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@crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk
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Keeping LAN multiplayer alive as project lead of XLink Kai @teamxlink.co.uk linktr.ee/crunchbite Part of consolemods.org, psdevwiki.com, retrorgb.com, and more Wannabe Extron rep

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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 25/09/2026
I'm up to my usual nonsense but it's got me thinking. Was the original Xbox's ability to use SCART cables on NTSC region consoles a stock feature? Like, could you just do that? It *does* support it internally, but was this a thing people did?
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 30/08/2026
Maaaaaan its hard to work on a fun project you really, *REALLY* want to tell people about but you have to wait until its ready for release 😅 (If you think you know what project this is you're probably wrong)
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 23/08/2026
Hell yeah
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 18/08/2026
Hosting web based projects in $currentYear is challenging but sometimes its not AI scrapers giving you trouble, but just popularity
A screenshot showing 30 day history of 'Total Requests', 'Total Data Served' and 'Data Cached'.
Its a lot of data.
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Emma (IPG) @invoxiplaygames.uk · 13/08/2026
I don't even use BD-JB or Vue After Free but if you do and also want to record gameplay with a capture card without having to dig around in the settings menu after exploiting, or buy a hdmi splitter with a serif font on it. Here you go payload for you github.com/InvoxiPlayGa...
notification on the PS4 saying "HDCP disabled!"
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Darío @dariosamo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 04/08/2026
If the AI scrapers could chill out and stop knocking my stuff over that would be great kthnx
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Bekoha @bekoha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A successor website to redump.org from the same staff team just launched, featuring better registration and metadata submission processes and HTTPS in 2026 among other things #redump redump.info
A screenshot of current redump.info main page. Official announcement text partially reads: 

"As many of you are aware, there have been longstanding issues with the redump.org site infrastructure. Basic features such as HTTPS have been missing and the project staff have been unable to address this due to the site being tightly controlled by an inactive administrator.

This has become increasingly untenable over the course of the past year, with major site outages and issues causing real concern that data could be permanently lost. Staff have made multiple attempts over several years to contact the redump.org admin to ask for these issues to be addressed, but all of these efforts have been either rebuffed or outright ignored. We believe that the work done here at Redump is very important for long-term preservation of data, which has necessitated this shift to ensure the project is successful for many years to come.

As a result, this year we decided to take the initiative and move to a new site, giving us a more solid and modern codebase to work from, and a more collaborative governance structure ensuring that major site decisions cannot be locked behind the availability of any single member of the team.

