Silksong is fun and this diagonal jump is going to take some getting used to, but the most jarring change is having a MC who talks.

Woah, when did RHDN open submissions up again?

The push for on-demand content is generally better than the old cable programming approach, but the lack of reruns really drives a bias towards recency... a lot of people won't be exposed to some cool-but-not-quite-masterpiece works as a result. Anyway, I think more people should watch Last Exile.

Forced to use Win11 at work because of Win10 deprecation and my god how did Microsoft just make an OS that was more restrictive and less responsive. Feels like XP -> Vista. The forced TPM 2.0 requirement implies that BitLocker is more secure now? Are less people getting hit by ransomware on Win11?

Current hobby is getting irrationally angry at apps that don't properly clear their notification badges on iOS.

GitHub gonna train on the code I push up? Go ahead. Having to parse through AI slop based on my Python will elevate the next generation of reverse engineers to never before seen heights.

It took hours of staring at raw bytes and writing hacky Python to parse it, but seeing that cmp -l with no issues after rebuilding a scripting engine is that special type of nerdy exhilaration I crave. Finally feel like I can justify finishing up that Mina the Hallower demo now.

Probably the last big thing for #medabots 3 - the localized version of the patch (sans audio). Lots of work went into this from a lot of people, so hope you all enjoy! I need to find an alternative to RHDN but, for now, it'd be helpful if people could share this around. github.com/Medabots/med...

Was trying to figure out which of my projects to pick back up and the world sent me a sign with all the subtlety of Truck-kun isekai-ing a random passerby.

Man I wish the Helck anime was better so more people would read it and Volundio. It's so full of soul. Maybe one day we'll see a proper English localized physical edition instead of it being relegated to whatever Comikey is doing with it...

I wonder what Biggie Smalls played on his Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

Something poetic about having Team Star cookies in a functional trash can.

New advent of Saturn translations means I might see one for Martian Successor Nadesico: The Blank of Three Years 👀???

We never really needed more than this.

Personally I think people buying and selling loose Pokemon Emerald for 70$+ deserve to be flogged but maybe I'm just in the extreme.

Does anyone know if my Fantasy Life i save will still work between my Switch 2 and Lite if I have the Switch 2 version...?

Feels like it should be common knowledge, but I highly recommend anyone maintaining or creating a new C++ project setup a workflow that can generate compile_commands for clangd/LSP use. An absolute game changer for productivity and I feel like everyone should do it. MSVC can go fuck itself though.

Anyone ever get like, Python 3 building for Windows 98. I was able to get 3.14 building for OSX Tiger but getting my usual GB romhacking workflow on a Toshiba Portege 3025CT might be a more difficult endeavor...

So has anyone tried modern GB romhacking on Windows 98 or is that gonna be the next step from my PPC Tiger shenanigans.

Of the firm opinion that all software would be way better if the average laptop people used was a 2016 XPS 13.

I definitely don't need it, but I kinda want a minimum spec Framework 12. Don't see a lot of nice 12" laptops anymore, and framework's got a nice little vibe. Hard to compete with like a used 400$ M1 Macbook Air though...

Mapped it out; I was right. They just map a subset of characters into a table but it's all SJIS under the hood. A bit convoluted, but whatever works I guess. It's not like Huffman Coding didn't exist in the 90s, so I wonder why they bothered with something so convoluted...

Y'all ever just like... understand a problem but really just don't want to do it. I've got the text script stuff for this game pretty much dumped but the actual character mapping relies on this really convoluted set of tables to pull the actual tile and my brain is just resisting doing it.

Ohhh. I have a few fun things but this is probably one of my favorites. A GBA SP signed by all the members of Evanescence from the Nintendo Fusion Tour.

Games compiled with old GBDK (like, 90s) have a lot of crazy inefficiencies but damn they get real convoluted. I'm working on disassembling the scripting engines (plural) in SW2 GBC and my god there are so many indirection layers.

Been playing FF3 DS on flights since I've been traveling a lot and man it really makes me appreciate how much thought and refinement is put into classic DQ combat.

Thinking about how I could use Fourier transforms to efficiently handle tileset data and realizing everything's JPEG.

