DiscoStarslayer
@disco.camp
🇨🇦 Reverse engineering games software and hardware for preservation and repair.
Git: http://github.com/DiscoStarslayer
Blog: http://blog.dtho.mp
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DiscoStarslayer
@disco.camp
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Big 🧵time!
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
The past week the subscription button on youtube has been broken, and now they moved where it is so that the shorts button on the side bar is where the old button was so I keep clicking it by accident
I'm sure this is entirely an accident and not some scheme to artificially inflate some metrics...
I'm sure this is entirely an accident and not some scheme to artificially inflate some metrics...
November 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The past week the subscription button on youtube has been broken, and now they moved where it is so that the shorts button on the side bar is where the old button was so I keep clicking it by accident
I'm sure this is entirely an accident and not some scheme to artificially inflate some metrics...
I'm sure this is entirely an accident and not some scheme to artificially inflate some metrics...
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The GR-524 nixie tube is an extremely rare symbol tube made by Rodan-Okaya of Japan. The tube shows the days of the week in abbreviated Kanji.
nixies.us/bwg_gallery/gr…
nixies.us/bwg_gallery/gr…
April 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
The GR-524 nixie tube is an extremely rare symbol tube made by Rodan-Okaya of Japan. The tube shows the days of the week in abbreviated Kanji.
nixies.us/bwg_gallery/gr…
nixies.us/bwg_gallery/gr…
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At a HardOff I caught a glimpse of an oldschool Japanese mechanical typewriter. The Nippon Type PanWriter types in 3 colours and somehow impacts one of the over 2300 glyphs onto the paper after the user manually slides over the rows & columns and presses down to type it. (Zoom in for the details)
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM
At a HardOff I caught a glimpse of an oldschool Japanese mechanical typewriter. The Nippon Type PanWriter types in 3 colours and somehow impacts one of the over 2300 glyphs onto the paper after the user manually slides over the rows & columns and presses down to type it. (Zoom in for the details)
I liked complicated systems and in hs I had to pick mechanics or computers and I picked computers
I’m still proud of my first year mechanics course where we tore down and inventoried a lawn mower engine. We were graded on how long it ran after assembly and ours was the only one that didn’t stop.
I’m still proud of my first year mechanics course where we tore down and inventoried a lawn mower engine. We were graded on how long it ran after assembly and ours was the only one that didn’t stop.
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I liked complicated systems and in hs I had to pick mechanics or computers and I picked computers
I’m still proud of my first year mechanics course where we tore down and inventoried a lawn mower engine. We were graded on how long it ran after assembly and ours was the only one that didn’t stop.
I’m still proud of my first year mechanics course where we tore down and inventoried a lawn mower engine. We were graded on how long it ran after assembly and ours was the only one that didn’t stop.
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle!
(Nice try, coppers!)
(Nice try, coppers!)
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle!
(Nice try, coppers!)
(Nice try, coppers!)
I ordered a FireWire architecture book which for some reason is out of print now so had to settle with a used copy from Amazon.
Apparently whoever keyed this into the database simply titled the book as "Book" so now I have these omninous messages in my inbox.
Apparently whoever keyed this into the database simply titled the book as "Book" so now I have these omninous messages in my inbox.
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I ordered a FireWire architecture book which for some reason is out of print now so had to settle with a used copy from Amazon.
Apparently whoever keyed this into the database simply titled the book as "Book" so now I have these omninous messages in my inbox.
Apparently whoever keyed this into the database simply titled the book as "Book" so now I have these omninous messages in my inbox.
*evil villain laugh*
🫷👁️👁️🫸
🫷👁️👁️🫸
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
*evil villain laugh*
🫷👁️👁️🫸
🫷👁️👁️🫸
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G'AIME by Tassei Denki. Lightgun game peripheral/console that allows you to use a #lightgun on non-CRT TVs. So beamers too. Only downside is that it only comes with 4 games and it doesn't seem it will allow expansions. The guns use a camera and "AI". Real AI or just so they put it on the box? #namco
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
G'AIME by Tassei Denki. Lightgun game peripheral/console that allows you to use a #lightgun on non-CRT TVs. So beamers too. Only downside is that it only comes with 4 games and it doesn't seem it will allow expansions. The guns use a camera and "AI". Real AI or just so they put it on the box? #namco
Some good news, even if a bit boring!
An anon with an early P1 game was nice enough to dump their memory card dongle.
Their decrypted dongle, mine and mame all match. The date range these dumps cover makes me fairly confident that there is only one konami dongle with the possible exception of...
