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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Update to this: If you noticed the entire top half inflating like a balloon when he breathed, that's because of some data I initially copied over from the early TiP version of the animation. Changing that data back results in just his torso breathing, so this'll basically be the intended animation.

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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think Ive tracked down why there were so many issues with the Viva Pinata / Pinata Paradise build: By August/September 2004 (and possibly earlier), the team looks to have already started converting some things over to working on Xbox 360, so it's an in-between state.

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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interesting menu I hadnt seen before.

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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another menu I haven't seen before.

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Feeling confident enough to post this up here: I have a tool named CAFFeinated that can read, export from & (partially) modify various formats used in Rare's Xbox/Xbox 360 games, either unique or derived from R1. Give it a check! github.com/OlieGamerTV/... #Rare #Modding

The main window of CAFFeinated, with nothing loaded.

The CAFFeinated window with the "common.bnl" file from Grabbed by the Ghoulies open.
It shows the file information in the top left widget, file properties of the currently selected file in the bottom left widget and the file list of all the contained files on the right-hand side.

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Barry @etreant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyway if you want new games like Professor Layton that aren't made with AI, look up the Detective Grimoire games (Tangle Tower / The Mermaid's Mask)

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

With the recent deep dive Evercade did in relation to their native ports of Banjo, they showed off some of the development tools used during the game's development. Interestingly, they do appear to share similarities with the star menus and Marker Editor found in a dev build for Viva Pinata.

A screencap of a development Star Menu for Banjo-Kazooie.
The options are: PROPS(3D 2) CTRL, TEST (MB), RETURN, CAMERAS and LIGHTS.

The base Star Menu found in the Development build of Viva Pinata.

The Marker Editor in a garden scene, with its respective Star Menu active.

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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Doesn't really do anything beyond this, but I finally got those old XBEs for Pinata Paradise to do something. Behold, a (partial?) menu for the game!

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Alex Strook 🐭⚡️SQUEAKROSS @alexstrook.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Ive seen multiple posts online saying that "there are no game devs doing games without AI today" which is complete bullshit Raise yor hand if you don’t use any form of LLM and actively avoid it ✋

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X ΘΔ (Giant Tyrant Overlord) @xkeeper.net · 05/07/2026

these two portraits are just wonderful

deltarune susie and deltarune ralsei reacting with shock on either side of a message reading "GDQ is TODAY!?"

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

To add my own note to this: You only unlock the extras menu as well as the Stop 'n' Swop locations upon 100%'ing/completing(?) the game on the Evercade release. In order to unlock the Music Player, you need to obtain the Ice Key, as the SnS items have "Extras" stuff unlocked upon getting them.

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

(Image because QRT's were disabled) I typically avoid using public platforms to complain about something I've seen, but the comment the person made about using an AI/LLM to help dissect proprietary file formats really bugs me, as someone who *has* been working on dissecting proprietary file formats.

Part of a Bluesky thread by XKeeper regarding the uptick in people complaining about TCRF and DataCrystal's "No AI content whatsoever" policy.

This part of the thread is about a part of a smartass' post about "how people will just try to use AI and hide it", because people can't take no for an answer apparently.

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FE MS Paint Memes for the Strategically Challenged @fepaint.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Been replaying DK64 and I will never understand what bullshit Funky was on in that game

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is the platonic ideal of the bluescreen. I am using a device. When it fails, I want to see a big sterile readout that says "the machine has failed. This is why." Not fucking "Google the error message to learn more :]" you fucking rats.

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Watched Gameoverse and thought it was good. I did notice that the system Kaboodle fixes in the ship looked suspiciously similar to Blueprint Nodes from Unreal Engine, so I took an attempt. It translates pretty nicely, imo. #gameoverse

A screenshot of the Unreal Engine Blueprint Graph with a setup of nodes, replicating what Kaboodle fixes to get the ship's shields back up.

It first runs a "shield check" where it checks if a value is true.
It then subtracks the damage from the current shield level and sees if it's greater or equal to 0. If it is, then it prints something and sets the shield level accordingly.
If the shield level is less than 0, then it instead subtracts damage from the ship's HP and sets that accordingly.

A screenshot of the nodes Kaboodle is working on when the ship is under attack, trying to get the shield up and running.

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hey @leighloveday.bsky.social, I wanted to ask two questions regarding Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and its older text banks. Alongside the various loctext banks for the game, an older variant of the intro is present. I was wondering if you by chance knew what was present for some of the entries.

A screenshot of the upper half of the loctext bank "aid_loctext_banjox_gameintro", decompiled back into a *.ini/*.inf for easier reading.
It lists various strings for the animated and playable sections, cutting off part way on the second entry for "Animated sequence 3".

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Unsure as to what exactly lead up to this internally and what was specifically wrong, but here's to an early 21st anniversary for a comment left by Will Bryan on one of Richard Geary's work scenes in Viva Pinata, which is dated to May 22, 2005. (Found in the code of PinataParadiseDv)

A separated code snippet from a "Pseudocode" output of one of Richard Geary's work scene functions.

