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Variant @vxyz.me · 17/08/2026

No fucking way, Nora and the Time Studio's OST is on apple music. Heard this start playing on my auto-play station and had to grab my phone to check. What a baller soundtrack.

Apple Music album view of Nora and the Time Studio OST

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Variant @vxyz.me · 29/07/2026

A relevant article: onepixeljumpdotcom.wordpress.com/tag/making-o... And a funny photo:

Caesar's arm being stretched out for the cool pose in the part 2 opening of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 12/07/2026

me trying to clear the first stratum:

Kid angry with caption "why the fuck does everything cost money"

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Variant @vxyz.me · 12/07/2026

#RandomGameSaturday this week is definitely Etrian Odyssey 1. God this game is so brutal. Got my ass beat in the first stratum because I went in unprepared. Love it though. Difficulty that feels manageable with foresight and writing and setup that makes it feel like a good tabletop campaign.

Game case for Etrian Odyssey (1) on the Nintendo DS

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Variant @vxyz.me · 13/06/2026

I'd been working on another GBC project and got VWF working properly and remembered I had posted this on Twitter but not here. This was like 5 minutes after I'd gotten proper text dumping/replacement working :')

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Variant @vxyz.me · 07/06/2026

I've been doing this as a hobby for a little over a decade now and it's still nice to see the space efficiency of VWF on old games. Had trouble with getting the interrupt handlers all safe, but BGB's reverse tracing functionality is a godsend.

"A year ag" in a full-width white font on a black background.

"A year ago" in a variable-width white font on a black background.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 01/06/2026

A (maybe unfair) review of the reMarkable Paper Pro Move: I find myself just using these Kyowa Continue notebooks I buy in 3 packs for like 5$ from Daiso way more. The digitization features are neat but I think paper and pencil was plenty for me... an expensive lesson, oh well.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 27/05/2026

Years ago, in college, I randomly saw a suggestion on ebay for a really funny little art poster titled "Wigglytuff Chicago Skyline". So of course I bought it and I've had it displayed for almost a decade and it still cracks me up.

An angry Wigglytuff with a shotgun in a car with bullet holes and the Chicago skyline in the background.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 16/05/2026

I've gone to Japan for work like every year for the last 7ish years but I still get thrown off by the random signs I see in English.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 18/04/2026

You give a command sequence and let it go instead of your classic SRPG approach.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 18/04/2026

Got an interesting one for #RandomGameSaturday Faselei! A really neat lil tactical RPG. Never see it really get talked about, but it's one of the coolest games on this system IMO.

Faselei, a game for the neo geo pocket color

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Variant @vxyz.me · 28/03/2026

This #RandomGameSaturday I've got Yu Gi Oh The Sacred Cards which is definitely one of the most... interesting YGO games I'd played. Like the 7th GBA game that was a huge departure from the classic ("rule-following") game that released the year before. Pretty fun though.

The box for the GBA game Yu-Gi-Oh The Sacred Cards.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 28/03/2026

Guys I'ma be real this shit is so sick.

KDE Plasma with some cool widgets, the KATE editor with some C++ on it, GhostTTY with transparency over the desktop and a gameboy opcode reference.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 21/03/2026

I dug up my Vita to see where I left off. I forgot how nice this thing is to hold. I love my Switch Lite but it's hard to beat the Vita's feel.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 21/03/2026

Maybe a little less random, but for this #RandomGameSaturday I've got Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory... for the Vita! Went out of my way for this physical copy. I never finished this version, but I'm blasting through the Switch version. The core gameplay loop is a bit flawed, but solid.

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory for the Vita. A physical edition only available in SEA regions.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 18/03/2026

My complaints about the localization aside, I'm so glad they did this whole scene well. Dawg, I was not prepared for Gabumon's line.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 14/03/2026

#RandomGameSaturday Breath of Fire 3 is one of my favorite games of all time, but the first one definitely had a funnier box art. (2 might be the funniest but alas I don't have it in box)

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Variant @vxyz.me · 07/03/2026

#RandomGameSaturday this time it's Atelier Iris 2, for the PS2! The Alchemy titles after Iris/MK never really grabbed me, but man I love this trilogy (even 3).

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Variant @vxyz.me · 01/03/2026

Maybe less random, I'll throw out this for #RandomGameSaturday (Yeah I have two copies of Kuwagata and no box for Kabuto)

Medarot 3 Kabuto (Japanese) in a shell case, and two boxes for Medarot 3 Kuwagata (each showing a different side)

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Variant @vxyz.me · 28/02/2026

Look! So many people helped!

