Games Tutorials
How to Play Grand Poo World 3
The underground world of creating and streaming Super Mario World-based ROM hacks continues to gain popularity. This popularity is a tribute to the creativity of gamers and the quality of the original 30 year old video game's mechanics. Over the past decade, incredible ROM hacks like...
How to Get a Computer’s Hardware ID
Cheating in online games is a huge issue these days -- just ask anyone playing PUBG. Cheaters aren't difficult for players to spot but vendors oftentimes don't do enough to punish these villains. Krafton recently announced they would start banning cheaters by hardware ID...
How to Play Retro Game ROMs on Windows
Video games are always a fun time, something we desperately need during our COVID lockdown. A few years back I shared how to play retro games on Mac, as well as how to patch games to play popular ROM hacks like Grand Poo World...
How to Patch Retry System into Super Mario ROMs
I find myself watching less TV lately and much more time enjoying gamers stream on Twitch. While I too much PUBG, and enjoy watching people like Shroud and ChocoTaco hit bangers, I get more enjoyment out of Grand Poo Bear, Barbarian, and others play ultra difficult...
How to Get Green Blood in PUBG
My current video game obsession is Player Unknown's Battleground, also referred to as PUBG. It's an online multiplayer game which drops yourself and 99 others into a single, large map and you battle it out until the last man is standing. It's frustrating, heart-attack inducing, exciting...it's...
Show FPS for Steam Games
There's nothing more frustrating to a top gamer (outside of bugs in a game) than dropped frames in a video game. If you're playing a competitive multiplayer game like PUBG or Fortnite, where up to 100 people are simultaneously competing, dropped frames can be the difference...
Limit Download Speed with Apache
My adventures into retro gaming have brought me back into the semi-seedy world of piracy websites and the technology considerations that dictate their business model. Annoying popups and pornographic advertisements aside, the most obvious technological observation I made was that each of these sites used bandwidth...
Patch Super Dram World
My recent dive into retro gaming has opened my eyes to how much time and effort still goes into playing console games that are as old as I am. The basic challenge has gone out of these games, understandably, so players have improvised new goals like...
Play Wii Games on Mac
I was one of those guys that bought the Wii off of eBay shortly after its release at a scalper's ransom. For months my roommates and I would drink beer, talk trash, and play Wii Sports bowling for hours on end. Of course the Wii never...
Play GameCube Games on Mac or PC
My current obsession with retro gaming has brought me to creating a RetroPie on Raspberry Pi, a Recalbox on Raspberry Pi, playing retro games on Mac with OpenEmu, and exploring how to play Sony Playstation games within OpenEmu. My newest adventure has...