Apropos of nothing I've got Uninvited here for #RandomGameSaturday this week.

Heading into the weekend baby I’m free I’m invincible I will get so much done

Now more than ever, Final Fantasy Tactics is a game with an important political message for the world:

GUNPLA

Immediately wishlisted

Oh no :(

"Which is your favorite/definitive version of the original Prince of Persia?" 💾As promised-- after 35 years, here's a proper blog post with my thoughts, and the story behind Prince of Persia's multiple 1990s ports. www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-ne...

Here are my top 10 dog sneezes!

We only rate dogs. This is very clearly a red panda. We've had just about enough of your tomfoolery. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (IG: __joyjoa)

Stream is now live; watch me struggle with gimp trying to draw a basic pixel font before implementing it in the game www.twitch.tv/gideonzhi

Stream in half an hour, going to be working on SRW4 copyrights screen.

Thinking srw4 opening copyrights work tonight for stream. Unlike 3 and EX, which use sprites for their copyrights, 4 sticks them on a mode 7 plane so it can scale them easily.

This is what made me a dog person ❤️

Replaced the left stick assembly on my elite series 2 controller yesterday. If held at full extension in one direction, it'd snap back to 0.17 in the other direction causing characters to face the wrong way in 2D games and drift in 3D. Removing it was not fun though, 14 through-hole solder joints D:

Two words that will almost guarantee I don't want to touch your game any time soon: "roguelike" and "deck builder". Doubly so if they're both present and right next to each other. Admittedly I can occasionally be swayed by lofty promises (see: Blue Prince) but it's a pretty steep climb to get there.

@brandon.insertcredit.com I've been seeing a lot lately about how foundational Xevious is to JP game design alongside like Wizardry and Druaga. A quick YT search pops up a "History of Xevious" but I'm not sure if that goes into its wider impact. Any recs for viewing/reading? I'd love to learn more.

No stream tonight folks; still catching up on weekend meant-to-do list after having been laid flat out for three days straight with vaccine side effects. Next week though!

Hey everyone, check it out! Two more that I worked on :) These are completely different translations from the Retro Brawler Bundle versions on the Switch, and I did my absolute damnedest to make sure that full-length names for characters, skills, and items were in place for both games.

Very much feeling this with @funfactorpod.com. We know it’s good, and have a very strong and dedicated (but small) listener community, but getting it into new ears is a grind in the algorithmic age. Anyway. Listen to Post Games—it’s easily one of my favourite podcasts, and hit the ground RUNNING.

Covers that hard: Vortex for Super Famicom. Stark contrast from the North American cover with its colourful chrome robots in favour of something almost eldritch in design.

Peeps gotta stop naming their mobile weapons shit like "chaos" and "abyss" if they don't want them to be used by absolute dirtbags

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

In case you haven't played it yet, Severed Steel (one of the best bullet-time shooters around, IMO) just got a big 4th anniversary update, and it's *95% off* for the rest of the month. That puts it down to around one dollar. If you like the FPS genre in the slightest, you really should have this.

I'd love to see an analysis about how much, percentage wise, of Gundam Seed's second half is reused animation for flashback

Contributed to a homebrew port of Clock Tower for the GBA. I converted the soundtrack of the original SFC version to the GBA hardware and helped test, though @bobschneeder45.bsky.social did almost everything else including making the thing. Please enjoy!

going from playing pokey, chunky, buzzy Atari 2600 games to this reformatted my brain at the age of 6 and made me forsake all toys in favor of video games

This week for #RandomGameSaturday it's Drakkhen for snes

Frog is coming for you, Magus

I am incredibly invested in stopping the semantic slippage that would make "lost media" just mean "not currently available for purchase" (cc @philsalv.bsky.social)

The artwork of Laplace no Ma by Kohji used for advertising the #SuperFamicom release on magazines in Japan. Removed logos/text, taking few liberties, applying the usual upscale/clean/retouch process.

SRW Y post-release survey is out. This is important as the results from the survey will help the dev team decide what series from Y is carried over to the next game as well as what new/returning series will appear. Do your part (Its in English too): t.co/Yq9r3iR0Hc

Once again thinking about Macaulay Culkin walking into the Parisian café where the wifi password was “Macaulay Culkin” and the owner saying “I knew you’d come here someday”

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Evolution (abridged)

wild that MP3 is an audio file, MP4 is a video file, but MP5 is a submachine gun. Digimon-ass evolution line.

Now live, modding that old GBA! www.twitch.tv/gideonzhi

Starts in an hour or so!

Fixed up my old 5th gen ipod! Replaced the cracked top case, the battery, the clickwheel, and swapped out the hard drive for an adapter with a 128GB SD card. Time to load 'er up!

These also artificially inflate the number of openings that appear in jobs reports as well, which makes the economy seem healthier than it is.

apropos of nothing at all, the nobles who got guillotined in the french revolution had more of a sense of social responsibility than much of corporate america has today; if only because they realized their vanity projects still needed to serve the people in some capacity to actually help their image

Hey folks, on stream tonight we're going to be modding this GBA! It's going to be getting a full workup: * New shell + buttons * New screen * Capacitor replacement * Power switch cleaning * Audio amp install * New speaker