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It's hard to mount a Capcom CPS2 board in my PCB holders. The Capcom system is a great big plastic case and my PCB holders work with the edges of game PCBs. So I made an adaptor that snaps into place and allows the CPS system to be easily swapped in and out of a cab like any other game.

Wait, wait, hold up a second. I just found out that lemons are not a natural fruit but a deliberately cultivated hybrid between citron and a bitter orange. Guys! Life didn't give us lemons we made them ourselves!

This was a pretty easy call, honestly. Twitch has never brought me any joy that I need an account for. The stench of desperation is palpable. "Please use AI to make something, anything, make it look useful, we need this." Fuck AI. h/t: @gregersn.eurosky.social

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The new Castlevania is rilly good you guys

PHP is updated and all of my sites are back online!

Whole lot of people being unbearably smug about the PHP problem, and I tell you what, while all my sites are down waiting for a patch maybe you can go fuck yourselves.

A MiSTer dev appears to have erased another dev's name off source files and released it as their own. Zero fucks, zero cool. Sure seems like the ultimate end when MiSTer users clamour for AI slop games instead of the quality efforts we used to see. Moar games moar faster! And here we are.

Pulled my webserver offline, along with all my sites, because some clown (on Twitter, natch, and apparently using AI because of course) dropped exploit code before the disclosure and patch release in a few hours. So, that's fun.

God, grant me the serenity to bomb the patterns I cannot dodge, the courage to dodge the patterns I can, and the wisdom to tell the difference.

The new Castlevania, from the people who made Dead Cells (a favourite of mine) is really fucking great. It's tough, fun, and beautiful.

Gamesx.com is 30 years old next year. Surely one of the oldest, longest running sites of its kind by now. I want to do something to mark the occasion, but what? 🤔

My friend out there doing good content at the quiet end of Australia. Content value A+ audience size Z-- Maybe check out his Sega podcast!

I think @pattheflip.bsky.social encapsulated the current Twitter vs Bluesky debate pretty well when he said, basically: The folks who left Twitter because of musk/nazis, but love AI, would rather go back to twitter and hang out with nazis than be scolded about their AI use on Bluesky.

This cover of Iron Maiden's Run to the Hills by Japanese band Hagane is fucking great. Possibly better than the original, IMO. The vocalist brings new levels of passion to the lyrics. I wish more of their songs were this good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbIu...

nobody could stop the cheap clones before, where someone would just rip off your design/assets and flip them for a cheap ad-loaded game on an app store. quality didn't matter as much as how fast you could get ads to eyeballs. now that philosophy is everywhere else, too. welcome to hell.

May as well get it over with.. I've been working on a podcast, and finally got around to putting a trailer together. It's a little editing intensive and I'm already doing two bloody radio shows, but it makes me happy putting it together, and people might even be interested. rss.com/podcasts/are...

Hey Japanese learners! I built a font that renders Furigana or Romaji on top of Kanji, with ligatures to support words. It can be applied everywhere to get furigana notations for free. Give it a try, and I hope it will be helpful :) furifont.antfu.me

Incredible two posts to see back-to-back

Zonos, the US company handling tariffs from Australia Post into the USA, has been emailing the new rules coming into effect next week! Get ready! Here they come! We'll tell you as soon as we know! Today they emailed again. "It's delayed until January! Get ready!" Get your shit together, USA.

Every damn day. Someone recently AI-rewrote an entire wiki, filling it with errors, duplicate content, notes to self, links that don't work. Their responses: "What's wrong with AI" "I guess there are some problems" "I guess I'll just delete my account" Not my place to say, but yeah, do that.

I bought a book. Rise of the Teenage Mutant Turtles was a fantastic, funny and fun show that didn't last as long as it should. Some of the episodes are uproariously funny.

So, yeah, this asshole owns modretro, so if you're buying their shit, maybe let's not be friends.

Ah, damn. I forgot to get my pre-order sorted for that incredible modular stick from Hori and now the window's closed. horistore.com/shop/g/gNSX-... This would have been pretty cool. =/

At some point my objection to these systems boils down to, the companies that create these models have evil goals, have chosen to do a great deal of bad shit in pursuit of these goals, and so to use their products and services is, not to put too fine a point on it, to align oneself with evil goals

I want to be this guy when I grow up.. (from page 55 of Japanese magazine "Beep", October 1988 issue)

Anyway I think I'm going to not talk about AI for a day or two. Here's 27 seconds of Electric Callboy in Brisbane last month. 🤘😃

Almost no effort is too much for sites like this one about deterring squirrels. I quote: "and use a whistle for the karate kid-lookalike enuarily and do not overuse and disturb “@ctf”* as he would usually hide under your deck, in the attic or even in your garage." It's all so fucking stupid.

MiSTer dev knows full well the cost of rapid-fire porting games from MAME using AI, gives no fucks.

These AI people are so full of shit

TV in 2026 is not disabusing me of the concept of Reacher: Summary Execution Teddybear. A stoic rescue dog who arrives, says "ma'am", nods, is thoughtful, specific, observant, listens, then says "These seven people must die" and proceeds to kill nineteen of them. Cops go "oh reacher!"

I don't know any of the people involved in this, I've never heard Geller's name before today, but gosh, this is a very well written article that discusses a lot of difficult things.

Spooky fighting game month.

楽園の。 #博麗霊夢 #hakurei_reimu

Secret Ingredient - Gator Days

Why the fuck do people use AI for anything at all?

My dream car.

Oof. Yeah. Interesting looking game that just went flying off my wishlist at the speed of sound. And no, it's not for AI stuff. That avenue of investigation went nowhere.

Way what you like about this modern world (and I do have things to say!) but it's pretty cool to spend a day inventing and produce something that didn't exist until you decided it should. I needed an AUX input for my old car, so I made one.

Learn about the making of Samurai Shodown and life at SNK in the "arcade action" era of the late 80s in this massive interview with alumni Yasushi Adachi and Tomoaki Fukui! shmuplations.com/samuraispiri...