Google Maps: 8-bit map platform

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Site Map Google Maps Not only is it visually appealing, it also uses modern technology to display maps, satellite imagery, street view recordings, and more. Now, in a very interesting project, an entertainment expert demonstrates that Google Maps can also be used on the most vulnerable hardware: especially since 1985 on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

Entertainment enthusiasts sometimes enjoy bringing modern applications to devices that are completely unsuitable for these purposes. We recently got you Stadia in e-reader Today there is a project of the same size: YouTube sent Google Maps to Ciplus Plus NES, the Nintendo Entertainment System since 1985, which is still well known today. Perhaps one or another of our readers has such a device – I had one.

The challenge is not just boarding, if we want to call it that, but of course the representation of surfaces with 8-bit color depth and excellent black graphics. In fact, the activation is not a simulation, but a real link to Google Maps to be able to move and enlarge the maps freely. The image data provided by the Google Maps API is then greatly reduced, converted to pixel metrics, and the dominant color in the respective blog is changed from a thin palette of NES options to a single color.

You can see how this is implemented in the image above and in the following video.

For this test, the entertainer needed not only access to the Google Maps API and NES, but also the Raspberry Pi 3A, which does a real math job. The raspberry is still attached externally, but will then be integrated into an empty box showing the images for the NES. The NES itself processes the resulting data and cannot reduce it more or less directly. Provides an overview of the video system and future plans.

The program needs to be further expanded to include the aforementioned cartridge solution, but there are also features such as search functionality. It should be released for interested enthusiasts, it is always a good thing and will surely have interesting learning effects for many developers to combine old and new technologies.

The whole project has been inspired by Google’s April Fool’s Day since 2012, so after Pokemon Go, the next Google Maps April Fool’s Day went into effect. You can see the video of the comedy at that time, which is similar to today’s interface In this video.

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