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"Trump dropped a nuclear bomb on his own country and there's radiation everywhere! But that's okay, with the Nuclear Annihilation Bundle by @necrosoftgames.com and these three arms that just grew out of my back, I'll have plenty to do through the apocalypse!"

Every time some terrible disaster happens, Necrosoft releases a cheap bundle of games on itch.io. And this of course is good for the cause and good for players, but I'm starting to find myself getting a strange Pavlovian response to it. "The country was ripped in half by an earthquake! Oh, goodie!"

Byron's Game Boy Color demo works on real hardware! Sorta. The Game Boy Advance DOES play GBC games, but not with flash carts. Luckily, the GBA is powerful enough to emulate the GBC hardware. When you can't open a door...

I'm sorry, the name just sounds like a handjob. "So we got into the backseat, and I wanted to go all the way, but she'd only give me a Palmer Lucky."

Damn refrigerator keeps RRR-ing because the fan in the freezer half is messed up. Damn I need a new one!

Oh well. The way new CEO Toni Schneider is talking, BlueSky's going to become another fash microblog just like all the others. Then you'll have a whole LOT more people to block, and for more valid reasons!

I'm probably on several BlueSky block lists. Do I take it personally? Yeah, but the lists are still there, and there's nothing I can do to change them. Have it your way, I guess.

Why the hell does KC Green have me blocked? I can kind of understand some of the other ones, but the artist that gave us the dog happily dying in his own burning home? You don't even know me, or have any reason to be upset with me, but okay?

And here's Byron as he appears on the Game Boy Color. There's barely any color clash (check the nose, you'll see just a little). That's in contrast to Croc's title screen, where it's ALL OVER THE PLACE.

And now a word from Jack M. Off- er, Palmer Luckey. "I wanna blow up some Palestinians! Whoa!"

So it's working right... I had an event where an event shouldn't be, which is why it refused to boot into the second screen when a DMG was detected.

Apparently, when you select game override with mGBA, it STAYS overridden, and no force on heaven or earth will allow you to change it. Annoying. Stupid. Oh well, bye mGBA! Guess your stubbornness just doomed you to deletion.

There was a button called "auto color" that did the job. Good golly Miss Molly, that was an annoyance!

The image is color, but the software decides, against my urging, to make everything monochrome anyway. No! Make the Game Boy error message monochrome and the Game Boy Color error message color!

I can get it to boot into the monochrome screen just fine. I CAN'T get the color image to come up... it converts THAT into monochrome, too. Good grief. What part of "color only" did you not understand?

Struggling with GB Studio. Look, it's real simple, man. Boot to the monochrome error screen if it's a GameBoy, boot to the color error screen if it's a GameBoy Color. How easy is that? (Not at all with GB Studio.)

Lost in Random is shaping up to be pretty cool, actually. I feel like this is Kingdom Hearts, the way it should have been done.

Lost in Random has big Tim Burton vibes. Maybe even more than Psychonauts!

1990s music in CD-based game systems is just the best, man. They struck a vein of brilliance with stuff like Gate of Thunder, Virtua Fighter 2, even Toshinden which was a buttnutter of a game in every OTHER respect. Very synth-y, very ethereal, and a perfect fit for the multimedia era.

The arranged soundtrack for Fighter's History Dynamite is so damn good, y'all. Punchy, powerful compositions that carry five times the weight of the original chiptune soundtrack. They're loud and bombastic in a way that fits the game's blustery atmosphere.

In case you missed it! Here's a rundown of the capabilities of four retro game consoles. If you ever wondered how the pixelated sausage was made, here's your chance to find out. kiblitzing.blogspot.com/2026/06/real...

Really Getting into Consoles, part one

Playing retro video games is great! But sometimes, just playing them isn't good enough... you want to get under the hood of these old system...

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If you hated Croc on the 32-bit systems, you'll hate 'em even more on Nintendo's misbegotten Game Boy Color! www.youtube.com/watch?v=flH-...

Hey, Palmer! G'argo DEEZ Nauts!

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"Upload a six second video of yourself to prove you're you?" How 'bout just process my video, assholes?

A(ss) Hat In Time is not winning me over. How was this an indie darling again? Why won't the game progress even after finding the mustache girl? Why are so few things interactive? Gex sucked like nobody's business, but at least progress was POSSIBLE. Not even fit to squeeze Lucky's anal glands.