In May of this year Nintendo shut down online gameplay for the original Wii and several DS models to make room for Wii U and 3DS servers to get people to buy the Wii U and 3DS. Players weren’t happy. If you haven’t smashed or traded-in your old system yet there’s hope! Hackers have built a working server emulator that can restore online play.

The plan for the emulated server was announced on GBATEMP.net back in February by user “Toad King.” At the time Toad King wrote:

I’m starting this project in response to the announcement of Nintendo Wi-Fi servers shutting down in May. Eventually this project hopes to have enough information so myself or other hackers have enough information to reverse engineer the Nintendo Wi-Fi servers and make emulated servers to live long after the May 20th cutoff date. 

It seems to have taken some time, but it apparently worked. The GitHub site linked to in the post appears to have been updated early yesterday morning with instructions on how to connect to the working test server. For Wii users, the hack requires a Homebrew-enabled system, and DS users need to use the proper Action Replay DS(i) code, but if you’re reading an article about hacked server emulators, we’re assuming you’re already on board with Homebrew.

Since this is just a test server, the site alerts potential players that it’s subject to restarts and downtime, so be patient. We haven’t found any confirmed reports of the emulated server working, but we’ll be running some tests soon to see for ourselves. In the meantime, if anyone tries this, please let us know how it works out.

(via GBATEMP.net, GitHub, and Justin Ouellette, image via Dr. Mario Online Rx)

Previously in Nintendo

• Reggie Fils-Aime doesn’t think streaming video games online is fun
• Dan got an early look at Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
• Luigi’s death stare is the highlight of Mario Kart 8

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Japanese retailer Shop Japan has created a set of two bizarre commercials for the Wonder Core sit-up machine. One of the videos focuses on the main character falling down in various situations only to rebound up thanks to the Wonder Core while the other video includes footage that’s been slowed down to elongate this falling with a lilting soundtrack.

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Minnesota’s long, tortured, and very, very complicated relationship with "Fargo."

What do wizards and orcs do when they need to blow off a little steam after a long day of questing? They sit down with a game of Cubicles & Careers and navigate the perils of angry bosses and flirtatious small talk.

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Here it is. The character sheet for one of the two fighters from the D&D Starter Set. The Starter Set pregenerated characters include a dwarven cleric, two human fighters (armored axeman, and an archer), an elven wizard, and a halfling rogue. [517 comments]

I know you love this Katamari plush ⊟

I want to wad it up into my life. Squishable wants (as of writing) 12 more pre-orders before it’ll put this officially licensed 9” Katamari Damacy plush into production. That won’t be a problem.

Imagine your kid – or your cat! – rolling one of these around on the floor! Man. Via Tomopop.

BUY Touch My Katamari, upcoming games

EA put the "NCAA Football" series in hold back in 2013, then settled its case with the O'Bannon plaintiffs.

Wednesday was a big day for the O'Bannon plaintiffs taking on the NCAA in the athlete likeness trial, but the day was just as important for video gamers. EA executive Joel Linzner took the stand for the plaintiffs and said that he would like to bring back the EA college football video games, which were discontinued because of the lawsuit.

Linzer said EA Sports would be interested in re-entering college football video game market if all licenses could be acquired.

— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) June 18, 2014

EA discontinued the game, because it was being sued for not paying players whose likenesses were used in the game and couldn't pay them because NCAA rules didn't allow it. EA then settled for $40 million.

The company apparently lobbied the NCAA to changed its rules, and even asked to pay the players, but the NCAA didn't allow it.

Said No. 1 request from consumers was for player names and likenesses in college games.

— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) June 18, 2014

Linzner said EA made "long, sustained effort" to get schools and NCAA to allow use of athlete name and image but did not succeed

— Steve Berkowitz (@ByBerkowitz) June 18, 2014

Linzer: "We wanted to make our college-themed video games as authentic as possible."

— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) June 18, 2014

Linzer said that game brought in $80 million a year in revenue. Not being published b/c of current litigation.

— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) June 18, 2014

In order to win the case, the NCAA needs to prove that there is no market for the use of athletes' likenesses. Obviously, this severely hurts that argument, since EA showed it was willing — and currently wants to — pay for those likenesses.

This means gamers who want the games to return should be feeling very good about those chances, because not only did Linzner say he'd like to bring the game back into production, he also severely damaged the legal justification for the NCAA's rules that currently aren't allowing the company to do so.

Related: "NCAA 15" could've included some amazing customization features.

Advocatus Diaboli writes: Many PC gamers were disappointed that Ubisoft's latest AAA game, Watch_Dogs, did not look as nice as when displayed at E3 in 2012. But this week a modder discovered that code to improve the game's graphics on the PC is still buried within the released game, and can be turned back on without difficulty or performance hits. Ubisoft has yet to answer whether (or why) their PC release was deliberately handicapped. Gaming commentator Total Biscuit has a video explaining the controversy.

