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Ren Fuchsfein
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Hiya, I'm Ren! 🦊🏳️‍🌈
He/They, 34, Autistic, Gay, Lovable Dorkfox from Southwest Germany

Oldschool Gamer, Electronic Music, English & Scottish Folk Enthusiast
Gaming, language, music trivia, nature photography, politics free zone
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Shadow Man: 2econd Coming is an underwhelming sequel.

It ditches everything I love about the first one and turns it into a linear action game. Mike, Nettie, Jaunty got ugly redesigns. The story is lame. Music is still good.

I want to like it, but it's rough.
Shadow Man: 2econd Coming released for PS2 by Acclaim in 2002. Screenshot from Deadside at the beginning of the game. Shadow Man: 2econd Coming released for PS2 by Acclaim in 2002. Screenshot from the Hountfort Church at the beginning of the game. Shadow Man: 2econd Coming released for PS2 by Acclaim in 2002. Screenshot from an early cutscene with Jaunty. Shadow Man: 2econd Coming released for PS2 by Acclaim in 2002. Screenshot from Louisiana Bayou at the beginning of the game.
January 18, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Blippo+ is a neat idea. A "non-game". It simulates channel surfing through wacky 90s cable TV from an alien planet.

It reminds me of the acting in 90s videogames like Command & Conquer and Resident Evil, in a good way.

It's nostalgic, even though I never cared much for TV except cartoons as a kid.
Blippo+ is a wacky cable TV channel surfing simulator first released in 2025 for the Playdate in black and white, making use of the crank to tune in to channels, and later ported to PC and other consoles in full colour. It's not really a video game as you don't do much more than clicking buttons to zap in and out of channels, but I find the experience surprisingly entertaining and there is also an overaching story about alien visitors from another planet that ties the different segments together and gives a sense of progression.
January 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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I'm a silly goose for laughing about this logo.
DiC Entertainment

I was talking with a friend about Sony MiniDiscs. I made a typo, "Minidic Player" and we started laughing. Then I was reminded of this clip. :P
January 17, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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I feel pretty good today. :3

Hope you're all doing well.

I was kinda down recently. Didn't have much energy with the dull, dark winter days. But we've got a few days of sunshine coming and it really lifts my mood.

I'll go on a walk. Later I'll play Parodius SNES with a friend.
Parodius Non-Sense Fantasy (aka Parodius Da! ~Shinwa kara Owarai e~ [パロディウスだ! －神話からお笑いへ－]) released for the Super Nintendo in Europe in 1992 by Konami. Originally released in Japan in 1990. I was lucky to get this game with my SNES in Germany as a kid. It was my introduction to Konami shooters, and I couldn't have started with a better one. It only released in Japan and Europe, making it one of the few PAL exclusive Western releases) A silly horizontal shooter (shoot 'em up / shmup) featuring lots and lots of penguins and wacky covers of classical music. It's a parody of Konami's own Gradius / Nemesis series of shooters, featuring the same gameplay and power up style. You can play as Vic Viper from Gradius (Gradius Weapons), Tako the Octopus (Salamander / Life Force Weapons), TwinBee (TwinBee Weapons) and Pentarō the Penguin from Arctic Adventure (Gradius III Weapons).
January 17, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Here's a folk revival performance of King Orfeo (Skoven Årle Grøn) by Danish scholars Thomas Bredsdorff and Anne-Marie Mai at a sing-around in Denmark in 2009.

Many people don't like bagpipes. But they can be effective in the right setting.

I love this recording. Sadly the tape ran out at the end.
January 17, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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This song fascinated me since I was a teen.

King Orfeo or Skoven Årle Grøn is a folk song retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus. It has verses in Shetland Scots and a refrain in Norn, the extinct Scandinavian language of Shetland and Orkney.

Here it is sung by Kitty Anderson of Lerwick in 1955.
January 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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Folk songs, riddles, sayings and place names from Shetland and Orkney still contain traces of Norn, an extinct Scandinavian language spoken before the islands were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468–69.

The Unst Boat Song is entirely in Norn. Here it is sung by Kitty Anderson of Lerwick in 1955.
January 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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Here's Ewan MacColl singing a traditional pirate ballad, Captain Ward and the Rainbow, in a recording made by Alan Lomax in 1951.

Ewan was a ballad singer par excellence. A 10 LP series of Child Ballads, The Long Harvest, he recorded together with Peggy Seeger was my introduction to ballad singing.
January 17, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Ewan MacColl (1915–1989) is one my idols. Born in England to Scottish parents. Theatre actor, socialist, folk singer, one of the originators of the 1960s British Folk Revival. Married American folk singer Peggy Seeger in 1977.

