Natt Akuma (ナット) 🛠

Damn Revision 2026 is soon and I have an another big Otomata Labs entry to finish for it. Probably not going to touch Project Ozone for quite a while 😦

Video capture from my Famicom running that ROM

Also yes I actually wrote a NES ROM to display this, you can get it here: demozoo.org/graphics/384...

The art I drew and submitted to the compo

context - dude drew a red horse for iirc enlight back in the 90's. and apparently he got ridiculed because of it so when we had a zxgfx compo (animals in 64x64), this guy was writing comments under every fucking horse picture bitching and whining that he lost because of red horse and now someone else sent a red horse how could they dude almost thirty years had passed

Original red horse art

Source: youtu.be/jMxLdP4Z5Hs?...

Context: artëmka asked us to spam the party with the red horse pics, which is basically an inside joke of their scene. Then I had this funny idea of umaifying it so I went ahead 😅
Also yes that's a mud

I guess this will be the year I actually start submitting my drawings for demoparty gfx compos 🤔

Dammit I had the worst year for my career but at least I finally decided to start over and realize what I want to do the most 🥲

So my goal for 2026 is to just nicely finish everything I started off

Damn I didn't expect a famous repairman to just casually running Mapperless on NES clones 😳
youtu.be/_yVGCwotNZo

YouTube video by Natt Akuma Channel! Bad Apple!! on Christmas Tree

I'm late for this but I just remembered I did this Christmas special two years ago youtu.be/dllf5PtHUaI

Putting this cartridge mod project on hold for now since I need to save up for something else

TIL you can do polygon clipping in KiCad. I did this entirely in the PCB editor

That EPROM mod was still too unwieldy, so I decided to do a more modern approach. Which is why I bought an another donor cartridge 😅
#nesdev

Okay, I think I'm still not going to upgrade it, despite the price increase it'll be

Damn my laptop only takes the shortest M.2 2230, despite having a room for longer ones

This thing is almost 20 years old now, can you believe it?

My new gear

Damn, with Furnace recently removing old pitch slides, the module is no longer accurate to these videos 😔

Sketch 5

free rent

I ported @64abstract.bsky.social's Carve Your Own Path to MMC5, totally not going to use this to test something 😉
#nesdev

This would take days to play with all those wait commands

.vgm export of this takes about 7 million bits of command by the way 😉

When you declared the type wrong so the last tick value keeps getting truncated within 8 bits 😵‍💫

Main characters of Project Ozone

Sketch 4

Style test 🤔 (cover of MelonadeM's Perpetual Motion)

#chiptune

That's right! I helped my friend Abyxus compiling his impressive 2xSID tune into a single .sid file, which is normally impossible due to music engine restrictions. Had to make some modifications to patch in the second half at runtime 😄
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YHc...

Ominous

Have you ever spent almost a month of free time rewriting the hardest piece of cycle-counted code and having so many demotivations in-between, just to find out it doesn't work in the end?

Yes, that just happened to me 😭

Self-modifying code, no registers used here

Man I like Motorola 68000

I bought new parts and fixed it now 👍

YouTube video by Natt Akuma Channel! Zylenxx - Upgrade (YM2151)

I finally went back to my usual place where I can upload to YouTube. The full video of the cover will go live tonight! youtu.be/9LkTz279sd4

YouTube video by Natt Akuma Channel! Zylenxx - Upgrade (YM2151)

youtu.be/9LkTz279sd4