Vincent, but Halloween!

Vincent, but Halloween!

@alsovincent.bsky.social

"Professional" software developer making stuff for @540software.com Make tools, use tools, use tools to make tools. Minneapolis, MN

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I made this under the 540 banner with the assumption that very few people would be interested, but it always feels good to ship something. Hey, it's freeware if you're in the market for a slick text editor.

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Takataka's itch page is live too, waiting on indexing: 540software.itch.io/takataka #freeware #free #app

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social

Pleased to report that the new game Final Fantasy Resonance is *tremendous*, a must-play for anyone who loves the SNES Final Fantasy games and hopefully the beginning of a new Square strategy to produce both 3D and 2D games moving forward.

Matt's good people, if this looks good to you - grab it and give him a day 1 review!

Matt Hackett@richtaur.bsky.social

🎉 IT'S OUT 🎉 My silly little power washing game Pixel Washer just launched into Steam Early Access. Please help me spread the word and pick up a copy if it looks fun to you: store.steampowered.com/app/2572060/... 🏡🫧🔫🐷🎮❤️

I came across this via the discovery queue on launch day and picked it up immediately based strictly on the good vibes. I'm looking forward to making time for it in the next couple days. If you try it, leave a review - it absolutely needs more reviews.

MAGIC IS MADE MANIFEST Sealed Fortress, my dungeon-crawling rpg is out now! This has been my biggest project ever, check it out! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5210640/... itchio: minasheep.itch.io/sealed-fortr...

It was an EXTREMELY sobering experience when I realized this was the case for basically every woman I knew. If this sounds wrong to you, then they probably just haven't told you about it. For many, it's an ongoing concern. They change their behavior and make compromises in their lives

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

just to avoid being victimized/retraumatized. Men don't generally need to dedicate any mental bandwidth to this at all, so it can be entirely invisible to a guy if the women in your life aren't talking to you about it.

If you're on Win 11 Pro, you can use the group policy editor to defer feature updates by a set number of days (I do a month,) dodging almost all of these stupid issues. If you're on Win 11 Home, you can use regedit to do the same thing. If you're on Win 10, you're smarter than me.

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1.4.1 is live today across the 540 website, itch, and the Microsoft Store - it includes the new git features and a bunch of other smaller stuff. Links below. 1/2 #indiedev #tools #free

Vincent, but Halloween!@alsovincent.bsky.social

Upcoming Takataka update adds some basic Git integration, letting you see current diff status versus HEAD and conveniently revert changes at will. Diff also visualized in the document minimap. Currently dogfooding. Bonus: Syntax highlighting colors come to the minimap. #softwaredev #dev #gamedev

I'm in the middle of rolling out 1.4.1, which includes these changes.

Vincent, but Halloween!@alsovincent.bsky.social

Upcoming Takataka update adds some basic Git integration, letting you see current diff status versus HEAD and conveniently revert changes at will. Diff also visualized in the document minimap. Currently dogfooding. Bonus: Syntax highlighting colors come to the minimap. #softwaredev #dev #gamedev

Upcoming Takataka update adds some basic Git integration, letting you see current diff status versus HEAD and conveniently revert changes at will. Diff also visualized in the document minimap. Currently dogfooding. Bonus: Syntax highlighting colors come to the minimap. #softwaredev #dev #gamedev

How have I not heard of Kagi before? Seems like a great option!

Could Google do better? Provably so. Kagi, a small company that runs a search engine powered by Google's own search index consistently delivers results that are substantially superior to Google's - using Google's own infrastructure: pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/t... 13/

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🌈 2010. 🎶 Erasure's Always plays as you mash Z, chasing that high score 🏆 and your best sparkly unicorn life 🦄 ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK still runs thanks to preservation & emulation via Ruffle. Flash is gone 👋, but your favorite games don't have to be. 🌐 Play it now! archive.org/details/robo...

This a great little game and very much worth your time if you're itching for a little more metroidvania in your life. Especially if you're a sucker for crunchy pico8 visuals.

My pico8 metroidvania is coming to Nintendo Switch! * 64x64 resolution * classic formula distilled to its core * every pixel placed with intention It is called Ascent, would you play it?

