iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Running around Johto grinding up levels with EXP Share on the five Gen 1+2 starter pokémon that I caught on victory road. Also I caught Celebi :o !! I think Heart & Soul is the goat pokémon now tbh, finally a pokémon game where I can actually catch 'em all as I was promised.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 27/09/2026

can't believe I am still having mosquito wars at the ass end of September

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 26/09/2026

Me: *takes walk without phone* My brain: god this feels so pointless and like a waste of time, I'm such a loner, I hope I don't look weird or suspicious, I'm so sad, so lonely and feel so alienated yet I can't bear other people. welp now I am hot and sweaty and need to shower and change

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 26/09/2026

This has been updated and improved daily since it dropped. I'm using a Core i3 2100 so it runs like ass except the offline renderer, but with the latest update it's just about usable for me as a live midi player. In terms of accuracy though, it's almost transparent to the original hardware.

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musisic timothy @wgwgsa.net · 24/09/2026

imagine if you're a visual artist, right. but you can't just post your images online. you have to pay a middleman who is an "image distributor" to actually upload them to the sites people use. because people refuse to look at your images if they're not on the site they use for images

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Remember this fungi season, do not collect fungi that make you hallucinate, that is bad and illegal! Instead, collect fungi that make you shit out your internal organs and then die, there is no legal problem with that whatsoever. 🌞

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Made up the progress I lost other than a couple of things, and caught a shiny Vulpix for my trouble, too! Now, let's do the fackin Mahogany Town gym and bugger off to the Ice Cave.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Post the first Zelda game you ever played!

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 24/09/2026

I lost several hours of progress on Pokémon Heart & Soul because VBAGX goofed and failed to write the battery save to the SD card, despite multiple saves during gameplay. Not impressed, though I suppose you get what you pay for ... I will be using save states from now on.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 23/09/2026

feeling a bit fucked off with health stuff. threshold hypertension and continuing crohn's. I feel pressured into lifestyle changes I don't feel able or willing to sustain, and no guarantee it helps anyway.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 21/09/2026

that ought to keep me going.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 20/09/2026

This is what music production looks like in 2026. "a pain in the arse with a lot of friction" -- anon.

a Windows 10 screen capture showing windows for S-MU2000 running in savihost, XGedit95 and Japanese TMIDI player.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 20/09/2026

Gonna start fresh with Pokémon Heart & Soul. I beat four gyms, but I am catching so many pokémon and grinding them endlessly just because there are so many available with the rando. Thinking it might be more fun to play this with the rando off, especially as most of them lack pokédex entries.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Yeah you are damn right we can't have it, unless we are Tory politicians facing an election, in need of attracting support at the ballot box from people who hold exactly those kinds of views, hmm! Not really buying the humble pie act, even if I totally agree in principle.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 17/09/2026

can't seem to figure out why S-YXG100 isn't responding to VL patch selections via XGedit. they're silent. I have managed to blag it in Reaper with ReaControlMIDI instead and they worked this way, but without a reabank it isn't much fun typing numbers. Why is nothing ever simple?!!!!1

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Zero @scootercomputer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Send this to a 30 or 40 year old to watch them stare into the middle distance about how fleeting life is

The start screen for the Super Nintendo emulator ZNES. Game menu is open with Load selected. The loading snow is also on the screen.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 16/09/2026

The myth of consensual pizza. Me: I consent ❤️ Pizza: I consent ❤️ My ascending colon: I don't! 😠

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 15/09/2026

I've been playing some of the YAMAHA VL-XG demos with this and man... VL is so fun. Shame this software got discontinued so rapidly, it was ahead of its time. Would be really cool to pair the S-YXG100plus & S-MU2000 VSTis together in a daw to achieve in effect an MU2000+PLG100VL+PLG100SG.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 15/09/2026

not sure they knew what they were getting themselves in for #S-MU2000

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 15/09/2026

if we are really being honest I think we can all see a little piece of ourselves in based lad here.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 14/09/2026

I've been dabbling today. Bad news: runs like ass on my geriatric Core i3 tower, with or without the panel GUI & even with latency set. I can't use it for casual playback yet. However, render.exe works just fine! I made a custom fb2k foo_run preset & a button to invoke it. Near-instant MU2K-2-WAV!

Screenshot of foobar2000 showing the foo_run component's configuration to run the S-MU2000's renderer executable with the target midi sequence in the playlist, which then outputs the selected file to a WAV file on the desktop. Then there's also a toolbar button to perform this operation quickly and easily.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Some incredible news. The YAMAHA MU2000, considered the pinnacle of the Yamaha XG range of MIDI synths along with the SW1000XG soundcard, is now available as a VSTi; the S-MU2000. In theory(!) you can download and use this today. I have been waiting decades for this! github.com/tarboh/S-MU2... (1/2)

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GitHub - tarboh/S-MU2000: Yamaha MU2000 のソフトウェア音源。実機の firmware をそのまま走らせる VST3。非公式・ヤマハとは無関係

Yamaha MU2000 のソフトウェア音源。実機の firmware をそのまま走らせる VST3。非公式・ヤマハとは無関係 - tarboh/S-MU2000

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Finally, a dating site I can get behind. 😂 www.jazzfmdating.com

jazzfmdating.com

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 09/09/2026

I have been playing Pokémon Heart & Soul with the rando enabled, on VBA GX. Pretty incredible. HGSS was peak Pokémon for me but not so pleasurable to play on emu, this project being GBA is much more accessible and also stacks all these extra features. 1,081 pokémon included, are you serious?

