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Javier Guerrero🦉 @xaviergd.bsky.social · May 14

SpellCaster
Giving Tiktok another chance (?)
#pixelart #D&D

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 15

right, there's all kinds of staff and noone pulled the brakes, at least not hard enough to stop it

FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 15

this occured to me while i was just reading the news that the swedish vice prime minister had thrown dirt on a journalist in a speech. only for it to be revealed that the ’dirt’ had been requested from chatGPT, which had happily hallucinated it, with no valid source.

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 15

Meatwashing.

When a human being repeats hallunicantions from chatbots, which other people inadvertedly trust more; creating both factoids & simulacra in the process.

i’m sure i’m not the forst this has occured to, but i want to call it that.

Meatwashing.

As in ”that’s just meatwashed slop”.

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deeb @deeb.bsky.social · Aug 8

There is now a full speed Gameboy emulator for PlayDate!

It’s very polished, with sound support, and lots of options. It even supports using it as a wrapper for devs to release homebrew GB games on PlateDate.

github.com/CrankBoyHQ/c...

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 12

would you consider sms support helpful for MD work, even if MD itself wasn't supported?
Hypothetically, i mean. MD support wouldn't be contingent on that. Just looking for user insights

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

i haven’t read up on the MD modes yet, but it is on my homework list. i believe i read somewhere that mode 5 is virtually identical to SMS in mode 4?

in any case, i’d be more than interested to see & hear more of your usecase beyond homebrew

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

oh, and also png/bmp for most things

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

currently it supports nes-native binaries, 2 flavours of 65xx assembly, and C headers; though these code outputs only cover the most requested areas.

Also, some developers choose to parse the session file itself (which is plain text) for pipeline/versioning reasons

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

3) since it currently only concerns itself with nes hardware, assets like maps are already ”close to the metal” - meaning you only need a minimum of glue code (often none at all) to transfer it to a real nes project.

that also makes it primed to sork well with other 6502, 65816, z80 targetd

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

2) nexxt emulated the NES PPU’s rendering rules in-edit. That both lets you leverage its unique capabilities better and more intuively, as well as makes sure your assets are actually error free and hardware displayable

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

well, tiled is the most able general purpose level editor around, but it’s also *just* a level editor.

1) nexxt does the whole shebang: you design tiles, scenes, create and manage subpalettes, sprite objects; all in tandem. if you edit a pixel you see the effect of it realtime on your map.

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

If i’d expand NEXXTstudio’s support to one other console/platform besides NES, which would be your choice?

things to cosider:
-which homebrew scene do you think’d benefit the most?
-what are you personally the modt invested/interested in?

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

yeah likeness to both gb color’s PPU and TMS9918 (colecovision, msx, sega sg-1000 etc) is almost a draw in terms of convenience.

beyond that, i’m awaiting more answers before i weigh in

FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

(for context)

frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

NEXXT studio 3.6.4 by FrankenGraphics

Featureful NES assets studio based off the classic

frankengraphics.itch.io

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

If i’d expand NEXXTstudio’s support to one other console/platform besides NES, which would be your choice?

things to cosider:
-which homebrew scene do you think’d benefit the most?
-what are you personally the modt invested/interested in?

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

My own graphics tool is planned to receive both a ”player animation vs scrolling speed planner”, and hopefully include gb support eventually, so it’ll be interesting to tweak & see if there are sweet spots.

As for mixed quality, i guess the GB scene is both ”young” & has grown explosively lately?

FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

those are some interesting remarks to me.
From a technical standpoint, getting scroll rates ’just right’ seems more challenging than on, say, the NES. A thing to avoid are rates of x.5, which cause the max amount of stutter. But an integer may be too much or too little for the limited resolution

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hey everyone!

If you enjoy novel, fresh NES / Famicom homebrew with some of the crispest art around, i think you should follow @lavenstar-games.bsky.social

lavenstar-games.bsky.social @lavenstar-games.bsky.social · Aug 6

水曜のワンシーン！
ファミコン向け『フローと感じたあの潮騒を決して忘れない』、開発中です。
リポスト・いいね・フォローも大歓迎！今日も素敵な一日を！

One Scene Wednesday!
Flow - The Tidal Whispers for the NES.
Repost, Like and Follow for more updates. Have a great day!

#FlowTidalWhispers #フロー忘れない #nes #ファミコン #NESdev #indiegame #同人ゲーム #自作ゲーム #ゲーム開発 #ゲーム制作 #ドット絵 #pixelart

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

i think the way your concept art comes through on the NES/FC is unparalleled in the homebrew scene. Well done!

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lavenstar-games.bsky.social @lavenstar-games.bsky.social · Aug 11

新キャラ、タイガを実装！🎉
筋トレ命のストイック少女、そして熱血アニメのセリフを素で言っちゃう本物のオタクです🔥今回はラフ→完成デザイン→ドット絵→実機スクショを公開！

New character Taiga is in! 🎉
A training-obsessed athlete who drops anime quotes like it’s no big deal🔥
Check out her sketch → final design → NES sprite → live hardware shot!

#ファミコン #ゲーム制作 #ドット絵 #pixelart #nesdev

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

right! there’s probably a range of ’healthy’ growth per year, and if it gets real explosively growing, parts of the community might be loose-knit for a while? if that makes sense.

GB seems to have gone from 0-100 in a matter of just a few years

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

that’s pretty much where i think i am too. there’s still lots of uncharted territories, but at the same time scenes are growing and tools are on the whole incremenrally getting better.

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borb 🐌 wishlist EMUUROM @borbware.itch.io · Aug 10

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FrankenGraphics @frankengraphics.bsky.social · Aug 11

ooh, nice! i went ahead and posted this over on the NESdev discord.

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