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Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday's games run on tomorrow's hardware.
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Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?
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Returning to a better time 😌
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9/21/18
YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe
https://youtu.be/CG7YHFT4hjw?si=-AbKiSMtaOXUQOnT
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Just had to pay my respects
@northerniion.bsky.social
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Weeks after Silksong's launch I can't stop thinking about this streamer's masterful troll campaign against its fans: 'They made a whole game about getting to your car but you don't have car keys, and ...
Northernlion's good-natured ribbing of his audience has had a frequent Hollow Knight refrain since Silksong's launch.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/northernlion-silksong-ragebait-troll/
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Baxter
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New translation! The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin" Enjoy!!
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The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin (Shoichiro Sasaki, 1981) w/ English Subs
YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving
https://youtu.be/tDmUH33618w
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Finally, after 29 years, gamers can: Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Twist it! Bop it! Pull it! Twist it! Pull it! Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Twist it! Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Twist it! Bop it! Pull it!
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The adaptation you've been waiting for since 1996 is finally here: Bop It! is now a videogame
"Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Twist it! Bop it! Pull it! Twist it! Pull it! Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Twist it! Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Twist it! Bop it! Pull it!"
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rhythm/the-adaptation-youve-been-waiting-for-since-1996-is-finally-here-bop-it-is-now-a-videogame/
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omg, that's one additional second per second of funkstyle
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Watanabe's Lazarus never really got better than pretty good, but jesus the finale episode's "0 days left for us" right after a dedication to late Cowboy Bebop writer Keiko Nobumoto hit like a truck
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Sabrina Imbler
6 days ago
if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
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Ezra Klein spent the whole weekend thinking real hard about how he wrote one of the most embarrassing opinion columns of all time and has returned to deliver a dramatic reading of his newly enlightened perspective
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Should I spend $75 on a sweatshirt with the Linda Cube logo on it 🤔
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Baxter
7 days ago
Dropping this week: the movie that altered a young Hirokazu Kore-eda's brain chemistry and my third translation of a film from the hugely influential director Shoichiro Sasaki (Dream Island Girl, Utopiano)... "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin" is coming to you with subs this Friday!
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I'm better when I move
YouTube video by David Nayer
https://youtu.be/HbhI31AWzns?t=80
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8 days ago
Here's an interview with Roger, aka Nemesis - The developer who reverse engineered the Pioneer LaserActive and created the first emulator for it! Just search your favorite app for "RetroRGB Nemesis", or go to the main post:
www.retrorgb.com/interview-wi...
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Film Updates
9 days ago
Javier Bardem at the
#Emmys
: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)
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Bowl of Lentils
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!!NEW VIDEO!! This time I cover Chunsoft’s Sound Novel franchise, a hugely important series in the history of Japanese video games that served as the progenitor to the visual novel genre and was a source of inspiration for all kinds of developers. WATCH -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BT...
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I was overcome with the need to write about GURREN LAGANN and how sick it is that we’re still getting access to DS games from the time before English anime releases were even close to a given
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and the Nintendo DS's anime game treasure trove
Plus: a 486 in your wallet, a PS1 roguelike and an MSX RPG classic.
https://www.readonlymemo.com/tengen-toppa-gurren-lagann-and-the-nintendo-dss-anime-game-treasure-trove/
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Tyler
10 days ago
I reviewed the bug game.
www.pcgamer.com/games/action...
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Hollow Knight: Silksong review
A 2D action game that'll make you work to see what all the hype was about.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/action/hollow-knight-silksong-review/
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@jeffgerstmann.com
Thanks for the LaserActive story shout-out in the latest podcast, glad you enjoyed it! And that you never gave in and spent the money on one since it probably would've blown itself up by now
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Guy told me to kms today and then called me slurs because an article I wrote wasn't detailed enough, but didn't specify which article
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idk man I'm not a Great Thinker or Content Moderation Genius but I've been alive long enough to recognize that when you scramble to uphold decorum above all else it's because you don't actually know what or who you really stand for. If you stand for anything at all.
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Robert Jones
12 days ago
The latest
@pcgamer.com
magazine is out now, with world exclusive access to IO Interactive's exciting new James Bond action-adventure, 007 First Light. Plus, Titan Quest II, Aether & Iron, Phantom Blade Zero, Grounded 2, Raw Fury, PCIe 5.0 SSDs rated, and much more, too. 💥
tinyurl.com/mpjfn63d
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PC Gamer magazine's new issue is on sale now: 007 First Light
Plus, Titan Quest II, Aether & Iron, Phantom Blade Zero, Grounded 2, Raw Fury, Drakan: Order of the Flame, PCIe 5.0 SSDs rated, and much more, too.
https://tinyurl.com/mpjfn63d
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Why we don't have a Borderlands 4 review yet
PC Gamer wasn't offered early review access, but will be covering Borderlands 4 extensively after launch.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/why-we-dont-have-a-borderlands-4-review-yet/
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@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Because I haven't been able to stop thinking about them since I watched the film months ago (specifically the purple jacket on black), I was wondering if you'd rate Kyôhei Shibata's fits in Matamata Abunai Deka a 10/10 or 11/10 for late '80s fashion?
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Other websites' top story today: Look at the new thinner iPhone. It's thinner.
@pcgamer.com
today: A BUG MADE SPACE CADET PINBALL RUN AT 5,000 FRAMES PER SECOND
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Former MS engineer Dave Plummer admits he accidentally coded Pinball to run 'at like, 5,000 frames per second' on Windows NT
One whole core for pinball duties.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/former-ms-engineer-dave-plummer-admits-he-accidentally-coded-pinball-to-run-at-like-5-000-frames-per-second-on-windows-nt/
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Morgan Park
14 days ago
Hello. I just launched an FPS column I've wanted to start for ages. It's called FOV 90, it's weekly, and I hope you dig it.
www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/th...
