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Just played past the first dungeon of Zelda TP via Dusklight, and probably for the first time since the game originally released on GameCube here. Should've replayed it much sooner, tho on the other hand, that means I don't remember too much about it... so I'm going in semi-blind, which is nice!

Screenshot of Dusklight, a port of Zelda Twilight Princess running on PC, with Wolf Link and Midna having just entered Eldin Province in Twilight; the UI etc is in German

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 01/10/2026

Sorbet. Sor-Bae. (Inaff!)

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 29/09/2026

btw, wrt Yurucamp & scanlations: Shoutout to SiberOwl and the "Translator's Travel Guide" they'd attach to their scanlation releases back then! I totally get why, but it's a shame the official English release didn't do something more involved like this, in addition to their translation notes...

Image from Yurucamp ch1 scanlation by SiberOwl, first page of "Translator's Travel Guide" added to each chapter by the group; this page describes the Fuji Five Lakes & Lake Motosu specifically

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 28/09/2026

Been playing some "comfort food" as I'm still sick. And now knowing that my SC64 is not faulty, but the random crashes in the game were a regression in the cart's menu program tripping anti-piracy checks, or something. ...tho the comfort food's suddenly got a strange aftertaste to it? :P

Photo of Zelda OoT running off of SummerCart 64 on US console, showing Link just having entered the Water Temple

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 26/09/2026

Seen plenty of these "the 9 [things] that shaped who I am" around, just did these ones myself. Some very obvious choices, some relatively obvious ones if you've known me for a while, some choices I'd probably have done differently on a different day. (It's complicated. It always is.)

My 9 games: Zelda OoT, Pokemon Silver, Sim City 2000, Zelda LA, Etrian Odyssey, Metroid Prime, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, F-Zero X, Pokemon Legends Arceus

My 9 anime: Digimon Adventure, Yurucamp, Lucky Star, Dragon Ball, Bocchi the Rock, Digimon Frontier, Hyouka, Madoka Magica, Onimai

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 18/09/2026

Have a random photo of most of my N64 games as I look through some games and stuff I'm trying to sort and store in my mess of a place... Fun fact: That "Xploder64" cartridge is what I did my earliest Zelda OoT PAL code hacking with, over 20 years ago, and *should* still contain all of them.

Photo of translucent plastic box full of Nintendo 64 game boxes and loose cartridges, plus a Rumble Pak and parallel port cable originally from a Zip drive (once used with a GameShark Pro also in the box)

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 18/09/2026

Family photo kinda thing~

Photo of three OG PlayStation consoles stacked up, SCPH-1002 on the bottom, very yellowed, another 1002 above, barely yellow, 7502 up top, somewhat yellowed but with non-stealth modchip

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 18/09/2026

Also, that voltage regulator or transistor or whatever that is with the heatsink next to the big cap must've gotten pretty damn hot over time, considering the discoloration of the shell and PCB!

Photo of PlayStation top shell top left corner, with a very yellow Reset button and a round spot of yellow discoloration further up

Photo of PlayStation PSU inside case and upside down top shell next to it, showing discolored spot inside top shell that lines up with the PSU component from the post, the PCB around it is also rather discolored

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 17/09/2026

Considering how the ROM banks are laid out, this ~should~ be pretty helpful...

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 16/09/2026

Three ROM offsets, a RAM address, and ta-da~ This'll help validate the data I'd gathered with the crude pattern-matching-scanner-thingy *and* the Mesen Lua script, which in turn should eventually result in a (hopefully!) complete list of stuff that needs to be translated.

SCreenshot of Dear Imgui window, rendering Mr Driller WSC main menu background (w/ "select game mode" header, button legend, etc), and showing misc info about the tiles, palette and tilemap info from the ROM

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 16/09/2026

Hacked together a VERY crude pattern-matching-tilemap-dumper-thingy for Mr. Driller for WSC, just to help me figure out where there's data in ROM that needs translating, and where in the code it's referenced. And yeah, so, I guess I'm now VERY slowly working on a translation patch for the game?

