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DrewHintz

Google is finally going to support the NES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg

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Resisting every hacker temptation to look into making this a real NES cartridge.

Development: http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Nesdev_Wiki

Modem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Modem

Microphone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System#H...

How long before April 1st?

Even though I think this is great, it still kind of annoys me that they keep calling it a NES when they're clearly using a Famicom. I suspect that's actually going to confuse a lot of people.

It looks like the video was made by Japanese, but they probably used the name "NES" because it's more familiar to English-speaking audiences who're likely to make up the majority of video views.

This was probably made by their Google Japan branch, that's why they only had regular Famicom available.

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