iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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CosmicScale @cosmicscale.bsky.social · 1h

Got an old PS2 HDD with an original PSBBN/Browser 2.0 install? It may contain data that could help recover content from the PSBBN online channels or support online revival projects. Instructions for contributing HDD dumps can be found here: github.com/CosmicScale/... #PS2 #PSBBN

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Contributing Original Japanese PSBBN HDD Dumps · Issue #674 · CosmicScale/PSBBN-Definitive-Project

Original PSBBN HDDs can contain a treasure trove of data: The cache can help recover data from the online channels and support preservation efforts. Game trailers in the Movie Channel may help rest...

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 4h

I've updated the venerable USB Prober V2 so that logging works using on modern macOS without the need for a kext or driver. Result! (And I've made zero changes to the grand old interface.) github.com/gingerbeardm...

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 14h

illustration, oh!x, magazine (1995) archive.org/details/OhX_...

a very neat computer setup (sharp x68000) on a compact stand with a screen and keyboard and drawing tablet(?) slotted in at the right hand side. on the rack above is a printer(?) and speakers and a disk drive. on the left of the stand is a cd rack, on the right is an upright musical keyboard.

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keita takahashi @kt.uvula.jp · 12h

Working on game projects other than my own leads to new discoveries, so I want to continue doing so whenever possible. Thank you for the opportunity to join this project, Andrew. I had a fun and creative time:) And don’t forget checking out Reality Draft!

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 9h

An excellent write up on Patreon by Coin Op Collection about my favourite arcade game Bubble Bobble, including all the things emulators and the existing FPGA core get wrong (it's still just emulation!) An excellent deep dive. www.patreon.com/atrac17/post...

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Coin-Op Collection Presents: Bubble Bobble (Taito A78) | Coin-Op Collection

Today's beta release for the Analogue Pocket and MiSTerFPGA platforms is Bubble Bobble, a 1986 Taito arcade game built on the A78 architectu

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ＳＵＤＤＥＮ・ＤＥＳＵ @sudden-desu.net · 09/09/2026

Let's take a deep dive into Rad Mobile, Sega's first 32-bit game and Sonic's first appearance. We got: Weird input codes! Broken gameplay elements! Lots of cut content! And a new rear-view mirror ornament! Check it out! 👇👇👇👇👇 sudden-desu.net/entry/rad-mo...

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Rad Mobile - Input Codes, Broken Gameplay Elements, and Cut Content

There's more to Rad Mobile than the Sonic rear-view mirror ornament: Input codes, buggy and half finished functionality, and lots of unused content.

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Game Vecanti @gamevecanti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Concept art from "Battle Mania Daiginjou" (MD) from the magazine "Bishoujo Densetsu Mata Aeta Ne, Memorial '93". [バトルマニア大吟醸]

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today in MD history… Hellfire and Street Fighter II' Plus (I should really get this new site finished)

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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i'm grant morrison, i'm dead @shinidengager.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Whoever did this mural and put the Goddamn X-Bomber in the middle, I salute you.

A graffiti mural on a large canvas in an empty display space. The centrepiece is a powerful-looking red and white robot with an X-shaped metal crosspiece on its face. The robot is from the 1980 Japanese puppet series created by Go Nagai, X-Bomber (known in English as Star Fleet).

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We doing this again? Ok, my 9 games my9games.com/en/s/3489160...

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thread muted. See you in 14 hrs.

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As a Mac user from the mid 90s onwards, I’ve been very wary of Microsoft forever. Hate being so right.

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another amazing trip to Japan. Thanks to all the fantastic people I met in the last two weeks, feels like I’ve been here for a month having a blast. See you all soon.

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On the train to the airport. Gettin’ the “don’t wanna go home” blues.

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last purchase on this Japan trip…

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Del @del.art · 20/09/2026

When a game studio ships a solid game, it creates TWO valuable products: 1. A solid game. 2. The team that spent years learning how to work together make a game. Because Western studios keep disbanding #2 while development cycles get longer; we will inevitably see less of #1.

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great evening in Akiba with @toomanywires.bsky.social @shiftyweb.bsky.social @alexfkraus.bsky.social and lots of FR SqEnix dudes. Called into the Golden Gai for a quiet beer at Deathmatch in Hell and bumped into Julian Eggbrecht, founder of Factor5 and his wonderful wife! #whyalwaysme

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devolute @devolute.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tom Watson took a job with the gambling companies. Now he's taken a job at #Palantir He just needs to become the bassist for Coldplay and that's the dream hat-trick in the bag.

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8-4 Play @84play.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Best ep of the year streak continues with all killers, no filler: John Linneman, Jason Schreier, Mike McWhertor, Shane Bettenhausen, Jeremy Parish, Chris Kohler and more stop by to talk anything and everything to do with this year’s TGS. 8-4.jp/podcasts/202...

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@masamune-ral.bsky.social and I being Mega Drive maniacs at the Games Glorious store

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

TDS day 1 done. @84play.bsky.social podcast done. My feet have fallen off and I’ve met a bunch of the best people on the planet. Couldn’t be happier.