There's a comment left by Will Bryan in a print function which reads:
"This is just wrong - WB 22/05/2005, look at the code".

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The leftover dance animation for the Viva Pinata model of Mumbo is very reminiscent of his dance in Tooie when casting magic. As such, I went and recorded it at a bunch of different angles and synced it up to the unused Raindance tune from Banjo-Kazooie, for a bit of a laugh.

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Robin Beanland @robinbeanland.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Happy 5th birthday Willow!

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Chris Marlow @chrismarlow666.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Just to clear things up. This cover artwork was definitely not created by AI, but by the incredibly talented Pete Hentze, a long time Rare artist, and one of the concept artists on Conker: Live and Reloaded! 🙂

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Robin Beanland @robinbeanland.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The cover art was drawn by the one and only Pete Hentze. He was the concept artist on Conker Live & Reloaded.

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KholdFuzion @kholdfuzion.net · 08/03/2026

R1Engine/R1SDK. Bean (goldeneye xbla port) used it. Also I have a build of a game using it with full symbols I’m using to make a full suite of tools (targeting bean specifically)

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Rare's journey from the GameCube era onwards is a very interesting one with many different stories to discuss. One of those interesting facts to me is that Rare had an internal game engine made, used for their OG and 360 Xbox titles. 🧵 regarding tidbids behind this: 1/7 #rare #xbox

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Hey @robinbeanland.com, wanted to ask a question. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts has a fast challenge track that's used for one multiplayer challenge as well as L.O.G.'s Lost Challenges, internally titled "Bonus". Was this track composed by you? youtu.be/bcTk-xyIkug

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Bonus Round - Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts [OST]

YouTube video by DeoxysPrime

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Spooky Blaylock 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

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Mika Ghoul Kiwi @mikangamerprime.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Rayman 1 Remastered have a changed soundtrack, people assumed it due to the copyright of Remi tracks. How ever not all of his tracks were changed, in fact he only composed like 12 tracks for the game as confirmed by his kickstarter for his cancelled Rayman remix album. (More)

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

A less interesting but cool internal thing about that development build of Viva Pinata, Banjo-Kazooie related. Among the debugging functionality this build provides, one part of it is potentially named after that helpful toilet the duo meet, Loggo. * debug_loggo.cpp * debugLoggoPostf * LoggoPost

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Progress on the development build of Viva Pinata from Oct 13, 2006 (PinataParadiseDv) Running with a Node.JS server hooked to a HTML setup for displaying logged data from the executable, Xenia Canary Netplay & a patched .xex for domain reasons, the build gets past boot with host comms functionality.

An image of three open windows with different functions.
Top Left has a Command Prompt window for background server activity & debug logging.
Right-Hand side has a browser window open with a HTML page displaying standard logged content from the Pinata executable.
The last window is a Xenia Canary Netplay window with PinataParadiseDv running on it, displaying the main post-bootloader screen.

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Been experimenting with tools for modding Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and got around to the idea of music patches for the game. So, I replaced a track with a fan orchestration of Mr. Patch's theme done by AdulescensFMusic and played "Old Dog, New Tricks" with it. #BanjoKazooie youtu.be/vR_OF-W8Rs8

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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Modding - Mr Patch

YouTube video by Retro gamer

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Recently on my Nuts & Bolts binge, I was made aware that the gaming magazine "GamesTM" published a world exclusive preview with issue 70. While it's a sweet read for being a time capsule of development at the time, I found this specific line on page 78 from Shaun Read very funny when out of context.

A singular sentence from Page 78 of GamesTM Issue #70 from Shaun Read, saying "We have Mario."

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Skunkape @skunkapegames.com · 30/09/2025

Get all three Sam & Max games for CHEAP in the Steam Autumn Sale: 42% off for the whole trilogy! Tell your friends. (Tell your enemies, too! We appreciate the referral!) store.steampowered.com/bundle/42652...

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OlieGamerTV @oliegamertv.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I'm a fan of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, seen the cut and unused content, so I wanted to turn one of those ideas into a reality. This is a small reel I put together featuring some of my progress on a rough 3D recreation of the scrapped game world, "Weird West". Hope you enjoy it! #BanjoKazooie

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Turquoisephoenix @turquoisephoenix.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

(Walks into the Deltarune fandom) "Hey have any of you kids ever played the Xbox 360 game Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts?" #Deltarune #BanjoKazooie #Art #Fanart

A sketch-y digital art piece depicting The Lord of Games (LOG) from Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts interacting with Mr. Ant Tenna from Deltarune Chapter 3. The Lord of Games is very dejected and whipped as Tenna, the much more popular TV man, is lording it over him. The dialogue reads as such: "Heeeey Lord of Games" "Aw hell, not YOU..." "Guess who made a bunch of zoomers play Link's Awakening" "Do we have to do this now..."

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Dot @dotmaetrix.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Happy pride folks I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team. We have always been here. dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictrans...

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A List Of Games By Trans People Before 2010

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