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Tech, localization, reverse-engineering, retro gaming.
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
He/him.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Okay now we need someone to mod the Burger King on top of Mr. X in Resident Evil 2 Remake.
I HAVE DECODED BURGER KING. I HAVE THE RAW HIGH QUALITY MODELS.

AHAHAHAHAHA
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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I HAVE DECODED BURGER KING. I HAVE THE RAW HIGH QUALITY MODELS.

AHAHAHAHAHA
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Okay, I realize this is *very* much up to personal preference, but if I was to put Linux on a Thinkpad X13 G3, does anyone have any recs for distros? I liked what I saw of KDE Bazzite so I might go with Fedora. Used mint like 14 years ago and liked that too. What're the 2025 user-friendly distros?
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Viewpoint 2064 (1999/4/17 Build) English Cinematic Patch - English Translation (N64) Added
Viewpoint 2064 (1999/4/17 Build) English Cinematic Patch - English Translation - Content
Applying this patch translates cinematics and Rumble Pak dialogs into English. It does not address any enormous bugs that already exist in this game. Please note this is for the original public relea...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One of the bugs we unconvered. cc @infinitescream.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Now live with Splatterworld play-and-edit! Spoilers for the bit just past the first bit of the game, hopefully nothing too big though. www.twitch.tv/gideonzhi
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Software and hardware hacker, modder, 3D printer. Cassette culture. Enjoys video games, but not A Gamer. Streaming retro games and ROM hacking/projects on an irregular basis. To tip, paypal aeongen@gm...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Going to be live with Splatterworld on Twitch in about an hour for about an hour! I'll probably be fast-forwarding through longer battles I know I can win, and will be tweaking text (if necessary) as I go.

It is past the first arc so minor spoilers, be advised!
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I'm at the point where I don't actually have anything practical to actively work on for Splatterworld, so tonight's stream might just be me playing the game a bit and trying to find things to tweak. I'll be picking it up just after rescuing Jennifer from the pumpkin cult.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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They found and dumped the completed game! Absolute shame this never got released, because it looks pretty awesome. Did you see the news yet @quest64official.bsky.social

youtu.be/jNsx4zSvo3U?...
FOUND! Viewpoint 2064 - FINAL VERSION preserved (N64)
YouTube video by Hard4Games
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November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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This was my white whale for a long time, but the sourced audio sample during Xenogears' "Blazing Knights" boss fight track was taken from Christian Brando's manslaughter trial in 1990!
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I will be honest, I did not realize the unreleased Viewpoint 2064 even had a final version. As a fan of the original game and its various incarnations though, I can't wait to sit down with this over the holiday weekend!
FOUND! Viewpoint 2064 - FINAL VERSION preserved (N64)
YouTube video by Hard4Games
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November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Been playing Timesplitters Rewind and goddamn but it's good. Only real complaint is that you need to play through the story mode in completely linear order, which means that TS2 and TS3 are locked, and more importantly that TS2 and TS3 normal difficulty are locked behind beating TS1 on normal.
a man in a video game is standing next to a table with papers on it including one that says ff4
Alt: It's time to split!
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November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I had one of these as a kid, but it broke when I was playing with a Playmobil ball and chain. Got another a few years back and it's quite literally painful to play; the buttons are tiny and especially the ones on the side need more pressure than is comfortable. But emulated? Hell yes.
I just discovered one of the last few Zelda games I've never played, the Nelsonic LCD watch game, can be emulated. I spent the last hour setting it up, and it's way past my bedtime, but this is amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Anyway. Already been through several rounds of fixes and things are starting to firm up.

Now that I'm finally actually play(test)ing it, the game is honestly really, really neat. and it's a damn shame it got canceled. I'm incredibly glad that we got to play this.
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Splatterworld is totally rad.
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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every fucking time i think of it
November 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Added code for a run button :) Hold B to run. It moves the menu from B to Start, but B still cancels.
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
For #RandomGameSaturday this week I've got SRW Original Generation on GBA. Honest to goodness random pull! Bought this on release day, even. I'm pretty sure I still have the box somewhere.
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Text translation for Splatterworld has finished :) I'm helping out with the edit to try to get things out as quickly as possible.
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
On a completely unrelated note, here's Bean.
November 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
So as of about 8PM last night I closed the last Splatterworld ticket for technical work. We now have a fully automated rebuild, all of the UIs (that I know of) are hacked, there's virtually unlimited space for English text in the ROM, and there's simple automated feedback for certain text cases.
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Wolves hunt in packs!
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM