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front view of a NES cartridge PCB, featuring ROM, RAM, and two logic chips

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wrote up a bit of info on a less common US revision of Micro Machines for the NES, featuring a pretty nasty bug, discovered just a little too late and then worked around by using a PLD to patch a single *bit*. this is what day one patches looked like in 1991!

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i looked into the etymology of the highlighted term, it's a play on the word for husband ("danna" to "danaa").

notably, examples i found in Japanese attribute it to the lesbian community (i.e. masc woman + masc woman). so i wonder if the usage of transmasc + transmasc would be similarly understood

Here’s the FTC1B 4 player board that enables the 2v2 mode in Kizuna Encounter.

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Neogeo Premium Selection #2 game's out: Kizuna Encounter store.steampowered.com/app/3359910/... the big "premium" feature: they've emulated the 2v2 mode that was still in the ROM but never officially released in arcades or made accessible in prior reissues

I trust ppl have already done an AI sweep?

may you attain enlightenment

You can also see that "tunneling through barriers" mechanic in other early shooting games. Yar's Revenge and the MCP Cone stage of Tron come to mind.

A screenshot of Salamander 3. On Stage 4, the player must tunnel a path through soil, and avoid return fire from Moai statues concealed within.

A screenshot of Space Invaders. A set of four destructible barriers are arranged in a row between the player's craft at the bottom of the screen and the formation of advancing aliens at the top. Some of the barriers have bullet holes from enemy or player fire. The leftmost barrier is nearly tunneled through the center; one more direct hit would allow shots to pass through.

Gradius/Salamander series games? There's usually one or more stages where you need to shoot to cut a path through terrain.

And, by that token, I suppose that mechanic would go all the way back to Space Invaders, with the destructible barriers that both yours and the aliens shots can tunnel through.

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This Generative AI garbage is absolutely disgusting. How dare you. Post the original photo or don't bother at all!

they aren't doing that. it's not related to generative AI. using ML labels as a first line of defense for content moderation has already been standard for a long time. the alternative is exposing content moderators to even more traumatizing imagery, in a job where PTSD is already a risk factor

Dynamic weighting systems as in Cultris 2 are also neat, although are more focused on the piece counts coming out evenly in the long term.

TGM3's history randomizer is additionally backed by a LRU replacement pool, initialized with equal number of copies of each piece. It ends up "baggier than bag" (any sliding window of 7 pieces has the character of bag, whereas real bag at seams can have patterns like SZSZ) w/ unpredictable feel.

Memory/History systems like the TGM series are good for smoothing w/o susceptibility to canned patterns. Keep history of last N pieces, re-roll up to M times to prevent dealing a repeat from history.

memories of unused "level 13" folder voice from DistorteD lol

one tidbit:the entire Inital D arcade series' car control has been programmed by the same vet from the Sega Rally days, & their protege took the mantle for Sonic

the base driving's anchored on Rally; driftng was made wrt to Outrun, control feel wrt Sumo's games, all put through the Initial D filter

『ソニックレーシング クロスワールド』はセガの「秘伝のタレ」がゲームデザインに注ぎ込まれたゲームだった。『セガラリー』から『頭文字DAC』まで、受け継がれる血脈 - AUTOMATON 『ソニックレーシング クロスワールド』の開発者に、アーケードゲームから本作に受け継がれた歴史についてうかがった。

Automaton's good about translating their own stuff so I'll leave the details to them, but it's the most insightful discussion I've seen from the Sonic Crossworlds devs re: their team/design DNA, Initial D-specific precepts vs. general racing design, etc automaton-media.com/articles/int... 🇯🇵

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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never got hot cocoa, did sometimes get milk

Arcade Archives GEE BEE | Arcade Archives | HAMSTER Corporation "GEE BEE" is a brick breaker released by NAMCO LIMITED (current Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.) in 1978.A monumental title, and the first arcade game developed in-house by Namco, it gained popularity...

another first for Arcade Archives: this week's title, Namco's Gee Bee, is the first ACA release to support mouse controls www.arcadearchives.com/en/title/aca...

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Someone needs to tell the internet that the 'not blessed with a home port' is about to change.

Almost 48 years isn't too long is it? M2's Aleste Branch announcement must be about that old by now🤔😉

1978 was the dawn of a new era as Namco released their 1st in-house developed video game 'Gee Bee'. 2025 & it's coming to Arcade Archives later today
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you know i had to try this

croc mobile jungle rumble running in a crt and being mirrored into tate crt

android flip phone to pc via adb, sister fpga cast is capturing that and streaming it to the CRT at 256x240

that's my recollection as well

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