I'm no emulator dev, but that information should be buried in here: www.nesdev.org/wiki/APU_Noise
02.03.2026 02:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I'm no emulator dev, but that information should be buried in here: www.nesdev.org/wiki/APU_Noise
02.03.2026 02:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I made an NES emulator called Family Size VM in December and January. To kick off a video series about it, I made a 4-minute explainer video about how an emulator can improve the player's experience.
youtu.be/qaCEY67VosU
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Clearly your favorite toilet must be the Big City Toilet: youtu.be/P72qvW8BAhk
25.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Screenshot of Mesen's Memory Viewer, showing the lack of free space ($00 bytes) at the boundary between 2 PRG-ROM banks.
Have you ever fought to make something fit in a PRG bank where it leaves you with literally 0 bytes free?
Having a chunk of data overflow by only 5 bytes can motivate you to pull off the most desperate byte-optimizations to make it fit.
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Exploring some arcade game self-tests to see exactly why some games start up with a glitchy tile soup!
Why Do Arcade Games Boot Up Like This?
youtu.be/LVDbhC5Sve4
I've begun working a bit for @brokestudio.bsky.social on a game concept using their 'rainbow' cart, allowing often rumoured/seldom seen mmc5-style 8x8 attributes & tilecount per scene; NES displayable.
My process thoughts available on patreon, supporter tier & up.
www.patreon.com/posts/148758...
Secret of Evermore is such a beautiful game. I've never seen a SNES game with such unrivaled atmosphere.
I bounced off the early game pretty hard, [jank hitboxes didn't help], but once I understood the charge system, I was HOOKED.
Not related to the driver, but the parallax BG is very nice :)
11.01.2026 05:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Side note: Why did I not upgrade straight to RGB?
- My GV-USB2 capture device & splitter box only support as high as S-Video.
- I don't like the idea of RGB modding systems that never natively supported RGB out of the box.
Screenshot of OBS, GV-USB2 capture of the Everdrive N8 Pro menu from my NES via composite video over a direct RCA connection.
Screenshot of OBS, GV-USB2 capture of the Everdrive N8 Pro menu from my NES via composite video over an S-Video connection.
My splitter box will actually send composite video over the S-Video output, which is good for composite-only systems like the NES! Since the S-Video input on my TV overrides the RCA jacks.
But my GV-USB2 does a slightly worse job decoding composite video through the S-Video port than over RCA... 🤔
Super Mario 64 castle grounds, captured via Composite video.
Super Mario 64 castle grounds, captured via S-Video.
Luigi's Mansion intro cutscene, captured via Composite video.
Luigi's Mansion intro cutscene, captured via S-Video.
More obligatory comparison screenshots for N64 and GameCube :)
31.12.2025 21:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3 sets of aftermarket Nintendo S-Video cables from Insurrection Industries.
Super Mario World title screen captured via composite video.
Super Mario World title screen captured over S-Video.
This Christmas, I spent way too much money on upgrading my retro console capture setup...
...to S-Video.
3 Insurrection Industries' Nintendo S-Video cables & a bunch of thick-shielded Monoprice cable upgrades for my splitter box later, I can finally see what good S-Video is meant to look like :)
when i see your name on my screen
my stomach flutters and my heart races
you make me weak in the knees
your memory ricochets through my faces
i loved you
i can't help it, in my reckoning
i miss you
come back soon, my rikka-nee
I made a video about off-screen stuff on the NES!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=872v...
It's always fun finding a random VRAM update bug that causes full-screen seizure-inducing disco flashes out of nowhere. 😬
[On that note, NEVER forget the terminator byte in your VRAM transfer buffer.]
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Just so you know...
Art directors, Art enjoyers, Art buyers and Artists talk with each other. Nobody wants AI slop, specially when there is real art out there as an alternative. You can totally get blacklisted, not only on the industry, but inside fandoms for defending AI precarization and theft.
Without fail, I ALWAYS misread it as SMB3.
03.11.2025 15:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My lizard is the Lizard of Bus.
31.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'll never forgive generative a.i
Having to ask "is this real?" so often has really done a number on me
I miss being able to trust art.
Throat Sort sounds like a very... interesting[?] algorithm.
16.10.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
thread of Mega Drive h-scroll raster effects
Alien Solder flapping wings
The answer can only be "Battleship" or "Battlecruiser" :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpyv...
That's not worth the extra overhead in this case.
I'm already dealing with some extremely tight CPU tolerances during certain sections. [CrossPaint's canvas screen, most notably.]
I have PLENTY of space OUTSIDE my fixed bank, so duplicating the driver is not much of a problem.
[The mapper I'm using is UNROM512, for reference]
04.10.2025 01:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I unfortunately no longer have enough space in my static 16 KiB PRG bank to hold the driver. To access music data across multiple banks, I must duplicate the driver in each bank :(
If I had enough space in my static bank I could indeed do a proper bankswitch setup without duplicating the driver.
I've finally written enough music & SFX to warrant duplicating my sound driver + SFX data to a 2nd PRG bank, and now importing new audio is 3x more cumbersome. 🥲
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Yeah, LDA #0 would just be more explicit to the reader.
Illegal instruction ANC #0 [Opcode $0B / $2B] clears both the accumulator and the carry flag for free :) I find it quite useful in small ways.
That doesn't sound in any way true.
1. Anything EOR'd with #$00 returns itself. [No bits get flipped.]
2. EOR affects the same status flags as an LDA instruction. [Flags N and Z.] The value result affects those flags.
3. EOR #imm takes the same amount of CPU cycles as LDA #imm. [2 cycles].
Coming soon: Micro Mages MAKER! 🧙♀️🔨
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I rate this an Ear Full of Synthetic Rubber Shavings / 10 👌
12.09.2025 01:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
