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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Did you know my #blackrockshooter game #reverseengineering project now has a #ko-fi now? For $10 a month, you can help support my progress: ko-fi.com/brsgameresea... Shoutout to Sausage of Cruelty for being my first & requesting I keep supporting the #brs #Discord

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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm going to mess up until I don't. Everyone said it was hard. But the dream won't chase itself. Could have made something easier than an ocean exploration superhero mermaid game, but nothing scares me as much as this does.

Age of the Deep - the cast so far. Art by CmC.

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

#zenshu while working on #blackrockshooter game stuff was a great experience. I wish more people could have talked about it on Youtube but for several months that #anime kept getting hit with takedowns or CIDs. It just became a favorite on my personal 10 Anime list

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

1. Black Rock Shooter 2. Vanpires 3. B Gata H Kei 4. Kingdom Hearts 5. Can it run Doom 6. Can We Microwave This 7. Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni 8. Bones 9. Don’t Go Out There Horror Podcast 10. Llamas in Hats

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Johan Peitz - Icy Tower is coming soon! @johanpeitz.com · 16/03/2026

🎉 picoCAD 2 is out! 🥳 Model, texture, and animate - in a single lo-fi, easy to use package. GIF, GLTF, OBJ, and sprite sheet export. Available now on Steam and Itch! Check it out! picocad.net Thanks for boosting! ❤️ 🙏

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social congratulations on the recent win with Cookie’s Bustle. Even though there’s still more work to be done, that gives me hope that other abandoned Japanese oddities can be preserved. There’s quite a few games out there that have fans but no access or information available

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Chikn Nuggit @chiknnuggit.buzzfeed.com · 11/03/2026

GREAT NEWS!!!!! 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

#blackrockshooter game fans: if you want to take a peak at the raw texture format used in game & don’t mind technical jargon along with loose theorizing, check them out here: github.com/BRS-PSP-Rese... I’ve been spending months attempting to crack some of that open!!!

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Anyone in #AustinTx here looking for help with arbitrary, undocumented binary formats or needing someone to assist with server maintenance? Not professionally trained, but always looking for extra work. My minimum is $22 an hour due to the cost of living here.

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Some samples after running the asset through Google’s AI system. There’s at least 20 of these inside the asset file.

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I thought the PBD file format was junk code in #blackrockshooter the game; in the Japanese version, I found one they missed. I have a raw asset here that has a table & raw bitmap data associated with a custom texture stream format

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation

We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Alright, #blackrockshooter uses at minimum 4 total different texture formats based on context: CLUT, DepthBlur, Character textures, & Map textures. The last two may be interchangeable & possibly more to come

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Confirmed, 2 texture formats have been found in #blackrockshooter : PF8888 & PFIDX16, both of which are implemented almost verbatim in the binary using the official depthblur sample from Sony PSP SDK 6.6 . This is cool but also means this is no man’s land to an extent

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I could be wrong but it looks like #blackrockshooter uses the PF8888 texture format; it checks for 4 total but that’s the oddball. If that’s the case, it’s not well documented; time to peruse leaked official PSP SDK 6 files. The SDK used was version 5, so it’s very possible this may not be useful

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QZ Productions @qzproductions.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Welp, here goes. Artists wanted to help with my #rpgmaker #rpghorror game! (🧵: brief game summary) #gamedev #indiedev

HELP WANTED!

"Pavane: See No Evil"

Looking for artists to help on a psychological horror game made in RPG Maker MV!

2 character renders, 4 ending stills, all references provided, paid position (rates negotiable), NOT a NSFW job but 18+ artists only please!

DM or email qzproductionsgames@gmail.com for details!

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Do the float values 2.3e-10 & 4.5e9 have any significance for 3D vector graphics? Asking because both are heavily used in #blackrockshooter the game’s bone & mesh data for some reason? Looking for possible leads since this is not my expertise. Thanks

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Is this from the PSP game? Looks great if so

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This is where I indie dev. 5 monitor floor desk made of mostly second hand parts. I use all of them, btw

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Update on my #blackrockshooter game #reverseengineering : I just found a second level of xor encryption in the binary. Looks like the decompression key for some of the base vertex data uses it. Two keys built from different encryption types is annoying. 🤧

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I’m both excited & bummed at the same time with how much of the 3D pipeline seems to follow standard #PSP conventions & implementations. It’s not 1:1 exact but things like texture & filter modes seems to be directly mappable to the #pspsdk implementations. I was expecting madness, I tell you 🤧

