"You're not getting high off the bootleg trans-pride Mario vape pen are you?" "No… 💨🫪"

I'd like to remind that I made a 90s Nintendo style website to the unreleased game Sound Fantasy, where I compiled tons of infos, prototype ROM + SimTunes (English and French version) + tons of links including videos of the final version of the game luigiblood.neocities.org/soundfantasy

Sound Fantasy - Yakumono's Personal Site

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Spent the weekend at APOG, highly recommended! Camping in my truck, enjoying a river, friends made a ball pit, lots of great music with live performances , so much fun!

Gotta nip this in the bud: These games are not unaccounted for. The ICS's collections were owned by the Computerspielemuseum and the USK ratings board. They still own them. This museum project is on the cusp of shutting down, but the games themselves are not going to a dumpster

Games That Weren't@gamesthatwerent.com · 4w ago

Germany's largest game archive closes, leaving 60,000 game files unaccounted for www.notebookcheck.net/Germany-s-la...

The "capitalist just keep pushing capitalism" takes come in many flavors. The "big one" of the moment is the never own always rent digital economy around video games, hot on the heels of GTA6 being more expensive. Feeling a lot like we need a 1969 Panther movement given all the changes happening.

Pouring one out for the king

Doom OST - E1M1 - At Doom's Gate

YouTube video by Jim DarkMagic

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RIP Bobby Prince. His music legacy will live on, making inspired music for Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM, countless others. A true legend. And such a nice man, great musician, wonderful, fun-loving man, nothing but happy memories of him. A loss to the world.

I really, really, really hope that something we can encourage with our library. I want a general audience to be able to tell better histories than summarizing Wikipedia and remembering a game at you

zøë wolfe@glitchwolfe.studio · 2mo ago

I keep clicking on video game retrospective videos thinking I'll learn something new about the development of a beloved classic but no, it's just some guy describing a game they played once I desire something greater. Tell me what coffee the devs drank. I wanna know if they used tabs or spaces

ROM HACK RELEASE: Soul Blazer Relocalization 1.0 A project I worked on and (mostly) off over the past 8 years, this is a hack of the Enix cult classic Soul Blazer, a semi-prequel to Illusion of Gaia & Terranigma. This fixes typos and cleans up text to make it less grody. romhack.ing/database/con...

Is there anyone working in engineering that is not using AI via Cursor, Claude, Codex, etc., everyday? Engineering has largely changed from a "writer" role to a "editor" role overseeing agentic output. Interviews are about how well you use AI, not wasting effort trying to detect AI.

Got a call mid meeting from my esthetician asking about being a male model for a Brazilian wax, and if I would be comfortable doing that & being observed. Of course I would, but I literally had to pull my pants open and check the length which felt so cartoonish, the whole thing was hilarious. 🪒🕯️🇧🇷👙

So there.

A tale in four screenshots. The journey of adding a Variable Width Font (VWF) to Digimon D Project on the WonderSwan Color (WSC). #romhacking #digimon #wonderswan

Happy Mother’s Day 🩷💐

Who likes unreleased SNES games? The good people at @hiddenpalace.org gave me an early prototype of Nightmare Busters to have a look at. I also revamped the article with info on the aftermarket releases, as well as a comparison of the 3 known prototypes. snescentral.com/article.php?...

SNES Central: Nightmare Busters

Nightmare Busters is an unreleased game that was developed by Arcade Zone. In Japan, it was planned to be published by Nichibutsu.

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I had not actually seen the 'Home taping is killing music' that wasn't a joke or facetious punk use but both LPs had it on the back of the OBI strip, cool pirate cassette design, but no FLAC logo with bones so I'm good:

Last Japan LP: うる星やつら ザ・ヒット・パレード 2 Urusei Yatsura 2 1985

Another LP from Japan: うる星やつら ザ・ヒット・パレード (Urusei Yatsura The Hit Parade) 1983 OST

I spent some time reverse-engineering Apple's Lossy texture format. It wasn't as simple as I originally thought, and some of the details surprised me. Check it out! www.ludicon.com/castano/blog...

Metal Lossy Compression Format

The Apple Lossy compression format was introduced in the A15 and M2 chipsets (which share the same GPU generation) and it enables sampling and rendering to textures with a 1:2 compression ratio. The f...

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Got a friend some vinyl LPs while traveling in Japan, decided to digitize them before gifting them. The first one is 超時空要塞マクロス Macross Vol.II, aka The Super Dimension Fortress Macross Vol. 2

The "Pro Fighter X" series of SNES copiers has kinda stupid disk handling code: it doesn't filter out FAT entries on floppy disk that should never be displayed, like the Volume name ("CHRIS"), directories, and long filename chunks. This causes errors during display & loading. So I RE'd and fixed it.

In Taipei, Taiwan just shopping around when I spotted a familiar face while walking through a drug store. I 💯 trust Kirby to protect my skin!

Do you enjoy old computers and live in the US Pacific Northwest? We're six weeks out from the first Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest since 2019! We'd love to see you there and we'd love your help getting the word out. Reposts appreciated! vcfpnw.org

MISSING! HELP! I am looking for the playing card deck from GDC 2020! It was printed but the show was cancelled. I have heard rumors that they gave them away but I've never seen one and no one on GDC staff has a set. I'm in it and want to complete my set! Let's bring my card home! To me!

I'm a Patreon member, it is the original sound track to the NES Super Mario Bros. that [the artist formerly known as] Prince wrote before backing out after negotiations turned sour. #NoGateKepping

Phil Salvador@philsalv.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our Patreon supporters get the first peek at a new collection we're adding, plus some behind-the-scenes info about how we processed with these rare materials! www.patreon.com/gamehistoryorg

Hot Take®™, there are bigger issues to deal with than using AI to make something useful. It is the same sort of vitriol people contributing nothing direct towards well meaning people for social issues. Your selective adoption of technology doesn't make you a saint, as using AI doesn't make you evil.

Gaming Alexandria is our load-bearing pillar for access to Japanese scans and hubz is the hardest-working guy I know in game preservation, so I'd really appreciate it if we didn't destroy him with a dogpile over his vibe coding project please. Show some empathy and grace if you disagree with it.

Go buy my music on Bandcamp, it is only one dollar! It can also be free if you pirate it 🏴‍☠️🦜⛵️ matthewcallis.bandcamp.com/album/hello

Hello?, by Matthew Callis

1 track album

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It's Bandcamp Friday and a nice thing you can do even if you haven't kept up on new music is to go buy the soundtracks for recent games you've enjoyed

We need to rehabilitate Bomberman into the must have multiplayer games reputation that it used to have