Mario save the princess? Pfft.
Posted 03.11.2013 at 12:10 pm
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Mike Mika says in the YouTube description for this video that his 3-year-old daughter wanted to be able to save Mario while playing Donkey Kong. Why not? She could play as Princess Toadstool in Super Mario Bros. 2, after all. Since that wasn't an option, he built a "Pauline Edition" hack so his daughter could battle Donkey Kong herself.
He hacked a ROM--a digital version of a game that lets you play on a modern rig--of Donkey Kong, replacing the princess frames with Mario and the Mario frames with Pauline.
So sweet. With this female-friendly Zelda hack, maybe we're seeing a trend.
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Great story now if only Nintendo made games half this good lately
What current OS does Donkey Kong play on now adays or game station to make this article "PoPular"?
And when is hacking considered "Science"?
"...He hacked a ROM--a digital version of a game that lets you play on a modern rig--of Donkey Kong,..."
What is ROM\digital version? Aren't all computers digital in nature and the associated programming.
What modern rig?
What??
What a good dad.
Was this article also written for Pauline?
Just asking.
I forwarded this story to my daughter since she played Nintendo growing up & I thought she'd get a kick out of the article. She did but also mentioned the societal shift to everything being oddly female dominated now.
She said girls now must be portrayed a gruff boys with boobs while boys are to play either the victim or an example of what's wrong with society.
That's true, have you noticed now a days only female cops on TV seem to kick down doors and chase down all the male perps. (Sadly most female actresses are terrible looking runners so they edit the chases down to minimize their pain and ours.) My favorite is when the smarter female cop take a shortcut, winds up ahead of everyone, and take out the track star thug like she was Chuck Norris.
Well FotoBum,
TV used to reflect reality, until some folks started saying TV was "perpetuating" stereotypes and "encouraging" the ills of society.
They thought it was better to spend energy hiding our faults than actually addressing societies problems.
So now we have gotten absolutely nowhere in all this time and dad still thinks he is helping his daughter by fixing what's wrong in the violent fantasy video game world of Donkey Kong.
Why does she even know about Donkey Kong anyway? She is 3!
hahaha! KT, great point!
Yes, TV reflected reality much better back when Chuck Norris was beating the bad guys on a weekly basis with his amazing martial arts skills...(no choreography there)...
Wow that 3 year old knows how to play videogames.
lol, wow. Talk about a good dad. Still so many games out there were you can't choose your gender, surprising considering the number of women who play games now a days.
My dad doesn't hack Minecraft so I can have infinite stuff on survival and never take fall damage...