Seth A. Robinson
@rtsoft.com
Semi retired indie gamedev! (Legend Of The Red Dragon, Dink Smallwood, Growtopia) Site: rtsoft.com Blog: codedojo.com Twittter: https://x.com/rtsoft Mastodon https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rtsoft
Will my Japanese improve if I read manga written for kids? Gonna try. Of course, as usual, I had to procrastinate actually doing that by writing tools to (in theory) help me study better
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Will my Japanese improve if I read manga written for kids? Gonna try. Of course, as usual, I had to procrastinate actually doing that by writing tools to (in theory) help me study better
Finally got around to dumping the ripoff known as cPanel to admin my websites. Instead of $47 a month I now pay $0 with Virtualmin GPL. Only took like an hour to switch over, smooth import process.
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Finally got around to dumping the ripoff known as cPanel to admin my websites. Instead of $47 a month I now pay $0 with Virtualmin GPL. Only took like an hour to switch over, smooth import process.
Our cafe is hosting its annual Halloween retro-gaming night tomorrow, and I’m enjoying choosing which games to feature. I’ll focus mostly on multiplayer fun as usual, but include a few oddities too - including the only horror game on the Virtual-Boy
October 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Our cafe is hosting its annual Halloween retro-gaming night tomorrow, and I’m enjoying choosing which games to feature. I’ll focus mostly on multiplayer fun as usual, but include a few oddities too - including the only horror game on the Virtual-Boy
Update: Got the magic bios from ASUS, 8 GPUs now working!
October 2, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Update: Got the magic bios from ASUS, 8 GPUs now working!
While writing the readme, I considered adding instructions to add it with a git diff patch but got lazy and added a different way to install it: "paste this text into your claude cli or cursor AI setup". It works. Feels like one of those "velociraptors can open doors now" moments
August 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
While writing the readme, I considered adding instructions to add it with a git diff patch but got lazy and added a different way to install it: "paste this text into your claude cli or cursor AI setup". It works. Feels like one of those "velociraptors can open doors now" moments
Some claim that the issue with running small or two-person indie game studios is our inability to accept criticism. Hogwash! On a separate note, here's what you'll hear if you reach out to RTsoft support: (the Google Play store requires us to have a public voice line for some reason)
July 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Some claim that the issue with running small or two-person indie game studios is our inability to accept criticism. Hogwash! On a separate note, here's what you'll hear if you reach out to RTsoft support: (the Google Play store requires us to have a public voice line for some reason)
There's a place near my house in Kyoto called Angel Scat Studio. The acronym is A.S.S. and I think about it daily.
June 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
There's a place near my house in Kyoto called Angel Scat Studio. The acronym is A.S.S. and I think about it daily.
Akiko: I need a countdown timer that overlays our mahjong scores on the tv, I guess there's probably a webpage I could use for that and...
Me: But will it have sound effects and ten-chan?!! <a short while later>:
Me: But will it have sound effects and ten-chan?!! <a short while later>:
June 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Akiko: I need a countdown timer that overlays our mahjong scores on the tv, I guess there's probably a webpage I could use for that and...
Me: But will it have sound effects and ten-chan?!! <a short while later>:
Me: But will it have sound effects and ten-chan?!! <a short while later>:
EVENT: June 14th (Saturday) 6 PM - Indie Creators: Code, Games, & Electronics - Have a drink and hang out with fellow creators! If you've got something to show off, bring it: www.meetup.com/c2kyoto/even...
May 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
EVENT: June 14th (Saturday) 6 PM - Indie Creators: Code, Games, & Electronics - Have a drink and hang out with fellow creators! If you've got something to show off, bring it: www.meetup.com/c2kyoto/even...
Talk about niche: I've open-sourced the Japanese Riichi mahjong scoring and season tracking Google Sheets stuff I wrote for C2 Kyoto's Mahjong nights, in the very unlikely event there's a mahjong parlor (or group of friends) out there that needs it! github.com/SethRobinson...
May 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Talk about niche: I've open-sourced the Japanese Riichi mahjong scoring and season tracking Google Sheets stuff I wrote for C2 Kyoto's Mahjong nights, in the very unlikely event there's a mahjong parlor (or group of friends) out there that needs it! github.com/SethRobinson...
What's the most expensive off-the-shelf video/computer game ever sold? (not counting special bundles/promos/stunts) As near as I can figure, Samurai Shodown V Special (aka Samurai Spirits Zero Special) on Neo-Geo AES, 2004 - $359.99 (~$610 today)
May 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
What's the most expensive off-the-shelf video/computer game ever sold? (not counting special bundles/promos/stunts) As near as I can figure, Samurai Shodown V Special (aka Samurai Spirits Zero Special) on Neo-Geo AES, 2004 - $359.99 (~$610 today)
Tried Antstream's "Retro Classics", (why is the app called Pleasantville btw?) - the good news is they got streaming to work at what feels around 66ms latency. The bad news is that isn't good enough for twitch games like River Raid, it's noticeably "wrong" if you compare it directly to a good setup
May 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Tried Antstream's "Retro Classics", (why is the app called Pleasantville btw?) - the good news is they got streaming to work at what feels around 66ms latency. The bad news is that isn't good enough for twitch games like River Raid, it's noticeably "wrong" if you compare it directly to a good setup
The app is a disaster - constant logins, the worst reservation system ever (didn’t win the USA Pavilion lottery? Enjoy roasting in the sun for 2 hours!). Still, there’s a lot of cool stuff to see. After 4 PM, the lines ease up. Malaysia:
May 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The app is a disaster - constant logins, the worst reservation system ever (didn’t win the USA Pavilion lottery? Enjoy roasting in the sun for 2 hours!). Still, there’s a lot of cool stuff to see. After 4 PM, the lines ease up. Malaysia:
Scenes from Osaka Expo 2025 last Tuesday. Lines everywhere. Word is they panicked over slow sales and priced season passes way too low ($160 USD). Now it’s a madhouse - there’s even a wait to get into a freakin' Family Mart!
