endrift

@endrift.com

Professional Cyberentomologist, Hobbyist Emulator Developer. Creator and lead developer of mGBA. she/they

Damn, the assembled case I printed for the BC-250 (cut down PS5 board designed for cryptomining but decent at gaming) is really big. Steam Machine for scale.

A photo of two electronics: one is a long case with a chamfered purple design with two big fans on the top and some cables coming out of the front (the BC-250). Next to it is an austere black cube design with a removable front panel and some USB ports on the bottom (the Steam Machine). The cube is slightly taller than the BC-250 but much less long and a bit wider.

Happy birthday to the Game Boy Advance, which released in the USA on this day in 2001! Can you believe Nintendo's potent little handheld is a quarter-century old this year? We feel old.

I got a new laptop after my old one broke and it's been a constant stream of issues, from things like horrible color issues on the monitor (EVEN AFTER AN RMA), to shutdown straight up not always turning off entirely, to the keyboard straight dying until I rebooted last night.

I have every reason to believe VBA-M is largely vibe coded these days, based on evidence of Squall ramping up posting LLM-generated slop in comments. So I'm going to downgrade it from "not that bad, really" to "slop". mGBA will never be vibe coded, full stop.

Once every few dozen times I load mGBA on 3DS it runs significantly faster than normal but I've never been able to pin down what's happening. If you've had this happen to you and you're confused and question your memory of it: it's absolutely a thing that happens and you're not imagining it.

It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.

Man, the character limit is really killing me here in bsky. I had to split that thread into like twice as many posts as it was originally on Masto

An extremely funny thing about retro rereleases that use unlicensed emulators is that you are basically committing the exact same crime (using software outside of the terms of its license) that has you so scared of downloading roms in the first place but now someone has monetized it.

Ilya@13xforever.mobobe.com · 4mo ago

In case you needed another reminder that Limited Run Games are shady as fuck social.treehouse.systems/@endrift/116...

Screencap of a Mastodon thread from @endrift@treehouse.systems reading:

Fucking Limited Run Games strikes again. This time they stole mGBA! Time to break out this classic from @foone again...

Actually it looks like the publisher was WayForward. They might have licensed the emulator from LRG though? I'm not really clear. Sigma Star Saga DX.

Ok clarification time. The game was published by WayForward but they just licensed the Carbon Engine from Limited Run Games. LRG, however, integrated mGBA, presumably without disclosing it to WF, so WF is transitively violating the license. I don't blame them per se, but LRG is 100% absolutely in the wrong here. The game in question is Sigma Star Saga DX, and I have confirmed it uses mGBA by now.

I clicked on someone's bio and was met with this. I see Bsky is a very functional platform, too. I hear all the cool kids on bsky are blaming vibe coding, which I am on board with

Just a blank page with a circle where avatar should be and a roundrect where the follow button should be

I've been on here for less than an hour and I've already gotten a follow from some random stranger who I doubt has ever heard of me, even before posting anything or telling anyone about this account, and a random favorite from someone who doesn't follow me. This is a good sign, right?

I have been resisting making a bsky account because the last thing I needed is more social media in my life...but here I am 🫠