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πŸ‡«πŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Software engineer in the SF Bay area. Ex-gamedev, worked at QuanticDream (HeavyRain), Havok (Destiny,...). Retro gaming and reverse engineering (ScummVm,...), occasional graphic programmer.

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Latest posts by yaz0r.bsky.social on Bluesky

X86 emulation on apple silicon is pretty darn fast yeah. I'm always amazed how well it works.

11.08.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Curious, what about windows arm? Is that a valid option in a VM in a mac? I guess you would loose apple's optimized x86 emulation for the x86 windows apps running in VM though.

11.08.2025 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wish I could hear some Chrono Cross played by a live orchestra someday.

10.08.2025 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Shoutout to @parotaku.bsky.social for sending me his archives of those tools. They are pretty hard to find online it seems, and my own archives were a bit of a mess!

10.08.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I just published the source code I could find for my old FFX model viewer:
github.com/yaz0r/FFXView

Also, uploaded the 2 releases:
archive.org/details/ffxv...
archive.org/details/ffxv...

Amusingly, this all was released 20 years ago almost to the day!
#FinalFantasyX #ffx #OpenSource

10.08.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Did you vote on that β€œwhat FF is the best one board”?

10.08.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m by the speed running guys

09.08.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still around? i just arrived

09.08.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll be heading down myself soon

09.08.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I should probably properly frame it someday. It's been mostly in storage since that time for various reasons. It only moved state-side when I was kindly asked to clear out my stuff from the parents attic a couple years ago :D

08.08.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Around KH release time in Europe (lived in France at the time), there was some squaresoft online contest with a few easy questions about KH. I remember entering it for fun and took like 5min. Ended up with first price, and that was it!

08.08.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice! I somehow have a Normura signed KH print

08.08.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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kermit the frog is wearing a black hoodie and kermit the frog is wearing a black hood . ALT: kermit the frog is wearing a black hoodie and kermit the frog is wearing a black hood .
08.08.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New neighbors at work

07.08.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Darn, how big is the rom?

07.08.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always been fascinated by those bootleg β€œdemake”. Someone spent a lot of time making this.

07.08.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@ericchahi.bsky.social

06.08.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats again!

06.08.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.

As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

06.08.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3794    πŸ” 1144    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 90
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a cartoon of link and princess zelda posing for a photo ALT: a cartoon of link and princess zelda posing for a photo
04.08.2025 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Museum Donations - THE LIFE OF A GAME DEVELOPER Breakdown of a Museum donation, and what each piece is and how it contributed to my personal development

I kept virtually everything from my my childhood computer collection, and a load of ex-DMA development stuff, and donated it all to our local museum - @McManusDundee.

Here's a breakdown of the crap... errr... valuable historical equipment I donated.

lemmings.info/museum-donat...

04.08.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Well I’m around if you want to practice!

04.08.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, those are the awards the ones you saw are a reproduction of

03.08.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I think those where the orginals.
Photo from Chris Collins
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ara...

03.08.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wasn’t mame using bgfx shaders for post processing out of the box? It seems it should possible to convert the existing glsl shader to that.
I actually need to do that for a different project so might take a look later.

03.08.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You grew up speaking french?

03.08.2025 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is watching the movie first a prerequisite?

03.08.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Homme PlissΓ©

03.08.2025 05:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I hunger!
#sinistar

03.08.2025 04:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a little story that ties it to gamedev for later

03.08.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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