{"id":578184,"date":"2026-08-23T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578184\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T21:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:26:11","slug":"using-the-basic-snes-hardware-to-play-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/578184\/","title":{"rendered":"Using The Basic SNES Hardware To Play Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have some fun and port that version also to the Super Nintendo (SNES), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qva2Og5PP_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">just to see what would happen<\/a> with its more powerful hardware. Even without using an add-on chip like the Super FX 3D chip that made games like Star Fox and Doom possible with its 3D-rendered geometry, the basic SNES hardware can already provide a serviceable Minecraft experience.<\/p>\n<p>You can download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/GameOfTobi\/posts\/snes-minicraft-167230644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the SFC file here<\/a>, featuring a starting world in which you can do all the usual Minecraft-ing shenanigans, like world destruction and construction. Unsurprisingly the game\u2019s resolution is much higher than on the GBC, though the brief glimpse [Tobi] shows of Minecraft on the Game Boy Advance (GBA) with its proper 3D-rendering hardware are leaps ahead of what the basic SNES can do.<\/p>\n<p>This of course raises the question of what Minecraft on the SNES could look like once you add the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Super_FX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Super FX<\/a> or similar 3D accelerator chips for the SNES into the mix. Rather than just being limited to sprite-based graphics and transformations, suddenly you can use real polygons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After previously putting a very basic version of Minecraft on the Game Boy Color, [Tobi] decided to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-578184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}