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A physical UMD case for the PSP game "Every Extend Extra". The cover features a profile of a person's face with vibrant, rainbow-colored lines flowing from their head against a black background. The game title is in white text, and the ESRB rating "E" for Everyone is visible in the bottom left corner.

For #RandomGameSaturday here is Every Extend Extra for the PSP, looking all stylish and futuristic.

I think UMD is the most "this is what the future looks like" media. Like when people drew what future technology would look like, you see something like a UMD.

Read it in Homestar Runner voice.

Family BASIC 2.1 listing that shows how using an undefined variable instead of 0 will save you two bytes in the memory space used to store your program listing. OK ?FRE 1982 OK 10A=0 ?FRE 1973 OK NEW OK ?FRE 1982 OK 10A=B ?FRE 1975 OK

Family BASIC 2.1 listing that shows when you RUN the code from the first screenshot, you actually end up losing three bytes due to the variable allocation cost. However, repeated usages of this technique in the listing would continue to save you two bytes each time, without incurring additional variable allocation, so after two more usages of the trick you will begin to save memory. OK ?FRE 1982 OK 10A=0 RUN OK ?FRE 1969 OK CLEAR OK NEW OOK ?FRE 1982 OK 10A=B RUN OK ?FRE 1966 OK

Ah, you do seem to be correct. You save two bytes in the listing (see screenshot 1), but when you run it you do take a memory hit as it allocates for the undefined variable (see screenshot 2). But 0 gets used a lot in nearly every listing, so its still good savings. Thanks for the correction!

I wrote a thing. A #famicom thing!

Not a very long article, but hopefully informative for anyone who wants to see an early assembly routine in a Family BASIC type-in.

Part 2 (and 3?) coming soonish.

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I got this CIB at a flea market in the late 90s. Had no idea what it was. Potentially my best random game purchase ever.

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (30th Anniversary Edition) - Album by The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released on October 23, 1995, in the United Kingdom and on October 24 in t...

Yet another reissue of MCIS. Lovely album art. 🎧

I would recommend the live tracks on the back half of this edition to anyone even remotely curious. It's a good representation of what a weird and monstrous entity the Smashing Pumpkins were the 90's.

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Nice find! I got a 13" CRT for $7.99 at a Goodwill about 15 years ago. Still sits on my desk for gaming. Fake wood grain, too!

Did you use Agent mode? Tends to work a lot better and have actual web references. Basically "go search the internet for a while" mode.

A blue Nintendo DSi handheld gaming console is open and powered on, displaying a racing mini game from WarioWare Snapped on both screens. The top screen shows the score and time, while the bottom screen shows a lower-angle view of the track. There is a small camera between the two screens that is tracking the player's head and hand movements in order to control the game.

For #RandomGameSaturday I present to you WarioWare: Snapped! for the Nintendo DSi.

It uses the DSi's camera to perform head and hand tracking, so you are going through the minigames by moving your hands and tilting your head.

It's a bit janky due to the hardware limits, but *super* creative.

I'll probably write a longer article about this later, since some of the things in this book are just bonkers, like a 16-line Family BASIC program that will dump the Family BASIC ROM contents to tape 🤯

A high level map of addresses was provided in the Family BASIC manual, so it would have been obvious that the mysterious block reserved for "system" would be where any registers were at. From there it's just a matter of examining game code and experimentation to reverse engineer them.

I think the most reasonable path would have been:

1. Use DIY hardware to dump Famicom ROMs
2. Load ROM data onto a capable PC (PC98, Sharp X1, etc.) and examine it as 6502 assembly code.
3. Use POKE/CALL in Family BASIC to write/run ad-hoc assembly code to test the registers.

> I do wonder where they found out about these hardware registers back then 🤔

I think I have a pretty solid theory now, after reading over Backup Katsuyou Technique Vol 3 last night.

I like that they made the cart with a white plastic front and brown plastic back, so the entire cart sort of resembles a mahjong tile.

Okay, I found the Backup Katsuyou Technique books on a Japanese ebook store. Volume 3 from May 1986 has a whole bunch of info about Family BASIC and the Famicom in general, including mapping out at least some of the registers.

Doing some research in my down time :D

Do you have scans of Backup Katsuyou Technique or Beep from '85 and '86?

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Wait, Momoi Haruko released a new mini album in October and not a single one of my feeds mentioned this? Every algorithm is broken. #桃井はるこ

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Yeah, this one is notable for having a small assembly routine that updates the PPU scroll register so that the background scrolls as you fly through space. Nifty hi-score name entry, too.

I do wonder where they found out about these hardware registers back then 🤔

The only community that will tolerate my Family BASIC ramblings. Congrats on 10 years!

The PRINCE of FLUID BEEF.

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This is the alt text, and there is time for Klax. A close-up shot of a black Famicom video game cartridge for the game "Klax" resting on a reflective surface. The label features the game's title in large, colorful letters against a background of a stylized sun and a dark, geometric landscape. The label also includes Japanese text for "Family Computer" and copyright information from Hudson Soft, Tengen Inc., Atari Games Corp., and Tengen Ltd.

It is November, and there is time for Klax.

#RandomGameSaturday

They made sequels to Mad Maestro?!

Pong Kombat (DOS) screenshots - MobyGames In-game screenshots for Pong Kombat (DOS)

But what about Pong Kombat?

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A close-up shot of a hand holding a can of Spring House Brewing Company's "Braaaiins! Pumpkin Ale." The can's label features a red background with a cartoon zombie, with green skin and a suit, holding and eating a carved pumpkin. The can also displays the text "1PT/16 FL.OZ. | 8.5% ALC/VOL." The bottom of the can is yellow with the brewery name "SPRING HOUSE BREWING COMPANY" printed on it.

One last Halloween beer review.

Spring House Brewing Company Braaiins! Pumpkin Ale

Lovely can art. Hits the Halloween beer flavor profile, but not sure how else to describe it. It's good.

I got to walk around my neighborhood at night, in the crisp autumn weather, while wearing a skunk kigurumi. Not something I'd expect to be happening in my 40s, yet here we are. #halloween

Orange and black splatter vinyl record on a turntable.

Marshmallow Ghosts vinyl nailing the aesthetic.

Wow, not too many Blinx fans out there.

Screenshot of the scoring screen from ztype. Final score 003392, reaching Wave 021, 96.5% accuracy, with a max streak of 627.

New personal best!

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YouTube video by John K. Samson - Topic 17th Street Treatment Centre

"most of us probably not getting better / but not getting better together"

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