Nesdev jokes

[Jarhmander]

Let's put here some geek jokes, nesdev related if possible. Here's 3, hopefully not too bad .


> What is nesdevers' favorite alcoholic beverage?
That's easy: they always want some rum when testing their emulators.

> tokumaru is writing a DANKEY KANG game. You know, a blue character that collects rings and goes fast.

> One day, blargg made a ROM that does extensive tests on the DPCM channel with loop mode on, and a pop musician eavesdropped the result. This is how dubstep was born.

[tepples]

Sure dubstep wasn't just two fax machines making love?

I'm collecting mnemonic puns.

[Movax12]

I thought this was pretty funny, and could be crafted into a more traditional joke without much effort:

But I wonder if Coca-Cola made legal threats against the use of "sprite" in second- and third-generation VDPs' manuals.


Might as well be the official caffeine-free, sugar-free soft drink of NESdev

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[Bregalad]

Sprite zero as a drink ? No thanks. Does this actually came out ? I'd probably be the only one to think about something else every time I see this.

As for opcodes meaning something, I noticed the "php" and "tax" ones immediately when learning 6502, but somehow I never figured out "adc", despite the fact I've encountered Analog to Digital Converters frequently.

I always think of "Chip Enable" every time I see "CE", as in Windows CE.

I can't believe Motorola had an instruction named "sex". Is this a legal, documented, one ?

[lidnariq]

Sprite zero as a drink ? No thanks. Does this actually came out ? I'd probably be the only one to think about something else every time I see this.

Yup. Coca-cola corp used "zero" for their sucralose-based diet sodas, leaving "diet" for their (legacy) aspartame-based diet sodas.

I can't believe Motorola had an instruction named "sex". Is this a legal, documented, one ?

There's lots of "naughty" official instruction mnemonics. (See the Jargon File)

[Dwedit]

Sprite Zero has never been made with Sucralose....

[tepples]

I think Diet Sprite got renamed to Sprite Zero because it is supposed to taste like Sprite, just as Coca-Cola Zero is supposed to taste like Coca-Cola. Diet Coke (called Coca-Cola Light in some countries) is completely different from regular Coca-Cola; the much-maligned New Coke (later Coke II) was really just Diet Coke with HFCS instead of artificial sweetener. From 2005 through about 2009, Diet Coke switched to Splenda (sucralose).

[rainwarrior]

I don't understand the rum joke, but I do like rum.

[mikejmoffitt]

How did we get this far without any Sprite Zero hit jokes?

[Jarhmander]

I don't understand the rum joke, but I do like rum.

rum <-> ROM(s)

[Memblers]

You know how sprite character pixels get to work? They take the bus.

[Zelex]

Lol This forum needs like buttons on posts.

[Bregalad]

Lol This forum needs like buttons on posts.

AAARGGHHH GOD no PLEEEEASE no !!!

I'd quit immediately if this board were to become yet another facebook clone.

How did we get this far without any Sprite Zero hit jokes?

Well I don't think Sprite Zero is sold in my country, if it is it's at very least it's uncommon.

It's strange that Coca Cola Light is called "Diet Coke" in some countries. It sounds retarded to me. If you're on a diet the first thing you'd do is stop drinking stuff like this. I hardly drink those things anymore, I consider it kiddy's stuff ^^

[nitro2k01]

> What is nesdevers' favorite alcoholic beverage?
That's easy: they always want some rum when testing their emulators.

I would have expected "anything homebrew". Or is that the obvious joke that you side-stepped for surprise?

[cpow]

Sprite 0...I'd hit that!

Ok...tap that...but still. heh