Well, that didn’t take long.
It’s been quite the thing to crack open retro re-releases of classic consoles and figure out how to make them “better”. See: all of those mini classic consoles Nintendo managed to make a market for. So, it’s no surprise that the same would be done for the Mario Game & Watch that Nintendo is releasing in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Super Mario franchise.
What you don’t expect is that someone would hack it before its street date release.
Twitter user stacksmashing was one of the few to get one of these suckers early. After a quick jaunt with the machine as is, it got taken apart. And the discoveries therein were eventually shared.
Namely, it doesn’t run on the same hardware as the NES Classic, it loads a ROM of Super Mario Bros. to the system’s RAM, and that custom firmware is totally a possibility. Which all goes to mean that it’s possible (but not guaranteed) that you could load it up with other games at some point.
The downside, however, is that the USB-C charging port doesn’t seem connect to anything other than power wires; no direct line to the CPU or anything. That means that there will be no easy way to hack extra games on there like there was for all those other classic consoles.
Still, the more of these start floating around, the more hackers will know. And it’s not like security seemed to be a priority for the Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch. So who knows what the future will bring?
Source: Gizmodo
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