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Arc Impulse @arcimpulse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As a heads up for folks in the Super Robot Wars community, the SRW subreddit's currently holding a poll in regards to whether AI translations be allowed on there or not. If you wanna make your voice known on that topic, I'd recommend paying it a visit: www.reddit.com/r/Super_Robo...

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Numerous people have already been pointing out for days that western reporting on this is an embarrassingly inaccurate game of telephone, so I'll instead reiterate that it doesn't cost that much to just have a real translator on standby to vet such reports. I know budgets are tight, but come on.

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Mom @milph.mom · 05/10/2026

I don't have much to add since Coffeezilla, MoistCritical, and LinusTechTips already went over this nonsense (and thus got their info leaked). But it's funny only a few thousand people actually bought the phone, even less if you include investigators or boosted numbers. Even the Ouya sold more.

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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 03/10/2026

A developer who led on a fan-created PC 'decomp' port of Banjo-Kazooie says people using AI to rush out other ports (including a new Banjo-Tooie one) are in a "race to the bottom" which is "disrespectful" to decomp tool creators. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/banjo-k...

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Banjo-Kazooie PC port ‘decomp’ developer says AI-generated PC ports are ‘a race to the bottom’ and ‘disrespectful’ | VGC

DarioSamo says a recent AI-decompiled Banjo-Tooie port is nothing to do with him…

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Heads-up on PPSSPP. Info in the thread on the last versions that don't contain it. The dev has gone off the deep end into Claude is my best friend territory.

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🦁 FunkyLion 'Yuyake' 🦁 @funkylion.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Getting tired of untested vibecoded ports that are just buggy and because no experienced coders are around, they can't fix it? Never fear, as I have listed decomps and recomps done by actual people and it will continue expanding! If you know any, lemme know!

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nematode @nematodeneedles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

YOU LOST MY LEVELS?!

Cartoon drawing of Mario in Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels but it's Mr. Dink in the "YOU BROKE MY GRILL?!" scene from Doug

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Nick @starcaliburn.neocities.org · 04/10/2026

When the fuck is Deadlock gonna leave playtest lol? There’s so much to that game now since the last time I played it like wtf put it in open beta or something.

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Deviljeet Freighbaby @thegolden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

28. Rhythm Heaven Fever I can definitely see why people like this the best (and based solely on its original games id agree). the style is great, the music is all killer no filler, and the porno is essential but its just a little content light compared to others in the series that gives them edge

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Deviljeet Freighbaby @thegolden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

34. Starfox it doesnt really need to exist. but it does and im kinda glad. plays buttery smooth, gives interesting quirks to the cast that werent there before, multiplayer is interesting and fun. end of the day its starfox 64 still which is a real easy win.

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Deviljeet Freighbaby @thegolden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

47. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (rewatch) Watching this in theaters was a goddamn treat, always hits super good but comedies really work best in crowds

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Deviljeet Freighbaby @thegolden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

37. Rhythm Heaven Groove And now the inverse of fever! chock to the brim of features but the games feel largely derivative of previous minigames. incredibly fun still with some dense side modes. im glad theyre branching out stylistically but i hope they get a bit more unique for the future

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Sentinel (🔞) @aftersentinel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dude, this is genuinely so fucking disappointing. Nearly all of the commits I’ve seen for PPSSPP involve generative AI from Claude in the past week alone, and their entire newest dev blog is almost entirely written by Claude. Almost half of the commits in the past 3 months use Claude for AI code.

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MegaApple @megaapple18.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Capcom Engineers are building tools that aren't just Game Industry leading, but Tech Industry leading. And making it open source. But this will neither get coverage or apprication. Instead people will blindly fall for clickbait.

So the fastest JSON serializer for .NET now is developed by CAPCOM as part of their game engine that powers Resident Evil / Biohazard

I did not see that coming lol

https://github.com/CAPCOM-TD-OSS/REDox

They’re also doing their own memory-management work underneath this. Instances are managed in 64 KB pages, with page reference counting plus cache and GC optimizations. The goal seems to be reducing the cost of managing huge numbers of objects while improving locality and avoiding some of the fragmentation problems they’ve had before.
This also makes CAPCOM’s REDox project much more interesting.

REDox is their open-source .NET serialization/data library, with JSON, CBOR, MessagePack-style structured data handling, lazy decoding, streaming, compact token storage, etc.
At first glance it just looks like a standalone .NET library.
In context, it looks much more like the kind of infrastructure they can write and test normally in C#, then feed into this RE:Runtime / RE:C++ pipeline and ship as native engine code.

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spooky fruit gochizo @coughdrop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1) This isn't about generating games or assets with AI, it's just about using automation tools for some processes like bug testing which isn't inherently bad 2) IGN should be embarrassed for this headline. It doesn't say "AI generation" as in generative AI, it's 世代, "generation" as in "time period"

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Jason Prime @blazingwaters.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crossposting this here to spread awareness Someone (Pale) stole Life Bottle Production's work for Phantasia Narikiri Dungeon X, used AI to fill in the rest and is trying to present it as their own They also reportedly did this [shitting out AI crap] for a month straight

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A recomp you can play without fear of it being AI Bro slop. And it's rejecting those who write whole issue reports with GenAi. You love to see it. 👏

A warning to AI Bros that it's proudly human made and that bans from repros will be handed out if Claude is a contributor on any PRs

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Cagliostro's Spookiest Soldier @lyonbrandr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People online are so addicted to the feeling of validation that they forget that they can simply not vibe with people The victims of whatever happened won't be healed because of your smug and ultimately useless "I always knew lol" post

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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 08/06/2026

chowder is such a pretty show man

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blob @gwmthing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

playing big walk solo

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Chris @mykonosfan.com · 29/09/2026

Up on YouTube now, for those who would prefer that: youtu.be/RFFby5GGAbI

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When "more of the same" is just what you needed

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman.

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Alex @alexdz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Must be weird to be the person who designed the Discord mascot and the only time people make fan art is it being put through horrible torture and death

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Nick @starcaliburn.neocities.org · 23/09/2026

Honestly, I feel like I'm gonna sell my gaming PC and just get a Desktop Mac. My workflow and world is back on macOS at this point so why not just get a Desktop that has a OS I'm used to at this point.

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