apm ([info]apm) wrote,
2008-06-30 10:59:00
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Mike Tyson's Jungle Beat

Hey, so I hacked a NES emulator for the Wii to play Mike Tyson's Punch-Out using the Gamecube bongos.

It works surprisingly well! Much better than the Power Glove ever did. If you have a Wii and a pair of Gamecube bongos, I highly recommend trying it out.

Here's an embarrassing YouTube video demonstration / infomercial:

Apparently when you have a baby you decide that the two funniest things in the world are putting random things into your mouth and making stupid faces.

[As an aside: iMovie is terrible. It's unbearably slow to do anything (clicking on the "capture from live camera" icon locks the program up for like five minutes before it even brings up the preview window, and then who knows how long it will take from the time you hit "record" to when it actually gets around to recording) and I could never get a proper preview with sound for some reason. So, yes, I know that the video would be a lot better with tighter editing; I just couldn't stand to work in that fucking program any longer.]

If you have any further ideas for NES games that could be played with bongos, I'm interested in hearing them.

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[info]duskcat

June 30 2008, 22:55:52 UTC 3 years ago

That is awesomeness++.

It's really too bad that I updated my Wii to the lastest system software, and while the new Twilight Hack works like a charm, the Homebrew Channel fails to install. Now I've got another reason to keep an eye on the releases for when they update the Homebrew Channel so that I can try this out. =]

[info]apm

July 1 2008, 00:04:33 UTC 3 years ago

Or you could just toss my boot.elf onto your SD card! What other Wii homebrew is really worth playing, anyway?

[info]duskcat

July 1 2008, 03:07:24 UTC 3 years ago

Ach! Damn your logic!

[info]apm

July 1 2008, 00:06:27 UTC 3 years ago

Also: This.

[info]duskcat

July 1 2008, 03:07:06 UTC 3 years ago

I actually just saw that before I saw your comment... but that didn't really tell me much that I didn't know, since I actually decided to try and do the install despite the warning that it hadn't been tested, and the install failed. After reading the comments on that, I'm going to try reformatting my memory card to make 100% sure that it is FAT16. We'll see if that works better.

[info]harveyjames

June 30 2008, 23:15:15 UTC 3 years ago

That was brilliant. Also: you have a charming demeanour.

The control scheme is borrowed from Donkey Kong's Jungle Beat!

[info]apm

July 1 2008, 00:03:06 UTC 3 years ago

I like to think I come across as "lovable retard"

Yes, this hack was completely inspired by DK: Jungle Beat. I've been wanting to do it for like two years, but the prospect of setting up my Gamecube for homebrew was so boring that I waited for the Wii to get hacked before I bothered!

[info]harveyjames

July 1 2008, 00:05:46 UTC 3 years ago

It's kind of weird how Punch-Out is better than the two Punch-Out-inspired games they've done lately (the bosses in Donkey Kong, Wii Sports Boxing).

[info]harveyjames

July 1 2008, 00:07:07 UTC 3 years ago

Oh wait, I just saw the post title, Mike Tyson's Jungle Beat. Which is a pretty bad-ass name for a video game.

[info]daphaknee

July 1 2008, 18:43:04 UTC 3 years ago

the sequel will be mike tysons jungle FEVER!

[info]harveyjames

July 2 2008, 05:30:27 UTC 3 years ago

That's funny, i've been listening to that song a lot, because I had sex with a black girl the other day!

[info]daphaknee

July 2 2008, 05:39:06 UTC 3 years ago

there arent any black people in korea

[info]harveyjames

July 2 2008, 06:02:05 UTC 3 years ago

There are, they are english teachers

We went into a bar and some korean guy shouted HA HA! KOBE BRYANT!! at us, because all black people look like Kobe Bryant. Especially if you're a fucking idiot.

[info]daphaknee

July 2 2008, 06:05:46 UTC 3 years ago

WOW they should have at least picked a cool black person for all black people to look like, not some lame-o basketball player

like grace jones

[info]daphaknee

July 1 2008, 10:05:21 UTC 3 years ago

holy cow thats rad why dont you try it with track and field?

[info]apm

July 1 2008, 17:35:12 UTC 3 years ago

FUCKIN' PERFECT

[info]daphaknee

July 1 2008, 18:41:55 UTC 3 years ago

you have to wear an abobo mask while doing it though

[info]apm

July 1 2008, 19:50:40 UTC 3 years ago

I don't see how I could do that without smashing and eating my bongos

[info]daphaknee

July 2 2008, 05:39:44 UTC 3 years ago

well you're just going to get more and more excited while hitting them and eventually it will turn into smashing

even without the mask
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