→ WideNES: NES With a Wide View

in #link7 years ago

For any old-school gamers who have access to roms, this is pretty wild technology from a new NES emulator.

From their front page:

Unlike many modern titles, NES games generally lacked “world maps” or “level viewers.” If you wanted to map-out the a level, you had to do it manually, drawing a map by hand, or stitching together a bunch of screenshots.

That’s a lot of work.

Wouldn’t it be cool to automate that?

Enter wideNES, a novel method to map-out NES games automatically.

Basically it saves the world as you journey through it, allowing you to "zoom-out" and look at the entire map. Here is an example:

Here is a link to the emulator page. I'll also paste in a blog post below describing how exactly it works. Recommended reading. Also both pages have many more animated gifs looking at examples.

LINK: wideNES - Peeking Past the Edge of NES Games

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