"It Has To Happen Outside Of Japan" - Game Preservation Society Launches Patreon And Opens US Office Following Government Fund Freeze. (Image: @gamepres)

Several months ago, I designed a FRAM board for the PCE Shuttle Backup Memory Unit, and a friend tested it. I've been so busy, I just got a chance to update the GitHub repository with the board (sorry, no installation pictures). github.com/pce-devel/PC...

First progress report of the new year is live. 😄 Updates on the progress of the #OpenSFC GPM edition, as well as how one should expect it to compare to the currently released SHVC board. Check the latest details on Ko-Fi 😄 ko-fi.com/Post/Progres... #SuperFamicom #SNES

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If you're still using Twitter/X in any capacity get the fuck off now. Cut ties entirely. Any following you have is not worth it. For any reason.

I made a t-shirt last night after I read that Satya Nadella post about how mean we're being by calling AI slop slop. I'm sad I couldn't get it here in time for the CES keynotes tomorrow.

Set the Xbox 360's Internal Clock Past 2025 with TimeFixer! Watch Here: youtu.be/3GJfS8zoEIM

@ohpoorpup.bsky.social have you seen this? xevious reinterpretation horizontal shooter that retains the bomb mechanic with remixed music, for minimum-spec MSX

Happy New Year! To go with the recent Hardware update, I have an update from the OpenXHD firmware dev team for you. Thank you Clegg and everyone else on the dev team for your hard work! I also spent the last week reorganizing some hardware for an easier to hand assemble layout for the new board.

2025 was brutal for games media, but I'm seeing some glimmers of hope as worker-owned sites like @aftermath.site, @rascal.news, and @giantbomb.bsky.social have carved out vital spaces in the games community. Earlier this year, I made a huge Indie Games Media starter pack for y'all. Let's celebrate.

Merry Christmas Xbox fans! It has been two very challenging years, but work continues on the OpenXHD project. Hardware is complete, pending updates from the FW dev team. Speaking of which, there is a FW dev team! Things are moving along quicky now and I will have more news for you soon!

Attention new users! I've made a starter pack of Japanese game devs, something a lot of folks miss from Twitter. Please flow and re-share! And if I'm missing anybody let me know! go.bsky.app/5R1tEtT

We need to do something about this shit. Props to @bennjordan.bsky.social for pressing this issue so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

I finally figured out how you "paint the town red", it starts by opening over-fermented raspberry kombucha in my kitchen and painting the walls

In May, Twitch deleted 100K speedruns among millions of other videos. With the help of ArchiveTeam and @archive.org we saved these speedruns and 500K+ other popular Twitch videos. My search tool for viewing these archives is now live! archive.speedrun.club

Hey! Are you gifted in piecing together game data? I'm going to need help during this live stream today! I'm putting raw EPROMs in a public folder, but need help piecing them together. Systems are NES, GEN, SNES, GB, GG, Jag. There are new unreleased games here! www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...

Hello everyone! My partner is under seemingly constant financial pressure and has recently set up a ko-fi in order to help ease the financial strain of simply existing these days. It'd be amazing if you could help out when and where you can! ko-fi.com/quinnyonmain

Reminder: I'm dumping mystery prototypes live this Wednesday! Here's a teaser, real ones will see something exciting. www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...

The response to this has been incredible! We're glad you're all as excited about this as we are. Reminder: Our work is mostly funded through individual donations to our charity. We're close to hitting our goals for 2026! If you were waiting to give, now is a great time: gamehistory.org/donate

The most ironically-named lost media has finally been found!

Anyone interested in being a moderator of a retro gaming subreddit? I had inherited 100+ subreddits. DM me if interested. It's a decent amount of work for me to become an "active" moderator to add new mods, so serious replies only please. List of subreddits:

ConsoleMods.org is now a strategy guide for this game lol

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.

I got cozy and wrote some homebrew for Xbox-Scene's Modfest 2025! This is a simple app that lets you set your Xbox 360's clock past 2025. I learned a lot and even documented a couple SMC commands on Free60 wiki. Get it on ConsoleMods or the Homebrew Store! consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_36...

