My typical Saturday wo a car.

Just installed bitChat on some devices of mine (decentralized mesh chat). bitchat.free It works over BlueTooth. PS Well... now I see how it works. Probably it's a great thing for students. PPS ~10+ years ago such BT chat project was made at our summer computer school with Java.

Today I visited one of the most polluted towns.

Slayers (on PC-98) They've fixed and updated the game translation to v1.1 romhack.ing/database/con...

This nifty tool let you run 16-bit Windows (Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, etc.) apps on 64-bit Windows. I couldn't make it work with COM/ETHERNET in my tests yet. github.com/otya128/wine...

Very excited with SANDA's adaptation: youtu.be/U1qcMPqzYN4

Sup?!

Fixed streaming stuff in Zabu. It's needed for fancier look. Just imagine we make Zabuodius. 🙃 Updated yet another silly profile pic @ bad bad twitter:

Coding Zabu, having fnnn

My first workday after vacation. Why is it so freezing?

During my last vacation day it was hard to add a new feature in the game. The heavy rain and tons of coffee+tea solved the prob.🥴

My typical day in mountains near Almaty. 😎

My almost perfect vacation end is neigh. Prolonged my summer by a month, skipping any extreme temperatures aside. (like 30C+) Lost about 1 kg. Usually I gain 1 instead 😅. I miss comfy workplaces at home and my office.

My sour muzzles of the day. #Istanbul 🙀

Starting my walk with the local Huh cat.

Today's muzzles so far

I can't pass by any fluffy muzzle during my vacation in IST.

Flying to Borat's homeland. 🐸💪

Demoscene cannot die there are many places to apply your energy and skills: - Retro damedev (modern gamedevs invent wheels for Sega MD, while the demoscene had it all in their pocket) - Virtual console demos (P8) - Shaders magic (now I got it)

Buying such carts with a Soviet Famicom RIP-off I had no ideas about piracy and bootlegs. I remember buying NES clone and 2 carts in Saint Petersburg for 140 rubles. The original SNES + Super Mario World was about 340 rubles. My bor borrowed me $ to buy NES. I cried over SNES.🥲

I even recorded a cover of one song: on.soundcloud.com/PYIUcNTsRN3y...

Added 5th type of a mob AI. Now going to try non modular, close to classic FF SoR AI shiet per enemy. YOLO VS YAGNI🤧 Currently we want our enemies to act as players. Like no unfair movement speeds and cheats in sleeves. If u play as the character u may perform all the shiet yrslf.

やった There is an easy way to upgrade your Windows (to 24H2 for example) on unsupported hardware (You CPU should have SSE 4.2 support. 2012+) keeping your apps and settings intact. You may tweak already installed OS as well. Disabling AI and stuff. github.com/builtbybel/F...

I missed this game English translation. Wow! "Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shito Ikusei" youtu.be/_GebMy8luys

There is a nice guide for 86K Assembly coding. It's very good for those who r going to use it in C functions or to have the main idea about it. I loved coding in asm for 6502. I wish this CPU was my 1st one. Because you basically don't need any C language simpledevcode.wordpress.com/2016/12/15/m...

After GP32 SDK I tried tons of frameworks and SDKs on different platforms. On some betrayal of commercial frameworks I switched to open source ones: - LÖVE love2d.org - SGDK github.com/Stephane-D/S... - Godot godotengine.org I used all of them to teach kids in computer schools.

Do you love Kimagure Orange Road OST as I do? youtu.be/X-7hYiXKwxk

Original prototype made in RPG Maker, and the finished product in Godot We've come far, Dustin Kingdoms of the Dump releases in November wishlist now store.steampowered.com/app/2159270/...

Just found another game by one of La-Mulana authors Takumi Nakamura: MEDIUM-NAUT was made with Pixel Game Maker🤫 youtu.be/aAa0-LInvow

Who knew that Gens KMod helps finding bugs better than BlastEm & BizHawk? #SGDK Also in Gens you may set Frameskip to 8, disable sound and get game speed 800%. It's good for several game play through. 1. make player invincible 2. give it silly/random ai 3. tweak to make >>

Got a nasty crashy bug and using git bisect for the 1st time. It's neat.

For SGDK users, BizHawk has 2 cores for Genesis emulation. The 2nd is PicoDrive (was updated recently i think) and it supports the same Lua API. But it shows different results!!! in my tests. so the CPU load is (calculated by SDGK ) different! But relatively it is the same 🤓

Hint / Vint u say? I dissected (a bit) Overdrive 2 by Titan (on Genesis) with all debug windows on in BlastEm / BizHawk And it's VERY cool to see they create the 3rd layer made of sprites and stuff www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...

After 7 years of development, we are excited that "Quartet" is out now! A series of train robberies. A mysterious deck of cards. A fleet of deadly airships. An accidental mage. Choose from four stories, in any order, and discover how they intertwine in this turn-based RPG!

On refactoring a struct I freed 256 bytes in RAM. Bam! SGDK I remember writing my 1st virus for SpriteOS on 6502 CPU which was about 128+ bytes that the file size could stay unchanged in 50% cases. The file sizes were displayed in disk blocks, I believe.

Re-added back some check for memory leakage in SGDK. All's good.😅 With leaking memory your game might crash after some running time.

The main jRPG game that changed my mind is Earthbound. I played Mother3 on its first 97% translation, I believe. So it was hard to change something in my mind back then. Now I got my hands on Magical Vacation magicalvacation.fandom.com/wiki/Magical...

Some Atari games has left a big trauma in my child's mind. Like they were impossible to play trough. I did not memorize their titles. The joysticks were hard to use. After that I bought my own Atari but the trauma is still here.

Fixed another crash due to reading data from NULL pointer. It just happens )

Check this nice game: store.steampowered.com/app/3895110/...

Ukrainian Games Festival 2025: store.steampowered.com/sale/ukraini...

due to my new Miyoo Flip I started testing modern homebrew games for old consoles. And you know what, I just cannot find anything good from PD yet. From my old collection I tested Blazed Rangers. And it's good! firstpressgames.itch.io/blazing-rang...

Ok. Just finished creation of a profiling module for Sega Genesis Roms. #BizHawk Pros: - Initial game might need no conditional compilation, debug functions and such. Basically u run a raw ROM - U get some profiling data🕺 Cons: - It's so slow from the client's side. Lol. - Ugly output🙃

Loving my Miyoo Flip (soon, going to vacation, so preparing the stuff before hand). After much of tests and stuff I've migrated to MinUI CFF github.com/shauninman/M... PS It just works. No fancy 3D consoles support but PS. Ofc there are ways. But it seems I'm interested in SNES/GBA/MD/PS the most

Lua API magic in: 1) in #BizHawk you may make a fully playable game over an empty ROM. With all sprites, icons and gfx ))), supporting any gamepads. 2) in #Aseprite you may make a fully playable game with its #Lua API. (or even a level editor / sprite+meta-data editor) 🧐 #SGDK

Btw, here is a nice set of #BizHawk scripts with colorful menu on screen etc. In my case, the help is enough. Be careful for deprecated funcs. github.com/SailorVickFG...

With my debug texts on the screen I get huge slowdowns of the emulator. 🥴 My current #BizHawk debugging shiet for Zabu #SGDK. I'm moving some info from the screen to the forms. I see real data there and can browse trough the data. Ofc it's WIP, but it works. Now it looks as some Game Maker )))

Zabu's tool chain:

I expect some AI translators / speakers based on neural activity in the near future. I mean giving a voice to mute / paralyzed people and animals. I'd chat with my ex.

I somehow missed Shinning Force I1 on GBA... the remake is close to the original but let u move diagonally in towns ^_^. There is a party pooper, too. It's a new char + cards system. Imo it cannot break the game u've finished like 5 times. I like the chubby character sprites.The portraits look meh