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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 29/08/2026

Transit guy says: YOU CAN'T SKIP RELEASE 11B OF SC2KFIX! YOU WILL REGRET THIS! This is a *critical* patch release that fixes several major gameplay bugs and adds a greater variety of terrain and QOL features to the New City screen. github.com/sc2kfix/sc2k... #retrogaming #SimCity #sc2k #sims #maxis

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 22/08/2026

I understand completely why Maxis didn't ever create another newspaper system as complex as SimCity 2000's, but god damn if they didn't knock it out the park writing a system to generate the most Onion-style articles possible.

a simcity 2000 mad libs newspaper article describing the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 21/08/2026

Stream schedule for this weekend/next week! Moved a few things around to fit around work a bit better -- Sunday and Tuesday didn't work out for me nearly as well as I wanted so we're going to try for Monday and Wednesday instead.

stream schedule for 08/21 - 08/27
- Fri 08/21 @ 7pm: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
- Sat 08/22 @ 3pm: Freelancer + FF14 ARR
- Mon 08/24 @ 6pm: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
- Wed 08/62 @ 7pm: TBD

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 19/08/2026

Release 11a of sc2kfix is out! This release adds SC3K-inspired terrain colour options to #SimCity 2000, improves city loading and saving, massively improves rendering speeds, fixes about a dozen bugs, and more! Grab it from GitHub: github.com/sc2kfix/sc2k... #retrogaming #sc2k #sims #maxis

a release banner for sc2kfix with some gnarly fonts, a JJ Abrams dose of lens flare, and a background shot of a SimCity 2000 city with SC3K-style orange terrain

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 15/08/2026

I didn't realize that my VNyan setup was exploding confetti cannons on my face at full volume every time I got a Twitch notification while streaming and wasn't sure what to blame whenever it scared the shit out of me... #vtuber

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 14/08/2026

Happy almost-Friday! 🎉 Have a stream schedule that I'm hoping to actually stick to. We'll be kicking off the weekend with something I've wanted to do for a while now: replaying Final Fantasy XIV on a new character! I haven't played through ARR in years so I'm really looking forward to this.

stream schedule for 08/14 - 08/20
- Fri 08/14 @ 7pm: NEW! Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
- Sat 08/15 @ 3pm: Freelancer + FF14 ARR
- Sun 08/16 @ 6pm: Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
- Tue 08/18 @ 7pm: TBD

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 06/08/2026

friendship ended with CATBOY, now FERT is my best friend #vtuber (dookdookdook)

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 25/07/2026

Finally set up the Olivetti ETV 260 I got off eBay. It's an ~8 MHz XT-class machine with a whole Olivetti typewriter mechanism attached to it as a hybrid printer/software-controlled typewriter. It is *extremely* my shit and I'm going to spend a lot of time this weekend playing with it.

CheckIt benchmark output from my Olivetti ETV260, printed by my Olivetti ETV260, showing it has a 7.16 MHz 8088 in it and no FPU.

A printout from my Olivetti ETV260 of the CheckIt system configuration screen, with an Onion Sickos "yes... ha ha ha... YES!" appended.

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 28/06/2026

Coming soon to an sc2kfix release near you... alternate terrain colours inspired by SC3K, implemented in #SimCity 2000. #retrogaming #sc2k #maxis

A screenshot from a development branch of sc2kfix, showing a SimCity 2000 city with orange-red terrain and an expanded "New City" dialog box with options to select one of five terrain colours (or a randomly-selected one).

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 30/05/2026

Hey #SimCity 2000 fans, sc2kfix Release 11 is out, and with it comes a whole host of new features including a new sound engine, season and weather visual effects, a bunch of SCURK fixes and features, and much more! Download it from GitHub: github.com/sc2kfix/sc2k... #retrogaming #sc2k #sims #maxis

The release banner for sc2kfix Release 11. A SimCity 2000 city is blanketed in snow; someone in the the Canadian Flag Top Secret building says "brrr!!"

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 16/10/2025

flashback to when I was first making my vtuber model and solicited advice from my besties (holy shit I've been working on it for almost three years and still haven't streamed lmao)

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 11/09/2025

anyone got a good blender tutorial for someone whose last 3D modelling experience was in 3DS Max 2010?

autodesk demands a firstborn for 3DS Max 2026, and I'd rather get snipped

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 29/08/2025

Deep terrifying leaks from the sc2kfix dev team secret Discord chat: napkin math!

in which I figure that a maximum size as planned OpenCity2000 map would eat 40 gigs of server memory and be about half the area of China

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 25/06/2025

goddammit ticketmaster I have tried two credit cards, google pay, apple pay, and paypal and you keep giving me this shit

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Shinkaze | emulation, reverse engineering, and vtubing @shinkazevt.live · 18/06/2025

I have designed a BRB screen with music designed to, uh, "soothe" my beloved interns #vtuber

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