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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 10/07/2026

Had a rather stupid idea today, so I immediately stopped what I was doing to go through with it.

RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 08/05/2026

New arrivals, and @radicalfishgames.com are cooking once again with their merch! Excuse the slightly crappy photos, but both shirts feel very high quality. I love how cleverly the graphical design extends to the back of the shirts! XL size also feels perfect for me and is incredibly comfy.

Back sides of the two official CrossCode shirts from Makeship. The black shirt on the left features some abstract circuitry, whereas the blue shirt on the right features some blue and red strokes, roughly aligned in a circular fashion around the outside of the shirt.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 07/05/2026

Not me having such a weird week at work I develop a second personality.

A photo of "hide the pain"-Harold, looking at the viewer with a facial expression that looks like a painful smile, giving a thumbs up. He's sitting inside a chair at a desk. On the desk, there's a laptop, a cup, glasses and some other unidentifyable devices. In the background, there's a blurry clock, a window and a lampshade.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 03/03/2026

Windows, PLEASE! I was only trying to install MSXML, NOT to summon The Ancient One!

Screenshot of an installer from Windows reading "Please wait while the Setup Wizard prepares to guide you [...]", then some garbled mess of overlapped and unreadable text, and then "[...] -rements".

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 13/02/2026

I took out my old GBA that has only been sitting in my drawer for (probably) 10-ish years, and it has yellowed so funnily that it looks orange now. You could almost mistake it for an official clear orange shell without seeing its backside.

Photo of the front side of a Game Boy Advance sitting on a green blanket. The shell of the GBA appears clear orange. The buttons are gray. There's a big scratch on the display.

Photo of the backside of a Game Boy Advance sitting on a green blanket. The shell is clear white but appears clear orange at the rims. The buttons are gray. The label on the back of the GBA is moderately worn out.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 26/01/2026

I've been pretty quiet about this recently, but have actually been working on it pretty intensely! Now there's only a few important features missing before I'd consider that a viable v1.0. To the left is the logo I've created (not perfect, but kinda fun), to the right the current archive WIP.

A window-shaped icon with a cyan title bar and border and a dark cyan background. The title bar contains a red circle with a white dot inside, representing a UI badge. Next to it a long white line, representing a line of text. Inside the window there is four roughly rectangular shapes representing tabs, but they're bent and overlaid on top of one another to form the letters "P" and "T".

A screenshot of a work-in-progress tab archival extension. The title reads "Archive". Below it is a text field labeled "Filter:" with the word "YouTube" filled in. Below it are three groups in cyan titled "Categories", "Sessions" and "Unsorted Tabs". The groups have red badges next to their titles, indicating the number of tabs and sub groups with the respective group. The second group, titled "Sessions", is currently open. In it is a sub group in gray labeled "January 15, 2026 at 01:37:30 PM". This group, too, is currently open, and within it is a gray rectangle with a play button icon and the text "YouTube", representing an archived tab.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 21/01/2026

The entire @radicalfishgames.com is now unite! Who cares about not having any space for more plushies, anyways. 😌

A photo showing four plushies from the video game CrossCode, sitting on a table.
From left to right: Apollo, Shizuka, Lea and Emilie.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 16/01/2026

I've actually shown it before on my profile, so no secret here! 🙂 It'll be an extension for automatically archiving and categorizing open tabs so that I can get my tab messiness under control (funny how this once again ties into cleaning! 😂). Screenshot is from current WIP version.

A screenshot of a website titled "archive". Below the tiltle, there's text search field labeled "filter...". Below that, two groups in cyan labeled "categories" and "sessions". The "sessions" group is unfolded and reveals multiple groups in gray nested within it with dates as titles. The first of those groups, titled "January 16, 2026 at 04:03:29 PM", is unfolded and contains a list with icons and names of various websites, such as YouTube or Amazon.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 23/11/2025

Oh, you thought I was joking? Thought I was making a funny, didn't you? Well, I was dead-serious. And I'm WAY too invested in this! Event spent literal hours trying to get a dark mode to work. On the plus side, I'm FINALLY learning some CSS and JavaScript basics!

