Akihabara Station at sun down. Checking out local arcades and restaurants. So far found plenty of candy cabs with Gradius and Salamander, but no R-Type yet. Also found MSX Aleste in a shop, but the price was pretty much terrible, so the search still goes on.

Completed the arcade version of R-Type in MAME using a d-pad on single life. I then continued to play the second loop and died in level 11. #1-ALL

Today I played through the entire arcade R-Type on MAME. Not saying I completed it because I was using save-states, but I am still pretty pumped up about it. I have a saved state for the beginning of each level with the ship equipped as it would be without dying. Means I can practice levels at will.

Completed Aleste 2 on one credit today. The key is to collect plenty of lives before Area 8 and the rest is basically inertia. #MSX

Thunder Force IV completed! #Sega #MegaDrive

Finally completed Parodius on #MSX today. Visited the final boss eight or nine times before eventually beating him. Getting to him from the last checkpoint is a real ordeal.

After so many years I have finally beaten Galencia. #C64

Different angle and different MSX for this year's #MaySiXth. Say hi to my Philips NMS 8245 (and also parts of Consul 2717, CRT and I/O unit for my NEC PC 8001, Sharp MZ 821 and Commodore PET). #MSX

Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Say his name.

Any of you #SHARP X1 people have a schematic for the CZ-850D monitor? Judging from the smell, something cooked inside when it made the wet "pop" sound. There was no white smoke though. My guess is it was some a non-essential capacitor as the monitor was still working before I shut it down.

Today I was just one flip of a switch away from frying a SHARP MZ-1500 by plugging it to 220V. This happened as I was previously playing with European versions of MZ-800 and MZ-700 and then casually swapping the Japanese MZ-1500 in. Glad that I stopped myself today. I must be more careful next time.

Wondering if it makes better sense for the Czech Republic to reconsider the purchase of F-35 in favor of something produced locally in Europe, such as the latest Gripen, Eurofighter or Rafale. Something that the US does not benefit from and cannot switch off.

Elon Musk is not a real gamer.

Skoro 66 milionů ze 70 vybráno na vrtulník Black Hawk pro Ukrajinu. A další náš malý příspěvek je na cestě. Tentokrát volba také nebyla složitá :) #ArmUkraineNow www.zbraneproukrajinu.cz/kampane/cest...

My new #C64 #RPG: I'm thinking of asking for help for the music...

It should be forbidden to do game review videos or write reviews unless the reviewer has actually completed the game.

Just completed playing Briley Witch Chronicles 2 which I started a couple of days ago on Halloween. What a game! sarahjaneavory.itch.io/briley-witch...

I am going!

Seems like I've been just kicked out from Twitch indefinitely for committing a fraud. What fraud? I have absolutely zero idea. I have barely used my account, limited to chatting about MSX. The account is unlikely to have been hacked into. The worst is these bastard won't even tell me why.

Happy belated National Humiliation Day, Mongolia.

Lots of Japanese goodness arrived today.

Here's one of the LVA510 (PAL encoder IC) failure modes: completely missing chroma from the output composite video signal. #MSX

Just finished Zeta Wing 2 with 328500 points. What a lovely game!

Here's a somewhat blur picture of my MSX setup. The monitor would fit better with my Philips NMS 8245, but today is not its turn. So you get a view of my Panasonic FS-A1FX instead. I've been using the Tesla TV as a second monitor for games that use the V9990 graphics. #MaySiXth #MSX

I am debugging a problem with my Mattel Aquarius and needed some sort of a cartridge breakout board. I found this project on GitHub and had it manufactured by AISLER in Germany. The 3 PCBs were for EUR 20.52 in total including free untracked shipping. Try to beat this, China :-)

Besides migrating my personal account here, I also migrated @helenosorg.bsky.social. Not that I have been very active in the project lately.