Tag: Fan Projects
News Father Draws Adorable Daily Pikmin Comic For Son To Read During Lunch At School
With his son as the main star
Ready for the most heartwarming story you'll read all week? Introducing 'Avery’s Pikmin Adventure', a Pikmin comic series written by a father for his child to read at school. The man responsible for this adorable gift is Chris Furniss, a cartoonist who designs cute video game art and comics on Patreon. The Pikmin...
News Zelda Fan Makes Full Arsenal Of Real-Life Breath Of The Wild Weapons
There's passion, and then there's this
One of the highlights of this job is stumbling across, and then being able to share, the tremendous talents of Nintendo fans around the world. We've seen homemade Zelda LEGO sets, a 65-inch TV transformed into a Switch console, and plenty more besides in recent years, and now we've got another great pick to add...
News Homemade Nintendo Switch TV Displays Seem To Be All The Rage, And We're Not Complaining
Fancy one of these at home?
Putting everyone else's gaming spaces to shame, this homemade Nintendo Switch TV setup could well be the answer to your home interior dreams - and also an amazing way to annoy everyone else in the house. Shared online by YouTube user Chris Salomone, this giant display has turned his TV into a humongous Switch console...
News This Fan-Made GameCube Classic Mini Is Both Adorable And Fully Functional
Come on, Nintendo!
Sure, we'll still waiting to hear any official announcements regarding a Nintendo 64 Mini console, and you'd fully expect the N64 to be the next Classic machine after the NES and SNES Mini releases, but does that mean we can't already dream of things later down the line? The answer, friends, is absolutely not, and proving our...
News Fan Creates Homemade Switch Mini Console, Beating Nintendo To The Punch
And it looks pretty great
If you've been keeping an eye on the world of Nintendo news recently (perhaps scrolling through the pages of this very site) you're probably aware of the reports and discussions surrounding a 'Switch Lite' or 'Switch Mini' console which is expected to launch in the near future. Analysts predicted a future Switch Lite back...
Random Fan Turns 65-Inch TV Into A Giant Nintendo Switch
Holy moly
We've seen some pretty amazing fan-made things over the years here at Nintendo Life, mostly from those with a keen eye for creativity and imagination, and this latest effort is soaring right onto our list of absolutely must-see endeavours. A gaming fan going by the name Suprman9 has created 'Nerdvana', a gaming room which uses a...
Random Fans Have Made A Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Cookbook Full Of Real Recipes And Artwork
A perfect gift for the household's chef?
In today's episode of 'what crazy, awesome stuff will Nintendo fans come up with this time', we find ourselves gazing into the pages of a mock cooking magazine based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. And it looks pretty authentic, too! 'HYRULE: Taste of the Wild' is an unofficial art book featuring...
Random Play Your Wii U Anytime, Anywhere With This Fan-Made Playable Coat
Yes, really...
We've seen a whole host of weird and wonderful fan-made things over the years here at Nintendo Life, and this latest invention is certain to kickstart the week in the best way possible. Introducing the Wii U Gaming Coat. Created by My Mate VINCE, this coat allows you to take your precious Wii U anywhere you like, giving you the...
Random Check Out This Awesome Fan-Made Super Smash Bros. Board Game
Deal a master hand
With no announcements or mumblings of a new Super Smash Bros. game coming to the Switch just yet, fans of the series may well be starting to desperately crave something new. While this isn't the game you've likely been dreaming about for months, this fan-made board game adaptation is certainly a fun twist on our favourite brawler...
News Super Mario Land 2 Gets a Fan-Made Colour Treatment
Now with added plumber
We are still catching up with all the fan retro projects released during the Holidays. Often cited as the very best platform game on the original Game Boy (sorry Kirby Dreamland fans), Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins not only seemed to defy what was possible with the humble portable, but was also responsible for...
News Fan-Made Prequel Metroid: Rogue Dawn Released On NES
Set before Metroid Zero Mission
Time and time again fans surprise us with projects born out of their love for Nintendo franchises despite the obvious legal issues. One franchise in particular that seems to generate substantial fervor is Samus Aran's very own backyard, the Metroid series. As years go by without a new mainline entry in this revered...
News Fan-Made Zelda MMO in Early Stages of Development
Zelda World to offer what Nintendo hasn't?
Most of the games in The Legend of Zelda series stay fairly rooted in the action-RPG genre and whilst that hasn't been detrimental to its overall quality and reputation, it does leave room for those wanting a deviation from the somewhat limited offline play for some wishful thinking. It seems a group of...
News Cezkid Puts a New Spin on Retro Characters
Watch your favourite 8-bit sprites do the 360
It's always nice to see programmers recreate retro gaming in some way or another and Jay Pavlina's 'reinterpretation' of the iconic Super Mario Bros. was easily one of the coolest things we'd seen in a while. Cesar Enrriquez (cezkid) has taken a slightly different approach as he has steadily been...
News Fan-Made Fighter Video Shows Classic Characters' Violent Sides
Nintendo, Hudson Namco and Konami all get in on the act
A good fan-made video brightens up the dullest of days, but one that sees Kirby digest a monkey, Link fire a bazooka and Michael Jackson appear as the ultimate end boss? It's like your birthday and Christmas all at once. That's The King of Famicom for you, a fan video showing classic characters...
News Fancy Playing Super Mario Bros. With Other Nintendo Characters? Now You Can
Mario gets by with a little help from his friends
Overly-creative gamers may, from time to time, wish that protagonists from different games would swap roles and see if the grass is indeed greener. We've often wondered what it would be like to have a Mario-centric GTA-style game, complete with unsavoury weapons and potty mouth. Well now it seems...
News Rising Star and Spanish Fans Translate Fragile Dreams Together
Publisher and community work together as one
The Wii's upcoming near-apocalyptic adventure Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon is on course for a European release on March 19th, with plenty of intriguing characters and a rather moving script all painstakingly translated from its original Japanese. Naturally such translations are huge, costly...
News Fatal Frame IV Fan Translation Finally Released
Experience the Japan-only horror game in a language you understand
Even though it may be denied an official release outside of Japan, fans of Tecmo's creepy-spooky Fatal Frame IV have taken the localization efforts into their own hands to do what Nintendon't and deliver a patch to fully translate the game into English. Yes, Virginia, it's done. All...
News Tuper Tario Tros: A Mario/Tetris Mash-up
Warning: this Flash game is highly addictive
Newgrounds user and all-round genius SwingSwing has created a fantastic Mario/Tetris mash-up named Tuper Tario Tros. Blending the platformer and puzzle genres, the game involves traversing the usual Mario landscape with your usual repertoire of jumping and, err... more jumping. When Mario encounters an...
News Fatal Frame IV Fan Translation Almost Finished
Get your Japanese scares in English soon
Tecmo and Grasshopper Manufacture's scare-fest Fatal Frame IV: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse still isn't officially coming out in the West; Nintendo, holder of the title's publishing rights in North America, still doesn't want to bother, relegating it to the same territorial fate as Disaster: Day of Crisis and...
