{"id":53,"date":"2007-06-13T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegobutton.net\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-07-02T22:01:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T02:01:57","slug":"the-highest-purpose-for-theatrical-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/the-highest-purpose-for-theatrical-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Highest Purpose for Theatrical Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/SMB3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/SMB3-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SMB3\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/SMB3-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/SMB3-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/SMB3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI had a few minutes  tonight as we were doing the pre-show, and we had our first round of NES gaming on our lovely projection screen.  We didn&#8217;t have a chance to do much, as most people were actually engaged in important work, or were about to be, but it was nice to try it out.  I played a little bit of Mike Tyson&#8217;s Punch-Out, showed how much I suck at Spy Hunter, and just a tiny bit of Bionic Commando to show the young&#8217;uns a cool game that they may not have heard of, before moving on to the greatest game ever made, Super Mario Bros. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short video clip of Angela trying out SMB3. And yes, the sound is being run over the house system.<br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PNJGDFoimY4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the (messy) setup in the booth:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/boothnes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/boothnes-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"boothnes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3668\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/boothnes-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/boothnes-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/boothnes.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe controller is something I picked up last year.  It&#8217;s an actual NES controller that has been rewired for USB by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrousb.com\/index.php?productID=115\">RetroZone<\/a>.  The Emulator I use on the Mac is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bannister.org\/software\/nestopia.htm\">Nestopia<\/a>, which is freeware, but does not support joysticks without a shareware add-on, which is $30.  For only $20 you can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usboverdrive.com\/USBOverdrive\/News.html\">USB Overdrive<\/a>, which is an all-purpose driver for tons of USB devices.  You can assign buttons to do just about anything, and have different profiles for individual apps, so I could have my NES controller assigned as a really cool iTunes remote in that app without screwing ups its functions in Nestopia.  Not that I would ever need it to do that, but now that I&#8217;ve come up with that example, I think it just may have to be.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the game on the projector is simple.  Just drag the window off your main screen to the side that leads to the projector&#8217;s screen (see <a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/projections-for-theatre-using-keynote\/\">here<\/a> for details on setting up the projector).  It was necessary for me to resize the window a bit to get it all on the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a few minutes tonight as we were doing the pre-show, and we had our first round of NES gaming on our lovely projection screen. We didn&#8217;t have a chance to do much, as most people were actually engaged in important work, or were about to be, but it was nice to try it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,9,6],"tags":[100,240,150,26,137,143,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}