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Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For its 25th anniversary, I wrote about the GameCube - an underappreciated console that prompted unprecedented change within Nintendo. It was mocked at the time but it's remembered fondly now, an uncomplicated box of fun that appeared right when games were entering their 'performatively adult' stage

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Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple box of delights

The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, it’s looked back on with misty-eyed reverence

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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Imagine how much of a toxic nightmare bastard you would have to be to blockade and shut down a lifeboat station. Not only that, a lifeboat station run by *volunteers*. Some of the bravest and most selfless people this country has, hounded and intimidated by some of its most pathetic pricks.

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Here’s my Tokyo Game Show Day One round-up! Featuring FFVII Revelation, Stranger Than Heaven, people getting in my way, new t-shirts & plenty more #TGS

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Tokyo Game Show 2026 - Day One

A lot of people went to Tokyo Game Show today. And many of them were carrying unreasonably large bags. Today was as well-attended as any TGS...

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Thierry Falcoz (Pixel Bento) @thierryfalcoz.fr · 17/09/2026

Cette première journée de Tokyo Game Show s’est déroulée sur les chapeaux de roues ! On a pris tous les risques pour la préparation du prochain podcast @pixelbento.fr, y compris celui de se rendre sur le stand Sega sans @shiftyweb.bsky.social qui ne nous le pardonnera sans doute jamais 😂

Nicolas et moi en train de faire les clowns dans une reproduction du taxi jaune de Crazy Taxi sur le stand Sega du Tokyo Game Show.

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matt sephton @gingerbeardman.com · 17/09/2026

Whilst working in @jinks.gg (my new way of making video games) I like to take a step back and build something as a palate cleanser… So over yesterday and today I built an enhanced version of Kuniaki Watanabe’s Spout game concept (originally on P/ECE) 💦 Releasing soon on multiple platforms! 😎

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Arkotype @arkoty.pe · 17/09/2026

Owl Cadet Mk4. 2026 — • A fresh Start. New Projects Coming Soon.

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Matt @toomanywires.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes! @jake74.bsky.social came through with the goods! Best thing I got at TGS

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What's with the no physical pre-order on Nintendo's site? I have I missed out?

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just got out of one of the best gigs I’ve been to in my entire life. Yamarashi and The Bonez. The positive energy and unity from the bands and the crowd was incredible. Totes emosh right now.

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Rob Turpin 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @thisnorthernboy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Cryptobillionaires should be sent to a fucking salt mine to do some 'proof of work' themselves.

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Ste Pickford @stepickford.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As someone who worked at a British dev studio in the north of England who made superhero games for Acclaim, this post is spot on.

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Tom @warriorcult.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Perfect couple of posts summarising the Wolverine / AAA space.

User @nisei_yoshimi posted on X:

time was if you wanted a wolverine game you called up acclaim or etc and they gave it to some lads from scunthorpe named like Galactic Visions who would code a 6/10 third person action game for PS2 xbox and gamecube in ten months. and it would cost about £500 and a few curries

Follow up post by @nisei_yoahimi:

developing a 6/10 wolverine game in 2004: uh we thought if we did like tomb raider but a bit of devil may cry combat it'd be well fun innit

developing a 6/10 wolverine game in 2026: the company has my children. I have not left the office in months. Take this note to the authori

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Boost Mix Music - game music remastering @boostmixmusic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Another unreleased Mega Drive game that teased gamers because of the Beep MD to Mega Play information pipeline, this is Tenku Retsuden Musashi (VGDensetsu posted about the Beep MD article version of this almost 10 years ago, just FYI the weird English name here...) segaretro.org/Tenkuu_Retsu...

"Tales of Heaven, Mega Drive / Kaneko" with two exact same screen shots from Beep MD. Game title being given a random translation by editors or actually told this by Kaneko, who knows...(guessing the former)

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Indeed. Putting your game on a page on their website is not marketing.

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ahh, an excuse to show off my Bubble Bobble PCB arcade board! 🤣

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Bitmap Books @bitmapbooks.com · 11/09/2026

Bubble Bobble was released in arcades 40 years ago this month 🫧 Check it out in our upcoming book - The Arcade 1971–1999: The Stories Behind Classic Coin-Ops, Told by Their Creators Full details: www.bitmapbooks.com/collections/... #bitmapbooks #booksky #arcade #gaming #bubblebobble

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 10/09/2026

The “Big 3” gaming platforms are actually Nintendo, PC and a Chinese emulation device of your choosing.

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Coincidentally, I just finished watching StarFleet / Xbomber and that is the vibe I get from these screenshots too

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jake•ジェイク @jake74.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My Delta taxi driver this morning only ticked one of the three Delta Holy Trinity attributes; ❌ Antivaxxer ❌ Flatearther ✅ Evertonian

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Chris Smith @chrissmith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Me, @jake74.bsky.social and @liberaljoon.com got together and did an episode talking about handheld gaming as a follow on from our recent DS and PSP episodes. Give it a listen mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/fvx46...

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