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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have fond memories of the 25th Anniversary Symphony concert in LA, particularly Koji Kondo's piano solo. (I hope this old video embeds ok, saved during its brief time on YouTube. I think it's the only one from the LA show, there are more from London. Gets loud with cheering, rotates to landscape.)

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good chance to show off my assorted Ultra 64 swag, happy birthday N64!

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You have made your crazy straw, now drink with it

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Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thanks to Jun Chikuma, this game has one of the best soundtracks of all time! Do yourself a favor and fire it up ❤️ youtube.com/playlist?lis... youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Bomberman Hero Retro HD+ - YouTube

The complete Bomberman Hero OST in crisp clear HD. WAV pack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9wcm7qn25iq9oq1/Bomberman%20Hero%20Retro%20HD%2B.rar?dl=0

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Happy August 29, have some sympathy for the decollated

Icon of the head of John the Baptist, captioned:
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a head that's on a plate

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Renewed for another year so might as well post my second favorite domain hack, an Iain M. Banks reference. It was a little interesting working this into a valid https cert. mistake-not.com

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

5.1 Still not happening? Some things are just not meant to happen. (From the end of a 200 line troubleshooting guide in the readme.txt on an Enhanced CD)

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Out of context screenshot from Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2 CD+G (Warner New Media 15029)

Jesus, crowned with thorns, in blue monochrome, peeking in from the bottom left on an image scrolling off the top of the screen. A line of annotation reads "The return of the first trombone"

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

CD Graphics can produce mind-boggling effects

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I thought of a funny game mechanic interaction, which motivated me to pull together a rough entry for the GMTK Game Jam. It made the top quartile on Creativity and Enjoyment ratings, not too shabby. I'm mostly glad to break my game jam drought since Speleomorph in 2022! hcs64.itch.io/the-counts-a...

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The Count's Absolution by hcs64

Drag 'n drop puzzle

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Seen walking from the airport to Rockbox Devcon West in Las Vegas, June 15, 2007. web.archive.org/web/20110724... #photography

A chrome wheel sits in a empty lot, yellow from sodium vapor floodlamps. In the background are Vegas hotels, centrally the pyramid of the Luxor, emitting its 40 billion candlepower beam. It is a blurry photo, taken by an excited young man.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Improve your telepathy the scientific way, with new quantum enbrainglement

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Buttercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New shirts! We are taking pre-orders for two new Buttercup Festival shirt designs over the next seven days, so please order soon if you're interested. Personally, I think you would look great in either one. topa.to/buttercupfestival

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

apohohohosis | noun | elevation to the status of Santa Claus

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Yakumono @luigiblood.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'd like to remind that I made a 90s Nintendo style website to the unreleased game Sound Fantasy, where I compiled tons of infos, prototype ROM + SimTunes (English and French version) + tons of links including videos of the final version of the game luigiblood.neocities.org/soundfantasy

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Sound Fantasy - Yakumono's Personal Site

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Show me a cool physical game

Rewrite Machine CD-ROM, January 1998, contains 104 Super Famicom games for Nintendo Power game writers in Lawson convenience stores.

Label side of a mostly silver CD-ROM, major text says:
ゲーム書き換え　システム
ニンテンドウパワー
書き換え機専用ＣＤ－ＲＯＭ
１９９８　１月号

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Blaž Urban Gracar (Letibus Design) @letibus.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Letibus Design catalogue (LOK, Abdec, Workworkwork, Herd) is now stocked by the US store Top Deck Games! www.topdeckgamesonline.com

Herd game opened up on the Top Deck Games table

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

NHK Sound Effects Collection 8: Steam Locomotive, Ship, Airplane (1990)

CD booklet cover
NHK効果音集 - 8 - SL・船・飛行機
Blue background, a rectangle in the lower 2/3 is divided diagnonally and 4 patterns in black, white, and yellow are aligned with the main diagonal line: wavy lines, concentric circles, thick lines, and bricks.
DCI 85798

Back cover track list:
1-4 Electric Locomotive
5-7 Diesel Locomotive
8 Monorail
9-12 JNR
13-14 Tram
15 Subway
16-19 Shinkansen
20-30 Steam Locomotive
31-33 other train sounds
34-39 Ships
40-47 Jet planes
48-51 Helicopers
52-54 Propeller planes
55-56 Rockets, "space"

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

After missing them over the last few years, today I was lucky to catch the irises in bloom at the Portland Japanese Garden! japanesegarden.org/iris-tracker/ #photography

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Rewrite Machine CD-ROM, January 1998 This is an artifact of the Nintendo Power system of convenience store kiosks, for selling Super Famicom (later Game Boy) games on rewritable cartridges. This disc would presumably have loaded kiosks with 104 SFC games in early 1998. Info: redump.info/disc/131221

Label side of a CD-ROM, major text says:
ゲーム書き換え　システム
ニンテンドウパワー
書き換え機専用ＣＤ－ＲＯＭ
１９９８　１月号

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You've Floyd your last Pink

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Really cool to see a new CD+EG disc! I was glad to be able to help out with some debugging, looking forward to testing the production run on my Sega Saturn (currently delayed somewhere in USPS).

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David Shadoff @dshadoff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Oh wow… a new CD+G. Actually, CD+EG. This must have been a real labour of love. Oh, BTW, apparently PC-FX should also be able to play this (not listed in article). hackaday.com/2026/06/25/n...

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New Record Resurrects Long-Dead CD Graphics Format

Audio CDs were the ubiquitous audio format of the 1990s. Lesser known were the extensions to the format that packaged all kinds of interesting additional data into a musical release. Now, a new rec…

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Many thanks to @increpare.bsky.social for sending this wonderful Stephen's Sausage Roll coin!

