Starting to look interesting

It’s 2026 and I’m buying 5.25” floppy cleaning supplies 💾

Today I learnt there was an official Expedition 33 beret, and I'm almost tempted. #expedition33

This is not wrong.

PSA

Here are some reviews for Puzzle Spy International. The Launch Sale is still going on for 2 more days so grab it for 15% off while you can! #puzzleGame #thinkyGame #indieGame #indieGames #sale #launchSale

I’ve made lots of progress made on my cozy building game: 🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳. Therefor time for a new gameplay collage for #screenshotsaturday! #indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

Been wiring a few more scenes in Saga decompilation. There is so much hardcoded logic in something like this. Still, I'm often impressed at the tricks they used to make this work on a Saturn. The vdp2 water distortion here works pretty well. #decomp #PanzerDragoonSaga #SegaSaturn

The Death by Scrolling console release and big Steam update have been announced!! 💀

BAY AREA: I will be setting up a table and selling stuff at this swap meet on April 18, down at Save N' Continue in Santa Clara. Really cool store if you haven't been, and the swap meet is always fun.

ARTEMIS FROM SAILOR MOON WAS AT THE ARTEMIS 2 LAUNCH AND IM VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT www.reddit.com/media?url=ht...

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Don’t forget that today is the day to unlock Reala if you don’t have that on your Christmas NiGHTS save file!

My friend Frédérick Raynal (Alone in the Dark creator) is making a sega genesis/megadrive game and has a kickstarter up with a custom controller! www.kickstarter.com/projects/107... #retrogaming #kickstarter #segagenesis #megadrive

My friend Frédérick Raynal (Alone in the Dark creator) is making a sega genesis/megadrive game and has a kickstarter up with a custom controller! www.kickstarter.com/projects/107... #retrogaming #kickstarter #segagenesis #megadrive

Yeah, I’m definitely going to use that

Look at the pixel art! It's insane they got it looking this good on a Commodore 64, the same platform that Maniac Mansion was made on.

Let there be light. Background color is broken, but at least light is correct now. This is a more precise model compared to the original game (per vertex instead of per face, and interpolated depth instead of just 32 possible intensities). Can toggle the old Saturn computation at runtime.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMN... The footage is. a bit dated, lots of fixes and improvements since this was recorded @videogameesoterica.bsky.social Some comments bellow. #decomp #panzerdragoonsaga #panzerdragoon

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMN... The footage is. a bit dated, lots of fixes and improvements since this was recorded @videogameesoterica.bsky.social Some comments bellow. #decomp #panzerdragoonsaga #panzerdragoon

@nfalstein.bsky.social trip down memory lane!

I've been focusing on town module lately, trying to get most locations in place. The seeker stronghold & caravan now load, but they are mostly empty without any NPC for now. github.com/yaz0r/Azel #decomp #panzerdragoonsaga

Trivia night!

Lego announced a Tintin Moon Rocket set. There goes my wallet... #tintin #lego www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

Always love to see lost media resurface

Quite a bit of work on VDP2 lately, implemented the perspective planes, sky, and the weird fish eye effect. I always wondered how that worked. Turns out it's a per-pixel offset table covering the top half of the screen. Bottom is just reading the table in reverse. #panzerdragoonsaga #decompilation

Gpu crash is always such a pain to debug. Hopefully that will help

This weekend, implemented the bulk of the baldor queen fight. As usual, bunch of hardcoded state machines, and for the first time, what looks like struct inheritance that I had to work around. Also implemented animated particle effects. #panzerdragoonsaga #decomp

@esper.bsky.social listening the even more games of the year 2025 while I'm working on something, and you sold me on Squeakross

Dusted off the ghidra database, made the first actual code commit to Panzer Dragoon Saga decomp in 5y

Revisiting a codebase I haven’t touched in 5 years…

A thread regarding the Panzer Dragoon Saga decompilation thing. github.com/yaz0r/Azel #decompilation #decomp #recomp

@damienmcferran.bsky.social @videogameesoterica.bsky.social happy to give more context on the Panzer Dragoon Saga decomp thing.

www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02... Funny how this thing picked up online recently

Floppy disk surgery

Over the past week, I've learned way too much about late 70s computers, CP/M and the various 5.25' floppy formats (hard sectored for the North Star Horizon). I'm ready for trivia night. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputer

Oh boy, yeah that was IRC I think

I had to read the theadline a couple times. A vulkan extension to improve directX on linux kinda required to mental gymnastics to parse. It does make sense in the context of dxvk and all, but it does sound weird at face value

hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it. my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

State of the art game dev tools in 1989: #gamedev (source: mastodon.social/@grumpygamer...)

Restored the attract sequence of the Police Academy prototype

Published RadViewer to visualize the old RAD files from Atari/Tengen github.com/yaz0r/RadVie... It's been pretty annoying to look at old RAD files through Dosbox, so made a modern viewer for windows. For more context about RAD files: www.museumofplay.org/blog/thats-r...

What fascinates me in that stuff is the glimpse we get into how game development worked in the early 90s. For example, they didn't really generate fully formed roms, but just loaded all the compiled bits in a dev cartridge. If they needed a rom back, they would just read that back.

Folks at @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social received a hard-drive image of a VAX machine. Sadly, the disk had been mostly wiped and only showed up an empty folder. I went back to the 70s VAX filesystem specs and wrote a tool to reassemble as much as possible of the files. We got some cool roms out of it.

Spent some fun time the last few weeks getting some old NES source code of Police Academy back into a compliable state. Fun dive into the the early 90s development system and all that stuff. Code and instructions on how to build it I wrote are released today by @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social

Reminder: I'm dumping mystery prototypes live this Wednesday! Here's a teaser, real ones will see something exciting. www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...

Some fun results of the data recovery I’ve been poking around recently. Given how mangled the disk was, we’re lucky to have something like that come out of it

Mission accomplished at the last minute!