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Hi there, Alex Song. I have a very important question for you. Why are you punching another person in the ass?

Song was given a red card for this, because obviously.

MOUNTAIN is a mountain simulator video game by artist David OReilly. The exact gameplay mechanics are still a mystery, but the game asks a series of existential questions when booted up and uses the answers to procedurally generate a mountain with dynamic weather. MOUNTAIN was first previewed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) on June 12th at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles as part of Venus Patrol’s HORIZON event.

MOUNTAIN is scheduled to release late June, early July on PC, Mac, and iOS.

MOUNTAIN previewed around 1:15:00

images via David OReilly

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A University of Washington student has been arrested by authorities after he allegedly threatened to kill women en masse after being inspired by Isla Vista, Calif., shooter Elliot Rodger. 

Keshav Bhide, 23, was detained after praising Rodger on YouTube and Google Plus and threatening to duplicate the shooting spree that killed seven and wounded 13 in late May.

The FBI is apparently involved, and Bhide is being held on $150,001 bail. In online mesages under the screenname "Foss Dark," Bhide wrote that "everything Elliot did is perfectly justified" and stated "I am the next Elliot Rodger and guess what I'll do the right thing this time."

"I'll make sure I only kill women," he added.

University of Washington sororities had received anonymous threats earlier this month referencing Rodgers' spree. UW's the Daily reports that Delta Gamma received a 3 a.m. call from someone claiming he was "looking for someone to shoot," and that their kitchen door had somehow become unlocked.

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Twitter has updated to officially support sharing and viewing animated GIFs on the actual website as well as on Android and iOS. In a slightly weird twist of fate, it appears that the social network converts the GIFs into MP4s in order to showcase them.

Starting today, you can share and view animated GIFs on http://t.co/wJD8Fp317i, Android and iPhone. http://t.co/XBrAbOm4Ya

— Twitter Support (@Support) June 18, 2014

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via Twitter

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A judge in Texas has denied a same-sex couple's petition to adopt their month-old twin boys. Jason Hannah and Joe Riggs are the proud fathers of twins Lucas and Ethan, who were born of the same surrogate mother. Each biologically fathered one of the twins, and the boys — who are half-brothers — share an egg donor.

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Today at work I’ve been playing a game called Please Just Let Me Die Already

Same.

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mirroir:

German rosary, ivory and silver with partially gilded mounts, ca.1500–1525

This is so exquisite.

Hypercard.

An introduction to Apple’s Hypercard. Guests include Apple Fellow and Hypercard creator Bill Atkinson, Hypercard senior engineer Dan Winkler, author of “The Complete Hypercard Handbook” Danny Goodman, and Robert Stein, Publisher of Voyager Company. Demonstrations include Hypercard 1.0, Complete Car Cost Guide, Focal Point, Laserstacks, and National Galllery of Art. Originally broadcast in 1987.

A history of videogame hardware: Sega Saturn @ Edge

Sega’s plans for the Saturn were drawn up in 1992, under the codename Giga Drive. The decision was made to use CD-ROM technology for its games, and the machine was specifically designed to better the 3DO, the only other 32- bit console available at the time. The internal architecture was based on Sega’s Model 1 arcade hardware, adapted by its creator Hideki Sato and his team. A number of prototypes were built in 1993 and, as the team approached a design they were happy with, the name was changed from Giga Drive to Aurora and, finally, Saturn.

However, this machine was very different to the one that would launch almost two years later. In December 1993, almost a year before the Saturn’s planned launch, Sony revealed the system specifications of Ken Kutaragi’s PlayStation project. These alluded to 3D graphical capabilities that matched Sega’s cutting edge arcade hardware, and the capacity to handle complex 2D processing, too.

When Sega CEO Hayao Nakayama obtained a copy of the PlayStation system specs and compared them to those of his company’s Saturn prototype he called an emergency meeting with his R&D department. One staff member reportedly said of the meeting that his boss was “the maddest I’ve ever seen him”. Nakayama was furious at the way in which Sony had bettered his own machine. Sato was charged by Nakayama to ‘fix’ the Saturn so it could compete with the PlayStation. With less than a year till launch, Sato handpicked a team of 27 Sega engineers to start work. There was no time to commission a new chip for the machine, so Sega was forced to look to existing components. The team opted for a dual-processor architecture, despite the fact that Sega’s US head Tom Kalinske had contacted Silicon Graphics, one of the companies behind the PlayStation’s 3D capabilities, to research a simpler single chip design. Allegedly, Nakayama opted for the dual-processor design as a favour to an old golfing buddy at Hitachi.

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Rufus Deuchler's Adobe Creative Cloud Alerts for Designers #7 - June 18, 2014

Timely alerts about new features in Adobe Creative Cloud for designers. View this email in your browser Rufus Deuchler's Adobe Creative Cloud Alerts For Designers - June 18, 2014 Dear friends, this is will be an unusually long newsletter, because there is really a lot to written about since my last intrusion into your mailboxes. I have been working for Adobe since the CS3 days, and I have to say that I have never seen such a great set of features, services, apps, devices, all come together at once, to benefit us, the design professionals. If you have missed the Adobe Keynote in NYC you can watch the replay here. To begin with, the 2014 release introduces dozens of new features in brand new versions of Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe InDesign CC, and Adobe Muse CC (bear in mind that we are now two "versions" away from CS6). For example, Adobe Muse has been completely rebuilt to provide a design experience similar to that in InDesign and Illustrator, and takes advantage of the latest operating systems, hardware, and browser updates; trust me when I say that this makes working with Muse even easier. Illustrator includes several new features to help you draw faster, more easily, and with greater accuracy, introducing new ways to use older tools. Photoshop continues to deliver timesaving tools, including smarter Smart Guides and Focus Mask for even faster selections. And you can rest assured that your eBook will display exactly the way it is designed to with the new Fixed Layout EPUB feature in InDesign. But this release is about more than adding new features to existing applications. We are also releasing new Creative Cloud-connected hardware for the iPad: Adobe Ink (a Creative Cloud enabled, pressure sensitive stylus) & Slide (a digital ruler) make drawing and sketching more natural, precise and fluid, along with new hardware-inspired drawing apps. These apps actually extend desktop workflows and have community and services built right in. All of these are Creative Cloud connected apps, meaning that you have access to your files, colors and more – just as if you were working on your desktop. For more information on Ink and Slide, follow this follow this link. Adobe Sketch, gives you a connected creative process on the iPad, bringing inspiration, drawing and community feedback together in one place. With Sketch, you are empowered to find inspiration, explore ideas and gather feedback from trusted peers, from wherever they are and share their sketching work on Behance. Try it out now Adobe Line, recreates the art of drafting for the iPad, combining freehand sketching and drawing with the ability to draw straight lines and perfect shapes in plan and elevation views or in perspective. Line can be used in conjunction with Slide and reimagines traditional drawing tools like rulers, french-curves and shape templates for the mobile world, as well as giving you access to assets, Kuler themes, and the ability to share your work. Try it out now I have personally fallen in love with sketching again with these apps that have a very natural feeling to them. And while these two new mobile apps were built with Ink and Slide in mind, it’s important to note that the new mobile apps work great on their own, without the hardware. In fact, we even re-created the features of Adobe Slide as a simulated digital ruler that’s built right into the mobile app itself. Adobe Photoshop Mix offers a new Creative Cloud connected mobile workflow that delivers access to powerful creative imaging tools on your mobile device – including Upright, Content Aware Fill, and Camera Shake Reduction. You can also mix your images and selectively apply “looks" to your photos, and it's all fully compatible with Photoshop CC. Try it out now We are also introducing a new Creative Cloud app for iOS that allows Creative Cloud members to access and manage their files, assets, and more from their iPhone or iPad. Try it out now To address the fact that designers need to be super connected, with always-on access to everything that makes up your creative identity, Adobe is introducing a services layer that integrates desktop, web and mobile. This means your creative identity –or, as we are calling it, your Creative Profile– is available to you, wherever you work. The essential ingredients here (your assets, your colors, your fonts, even your community and your collaborators) will be available to you everywhere. Check Adobe.com and learn about your Creative Profile. Also, no matter which tools you use most frequently, you can quickly get up to speed on new features or learn new skills from scratch using hundreds of tutorials and resources in Creative Cloud Learn, which is available free as part of your Creative Cloud membership. Personally, I am rather overwhelmed at seeing everything come together and see that the vision of Creative Cloud, in which I believe so much, is really delivering on the initial promise. If you don't see the updates in the desktop Creative Cloud App, try quitting out of it and relaunching it. Stay tuned for more design features in the very near future. Faithfully, Rufus Photoshop CC New in the 2014 release More powerful Smart Object - You can now link your Smart Objects and share them across multiple documents because they can live independently of your Photoshop files. Then, you can automatically package the links into a single directory when you want to move your Photoshop document to another computer or share it with someone else. Improved Layer Comps - Save time by changing the visibility, position, or appearance of one layer in a Layer Comp and simply syncing to see your change reflected in all of your other Layer Comps. Blur Gallery motion effects - Add blur along any straight or curved path to create the illusion of motion or the look of a long-exposure shot. Or, create