{"id":57,"date":"2008-03-08T11:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-03-08T11:21:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T17:21:09","slug":"infinite-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/infinite-pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/super-mario-brothers-3-map1.jpg?ssl=1\" title=\"Super Mario Bros. 3 Map\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/super-mario-brothers-3-map1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Super Mario Bros. 3 Map\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> I just discovered the best feature of the Virtual Console on the Nintendo Wii: you can leave games paused infinitely just by returning to the Wii Menu. Not such a big deal for the Super Nintendo and later games with Save functionality built-in, but this is huge for NES and other games where you have to play from start to finish in one sitting. It&#8217;s like turning the TV off and leaving the NES running all day while you&#8217;re at school.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just started playing through Super Mario Bros. 3, and because of this feature I think I&#8217;ll play through the entire game. Should be fun to beat every level instead of just grabbing those Warp Whistles all the time. I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes when I finish next year sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered the best feature of the Virtual Console on the Nintendo Wii: you can leave games paused infinitely just by returning to the Wii Menu. Not such a big deal for the Super Nintendo and later games with Save functionality built-in, but this is huge for NES and other games where you have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[35,36,37,65,46],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-video-games","tag-mario","tag-nes","tag-nintendo","tag-video-games","tag-wii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffhottinger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}