Sometimes I take breaks from gamedev and when I do, I often do more gamedev. Here's a quick and dirty experiment running on the SNES. A future Rynn game maybe? Ok back to real work. 🤭 #snes #nes #16bit #jrpg #gamedev #indiegames #retrogames

Viper II 'Virtual On' SEGA Saturn

and this is why I chose to make Bebhionn a tracker and not a *gasp* piano roll editor.

🔊 Silent Language (C Course) ➡️ By Hiroshi Kawaguchi 👾 Power Drift, 1988, Sega [ vgmrips.net/packs/pack/p... ] #DinoArcadeTunes

This is a carbs appreciation post. Carbs are awesome. That is all. Feel free to express your own admiration for carbs.

Motivated by my port of Moon Child to the Dreamcast, I had to figure out a way of burning CDI files to bootable homebrew discs on the console on the Mac... so I made a thing! dcdib-mac is a macOS tool for burning homebrew software to CDs that boot on the Sega Dreamcast. github.com/jfsantos/dcd...

Oh wow really

hey look at my fonts in these cool games: ninja gaiden, ball x pit, titanium court, cadence of hyrule... these fonts could be in your cool games too because you can buy them off me and they are not expensive chevyray.itch.io

Bebhionn had a weird rendering bug that was affecting timing of the songs and making the render not accurate with hardware. I just fixed it and also added more channels :) As usual, it's hosted at jfsantos.dev/tracker and the code is on Github at github.com/jfsantos/beb...

Sega announced a new brand focused on reviving some of its old IPs, including Saturn ones like Sakura Wars and Nights into Dreams — but what could this mean? SHIRO! takes a look: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/04/24/s... #sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming #retrogames #videogames #セガ #セガサターン

OUR KICKSTARTER IS NOW LIVE!! - After 6ish years of Lukasz and I (mostly me) muddling through making this game, we finally have our end in sight! If you like arcade platformers please consider backing and giving this a repost! LINK IN BIO AND COMMENT #biocreeps #nes #nesdev

Releasing my Dreamcast port of Moon Child on Github! github.com/jfsantos/moo.... This wouldn't have been possible without the SDL port by HybridEidolon (github.com/HybridEidolo...) and obviously, without the original source code being shared by the devs :)

And based on the SDL fork for Moon Child, I am porting it to the Sega Dreamcast! Almost everything works, but rendering is still a little slow so that needs some work. But I even put our FRIEND's face on the VMU!

LRT holy shit

@seven.eurosky.social Has anyone shared a Moon Child port to the Sega Dreamcast yet? I _might_ be working on one........

@alexvalente.fyi that Gunpla model is only $25 dollars, how much it could hurt?

Released the "Snail Maze+ for WonderSwan" source code and a new release build! An example project of sorts for using Wonderful Toolchain and programming the WonderSwan, certainly not a masterpiece in terms of design, structure, etc., but maybe still helpful to someone trying to get started! :3

moon child becoming a huge meme overnight and then the original devs finding out and being the chillest people ever RELEASING ALL OF THE SOURCE FOR FREE is genuinely the best possible outcome

love seeing anglos confused with whether to use paddle, pedal, or peddle when writing. you did this to yourselves.

Having received so much love for our good old #MoonChild game, we are happy to give love back to the game community by releasing the Moon Child source files + assets. Details can be read in the ReadMe text. We're looking forward to see what you're going to create! 💚 bitbucket.org/rhinoid/moon...

Seibu Cup Soccer is flagged as "not working" in MAME, due to unemulated protection. It does boot up and run. Once a soccer match starts, all the players except you and the goalies immediately flee the field. (The blue and red dots escape the minimap at the top center...and just keep going!)

For folks who work with other people in different timezones: do you think it’s rude when someone emails/messages you about times and only includes their own timezone?

My game engine on the Saturn is getting in decent shape so I started working on a level editor! Levels were already defined as JSON files (that then get converted to a binary format for the game), but a visual editor is way nicer than trying to edit levels via text.

Last night I had a dream that I was very sad because I could not find my ZX Spectrum. I never had one. Might be a sign from the retrocomputing gods.

And the new version of Bebhionn with experimental DX7 import is live! jfsantos.dev/tracker. Add your favourite .sysex file and make some music :)

This stuff is hard 🫠 But I got the DX7 converter to be way more compatible with the Sega Saturn chip, and a lot more patches now sound similar. Some sound wrong and some sound VERY WRONG, but it's a start.

I'm back to working on Bebhionn today, but not the tracker interface itself. I'm trying to get the script I wrote to convert DX7 patches to Bebhionn/Sega Saturn TON files to work. If that goes well, then we suddenly have access to hundreds of cool instruments to use for Sega Saturn music!

do these 5 workouts If you wanna look like masayoshi takanaka

This is what computing feels like.

So far my favourite typo in all of Sega Saturn software is the function for purging the cache in SGL being called slCashPurge.

Here is the intro to the first story of The Book of Rynn: The Royal Seal. Hyped? Join us on Discord! #thebookofrynn #nesdev #jrpg #nes #retrogames #8bit

today we give thanks to Gabumon, who long ago digi-died for our digi-sins 🙏

If you are eating Easter chocolate today, don’t forget to thank a necromancer.

I wanted to see what this would physically look like on the desk so I made a quick mock-up in Blender

First comment in the thread at the moment I read it hits hard: "Darwin award CVE": old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...

Before Xbox Game Pass, we had Sega Channel: a visionary service sending games into homes via cable TV lines. For the VGHH podcast, host Phil Salvador is joined by key Sega Channel staffers: Michael Shorrock, Ray McFadden, and Willard Stanback: https://gamehistory.org/episode-153-sega-channel/

Would Firelord Ozai and Azula please get the hell out of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver

Nine years ago this month, I wrote the most important* piece of journalism in my career: an investigation into why the rudimentary 3D character models in the PC port of Final Fantasy 7 had mouths that did not exist in the PS1 version.

iOS 18 holdouts: 18.7.7 is out now for devices that were eligible for the 26 upgrade. You should upgrade now. The security updates are significant. www.macrumors.com/2026/04/01/a...

Spent a couple of hours playing it today and had a blast. Go get a copy!

Some placeholder dialogue in the dialogue boxes! I still don’t have any art so the pilots for the cubes are squares with question marks for faces ❓

My game engine is moving on swiftly (for someone who had never written a turn based strategy game before, lol). I added some primitive AI, a dialog system for “cutscenes”, and turned the whole engine without rendering into a simulator so I can use it to fine tune some game elements.

Finally got the gist of Dragon Force for the Sega Saturn and it’s pretty fun! Turned out I had to stop wanting to be special and just start with the guy the game wants you to start with 🤡

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Who gave those cubes guns??? (I did, sorry)

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

We now have a cursor, a light source, and little guys (cubes).

INCOMING

Updated the README page on Github with a GIF to make it FUN (ignore that the demo song I have in it is stupid now, pretend it's playing something badass in your head)