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GamingW @gamingwnet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe the cats will help you to find treasure.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Visited Black Sea yesterday. The cats r great. The rest is meh.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If your gamedev team uses complex GCC macros for conditional compilation (eg u may enable/disable certain logs, set RELEASE flag etc) then you may add a local_debug.h file (‼️added in .gitignore) to let every team member have their local macros.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes u cannot debug MD game in dynamic. In BlastEm I check frame after frame: - F7 (ui.pause): Toggles pausing or stopping the emulator's execution - F8 (ui.advance): Performs a "frame advance" or step operation, advancing the game execution by a single frame while paused

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In general, AI helpers generate not the code I like for 68K. But if the script or a tool isnt involved in the game, then I get nice results with free AI stuff. Like here. I added grabs and grab attacks in Zabu recently. But it's hard to debug w/o proper revising. PS I see a bug. I see no shadows!

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Dear SGDK coders, how do u import arrays of data from your ROMS? Like I'm recording players controls to playback them later in attract mode. I've made a silly data output to copy/paste from the debug window. Another way is to read data in BizHawk. Do you have any solutions?🙃

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Two Black Cats @twoblackcats.jp · 01/09/2026

MD Engine v1.0.0 has finally been greenlit on Steam! You can read more about it here: twoblackcatsgames.com/blog/final-v... We've decided to release on Monday, September 7th! That way, we can fix any day-one issues asap lol... (｀・ω・´)ゞ 🔧 #mdengine #megadrive #sgdk

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Two Black Cats | Final Version 1.0.0 uploaded

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Grab-swap is done(on da vid). It's simpler than in Yaki (a short name for Zabuyaki). I'm finishing with grab attacks for Zabu. What's left? Body throws and complex attacks such as a German suplex. The next big topic is weapons.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Playing our old open source Zabuyaki in a browser (testing old grabbing system).

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It still works on the real Megadrive HW. I added rects over the animation to show physical sprites dynamically. Now I can do it with BizHawk scripting.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just found and tried Kindle Comic Converter for the 1st time. It's UI is something tho. I love the result. Going to re-read my fave Dragon-Half in Russian. I own 2 versions of original Dragon-Half manga books (and the rest manga by Mita Ryuusuke). github.com/ciromattia/kcc

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GitHub - ciromattia/kcc: KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers.

KCC (a.k.a. Kindle Comic Converter) is a comic and manga converter for ebook readers. - ciromattia/kcc

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Zabu. Debugging grabbing and grab attacks. Just a funny blooper: When a player grabs the other player, he's checking broken ribs after every grab attack. At least it looks like with these placeholders.

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sebagamesdev.bsky.social @sebagamesdev.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of my big dreams was to make my own pixel art software. I'm happy to announce that is it a thing now, and it will be available at Steam on September 1st. You can watch the trailer here! Hope you like #PixydraStudio! =) #pixydra #pixelart youtu.be/ng5u-IkeQeo

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Pixydra Studio (sebagamesdev) announcement trailer

YouTube video by SebaGamesDev

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There's a classic thing as a FOOD loot in Beat 'em ups. Tell me, do you pickup and eat anything in the streets? My last safe experience were on Sicily. And it was some Oranges rolling down the streets.

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Stifu (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-stifu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An important milestone today. 😎 Zabuyaki - old repo, Lua / LÖVE (2016 - 2021): 6827 commits Zabu - new repo, Sega Mega Drive / Genesis (2022 - 2026): 6828 commits So we got more work done, faster. The list of things we have not yet ported over to the new version has become tiny.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I cannot believe it! My SAMPLE GAME aka Don's Adventures is about 1 hour 20 minutes long!! (according to da vid)

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I've watched the total solar eclipse two times. Do I want to see it more? Why not?

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Here is a list of my fave modern RPGs: - Triangle Strategy - Ikenfell - Unicorn Overlord I bought more but was coding Zabu and watching arthouse tho.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My broken car's boosted up my coding spree a bit. Love getting endorphins from coding.

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Electric Airship✨ Isle of Reveries OUT ON CONSOLES!! @electricairship.com · 09/08/2026

Soon interviewing Don Miguel, the man responsible for bringing RPG Maker to the West with his unofficial translation. Background: www.otherstrangeness... Y'all got any questions for this legend? Send them in the replies below! :) #RPGMaker #Rm2k #rm2k3

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How One Man Brought RPGMaker 2000 to the West

The story of how RPGMaker first became available to English-speaking audiences is a little strange.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Adding GRABS into Zabu. and it's fun so far.... It has been done in the prev Zabu instance: Zabuyaki github.com/thomasgoldst...