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 14/09/2026

Been a while since I got to wear my Bocchi-plus-Mahiro, uh, "fit" you could say? Because it was so damn hot this summer, so the less clothes, the better... Ah well, anyway, hi~

Photo of me from the shoulders down, wearing Bocchi-ish pink track jacket and Mahiro's ニート T-shirt

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 14/09/2026

Oh yeah, also have a close-up of how, er, fluffy the heatsink was last night before cleaning...

Photo of heatsink with the fan removed, showing lots and lots of fluffy looking dirt stuck to it

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 14/09/2026

Still haven't tested anything besides the SSD and HDD, but at least nothing looks or feels disgusting anymore. Gotta see what 775 boards I've got lying around to test the other bits with...

Photo of CPU and heatsink/fan, HDD, SSD, memory module and video card

Photo of Intel Socket 775 stock heatsink and fan

Photo of backside of GeForce 9300GE video card

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 13/09/2026

Some very dirty, Core 2 Duo era junk finds I just grabbed out of a scrap PC nearby:

Photo of junked PC parts, SanDisk SSD, Samsung HDD, Core 2 CPU and heatsink, Gskill RAM, GeForce 9300 of sorts

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 12/09/2026

Another #RandomGameSaturday, and an N64 game today - Ganbare Goemon: Neo Momoyama Bakufu no Odori, aka Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon! Pretty sure I got this at my childhood favorite game store, tho many years later; also had this German guide booklet from 64Gamer magazine on the right in the box.

Photo of Japanese version of Ganbare Goemon: Neo Momoyama Bakufu no Odori for N64 on the left, small guide booklet from magazine on the right

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 10/09/2026

Well, guess it's no wonder that MagSafe 2 PSU I got a while back with some other MacBook accessories didn't work anymore! Salvaged a couple of bits like ex. the MagSafe cable, the rest goes in the trash...

Photo of PCB inside MagSafe 2 PSU, with a very burnt and blackened looking corner

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 06/09/2026

Now with 8 MB of memory in the previously empty slots :3

Photo of Unisound initialization output, showing 8 MB AWE RAM detected

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 06/09/2026

"Hail to the king, baby!" 🔊🎵🎶🔊

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 06/09/2026

Dug out a board with a P133 to test the AWE32-that's-not-quite-one and...it works! :3 ...or at least AWE32 and AdLib music in Duke 3D do, sound effects have some problem with 16-bit DMA, the game's setup says. Probably a just a config issue, I guess!

Photo of Unisound DOS sound driver detecting Creative SB32 PnP

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 06/09/2026

First Sunday of the month flea market finds - two Creative sound cards! - Sound Blaster Live! CT4830 - Sound Blaster AWE32 IDE PnP CT3620 Both still totally untested, and the 3620 especially is dirty and has some bent pins, but they were only *two Euro each*! :3

Photo of Sound Blaster cards mentioned in post lying on table, SB Live above, 32 below

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 05/09/2026

A somewhat late #RandomGameSaturday post, but with a game that's pretty nostalgic to me: Anno 1602 for Windows 9x, in the Königs-Edition re-release that also includes its expansion and additional missions. Good memories of playing this over LAN with my dad when visiting him in the early 2000s.

Photo of Anno 1602 Königs-Edition box lying on table and laptop keyboard

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 02/09/2026

Second image is a mockup, but based on what I've learned about the game's innards, one I'm pretty confident I can actually implement... (translation/localization subject to change, because my Japanese is pretty damn poor!) [well, at least I'm not just letting a machine "translate" it :P]

Screenshot of Mr. Driller (WSC version) game mode select screen, with 500m mode selected

Mockup based on previous screenshot, with the game mode name translated as "500m Trial Mode" and the description as "Dig down to reach the goal 500m underground! The recommended mode for new players."