Here's Ewan & Peggy performing "Johnny Sangster" live in Dublin in 1978.
January 17, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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Willie the Weeper is both a folk song and a jazz standard. I'm fascinated by it.

One of the earliest, if not the first song about drug addiction. Willie smokes opium and indulges in strange dreams.

Cab Calloway's Minnie the Moocher from 1931 is based on it. Here's a 1945 performance by Sam Hinton.
January 16, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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The reason I rarely upload and share files on the Internet Archive is the slow upload speed.

I don't have the patience to upload several Gigabytes on a website where doing so takes an entire day.
Uploading a large file to the Internet Archive takes forever. I like the website and the idea behind it. But I don't have the motivation to use it much. It's too time consuming.
January 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Nightdive Studios' Shadow Man Remastered is an excellent remaster but not without minor nitpicks.

A small number of graphical effects are missing, such as underwater red fog and the sun lens flare effect.

I also noticed that zombies mumbling to themselves are barely audible now which is a shame. 🦊
Shadow Man - Sun Lens Flare Effect - Original 1999 Windows PC Version Shadow Man Remastered - Missing Sun Lens Flare Effect - 2021 Nightdive Studios Remaster PC Version Shadow Man - Underwater Red Fog Effect - Original 1999 Windows PC Version Shadow Man Remastered - Missing Underwater Red Fog Effect - 2021 Nightdive Studios Remaster PC Version
January 16, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Shadow Man - Additional screenshots

Version comparison: Dreamcast, N64, Windows PC, Remastered
Shadow Man - Sega Dreamcast Version A direct port of the Windows PC original with the level design fully intact but noticeably brighter lighting and less grainy textures. It's the 2nd best version. Sadly it suffers from audio issues. Cutscene voice acting is out of sync, music tracks cut off abruptly when changing areas and sound effects can get swallowed when too much is happening at the same time. The first US NTSC pressing had even worse audio issues, with samples distorting or disappearing entirely after several hours of playtime. This major audio bug got fixed in a later repressing and all the PAL releases. If you want to play Shadow Man on console this is the best way to do it, not counting the modern remaster. But the PC Windows version remains the definitive release as it isn't plagued by audio issues. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man - Nintendo 64 Version A competent port. Level design has been simplified but the gameplay remains intact and the controls work surprisingly well with the trident controller. Many people have fond memories of playing this version, it was probably the most popular release of Shadow Man back in the day. The biggest drawback with the N64 port is the heavily compressed audio quality. In order to fit the full cutscene voice acting onto a 256 Mbit cartridge everything had to be downsampled heavily and this is noticeable. Rate of fire appears to be slower on N64. Enemies take longer to defeat, especially in the early hours without weapon upgrades. This can be annoying, but the problem lessens once you've collected the first couple of dark souls. It's not a game breaker for me personally. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man - Windows PC Version This is the original version, the main release upon which all the others are based. It was the best way to experience the game until the release of Shadow Man: Remastered. Regretfully it has been delisted from Steam. You're not missing out on much if you only play the remaster, but there's a noticeably different vibe in the original version. It looks darker, grittier, and sound effects are much louder and more powerful. I still like it. A few minor graphical effects from this version are absent in the remaster, such as the red fog when swimming underwater and the lens flare effect when looking at the sun in daytime levels. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man Remastered - PC Version The modern remaster released by Nightdive Studios in 2021 for PC and ported to consoles in 2022. By all means this is the definitive way to play Shadow Man. It makes very minor, sensible gameplay adjustments that make things more enjoyable without ruining the feel of the game. Early enemies aren't bullet sponges, the shadow gun is no longer ear grating, controls are much more responsive, there's an optional hint system showing you how many collectibles you can reach in each level with your current abilities etc.. It also restores a ton of cut content that didn't make it into the original version because of time constraints including three entire levels. It's great stuff. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique.
January 16, 2026 at 6:16 PM
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Shadow Man - Some bonus version comparisons

