For the first time in our 9-year history:

WE ARE HIRING!

We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits!

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

F-Zero X and F-Zero DD are near to 100% decompiled and you KNOW someone is going to port them to PC ASAP when its done; imagine an online F-Zero with a track builder...and a track database! youtu.be/4mR44EKVMJ0 #gaming #gamingnews #retrogames #N64 #gaming_news

(Threaded) [1/4] Preview of upcoming GB BASIC features: Conditional compilation preprocessor support for compile-time branch selection via macros.
#gbbasic #gameboy #gamedev #gbdev #indiedev

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Trying very hard to get an unreleased Software Creations SNES game to run. I have source code and data, but no ROM image. I'm assembling the 65c816 code and data ROM banks using our original IDE running under DOS Box. Lots of hackery is taking place to try and get the game to run! Time for bed now..

New prototype get

Mario Kart World jukebox playing on the Famicom Data Recorder

Keshi enthusiasts, start your engines! Your 3D scanned keshi figure today is Mario from Mario Kart 64!

This 1997 figure from Bandai comes with Mario, his kart, and a koopa shell item!

Get the stl model files here: archive.org/details/kesh...

Hang on a minute, I don't remember this bit in the Bayeux not-a-tapestry... ;)

I've been going through my archives for NES Wolverine and have managed to re-assemble my original 6502 game code and create a build from the 1st August 1990. As you can see it's a VERY early demo with the 8-way scroll routine, panel and collision working. No Wolverine sprites yet!

Roddick (or "Rati") is shown at the top alongside Millie, two of them members of their village's defense force that includes other friends of theirs. The page also briefly describes the background story of humanity's reach across the stars before taking the reader to a remote world where the main story begins with Roddick and Millie. But sickness is spreading there, and it is up to our friends to find a cure!

This page describes the "Private Actions" feature of the game that can increase affinity between characters through special interactions that can come up during play. Depending on what the player decides to do or react, they can increase (or even decrease) their affinity with certain characters. By affecting your relationships in the game this way, characters may have different reactions on other events and story-related scenes. The example shown on this page shows how to initiate a Private Action (what to look out for onscreen) as well as an example of one between Roddick and Millie when it comes to buying (or choosing NOT to buy something) that she's interested in. Choose wisely!

Published in Famitsu Bros., a youth-focused spinoff of Japan's Famitsu, this 1996 feature talks up Star Ocean, tri-Ace's debut RPG on the Super Famicom

Roddick and Millie, two of its stars, are featured along with "Private Actions": special interactions that can affect affinity between characters!

The Super UFO Pro (8) SD

Also, if someone wants to donate a Super UFO Pro SD to me, I can start working on getting at least LFN display working on it... 😁

Metal Slug 30th anniversary illustration

Metal Slug 1 main visual

30 years after creating the main visual for Metal Slug, former SNK artist Naohisa Yamaguchi / 山口直久 (AKA NaoQ) has created a new illustration to mark the series’ anniversary.
www.snk-corp.co.jp/us/anniversa...

3 vertical panels. Panel 1 labeled 2014 - me with short hair in front of a CRT with Shenmue on it and a Dreamcast, SNES and N64 in front of it. Me saying "I love collecting retro game stuff! I'm gonna play ALL the games!" Panel 2 labeled 2019 - me with slightly longer hair, more consoles in front of the TV, with static on the screen. Me saying "These old systems needs a lot of maintenance. I have to get better at electronics repair. Panel 3 labeled 2024 - even more systems on the CRT, but me with my current long hair sitting at a table with my back to them, soldering a circuit board, my custom PICO-8, my handmade Vectrex controller, my "Game Man" I made by consolising a GBA on the table and me saying "...remember when I used to play games?"

Since it feels like all I've been doing for the last 3 weeks has been repairing my game collection, today's #throwbackthursday is the little comic strip I made about this EXACT situation two years ago!

#retrogaming #retrocollecting #art #comic #diy #repair #funny #tbt

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

A crt tv photo of the Super Metroid title screen of a lab with a Metroid inside a tube, and glowy computer screen either side.

Just shy of a month after its Japanese release, Super Metroid made its way over to North America.

Happy 32nd birthday (again!), Super Metroid. 💜 Worth celebrating twice (and in the summer, thrice) one of the GOATS.

Samus crouching

SUPER METROID
NINTENDO R&D1/INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS 1994
SNES

fkn lemmings ye!

It is with a heavy yet hopeful heart that I announce that my beloved Super Mario Bros. prototype cartridge has left and arrived at its new owner's home. We spent one last day together doing all of its favorite things. The proceeds from this private sale will benefit VGHF doing even more cool shit.

If only I'd FULLY read the webpage detailing the SNES Tile/palette file formats. Embedded Interactive viewers are provided to do what I want! I can't get the animation related one to work, but that's not a problem. The tile and palette loaders are working as expected! Here's a teaser preview...

Page 1 of the contest

Page 2 of the contest showing a couple on a bench and the scene in the game in which your names will be added

How to enter the contest with some art from the game

There was a contest where you could win a gold cart of Super Famicom "Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust" and the special thing about the cart is that you had to be entering the contest as a romantic couple...with a love scene INSIDE the game getting personalized to your names.

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

Black-and-white photo of a Tacoma News Tribune exhibit at the Western Washington Fair, 1964. A large overhead sign reads “Tacoma News Tribune,” with an “Information” counter beneath it. At left, two men—one in glasses and a cardigan, the other in a hat and overcoat—stand beside an Associated Press machine displaying photos and news pages. At right, three women and a young boy gather at the counter, speaking with a staff member. A rack of newspapers and display boards with photos and diagrams are visible in the background. (Courtesy Tacoma News Tribune, Image TNT0122N, Tacoma Public Library Northwest Room)

🧵 Saving local news also means saving archives 🗞️

Not just physical photos, clips & recordings, but digital reporting too 💻

When archives disappear, communities lose memory, identity, and their only reliable record of change.

More 👇
www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

@poynterinstitute.bsky.social

Found some technical schematics from Virtual World, the people behind the Battletech VR centers. You never know what will turn up on old developer disks!

I did it! It took quite a few runs to knock out Bavmorda's first form, but then I had bad luck swiftly followed by good luck that allowed me to destroy her second form on my first attempt, while teetering on death. Anyway, Willow NES is a great game hampered by forced grinding and poor checkpoints.

There's very little info about this online, but apparently back in 1979 there was a Lupin III popsicle that you could buy to get a chance to win a Nintendo Block-Kuzushi machine.

I only learned about this when I saw that one of the winning machines was for sale, so I decided to buy it:

People are receiving their copies of DOOM SNES 2025 and I wanted to shout out to everyone making videos!

What's really extra-impressive is that so many of the videos are running the game on OG hardware with CRT monitors! Absolutely amazing!

A massive "Thank you!" to all the fans and supporters!

I have memories of waking up at 2 am to use the bathroom or whatever and my mom would be still awake playing it.

It wasn't the first game I'd ever playedd (we had an NES with the Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge), but ALttP was where it all started for me. I discovered my love of games through it.

So I'm gonna call this the end.

I figured out, or am well on my way to figuring out, how audio on the Famicom works.

I used only Family BASIC, information from the Family BASIC manuals, and information about the 6502 CPU.

And these were all around in 1985. Neat.

A Project has been finished with @gamingalexandria.bsky.social - working in tandem with site owner Hubz I was able to digitize over 30 issues of LOGiN Magazine - the ones marked as FTBscans were also processed by me. That's over 11,000 pages of new magazine pages for research!

tinyurl.com/36zkmdtc