Reposted by Alex KerrTom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 19hAlso, before anyone understandably asks, Grimdoomer's bona fides are legit and include major contributions to other scenes over the years, including the PS2 as well. And while it's unfortunate the code will remain closed source, it's hard to argue with the reasoning. I'd likely do the same here. 221058
Reposted by Alex KerrTom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 19hFor those who aren't up to date on the 360 modding scene, this is a Big Deal. Believe it or not, until now, the 360 still never had a softmod and while some exploits in recent years had gotten most of the way, this is the real deal. You probably no longer need to solder your 360 to do Fun Stuff. 1558225
Reposted by Alex Kerrmcc @dryad.technology · 06/10/2026This is a good thread about recent trends in retro gaming 04110
Reposted by Alex KerrSasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Colour cycling and hi-res Amiga AGA landscapes: A clip from the Mark Ferrari art slideshow production from 2023. 251196348
Reposted by Alex KerrMysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND) @mysteriousz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm not kidding 282156892
Reposted by Alex Kerr〽️ax krieger wants to port YOUR indie game to switch! @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this seems to be an increasingly common story wrt art/games made w ai - authors are ashamed, but not enough to keep em from making the thing/showing it off. take it from someone dumb enough to be a game dev: you need to make work whose process is something you take pride in or you will eat yourself 216132
Reposted by Alex KerrThe Endless Narf of the Waves @narfnra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026shmuplations.com/rtype1/ Many have said "arcade difficulty is just to get quarters"... well, on one hand, that's just a debate of intent rather than whether the game itself can be fun, so not really relevant. But on the other, I like seeing exactly what they actually said matters for quarters, lolshmuplations.comR-Type – 1987 Developer Interview - shmuplations.comR-Type OST by Masato Ishizaki. The planning and design staff would give ideas for the rhythm of certain sounds. “It should be like, don, ta ta ta!” and so on. Their ideas were really vague, but I did ... 111
Reposted by Alex KerrThe Endless Narf of the Waves @narfnra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026IM STUPID I LOOKED PAST IT OVER AND OVER IT WAS THE R-TYPE 1987 INTERVIEW ALL ALONG 141
Reposted by Alex KerrCass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2026New Blog Post: Why I Love Unfair Traps in Arcade Games People usually dislike hard memo traps in arcade games, or at best think they're "not that bad". I love them, though, and I think arcade games would be worse without them. Here's why: duckberet.com/blog/i-like-... (game: Violent Storm) 17222104
Reposted by Alex KerrFlorence @justflorence.bsky.social · 05/10/2026what do you MEAN the developers of Cookie's Bustle contacted every person who registered their copy by mail 25 years ago and invited them to a secret Cookie's Bustle party with live music and merch??? 142316809
Reposted by Alex KerrMisty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 01/10/2026Kicking off a new series over at CD-ROM journal: covering Daiso’s ¥100 ultrabudget game series. Just how much game can you even get for ¥100? You’d be surprised! Some really interesting stuff in here - for less than a dollar a game, they couldn’t afford to be picky. cdrom.ca/games/the-ga...cdrom.caAn Intro to Daiso's The Game Series (Trump 1, Nekomata Tanteisha, Nyanpoline, TechnoSylph: vsys gaiden) 1111662
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026do i fall enough within the boundaries of "speedrunner." also how "last minute" 020
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026yeah it sounds pretty effective, wish i had noticed that type of right stick config in games at the time. seems like burnout 3 also has it 011
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026(well, not the thumbsticks, but the face buttons for sure and I think also shoulders) 000
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026technically, isn't every button on a ps2 controller pressure sensitive? 220
Reposted by Alex KerrBaxter @cosmicspooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New post! Join me as I gush about the iconic shmup Gradius, psychedelic sci-fi, and the importance of never listening to the internet (except for me, listen to me). Oh and moai. Lots and lots of moai. 🗿🗿🗿 Give it a read, punk!!tsundokudiving.comTalking games | GradiusI got Gradius Syndrome (can't stop thinking about Gradius) 26726
Reposted by Alex Kerrdavemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026going to about:config and searching nova is the easy way of fixing this mess 13813
Reposted by Alex Kerrdavemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026firefox updated and no one in software development understands how rounded corners are supposed to work anymore 817124
Reposted by Alex KerrZarithya😈💻 | Techubus VTuber @zarithya.online · 02/10/2026So there's apparently a new feature on Twitch called shouting which lets me send everyone that follows me a push notification 5844
Reposted by Alex KerrUnder the Surface of Classic Sonic @classicsoniccode.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A technical dive (😉) into Sonic 3's water palette swapping! 10955315
Reposted by Alex KerrPhil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil 521944712
Reposted by Alex Kerrcaldenza @caldenza.gg · 30/09/2026It is done! The game is fully dumped and already added to MAME for the next update. Apologies for the radio silence, it wasn't what we wanted, but it was what was necessary to make sure everything lined up perfect and was done right! Grab it here and "NAIL THAT RIFF!" archive.org/details/NAMC...archive.orgVirtual Music/NAMCO - Aerosmith Quest For Fame - Full PCB ROM + CD DumpThis is a full ROM and CD dump of the Virtual Music/NAMCO released arcade version of Aerosmith Quest for Fame.At the time of writing, this is soon to be added into mame:https://github.com/mamedev/mame... 21310
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026while the stretched display is surprising for HEY, that appears to be a genuine Super System arcade setup adapted to a JP-style cabinet. so, I don't think it's only about catering to tourists, as it also serves to showcase a peculiar bit of history to locals 110
Reposted by Alex Kerrlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026"I installed the Give Away Your Personally Identifying Info app made by the We Love Stealing Your Personally Identifying Info Corp headed by Mr. Steal Your Personally Identifying Info and it gave away all my personally identifying info" 332554538
Reposted by Alex Kerrjazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 27/09/2026conventional wisdom for the entire time i've been programming has always been "less code is better". the idea that we must write more code faster is ridiculous. the problem has never been rate of output 436363
Reposted by Alex Kerrjazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 27/09/2026the negative effects AI is having on software is gonna be something we have to deal with for a very long time, even if it stops today. you can already see the effects in well-known vibe coded sites like bluesky and github that run like shit nowadays, but its incredibly pervasive throughout tech 647390
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yeah, you have to be on knife's edge for it to be a rank reduction, otherwise it's an increase. A slightly different dynamic than Garegga where extends are free and it's just a matter of how much deaths reduce rank. 030
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I forget if going for Special Extend makes it worth it in terms of rank? but that's also a much taller ask 030
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I think with the way rank maths out on deaths vs. big increase from extend icon, not really rank reduction either 340
Reposted by Alex KerrPlay History @playhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026And yes, the CM story gets more complicated. Tweakbod identified this 1978 commercial for a Breakout and Pong-style game table by Bally Japan (which itself is a crazy story as it is NOT affiliated with Bally Mfg). So be careful when you say "first" folks. 23616
Reposted by Alex KerrCass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 18/09/2026New blog post: How I Design Original Arcade-Style Games Arcade players kept telling me that Hyper Bun Buster's game mechanics felt arcade-like, despite it not playing like any existing arcade games. Here are some tips if you want to design arcade-like games too. duckberet.com/blog/how-i-d...duckberet.comHow I Design Original Arcade-Style Games - DUCK_BERETHow I designed the original arcade-style game mechanics in my game Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action 211647
Reposted by Alex KerrNick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Japanese used bookstores are reporting a massive uptick in bulk purchases of used Japanese books by overseas buyers, seemingly without any regard to their contents. The only logical conclusion is that these books are being stripped, scanned, and discarded to train AI models. 516996
Reposted by Alex KerrAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 24/09/2026I've noticed my vocabulary gets way worse when I've had like 6 hours of sleep, and today I've been operating (and I use the term quite wrongly) on 4 hours of sleep and my dyslexia is incredibly worse. maybe I'm not, like, ACTUALLY dyslexic, I've just been chronically sleep deprived since the 80s 81225
Reposted by Alex KerrHäschen Schwartz🐰👑VILLAINOUS VTUBER @schwartzsama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One funny thing I've realized over time is that taking a break from a game you're trying to learn actually does help. I've found it's the case for fighting games and tonight was the first time I've grinded DoDonPachi in a few days and it's the best I've done. This image is just unironically true. 91823495
Reposted by Alex Kerrbarleybap but she's dressed as a spooky skeleton @barleybap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Me trying to do my stupid job every day. 0568
Alex Kerr @kitarutc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026literal translation of hissatsu: jisho.org/word/%E5%BF%...jisho.orgJisho.org: Japanese Dictionary 020
Reposted by Alex Kerrpetriform 💜 "To Reiterate, You're Great" out now! @petriform.com · 23/09/2026what a time to be a hobbyist of literally any sort, huh 134960
Reposted by Alex Kerrmcc @dryad.technology · 23/09/2026Campbell's Vegetable Soup Ingredients: Beef broth, … … … 3294
Reposted by Alex KerrGDRI @gdri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Tetris and Its Connection to Asian American History" by former Nexa programmer Leonard Chan asianamericanbooks.com/newsletter/2...asianamericanbooks.comTetris and Its Connection to Asian American History: Nexa the AAPI Company that Helped to Develop and Market Tetris In America 083
Reposted by Alex KerrSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 161191483869
Reposted by Alex KerrEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026without getting into debating the value of numerical scores at all, I have always kind of hated the way Metacritic assumes scores can be easily translated into their preferred scale 2/5 and 40/100 read extremely differently. in a very "$3 is $5 but $2 is free" kind of way 3597
Reposted by Alex Kerrohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Paraphrasing of OG Metal Slug dev: There was different 3 loketest versions, for different loketests. 1 ended during st.4, the others after st.5. No st.6 was implemented. The later ones had different gun controls. The stage orders & some layouts & graphics are different from the final game... 2246
Reposted by Alex Kerrohfivepro.bsky.social @ohfivepro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.youtube.com/live/tESha-P... timestamped for Metal Slug proto version at TGSyoutube.com【東京ゲームショウ2026】4Gamer Live Stage Day1【4Gamer】YouTube video by 4GamerSP 21810
Reposted by Alex KerrAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 19/09/2026I can't believe people started using .md for markdown files when that extension was clearly already taken for sega megadrive roms 24650103
Reposted by Alex KerrCass (makes games) @cassmakesgames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New blog post: How to 1 Credit Clear (1CC) Arcade Games I get asked about this from time to time so I thought I'd write a post about it. There's nothing groundbreaking here, but hopefully it helps make arcade games feel a little less intimidating. They're just games! duckberet.com/blog/how-to-...duckberet.comHow to 1 Credit Clear (1CC) Arcade Games - DUCK_BERETArcade games are fun! Here's how to learn to clear one of them without using any continues. 14240119
Reposted by Alex KerrTom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Gigo #3 in Akihabara continues to be a shining beacon in a sea of cultural despair. They replaced their regular Outrun 2 cabinet with an SP DX and it is a religious experience. Some of the craziest hydraulics I've ever experienced and a legit unhinged 2-player, 1 car co-op. Play it if you can. 🥹 513331