PS1, Nvidia NV10 Enhanced Prototype, 20th Anniversary Retexture Mod by John Navarro (Karrot250)
Shadow Man - Sony PlayStation Version It's a terrible port, I'm sorry to say. It was a last minute decision to have Shadow Man ported to PS1. The developers were inexperienced with the hardware and tried their best within the short time given to them. We shouldn't blame them for this. The PS1 version is an ugly, low resolution, blurry mess with framerates resembling a slide show. It lacks many sound effects and voice acting outside of cutscenes is entirely absent. Collision detection is wonky. It's possible to get stuck on fences and doors and you can sequence break and go out of bounds with little effort due to inaccurate jumping physics. It reuses the simplified level design of the N64 port with further changes made to get it running on the weak hardware. One neat little detail unique to this port is vertex based wave displacement. Some of the water surfaces such as the lake in the Louisiana Bayou or at the beginning of the Asylum level are animated. The water surface deforms to resemble the movement of waves. It looks quite nice and isn't included in any other version of Shadow Man. If the framerate wasn't so bad it would still be an enjoyable port, but if you have any other version available there's no reason to play this one. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man - Sony PlayStation Version It's a terrible port, I'm sorry to say. It was a last minute decision to have Shadow Man ported to PS1. The developers were inexperienced with the hardware and tried their best within the short time given to them. We shouldn't blame them for this. The PS1 version is an ugly, low resolution, blurry mess with framerates resembling a slide show. It lacks many sound effects and voice acting outside of cutscenes is entirely absent. Collision detection is wonky. It's possible to get stuck on fences and doors and you can sequence break and go out of bounds with little effort due to inaccurate jumping physics. It reuses the simplified level design of the N64 port with further changes made to get it running on the weak hardware. One neat little detail unique to this port is vertex based wave displacement. Some of the water surfaces such as the lake in the Louisiana Bayou or at the beginning of the Asylum level are animated. The water surface deforms to resemble the movement of waves. It looks quite nice and isn't included in any other version of Shadow Man. If the framerate wasn't so bad it would still be an enjoyable port, but if you have any other version available there's no reason to play this one. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man - Unreleased Nvidia NV10 GeForce-256 Graphics Card Enhanced Build This is an early prototype of an enhanced Shadow Man PC version with higher quality textures, models and additional details in the levels. Acclaim worked on this for a few months in 1999 but it ended up being cancelled and never released. As the story goes someone backed up the work stations and wiped the hard drives without checking first if the backups were successful. They'd failed, and all work on this version of Shadow Man was lost. An incomplete build of this enhanced version dated October 5, 1999 was discovered in 2022 on a disc in the collection of Duffy, a former Acclaim beta tester who had passed away. Thanks to the efforts of his nephew Duffy's collection of video game prototypes was preserved and made available online. The prototype only updates the levels up to the first part of the Asylum, everything after that appears to be unchanged. The executable is incompatible with modern graphics cards, but the build can still be played by copying its data folder into the retail PC version of Shadow Man. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man - Windows PC Version - 20th Anniversary Retexture Mod by John Navarro (Karrot250) A fan made mod released in 2019. It upscales the textures, fixes bugs and restores cut content. It was fully integrated into Nightdive Studio's 2021 official remaster, which is pretty cool. There's no real reason to play this version now, but I found it interesting to revisit it and compare it to the other versions. Karrot spent years datamining and modding Shadow Man and for a while this was the best way to play the game. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique.
January 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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Winter time is soup time 🦊🧡

I made a vegetable soup and it was a ton of work but turned out really enjoyable and it'll last me for two or three days. Hooray.
My vegetable soup 🧡
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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Shadow Man - A dark metroidvania Tomb Raider clone by Acclaim Entertainment from 1999

Version comparison: Dreamcast, N64, Windows PC, Remastered
Shadow Man - Sega Dreamcast Version A direct port of the Windows PC original with the level design fully intact but noticeably brighter lighting and less grainy textures. It's the 2nd best version. Sadly it suffers from audio issues. Cutscene voice acting is out of sync, music tracks cut off abruptly when changing areas and sound effects can get swallowed when too much is happening at the same time. The first US NTSC pressing had even worse audio issues, with samples distorting or disappearing entirely after several hours of playtime. This major audio bug got fixed in a later repressing and all the PAL releases. If you want to play Shadow Man on console this is the best way to do it, not counting the modern remaster. But the PC Windows version remains the definitive release as it isn't plagued by audio issues. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man - Nintendo 64 Version A competent port. Level design has been simplified but the gameplay remains intact and the controls work surprisingly well with the trident controller. Many people have fond memories of playing this version, it was probably the most popular release of Shadow Man back in the day. The biggest drawback with the N64 port is the heavily compressed audio quality. In order to fit the full cutscene voice acting onto a 256 Mbit cartridge everything had to be downsampled heavily and this is noticeable. Rate of fire appears to be slower on N64. Enemies take longer to defeat, especially in the early hours without weapon upgrades. This can be annoying, but the problem lessens once you've collected the first couple of dark souls. It's not a game breaker for me personally. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man - Windows PC Version This is the original version, the main release upon which all the others are based. It was the best way to experience the game until the release of Shadow Man: Remastered. Regretfully it has been delisted from Steam. You're not missing out on much if you only play the remaster, but there's a noticeably different vibe in the original version. It looks darker, grittier, and sound effects are much louder and more powerful. I still like it. A few minor graphical effects from this version are absent in the remaster, such as the red fog when swimming underwater and the lens flare effect when looking at the sun in daytime levels. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique. Shadow Man Remastered - PC Version The modern remaster released by Nightdive Studios in 2021 for PC and ported to consoles in 2022. By all means this is the definitive way to play Shadow Man. It makes very minor, sensible gameplay adjustments that make things more enjoyable without ruining the feel of the game. Early enemies aren't bullet sponges, the shadow gun is no longer ear grating, controls are much more responsive, there's an optional hint system showing you how many collectibles you can reach in each level with your current abilities etc.. It also restores a ton of cut content that didn't make it into the original version because of time constraints including three entire levels. It's great stuff. Shadow Man is a dark, metroidvania Tomb Raider clone from 1999 and one of my favourite video games of all time. It's a love it or hate it affair. You platform and shoot your way through sprawling labyrinthine levels with nothing but your own sense of orientation and memorisation to rely on. It has a spooky synth soundtrack and a cool and unusual story. You play as a voodoo demi god who can travel between our world and the world of the dead and has to stop 5 immortal serial killers lead by Legion from bringing about the apocalypse. I think the only other game that comes close in terms of setting and gameplay is Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver but even that doesn't quite hit the same strings for me. Shadow Man is pretty unique.
January 16, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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In a moment of weakness I bought a Steam Deck OLED.

