If you're into building your own arcade controls, I've recently reviewed some buttons and a stick from Punk Workshop: The PWS V2 Buttons are great! The PWS Joystick (Silicone Edition) is fine, but deeply weird!

Absolutely this. The first years of Dilbert were fantastic. Scott Adams dug his own grave and leapt into it, for sure. Good riddance. But for a while Dilbert was really good stuff.

Charlie the Unicorn. ..... i miss the old internet. Doodle request from my fine patrons - patreon.com/collectedcur...

いちごの日だったらしいので

Maybe your timeline needs Bean. Here she is, sound asleep.

Reopening of my shop 🎺 Fusion MVS to AES converters, ESL Blasters and most NeoGeo reproduction chips are back in stock furrtek.org/shop/ Everything original and designed on my own with love and tears as always, no resale or dropshipping crap !

Throwing this out to the wider community, 'cause I'm stumped. My PC Engine LT has a failure in the power section. I get power right up to the main regulator that supplies 5V to the rest of the system. It's not getting power. More details here: nfggames.com/forum2/index... I'd love some help.

In the past week I've recapped a PC Engine, Core Grafx, Core II, TurboGrafx 16, Vistar 16, and a MegaDrive. And a while before that, a PCE Shuttle. They all work after the job, which makes me very happy. Decades more life ahead of them all. ^__^ <looks accusingly at PCE LT> Motherfucker.

If bsky won't let me have DMs because of Australian laws that don't fucking apply to bsky, then why do they let people send me DMs I can't read? What a stupid fucking timeline.

33 years later, this album is still great.

Best Of 2025: "Like A Completely New Game" - The Untold Story Behind Prince Of Persia's Impressive SNES Port.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

This is such a great game.

I like to dig into pixel fonts in video games, and one of my nemeses was Cave's later releases. The ones with all the awful pre-rendered graphics. They have beautiful fonts. I finally got into the graphics on these games and I wrote about them. Mushihimesama, Dodonpachi, Ibara, etc.

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

All these people wringing their hands about Firefox doing dumb shit, and I'm like Fucking use @vivaldi.com ya dingbats. The old guard, user focused privacy-first customizable browser with their own Mastodon community and a built in RSS client. Into the sea with Firefox already.

if you’re not an artist with experience in studio environments it might be hard to appreciate just how much genAI feels like a conman claiming to have made a gun that kills artists and every ceo lunging for it and pulling the trigger a few times learning the gun doesn’t really work isn’t a comfort

Why would anyone want to influence people?

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

Added a few new fonts to my font engine today. Shmups fans take note. =D nfggames.com/games/fontma... Interesting that the Batrider and Garegga fonts are identical in shape but use a different gradient.

The Australian social media ban, which started off stupid and got dumber, is even more absurd than I realized. Facebook and Instagram are banned, but Whatsapp is not. Twitch is banned, but Discord is not. Reddit is banned, Snapchat is banned, but LINE and Facebook Messenger are not.

I love that we're leaving the cynical asshole phase of societal behaviour, moving to unabashed enjoyment of things, right at the same time we suddenly have to triple-vet everyone and everything we like to make sure there are no nazis, grifters, anti-vaxxers or other assholes involved.

The art for Phantasy Star Online was so good.

Gods the Aussie social media ban breaks my heart as a person on the neurodivergence spectrum. Because as a teenager I can tell you that I got along with damn near no one at school and got bullied a lot. My friends were all on the internet. In forums. On IRC. That’s where my people were.

Oh hell yeah. The problem in a nutshell.

Opa Opa should be allowed to have a guy inside him if he wants

"The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features. Tap to learn more." Stupid. Fucking. Australia.

Finally, a good Christmas song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSG1...

Devs on Discord basically inviting endless support questions by not putting their shit on a forum and just linking everyone to the answers. Meanwhile all the users are "According to chatGPT..." How fucking lost do you have to be to ask a liar for help??

Organizing my connectors bin. Arcade hardware is so much easier to work with if you have the right parts and some good tools. In this image, parts for Namco, Capcom, Sega and SNK machines and games. And more!

While fiddling with the Aleck64 I finally ordered the parts to hook up the P2 buttons. 25 years ago I bought the panel with half the wires missing. Now I can put it back in storage knowing it will work should I suffer a head injury and want to play it again.

Chrissabug does amazing work, and I absolutely have a weakness for art nouveau frames. That stuff cuts right through me in the most excellent way.

This is a core part of what makes the MiSTer platform work, and it's so fast now I thought it was broken last time I ran it. Amazing work.

How untreated ADHD causes and traps you in depression. #adhd #mentalhealth #depression

This is fucking great, good job Necrosoft.

I wanted to know more about how Seta's Aleck64 system worked, so I pulled out a screwdriver and had a look around. This arcade-only Nintendo 64 system is almost but not quite exactly compatible with N64 games and controllers. nfgworld.com/n64-and-alec...

A couple of decades ago I created a 'font engine' that allows anyone to create text images using 179 (and counting) fonts from arcade (and etc) games. nfggames.com/games/fontma...

Viewtiful Joe is a great game!

Last week I had a client show up at my studio, unexpectedly. She wasn't in my calendar, oops. Today we're doing the rescheduled shoot and my camera just up and dies. I finish the shoot with a spare. Then the memory card can't be read on the PC. Is there a lesson here? IDK.

"Everything not a sheep is dangerous" works pretty well for Australia too, tbf

like it's not just that the good guy won, it's that the good guy won and every single person you wish you could give a swirlie about it is *fuming mad* about it. better things are possible and one can only hope this ray of sunshine melts some ghouls

The classic kusoge (shit games) Cho Aniki and the sequel Ai Cho Aniki are coming out for PC! If you're keen on a 20 year old opinion of this 30 year old madhouse of a game, I have one! nfgworld.com/old-post-ai-...

I recently set up Groovy MiSTer, which acts as a display for Groovy MAME running on a PC. It's a brilliant setup that bypasses the PC's laggy video subsystem entirely. It's an easy thing to set up, but I felt an up to date concise (written!) guide might be handy for some people. So I wrote one.

The PC Engine version of this game was so, so good.

What an asshole. Steals the logos someone else vectorized, offers no thanks or credit, then says they only have value because he gave them meaning with his words.

My new coping strategy is digging a bunker, tapping into the old coal mines and popping up in basements, and stealing preserves. Except Australia has no basements and people don't do preserves anymore. So I guess I'll just dig holes, pop up in yards like a mole in Mario World, and scream.

Copped a big hit from the storm today. A dozen dents on my car from the hail and so much water came in through the window of my hoise there were wet boxes above my head, and I'm tall. Pools of water on the floor, and on my arcade cabs. Water literally pouring off arcade PCBs when I pick them up.

I have a big NGP cloth banner with this slogan on it. The neo pocket was so fucking cool.