CrunchBite
@crunchbite.teamxlink.co.uk
Keeping LAN multiplayer alive as project lead of XLink Kai @teamxlink.co.uk https://linktr.ee/crunchbite
Part of http://consolemods.org and http://psdevwiki.com
Wannabe Extron rep
Part of http://consolemods.org and http://psdevwiki.com
Wannabe Extron rep
Pinned
Hey bluesky! For those that don't know me I run a service called XLink Kai. Its software running on your PC to allow LAN play over the internet for 14 different game consoles and over 1300 games for free. Check out the supported games list :) Have fun!
www.teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/Support...
www.teamxlink.co.uk/wiki/Support...
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Merry Christmas Xbox fans! It has been two very challenging years, but work continues on the OpenXHD project.
Hardware is complete, pending updates from the FW dev team. Speaking of which, there is a FW dev team!
Things are moving along quicky now and I will have more news for you soon!
Hardware is complete, pending updates from the FW dev team. Speaking of which, there is a FW dev team!
Things are moving along quicky now and I will have more news for you soon!
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Merry Christmas Xbox fans! It has been two very challenging years, but work continues on the OpenXHD project.
Hardware is complete, pending updates from the FW dev team. Speaking of which, there is a FW dev team!
Things are moving along quicky now and I will have more news for you soon!
Hardware is complete, pending updates from the FW dev team. Speaking of which, there is a FW dev team!
Things are moving along quicky now and I will have more news for you soon!
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I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
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while we're on the topic of what's the correct way to implement placeholders in your game, here is an excerpt of unfinished dialogue from the april 2000 prototype of spyro 3
December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
while we're on the topic of what's the correct way to implement placeholders in your game, here is an excerpt of unfinished dialogue from the april 2000 prototype of spyro 3
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My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.psdevwiki.com will be down for a few hours for hardware maintenance
Landing Page - PS3 Developer wiki
Playstation Development Wiki - PS5, PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, PSP, Vita Information
www.psdevwiki.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
www.psdevwiki.com will be down for a few hours for hardware maintenance
This is quality bait lol
Using a LLM to sanitize form input? Are you insane? What the fuck has happened to front end web development??
Using a LLM to sanitize form input? Are you insane? What the fuck has happened to front end web development??
To me, nowadays at least, the presence of a dropdown list instead of freeform input is almost always a sure sign of programmer laziness or incompetence. The worst offender is a dropdown that lists all years between 1800 and 2025 as potential birthdays.
1/7
1/7
December 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is quality bait lol
Using a LLM to sanitize form input? Are you insane? What the fuck has happened to front end web development??
Using a LLM to sanitize form input? Are you insane? What the fuck has happened to front end web development??
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You gotta be silly, dude. At least a little bit. You gotta have a spring in your step and a smile in your heart or else none of this matters
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
You gotta be silly, dude. At least a little bit. You gotta have a spring in your step and a smile in your heart or else none of this matters
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Every project (main quest) has at least 3 tools that need to be made (side quests) to complete it
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Every project (main quest) has at least 3 tools that need to be made (side quests) to complete it
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Xbox Media Center (XBMC) version 4.0 has been released!
This is the first major revision to the Original Xbox's killer app since 2016, and brings the classic homebrew app into the modern era with features backported from mainline versions of Kodi.
More info: www.xbox-scene.info/articles/ann...
This is the first major revision to the Original Xbox's killer app since 2016, and brings the classic homebrew app into the modern era with features backported from mainline versions of Kodi.
More info: www.xbox-scene.info/articles/ann...
Announcing XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox
A Major Modernization of the Killer App That Started It All Team XBMC has announced the release of XBMC version 4.0, a new and significant update to the long-standing media center platform for the Ori...
www.xbox-scene.info
November 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Xbox Media Center (XBMC) version 4.0 has been released!
This is the first major revision to the Original Xbox's killer app since 2016, and brings the classic homebrew app into the modern era with features backported from mainline versions of Kodi.
More info: www.xbox-scene.info/articles/ann...
This is the first major revision to the Original Xbox's killer app since 2016, and brings the classic homebrew app into the modern era with features backported from mainline versions of Kodi.
More info: www.xbox-scene.info/articles/ann...
Perfect bait
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Perfect bait
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I've said it before and I'll say it again
We need to stop giving these shitty soulless live-action remakes any watchtime
The only - and I mean ONLY - live action remake I would ever willingly watch is Emperor's New Groove, but only if all the original voice cast plays their respective characters
We need to stop giving these shitty soulless live-action remakes any watchtime
The only - and I mean ONLY - live action remake I would ever willingly watch is Emperor's New Groove, but only if all the original voice cast plays their respective characters
Oh boy a live action remake of a Disney movie but instead of nice animation it’s people acting in front of digital backgrounds that look like dogshit!
youtu.be/QKYFfYLe5rs?...
youtu.be/QKYFfYLe5rs?...
