Hacked Nintendo Punch-Out!! Game Finally Lets You Fight Mike Tyson Using Motion Controls #WearableWednesday
If you have been waiting over 30 years to go toe to toe with 8-bit Tyson. The wait is over. Ian Charnas used Google’s MoveNet to hack himself into 1985’s Punch-Out!!! Charnas reverse engineered the source code.
For added interaction Charnas also created a wearable iot shock band from an Adafruit Feather.
To make it all work Charnas first had to mod an original NES console so that he could download a ROM of the game from an original Punch-Out!! cartridge, and then create an NES emulator running on Javascript that could work in a web browser. But as fast as Google’s MoveNet was at recognizing body movements, trying to play Punch-Out!! using real-life punches and dodges was just too slow compared to the lightning-quick inputs from an NES gamepad. To solve that problem Charnas had to hack the Punch-Out!! code and slow down each of the game’s opponents to match the speed of the motion controls. (He also took the opportunity to change some of the in-game dialogue that has not aged well since the ‘80s.)
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