In case you missed it, a revolutionary new emulator for the NES/Famicon entered a public Steam early access release on June 19th. 3dSen not only emulates some of our favourite games from the platform, it also converts your ROM’s into full 3D visuals.
3dSen has had a development timeline that goes back nearly five years, and the result of how it transforms a classic, 2D NES game is quite a sight. This emulator doesn’t just use visual trickery or stereoscopic effects to make sprites pop out of the screen: It completely transforms the 2D space of these titles into a 3D diorama that you can play through, and even view from different angles.
The developers, Geod Studio, have therefore taken the sprites from these games, and used them as textures to build little worlds and in-game objects. And the answer is yes: You can indeed play your NES games with contemporary VR gear.
As you’d expect, not every single NES title is currently supported, but a respectable list of around 70 games are fully compatible (most of which usually end up on top ten lists anyway). If you have never played any or most of these games, you have just lost your last excuse!
You can purchase 3dSen at a reduced price for a limited time here.
Enjoy!
Pieter hails all the way from the tip of southern Africa and suffers from serious PC technophilia. Therapists say it is incurable. Now he has to remind himself constantly that gaming doesn’t count as a religion even if DRM is the devil. Thankfully, writing reviews sometimes helps with the worst symptoms.
WOW!!! This is actually really cool!
Paying for an emulator haha this guy can keep dreaming
playing old games 3dimensionally is something different then the other emus – and then there is the rest of the games that still need to be migrated into the emu because there are currently 70 games that have been modified to make it compatible. for me it is understandable that he wants money
how much drugs was this guy on when he came up with this?
Something very similar to this has been available for VR for awhile now. It even looks like some of those clips were from inside a VR headset.
What a gimmick.
Nintendo should go all out lawsuit on this guy @ss. Selling an emulator when majority of it is free.
Emulators have long been protected in the legal system thanks to Bleem versus Sony. Emulators are legal products as long as they do not use any copyrighted code from the console they emulate. So they can’t include firmware or OSes in their original file. The NES of course have no firmware or OS whatsoever so it can be fully emulated and sold.
Also plenty of emulators are sold on the Android marketplace (Maybe Apple too, I wouldn’t know)
Why? Who would want to play trashy old 8bit games?
This has been out for a while now, I remember playing it in VR a few years ago, and it was free then too.