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 31/08/2026

I might or might not have spent...some time in the Item World in Disgaea 5... Only somewhere in episode 4 of the story, btw *cough*

Photo of Disgaea 5 character status screen, Lv 2788 Blade Master called Momoko

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 27/08/2026

Ooh, transferred over USB via XMODEM! :3 (I also still need to polish and release this demo... *cough*)

Photo of WonderSwan Color running WSC Pride demo showing Progress Pride flag and Cool Crab™, connected to laptop over USB-C cable

Close-up photo of WSC display showing same scene as in previous image

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 27/08/2026

What's this? One of my homebrew things on a real WonderSwan?? 😯 Yep, my nileswan has finally arrived! Still need to give it a proper test drive, so to speak, but it's working well so far 😁

Photo of WonderSwan Color running my homebrew game/demo Wonder Breakanoid

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 25/08/2026

🥱 ...? Woohoo!! 🥱😪💤

Cropped screenshot of Gmail inbox showing mail saying and order from 49bitcat (nileswan!) is on the way

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 14/08/2026

Playing around with the camera & the new thought bubble emote actor~ Still mostly just throwing stuff at the wall, seeing what sticks, but I do have a bit of an overall plan in my head, too. #gamedev #indiegame -- I guess, tho I'm very, VERY much a newbie with no ambitions besides having fun :3

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 14/08/2026

Done, I guess? Also heavily improved the camera-path-follwoing or pseudo-cutscene support or whatever~

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 13/08/2026

Got an original remote for the Denon receiver and CD player I grabbed for free a while back; was 20€ but I thought I could invest at least that much

Photo of Denon RC-840 remote control lying on table

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 11/08/2026

Adding more actors, the first new one being very boi~ng, boi~ng! ...and get your head out of the gutter. (need to look into sound support too, Foster sadly doesn't provide any; would love for the springs to actually make a bo~ing noise)

Screenshot of Game Test 11 aka color platformer, showing the player having just been launched upwards by a spring

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 10/08/2026

That's what I had 2002-ish and should still have somewhere, tho with a QWERTZ layout and pretty yellowed by now

Logitech iTouch keyboard from the early 2000s, image via https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article/991028/logicool.htm

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 10/08/2026

Some more progress on the "color platformer" :3 After a bunch of cleanup behind the scenes, and some polishing up in front of them, here's another look at the game as it stands now:

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 09/08/2026

Highly ironic that YouTube of all places is giving me "unusual activity detected" captchas recently, when they themselves are part of the enshittification of the internet by way of bots and scraping and "AI" and the like...

Screenshot of Youtube showing "I am not a robot" captcha, saying (in German) that unusual activity was detected on my network and that the pages is to check if the requests actually come from me and not a bot

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 09/08/2026

is this anything chat? my first somewhat halfway marginally original game idea since the ufo one, cobbled together in a night or so

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 05/08/2026

Random online gaming pick-ups! - Firebugs for PS1, CIB - DualShock 2 controller; seems to have a bad button membrane flex board thingy, sticks are fine but few buttons work; ordered replacement membrane - Unbranded Saturn-style USB controller; had factory bodge wire come loose, now fully fixed

Photo of DualShock 2 controller held together with rubber band (screws removed awaiting repair; bad button flex membrane thing sitting next to it), an unbranded Sega Saturn-like USB controller, and a copy of Firebugs for PS1, sitting on a table

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 04/08/2026

They're a bit rudimentary still, but simple dialog boxes in my RPG-/FRLG-like game test thingy are working pretty decently! :3

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 03/08/2026

Looked him up on Wikipedia, 1) yup, looks like a total cunt, and 2) boo hoo indeed (sadly since reverted) en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

"Liddle died on 2 August 2026. Boo hoo."

