami Code Sites

If you don’t know, I’m not telling you.

May 7, 2009
Duke Nukem Developer 3D Realms Shuts Down

Once Axl finally released Chinese Democracy, they must have known it was time to put up or shut up. It’s sad that they chose the latter.

December 18, 2008
Myst Online goes open source, fans to make their own worlds

August 19, 2008
Hack Your Wii for Homebrew Apps and DVD Playback