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

@dontgooutthere.com just heard several of your #saw film reviews. I haven’t seen past 7 or 8 yet but that franchise heavily reminds me of the #gardenofsinners film series (in terms of continuity). Do you think that the series creators were huge fans of Anime (since nonlinear stories are common)

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

PTMD confirmed to be exactly what I mostly thought it was. The big difference: it’s not just texture data. It’s encrypted CLUT, shader & possibly bone data. The worst part: the vertex data encryption is a nightmare; it’s multiple calculations with individual bytes being glued together in memory

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I just found the #blackrockshooter game shaders & UV map data inside of the anm files. To save space on disc, the devs encrypted both in data I thought was for something else entirely.

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The Minstrel of Horror @minstrelofhorror.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Re-Watching The School (2018)! It's depressing to learn that children caught in a realm between the living & the dead, would be in school. Of all the dark, depressing and overwhelmingly grim places; they are in school? I think we need to rethink our education system & try to make it not so bleak!

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Need to test it, but I’m pretty certain I found the PTMD parser this morning. Definitely would not have found it through looking at the asset data only. It’s complicated & it looks like the devs embedded functions in the data for some instances. Notes here: github.com/BRS-PSP-Rese...

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#blackrockshooter fans, most of my theories about how the PSP game’s 3D assets were loaded are looking like they were mostly correct. The game binary shows that the rigging, for example, is most likely a combination of the cam & anm files together with the param binary files holding shared data 😳

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Greg | Nowhere Near Berlin @nowherenearberlin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I love this games art direction 😍 🎮 - Crisol: Theater of Idols

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This is so cool. I don’t know if anyone involved is looking for assistance diving into Wetrix+ but if it’s open for tearing apart, I’d love to see what is found

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saiykik (COMMS OPEN) @saiykik.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Gentildonna dressed as Edelgard

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The moment I converted a random binary string with a Bitwise OR found in the binary, I knew exactly what I was seeing. I found a string that suggested the data was a known compressed archive. 🫡

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Been awhile since I’ve posted updates on my #blackrockshooter project. I finally got somewhere with a format I’ve been looking at. Not 100% figured but it looks like there was encryption done to the texture data. Found the function for it inside the binary & now need to further test it out

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Confession: I’m not sleeping anymore on From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman’s anime. Maybe it’s just being almost the same age as the MC, but sometimes, it’s just compelling to watch a man be a grown up in my media with most of that being mundane with a sprinkling of badass sword fights

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I had a Reddit post removed from an “Ask” subreddit because the mods said it could have been answered “by a search engine.” Have any of them used a search engine lately? Search engines don’t answer shit anymore! They’re all completely enshittified. Why do you think I was on Reddit?

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Pieter Montoulieu @montoulieu.dev · 04/01/2026

Installed the original OS X beta from 2000 in a VM for research purposes. Steve Jobs unveiled OS X and Aqua at Macworld 2000 with this, and I love how much it still feels like NextStep before evolving into the macOS we know today. It's also kinda wild to be running this on an ultrawide monitor.

An ultrawide screenshot of Mac OS X beta 10.0.1. A bunch of NextStep ported applications are open like Chess, Terminal, Mail, HtmlEdit and other system utils.

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

@teamcherry.bsky.social so far, your latest public beta for #hollowknight with the engine & controller updates has been a blessing. Immediately noticing visual & performance improvements & the native #dualsense support is substantially a game changer. Keep it up

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Smugpire - ATOMIC LANCE @smugpire.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Tiny little preview of the next stage, set in a massive drain. The enemies here can dodge, so watch out! #gamedev #indiegame

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A message for you all to carry through the year

Image is a popular astronaut meme. An astronaut is looking at the earth from space saying wait, I am worthy of love? An astronaut is behind him holding up flowers and saying always have been

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Yan Kodiac @yankodiac.com · 01/01/2026

Very nice ! Thank you for sketching her, I recognize the piece right away

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Light rant: AI being completely in charge of dishing out paychecks & checking hours for employees was a mistake.

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thearchivalone.bsky.social @thearchivalone.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

@yankodiac.com I love your Street Witch designs enough that it got me to do my first sketch in months (still very much an amateur). Total time: 2-3 hours free sketch with almost no starting structure or skeleton

Street Witch digital sketch with rough ink lines, disproportionate body structure and a lollipop for the sucking. The witch’s hat ragged and worn with 3 hoop earrings can be seen

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