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Variant @vxyz.me · 21/02/2026

That one Suikoden game for the DS! This console had a lotta cool stuff. #RandomGameSaturday

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Variant @vxyz.me · 09/02/2026

Man this threw me back to when I had a little RO server me n a friend put together with a bunch of fun stuff back in like 2011-12 We made a little mascot character called Leonidaring and I had to go dig up his picture lmao.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 17/01/2026

I spent last weekend fiddling with Debian and now I'm rebuilding llvm with PGO enabled so I can more quickly rebuild the kernel and all I can think about is this xkcd from like 15 years ago.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 10/01/2026

Pumpkinmon easily peak Digimon design. Just a lil guy. 10/10 no notes.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 06/01/2026

Little things like this bug me.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 06/01/2026

I played a ton of Cyber Sleuth over the holiday, this is the first time I've actually seen the Death trigger.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 30/10/2025

Wonder if Koei would give me Metamode.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 10/08/2025

It took hours of staring at raw bytes and writing hacky Python to parse it, but seeing that cmp -l with no issues after rebuilding a scripting engine is that special type of nerdy exhilaration I crave. Finally feel like I can justify finishing up that Mina the Hallower demo now.

Just a long linking command output for Sakura Wars 2 GBC with a cmp command at the end showing everything matches with the original ROM.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 15/07/2025

Probably the last big thing for #medabots 3 - the localized version of the patch (sans audio). Lots of work went into this from a lot of people, so hope you all enjoy! I need to find an alternative to RHDN but, for now, it'd be helpful if people could share this around. github.com/Medabots/med...

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Variant @vxyz.me · 13/07/2025

Was trying to figure out which of my projects to pick back up and the world sent me a sign with all the subtlety of Truck-kun isekai-ing a random passerby.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 28/06/2025

Something poetic about having Team Star cookies in a functional trash can.

Pokemon Center merchandise: a cookie set served in trash can container with team star imagery all over it.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 10/06/2025

We never really needed more than this.

Toshiba Portege 3025CT running Windows 98 on the login screen

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Variant @vxyz.me · 08/05/2025

I'm a little conflicted that my brain recognized SJIS encoding, but at least that simplifies things.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 04/05/2025

Ohhh. I have a few fun things but this is probably one of my favorites. A GBA SP signed by all the members of Evanescence from the Nintendo Fusion Tour.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 05/04/2025

People out here worried about NS2 pricing, meanwhile I'm playing a game I picked up for 15$ loose on a DSi that would've been thrown away in 2016. I detest the upsell of old games and hardware that weren't meant to be collectible, but at least there's still some cool stuff you can find cheap.

A blue DSi with Knights in the Nightmare playing

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Variant @vxyz.me · 17/02/2025

Well, patched up enough of SDL 2.0.3 and added some stuff from 2.0.4 to build SameBoy. If you listen closely, you can hear Ikki's voice played at 5 Hz.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 12/02/2025

Trilinear interpolation, pretty smooth on real hardware.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 12/02/2025

Alright forget GLUT, GLFW 2.7 works, apparently. Triangle didn't work but Mipmaps did???

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Variant @vxyz.me · 05/02/2025

15 minutes locking to 4 threads, incremental builds will be pretty critical for practical use. Python startup cost is brutal.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 05/02/2025

That peak performance post really should have been saved for this.

A 867 MHz powerbook g4 running make/rgbds toolchain/python to build Medarot 3

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Variant @vxyz.me · 03/02/2025

For the love of god someone tell me how to properly do artifact dependencies in GitHub Actions so I'm not building zlib 4 times for Git.

GitHub Actions screenshot showing zlib building multiple times for various sub-dependencies

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Variant @vxyz.me · 02/02/2025

SSH was pretty straightforward... Just need 'Make' and a GBC emulator with a debugger that'll run on PowerPC well enough... might have to write one. Neovim with a good terminal replacement might be a good editor setup... anyone know any good ones for 10.4.11?

Checking out the Medabots/medarot3 repository from GitHub with SSH

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Variant @vxyz.me · 01/02/2025

You might not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. Next up, SSH.

A terminal log showing Git connecting via HTTPS to GitHub on Mac OS X 10.4.11

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Variant @vxyz.me · 26/01/2025

I put in the recovery disc... What the hell does this mean???? Ahhhhhhh.

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Variant @vxyz.me · 24/01/2025

Thanks for the post. As a side note, I seem to be able to change my password while logged in on the site just fine?

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Variant @vxyz.me · 11/01/2025

Random game Saturday? Lemme hit you with Metamode, a Link's Awakening-style game with some of the most interesting character customization mechanics I've ever seen on the Gameboy. I'll try to get to disassembling and translating it one day...

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Variant @vxyz.me · 28/12/2024

Some minor progress, I performed some Make shenanigans to get tag pages and things auto-generating, and some really primitive CSS to lay things out. Found a neat little project for Markdown editing with GH integration: github.com/jmas/reprose, but will need to figure out static GH authentication...

A simple page listing tags using the <details> HTML tag.

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