Mad Genius Brings Flappy Bird Back From the Dead on Dreamcast Memory Card. As Segas Hail Mary pass on hardware, the Dreamcast wasnt exactly the miracle the company prayed for. But the long dead console still has a massive fanbase, as a clever hacker who managed to port the infinitely addictive Flappy Bird to the Dreamcasts interactive memory card recently demonstrated. The VMU, or Visual Memory Unit, was an oversized memory card that plugged into the Dreamcasts controllers to store game data, or serve as a second screen for some games using its built in monochrome LCD display. The VMU also featured basic controls, and could be used as a portable gaming device if you refused to just buy a Game Boy. Dmitry Grinbergs hack of the Dreamcast VMU includes developing an ARM chip emulator for the tiny, under powered gaming device, allowing it to run the infamously discontinued mobile game Flappy Birdvery, very slowly. You might assume the game would be much easier running in slow motion, but the controls are equally unresponsive, as this video of Grinberg failing to get past the first obstacle demonstrates. If it were solely up to their creators, both the Dreamcast and Flappy Bird would have likely gone the way of the dinosaurs. But fans, like life, always find a way. You. Tube via Hackaday. Hurricane Harvey Has Knocked Out 2. Percent of Gulf Gas Production. Hurricane Harvey, the Category 4 storm that barreled into southeastern Texas on Friday evening, has shut down approximately a quarter of US gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Reuters, storm related shutdowns have knocked approximately 4. US roughly 1. 7. Gulf, per the estimate of the Interior Departments Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
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