A grey coin with the fork from Stephen's Sausage Roll, text says "LEARNED PEOPLE CAST GREAT SHADOWS". Background is the brown paper envelope it traveled in, across the flap is a stamp of the fork.

A wide print of the SSR world map, with the coin sitting on it. This side has the character, fork in hand, sausage underfoot, and the text "STEPHEN'S SAUSAGE ROLL"

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My time machine is in the shop, they said it'll be ready in a week but how the heck am I supposed to get then to pick it up?

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Game idea: All magic is from understanding the powers of holy relics. Hagiography as manual.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Game idea: Fitting together puzzle pieces, but some are missing. You're able to create your own pieces, to fill in spaces where you think you need things to connect. The trick is you need to make a system of pieces that only fits together where it makes sense.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Game idea: Metroidvania with no fixed traversal powers. Instead you scan obstacles in the world as you encounter them. Then, when you have observed enough that a clear pattern is established, you can request to synthesize a spell that gives you a new ability. #gamedesign

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Years ago I ripped all Quest 64's music data and applied modern soundfonts (my goal was to upload a full "orchestral" OST to youtube). I decided to add little jokey animations to each track, but I got carried away, which doomed the project to never be completed. Here's the battle theme.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Game idea: Create programs to solve puzzles, written in a language heavy on English keywords. But: Each solution must take the form of a rhyme. Discover new rhyming schemes! Create new words to suit!

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Game idea: Magic lesson warns you to only cast a spell in a wide open area outside, never indoors. The spell has chaotic interactions with nearby objects, usually fatal, as if missing initialization or clobbering memory. Exploit this at carefully chosen locations to effect prodigious workings.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

How many Spartaci we got on this ship anyhow?!?

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Awesome/wild guitar synth soundtrack! chiptune.app?play=hSwZCauk

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Track 05

Nintendo 64

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Game idea: Once Bitten, Twice Shy. Escort an NPC across levels. They start really naive and will fling themselves into traps. They'll learn to avoid that hazard when resurrected. But accumulated lessons can eventually immobilize them, so protect them early on to preserve some capacity for risk.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Programming game ideas: Bug manifests as: - Ghost, solve its unfinished business to banish it. - Trickster, reveal its name to break a curse. - RPG enemy, weak to a debugging strategy. Sent by your archnemesis, tired self from last week. What would it look like to debug with a conversation tree?

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

This is a 1993 mini CD+G promoting Japan's approach to the 1994 World Cup. There are two songs with lyrics, and a good deal of information about the tournament history and schedule, with text, infographics, and narration.

Cover of "Kake World Cup Soccer e no Michi". On the left is a soccer scene, in the style used in the CD graphics. On the right is a cartoon announcer kicking a ball while holding a microphone.

A map showing the 9 US host cities for the 1994 World Cup.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Game idea: Reordering a program that has had all tokens put in sorted order. Could work on various levels, bits or bytes of machine code, assembly instructions, lines of a higher level language (probably indent or begin/end keyword based). Maybe some are unreachable garbage. See: Parsons Problems

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Game idea: "The whole garden may be read as a book, or as a spell, which is, after all, the same thing. If you knew the words, you could speak what the garden says and you would then be able to control one of the countless forces that act in the sublunar world." - Foucault's Pendulum

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Game idea: Machine Code Roguelike. You can reprogram the world to do magic, but if you trip any security features you die, getting a new, randomly generated world, with new architecture and security rules. Maybe construct a higher level interpreter, port into each run as you discover its structure.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The first game I ever imported, didn't play it much but enjoyed some cool music! Check out the Battle 2 track in a cool web USF player: chiptune.app?play=1AF5I_Pr

chiptune.app

35 - Battle 2

Nintendo 64

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Happy #Questiversary! I first played Quest 64 in 2001, I distinctly remember daydreaming about it in school, that's when I started thinking about RPG magic spells as programs. I wrote up some of those thoughts a few years later: gashlin.net/blog/pages/2...

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Magical programming - Adam's Blog

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Game Idea: Volume Infinity. The last book in a series, with the rules for generating them all.

Binding of a very thick book labeled Vol. 66, but it looks sort of like VOL. ∞

Full photo, 4 volumes of The Outlook, Vol. 63-66. Snapshot taken March 3, 2023 at Powell's City of Books.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Game idea: Amanuensis. You copy out occult manuscripts. All nonsense, but you develop techniques of encoding and error correction that become useful elsewhere in the game world.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The End is 95th Percentile in Soonness.

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I started playing this weekend, so far feels like something out of Last Call BBS in terms of length and number of ideas. Might be going for FPGA or CPLD design? Fun pseudo-philosophy vibes. I haven't managed to win the solitaire yet...

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Adam Gashlin @hcs64.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

NHK Sound Effects Collection 7: Motorcycles, Cars, Bulldozers (1990)

CD cover, titled NHK効果音集 - 7 - オートバイ・自動車・ブルドーザー
Turquoise background, lower 2/3 divided into 4 vertical strips with simple patterns in black and white, or black and pink. The largest strip in the middle is black and white horizontal lines.
DCI 85797

Back cover track list
1: Bicycle
2-5: Motorcycle
6: Light vehicle
7-9: Car
10-12: Sports car
13-15: Tires
16-21: Police car
22-24: Firetruck
25-28: Ambulance
29-30: Jeep
31-32: Truck
33-34: Bus
35: Engine idling
36: Dump truck
37: Bulldozer
38: Crane truck
39: Road roller
40: Power shovel
41: Pile driver
42: Tractor
43: Car crash
44: Car horn
45: Windshield wipers
46: Car door
47: Backup beep

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