Liliam 🏳️‍⚧️

@liliambean.bsky.social

programmer, retro game nerd, LGBTQIA+ activist author of sonic 3 unlocked github.com/liliambean/s3unlocked

Chris makes incredibly detailed videos about retro game reverse engineering. If you've ever liked my blog from way back when, just know that I am in awe of the effort he puts into every single diagram, overlay and explanation. Definitely give his channel a follow!

Displaced Gamers@displacedgamers.bsky.social · last wk.

We can accelerate Mario across the screen! We can run! We can skid! We can jump across a large gap. Heck - we can even swim! How? Let's find out! New episode of Behind the Code... youtu.be/dtYJhy01jNI

you can tell Claude writes great code because every website in 2026 has an ever-increasing frequency of timeouts, blank pages, weird errors, and downtime. imagine a carpenter telling you "use this or get left behind" and they hand you a hammer that hits your hand instead of the nail 20% of the time

this is a real bummer to see from someone i looked up to, and what a rancid take it is. the stuff on our site was not "free", that's all hard work people had to put in to discover *and document* it. and hosting it sure isn't free!

SUDDENDESU
@suddendesu
Aug 25
I've grown to dislike TCRF recently as they rely entirely on the community for their information, yet they've got a bug up their ass about bots scraping their site for info. They want content for free, but they don't want to share it.
SUDDENDESU
@suddendesu
17h
Given recent conversations elsewhere, I want to clarify:

I respect the the concept of TCRF and I wish them continued success. This is not a hate post. I shouldn't have said "dislike TCRF" as it implies I have something against the site itself; I don't. I'm just not fond of some of the recent choices they made.

having principles, and sticking to them, isn't fun or easy. it often sucks ass. but i'd rather have a spine and say the buck stops here than give in and decide that having victims is OK.

Oops, I was away from my phone and almost missed that people are doing this. Happy Trans Day of Visibility! I am still alive, and still attempting to make Sonic 3 into an even cooler video game (an admittedly foolish proposition on the face of it)

A screenshot of Sonic 3 Unlocked, showing Amy Rose running through Angel Island ZoneA screenshot of Sonic 3 Unlocked, showing Mighty and Ray traversing a Special Stage that's themed after the trans flag

To clarify, this is how it works in the original version as well. The entire platform is copied to the VDP's window plane, erased from Plane A, then Plane A scrolls up and offscreen. Then finally, the platform is copied back to plane A and the window plane is disabled.

Plutiedev@plutiedev.com · 8mo ago

They rewrote the effect so the platform is on another layer (instead of splitting the foreground in two through scrolling) but the platform is now on the pause layer so it sits on top of everything (oops)

NBG0 layer: the part of the Death Egg the platform was attached to.