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The Redump staff would like to thank all of you for your patience as we've worked through this process, and over the past few years in dealing with the difficulties presented by the old site. We ask for your continued patience as we get up and running, as it will take everyone some time to get fully up to speed. In particular, for the moment we ask that you keep a note of any feature requests you might have. We will soon be announcing an official process for submitting these, and we have many ideas of our own, but for now our focus is on making this transition as seamless as possible."
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Bucket Mouse @mousebitelabs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy 25th birthday, Game Boy Advance! To celebrate, I am happy to announce the Game Boy Enhance is FINALLY here! The Game Boy Enhance (AGBM) is a circuit-level recreation of the Game Boy Advance. It uses almost all-new components, but still uses the original CPU - it's not emulation!
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...
illomens.itch.io
NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME by ill omens
A Manifesto For Making Games
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sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 11/06/2026
To the tune of randy newmans 'you got a friend in me' 6 7 skibidi
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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 30/05/2026
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
tomshardware.com
Wide-ranging 7-zip vulnerability with 8.8 CVE rating allows for code execution — hundreds of millions of machines potentially at risk
Everyone, get your update hats on immediately; we're at DEFCON 1
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 18/05/2026
Unless it's about a physical process video guides are a waste of time! On top of not being searchable, indexable, or even updatable...
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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com · 29/04/2026
copy.fail THANKS, I HATE IT.
copy.fail
Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root
CVE-2026-31431. 100% Reliable Linux LPE — no race, no per-distro offsets, page-cache write that bypasses on-disk file-integrity tools and crosses containers. Found by Xint Code.
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Derf @consolemods.org · 07/04/2026
Does anyone have the capability and consoles to take very high res shots of original Xbox motherboards? We're looking for the level of resolution of the wonderful shots @jft-jnftech.bsky.social took of Xbox 360 motherboards ("Image" section next to each model) consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_36...
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Larry Hryb, Gamer Emeritus @hryb.me · 07/04/2026
The high quality, wallpaper worthy version of the Earthset photo take yesterday from Artemis II. images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
images.nasa.gov
NASA Image and Video Library
NASA Image and Video Library, serving up consolidated imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions and see the metadata associated with images, including EXIF/camera data on many images.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 27/03/2026
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 24/03/2026
One of these days the linker and I will be friends. Today is not that day.
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 14/03/2026
I'm working on something really cool for the original Xbox and it should be out soon :)
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
gotta be another way to do this
the new york times post captioned “here are the suggested serving sizes of common household supplies that surprised us the most” with a photo of a glob of white goo in the palm of a hand
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Derf @consolemods.org · 21/02/2026
New 360 app drop! This should be useful for people who fix or mod a lot of 360s and run into ones with Parental Control passcodes on them. No need to bother with dumping NAND for it anymore. consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox_36...
consolemods.org
Parental Control Remover
ParentalControlRemover (source) is an application created by User:Derf that allows you to view the currently set Parental Control passcode or to clear it out if it is unknown. This is useful if you bu...
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 20/02/2026
Fun fact; half of Team XLink's annual expenses operating XLink Kai is domain renewals!
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 07/02/2026
This is amazing
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I just saw this instagram post from the incredibly talented and breathtakingly hilarious Kate Welch, who was laid off around a year ago, and I wanted to share it here. It’s an important message, and you deserve to read it: (thread)
A title image reads “So Youve Just Been
Laid Off
a post-corporate message from @katewelchhhh”“One year ago, I was laid off from my corporate gaming job. For the first time in my 15-year career, I was unemployed without a next secure, salaried job on the horizon. I am either exceptionally lucky or talented, but it doesn't matter which it is - both no longer seem applicable.”
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Basil 🌱 @basil-mage.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Mood
Drawing of a tired puppy with the caption; "this too shall pass but like holy f"
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Shank @shankmods.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Repaired and installed a necessary kitchen appliance today. (Full tube swap) Have a pi hooked up that shuffles a playlist of curated cartoon shows.
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 21/01/2026
Team XLink's software dev infrastructure has gotten ridiculous over the years with 20+ build machines and dozens of CI pipelines. We're cleaning up before our next XLink Kai release but oh man its a mess 😱
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
youtube.com
We Have AI Now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Natalie @nataliethenerd.com · 16/01/2026
I made a readme guide for my game boy repos... girl has done a lot lol github.com/nataliethenerd
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 10/01/2026
When setting up a new VM last week it didn't have cron??
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 06/01/2026
If you're still using Twitter/X in any capacity get the fuck off now. Cut ties entirely. Any following you have is not worth it. For any reason.
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 01/01/2026
Me: I am a professional programmer, they pay me the big bucks to do this! Also me: Googles the syntax for malloc again
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Harcroft @harcroft.ca · 31/12/2025
Happy New Year! To go with the recent Hardware update, I have an update from the OpenXHD firmware dev team for you. Thank you Clegg and everyone else on the dev team for your hard work! I also spent the last week reorganizing some hardware for an easier to hand assemble layout for the new board.
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Harcroft @harcroft.ca · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas Xbox fans! It has been two very challenging years, but work continues on the OpenXHD project. Hardware is complete, pending updates from the FW dev team. Speaking of which, there is a FW dev team! Things are moving along quicky now and I will have more news for you soon!
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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
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Behold, Maxine @beholdmaxine.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
while we're on the topic of what's the correct way to implement placeholders in your game, here is an excerpt of unfinished dialogue from the april 2000 prototype of spyro 3
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Sebastian Aaltonen @sebaaltonen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
sebastianaaltonen.com
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 14/12/2025
www.psdevwiki.com will be down for a few hours for hardware maintenance
psdevwiki.com
Landing Page - PS3 Developer wiki
Playstation Development Wiki - PS5, PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, PSP, Vita Information
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 07/12/2025
This is quality bait lol Using a LLM to sanitize form input? Are you insane? What the fuck has happened to front end web development??
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Duino D. Duck @mainmandarin.leftfield.city · 30/11/2025
You gotta be silly, dude. At least a little bit. You gotta have a spring in your step and a smile in your heart or else none of this matters
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James @james.tarnation.lol · 28/11/2025
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 20/11/2025
Every project (main quest) has at least 3 tools that need to be made (side quests) to complete it
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Jordan Chase @goteamscotch.com · 19/11/2025
Xbox Media Center (XBMC) version 4.0 has been released! This is the first major revision to the Original Xbox's killer app since 2016, and brings the classic homebrew app into the modern era with features backported from mainline versions of Kodi. More info: www.xbox-scene.info/articles/ann...
xbox-scene.info
Announcing XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox
A Major Modernization of the Killer App That Started It All Team XBMC has announced the release of XBMC version 4.0, a new and significant update to the long-standing media center platform for the Ori...
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CrunchBite @crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk · 18/11/2025
Perfect bait
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Bucket Mouse @mousebitelabs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I've said it before and I'll say it again We need to stop giving these shitty soulless live-action remakes any watchtime The only - and I mean ONLY - live action remake I would ever willingly watch is Emperor's New Groove, but only if all the original voice cast plays their respective characters
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Emily K @emkultra64.com · 17/11/2025
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
gofundme.com
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
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