{"id":133199,"date":"2023-04-18T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-148142"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:15:00","slug":"random-forget-the-wii-u-this-coder-got-mario-vs-donkey-kong-running-in-a-web-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/18\/random-forget-the-wii-u-this-coder-got-mario-vs-donkey-kong-running-in-a-web-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Forget The Wii U, This Coder Got Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Running In A Web Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many of the Wii U’s greatest games have long since been ported over to Switch. It’s just something that we have all come to accept with the console \u2014 yes, it had some great games, but most of them are now playable elsewhere (often in a better condition).<\/p>\n

We expect to see these games playing today on the Switch, or maybe even on the 3DS a few years back, but we weren’t anticipating that you would be able to play certain titles via a web browser. Well, that’s exactly what one player, @JasperRLZ<\/a> (primary coder of noclip<\/a>), has managed to do.<\/p>\n

Discovering that the Wii U edition of Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars<\/a> was written in HTML and JavaScript (yep, who knew?), Jasper worked out that with 1,400 lines of shim code (which is used to change the behaviour of the pre-existing code, we learnt), the game could make the leap over to a browser \u2014 Chrome in this instance.<\/p>\n

Having got the game up and running, the player shared the results of their code tweaks in the following video on Twitter:<\/p>\n