At this point, they might as well build their own IRL Game Boy from scratch. After constructing a scale 788 x 287 block model of the original Game Boy in Minecraft's creative mode, with a 1:1 block-to-pixel ratio for the 160 x 144 screen, the Minecrafta2z YouTube channel proprietors proceeded to spend hundreds of hours painstakingly building stop motion animations of actual Game Boy games. Zelda and Tetris were great, but Super Mario Land's side scrolling was their toughest challenge yet, and they even did the game music using Minecraft's notoriously difficult note blocks. And they say this is the ADD generation.
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I wonder how many hours that took to make.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 3:59 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I think that was mentioned in the Engadget post…
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 4:03 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I think they said something like 500 hours. It was basically a full time job for four weeks straight.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 4:09 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
full time job for 4 weeks straight is only 160 hours?
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 4:18 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
That’s what I thought I heard. Maybe they meant combined hours.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 4:41 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I can’t watch the video with sound, so I’m missing out on the note-blocky fun, but this is awesome.
Minecraft (and more specifically the people who “play” it) never ceases to amaze me.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 4:00 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I don’t get it.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 4:14 PM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
MInecraft is one of the few things I don’t get one bit.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 5:20 PM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Have you tried it recently?
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 5:37 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Not recently, but that’s not it. I just… don’t get it. The whole point, purpose and appeal. It’s like the opposite of what I’d waste time on.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 6:22 PM EST reply Recommend (2) Flag actions
It’s probably not for everyone, but it’s a lot of fun once you get into it.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 7:20 PM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
No it isn’t.
Posted on Dec 03, 2011 | 1:20 AM EST reply Recommend (3) Flag actions
agreed.
Posted on Dec 05, 2011 | 1:56 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’m with you for the most part, but I did play it a bit and found that the initial experience of harvesting resources by day then needing to build a shelter by night and keep it well lit was pretty unique. It is not often that a game manages to express that type of survivalism so naturally. Can’t speak to its development from there, but that basic premise was fun.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 7:57 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Yeah, I don’t see the point when you could spend the same amount of time (or less?) making something… real.
Posted on Dec 05, 2011 | 1:15 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
To have done a straight runthrough would have been impressive enough, but to include the usual player mishaps as well… mind boggling. Amazing job.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 4:31 PM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Don’t forget the stuff like the points adding up the score, and the way you can see mario moving behind an exit pipe because it’s actually an overlaying texture, just like in the real one.
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 6:11 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Everything was drawn frame by frame once through, its merely time consuming, not spectacular use of Minecraft, its a sign of dedication
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 11:23 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I clicked on the gameboy product page, it says it had 64mb of ram. That sounds WAY off, so I checked online and found 3 sources that say it has 8kb system ram and 8kb vram.
Just being a good citizen, and away! Wooosh…
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 5:40 PM EST reply Recommend (4) Flag actions
Boy, wasn’t the gameboy ahead of its time!
Thanks for pointing this out, we’ll fix asap.
Posted on Dec 05, 2011 | 10:50 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
for some reason i keep thinking minesweeper.
dummy
Posted on Dec 01, 2011 | 7:13 PM EST reply Recommend (2) Flag actions
Yo dawg, I heard you like video games so I put a video game in your video game…..
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 1:16 AM EST reply Recommend (6) Flag actions
These guys have wayyyy too much time on their hands
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 10:31 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
I’m sure their girlfriends were impressed
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 2:13 PM EST reply Recommend (2) Flag actions
You mean their wives…
Posted on Dec 03, 2011 | 8:23 PM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
In the spirit of godwin’s law, I feel like there needs to be a term for “doing mario” on anything and everything. Aside from there being a version of the mario theme performed on virtually every instrument ever made, you can find recreations of mario levels and games produced on everything from supermarket soda displays to circuit boards, light shows and stop motion animation. I think it’s more likely even than “Rule 34”.
Posted on Dec 02, 2011 | 8:06 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
At first I was thinking: “Whats the big deal?”
Then I watched the making of video…. holy crap…. that is pure insanity…
Posted on Dec 03, 2011 | 8:23 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
Never got the appeal of mine craft but that is insane!
Posted on Dec 04, 2011 | 7:28 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
This is very cool but I have to wonder if there were better ways to spend 500 hours. I hope from this and any other projects they do, the get some sort of compensation.
Posted on Dec 04, 2011 | 11:34 AM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
one thing i have to know is…
why is minecraft such a shitty res? it’s like 486 quality graphics… is that the appeal?
Posted on Dec 05, 2011 | 12:12 AM EST reply Recommend (1) Flag actions
Quote from my uber cool hipster friend, “This game is hipster trash. I’ll never play this, ever.”
Posted on Dec 05, 2011 | 1:59 PM EST reply Recommend Flag actions
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