Super Mario Bros. in Speed Dial

By Dustin WilsonKhadgar. Friday, May 20, 2011 2:53:18 PM

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Opera 11 has an improved Speed Dial. The best way to describe how it works is that now Speed Dial is now a collection of mini widgets. You can put practically anything in there, and you will even be able to install extensions for them (the extensions themselves are only viewable in the latest 11.5 snapshots). It's an exciting time to be an Opera user. Opera paved the way with Speed Dial and now they're making it even better.

What does this have to do with Nintendo, and N+? Well, what would you say if someone actually created a working Super Mario Bros. game in Speed Dial?

How this works is that some extremely clever guy wrote an NES emulator in JavaScript, and there are working examples of the emulator on the linked webpage. However, I wouldn't suggest turning sound on. It's the actual NES classic running in your browser. Some time after the 11.5 snapshot was released another clever person decided to take this amazing feat of JavaScripting and create a Speed Dial extension which plays the Super Mario Bros title screen animation in your Speed Dial.

Why didn't I think of that?

I Dustin was wrongPokemon B&W: C-Gear Freeze

Comments

Samed Ayanagresiff Friday, May 20, 2011 3:32:35 PM

up

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, May 20, 2011 3:35:26 PM

bigeyes

Masonwaffletower Friday, May 20, 2011 11:07:37 PM

As much as I absolutely hate the Java platform, I'll stick with vNES until I see where this is going bigsmile

Javascript > Java (in my opinion, at least). Not even sure what the difference is lol

KarenNerak Friday, May 20, 2011 11:29:45 PM

I've found my new hero. o

Dustin WilsonKhadgar Saturday, May 21, 2011 2:27:50 AM

Umm, it -is- JavaScript. The game you see is drawn using HTML5 canvas. No Java involved.

walterbugscout Saturday, May 21, 2011 2:47:31 PM

pirate

Masonwaffletower Sunday, May 22, 2011 4:57:44 AM

Originally posted by Khadgar:

Umm, it -is- JavaScript.
No Java involved.

Yeah, I meant that vNES uses the Java platform, while this you said uses Javascript. I went to the link, and it seems it's still in an early compatibility state. Still pretty awesome, though.

Charles SchlossChas4 Sunday, May 22, 2011 3:47:58 PM

java and javascript are different

Nathan RodriguezNathanRodriguez Thursday, May 26, 2011 8:07:42 PM

yes

OPERATORGÖKTÜRK Friday, May 27, 2011 5:21:31 AM

lol yikes süper:yes:

malenigame Wednesday, June 1, 2011 1:42:20 AM

wow!! yes

Rafikmcrafi9 Wednesday, June 1, 2011 10:36:48 AM

Is very Ingenious to put Emulators in Speed Dial :-)

Shein45 Thursday, June 2, 2011 7:42:12 PM

Agree

Alexander Khvalchevkhvalchev Friday, June 3, 2011 4:25:52 PM

A novel idea for sure!

Евгенийctakah2 Tuesday, June 7, 2011 7:51:35 AM

lol

Alexodius PrimeAleksOD Monday, June 13, 2011 1:13:29 PM

So... how do I actually install this extension? confused

Dustin WilsonKhadgar Monday, June 13, 2011 4:29:02 PM

Not too sure. I think it's just a proof of concept video.

Alexodius PrimeAleksOD Monday, June 13, 2011 4:50:17 PM

Originally posted by Khadgar:

Not too sure. I think it's just a proof of concept video.


cry

Daniel Davistagawa Tuesday, June 14, 2011 6:35:15 AM

Yes, at present, Speed Dial extensions don't respond to events like clicks or key presses, so this is just the non-playable demo screen of the JavaScript game.

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