moving, rotating and looping paths #gamedev

free vertical scrolling section, linking multiple routes together #gamedev

screwing with godot, 2.5d on-rails camera #gamedev

Did anyone ever work out why some traditional gamepad joysticks start to drift so quickly compared to others?

Unlike Valve, Nintendo can count to three. But it they often can't count to four. E.g. they never made a fourth Super Mario Bros. game, a fourth Pikmin game, a fourth Paper Mario game, a fourth 3D Mario game.

Proto Challenge presents... A lot of Nintendo 3DS system software prototypes + a very early prototype of Kid Icarus Uprising! This release has been a long time coming, and we're happy to finally have it all working on retail hardware for anyone to try. 🧵

This is a prototype of the unreleased Game Boy Color version of 40 Winks! This build has 6 playable levels and 2 playable characters (Ruff and Tumble). It seems to have been from very far along in the game's development. archive.org/details/40-w...

Today, we bring you a prototype of Mario's Picross for the Game Boy! Dated January 23rd, 1995, this build comes a few months before release and contains different puzzles, a different Super Game Boy title screen, and other graphical differences. archive.org/details/mari...

Today marks 15 years since the 3DS released. To celebrate, we'd like to announce that in March, we'll host Proto Direct: a live stream showcasing newly found game prototypes for 3DS and other systems too! We'll announce an exact date/time at a later date. Follow us here to get notified of updates!

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

Does anyone want to play that new NSMBW Co-Op mod online using Dolphin?

Introducing OmniDrive! A firmware modification for MediaTek MT1959-based optical disc drives manufactured by Hitachi-LG Data Storage that enables features that allow for better, more complete reading of discs, including proprietary game discs. github.com/RibShark/Omn...

We finally have a photo of the previously unseen Zelda 1 art on display at the Nintendo Museum. The cartouche in the top right, subtitled "THE MAP OF HYRULE," depicts 3 fairy/goddess figures unfolding a cloth (making the world?). Miyamoto's signature is on the bottom right.

The PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign is now live! Back the project to be among the first to get yours! PicoIDE is an open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro systems. www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

Speaking of Virtual Boy, here's a clip from a Video Boy VUE, a tool from Intelligent Systems for showing Virtual Boy games on a TV or monitor. In 2021 I wrote up an article examining the hardware: hcs64.com/video-boy-vue/

Does anyone know why the Pi Pico debug probe might be giving a "JUNK" error?

Does anyone know why the Pi Pico debug probe might be giving a "JUNK" error?

Possibly the first 3D PS2 game to run in 1080i www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFoX...

Does anyone recall if any of the Nintendo leaks had GBA e-Reader tools in them?

Question: how many degrees off was the WarioWare Twisted gyroscope nearer to its release in 2005? I'm not sure if this is hardware degradation or if its normal?

Well there you go I made a micro post of it lol luigiblood.neocities.org/micro/2025-1...

The big "VGM Sound Sources" (game soundfont) spreadsheet list sound CDs/synths and has a "wanted CDs" list. But where are the download links (or dat/hash file) for the actual CDs/synth data?

After 6 years working on BlueRetro, the time has come for me to move on and focus on my family and my real job. Thank you to everyone who contributed, tested, reported issues, or supported the project over the years. Your involvement made BlueRetro what it is today.

Websites don't just magically appear on the Wayback Machine, someone has to actually archive them. Sometimes that's Internet Archive themselves. Sometimes that's the ArchiveTeam community saving entire websites before they shut down. And they could use your help paying for their big servers :)

Honestly I thought they wouldn't slop-ify Prime 4, since its meant to be a "hardcore" series. I guess Kirby is the only Nintendo franchise that's been left untouched.

Prime 4 basically doesn't have any of the original Prime devs, does it? Did Nintendo not give them the memo that its good to keep your devs around?

Prime 4 might be the first Nintendo game that had a cross-platform release (like Twilight Princess and BOTW) where the version on the newer console is significantly higher fidelity?

Valve should bring back E3 just for Half-Life 3. They shouldn't debase themselves by going on the "Game Awards".

The big "VGM Sound Sources" (game soundfont) spreadsheet list sound CDs/synths and has a "wanted CDs" list. But where are the download links (or dat/hash file) for the actual CDs/synth data?

I guess I'll need to upgrade from my GTX 1650 for Half-Life 3. Hopefully that'll cover Half-Life Alyx as well, although I'd still need the VR setup.

Nintendo's post-Wii output seems to be "by-the-numbers creativity". An evolution of the formula they started with NSMBWii. The devs are required to be as creative as possible, but only within very strict parameters that nullify much of the creativity felt in the final product.

KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out. www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer

Are you ready for #PicoIDE? It seems to be telling me it's ready. Coming soon: ATAPI optical disc emulation and IDE hard drive emulation. picoide.com

I have scanned and uploaded the extremely rare Nintendo company guide from 2000: archive.org/details/nint... This is my first attempt at archiving my collection so I expect the quality will improve as my process does

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels: • YouTube Studio • Settings • Channel • Advanced settings • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality" • Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

Surprise! 25 3DS prototype builds are now available! Many come from E3 2010. There's plenty to explore as I go in-depth with these previews in this special video.

Microsoft have officially confirmed that pirating Steam games "is an Xbox", as long as you check in with Copilot every so often to see how its feeling. In response, the Gamer's Advice Bureau have issued an safety advisory to not maintain prolonged eye contact with Microsoft.

32%? Those are rookie numbers, you've gotta get those numbers up. (At least its 40% or something for Windows users as a whole.)

All these game re-releases would be less annoying if companies didn't make such a big deal about them. Back when we had E3, they would've just been footnotes.

Nintendo fans in 2045: "omg I'm so excited they added the third page of the Pikmin manual to the Nintendo Classics+ tier of the Nintendo Retro Legacy app!!! I hope they add the box art of Mach Rider Next!!!!!!"

A REQUEST: If you own a French CD-ROM computer game called "Pop Anim'", please let me know. I could use it for some research but haven't been able to find a circulating copy yet. (It's at the BnF but I can't get there right now.)

Apparently Yoji Inagaki worked on all the non-enemy sound effects in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. He did sound effects for Luigi's Mansion too, but not sure on specifics. But out of any game I know these two Zelda games have the closest atmosphere to Luigi's Mansion.

Added one: A Hat in Time. Not played it yet though.

Made a backlogdd list: "Games with a Sense of "Home" / Evolving Hub Worlds and Adventure Chapters" backloggd.com/u/HiccupJul/...

I made a backloggd account. Still need to import some old lists into it though. backloggd.com/u/HiccupJul/

Are there any other action games that have these sort of low-poly, bitcrushed, noisy, kind of creepy robot bosses like in Sonic Rush? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et2J...

Got my first capture from the top screen of the Nintendo DS Lite using a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. Captured using PIO, outputting DVI-D using HSTX. There is still some work left to do, but it's getting there!

People seem to imply that AI is an art tool like a pencil, or 3D modelling software. But the difference is, those tools aren't shit.