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Rainbow Net Wi-Fi protocol for connecting old consoles to the Internet (github.com/brokestudio)
91 points by zdw on Nov 9, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



"What Is Rainbow?" might have been a better starting link. (But assuming HN may have truncated)

https://github.com/BrokeStudio/rainbow-net/blob/master/rainb...


> Second reason is because Kevin Hanley from KHAN games is working on a game called Unicorn, which is based on an old BBS game called Legend of the Red Dragon

That drags up a lot of ancient memories. Never did get very far in that game.


It was designed to get you to dial up daily, wasn't it? A very early ancestor of today's attention-sapping mobile games, maybe.


It was. I think they _all_ were.

I got absolutely lost in Trade Wars 2002. I blame that game for what eventually turned into a love of game botting in general.


thank you


There is a Rainbow Toolbox, https://github.com/BrokeStudio/RainbowToolBox, which might be useful.

See more info here, https://github.com/BrokeStudio/RainbowToolBox#rainbow-tool-b...


Neat, I was thinking of virtual Link in GBA ROMs to talk with LLMs for dialogue :)


That README.md is very sparse




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