SUDDEN・DESU
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レトロゲームを逆アセンブルして調査。メガCD開発キットMEGADEVを作成した。 Retro game disassemblies/research and Megadev, a Mega CD SDK. Occasional posts about life in Japan. 🔗 https://sudden-desu.net 🎉 https://patreon.com/SUDDENDESU
I accidentally bid on/won parts for a FamicomBox. It’s basically going right into the trash, but there is an on board ROM that I wonder if it’s worth the hassle to see if it an undumped version (probably not)…
New Patreon post with new findings for Top Ranking Stars. Several debug tools, hi score name substitution easter eggs, and a hidden "poem." www.patreon.com/posts/top-ra...
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One of the debug tools in Top Ranking Stars has weaving written as "weebing" which got a hearty chuckle out of me. Next Patreon article will take a brief look at the stuff hidden away in the game!
Pokemon Pokopia is built on top of over four decades of simulation prowess. On this installment of Origin of Game, @tigerwolf.bsky.social uncovers the story of Koei - and the ambitious power couple behind its rise. www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/04/g...
A portion of Shigeru Miyamoto's deposition in the Universal vs. Nintendo court case where he confirms that Popeye wasn't made into an arcade game for technical reasons and not due to the myth that Nintendo didn't have the license. Hopefully, this myth can finally die. Thanks to Norm Caruso.
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.
It's not easy being the flag girl on Suzuka Circuit. (From Final Lap - Namco, 1987, this week's Arcade Archives release)
It’s kind of infuriating that Nintendo soldered (?) the SRAM battery to their sufami test boards. It’s going to leak someday, but removing it “damages” the board. Sega did it right with battery sockets.
Completely forgot I pre-ordered this! Nice surprise this morning.
Hey, some minor news: myself, @sudden-desu.net, @biggestsonicfan.bsky.social and some other folks managed to find and snag Fighting Vipers version A, which wasn’t in MAME. It’s officially ready to be added now!
I make Kenmin biifun five packs at a time because the whole family loves it. Going to make a gorgeous seafood and pork mix tonight!
Sega Jack [セガジャック] No. 5 (1996) has been scanned and archived, thereby completing the full run, please enjoy. Thank you to @sudden-desu.net for sending these my way! archive.org/details/SEGA...
"It's Been A Long Time Coming" - Mega CD Homebrew Development Kit Hits Major Milestone. (Repost)
"It's Been A Long Time Coming" - Mega CD Homebrew Development Kit Hits Major Milestone
MegaDev 1.0 now available
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Oh hey an old DVD fell out of a bag at the garbage collection point. Let’s see….. oh.
This is a cute illustration bidding farewell to the Mega Drive, featuring many of Sega's most iconic characters on the console and its many add-ons. Taken from the September 1995 issue of Sega Saturn Magazine.
Also chiming in with my support for @gamingalexandria.bsky.social and Hubz. The issue here seems to be about appropriating funds for something that remains controversial, and he has not made excuses but amends directing his own money to cover the costs. I think that is action that absolves….
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.
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.
It's a been a long time coming... MEGADEV, a development kit for the Sega Mega CD, version 1.0 is released! ──────────────────── 🔗https://github.com/drojaazu/megadev ────────────────────
Looks like internet hero @thestacks.ca has finished scanning the Sega Jack issues I sent recently! Check them out! archive.org/details/@chu...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Today's "I didn't know this existed" is the Super Famicom Bodyguard (スーパーファミコン ボディーガード), a cozy sleeping bag for your SNES with little holes for the controllers. Probably overheats like a motherfucker in summer. Well worth the $200-800 they're asking buyee.jp/mercari/item... buyee.jp/mercari/item...
That reminds me, have you ever seen this SNK token? I picked it up last year on YJP. Weird logo and IDK what Concorde is. Same design on both sides. May be totally unrelated to arcade SNK 🤷♂️