A screenshot of some website UI.

The header on top reads "Tab Archive". Below that a label reading "Filter:", and below that a text field reading "Filter...". Below that there's a collapsed group in cyan reading "+ Categories [4]", and below that an expanded group in cyan reading "- Sessions [4]". The sessions group contains a nested gray group reading "- 21. November 2025 um 21:36:48 [4]". Inside this nested group there's a list of tabs containg a fav icon and a title. This group also has a button in its top right corner featuring an icon of a red trash can.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 04/11/2025

You just know your tab messie syndrome is out of control when you wake up one morning and think to yourself "Hey, let's create a Firefox plugin!"

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 30/10/2025

Okay, yeah, shiny-hunting in Legends Z-A is definitely busted, lol! This was after roughly one hour of reloads with the shiny charm. In total six shinies had spawned. I love it!

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 16/10/2025

Maybe it's time to finally boycott Google as a search engine and move to something else. I'm already not too crazy about everyone and their moms trying to shove AI content into my ass, but putting the new "AI Mode" button to where "All" used to be is just hostile as fuck.

Screenshot of the start page of Google, showing some the menu options below the search bar which ar "AI Mode", "All" and "Images".

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 15/10/2025

Working on completing as much of my BDSP Pokedex as possible before Legends Z-A releases tomorrow, and then this happened.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 14/06/2025

Also holy shit, this was the clutchest checkpoint passage I've ever seen!

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 14/06/2025

You may call me Sogeking, because that banana snipe was SICK!

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 27/05/2025

"Hi, Lea!" "This isn't Lea. This is Patrick!" @radicalfishgames.com

A photo of a Patrick Star plush in the clothes of Majin Buu and a plush of Lea from CrossCode sitting on a couch, leaning against a pillow.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 17/04/2025

Wenn die Autoübersetzung auf AliExpress einfach aufgibt.

Ein Kommentar auf AliExpress mit folgendem Inhalt:
"Der Emballage, aunque durch den Transport roto. Ein bisschen toque auf la chapa. Die Pantalla, die de la puerta hace, viene doblada. Der interruptor viene con un adaptador y la lampara es de USB pero no viene adaptador. Ich probaré la maquina estos días y veré como funciona todo. Generalmente bien, aunque der Preis könnte verbessert werden."

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 15/04/2025

Germany might just be the only place where you can walk straight into a supermarket to buy some "ass scat".

A screenshot of a shop listing reading "ASS SKAT Kartenspiel französisches Bild" with an image of a standard deck of cards and a price of 1,99€.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 19/03/2025

I just had the stupidest idea...

A parody of Super Mario 64's intro screen. Instead of Princess Peach, it shows Dr. Eggman from the Sonic series, and the letter is altered to read:
"Dear Sonic: Please come to the laboratory. I've baked a Chaos Emerald for you. Yours truly-- Dr. Robotnik, Eggman"

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 18/03/2025

My partner is a little crazy and just gifted these to me today for no particular reason! 🥰

A photo of two plushies from the Mega Man Battle Network series, Lan Hikari and MegaMan.EXE. They're still boxed and feature a cute cube-shaped art style.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 29/01/2025

It's always a good day at work when you get to write some code that will raise some eyebrows without context! 😌

An excerpt of code that reads:

if (!typeName.startsWith("Shitty"))
{
continue;
}

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 12/12/2024

Mega Man quotes are always so damn relateable. Like those two time Mega Man said "trans rights"!

Screenshot from Mega Man Battle Network 4 where Lan Hikari's mother says: "What a polite young man she was!"

A screenshot from Mega Man Star Force, slightly edited so that Geo Stellar's mother says "Geo, you're Trans."

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 10/12/2024

Not bad, but I think you could still do better!

Concept of an incredibly, ridiculously wide monitor.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 14/11/2024

Me: "Okay, time to start saving some money. Can't go broke AGAIN!" Good Smile Company: *Announces Binding of Isaac Nendoroid* Me:

A version of the "Ah shit, here we go again" GTA meme, translated into German to read "Ah Scheiße, hier sind wir wieder."