May 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Scenes from Osaka Expo 2025 last Tuesday. Lines everywhere. Word is they panicked over slow sales and priced season passes way too low ($160 USD). Now it’s a madhouse - there’s even a wait to get into a freakin' Family Mart!
ANNOUNCING YET ANOTHER TRANSLATION THING I MADE: UGTBrowser - a chrome extension that does inline translations (and optional creative tasks) on web pages using top LLMs. More an experiment, but hey, it works. Needs your own API key. Free & Open source. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ugtbr...
May 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ANNOUNCING YET ANOTHER TRANSLATION THING I MADE: UGTBrowser - a chrome extension that does inline translations (and optional creative tasks) on web pages using top LLMs. More an experiment, but hey, it works. Needs your own API key. Free & Open source. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ugtbr...
Huh. I think the image is slightly too big for bsky (1,067,355 bytes) , but why silently process it and ... do that? Anyway, you can see it here I hope: rtsoft.com/temp/ugtlive...
April 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Huh. I think the image is slightly too big for bsky (1,067,355 bytes) , but why silently process it and ... do that? Anyway, you can see it here I hope: rtsoft.com/temp/ugtlive...
Uh... let me try again with the image
April 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Uh... let me try again with the image
BTW, you can give your GitHub URL to O3 and just say "make easy to understand colorful Japanese cartoon posters about this project" and it will generate somewhat useful stuff... using 'em at a meetup tonight.
April 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
BTW, you can give your GitHub URL to O3 and just say "make easy to understand colorful Japanese cartoon posters about this project" and it will generate somewhat useful stuff... using 'em at a meetup tonight.
Announcing Universal Game Translator Live! It's a complete rewrite of UGT that's built to do real-time game translations. YouTube video of it in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFrW... It's very beta, but it's on GitHub now: github.com/SethRobinson...
April 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Announcing Universal Game Translator Live! It's a complete rewrite of UGT that's built to do real-time game translations. YouTube video of it in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFrW... It's very beta, but it's on GitHub now: github.com/SethRobinson...
Early screenshot of a new "real-time game translator/thing to help study language" I'm working on! (Game I'm testing with is Konohana 2) If I can get it to a good place, I'll throw it on github, it's sort of a complete evolution of UGT rewritten in C# and Python
April 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Early screenshot of a new "real-time game translator/thing to help study language" I'm working on! (Game I'm testing with is Konohana 2) If I can get it to a good place, I'll throw it on github, it's sort of a complete evolution of UGT rewritten in C# and Python
Tried out OpenAI's "Deep Research" by generating a chart of Nintendo launch pricing over the years. Seems about right, but unless I checked every #... hrmph.
April 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Tried out OpenAI's "Deep Research" by generating a chart of Nintendo launch pricing over the years. Seems about right, but unless I checked every #... hrmph.
Will be exhibiting some, er, classic CD-i games this Saturday... You won't find THESE at the Nintendo Museum. More info: x.com/c2kyoto/stat... (image from: www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comm...)
March 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Will be exhibiting some, er, classic CD-i games this Saturday... You won't find THESE at the Nintendo Museum. More info: x.com/c2kyoto/stat... (image from: www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comm...)
We've been running weekly public Riichi Mahjong games in Kyoto for over a year now. Akiko is hellbent on spreading the gospel of jansou rules mahjong to everybody. A chombo is an unforced error penalty that makes you want to shrivel up and die. Here, we do this...
March 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We've been running weekly public Riichi Mahjong games in Kyoto for over a year now. Akiko is hellbent on spreading the gospel of jansou rules mahjong to everybody. A chombo is an unforced error penalty that makes you want to shrivel up and die. Here, we do this...
Behold, a My Vision with My Audio mod! Will be easier to show at our retro event coming up. (Credit to @benjedwards.com for making me want to try it)
March 8, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Behold, a My Vision with My Audio mod! Will be easier to show at our retro event coming up. (Credit to @benjedwards.com for making me want to try it)
who doesn't like to unwind with a little mahjong after a long day? A complaint through: No way to disable the music (?) and the only way to turn it down is to use a screw driver on the console itself!
March 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
who doesn't like to unwind with a little mahjong after a long day? A complaint through: No way to disable the music (?) and the only way to turn it down is to use a screw driver on the console itself!