It was collecting dust and I had regrets about buying "the same console twice". But now the beautiful display is growing on me.

I'm using the LCD version docked as a PC and the OLED as a handheld. 🦊
Shadow Man Remastered on Steam Deck vs. Steam Deck OLED Same thing for Switch vs. Switch OLED The difference in colour contrast is huge. I've been enamoured with OLED displays since the PS Vita.
January 16, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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It's Fox Friday! 🦊
Happy Fox Friday! It's almost weekend, hooray!
January 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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DuckStation is an amazing PS1 emulator. It's so fast.

Look at the framerate I can get in the notoriously bad Shadow Man PS1 port with overclocking set to 450%.

It's crazy. I can make it run butter smooth.
January 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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An enhanced version of Shadow Man for Nvidia GeForce-256 graphics cards was worked on by Acclaim for a few months in 1999. It was cancelled.

A WIP build was discovered in the Duffy Collection: hiddenpalace.org/Shadow_Man_(...

By copying its data folder into the regular PC version it can be played.
Shadow Man - Louisiana Bayou - Original Windows PC 1999 Version Shadow Man - Louisiana Bayou - Enhanced Nvidia GeForce-256 Version - October 5 1999 Prototype Build recovered from the Duffy Collection, a former Acclaim beta tester. Shadow Man - Deadside Marrow Gates - Original Windows PC 1999 Version Shadow Man - Deadside Marrow Gates - Enhanced Nvidia GeForce-256 Version - October 5 1999 Prototype Build recovered from the Duffy Collection, a former Acclaim beta tester.
January 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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It's my birthday 🦊
34 years of fox, incroyable!

Thank you to everyone who accepts me despite my flaws and quirks. You make my life so much better!

I'm happy. I'm glad to be here. 🧡
There's a place in the world, even for someone like me.
It's a Ren. With silly fox ears. Haha. I'm doing fine. I'm still the same shy yet friendly nerd, trying to figure out life. For a while I thought I'd never find friends as an autistic person. But there are people who like me. That's the biggest gift in the world.
January 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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The Wee Wee Man (Child 38) is an ancient Scottish traditional folk ballad. It can be traced back as far as the 14th century Cotton Manuscript.

Only once has a tune for it been preserved. In 2001, from the singing of Stanley Robertson of Aberdeen who heard it from old people as a child in the 1950s.
January 9, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Jump physics in the PS1 version of Shadow Man appear to depend on framerate.

Overclocking the CPU in an emulator to make the game run smoother makes you jump higher.

It enables sequence breaking and out of bounds exploration with little effort.
January 9, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Shadow Man PS1 Exclusive Water Effect

For all the blame this port deservedly gets it does have nice looking water in the Louisiana Bayou level.

The effect is called vertex displacement. The water texture deforms to resemble the movement of waves.
January 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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Differences between Shadow Man on Dreamcast and PC Windows are minor.

PC lighting is darker, textures look grainier. Dreamcast looks brighter, cleaner, water uses a different texture.

The Dreamcast port suffers from audio delay. Voices play delayed in cutscenes. Mosquito swarms lack sound effects.
Shadow Man - 1999 PC Windows Version - Louisiana Bayou Level Shadow Man - 1999 Sega Dreamcast Version - Louisiana Bayou Level Resolution upscaled to 960x720 in Flycast Shadow Man - 1999 PC Windows Version - Deadside Marrow Gates Level Shadow Man - 1999 Sega Dreamcast Version - Deadside Marrow Gates Level Resolution upscaled to 960x720 in Flycast
January 9, 2026 at 2:47 PM