The Definitive History of Hot-B At this point in time, I think I can safely stand by that title. And I found it completely by accident searching for something else. Not muc...

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Pokemon Pokopia is built on top of over four decades of simulation prowess.

On this installment of Origin of Game, @tigerwolf.bsky.social uncovers the story of Koei - and the ambitious power couple behind its rise.

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A portion of Shigeru Miyamoto's deposition in the Universal vs. Nintendo court case where he confirms that Popeye wasn't made into an arcade game for technical reasons and not the myth that Nintendo didn't have the license.

A portion of Shigeru Miyamoto's deposition in the Universal vs. Nintendo court case where he confirms that Popeye wasn't made into an arcade game for technical reasons and not the myth that Nintendo didn't have the license.

A portion of Shigeru Miyamoto's deposition in the Universal vs. Nintendo court case where he confirms that Popeye wasn't made into an arcade game for technical reasons and not due to the myth that Nintendo didn't have the license. Hopefully, this myth can finally die. Thanks to Norm Caruso.

Cool old NEC sign spotted recently in Kyoto

Black Bird - Rainy - Takeaki Watanabe (cv. A M 4 N) OpenMPT · Yamaha YMF262 (OPL3)

Eroge energy

"Pro Fighter X" SNES copier

It's displaying the volume name first, "CHRIS" then overlaying invalid entries into the file list. Also tries to load invisible files...

My disk fix code. Done through a bit of searching and trial-and-error, since these BIOSes don't run on emulators, and no SNES emu emulates floppies anyway...

Pro Fighter X file display fixed up! Also with a new tilde glyph added into the font, as well as a new custom SFC background

The "Pro Fighter X" series of SNES copiers has kinda stupid disk handling code: it doesn't filter out FAT entries on floppy disk that should never be displayed, like the Volume name ("CHRIS"), directories, and long filename chunks. This causes errors during display & loading. So I RE'd and fixed it.

Nah, all good. I’d like there to not be a battery at all since it’s going sit in a drawer for basically forever, but since the battery is physically attached, removing it is “changing” it in a way. It’s not a huge issue, just an annoyance.

I probably shouldnt have used the word damage. These things are useless in modern times; they’re just historical pieces for a collection. Hence I don’t want to *alter* (the word I should have used) them as much as possible. Removing the battery from the prongs would be simple, yes.

It's not easy being the flag girl on Suzuka Circuit.
(From Final Lap - Namco, 1987, this week's Arcade Archives release)

well they should have!!!!!!!!

It’s kind of infuriating that Nintendo soldered (?) the SRAM battery to their sufami test boards. It’s going to leak someday, but removing it “damages” the board. Sega did it right with battery sockets.

Completely forgot I pre-ordered this! Nice surprise this morning.

I mean, there should really only be me L->R horizontal, R->L vertical. And I dunno what to say, it's just something you get used to if you're raised with it.

ZFS RAID-Z2!

Let’s gooooooooo

初桜だ！

Hey, some minor news: myself, @sudden-desu.net, @biggestsonicfan.bsky.social and some other folks managed to find and snag Fighting Vipers version A, which wasn’t in MAME. It’s officially ready to be added now!

I make Kenmin biifun five packs at a time because the whole family loves it. Going to make a gorgeous seafood and pork mix tonight!

Akihabara,1992

Sega Jack [セガジャック] No. 5 (1996) (600DPI)

Sega Jack [セガジャック] No. 5 (1996) (600DPI)

Sega Jack [セガジャック] No. 5 (1996) has been scanned and archived, thereby completing the full run, please enjoy. Thank you to @sudden-desu.net for sending these my way!
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"It's Been A Long Time Coming" - Mega CD Homebrew Development Kit Hits Major Milestone MegaDev 1.0 now available

"It's Been A Long Time Coming" - Mega CD Homebrew Development Kit Hits Major Milestone. (Repost)

Oh hey an old DVD fell out of a bag at the garbage collection point. Let’s see….. oh.

Easter eggs hidden in the data for us to find 10+ years later.

One thing I forgot to mention is that the tools I talked about should be used as a guide, a starting point, and not as the final Truth. Any results would need further investigation by the researcher to verify and clarify.

Characters featured in this image are: Sonic and Tails. Max from Shining Force. Red from Gunstar Heroes. Arle Nadja from Puyo Puyo. Jacky Bryant from Virtua Fighter. Nei from Phantasy Star II. Hiro and Lucia from Lunar 2. Image source: https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File%3ASSM_JP_19950901_1995-09.pdf&page=172

This is a cute illustration bidding farewell to the Mega Drive, featuring many of Sega's most iconic characters on the console and its many add-ons. Taken from the September 1995 issue of Sega Saturn Magazine.

all or just do our best to make good choices within the world that we live. The current state of AI is Not Great and even Bad, but we can find ways to use it that minimize that bad.

ethical consumption under capitalism" and all that. No matter what we do, in a first world country there's no getting around the fact that most things we use have been created in part through someone else's suffering or hardship. The choices are to go off grid and not engage with society at...

I believe the base model was Gemma or Qwen. It was experimentation more than anything and moved on to other work pretty quickly.
I'm sure some of the data was scraped; that's kind of unavoidable in training a usable LLM. The key here is that none of the corps got a penny from me. "There is no...

ethically questionable large companies.

I hope that the slop side of AI ends and that these large corps pushing the technology without regard for really anything except profit lose every penny and at the same time I look forward to how we as researchers can use LLM tech in our work.

asking the LLM things like "List all issues and the page numbers that reference X game in any way" while also serving as a translation service for e.g. Japanese magazines.

The key difference was that I was doing this locally on my own AI dedicated GPU rather than using one of the...