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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 30m

kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 34m

When #Nintendo first announced that that Mario Paint was coming to their #SNES servics and would have full mouse support

My immediate thought was
"I wonder if this means we'll finally receive Mario & Wario at some point?"

Well, lo and behold, Nintendo just dropped this today

After 22 years
#retro

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 46m

The 32X
"Doom Resurrection" #homebrew has recently been updated to v3.4

Adding:

-Fixed long initialization time of split-screen multiplayer

-Added framerate capping slidebar to video options

-Small stability & performance improvements

www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/...

#retro #romhack #romhacks

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FamicomCD @famicomcd.org · 2h

A special announcement!
(youtu.be/85ZY7h6romw)

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 1h

Speedrunner @niftski.bsky.social
has just done something incredible!

He just set a new world record of 4:54.48 in
Super Mario Bros.

This means that the theoretical "perfect" run
is now only a mere 0.22 seconds away.

Or 4 frames.

#speedrun #speedrunning #gaming #retro #NES #Nintendo

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 5h

X marks the spot

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 6h

After doing some romhacking work on all the Disney NES games, I noticed how they are all structured very very similarly to Mega Man xD
Which you can also tell from how the games actually play.
Even Talespin.

I think I actually prefer Mickey's look in the 8 bit SMS version over the Genesis one xD

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 6h

Get ready for the next thrilling #BanjoKazooie #romhack
from @kurkogames.bsky.social

"Banjo-Kazooie: The Lair Witch Project"

This hack aims to go all in on the horror, spooks & creepiness theme

Better beware, you're in for a scare

Mark your calendars for October 31
#romhacks #retro #N64 #gaming

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 9h

As a romhack translator, I approve ^w^

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 10h

I'm gonna go out on a limb here & assume most #retro gamers probably know of the 7-Up mascot "Cool Spot" as well as his games

But did you know, in many countries 7-Up's Mascot was a character named Fido Dido?

And did you know he also almost got a game on the Genesis, but was cancelled last minute?

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 10h

They could easily have just used the same baby sprite for all of these and then just placed the head sprite on top of them and nobody would probably have cared.

But they actually went through the trouble of making unique sprites for all of them, and I commend them for that

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 10h

Happy to share my obscure little story.

I believe the grand prize of the competition was a vacation. To

"anywhere, anytime"

Which I believe was a slogan they were going for with the N-Gage.

I also remember some Skis or snowboards being there as prizes.
But my memory is a tad fuzzy here.

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 10h

Here is some fresh new footage from the upcoming #homebrew #SNES game

"Till & Hat"
By FrogBull

An intense Run'n gun, platform shooter,
reminiscent of Gunstar Heroes and Contra
but with a fantasy theme and emphasis on magic rather than guns
#retro #indie #indiedev #SNESDev ##sfc #gaming #retrogames

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 10h

So yeah, I wasn't really in the best mood there after all the hype and buildup, only for them to sweep it away under my feet at the last minute.

Not saying I would have gotten anywhere in the actual competition, but I'm still salty about not even getting to compete at it when I had won the right to

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 10h

So it's actually I big part because of me the they were all allowed to compete.

But when we got there, they suddenly decided I had to do a rematch against the other guy that had won by default initially.

Nobody else had to do such a thing and unfortunately I got a very unlucky run in the game

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 11h

I was an intern at a gaming magazine at the time over here called "Gamers 2 Gamers" and they thought that was kinda tone-deaf of Nokia, so they got in touch with them and they actually ended up changing the rules so I COULD compete.

Turned out that basically 90% of the winners were under 18.

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 11h

It was cool and all, but I'm still sorta salty in how at the very last minute
they decided I had to qualify to actually compete

Problem was that initially, you could only participate in the grand thing if you were over 18,
which I wasn't at the time.
So the price defaulted to someone else initially

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 11h

I have a lot of history with the N-Gage actually.

I was the Danish winner of a big competition they hosted back in 2003.

They even flew me to Paris to compete against the other winners in Tony Hawk.
We also all got N-Gages with our own choice of 2 games.

I chose Tony Hawk & Sonic N
#ngage #retro

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 11h

I have a lot of history with the N-Gage actually.

I was the Danish winner of a big competition they hosted back in 2003.

They even flew me to Paris to compete against the other winners in Tony Hawk.
We also all got N-Gages with our own choice of 2 games.

I chose Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Sonic N

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 11h

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 12h

It was brought to my attention from this video, which got uploaded a few days ago.

Crazy coincidence indeed xD

youtu.be/mBuP3EsAkcA

The Incredible Disaster of Superman 64

YouTube video by Almost Something

youtu.be

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks for the recommendation.

It does look exquisitely spooky and very faithful to the style and atmosphere of the shoe itself.

kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 12h

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kaptajnen.bsky.social @kaptajnen.bsky.social · 22h

I always love seeing creative used of the SGB features.
The border also look really nice!

Super excited to try this out when it's done

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Giyygas98 @giyygas98.bsky.social · Jul 9

Trying to color with SGB I came up with the idea of changing them between screens to try to get a “sunset” as you go through levels, I like how it looks! but I need to find colors that don't hurt the eyes so much 😅

#indiedev #gamedev #gameboy #retrogaming #pixelart

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