Takataka 1.4.0.0 goes live today, currently on itch and the 540software website. Iterating on your tools feels productive but I should probably be working on the DEPOT project instead. #gamedev #softwaredev Full Takataka patch notes history on itch, here: itch.io/t/6127779/re...

itch.ioReleases - Patch notes - Takataka - Text Editor community1.0.1.0 Initial release - 3/19/2026 1.1.0.0 Update - 3/21/2026 - Feature: Added multi-line editing. (Ctrl+Left-click to place a new caret/cursor) - Feature: Added line re-ordering. (Ctrl+Shift+Up or C
Vincent, but Halloween!@alsovincent.bsky.social

I've been working on a game project with completely out of control scope, stepped back and added a document minimap to my weird bespoke text editor. I don't know why I am the way I am, but at least it felt productive. apps.microsoft.com/detail/9ng3v... #gamedev #softwaredev

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Here's a fun project that I never shared on here. It's my weirdly modded SNES cartridge copy of Gradius 3. I'll highlight cool people along the way. For quick context, Gradius 3 had a lot of slowdown on the SNES. If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. #homebrew #snes #modding

Here's a fun project that I never shared on here. It's my weirdly modded SNES cartridge copy of Gradius 3. I'll highlight cool people along the way. For quick context, Gradius 3 had a lot of slowdown on the SNES. If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. #homebrew #snes #modding

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Here's a fun project that I never shared on here. It's my weirdly modded SNES cartridge copy of Gradius 3. I'll highlight cool people along the way. For quick context, Gradius 3 had a lot of slowdown on the SNES. If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. #homebrew #snes #modding

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This came together great and works like it was shipped from the factory this way. I ordered a new reproduction sticker from fireandclarity on Etsy and the reproduction manual came from TCGPaper also on Etsy. Both are TOP NOTCH quality, very impressed.

Here's a fun project that I never shared on here. It's my weirdly modded SNES cartridge copy of Gradius 3. I'll highlight cool people along the way. For quick context, Gradius 3 had a lot of slowdown on the SNES. If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. #homebrew #snes #modding

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Pulling out the PCB, I discovered I had made a small mistake. I knew I was going to have to pull the mask ROM and replace it with something else I could flash to get the game's data on there. But I didn't realize the SRAM on this game was too small for Gradius 3 to run until it failed to boot.

Here's what I ended up using for those who care: I replaced the SRAM with 1 megabit chips from Digikey (IS62C1024AL-35QLI-TR) and pulled the mask ROM and replaced it with custom-flashed new old stock UV-EPROMs from ebay (MF27C801-100F1). This was all cheap in 2024, I'm sure prices have gone up.

Here's a fun project that I never shared on here. It's my weirdly modded SNES cartridge copy of Gradius 3. I'll highlight cool people along the way. For quick context, Gradius 3 had a lot of slowdown on the SNES. If you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. #homebrew #snes #modding

Some very clever folks, namely @hackervilela.sneslab.net (Check out his github) figured out how to patch Gradius 3 to use the SA-1 chip to eliminate slowdown. So, I was able to create a patched SA-1 enabled Gradius 3 ROM from my own copy using Vitor's tools. github.com/VitorVilela7...

github.comGitHub - VitorVilela7/SA1-Root: Project for accelerating SNES games using the SA-1 chip.Project for accelerating SNES games using the SA-1 chip. - VitorVilela7/SA1-Root

From there, I just needed to get it onto real hardware, so I grabbed some donor carts that would already have an SA-1 on the PCB. Specifically, several cheap Japanese copies of Mini 4WD Shining Scorpion: Let's & Go! Here's one I managed to leave unmangled.

Took a break from the current project long enough to loop back around and get GBC rendering (mostly) working in my hobby GB/GBC emulator. I think it's good to have multiple things in flight so you can change gears if you start to feel burnt out. Also, not everything has to be monetized. #gamedev

Vincent, but Halloween!@alsovincent.bsky.social

I found the motivation to add MBC1 support to my little Game Boy emulator. The list of games it can (theoretically) play has grown a ton with this addition! While not groundbreaking, this has been a ton of fun to work on. #gamedev

Added a finish button that lets you fast-forward through the chore of stacking everything up when you've already won the game. Very satisfying. #gamedev

Vincent, but Halloween!@alsovincent.bsky.social

24 hour project #1 - Klondike solitaire, optimized for mobile browsers, no ads. My SO was annoyed by the ads in her solitaire app from the play store, so I banged together a replacement in vanilla JS in a few hours. Maybe you'll like it too. cards.540software.com #gamedev #webdev #freegames

This sounds like someone who should be an authority about this industry didn't know the difference between Minecraft and Warcraft.

Brought the localization system from Takataka over into dicon, so now we have radishes in many languages. Check it out if you need an .ICO builder for your projects. #gamedev #dev #devtools

Vincent, but Halloween!@alsovincent.bsky.social

Free .ICO builder, new project, released RIGHT NOW. This morning I dropped dicon on itch.io, MS Store, and 540software.com If you need .ICO files for projects, this makes those! Made it for me, but you can have it too! Radishes! 540software.itch.io/dicon #gamedev #dev #devtools