Kinect hacked to control original Super Mario Bros. game

One gamer, under the alias 'Yankeyan' has posted a video this week showing himself playing the original Super Mario Bros. game using Microsoft's new Kinect motion control system.

Says Yankeyan:

"I programmed it to recognize my motions and passed the virtual button presses to the NES emulator. I could have placed a simulated keypad right in front of me that I can press with my hands, but I thought full body gestures were more in the spirit of Kinect. Of course, Mario isn't designed to be played like this, so this is really really hard."

He isn't kidding when he says the game is tough, with simple gestures like jumping taking a few tries, but it is definitely an incredible feat.

Microsoft's Kinect was released earlier this month to much fanfare.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 28 Nov 2010 16:53

ROMaster2

It's like I'm really the Super Mario!

28.11.2010 17:25 #1

biglo30

I saw this earlier and I think its pretty cool lol.

29.11.2010 01:06 #2

DXR88

Originally posted by ROMaster2: It's like I'm really the Super Mario! Hey Mario, my toilets not unstopping itself.

29.11.2010 04:29 #3

ZippyDSM

Originally posted by DXR88: Originally posted by ROMaster2: It's like I'm really the Super Mario! Hey Mario, my toilets not unstopping itself. Boswer really should lay off the cheese...

Until lobbying is a hanging offense I choose anarchy!
Ah modern gaming its like modern film only the watering down of fiction and characters is replaced with shallow and watered down mechanics, gimmicks and shiny-er "people".
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29.11.2010 15:12 #4

Zealousi

Congrats on the nice mod, that is one of the best super mario video's ever.

Great scripting to see.

this would be fun to play off your tree but it would get annoying sometimes.

29.11.2010 21:31 #5

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