R4 3DS - Play NES R-Type On Your Nintendo 3DS Homebrew Card



Posted: Sunday, April 17, 2011

by Mark Thompson

Emulation is a great way to go back in time, so to speak.  Back to a time when 8-bit was the biggest thing in the game industry.  When side scrolling platform games and shoot em ups were all of the rage.  The NES was an excellent example of bringing video games back into the mainstream after the big video game crash in the early eighties.  While the Atari 2600 will go down in history as putting video games into the living room, it was the NES system from Nintendo that popularized video games and made them mainstream.  These days I am able to play a lot of my old classic games using my R4 3DS card and my Nintendo 3DS console.  I don't have to hunt down old game systems to get my retro game fix.  I just have to find the right emulator to be able to run those games on my 3ds system.

Just how can your Nintendo DS or Nintendo 3DS play old classic games through an emalator? After all, it's not like the have an emulator card. But what you can get is something called the r4 DS Card, or R4 3DS Card for the Nintendo 3DS.  These homebrew or development cards allow indie developers to create and release their own freeware applications and games for these hand helds.  And of course, as a gamer, if you have the r4 ds card or r4 ds card, you can take advantage of, and play all of the games, apps and emulators that are released.

Many of the games we play today, started out in one form or another, on the NES console. Often these older games were developed, made and published by the same companies that brought out newer versions, except they were working with now antique hardware and still managed to make the games fun. So for those of you who may have just entered into the classic gaming world, here are a couple of NES games I suggest you try right away.

R-Type - the shoot em up of shoot em up games. This side scrolling arcade game was converted to almost every single game system and computer system of the day. Every loves it, and for very good reasons. Because the game was as hard as it was - it was the most sought after game to play at home. As I had said many times, R-Type wad HARD - really hard, and that's why being able to play it at home ended up saving you a lot of money - and endless continues too! A game that was truly filled with lost of fun and excitement - and a whole slew of good frustrations too.

Not only will you be able to play R-Type, but pretty well any game that was released for the NES console.  The R4 DS card and R4 3DS Card make this possible with the nesDS emulator.  And what better way to really get into some classic games, than by actually playing those classic games every is talking about - and not just reading about them.
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