NFG

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

^ this is correct, it's a resistor array. Pin 1 is either GND or Vcc usually, and the markings on the side almost will indicate the value of the resistors (if they're not obfuscated somehow).

What a strange take.

Looks good. 👍

Two of the first three links in the first paragraph aren't correct.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Chthonic Masonry by Mrmo Tarius A dungeon-oriented two-bit tileset

Well, I finally updated Chthonic Masonry with an entire bunch of new stuff.

mrmotarius.itch.io/chthonic

Also over at my Ko-Fi :)

ko-fi.com/Post/Chthoni...

I've had two Wico rotary joysticks (Ikari Warriors et al) for decades and never understood why it had 2 of 12 directions with extra components.

Tonight I finally beat my head against it until I figured it out. It's now on the GameSX wiki:

Everything you never asked about the Wico rotary joystick.

So, how's that AI translation coming along, eh?

Here's Musk's dumbfuck AI mis-translating Raiden Fighters to R-Type Final. Now let's get it to build rockets!

Worst fucking timeline ever.

A top-down view of a black control panel surface showing six white buttons and a white joystick knob with Seimitsu's red seven pointed logo on top.

Writing up everything there is to know about the old Hori Fighting Stick V3, a PS3-era stick (also released for the Xbox) that's a good size and easily modifiable.

I read it instantly then tried to work it out and now I'm just pissed off there's only one 'E'.

I always wanted to love this game but never could.

Great writeup. You make me want to play it again and maybe look a little harder for the fun..

You're not alone in feeling like this. A lot of us feel similarly, especially the neurodivergent.

It's not you that's broken, it's the world that makes you feel like you are. (Maybe, I mean, you might be completely fucked, IDK!)

But I hear what you're saying, from a lot of people.

Sorry. <3

It's a thing, something's broken.

bsky.app/profile/pfra...

The process that led to the Holocaust didn't start with killing people.

First it made them non-people.

Then it killed them.

There's some sort of plague rocketing through Brisbane right now. The number of people coughing in every store is startling. And I caught it too! Mostly just a sore throat, so far.

Didn't ask for this, universe, you dick.

I've found most of my favourite shops a long way out of Tokyo are gone now, it's rare that I find anything, the last few years. Hard Off can still be good, but not often and they don't vary much regionally.

The Vita, for sure, can be good, but I can't name six games for it that I want to play.

Tapping the sign

Repost w/ fixed link:

I've finished my universal autofire circuit It's a simple thing but I couldn't find anything that did this specific thing for this specific application, so I learned some shit and put it together on my own.

It should work on any system that grounds buttons to activate them.

Looks like deck.blue fucked up the link and is appending some wrong text.

gamesx.com/wiki/doku.ph...

This works. I'll have to delete and re-post.

Cash out begins

Yeah OK but TRON Legacy.

iS internal section: Welcome to the devil’s kaleidoscope Let’s kick this off by dealing with the obvious elephant in the room: It takes nothing more than a quick glance at iS: internal section’s sharp lines, flat-shaded polygons, and abstract…

@kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com wrote about Squaresoft's Internal Section recently, and it's a great read.

It reminded me that I wrote about it too. The 2004 original is lost, but the resurrected version is still up.

nfgworld.com/internal-sec...

Internal Section Less a game than a graphical miasma, a visual trip, a thoroughly enjoyable romp that piles a crazy amount of style onto a game that seems desperate but totally unable to please.

Once again loving the contrast in the way you write about a game and the way I do. You're always worth reading.

My review of Internal Section was very different. ^__^

Yeah, no, this is not for me. Zelda is not for me. Those two things just piss me off so much.

I briefly tried Breath of the Wild but it was badly walking the line between open world and tightly scripted events and yeah, no, that's not for me.

I'm glad y'all love it, but I don't get it.

4/4

And maybe I missed the suggestion in game, but the SNES version expects you to know, somehow, that you should tear up all the plants outside the house you start the game in, because one of them hides a tunnel entrance.

Is that the game? Destroying everything on every screen forever?

3/

I think it's insane to expect players to try that, so I never got past the cave.

Why would I ever think to try that? Am I just supposed to throw every item at every thing for the whole game? Yeah, no, not for me.

The next Zelda I played was the SNES version.

2/

40 years of Zelda, eh? Bah, humbug.

My first Zelda was the GameBoy version, where early in the game you had to recognize that the powder - which looks like a WWI bomb and turns enemies into food - is also used to light fires in dark caves.

1/

'cheap' and 'CDX' are not often found in close proximity.