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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev

@matteusbeus.bsky.social

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Retro Gamer, SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive Solo Game Dev, SGDK fan, Director of @pixelpushergames.co.uk, Coder of Chords (the Konami Snatcher wannabe) and Crypt of Dracula (the First Person Castlevania), YouTubes sometimes. https://linktr.ee/matteusbeus

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 25d

Excited to showcase Chords at the Cambridge Centre for Computing History Retro Computer Festival 2025 (15–16 Nov)! 🎮 A visual novel style adventure for the Sega Mega Drive, inspired by classics like Konami Snatcher.

#SegaMegaDrive #SegaGenesis #IndieDev #RetroDev

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Displaced Gamers @displacedgamers.bsky.social · 2d

Ridley, Kraid, and Mother Brain Life Support slow down! But why?

Let's do a performance dive to answer this question and also find out why scrolling seems to lag when Samus is flipping through the air... but in reality does not!

Part 2 of Metroid Lag - youtu.be/1oCE-hYT3LY

NES Metroid - Lag of the Bosses and Scrolling Jitters - Metroid Lag Part 2

YouTube video by Displaced Gamers

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 3d

Recently on X, I discovered Chords being shown alongside the amazing work of @badtasty.bsky.social

Seeing people excited for what I'm doing frankly means the world to me ❤️

16-bit love lives on! 🕹️

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 4d

Nice work! Totally agree! I’ll take clean projection over speed any day. 💪

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Greg Gallardo @greggallardo.bsky.social · 4d

Rewrote my #SGDK / #segagenesis raycaster again. This time to get rid of the Toy Story mirroring. The FPS dropped of course. But I think I'd rather run 10 to 13 FPS without mirroring the screen than run 15 to 20 with mirroring.

There's still some optimizing I can do, so maybe 15~ish is possible.

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 4d

PC/Mega CD OST was a banger! The first time I played it was on a 286 without any sound at all 😂

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SarahJaneAvory @sarahjaneavory.bsky.social · 4d

Spectrum Next #Delphian progress: from walking around to flying across a planet, to flying into space... Now I just need to optimise the starfield code a little... then add the planets and the sun when in space. Still, I'm making progress... 😀😎

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 4d

I'd be sad to see you stop as I adore BlastEm but its all about doing what you enjoy in life not what you don't ☺️

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SuperJet Spade @superjetspade.bsky.social · 6d

Spade's Throwback of the Day: Mad Forest from Castlevania III on Atari POKEY, done in 2018. youtu.be/v335AfxuyB8

#Castlevania #AkumajoDracula #AkumajouDracula #AtariPOKEY #chiptune

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse - Mad Forest (Atari PoKEY Cover)

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 11d

Wow this will definitely be one for the Mega Drive library: youtu.be/aIFD5wO0kDA?...

The Bagman Trailer #1

YouTube video by BadTasty

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JJSignal - GET ROM: NEURODIVER @jjsignal.bsky.social · 11d

Had some really cool things I got to work on since the end of May up to now, but my contracts are wrapping up this week, which means I'm jobless again! I'd love a full time W-2 job with benefits, but I think those don't exist? Anyway, my portfolio is here: jjsignal.com

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 12d

Book your tickets here:

www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/Re...

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 13d

Quality choices!

MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 20d

It's worth coming to see! I promise!

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 23d

Happy birthday Bloggo! 😊

MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 23d

I'm pretty sure I've still got these dvds 😆

MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 25d

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 26d

Urg it sucks that after 9 years away System of a Down announce a tour and I can't afford to risk buying tickets because I have NHS redundancy circling over my head 😔

MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 26d

First sighting of @chordsthegame.bsky.social stickers in Germany 😱

MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · 28d

So based on this it's not a very accurate like for like translation?

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aNdy @andyvaisey.bsky.social · Sep 8

New video of #outrun #petscii uploaded, showing a test build of intro and game, with a random route taken through the stages. Follow the link to YouTube below!
@everythingc64.itch.io #commodore64 #C64 #retro #pixelart #gfx #8bitart
youtu.be/FNfUGs6JbNo

OutRun PETSCII Test 9

YouTube video by aNdy_AL_C0S

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MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · Sep 8

100% possible you'll get there 😊

MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · Sep 8

685 at a time seems a lot. You'd still get close to 30 FPS tho. Are you mirroring the legs?

MatteusBeus - Retro Sega Dev @matteusbeus.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'm surprised by that to be honest. It looks feasible. I don't believe it's going over 150 unique tiles a frame.

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · Sep 6

Get on down to Neo Tokyo in Neo-Japan

a cityscape with a lot of buildings and a few lights coming out of them

ALT: a cityscape with a lot of buildings and a few lights coming out of them

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and0 (Ohsat Games) @ohsatgames.bsky.social · Sep 6

Have you picked up Go! Go! PogoGirl on Mega Drive yet? You should! If you want to play the game on Mega Drive, I mean. We got physical and digital! www.ohsat.com//post/pogogi... #gamedev #indiegame

Go! Go! PogoGirl is out on Mega Drive!

Bounce with Blast Processing!

www.ohsat.com

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