circular and elliptical blurs to make tires or other objects look like they’re spinning. Focus Mask - Automatically select the in-focus (or out-of-focus) areas of your image to create a mask. Improvements to Content-Aware technology - Get more realistic results when you retouch images using Content-Aware Fill, Move, Patch, and the Spot Healing Brush. New technology smoothly blends areas containing gradients, like skies, so it’s difficult if not impossible for viewers to identify that your image has been altered. Smarter Smart Guides let you work with greater precision Desktop fonts from Typekit directly from the font menu Font Search in the font menu itself Expanded 3D printing capabilities Adobe Generator enhancements Adobe Camera Raw 8 enhancements Improved Windows 8.1 Stylus support Expanded Mercury Graphics Engine support Experimental features Intelligent up sampling, even faster Workflow enhancements And more... JDIs ("Just Do It" features are small features that don't take a lot of time to implement or test and seem like an obvious improvement) Simplified Sync Settings experience Sync Settings now support syncing Workspaces, keyboard shortcuts, and menu customizations Ability to export to a subfolder through Generator Layer Copy CSS now supports Inner Shadow layer effects Smart Guides now on by default Added highlight to brushes to show currently selected brush and when modified Access most recent used Brush Presets in Brush context menu and Brush Presets Panel Spectrum color picker in the Color Panel is now resizable New Hue and Brightness color picker cubes in Color Panel Added ability to export 3D LUTs Allow gradients with a single stop (saved single stop gradients will not work with previous Photoshop) versions Allow transparency dithering in gradients Create new gradient stop sampled from current gradient preview (option-click in preview) Support for new video formats including Sony RAW and Canon RAW Added Pin Edges to Liquify for warping in from the image edges “Reset All Tools” also resets the toolbar slots to their default position Very large PNG support (up to Photoshop maximum and 2 GB limit) Improved wording for new document preset dialog For even more information, see this page on Adobe.com: What's New in Photoshop CC Illustrator CC New in the 2014 release Live shapes - Live Shapes lets you quickly transform rectangles into complex shapes with a mix of rounded, inverted, or chamfered corners, and then return to the original rectangle with just a few clicks. Pen tool preview - See the direction of the next path segment as you draw between anchor points Anchor point enhancements - Finely adjust paths with more control working with anchor points that offer additional editing options.  CSS extraction - Illustrator can generate CSS code for you, even for a complete logo that includes gradients. Then copy and paste the code right into your web editor. Desktop fonts from Typekit - Choose the fonts you need from the Typekit library, sync them to your desktop with Creative Cloud, and get immediate access to them in the font menus across your desktop apps. Creative Cloud will even automatically replace missing fonts in a document; this is what we call the missing font woprflow. Snap to pixel, point, and grid updates Close paths with better control  Windows 7 or 8 + GPU acceleration provides 5-10 times faster rendering of vector graphics, along with accelerated pan and zoom And more... For even more information, see this page on Adobe.com: What's New in Illustrator CC InDesign CC New in the 2014 release Drag and drop columns and rows within tables:  Select table rows and columns in a table and drag to a new location within the same table. EPUB fixed layout: Create fixed layout digital books  such as Children’s books, cookbooks and travel books. Seamless update: InDesign will remember your shortcuts and preferences when you update. Color swatch folders: Better manage and organize your color swatches within InDesign. Enhanced effects: Effects such as drop shadows and gradient feathers will scale as expected when the text or objects to which these effects have been applied are scaled. Behance integration Enhanced search Windows HiDPI Enhanced footnotes Enhanced QR Code Creator • Improved Packaging PDF Passthrough Printer And more... For even more information, see this page on Adobe.com: What's New in InDesign CC Muse CC New in the 2014 release Boosted performance: Adobe Muse CC has been completely re-built as a native application with 64-bit support. In-Browsing Editing updates: Now available to use on sites hosted with any hosting provider. Creative Cloud Add-ons: Download a variety design elements provided by the design community including new widgets, templates, wireframes, and more. HiDPI support: Get sharper-looking images, objects, and text when a HiDPI display, like a Mac Retina display, is detected, without impacting load times of sites viewed on standard displays. Dark UI: Adjust the color theme of the user interface from bright to dark. Customizable work area Usability updates 100% width slideshow In-app Preview And more... For even more information, see this page on Adobe.com: What's New in Muse CC Stay tuned for more updates in the very near future. Please share this Newsletter using the buttons below if you find it useful. Adobecadabra! Rufus Principal Manager of Creative Cloud Evangelism | Adobe Share Tweet Forward to Friend Opinions expressed here and in any corresponding comments are the personal opinions of the original authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe. Copyright © 2014 Rufus Deuchler, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at some time. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

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zipping:

I was telling my friend a story the other day and it must have taken too long because he quietly took out his wallet and handed this to me.

He carries like 50 of them at all times.