Wavebird Controller Soars Once More with Open Source Adapter

Ridiculous project of the week: Unhappy with the 2MB storage limitation on Pico Zero and Tiny boards, I decided I needed more. A random discarded 16MB chip should enough!

Literal dealership spyware removed successfully! It's a third party GPS tracker. When I bought the car, they tried adding a $2k surcharge for the service, saying it can't be removed so we threatened to walk and they said OK we won't charge you for it but it's already installed.

note: netflix is only acquiring the warner brothers-- the warner sister, dot, will remain independent

We did it! Thanks to your generosity, we smashed through our minimum goal in just two days, meaning *VGHF is officially funded for 2026*! Thank you all so much. We could always use more, so the campaign is still open through the end of the year! Online events start next week! gamehistory.org/donate

I think this weird experience offset my Craigslist karma for the rest of my life, so now I only get the bad weirdos on Craigslist

Mike just released a new Retrotink 4k Pro & CE exp. firmware update: retrotink-llc.github.io/firmware/4k-... E-Conserve scanlines are a game changer. HDR disbaled(!), BVM scanlines and mask. Both images are direct captures just to showcase the difference in brightness.

🚨BLACK FRIDAY🚨 10% discount on the entire Broke Studio catalog until MONDAY, DECEMBER 1st 2025 11:59 P.M. (CET) ➡️ homebrew-factory.com

Please Donate to the Internet Archive. $25 helps.... a lot. Useful to Journalists, Useful to Students, Useful to more than 2 million people a day. Collections growing at 150TBytes/day @internetarchive archive.org/donate www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/b...

EVERY OSSC Pro user needs to check this out - @wobbling-pixels.bsky.social just posted a full profile pack! Also, the OSSC Pro is on sale today too! Links to everything in the post: retrorgb.com/wobbling-pix...

Hadn't seen anyone mention it over here, but reminder that the yearly 20% off Black Friday for Everdrives on krikzz.com is still active!

As someone who has advocated for accessing media legally whenever possible, this IS the time to boycott Crunchyroll. This is, perhaps, the one place where the resulting enshittification won't be easily undone and will affect the industry going forward. Go watch or play something else in the meantime

LD50_II from the NorCalHalo group uploaded 2 previously unknown ESPN College Hoops (2K4) DLCs! NCAA Schedule Update 1 NCAA Roster Update 1 They have been passed onto Rocky5 to add to his downloader, and should be available to download soon! consolemods.org/XCAT

Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂

[original post on Twitter by @eevblog] IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail. ︀︀You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models. ︀︀You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations. ︀︀Reskeet.

Another very cool trilogy donation to the shelves, courtesy of Rodrigo Copetti! 🙏 📚 Tag someone who might be interested in architecture analyses of the home consoles of yesteryear 👇

(shameless self-promotion) I don't have an SG-1000-based arcade board but I did write a post on how to mod an SG-1000 to play the arcade games nicole.express/2023/neo-geo...

If you're looking for a QUALITY 480p VGA cable for your #Sega #Dreamcast, @retrotink2 has you covered - He just launched a VGA breakout as part of his #RetroTINK dongle line! More info and links in the post: retrorgb.com/retrotink-dr...

This is it. I nearly suffocated by using the reetroom. I’m asking my doctors agreeing on a short cure. Only really sure painful prolonged angona is hereafter the grim reaps me. Please donate on the funeral fund me now.

Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social needs to be transfered by helicopter to a medical center where they can better treat her cancer, which means her gofundme needs $20k more. please give to support this trans game dev elder if you can!

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...

Another Original Xbox preservation win. Console 4133****3905 uploaded the missing PAL update for (ToCA) Race Driver 2 XCAT is working to preserve original Xbox Live history and provide for the future of Original Xbox online gaming. consolemods.org/XCAT

There. Done early.

XCAT strikes again! Thanks to our friend hardly in Japan we have recovered another lost DLC for Thousand Land on original Xbox. The recovered DLC is already on Rock5's downloader. Please help recover lost Xbox Live content. Run XCAT on every OG Xbox hard drive you can find! consolemods.org/XCAT