MacDork :)

Snes9x is a Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator that lets you play Super NES games on your computer (Mac & PC). The emulator itself is legal, and if you own an original cartridge of the SNES game, then it’s apparently ok to have a copy of the program in a file on your computer, known as a ROM.

Snes9X has been around for ages, & I’ve toyed around w/ it for a grand total of about 15 minutes in the past. As entertaining as it was, there were always newer/different games to be had. My recent aquisition of the Macbook Mini (mbm) led me to reconsider Snes9X since the netbook isn’t powerful enough to play any modern games.

The first thing I realized was that the 10″ screen on netbooks is pretty well suited to playing 16bit SNES games. When I last tried SNES games on my other monitors, today’s monstrous resolutions make the blocky graphics start to look really ridiculous. They’re still as charming and innocent as you remember them, but it’s just not fair. After I smiled and laughed and tried out a few titles (Yoshi’s Island!), I immediately settled back into some Chrono Trigger. I’ve finished probably 30 hours of it on the DS, but my DS is currently on loan performing Animal Crossing duty for my woman, so I decided to start fresh.

After playing about an hour or so of Chrono Trigger, I realized I was hooked. The experience of playing SNES on the mbm is really satisfying! It’s a little tough playing twitch-based games on a qwerty keyboard, but the graphics, sound and emulation are perfect. Next up… a controller.

I made Boo, my woman made Yoshi :)

Sack Boy Bento

I love looking at the result of someone’s obsessive dedication & appreciate the innocent and fleeting nature of food shaped into amusing and cheerful shapes. With this bento, Anna the Red actually made Sack Boy from Little Big Planet (LBP), one of my two fave games on PS3 (Uncharted is the other).

I need to get back to playing more LBP. I haven’t yet finished the story mode, haven’t finished the custom level I started to build, and have only played about 10 of the 1+ million shared levels available. I’m not sure what distracted me away from the game, but a lot of game journalist podcasters are in the same boat. LBP won a TON of awards and was highly regarded, yet there’s something about this game that makes it difficult to pop it back into the PS3. I’ve got a busy weekend of home repairs ahead of me, and Tchaikovsky symphony tonight. LBP has to wait, yet again.

Sack Boy Bento, though? Awesome.

Sega Dreamcast

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the US launch of Sega’s Dreamcast. Bitmob’s commemorating the anniversary w/ some nice coverage of the console with some great content.

If you’ve never heard of Bitmob, that’s because it’s Dan “Shoe” Hsu’s new project after having left EGM. Give him a shot — he’s a great writer.

Brilliant! What better way to advertise season 3 of The Guild than a video? :’)

PicoCool – Pacman Cupcakes:

Princess Zelda spits hot fire in debut album, ‘Ocarina of Rhyme’ | Crave – CNET:
Wow.  Badass.  Zelda+hip hop.

The Beatles come to ‘Rock Band,’ instruments and all
Hooooooly crap! Beagles in Rock Band!11

I’m totally loving Street Fighter 4.  It’s going to take me a while to get used to the SF fighting style (I still find myself using Tekken-like moves), but I like it.

I like enough to be lusting after fighting sticks.  Lucky for me they’re all sold out!

Thanks, JohnBoy :D

Awesome :)