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VIRTUAL BOY - Nintendo Classics

Virtual Boy - Nintendo Classics is coming to #NintendoSwitch2 and #NintendoSwitch on Feb 17! The following titles will be available to play at launch:

Galactic Pinball™
Teleroboxer™
RED ALARM
Virtual Boy™ Wario Land™
3-D TETRIS®
Sonic 3D Blast
GOLF
The Mansion of Innsmouth

FYI: #Fortnite game servers will be offline following the Zero Hour live event while they release v39.00! Downtime should last several hours.

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This might be for Virtual Boy switch online now that I come back and look at it tbh since there’s 2 d pads and the virtual boy Needs 2 D pads to play some games

Hello White House how are you doing!

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Can't wait to spend more quality time together! ❤️🇺🇸

Hello, Patriots! DHS is here to appeal to your patriotic spirit and ask that you lend us a hand in stopping the Democrats’ government shutdown.

To all the Americans on Bluesky, your homeland needs all of us to work together.

Official photo of the Nintendo Museum Hanafuda game, showing AR projection over a physical game board

Drawing from patent US20250317538: FIG. 5 illustrates a process of correcting a distortion of a taken image by associating a field coordinate system with a camera coordinate system

Nintendo Museum’s AR Hanafuda game (img 1) requires projection calibration regularly. However, the busy graphics and background make calibration difficult. Two solutions:

1. Comparing the game board image taken by an overhead camera to the reference game board image (img 2)
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Zooming in extremely closely onto the Super Mario Galaxy Movie logo shows a planetoid with waterfalls next to a planetoid with a single large tree. This may be the movie's representation of Honeyhive Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy.

I mean the left ones better then those buttons we have been using for since 2017

A black book with green and white decorations is shown against a purple background.

A large, black table with green gems and white decoration is pictured against a purple background.

The bonus Twitch Drops for beating 100,000 World Events over Community Weekend are now live! Unlock the Obsidian Captain's Logbook and Obsidian Captain's Table by watching participating streamers between now and Sep 12th (10am UTC), at 90 minutes' watch time each.

States are banning Bluesky?

Front side of a handheld gaming device with 1 display, 1 directional iput, and 4 face buttons

Front side of a handheld gaming device with 2 displays and 1 directional input

Front side of a handheld gaming device with 1 display, 1 directional input, and 2 face buttons

A few patent continuations for a mini gaming device were published yesterday. Since they aren’t new, I won’t share them individually but summarize Nintendo’s patents in recent years around 3 different designs of small form factor. I’ll speculate what it means for Switch Lite at the end. A thread:
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In Hello, Mario! app, after 10 minutes of playing, Mario gets tired and falls asleep 😪

From patent US20250261319: FIG. 16 shows an exemplary illustrative non-limiting drawing of a schematic front view showing a configuration of the electronic device in a second connection state.

From patent US20250261319: FIG. 6 shows an exemplary illustrative non-limiting drawing of a schematic perspective view showing a configuration of an electronic device according to a second embodiment.

With the new combined-display GameShare patent, guess I’ll address the recent dual-screen patent that’s been going around.

US20250261319 is a continuation of WO2023203802 (filed 2022, published 2023). It was already reported then, so I didn’t see the need to revisit. A few notes to help clarify:
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FIG. 3 is an example non-limiting diagram showing a three-dimensional model representing a virtual object 100 arranged in a virtual space.

FIG. 4 is an example non-limiting diagram showing an overview of image generation processing of this exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 6 is an example non-limiting diagram providing a conceptual representation of an image of the virtual object 100 in a case where the blend processing is not performed and an image of the virtual object 100 in a case where the blend processing is performed.

In honor of the Air Riders Direct, I’m sharing this Nintendo + HAL patent (filed 2022, published 2024):

A 3D rendering technique using line & color info in G buffer, and depth info in depth buffer (imgs 1-2) to generate a more natural looking Kirby arm, instead of an eldritch tentacle (img 3).

True story...

Timber the tiger

[図14] 第１実施形態に係るシステムの構成を示す斜視模式図である。

[図13]第１実施形態に係る周辺機器の構成を示す底面模式図である。

[図15]第１実施形態に係る周辺機器に入力装置が取り付けられた構成を示す断面模式図である。

A new Nintendo patent shows two novel Joy-Con 2 attachments—a crank and a clickable wheel.

In the first embodiment, the crank features a rotary disc (#803), which is tracked by the mouse sensor (172) through a window (807). Two magnets (511 & 512) secure the attachment. 1/

Xbox people! Want to be represented by a snack-brandishing astronaut? Fancy being greeted by a gaggle of cartoon mugs on your home screen? You're in luck! New gamerpics and a character-filled dynamic background to mark 40 years of @rare.co.uk are available now. Enjoy.

64DD.org All about Nintendo 64 Disk Drive!

64DD.org 10th Anniversary Overhaul
64dd.org #64DD

Oh cool

No he didn’t work at Microsoft t then

what game was this for

We are seeing a foreign policy doctrine develop that will change the country (and the world) for the better: 1) clearly define an American interest; 2) negotiate aggressively to achieve that interest; 3) use overwhelming force if necessary.

Fortnite's New Blitz Royale Is Currently More Popular Than the Classic Battle Royale Mode

Fortnite's main Battle Royale option isn't the game's most-played mode right now, and has been usurped by the new, more fast-paced Blitz Royale. bit.ly/43VcXT7

#IGNSummerOfGaming

Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.