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Elias Daler

@eliasdaler.bsky.social

Making a game that actually runs on PlayStation 1. https://edw.is/

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Uhh, it was me. ๐Ÿ˜…

Was wondering if it's okay to share your fan art of my PS1 cat and Yume Nikki PS on my Twitter (with proper credit, of course!)

14.02.2026 21:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™m now monetized on YouTube, thanks to my big "How I make PS1 games" video.

(The approval took less than a day. ๐Ÿ˜ณ)

Go (re)watch my videos now, please.
youtube.com/@eliasdaler

09.02.2026 13:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hahaha, I'm literally playing Adventures of Lolo 3 on my NES right now.
It's so good.

06.02.2026 10:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you โ˜บ๏ธ

05.02.2026 22:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Woooow.
Thank you so much.
Itโ€™s incredible, Iโ€™m extremely happy. ๐Ÿ˜Š

05.02.2026 22:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
I made a real PS1 game in 1.5 months
YouTube video by Elias Daler I made a real PS1 game in 1.5 months

It took me 1 month to make this video.

It's 43 minutes and it's jam packed with cool information about how I make PS1 games and how I made Yume Nikki PS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsA2...

#gamedev #indiedev #psx #ps1 #yumenikki

03.02.2026 18:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 187    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Bonus

06.01.2026 11:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Exclusive PS1 cat game concept art

#cat #ps1 #psx #indiedev #gamedev #conceptart

06.01.2026 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 50    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can now play the demo of Yume Nikki PS in your browser.
The future is here.

eliasdaler.itch.io/yume-nikki-p...

#gamedev #ps1 #psx #indiedev #yumenikki

04.12.2025 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 115    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thank you. :)

It's crt-lottes:
www.shadertoy.com/view/XsjSzR
github.com/libretro/gls...

28.11.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No, everything is written from scratch.
Just using SDL + OpenGL (right now 4.6, but I'll port to 3.3 later).

It emulates PS1 GPU, but otherwise it's all native code.

It should run on any PC which supports OpenGL 4.6 (or even just 3.3, when I go back to 3.3)

28.11.2025 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The port of Yume Nikki PS to PC is going pretty well!

It runs at 60 FPS and recently I:

- Implemented Silent Hill fog on PC
- Implemented 100% accurate PS1 dithering
- Implemented a CRT shader (you'll be able to turn it on/off).

#gamedev #indiedev #yumenikki #psx #ps1

28.11.2025 10:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 145    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New Yume Nikki PS update looking ๐Ÿ”ฅ ๐Ÿ’ฏ
(was inspired by @monoko1011.bsky.social art)

#gamedev #ps1 #psx #yumenikki

17.11.2025 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 172    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Now both Vinny and Joel have streamed my Yume Nikki PS1 reimagining.
And they both liked it.

I think I made it... ๐Ÿฅน

#yumenikki #psx #ps1 #gamedev

14.11.2025 23:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 86    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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played ps1 yume nikki today

08.11.2025 08:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 168    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, if you run it on a CD-R (either you have a mod chipped PS2 or use MechaPwn to run from CD with soft-modded PS2)

10.11.2025 23:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Half of it, at least. ๐Ÿ˜‚
(Didnโ€™t expect the demo to take 1.5 months instead of 2 weeks!)

07.11.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Canโ€™t say for sure, the emulation of PS1 is not perfect there.

07.11.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, that one is a part of a BIOS, you canโ€™t change that. ๐Ÿ˜…

07.11.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And then use BootEdit to replace the model in the ISO with your own .TMD file.
www.romhacking.net/utilities/15...

07.11.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.blend to .tmd (PS1) export .blend to .tmd (PS1) export. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com/eliasdaler/3...
My script for exporting .TMD from .blend files can be found here

07.11.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello.
I will do it as I've seen a few people being disappointed that it's not there...

It would be a bit hard since the memory of sound chip doesn't have pretty much any space left, but I'll figure something out!

07.11.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi.
Can you give me the firmware version, please? :)
I'll add it to the manual/guide.

07.11.2025 12:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I want to do Pink Sea, but I feel like it won't be as easy because I want the water to look beautiful, shiny and reflect stuff... :D

06.11.2025 15:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I plan to emulate how PS1 GPU functions and do a software renderer - this should be relatively easy - there's no need to do the whole system emulation.

06.11.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sadly DuckStation's license is incredibly restrictive, so I can't use its code in any way. PCSX-Redux is more permissive, but its emulation is not perfect, especially in terms of SPU.

06.11.2025 15:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I might add some more levels in the future.
The problem is that the most beautiful/popular/wanted levels are also some of the most complicated ones, so they might take more time to do than the two worlds I did (Block World and Snow World).

06.11.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yume Nikki PS1 (demo) by Elias Daler A 3D reimagination of Yume Nikki that runs on a real Sony PlayStation 1

eliasdaler.itch.io/yume-nikki-ps1
Also I realized that I didn't post the link in replies... omg ๐Ÿฅฒ

06.11.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Yume Nikki PS1 (demo) by Elias Daler A 3D reimagination of Yume Nikki that runs on a real Sony PlayStation 1

eliasdaler.itch.io/yume-nikki-ps1

(I forgot to post this link... ๐Ÿซ )

Thank you so much for all the positive feedback!

06.11.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 90    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Taki Udon has said that this has potential IP problems as the IP is not mine, and I understand. :)

06.11.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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