An anon with an early P1 game was nice enough to dump their memory card dongle.
Their decrypted dongle, mine and mame all match. The date range these dumps cover makes me fairly confident that there is only one konami dongle with the possible exception of...
Stay tuned as now the real work begins. In the mean time, if anyone is sitting on Konami Python games please reach out, thanks to hard work from @el-isra-ps2dev.bsky.social it's easy and cheap to get proper dumps of this hardware now and we are seriously lacking in archived data.
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Some good news, even if a bit boring!
An anon with an early P1 game was nice enough to dump their memory card dongle.
Their decrypted dongle, mine and mame all match. The date range these dumps cover makes me fairly confident that there is only one konami dongle with the possible exception of...
An anon with an early P1 game was nice enough to dump their memory card dongle.
Their decrypted dongle, mine and mame all match. The date range these dumps cover makes me fairly confident that there is only one konami dongle with the possible exception of...
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do you think you would be better or worse at surviving outdoors than someone 3000 years ago? For me I think better because I watched a lot of youtube where a guy pretends to live outside
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
do you think you would be better or worse at surviving outdoors than someone 3000 years ago? For me I think better because I watched a lot of youtube where a guy pretends to live outside
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Big 🧵time!
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Big 🧵time!
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
Big 🧵time!
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Big 🧵time!
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python.
It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.
You know you’re deep in the trenches when cross compiling a Linux kernel is the path of least resistance
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
You know you’re deep in the trenches when cross compiling a Linux kernel is the path of least resistance
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Gotta keep Windows Threat Protection on its toes. 🔍🕵️
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Gotta keep Windows Threat Protection on its toes. 🔍🕵️
Found a local retailer that was fire selling FireWire cables.
They all were only 25 cents each but I bought these ones because of the dogs on it
They all were only 25 cents each but I bought these ones because of the dogs on it
November 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Found a local retailer that was fire selling FireWire cables.
They all were only 25 cents each but I bought these ones because of the dogs on it
They all were only 25 cents each but I bought these ones because of the dogs on it
Lookout football-fields, a new standard of measurement just dropped: mini-DIN
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lookout football-fields, a new standard of measurement just dropped: mini-DIN
In a sick twist of fate my period-correct FireWire cables are bad and I have to jiggle them the right way to avoid resetting the FireWire bus. Back to waiting for more cables 🫠🫠🫠
When analyzing FireWire packets on a blue and white powermac G3, make sure you use period correct transparent FireWire cables
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
In a sick twist of fate my period-correct FireWire cables are bad and I have to jiggle them the right way to avoid resetting the FireWire bus. Back to waiting for more cables 🫠🫠🫠
When analyzing FireWire packets on a blue and white powermac G3, make sure you use period correct transparent FireWire cables
November 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
When analyzing FireWire packets on a blue and white powermac G3, make sure you use period correct transparent FireWire cables
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Anyway, long story short I think it’s finally in a workable position, so I’ll be speeding and driving without a seatbelt in cross country Canada while I wait for more FireWire cables to arrive
November 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Anyway, long story short I think it’s finally in a workable position, so I’ll be speeding and driving without a seatbelt in cross country Canada while I wait for more FireWire cables to arrive
I’m never buying a computer from an era before usb boot again. The number of dvd-r coasters I’ve produced is embarrassing
Weirdly nostalgic though to start an operating system install and then sleeping to check on the install in the morning because it’s already been two hours and I’m tired
Weirdly nostalgic though to start an operating system install and then sleeping to check on the install in the morning because it’s already been two hours and I’m tired
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I’m never buying a computer from an era before usb boot again. The number of dvd-r coasters I’ve produced is embarrassing
Weirdly nostalgic though to start an operating system install and then sleeping to check on the install in the morning because it’s already been two hours and I’m tired
Weirdly nostalgic though to start an operating system install and then sleeping to check on the install in the morning because it’s already been two hours and I’m tired
Oh yeah, now we’re gaming.
The multiple hard-crashes I’ve experienced are authentic to my computer lab memories, gotta love Mac OS 9
The multiple hard-crashes I’ve experienced are authentic to my computer lab memories, gotta love Mac OS 9
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Oh yeah, now we’re gaming.
The multiple hard-crashes I’ve experienced are authentic to my computer lab memories, gotta love Mac OS 9
The multiple hard-crashes I’ve experienced are authentic to my computer lab memories, gotta love Mac OS 9
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Lots of room for activities in here
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Lots of room for activities in here