Sydux

They may have gone too far with Prime 4 motorbike lava mode.

Stunning how downright tropical eight degrees Celsius feels now

Wild seeing the Genki logo on a 2026 retail game. Feels like Japan never went through the late 2000s now.

Look at the cool shit he can do

I have become a master of understanding the Virtual Game Card system.

The Switch 2/Switch Lite plan for Metroid Prime 4 has been working out great. Makes me greedy and wish all Switch 2 games had shitter Switch 1 versions on them.

Finally got out of that shift and onto the bus. Some cunt's watching full volume TikToks of babies crying.

Made Metroid progress in the staff room before my shift starts. Thank you, Lite.

Second guessed a control prompt in Metroid Prime 4, because the controller diagrams are always of a pair of Joycon 2s. If I plug in a neGcon in Soul Blade, the control menu gives me a full 3D model that responds as I twist it, but Nintendo can't include an image of a Pro Controller?

The council have determined that it's bad for the environment to send me a bin calendar, so they sent me two identical, individually enveloped, letters to explain this to me.

Voice acting Samus must be such a sweet gig. Two minutes of damage grunts and you're good for five years.

God that shift dragged

Only thing of note in my December streaming summary was that there was about a solid month of me listening to this every day, and I just plum forgot about it youtu.be/GgI-nXySsw8?...

The cat was acting concerningly last night. Meowed at the driveway, but didn't jump up to the window. Ran straight in when I opened the door, but was weary of me at first. Didn't want to eat, didn't want to clean his dirty paws, though they were clearly bothering him. I was really worried...

There was a chance of me starting Metroid Prime 4 in fits and starts on a Switch Lite, on busy buses and for about 15 minutes on my break, but it appears the posties did not believe in my vision

Dengeki PlayStation meeting the moment with some 1996-ass memory card stickers

The Red Dead Redemption Switch 2 is fine enough, but I think my main takeaway is that I'll probably not bother playing Metroid Prime 4 in mouse mode.

Don't know if who'd be interested, but I got an email telling me that the PS2 MemCard Pro is available to order again. 8bitmods.com/memcard-pro2...

I'm a big enough dork to have reviewed multiple different international releases of one game, so I'd prefer to be able to assign an image per log, but I'm still thankful for how it is now.

Skimming through every issue of Dengeki PlayStation, and seeing the Final Fantasy VII reveal in March 1996 is a proper holy shit moment. Totally makes sense how much it swayed things in Japan. Cunts were still playing Kileak The Blood and shit.

Capcom need to sneak out an Onimusha 3 remaster by the end of the month, because I'm struggling to think of anything else I played for the first time this year that I'd vote for Best Narrative on backloggd

A third cat appeared on the driveway...

Would have thought we'd have heard about a revised release date for Mina the Hollower by now...

Hadn't touched the actual cart in years, and loading it up, I was around 54 stars. Just sorted that out quickly.

Now we're talking

Been slipping, and now I have about forty 1995 Japanese PlayStation magazine scans to skim through. What a treat.

Truly fucked up, how the Lessons button doesn't stop glowing and sparkling after you do every tutorial. Recognise my patience and your irrelevance, bitch.

He's so happy to be let in tonight, he's all slabbery

Watched Anthology 9. Hadn't fully recognised or appreciated that it was 90s George Harrison working with 90s Paul McCartney, and seeing how consistently unamused George is with Paul's japes and antics was very funny.

NSO is fine and all, but it can't replicate Nintendo Software Technology's chipshop rental vibe

Taking offense at seeing it in a charity shop

Samus Aran is going to kill Lavaman

Bought a bunch of Japanese MGS1 guides for about £3 each, a few years back. One of the vendors selling one of them for £35 there.

I'd own so many more Switch 2 games if they'd actually put them on carts. Even as second-hand things or clearance sale options, it just seems really annoying to have to dedicate precious microSD Express gigabytes to them and still have to use a stupid blank cartridge to access any of it.

Thought I had a solid theory on which house he's from, but their lights were on and he still came running over, meowing, before I even unlocked my door. Keeps me guessing.

Pray, a moment's silence

No matter what stupid little evening shift I've been given, he's become quite adept at showing up on my windowsill ten minutes before I have to leave.

I was so excited for GTA IV. Got it launch day, and my Japanese PS3 wouldn't even launch it on a PAL CRT. Instantly ordered a US copy and listed my UK one. Ended up selling for so much, it paid for a cheap HDTV, which arrived before the game did.

A YouTube short casually implied that PS1 longboxes were a result of the Sony Imagesoft days, when they were a Sega CD publisher, and had ties to the same packaging manufacturers as Sega. Could be baseless speculation, for all I know, but it's the single most interesting thought I've ever heard.

The verdict is still out, but I fear Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeons may not be worth buying

Oh, shit - yeah! Finally!

As an official statement on what NES games are supposed to look like, the new CRT filter is quite validating

Oh, man. They've even got Ken Kutaragi in for this.

Sure. I'll do that.

POKEMÒN

I have a lucky Saturday off, so I bought a ticket for the Glasgow Games Market, even though I really don't need to buy any more games right now.