Welp, while I'm in my Phantasy Star Online arc. Did you know you can control the Dragon? It's an easter egg you can do while playing the quest "Towards The Future". www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBcN...

So, here's some stuff that went into Public Domain: Betty Boop Pluto from Disney (Originally named Rover, do don't use the name Pluto until next year) The first Nancy Drew book The song "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight" And other 1930s stuff.

Watch out for this dude.

hate to bring drama on here but if yall have encountered KlonoaPrime stay away from him he's beyond obsessed with me and stealing & tracing my sona apparently. :/

I'm pretty sure my poor mental health has fucked up my hair. I might have to resort to shaving it off. It's that far gone.

For some reason, I bothered to come up with a control scheme for Soulcalibur Legends on Wii using Dolphin. There's no scans of the manual, so I had to figure this out myself using online guides.

Is it plagiarism if you use time travel to do something before someone can think of it?

If you think games these days have way too much stuff going on, try playing older games.

Alright, for those of you who play Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst private servers, here's some crisp item box textures! drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbKS...

Alright, for those of you who play Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst private servers, here's some crisp item box textures! drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbKS...

So the Easter Egg item in PSO is larger than the item boxes but the texture is half the size (16x16). It just looks so blurry. So of course, I blew up the texture to 256x256 and smoothed it out.

This was a trick post. I manually upscaled the textures of the item boxes and I was trying to see if anyone noticed that they look more clean than usual.

I wonder how many people only know the Phantasy Star Online item boxes from the Mad Space level in Sonic Adventure 2?

You know, between the free cam command and sandbox mode in the Ephinea PSO server, you could make Phantasy Star Online machinima. You just need other people to help move the characters.

I wonder how long it'll take me to solve all 1000+ puzzles. Without hints on any of them. And if I make 3 mistakes on a puzzle, I have to start over. (It's installed on my Steam Deck)

What's nice about PSO is the camaraderie of the player base. People who can solo an easier difficulty mode show up in rooms with low level characters for the fun of the game. And more elitist bad apples tend to keep to themselves.

Welcome back artists!🖌️🎨✨ Quote post with an old piece that you still like!

Oh, dang. A bunch of 2000s era Sonic game prototypes. And Sonic's Schoolhouse. hiddenpalace.org/News/One_Bad...

Thank you kindly @zachtherobot.bsky.social, @lightbrawler.bsky.social and @gears265.bsky.social for the Steam gifts! I now have Forsaken Remastered, Peak (the game's title) and Red Dead Redemption 1!

If ya wanna gift me something, just gimmie money. This is a robbery.

Still adjusting my PSO:BB UI addons. I edited the code for the XP Bar addon to make it display like that.

Just so you know... "Almost Christmas" means it wasn't Christmas.

One thing that bugs me about PSO is the holiday music. It replaces the music in the lobby and city, which are usually 2 different tracks. I don't wanna listen to jingle bells that often. Even the custom song in Ephenia only goes so far. At least I can mod the music.

Man, the dynamic music in Phantasy Star Online is more complex than I realized. The level songs are split up into about 60 sections. There's the normal music, transition into battle, battle music, and then transition back to normal. Each has about 15 different parts to switch to and from.

Welcome back to the stage of history

Hopped on Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst. lol Yes, I got mods.

Of course she comes in time for Christmas.

When it comes to Gen AI use, I'm taking a "choose your battle" approach. If it's in the final game, stays there and the devs double down on it, I'm out. If it gets removed, then it's not worth the energy to get upset over it. If there's less over time, then that energy can focus elsewhere.

Something feels disingenuous about disqualifying E33 now instead of earlier. I won't dwell on how E33 devs used Gen AI, especially since they removed it upon learning it got left in the final game. Not worth my energy. But we knew this already. So why did they wait?

If you’re tempted to buy a ModRetro please take a moment to learn about the company behind it. Anduril is specialized in armed drones and military surveillance systems. We #gamedevs make games to brighten people’s lives. Let’s not give money to arms dealers. www.timeextension.com/news/2025/12...

Yeah, GameCube buttons don't feel right with Infinite Wealth. You can rebind it to work but the diamond button layout feels better with this game.

Replaying Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth. I tried to shoehorn in GameCube buttons but for some reason the UI is stored in the friggin FONT folder. So that's over my head. But I can edit the Karaoke buttons.

@kenney.nl Weird question. What color would you give to the GameCube Z button in hex value? That's the only colored GameCube button that's not colored in your pack.

CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER! That's where mine ended up.

Limited Run Games got sued for $2.7M over violating the Video Privacy Protection Act for sharing customer data with Meta without customer consent. "You are included if you are a Person in the US who, from January 1, 2016, to and through June 20, 2025" www.limitedrungamessettlement.com

hey if you've ever purchased a video game from Limited Run Games in the last 10 years then you are almost certainly are a part of this and can submit a claim CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER! I FOUND THEY HAD EMAILED ME WITH MY CLASS MEMBER ID THERE

If games have a scripted loss fight, it should be 1 of 2 things. 1. Invincible. I'm not gonna waste resources if I see I'm doing 0 damage. 2. Consider what would happen if they're defeated. If it bleed, it dies. People will fight bosses to the end, even if it even takes the smallest damage.

TIL: Apparently the D-Pad for the 3DO controller is so bad, that the manual for Samurai Shodown by Crystal Dynamics gives instructions to modify the controller so you can hit diagonal directions.

HHHHH COLONEL, I NEED TO DELIVER THESE PRESENTS. twitch.tv/kit_thefox

So there's a Sonic art asset leak with PSD files. The background for the Sonic Classic Collection cover is an edited screenshot. They couldn't go to Spriters Resource to nab what they needed?

Mega Man told people to pick up a pen that’s my fucking GOAT

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.

I just found out that characters you play in CD-i games are a glorified mouse cursor. Even Link, Zelda and Mario. That's why there's only 2 buttons. That's all a mouse has!

A couple hundred bucks. 1 year and 2 months after the game came out. Delays for quality control. And this is the result. Jesus Christ

Y'all, this is the most fever dream ass game. And Total Distortion exists. How the hell he figured out this and the Pumpkinhead game, I'll never know. XD

Also if we ever get a comic out of this collab, just sayin' my DMs are open, IDW..... #godzilla #sonicthehedgehog

Took a few years for it to happen, but this pic of mine is finally relevant.

You know what's funny about RetroAchievements? The same game having an achievement list multiple times. Oh, you beat Metroid? Cool, how about the version on Metroid Prime? You beat Metal Gear on NES? Do it again on GameCube. Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2? MSX or in MGS3?

Man, I should add the moots I frequently bug on Discord. Lol

Believe it or not, the Sega Master System lasted even longer! The last PAL game was released in 1996 and the last game in Brazil was in 1998! I don't have the room in this post to list the Master System games that came out after the PS1.