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 02/08/2026

Just two smol flea market finds today, loose copies of Polarium and Actionloop for the DS, for 1 € each~

Photo of European cartridges of Polarium and Actionloop for Nintendo DS

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 01/08/2026

Started working on the window/menu/dialog/etc handling stuffs, tho it's just basic mockups so far. It does already assemble the windows from the border tiles at runtime tho, so it's not like I'm just drawing two fixed size images here :P

Screenshot of FRLG-RPG-game-overworld-test-thing with new text box and menu window mockups, the box at the bottom reads: "Hello world, this is a mockup of a dialog box, tho assembled and drawn at runtime.", while the fake menu has the options MOCKUP, MENU, WINDOW, THING, GOES and HERE

Image of window border tiles as used by the program; it looks kinda like a stylized rectangular eye like this, with a dark gray outline, lighter gray inner part that's thicker on the left/right side, and white center part

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 31/07/2026

Improved *and* simplified the NPC scripting stuffs in my FRLG-inspired RPG game test thing, by way of a library with a nicer coroutine implementation that's actually using async/await - github.com/FuriousOrang... My code's still kinda crude and unorganized, but hey, OG Red/Green were buggy, too 😅

Cropped screenshot of the current C# code that makes the NPC walk around the building in my FRLG-inspired-RPG-game-test-thing:

await Scripts.WalkSteps(this, 6, Point2.Left, WalkingSpeed);
await Scripts.WalkSteps(this, 5, Point2.Down, WalkingSpeed);
await Scripts.WalkSteps(this, 6, Point2.Right, WalkingSpeed);
await Scripts.WalkSteps(this, 5, Point2.Up, WalkingSpeed);

Cropped screenshot of C# code with script helper function ex. for moving actors around or waiting for a given number of seconds:

public static async Coroutine WaitForSeconds(double seconds)
{
if (seconds != 0.0)
await Coroutine.FromTask(Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(seconds)));
else
await Coroutine.Yield();
}

public static async Coroutine WalkSteps(ActorBase actor, int steps, Point2 direction, float speed, double delay = 0.0)
{
actor.CurrentMovementSpeed = speed;

for (var i = 0; i < steps; i++)
{
while (!actor.CanMove(direction) || actor.IsLocked)
await Coroutine.Yield();

actor.TargetMapLocation = actor.CurrentMapLocation + direction;
await WaitAfterMovementDone(actor, delay);
}
}

public static async Coroutine WaitAfterMovementDone(ActorBase actor, double delay = 0.0)
{
while (actor.CurrentMapLocation != actor.TargetMapLocation)
await WaitForSeconds(delay);
}

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 30/07/2026

Nice Also whoops it's 1:30 am again and I have an appointment around noon Good night~

Photo of Disgaea 5 character status screen for Lv 69 Battle Maiden named Momoko

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 29/07/2026

After a bunch of cleanup and bugfixes, this...feels more workable, I guess? Movement feels better, some edge cases are rounded off, etc...

Screenshot of Game Test 10, Pokemon FRLG-like overworld shown; FRLG's Leaf standing in the center, one FRLG Lass near the bottom right (walks around randomly), one near the left edge (walks around a house following hardcoded "path"); debug info for all three is printed on top of the scene

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 28/07/2026

Got to test the receiver by resetting it as per the manual! Hooked up the CD player and one of the speakers, works great! The player's skipping a bit, but that might just be a dirty lens or something - it's all kinda dusty and grimey on the outside.

Photo of Denon CD player and AV receiver working, receiver shows "stereo" on display, CD player the current track number, elapsed time and total tracks

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xdaniel @xdaniel.neocities.org · 28/07/2026

Welcome to 2015('s workstation laptop VRAM sizes)! ...and while I personally love this laptop - a ThinkPad P50, my daily driver -, 4 GB of VRAM on new cards in 2026 is ridiculous, especially since I wholly expect games to still target 16 GB of VRAM or whatever is the high-end, enthusiast spec!

Cropped screenshot of HWiNFO 64's summary screen, showing GPU info for Nvidia Quadro M2000M with 4 GB GDDR5 RAM, in Lenovo ThinkPad P50 from ca. 2015

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