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The death and resurrection of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is exactly why real server browsers are important
Welcome to FOV 90, PC Gamer's new FPS column.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/the-death-and-resurrection-of-battlefield-bad-company-2-is-exactly-why-real-server-browsers-are-important/
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🎉 Just hit 2,800 subscribers today, about a hundred new folks signed up thanks to the interest in this story. Next issue this Sunday!!
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Just another hideous day in San Francisco
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Every Silksong boss when I get one centimeter too close to their huge contact damage hitbox
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Take some time out of your Silksonging to read @dilfpatrol.bsky.social on cool indie horror and the eternal value of tank controls: "Caput Mortum ... makes the controls one of your primary enemies, elevating a pretty good horror game to a truly memorable one."
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Caput Mortem is an unsettling medieval horror game that crams an absurd number of great ideas into a $12, 2-hour package
Hangin' with homunculi.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/horror/caput-mortem-review/
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"An online Go Kart race (this is a basketball sim) gets you a tenth of a shoe, but only if you win."
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18 days ago
The behind-the-scenes story of A Life Well Wasted and its first episode in three years.
www.patreon.com/posts/rarest...
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The rarest video game podcast returns | Post Games
Get more from Post Games on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/rarest-video-138148860
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Robert Ashley
19 days ago
A Life Well Wasted episode 9: Game Over is up now. Grab a timed-edition poster by Olly Moss anytime in the next 7 days to support the show. Thanks for sticking with me!
alifewellwasted.com
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Bridgy Fed best practice Q: I set up federation for my Ghost site last year, and now with 6.0 I have two bridged profiles:
@readonlymemo.com.web.brid.gy
(old) and
@feed.www.readonlymemo.com.ap.brid.gy
(new). I checked docs but don't see a way to merge. Should I just kill the old one?
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The embed is cut off so it’s important for you to know the last two words of the headline are “posting hole”
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weird, on Steam this game is titled "Trying to buy Silksong"
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There's a fan translation for this game, btw. It's a pretty bizarre RPG but I think it's neat. I was obsessed with a Nintendo Power feature about it back in the day and never forgot it just from those few screenshots and a couple pages.
www.romhacking.net/translations...
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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.
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"This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive
In April 2009, a Sega fan decided to look into emulating the Mega LD, a quirky and little-known hybrid of Genesis and LaserDisc. This week he finished the job.
https://www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-first-the-16-year-odyssey-of-time-money-wrong-turns-and-frustration-it-took-to-finally-emulate-the-pioneer-laseractive/
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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.
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"This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive
In April 2009, a Sega fan decided to look into emulating the Mega LD, a quirky and little-known hybrid of Genesis and LaserDisc. This week he finished the job.
https://www.readonlymemo.com/this-is-the-first-the-16-year-odyssey-of-time-money-wrong-turns-and-frustration-it-took-to-finally-emulate-the-pioneer-laseractive/
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Theoretically, how many words about the invention of the first (only) methodology for ripping and decoding the analog video from obscure (bad) laserdisc games is too many?
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Third time today I've heard someone shooting off fireworks in the distance and felt the hairs on the back of my neck prick up
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what if this gave him a coronary
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Thought it was so funny (derogatory) that the NYT up and put the Mini crossword behind its paywall that I had to blog it
@defector.com
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Crossword lovers in mourning as the New York Times commits its latest unspeakable act: Paywalling the Mini puzzle
The popular daily puzzle is now seemingly an exclusive for NYT Games subscribers.
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/puzzle/crossword-lovers-in-mourning-as-the-new-york-times-commits-its-latest-unspeakable-act-paywalling-the-mini-puzzle/
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With the AJC dropping its print edition, I feel compelled to share one of the greatest moments in print design history
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Robert Ashley
26 days ago
A Life Well Wasted 9 will be released one week from today. Here’s the poster design by Olly Moss. Screenprints will be on sale from 9/4 through 9/11 on the ALWW website. Still ad-free! Come back next week.
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Tom Aznable
26 days ago
I have it from
@giantrobotfm.bsky.social
that my advocacy for Power Formation Puzzle is the reason it's in this marathon! Little by little, we're moving the needle on this thing! If you're not familiar, I wrote it up for
@wes.readonlymemo.com
some months back:
www.readonlymemo.com/gundam-games...
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The big Gundam game emulation special
Walking Gundam encyclopedia Tom Aznable takes us on a tour of 4 underrated Gundam greats from the '90s and 2000s.
https://www.readonlymemo.com/gundam-games-underrated-emulation/
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Back in 2017 (jfc) I interviewed Team Cherry about how they designed Hollow Knight's map, and got a bunch of sketches and mockups from throughout the game's development to go with it. Bringing it back in anticipation of Silksong!
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How to design a great Metroidvania map
The creators of Hollow Knight describe how they built a complex, interconnected world, from sketches to final game.
https://www.pcgamer.com/how-to-design-a-great-metroidvania-map/
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Jeff Gerstmann
28 days ago
Wow, the new version of ares plays LaserActive games! Cool new file format and everything!
ares-emu.net/news/ares-v1...
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SONICMAN69
30 days ago
Like Cowboy Bebop? Did you know there was a PS2 game only released in Japan? Did you know I released a full English translation of it that you can play now? Check it out here:
github.com/SONICMAN69/B...
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GitHub - SONICMAN69/Bebop-PS2-English: A full (fanmade) English translation for Cowboy Bebop - Tsuioku no Serenade for the PlayStation 2
A full (fanmade) English translation for Cowboy Bebop - Tsuioku no Serenade for the PlayStation 2 - SONICMAN69/Bebop-PS2-English
https://github.com/SONICMAN69/Bebop-PS2-English
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