A while back we had the wonderful opportunity to pitch a Red Dwarf adventure game directly to Doug Naylor himself. While the project didn't end up going ahead, we're now free to share some of the work we produced for the pitch!

The backlight failed on our 55" JVC TV last week, so I replaced the LEDs A time consuming job at 4 hours, but worth it Just ensure the reflective sheet is perfectly flat using double sided tape around the LEDs and edges, then test with the diffuser panels on for even diffusion before reassembling

A few photos from Weiyuying park this evening The Kaohsiung French Festival is on, but the queue for every stall is 20 deep so we went for a stroll instead

There's a Diary of a Wimpy Kid (known as 葛瑞的囧日記 in Taiwan) exhibition at the Kaohsiung main public library. Could be fun if you've got kids who are fans. It's on the 4th floor, not the basement level where the kids section is.

I love this custom integrated Super Famicom CRT case. A great attention to detail makes it look like it could be an official product or shop display kiosk #SuperFamicom #Nintendo #CustomDesign #SNES

Bored with Bingo (Translated by me) Bit Corp Amigo/Bingo was my first video game console. Originally, we were going to buy a Nintendo, the same console as my rich neighbor whose father was a spirit medium. My mother and father went out to buy a video game console and they came back with this.

Two white Gamates came up for sale on Facebook on Taiwan this week. I didn't even know there was a white Gamate

My son found my metal signs/posters and now has them displayed in his room. The Futurama one is actually from about 2000. Crazy to think it's been 25 years

Researching something else and stumbled across this: Mutant Turtles Gaiden Vol 1 (TMNT Manga) by Dengeki Comics. Translated into english! archive.org/details/muta...

What is with Taiwanese apps and push notifications? It's so important to bother me that between the hours of 00:30 and 04:00 I won't be able to buy an HSR ticket in OK Mart? There goes Tuesday's plan

The Kaohsiung Music Center looks like something out of sci-fi animation. It looks like a TIE figher could fly out of there at any second

超級瑪利歐銀河電影版 The Super Mario Galaxy Movie McDonald's Happy Meal box (Taiwan)

The best thing about living near the exhibition center is that you come across random events. We just stumbled on a comic/ anime convention and who did we find? None other than blue Pikmin!

Latest jigsaw puzzle: Super Mario Kart World

Back from watching The Super Mario Galaxy movie with the kids. I enjoyed this more than the first. Lots of fan service especially for someone like me in their 40s.

Reminds me of Nintendo Electronic Co. (NTDec 任天堂電子有限公司) in Taiwan. But Nintendo won that one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTDEC

Total Recall (1990) Main Theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith #FilmMusic #HDFilmTributes

Chaishan Fishing Pier, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

I was doing this so often I made this into a little script with my common settings: github.com/DaveFlynn/dr... It's not perfect, but at least makes running it easier. I'll be adding some options and stuff to bring in the variations suggested by the original user who posted these in r/Plex

Just seen these photos of a bootleg NES cart on a Taiwanese Facebook group. Labeled as for "playing with the Pirate MKII". Looking it up I didn't realize that Bit Corp planned to release their Famiclones in the US as the Pirate MKII. #Taiwan #BitCorp #PirateMKII #Nintendo #NES #Famiclone

New tea cup

Columbo #S02E03 The Most Crucial Game 01:05:00

What a view! This looks so good with the camper van open at the water's edge, like a postcard just naturally occured

Furry art at the Kaohsiung main public library. I'm not sure if there's a specific event, but I know there are furry events around here because it's common to randomly see a furry walking along the street #Taiwan #Kaohsiung #furry #art #graffiti

eight words I hadn't expected seeing in this particular order today: "Back to the Future 40th Anniversary Energy Drink"

Trying to clean up space on my Macbook and found that Giphy Capture is taking 26GB! Also, the ~/Library/Caches folder is a bad offender. Adobe taking 40GB after uninstalling Creative Cloud a year ago.

I've been waiting years for this!

Just saw @authorblu.es streaming a bit of Annalog, a really interesting NES game (currently with a Kickstarter to make a physical version) that the developer describes as a 'Zachtroidvania'. That is, an exploration platformer where you solve open-ended problems by writing basic code. On the NES.

QTP with a ship that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek 🚀

Columbo #S01E02 Ransom for a Dead Man 01:07:30

There's actually a ROM hack for the MD version of Bart vs the Space Mutants that makes it more playable: - Dedicated run button - Button for spray paint/weapons - Higher jump - More saves @stuartgipp.bsky.social mentioned it on @retronauts.bsky.social last week www.romhacking.net/hacks/7385/

Mikan works as a stationmaster at the Ciaotou Sugar Factory Station on the Kaohsiung Metro in Taiwan. He was originally a local cat who lived near the station, but the staff and passengers cared for him and he became the "face of the station".

Missing my favourite Dr. Loomis line from the beginning! "You don't know what death is!"

Pier 2 Art Center has a King of Fighters exhibition as part of the K.O. 格鬥祭 Fighting Festival event The life-sized arcade installation is fun for a photo, and the kids got a chance to play a mini arcade Here's the exhibition web page: pier2.org/exhibition/i... #KoF #Taiwan #SNK

Looking for some new pixel art desktop wallpaper I thought about using the backgrounds from 2D fighting games. Of course someone else has already done the hard work. Gallery here: imgur.com/a/various-fi... Now I'm wondering if it's possible to get the animated backgrounds for video wallpaper

Reading 2001 got me back into sci-fi so I went back and re-watched 12 Monkeys, A Scanner Darkly, and found this gem in my watchlist: Prospect (2018) What's the future gonna be like for normal people? Scavenging to make a living, and trying to reach a connecting space ship to go home boxd.it/iijg

Super Mario Super Star handbag with lights inside

I'd seen this driftwood before, but this was my first time to look closely and realise there are actually bark carvings in it. They are subtle like silhouettes so easy to miss The artwork is by Katherina Eckert, who it seems is an artist living in Taichung The location is Kouhu in Yunlin

Spending some time in rural Taiwan for the new year

Found another robot, this time holding two persimmons, at Taiwan Sugar in Chiayi

TIL: You can deep link into a web page without needing an ID tag using `Copy Link to Highlight`. Basically, add this to the end of the URL, followed by the text in the page to scroll to/highlight: #:~:text=

I bought this Famicom controller universal TV remote in Japan in 2006. Every few years I dig this out and have no idea how to reprogram it. The only guide I can find is a a 17 year old 240p Youtube video, so here it is: 1. Press A 2. Press B and Left for 5 seconds 3. When the TV turns off, press A

Started a new jigsaw puzzle 1000 piece Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

This looks really interesting! My first thought was a replacement to using SMB to access my Linux server via Mac OS (which has terrible performance), but there's a lot of possibilities for this github.com/9001/copyparty

This looks like a Micro Genius IQ-1000 was run over by a road roller in a Warner Bros. cartoon. Anyone seen this model before?

The robot statues at MLD台鋁生活商場 are really impressive. There are three Transformer style robots on the first floor and a Stormtrooper upstairs, each at least 8ft tall

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A Famicom and famiclone graveyard. Photographed in February 2016 at a friend's house at the time who was a flea market game and toy reseller I'm sure a lot of these still worked, but the Taiwanese climate isn't friendly to plastic

Time to start a book thread for 2026 First book (I'm starting late)... Sparky: The Life and Art of Charles Schulz Yes, it's a young readers book, so only a surface-level look at his life, but you can finish it in one sitting. I've always enjoyed Peanuts, and previously had no background on Schulz