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That is so beautiful. I hadn't even graduated uni when this was put up. It's funny, MSc was about voxel compression. I have an alert on the gigavoxel paper that I get an email every time it gets cited. Small world

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 4h

What is this a reference to?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 5h

And Roy Kent is an amazing team member. Unlike the clankers.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 7h

Okay fine~~ GPU can go first. Superluminal will be the one stop shop in the future

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 8h

Oh I do want that too! But like memory profiling should be super simple, it's the same as call stack captures with some extra numbers!

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 8h

I'm doing memory profiling again and I thoroughly wish @superluminal.eu had a memory profiler :')

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 19h

Bro what? Why are they giving human attributes to the clankers?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 19h

Now some of you will notice the dog shit quality of that picture. Mainly because it's the output of the S-Video directly to a small screen. It comes with all the nice CRT like look...I do have an S-Video to HDMI that is so much nicer but who wants that.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 19h

Now I can move on and actually have to write my own triangle

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 19h

Fast forwarding past ProDG, my primary goal was at least running one program fully and viewing the result on screen. I was never able to run any code from host0, turns out I just needed to flash the ROM. I was able to run the same:

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@molecularmusing.bsky.social was right, setting up the tools for the PS2 is part of the "first triangle". I can run code but can't send data from host computer! This continues

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On the PS2 DevKit, I can't seem to get it to read/write files to host0 no matter what I do. Does anyone know anything about this?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Your library is almost allowed to drink in the US, already drinking in the UK :D how do you feel about its maintenance?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I guess that feeling is very universal, although I have a lot less done, I feel the same. Guess we are our own worst critics.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

a true testament to how good dear imgui. I do wonder if Omar ever gets tired from maintaining Dear Imgui. like 11 years is...a whole human, a kid that goes to school and starting life. Mad to think about.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the release of PS6 before 2030 is just an ill conceived idea. The PS5 and PS5 Pro have ton of life in them, hell the PS4 is still with us. New hardware at this point is just not a good strategic move.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the ever elusive "I'm gonna refactor that later"

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

that is hilariously painful. tbh I got my ps5 pro and have barely played on it.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

even more funny on the original twitter: 2~3 days :D beautiful

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I really dislike Google so much! It's twice this year that they have broken the wallet app and they require a factory reset. Mind you this was working and next day it stopped. God this is shit

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you @remedygames.com Control Resonant is an absolute beauty! its been a while since I have been this excited about playing games.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Unfortunately while I was able to break the compiler (ps2cc), the Debugger seems to have a more complex mechanism. So I'm changing tactics to understanding the licence file and just seeing if I can create a keygen for it. The license check seems to be "bit" level checking. A new adventure

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thoroughly convincing cosplay as a fur coat

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do have code worrier as a backup

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can run the executable from target manager just fine. I now need it to run in visual studio

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my beautiful boi compiles and builds now to understand wtf ps2 is.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

PS2 adventure continues. I'm now trying to reverse engineer the ProDGs compilers license...

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

lmao totally understandable

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Who cares about cache bro, just make your structs are like 500 bytes for your main drawing structure. Computers are gonna be fine.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Also if someone that has worked on those older tools just happens on these posts, DMs open if you wanna send me a copy of things.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Adventures on the PS2 continues. I apologies the ProDG Devs that I had to get a patched version of their tool. Especially the Debugger. However the ps2cc still needs a license so I will have to patch that myself. But visual studio 6 is setup and ProDG extension has been installed.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I do not know the full story, I got it from a friend. When I plugged it in, the network domain was called kingofthejungle not sure what that is about. I will try to dig

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have been doing some good number of reverse engineering on one of my other projects. That float-hex value is immediately recognizable

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have the IDEs setup already and can run a simple hello world. It's running on windows though so it's possible you used an earlier version?

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think one of the versions has the performance analyser built in? I'm not too sure! A friend gave me this and I intend to maximally use it! My favourite games were made on it.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Haha once I setup everything I will time how long it takes me to get to a first triangle. I'm still fighting the tools.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My beautiful boy has tools. I'll need visual studio 6 to do anything

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really think I missed the boat on all the cool hardware stuff. But I'm so hoping to recapture some of that time by finding these devkits! my boss constantly tells me that when they moved offices they had 20 of these and went into the bin. This one is working and hoping to get a triangle this week.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you had told me some odd 20 years ago that I'd end up having a PS2 Devkit, I would have (a not been able to communicate in english) said you are smoking something

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Graphics Potentially Hot Take: Render Passes are okay to be part of the API. you will end up structuring your graphics code around render passes anyway

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

As a developer, the PS5 and Sony hardware are the most fun to develop for. As a consumer, the fumbles by Sony lately leave a lot to be desired. Big companies understand one thing, the bottom line, as such I'll speak with my wallet.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Holy shit that is tame chest by today's Japan standard.

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Sharlock93 @sharlock93.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh damn, another amazing guy on my timeline! I love these.

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