Moana | Official Teaser
YouTube video by Disney
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I've said it before and I'll say it again
We need to stop giving these shitty soulless live-action remakes any watchtime
The only - and I mean ONLY - live action remake I would ever willingly watch is Emperor's New Groove, but only if all the original voice cast plays their respective characters
We need to stop giving these shitty soulless live-action remakes any watchtime
The only - and I mean ONLY - live action remake I would ever willingly watch is Emperor's New Groove, but only if all the original voice cast plays their respective characters
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Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
www.gofundme.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements.
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...
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v2 of my Xbox chain-loader is now fully open source :)
This is the loader used in Skeleton Key
This is the loader used in Skeleton Key
GitHub - CrunchBite/packed-xbe-launcher2: A simple self-extracting XBE launcher (now 2x faster!)
A simple self-extracting XBE launcher (now 2x faster!) - CrunchBite/packed-xbe-launcher2
github.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 AM
v2 of my Xbox chain-loader is now fully open source :)
This is the loader used in Skeleton Key
This is the loader used in Skeleton Key
I don't usually open source any of my projects, but this one may be helpful to others in the original Xbox homebrew community.
github.com/CrunchBite/x...
github.com/CrunchBite/x...
GitHub - CrunchBite/xUnzip2: A minimal unzip library for the original Xbox
A minimal unzip library for the original Xbox. Contribute to CrunchBite/xUnzip2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I don't usually open source any of my projects, but this one may be helpful to others in the original Xbox homebrew community.
github.com/CrunchBite/x...
github.com/CrunchBite/x...
TIL if you pass an incorrect (but not null) pointer to fseek() you can crash the xbox kernel. Lovely
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
TIL if you pass an incorrect (but not null) pointer to fseek() you can crash the xbox kernel. Lovely
Google appears to have deindexed my Github profile. What the heck?
The software I make isn't *that* cursed!
Funny enough its still on Bing
The software I make isn't *that* cursed!
Funny enough its still on Bing
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Google appears to have deindexed my Github profile. What the heck?
The software I make isn't *that* cursed!
Funny enough its still on Bing
The software I make isn't *that* cursed!
Funny enough its still on Bing
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XCAT strikes again!
Thanks to our friend hardly in Japan we have recovered another lost DLC for Thousand Land on original Xbox.
The recovered DLC is already on Rock5's downloader.
Please help recover lost Xbox Live content. Run XCAT on every OG Xbox hard drive you can find!
consolemods.org/XCAT
Thanks to our friend hardly in Japan we have recovered another lost DLC for Thousand Land on original Xbox.
The recovered DLC is already on Rock5's downloader.
Please help recover lost Xbox Live content. Run XCAT on every OG Xbox hard drive you can find!
consolemods.org/XCAT
XCAT
Xbox Content Archive Tool (XCAT) is a utility that runs directly on an Xbox console to assist in finding unarchived DLC and other lost content. When the application is run, It will scan the Xbox hard ...
consolemods.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
XCAT strikes again!
Thanks to our friend hardly in Japan we have recovered another lost DLC for Thousand Land on original Xbox.
The recovered DLC is already on Rock5's downloader.
Please help recover lost Xbox Live content. Run XCAT on every OG Xbox hard drive you can find!
consolemods.org/XCAT
Thanks to our friend hardly in Japan we have recovered another lost DLC for Thousand Land on original Xbox.
The recovered DLC is already on Rock5's downloader.
Please help recover lost Xbox Live content. Run XCAT on every OG Xbox hard drive you can find!
consolemods.org/XCAT
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been doing this shit for 20 years
and TIL
i am so conflicted and ashamed 😭
and TIL
i am so conflicted and ashamed 😭
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
been doing this shit for 20 years
and TIL
i am so conflicted and ashamed 😭
and TIL
i am so conflicted and ashamed 😭
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Continue your adventure with Tunic: Design Works! 🦊 @finjico.bsky.social
Uncover the secrets of Tunic's development (and even some of our own!) in our latest Design Works edition by award-winning writer Christian Donlan ⚔️
Deluxe Editions closing 8th January 2026: lostincult.co.uk/tunic
Uncover the secrets of Tunic's development (and even some of our own!) in our latest Design Works edition by award-winning writer Christian Donlan ⚔️
Deluxe Editions closing 8th January 2026: lostincult.co.uk/tunic
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Continue your adventure with Tunic: Design Works! 🦊 @finjico.bsky.social
Uncover the secrets of Tunic's development (and even some of our own!) in our latest Design Works edition by award-winning writer Christian Donlan ⚔️
Deluxe Editions closing 8th January 2026: lostincult.co.uk/tunic
Uncover the secrets of Tunic's development (and even some of our own!) in our latest Design Works edition by award-winning writer Christian Donlan ⚔️
Deluxe Editions closing 8th January 2026: lostincult.co.uk/tunic