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Didn't test the AI to create a game (or test project) from scratch on SGDK 4 Sega Genesis. Now everything's changed. Load an example from SGDK into VS Code (for the Copilot context). And that’s it... you can vibecode with almost no hardware knowledge or restrictions. Free subscription is enough

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Do you remember old video games where sprites weren't perfectly sync to the backgrounds movement? It was barely visible on a CRT tho. Sometimes It was like a live marque around sprites.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

CO-ZABU-NGA! Got some temp ripped gfx то test food items in action.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Added into Zabu: - items - mobs drop items set - players may pickup items - items might have different effects - TEMP: items have TTL (is it SO frustrating? what if it's quite long?) - some effect / sfx on picking them up Took me 2+ hours. VS Code agent chat saved like 30% of⏲️

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Zabu's maps look as maps with events and NPC in RPG Makers. OGMO is an abandon ware(kinda), but I got used to it due to the fastest ever prototyping. Tiled has better UI and functionality but is lacking in tweaking/updating layers and entities with a click. ogmo-editor-3.github.io

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I want the issues in a comics way with illustrations and chibi characters!!!`~

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I remember some Atari 2600 games from Russian "Video Clubs" where consoles were used as shitty arcade cabinets. We paid for 10 minutes of gaming or so. All the game was pirated, ofc. Some games were so colorful and sounded way better than my working Apple][ clone. I could not finish a single game>

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Current Zabu game looks way different from the released demos. And it's cool.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

With help of Ghidra I peeked into the gcc code optimization and found my extra preparation in functions were ignored. Once I got a nice advice in #SGDK Discord: - Use online GCC to peek into the final result code. Like godbolt.org Nice, right? But I missed a point >>

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Just got a basic usage skill of Ghidra. I locate the buggy point in my C sources way faster now. #Megadrive #SGDK Also this tool let u examine and rip off any funcs from roms if u want to. I haven't used its emulator tho.

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Marcelo de Gomensoro Malheiros @mgmalheiros.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Since then I always wanted to understand the genius programming and game crafting skills from the early Compile staff. I'm happy to share with the community a full documentation effort and cleanroom disassembly of this specific version: github.com/mgmalheiros/... Hope you like it!

Typical game screen, with the white player ship flying in high-speed over a continuous greenish background, with enemies and ground structures.

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Riggy2k3 @riggy2k3.com · 26/06/2026

Deluge, a horror adventure RPG, is now available for purchase on @steampowered.com and Itch.io. 💀 Visit delugegame.com to play... I hope you enjoy it!

Deluge, the horror RPG from Riggy2k3, is now available for purchase on Steam and Itch.io

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Got back to Zabu's HUD refactoring. It's a tricky task. U have some custom combination of P/COM tag partners. Somehow it's fun, still. Love SGDK updates don't break the game with tons of sprite / tile map engine wrappings yet.

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Stifu (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-stifu.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Call me a buzzkill, but I think endless combos are boring as hell, especially when they don't require much skill. So we've been working on fixing endless juggle combos. First by tweaking certain attacks, then by gradually increasing the victim's gravity while juggling #sgdk #sega #genesis #megadrive

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#SGDK lifehack: To rebuild the whole project but assets I go to \OUT\RELEASE\ and wipe both SRC folders.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Playing our open source roguelike Whip-a-Wimp 🤬 while I should do other things.

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Have you played our open source Dungeon Crawler "Whip-a-Wimp"? U may play it with your browser: stifu.fr/Whip-a-Wimp/ Arrows + SPACE PS Hate gamejams nowadays. src: github.com/thomasgoldst...

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Michael Pavone @retrodev.com · 12/05/2026

Yeah, the new default behavior is to show you this. The old default behavior is to just treat it as fatal and exit. I have not added detection for any new "freeze" cases, but now when you hit one you have an option to get an idea where it happens.

A screenshot of the new UI asking a user how they want to deal with "machine freeze" events. The top section provides a general explanation along with the text of the specific error. The middle has 3 radio buttons with the choices "This time only", "For the rest of this session" and "Always. The bottom has 3 buttons representing the possible actions: "Exit", "Enter Debugger" and "Ignore & Continue"

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Wow!! This change in BlastEm is making the "crash / frozen" Genesis bugs easier to detect. For this case of your #SGDK game debugging I suggested running GENS KMOD with Debug console on. Now... I can use BlastEm for almost everything. So, GENS is needed, still >> www.retrodev.com/repos/blastem

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repos/blastem: log

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D0N MIGUEL (Zabu Team) @zabu-team-don.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Just made the generic maps transition faster. The player and COM do their best to reach the exit ASAP. Zabu beatemup 4SEGA #Genesis #Megadrive WIP

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