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 08/09/2026

save the frickin princess

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 08/09/2026

It's really crazy to me that it's 2026 and there's still all these GSF, USF, PSF etc. music rips languishing in untimed and untagged purgatory. The timing bit, I swear, could have been automated somehow by now. Not even with genAI; some python script could probably do it.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 08/09/2026

today I will be mostly rooting through the untagged soundtracks in my collection and seeing if I can find tagged versions, and tagging some myself.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 07/09/2026

The latest one of these things is out. youtu.be/BHCr69MwRJQ?... Quite a lot of chill on this one. Also, they seem to keep getting longer.

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Videogame Music Favourites: Part 44

YouTube video by Dave Harris

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 05/09/2026

oh yeah I did buy that and then never played that. gaming eyes bigger than my gaming belly. actually I tell a lie I played it briefly once, I didn't know what I had to do and then got pwned by some appallingly OP monster. doubt I even have storage capacity for it now.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 05/09/2026

I went to my mate's wake yesterday. His family laid out photos of him... still doesn't feel real that he's gone. Met over a dozen schoolmates for the first time in 22yrs, catching up on life milestones, comparing waistlines & hairlines, reminiscing. Completely surreal but great day despite the loss.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 04/09/2026

Thank you to the kind soul who purchased some music from my Bandcamp today. btw it's Bandcamp Friday. blitzlunar.bandcamp.com

blitzlunar.bandcamp.com

Blitz Lunar

I am Dave. I make chiptunes, midis, game music, #digitalfusion, jazz funk, weird electro and more.

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freya 🪻 @fusoxide.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

a true chrono trigger fan would do a deep dive into tose composers and break down characteristics of their styles to get to the bottom of it

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 04/09/2026

"I'm a Chrono Trigger superfan! I know everything there is to know about the greatest JRPG of all-time!" Oh yeah, u sure buddy? Tell me, who composed the four Extras Menu songs that were introduced in TOSE's 1999 Playstation port? Harrrrr f u check mate. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Chrono Trigger (Playstation) Extras Menu Songs - YouTube

The four most overlooked Chrono Trigger songs! These songs did not appear on the Super Nintendo/Super Famicom original, they were introduced in TOSE's 1999 P...

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 02/09/2026

A while ago I generated a boatload of Pokémon Fire Red rando seeds but gave up on the run early. Learned yesterday about Pokémon Heart & Soul and they seem more practical as the rando is baked into the ROM - very nice. Might it a go as I like Gen 2 the most anyway.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 01/09/2026

I wonder if I should use puppy brite as an avatar again. someone made it my profile image on Discogs lmao

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 01/09/2026

some very cool folks remixed some of my songs ;~; sangcorp.net/compos/7

sangcorp.net

sangcorp

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 31/08/2026

renaming other peoples songs.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The internet peaked with this.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 30/08/2026

byebye default DNS servers, hello Google DNS servers. they pissed me off one time too many (once.)

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 28/08/2026

I had a nice time at the Italian restaurant. I am sorry that I bit my lips and barely said anything for over 2 hours.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 28/08/2026

hah, somehow I am wide awake just in time for the lunar eclipse. I hadn't given it a second thought. this was fated. the blood moon rises once again, you are in deep shit now Link.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Since I am now 40 and officially "middle-age" I have booked an NHS general health checkup this morning, blood test, blood pressure, weight and everything else they want. Expecting I'll get a bollocking, but will see. Then I'm back home for a pot noodle and high-intensity videogaming.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 26/08/2026

went to Currys and bought the cheapest most basic mouse they had for £7. wired with three buttons - perfection.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 25/08/2026

Had a power cut today (as is tradition) and my mobo didn't like it one bit. Beeped on next boot, GIgabyte screen appeared, and my stomach & arse fell through the floor. Said something about a CMOS error & to use last known good config. PC then rebooted normally. Reckon my CMOS battery is knackered.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 24/08/2026

TERRANIGMA. That is all.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

it's actually hard to form words to how viscerally upsetting it is to be told the best thing I can do is create in silence to no audience. I already do that. making art is already an isolating and deafeningly silent activity. the act of sharing your art is interacting and connecting with the world.

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Dave @iridescentaudio.co.uk · 23/08/2026

yeah. and yet somehow we didn't get married. pretty much resigned to that being a once in a lifetime thing. if we can't cuddle to "Secret of the Forest" what actually is the point of it at all. not even joking lol that's kinda where I'm at wrt relationships. might as well shove off now. ('A`)

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