Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

v2 of my Xbox chain-loader is now fully open source :) This is the loader used in Skeleton Key

I don't usually open source any of my projects, but this one may be helpful to others in the original Xbox homebrew community. github.com/CrunchBite/x...

TIL if you pass an incorrect (but not null) pointer to fseek() you can crash the xbox kernel. Lovely

Google appears to have deindexed my Github profile. What the heck? The software I make isn't *that* cursed! Funny enough its still on Bing

XCAT strikes again! Thanks to our friend hardly in Japan we have recovered another lost DLC for Thousand Land on original Xbox. The recovered DLC is already on Rock5's downloader. Please help recover lost Xbox Live content. Run XCAT on every OG Xbox hard drive you can find! consolemods.org/XCAT

been doing this shit for 20 years and TIL i am so conflicted and ashamed 😭

Continue your adventure with Tunic: Design Works! 🦊 @finjico.bsky.social Uncover the secrets of Tunic's development (and even some of our own!) in our latest Design Works edition by award-winning writer Christian Donlan ⚔️ Deluxe Editions closing 8th January 2026: lostincult.co.uk/tunic

In honour of the PS2's 25th anniversary, e-motion [イーモーション] Vol. 1 has been scanned and archived! Launch special edition of The PlayStation going over initial titles with tons of interviews (Kojima, Kazunori Yamauchi, many more) and hardware coverage. Please enjoy!! archive.org/details/e-mo...

So when you're doing some game console modding stuff and something doesn't make sense you do some research, write a guide, and post it on consolemods.org right? RIGHT?! Yeah I thought so. Anyway here's how you enable Blu-ray playback on a PS4 completely offline: consolemods.org/wiki/PS4:Ena...

Why is the news footage showing Google Search appliances?? The last license for those machines expired 7 years ago

Overheard recently: “Did you know you have a computer in your pocket more powerful than the one that took people to the moon?”, “No, not that, your car keys.”

Aw man :(

Listen, @burgerbecky.bsky.social is one of the greats. If you can spare anything at all, and you have love for this medium, I can guarantee she's in some way part of the games you love. Please help our industry help her out. www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

psdevwiki will brb in 15-20 mins

I don’t think we do enough persona work in our AI prompts. “You are my old computer science professor with a thinly disguised drinking problem and a massive chip on your shoulder.” “You are an overworked junior sysadmin from 2004 who just discovered TikTok and is not okay with it.”

I'm hearing cool stuff about the new xbox, what was it called? xbox 360? Homebrew scene is popping off, it might be time for me to focus there instead of original xbox :)

he's just a little guy

I took a sick day and just played roller coaster tycoon all day. 10/10 would do again.

Here's my newest bit of fun: ABadAvatar, a fully automatic from-boot dashboard exploit for the Xbox 360, using Grimdoomer's BadUpdate exploit! This isn't the final release, but I wanted to get an official source for it before things got *too* out of hand :p github.com/shutterbug20...

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Direct podcast link here: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Our latest podcast episode is up! Earlier this summer Hit Save director @jonasrosland.bsky.social sat down CrunchBite, current project lead on the #XLinkKai tunneling program, and got the story behind one of gaming's most enduring community-driven projects dedicated to connecting gamers worldwide.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

prepare to be fucking annihilated 0b5vr.com/0mix/0mix.html (github: github.com/0b5vr/0mix)

I love that IKEA has a part number for 803.315.72

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

📢 ConsoleMods T-shirts are now up for sale on the ArtisticPixels site!! Huge thanks to @arielaces.bsky.social for making it possible for everyone to spread the love :) www.artisticpixels305.com/product-page...

Whats with the morons emailing me to post articles on the Team XLink website?? Have you even looked at the website? Where would I even put your spam articles? Ugh

trust but verify alternate title: I Found Out Recently That I Am Bad At Corporate Politics

Do you have a dead retro device motherboard you want to donate to science? I am taking requests and board donations for my board scan wiki. wiki.nataliethenerd.com

For those of you who haven’t checked in for a while, right about now the funk soul brother

morning read

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Define yourself by more things you love than things you hate or you’ll rot yourself from the inside

Shodan's $5 membership sale is live. Go go go! account.shodan.io

Confirmed for XLink Kai support: Drag x Drive for Nintendo Switch 2. www.teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/Drag_x_...

The ConsoleMods wiki now has a Switch section! Plenty of easy pages to create to earn entries for our on-going edit marathon :) consolemods.org/wiki/Switch:...

its me

The ConsoleMods Wiki is hosting another edit marathon. Come help out and win prizes! www.retrorgb.com/consolemods-...

rich people after moving to Austin:

are you in Silicon Valley? do you want to check out some old computers tomorrow and Saturday? Come by the Computer History Museum for the Vintage Computer Festival. i have an exhibit there as well, come by and say hi! connect.computerhistory.org/events/1ffce...

XCAT v1.08 is out! consolemods.org/xcat There is a 2-3x speed increase and better handling for network errors. Happy archiving! 🍻

I need to get back to testing games for LAN mode but I'm just so tired 🫠

after a series of extremely tense calls with UPS customer service in which a rep threatened to "put the package back on the boat" I managed to get them to let me self-clear and avoid the 78 dollar charge, HUGE thank you to @cdrom.ca for linking me to this page goingawesomeplaces.com/how-to-avoid...