It may be boomer-esque of me, but I really think it's important for parents and educators to stress the importance of being able to understand and do (practice!) things before relying on ChatGPT. There really is value in every single one of those meticulous steps taken.

People out here worried about NS2 pricing, meanwhile I'm playing a game I picked up for 15$ loose on a DSi that would've been thrown away in 2016. I detest the upsell of old games and hardware that weren't meant to be collectible, but at least there's still some cool stuff you can find cheap.

I really wish I could just have a portable MS Paint. I don't need any fancy features. Just simple responsive UI, PNG support, and the ability to edit on a per-pixel grid for editing Gameboy tilesets.

Just an update on some things. Let's see if I'll have actual results in the next post...

God I hate Python's packaging mechanisms. > Numpy 1.20 deprecated using 'numpy.float' which breaks openpyxl > OK, let me revert to numpy 1.20 to just proceed. > Latest clang flags more warnings and numpy 1.20 builds with -Werror So I guess it's another fork then. JFC.

Been writing a GB emulator with C++20 for fun to get something running on the G4 but I think I've pivoted to just seeing how much crap I can make clang's compile time evaluator do.

Need a C++ junkie to tell me why my compile-time array populated by static member functions of classes from a parameter pack expansion doesn't work when I use more than one class. I swear it's gotta be something stupid...

Playing a little Hollow Knight and man, it's still just one of the most phenomenal games for that feeling of exploration with silent storytelling. 80 hours in and I finally got around to dream sabering the shopkeeper in the city of tears for more character depth.

Needed Java so ran software update on my PowerBook G4 on 10.4.11 and was surprised to find that Apple still keeps these updates live. Apple, the company that would completely remove the most popular graphics API in the world if it could get away with it. This is some duality of man shit.

Well, patched up enough of SDL 2.0.3 and added some stuff from 2.0.4 to build SameBoy. If you listen closely, you can hear Ikki's voice played at 5 Hz.

SameBoy building for 10.4 PPC is the last thing... then I swear I'll get back to Medarot 4 and SW GB2 and DW3.

Y'know, I like my Analogue Pocket hardware, but I wonder if anyone has tried picking up those neat little 3.5" 1440 x 1600 displays for one of those tiny Linux handhelds... seems like an easy win.

You can't bait me like this. It's not fair.

Unrelated to my previous posts: Does anyone have an IRC or Discord server where I can bug the like, 6 other people in the world using PowerPC Macs in 2025?

Oh shit, X11 (albeit R6) is part of the Mac OS X 10.4u SDK. I wonder if Qt6 could link and run as part of X11 on 10.4...

Spent the greater part of the day trying to unsuccessfully get raylib and all its samples to build for OS X 10.4... I think I may be better off just using rlgl for the OpenGL version abstraction and using GLUT as the window manager... I just want to make this obsolete hardware useful damnit 😩

That peak performance post really should have been saved for this.

For the love of god someone tell me how to properly do artifact dependencies in GitHub Actions so I'm not building zlib 4 times for Git.

Man, I finally have openssl, curl, and git all building for OSX 10.4.11 G4 and have been trying to debug why TLS stuff won't work but every SO post and google link is just people with messed up Git installs that utilize old versions of SSL 😩. My issues are starting to become too specialized :(

Python, rgbds, Make... the only thing I'm missing for a full GameBoy-on-2004-PowerPC setup is an actual emulator. Guess I'm gonna go port over SDL to use SameBoy or something. I wish I had a non-windows version of BGB, I really just prefer its simplicity...

Well, I thiiiink I got Python 3.12 cross-compiling but alas my iBook is dead and my alternative options won't arrive for a week or two... anyone got a PPC Mac running Tiger that wants to help me test things? :D

My iBook G4's drive died and I can't get it to boot off my ISOs 🫠. All that work getting cross-compilation working for naught. Alas...

Updated it with a full set of instructions to compile a C++20 compatible cross-compiler for PowerPC from an arbitrary (probably Linux) host. I've done none of the actual hard work, but it was a fun experience to learn about the current state of things for a system 20 years ago.