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    Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!

    suckerpinch

    12 HN recommenders · recommended in 18 months, 2018–2025

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    22:21 · 1.1M views · May 29, 2018

    Tom Murphy (suckerpinch) shows 'reverse emulation', using a Raspberry Pi in an NES cartridge to give an unmodified NES new abilities such as playing SNES games. The video starts in a strange way and gets stranger.

    Praised as a brilliant, deadpan and inventive hardware hack, and a good starting point for Tom7's videos.

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    20 comments from Hacker News

    1. @sgroveDec 2020· in “SuperRT – Realtime Raytracing on the SNES”

      In that case, you might like one of tom7's many wonnderful videos [0], "Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!" where he hacks a real NES cartridge with a raspberry pi with an emulator, then figures out how to map all of the data into NES sprites, etc. As usual for his videos, it's absolutely wonderful. [0] this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @GuestHNUserApr 2022· in “Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video]”

      Tom7 is brilliant for anyone that hasn't seen him before. His Reverse Emulation video ( this video ) and Weird Chess Algorithms ( [LINK] ) are a must watch. His dead pan delivery coupled with the ridiculous amount of effort he puts into things that don't _really_ matter is honestly inspiring.

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    3. @sdenton4Sep 2019· in “SNES Cartridges and Enhancement Chips”

      Along these lines, Tom7 invented* 'reverse emulation' which effectively uses a Raspberry Pi as a co-processor, allowing him to run [spoilers ahoy!]an SNES emulator on an NES.[/spoilers] The talk is brilliant: this video * - as far as I know...

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    4. @pinkmuffinereOct 2025· in “First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself”

      Tom7 is one of my favorite people, he is hilarious, has an amazing technical depth, and so much whimsy to go along with it. I'll proselytize for him all day! relevant video: [LINK] less relevant, but I think my favorite: this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    5. @anyfooJun 2022· in “The Floppotron 3.0”

      You will love Tom7/suckerpinch's stuff then, if you don't know him already. Here's a good one for the start, though really, they are all fantastic: this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN