Some good news, even if a bit boring! An anon with an early P1 game was nice enough to dump their memory card dongle. Their decrypted dongle, mine and mame all match. The date range these dumps cover makes me fairly confident that there is only one konami dongle with the possible exception of...

Smoke test ✅

do you think you would be better or worse at surviving outdoors than someone 3000 years ago? For me I think better because I watched a lot of youtube where a guy pretends to live outside

Big 🧵time! Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python. It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.

Big 🧵time! Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python. It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.

You know you’re deep in the trenches when cross compiling a Linux kernel is the path of least resistance

Gotta keep Windows Threat Protection on its toes. 🔍🕵️

Found a local retailer that was fire selling FireWire cables. They all were only 25 cents each but I bought these ones because of the dogs on it

Lookout football-fields, a new standard of measurement just dropped: mini-DIN

In a sick twist of fate my period-correct FireWire cables are bad and I have to jiggle them the right way to avoid resetting the FireWire bus. Back to waiting for more cables 🫠🫠🫠

When analyzing FireWire packets on a blue and white powermac G3, make sure you use period correct transparent FireWire cables

Anyway, long story short I think it’s finally in a workable position, so I’ll be speeding and driving without a seatbelt in cross country Canada while I wait for more FireWire cables to arrive

I’m never buying a computer from an era before usb boot again. The number of dvd-r coasters I’ve produced is embarrassing Weirdly nostalgic though to start an operating system install and then sleeping to check on the install in the morning because it’s already been two hours and I’m tired

Oh yeah, now we’re gaming. The multiple hard-crashes I’ve experienced are authentic to my computer lab memories, gotta love Mac OS 9

Lots of room for activities in here

The beast has arrived and is now taking up the majority of my desk space

I'm sorry for judging you firewire, I wasn't aware of your power. Twisted pair differentials in individually shielded shrouds inside a shielded cable. I've seen VGA cables with worse cross-sections

Nobody prepared me for how much a mini-firewire cable looks like a USB cable that was stepped on. This gives me the same feeling nails on a chalk board does, what the hell. Also my new cable I ordered arrived with rust, probably required certified spelunkers to locate my order in the warehouse.

A perplexingly relevant question: Anyone know of someone in the Toronto area looking to part ways with a Power Macintosh G3 blue and white? The FireWire interface in that can operate against the spec, and with the right Linux driver it can dump all traffic. Lots of FireWire research ahead of me.

I might be up to some Konami python 1 related shenanigans. Should be fun 🕵️

I legitimately thought this was some bizarre Wikipedia vandalism and not an actual video game:

This is how people worked before the invention of coffee shops with wifi

While everyone is talking about the FCC leaking the iPhone schematics, we should remember a much more important schematic leak: 🔥The V.Smile Motion🔥 The full schematic is entertainingly listed next to a signed confidentiality document requesting the schematic stay confidential...

First time I've ever seen a readme like this. I, uh... appreciate the honesty I guess?

Today's mood. No I will not elaborate.

DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX Reco.ver (大往生DX-ﾚｺver.-) was preserved by Yuuku! Only sold on December 30, 2007, this is a score competition variant of DoDonPachi DaiOuJou DX. Given how it was only available for one day, this may be one of the rarest i-mode games preserved so far.

All those years of D.A.R.E. and nobody warned me about the gateway drug known as a RJ45 crimper

Blade Runner would be a very different movie if the Voight-Kampff test was just aquatic emoji trivia

Me irl after completing my latest hyper fixation

Until this week, it's been impossible to play the games of the 1993 Pioneer LaserActive without one of the vanishingly rare, disintegrating consoles. Here's the story of the guy who's been trying to fix that for years -- and all the hardware and software he had to build to make it possible.

Slightly diminish a band: They likely are not giants

Amazing things keep happening in Ares. If you haven’t used it yet you should give it a try!

⭕️ ⭕️ ⭕️ ⭕️🗿 get gradiused idiot

Just read a marketing page that combined physical with digital into “phygital” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more repulsive word in my life?

So for the last 3 months, I decided to dive head first into the mouth of madness. Enjoy! I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch youtu.be/TBiFGhnXsh8

Who else's Friday night is going stupid go crazy 😎😎😎😎😎

It speaks volumes about how my brain works that I have a to-watch movie backlog longer than Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights, then I see a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score for War of the Worlds starring Ice Cube and it's "sorry K-Pop Demon Hunters and The Substance, step aside"

me hiding the wifi-sniffing raspberry pi’s to make this work

Chaos Heat is a subtle video game

Eons ago I made a Skype bot that used Markov chains seeded with comedian quotes and politicians speech transcripts to learn Python Added it to group chats and it was mostly incoherent. Sometimes, if you squint hard enough, hilarious & profound When I bump into LLM output, I’m reminded of that bot…

My personal experience with online safety was my school installing strict internet controls to Protect The Kids™, so I joined a hacking forum to learn bypasses. The users also taught me how to import drugs via the dark web. Then I got arrested by the FBI for computer hacking. It was all very safe.

I find it hilarious that after the devs spend 17 years fully Caves of Qud they sit down and decide to make more Caves of Qud.

Practicing macro shots of silicon dies

Look at this relatable fella

This mod is technically and creatively impressive More importantly it captures every single childhood recess rumour I experienced and turned it into reality in a way that feels official and natural You don’t even have to beat the game on hard mode as jigglypuff 8 times without dying!

Anyone else experience this? Modern tv remotes are so energy efficient, they die because the batteries have leaked. I haven’t had a remote actually drain a battery, the batteries themselves are the new failure mode…

For all the grumblings about Qt, it's kinda nice to work with once someone else does all the hard work of managing dependencies and build configuration

BlueRetro now support SNES rumble! youtube.com/shorts/PJMMm... Thanks to @randallinden.bsky.social for the spec and proto ctrl! Kudos to @Sunlit for StarFox!

I sure hope Sony continues to not proofread their console logs. Gifts me motivational comedic relief for times where I break things in new unexpected ways.

it is important to note: thanks to internet sample sleuths, it is now a known fact that in this fully licensed Disney dancing game, Donald Duck intros the It's A Small World (Ducking Hardcore Mix) by yelling "SMELL MY FINGER BITCH"