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Chris Covell
@chriscovell.bsky.social
I'll be posting retro gaming, retrocomputing, and retro dev stuff.
Canadian living in Japan
https://www.chrismcovell.com/
November 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Well, those, also Daisempu just says 大 and Kyuukoku Tiger just says タイガー etc.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Many of the titles are quite messed up, though... 🤔
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Now Production is one of my pet hated, or... disliked companies, seeing as how they were responsible for Yo! Noid, the Wagyan Land series, Adventure Island sequels... all of which had the same lack of shading in visuals... and many had the same overemphasis on between-level card/luck minigames.
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I needed a backup or replacement Dingoo since my white one's screen was cloudy & f*cked up, and the battery was puffy though working. Sadly, the battery in the new Dingoo was dead. I ordered the closest-sized battery I could find online, did replacement surgery, and it appears to work great!
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
That HardOff actually had what I'd been looking for for a while, unbelievably: a black Dingoo A320 for cheap!
The Dingoo is an emulation+MP3 player from *2009* but whose OldPlay software on its Dingux OS is *really great* for old game music playing (SID,NSF,VGM,GBS,HES,SPC,KSS...)
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Of course! But also whatever is on my hard drive that's under 1.44MB.
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I get that on my NEC Multisync CRT monitor on game systems, only when their border colour is bright, and the H-Size is extended so that the border starts off the left side of the screen: the brightness seems to 'wrap'. I don't know if the cause is an electronic fault or just how tubes/timing work.
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Interesting! It kind of looks like the SPC acts like a Z80 (dbnz mnemonic), but with 6502 register names...?
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The border colour (where the first bit of controllable colour starts after the colourburst in composite) actually has fixed timing horizontally, I think. It's the active pixel area that can have 3 different resolutions (dot clocks) and dimensions that can slide around within the border dimensions.
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Thank you for your great work since the '90s too, Zophar!
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Yep! I have some more (sorry, poor-quality) photographs here: www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_1...
Japanese Secrets!
www.chrismcovell.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I agree, but the article needed a final proofreading:
"The engineer sugests that..."
"The suggeation for a hardcore mode, makes sense."
Spelling 'suggest' correctly seems to be a hill this author can't climb; and that unnecessary and incorrect comma is irksome. This isn't a speech to be read aloud.
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I was most impressed with how cool you acted in the face of laptop & missing notes difficulties. 👍
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM