iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I found out that there's a trick to get the Gravity Suit really early in Super Metroid. It's pretty hard and you have to defeat Phantoon without saving, but also really nice to get down

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I also took on Castlevania 1, which is a joke in comparison. I did make things a bit harder for myself by screwing up the Death holy water stun, so I ended up fighting him with the crosses for the first time. Got lucky with an upgrade drop and barely got through with them

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Beat Castlevania III with solo Trevor again since the Anniversary Collection is on sale. Still my favorite NES game and I'm very glad I've stuck with the NES version. The extra challenge on NES over Famicom makes it so much more fun on repeat playthroughs

Castlevania 3 screenshot. Trevor Belmont, a long-haired figure in a gold cape, watches from a vantage point as Dracula's castle crumbles far in the distance across a lake. There is a gold-orange sunrise and mountains can be seen in the background

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here's the full recording. You can see me struggle with the input latency while I'm trying to get out of Norfair. I really ought to get a composite video splitter

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This early Super Missile pickup in Metroid Zero Mission is really cool to get. When I went back to record it, I ended up getting it on my first try despite my DVD recorder's terrible latency

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's a nice GIF for comparison:

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Working on a rather large animation, and I think this section works well on its own. Prince of Persia's animation is very well-made

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Since the original texture sheet does not include textures for looking left/right/down or for blinking, I made my own in GIMP. The setup I have means I could put this model in Wind Waker in the future

Screenshot of GIMP, an image-manipulation program. The canvas shows a texture sheet for a cat with four expressions: neutral, surprised, serious, and happy. Each face is cartoonish, and the images are bisected to save space

Screenshot of GIMP, an image manipulation program. The canvas shows a drawing of cat eyes, half-open. The eyes are set against a solid-color dark background, and further variations of these eyes are shown at the right, in the image layers.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The models and textures are mostly ripped from Streetpass Mii Plaza on the 3DS. I used the LZ77 Batch tool to decompress them, and Switch Toolbox to get the models and textures themselves

Screenshot of Switch Toolbox, a file browsing and data extraction tool. Shown are a list of directories and a 3D viewport with a textureless cat head model.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

High-res textures are included (and shown here prominently), though you can switch back to low-res with the tab key (works best in N64 mode)

Comparison of three Ocarina of Time screenshots. Each shows a black cat looking at the viewer. The images decrease in texture resolution; the first is a high-res screenshot with high-res textures, the next is a high-res screenshot with low-res textures, and the last is a low-res screenshot with low-res textures

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The dress uses Link's tunic color, which is customizable in SoH

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You can even do some of the magic that's in Find Mii

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Here's her doing two cool sequence breaks

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Wanderer from Streetpass Mii Plaza's Find Mii added to Ocarina of Time

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Big improvement: the rain isn't deadly anymore. There're still major sparks of electricity, but they are much easier to avoid...

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Models made in Blender, textures made in GIMP. I based these models on the older slugcat design, which means they have the same odd feet and legs, as well as a few ambiguous scar-like markings. I wanted to go all-in on that with the same shading, but that doesn't work well...

Blender viewport. Shown is a T-posed slugcat with a reference image behind them. The image is of an older design for the slugcat, with four-toed feet and an egg-shaped lower half.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Also, there are multiple versions of a few slugcats: INV has three variations, Artificer has two variations, and you could argue that nightcat/watcher/INV being separate entities would make them variations of the same slugcat

Comparison picture. Three screenshots show INV from Rain World staring at the camera to some extent. The top left picture has their eyes set up as small, slightly flat ovals, similarly to a regular slugcat. The top right picture shows them with somewhat realistic, green eyes akin to their "blushing" sprite. The bottom picture shows them with those same realistic eye, only half-closed and with a bright pink blush accompanying them.

Comparison picture. Shown are two screenshots of Artificer from Rain World. They are a deep red slugcat with white eyes holding an explosive spear in the left screenshot, and one of their eyes is terribly scarred and burned and they are holding Ocarina of Time's Master Sword in the right screenshot.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

As with the Wind Waker mod, only INV and Rivulet can show expressions/eye movement very well, as they have distinct pupils

Screenshot from Ship of Harkinian. INV, a dark blue slugcat from Rain World, stares in shock, mouth agape, at Ganon's castle offscreen. Behind them is a ruined Hyrule Castle Town.

Screenshot from Ship of Harkinian. Rivulet, a light blue slugcat from Rain World, stares in shock, mouth agape, at Ganon's castle offscreen. Behind them is a ruined Hyrule Castle Town.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Includes hi-res textures, so THEY can stare at you with better clarity

Comparison picture. Two screenshots show a close-up of INV, a slugcat from Rain World, with realistic eyes, in full frame staring at the viewer. The Temple of Time is visible behind them.

Comparison picture. Two screenshots show a close-up of Rivulet, a slugcat from Rain World, with cute round eyes that have purple irises and large pupils, in full frame staring at the viewer. The Temple of Time is visible behind them.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Tomato Adventure complete! I slammed through the whole thing in 12 hours because it had me hooked. As is usual for me with Alphadream games, I got to the final section (Gimmick Palace) and felt the pain

Save file menu from a Game Boy Advance RPG. To the left are four rows filled with character icons and text info about the save. The focus of the post is on the save furthest down, which is marked as "Clear" and shows a completion time of 12 hours and 31 minutes.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Of course, there are also the infinite games that come standard with owning an EverDrive. I ended up getting the Mini over the Pro since most of the outlier gimmick games, such as Boktai, have patches to use regular controls

Photo of a Game Boy Advance SP model AGS-101. Shown is the naming screen of MOTHER 3, with the name "EESDES" being entered in. To the left of the name is a small frame showing two boys near a house

Photo of a Game Boy Advance SP model AGS-101. Shown is an intro screen from "Rhythm Tengoku," a rhythm game for the GBA. The screen shows a cartoon scientist looking into a microscope, while a cartoon blue "virus" blob creature slightly resembling a skull peers out from his desk.

Photo of a Game Boy Advance SP model AGS-101. Shown is the game "Another World." The player character, Lester Knight, is standing next to a large pool, and the background is a beautiful cliffside with a visible, cracked-looking "moon". The view is from the side, as the game is a cinematic platformer

Photo of a Game Boy Advance SP model AGS-101. Shown is Metroid: Fusion. The game screen is a side perspective of Samus in a metal room next to some small crawling enemies.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It really is weird to have these awful sprites I made showing on a real, AGS-101 screen. It's surprising how good they can look just by being on a real LCD on a real GBA. There's an odd depth to the visual that's hard to describe

Photo of a Game Boy Advance SP model AGS-101. The screen shows a modified version of Wario Land 4, where Wario is replaced with a black cat. He is moving toward a giant, open door, with the in-game camera behind him

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Lastly, there are GBAVideo files. As long as you use the "gbafix.exe" file included with many versions of METEO, you can do almost anything. I would put in a Mike Oldfield music video or something, but I think my followers would prefer this small teaser

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Then, I have a couple games that are multiplayer, but with only one real cartridge. Now, I can demo the two-player multiplayer. Obviously, this is probably not a primary reason to get an Everdrive, but it's still cool

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Got an EverDrive GBA. Got an EverDrive GBA. I already love it. There's a lot you can do with one of these things. For starters, there are ROMHacks, like this one from way back (likely to be loud due to noise):

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Learned the Blender Python API just to automate this. It works pretty much like how zzconvert does. It feels very nice to be free from the "really, really, really fun, tedious" OOT hand replacement process using my own solution. This will save me and hopefully other SoH/decomp modders a lot of time

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My issue was that my flipbook was not set up as individual, which allows for texture names to be assigned to individual textures. Though that worked, the textures ended up being voided entirely. Another trip to the SoH discord later, and I foundthat I had my texture format setup incorrectly

Blender interface screenshot. Shown is Fast64's flipbook editor, which shows a column of boxes. Each box contains a "Texture Name" input, followed by an image select with a filename inside, and a "visualize" button. Each texture name is formatted "gLinkAdultEyesXXXTex".

Blender interface screenshot. The focus of the image is on a Fast3D texture. It is set with a texture reference of 0x08000000, an image size of 64 by 32, and a Format of "RGBA 16-bit". Below that information are checkboxes; "Clamp S" and "Clamp T" are selected.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Alright; I've learned a lot in the past few days. Unfortunately, there's no luck on getting the real N64 OOT to work, but I have figured out SoH's rules for flipbook textures. This means that face animation is finally possible and I pretty much have no model limitations when it comes to the PC Port

Five Pebbles, a pink stick figure-like character dressed in a large orange tunic and black earphone-like antennae, visibly winces as a keese, a bat-like creature, hits him in an Ocarina of Time mod. The Master Sword's hilt and sheath, and the Hylian Shield, are visible on his back. The photo is very wide, and the background is a low-res muddy brown texture

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It's just as I thought: the hands holding the items are all their own unique models, though luckily I don't have to manually import them from the decomp for SoH this time. Bad news is that there are now two separate workflows for the same game

Blender 2.79 viewport. Shown is Adult Link from Ocrina of Time in a heavily "folded" position, with several items alongside, also in nonsensical positions. In this position, Link's head is on his legs and he is bent very awkwardly.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Learning to get custom player models working on the N64 OOT. I remember it being a lot more complicated, but I've successfully got the test Marth model working. Should be just a few adjustments to get any low-poly model I like over Link

Blender 2.79 viewport. Shown is a low-poly model of Marth of the Fire Emblem series awkwardly "folded" in a resting position unique to Ocarina of Time's engine. In this position, Marth's legs are fully extended, and his torso bends extremely far forward.

Screenshot from a modded Ocarina of Time. Shown is the cutscene after getting the Master Sword for the first time, in the Sacred Realm. Marth replaces Link and is looking at his hands. Navi is floating next to him, and a Triforce emblem is underneath him. The rest of the platform he stands on is flowing water and the background has a waterfall.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I was specifically scanning these film reels, and thought for a second that they would be viewable

First-person view from Luigi's Mansion through a handheld camera. The border is a photorealistic Game Boy Color labeled as a "Game Boy Horror". In view are a slightly stylised set of film reels, about 35mm sized, on a shelf. An icon in the center of the screen shows a white question mark in a black box with "What's this?" displayed above.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Playing Luigi's Mansion, and discovered that objects with Boo-shaped things hiding in them are labeled "What's This?" when searching them in the Game Boy Horror. I don't think I've ever seen this before

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Using my newfound DVD-R powers, I can use FreeDVDBoot to run homebrew applications, which includes Memory Card Annihilator to read/write to memory cards. Since the PS2 can read and write PS1 cards, I was able to install an exploit on one and can now run burned PS1 discs

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Got a slim PS2 and its laser couldn't read burned DVDs, so I ended up replacing it. It works beautifully now

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

That "WiiMC" channel enables this thing to play DVDs, which didn't end up happening officially for a few reasons. My burned DVDs are all +RWs, so they don't work, but an old Resident Evil CODE: Veronica promo disc does

WiiMC main menu. A toolbar at the top has icons in the shape of a film reel, headphones, a camera, a disc, a globe with tethered connections around it, and a set of gears. Most of the screen is taken up by a large black loading message that reads "Please Wait - Loading DVD..." alongside a blue ring-shaped throbber. The background is cyan and pink in the top corners that fade into dark blue at the center.

Screenshot of DVD playback. The white silhouette of a humanoid monster with claws is to the right of text that reads "RESIDENT EVIL - 5th Anniversary"

Screedshot of DVD playback. Shown is gameplay of the original Resident Evil, at the intro cutscene of Jill's playthrough. Jill and Wesker are next to each other in the entrance room of a mansion, with Wesker near the front door. Barry is in the back of the screenshot, near a door leading west.

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

GameCube games work as well. I can't exactly press my own GameCube discs, so unmodded Wind Waker will have to do (the "Slugcat" save file name is from Dolphin; I played through to this cutscene to get videos for all the slugcats)

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Replaced the laser in my Wii. I'm amazed that it works

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Here's the hint in the non-censored version:

"Losing your Leg
If you get your leg cut off, put it back on quicly or you'll die from blood loss. After you find your missing leg, use First Aid Med to heal and reattach it to your body."

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I was playing the CERO D version of RE7 (Biohazard 7) and found that the English script was changed for the blood loss death hint, which surprised me

"Leg injuries
If you suffer a serious injury to your leg, heal quickly or you'll die from blood loss. Stop the bleeding with a First Aid Med."

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Here's the code I got for Block A with Syfa, as well as the credits:

Game screen featuring three rectangles, two of which are gridded. The top rectangle has text reading "KOPPER", the next rectangle down is split into four squares with vertical lines. From left to right, the squares contain nothing, a chain whip handle, a rosary, and a heart. The bottom rectangle is a four-by-four grid with hearts in the A2 and D4 positions, and rosaries in the A4, C2, D1, and D2 positions

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Castlevania III complete! This game was really hard, but it's definitely my favorite NES game now. It felt really nice to finish each level

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Super CastleVania IV complete! This game was hard, but well worth finishing. I highly recommend it

The ending graphic for the SNES game "Super Castlevania IV". Simon Belmont, dressed in silver armor that doesn't cover his legs, holds a whip and looks at the rubble of a castle on a cliff in the distance. The ocean is visible below, and the sun is rising at the far left. Clouds are scattered in the sky

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The rotoscoping is very good, as these are the first transcriptions of the original high-quality frames. The combat is excellent, but the lag makes it really frustrating. The DOS version rectified that, so I'd actually recommend that one for a first playthrough and to play the original after

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Steven Trevathen @kopper0625.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Beat the original Apple II Prince of Persia. It's a very good game, though the timer is very stressful. Level 8 lost me like 10 minutes because I kept dying right at the end (and at various other places in it). It took me three attempts to do right, but it was well worth it

Screenshot of Prince of Persia for the Apple II. On a precarious platform in a dark dungeon, the main protagonist, dressed in a jumpsuit, stands over a dead Jaffar, who wears a cape and large turban. A system message reading "2 MINUTES LEFT" is displayed at the center of the screen, below the two characters. One point of health is left in the indicators at the lower left.

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