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 09/11/2024

These Nendoroid look like they were made for one another!

On the left, a Nendoroid figure of Anya Forger from Spy X Family with a shocked expression on her face. On the right, a Nendoroid figure of Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants with two Krabby Patties in his arms and a happy expression. With the two figures side by side, it appears as though Anya was shocked by Patrick's burgers.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 05/11/2024

Jack Chick definitely was on to something here.

A panel from the chick tract "Dark Dungeons" with some sloppy MS Paint edits applied to it. On it, we see a girl with a grim smile on her face, overpainted to wear the outfit of classic Mega Man. Her edited dialog reads "I used the Mega Buster on my father. He was trying to stop me from playing Mega Man."

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 30/10/2024

POV: You know damn well that what you're trying is probably just janky speedrun tech and not at all the intended solution, but you've almost made it work once and you're just too stubborn to give up now. (Potential minor exploration spoilers for @animalwell.bsky.social )

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 18/10/2024

Here's some pics of our deceased Peking dog Belzi. Don't have many photos of her unfortunately, but at least the ones I have are all really cute! 🥰

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 16/09/2024

Never forget what they took from us.

A photoshop edit of the cover of "Mario & Luigi: Brothership" where the title is edited to read "Brothership Bros" instead.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 14/09/2024

He may have missed Sonic in Brawl, but he still gonna go fast!

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 11/07/2024

Oh right, I made these sprites once for MaGMML3. Might as well share them here, too! Some are edits to existing sprites, some were made from scratch. I don't even consider myself artistically skilled by any means, so I'm still somewhat proud of these!

Characters and enemies from the Mega Man Battle Network series in the art style of classic 8-Bit Mega Man.

From top left to bottom right:
Lan Hikari (standing idle)
MegaMan.exe (standing idle)
Billy (standing idle)
Lan Hikari (jumping with PET in hand)
Mettaur (attack pose)
MegaMan.exe (face portrait)

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 27/06/2024

Can't believe what I'm reading here! 😱

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 06/04/2024

Finally got this to at least look acceptable. Now I just gotta add the actual menu logic and then fill it with meaningful content.

A screenshot of a Super Mario World ROM hack, showcasing a custom "test suite" menu, which lists a category name and a bunch of tests that can be selected from. The tests all use placeholder names.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 20/03/2024

Me trying to create a new thing once again and failing in hilarious fashion once again.

A screenshot of a work-in-progress implementation of a Test Suite for my VWF Dialogues patch. The screenshot shows a screen that generally looks somewhat intelligible, with the heading "Test Suite", but then the actual entries of the screen are just a glitchy mess. Individual tiles are either invisible or replaced by garbage.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 18/03/2024

Sending my IBAN in just a minute.

A sloppily edited version of Nifflas' tweet that has the Eagle checked off, with some more sloppy edits to change the percentage to "100%" and change the number of votes to "1".

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 28/12/2023

A little code optimization porn. I haven't tested if the new routine is actually faster, but since it uses way simpler instructions, it ought to be. Just getting rid of the SA-1 distinction already makes it worth it to me, anyways.

A screenshot comparing some SNES ASM code before and after optimization. The "before" version uses multiplication registers, whereas the "after" version does not and uses a lot simpler instructions overall.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 27/11/2023

Me to my coworkers this morning: "This is Frankfurt, guys. Snow immediately melts away here!" Me on my way home just now:

A photo of a seal being absolutely caked in layers of snow.

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 12/11/2023

Aaaaaand that's GG! 😌

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RPG Hacker @rpg-hacker.de · 18/10/2023

Hi! I'm RPG Hacker. I program games for a living. I love Mega Man Battle Network. Nice to meet you!

Various pixel art sprites inspired by Mega Man Battle Network in the style of classic Mega Man.

Top left: Lan Hikari idle pose.
Top center: Mega Man idle pose.
Top right: Billy idle pose.
Bottm left: Lan Hikari jumping with PET in hand and a spark on the PET.
Bottom center: Mettaur attack pose with a pickaxe raised.
Bottom right: A detailed face close-up sprite of Mega Man.

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