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Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

@livephish.bsky.social hey there! I'll be watching tonight's Webcast from France and I'd like to know the starting time 😊 7.30 pm ET like yesterday?

December 31, 2025 at 9:54 AM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Pink Floyd
"Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary)" (1975/2025)
gamusik.netsan.fr/Collection/M...

#BluRayOfTheDay #BluRay #NowSpinning #NowListening
#PinkFloyd

December 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Un an plus tard, voici mes nouvelles contributions à la déco de Noël avec 2 nouvelles figurines de Gobbo le Rouge (la première de 2019 et celle de cette année) !
Mention spéciale aux petits détails cachés dans le sac et la caisse ;)
#Warhammer #DaRedGobbo #Christmas #RedGobbo

December 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

"The Crow: City Of Angels (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" (1996)
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#CDOfTheDay #CD #NowSpinning #NowListening
#TheCrow

December 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Phish
"Undermind [''Tiny'' Pressing]" (2004-2025)
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#VinylOfTheDay #Vinyl #NowSpinning #NowListening
#Phish

December 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM

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Broke Studio

@brokestudio.bsky.social

Take control of the Estique ship, capable of transforming into a mecha, to defeat the space pirates who have invaded Earth.

🚀Changeable Guardian Estique, a NES and FC game developed by Cat Hui Trading

NES ➡️ www.homebrew-factory.com/nes/57-chang...

FC ➡️ www.homebrew-factory.com/famicom/99-c...

December 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Entre ça et les goodies Mario Kart World 😭
Quelqu'un au Japon pourrait me faire un achat/envoi vers la France ?

NintendHOME – News & Opinions Nintendo @nintendhome.fr · 27d

🏷️ Produits dérivés – Les magasins Nintendo TOKYO/OSAKA/KYOTO/FUKUOKA développent leur gamme Metroid avec un bac à glaçons métroïdes, un canon à bras en peluche, deux verres, un porte-clés, un pochon boule morphing, un étui de rangement et le retour de la magnifique gourde.

December 4, 2025 at 7:03 AM

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Johan Vinet

@johanvinet.com

Also, here's a glimpse at my rotoscoping process... #LUNARK #pixelart

December 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Sam Bettens
"Coming Home" (2025)
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#VinylOfTheDay #Vinyl #NowSpinning #NowListening
#SamBettens

November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Ishkero
"Brume" (2020)
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#VinylOfTheDay #Vinyl #NowSpinning #NowListening
#Ishkero

November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

FFF
"U Scream" (2025)
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#VinylOfTheDay #Vinyl #NowSpinning #NowListening
#FFF

November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Toru Minegishi, Ryo Nagamatsu, Shiho Fujii
"オクトチューン - スプラトゥーン2 オリジナルサウンドトラック第二款 (Octotune Splatoon 2 Original Soundtrack Volume 2)"
gamusik.netsan.fr/Collection/J...

#CDOfTheDay #CD #NowSpinning #NowListening
#Splatoon #Soundrtack #VideoGameSoundtrack

November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Toru Minegishi, Ryo Nagamatsu, Shiho Fujii
"スプラチューン2 - スプラトゥーン2 オリジナルサウンドトラック (Splatune 2 Splatoon 2 Original Soundtrack)"
gamusik.netsan.fr/Collection/J...

#CDOfTheDay #CD #NowSpinning #NowListening
#Splatoon #Soundrtack #VideoGameSoundtrack

November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

柴田直人プロジェクト (Naoto Shibata Project)
"パーフェクトセレクションドラキュラ・バトル (Perfect Selection Dracula Battle)"
gamusik.netsan.fr/Collection/J...

#CDOfTheDay #CD #NowSpinning #NowListening
#Castlevania

November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

"Hard Looters Original Soundtrack" (2020)
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#CDOfTheDay #CD #NowSpinning #NowListening

November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Yamafuda - 山札

@yamafuda.bsky.social

Magnifiques Illustrations de "Ghosts" faits par Christophe Boulmé qui a travaillé avec Michael Jackson en tant que photographe, graphiste / illustrateur.
#Ghost #Christophe #Boulmé #MJ #MichaelJackson

November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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Jibé

@jibe.bsky.social

Since Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is out, I shall share an interview I did last year with Antony Hartley, programmer of the infamous and often overlooked Game Boy version of the very first Mortal Kombat (wink @digitaleclipse.bsky.social @noobde.bsky.social @kohler.bsky.social) 1/3

1. Hello Mr Hartley! Can you introduce yourself?
I’m a self-taught (an autodidact) who began programming in assembly language when I was just 11 years old. By the time he turned 14, I had my first games published, at the age of 16, I was already a full-time software engineer. I wrote 26 released game SKU’s in a 12 year period.

2. How have you started your career as a game developer?
My Grandad was an electronic designer at Decca Navigator, he designed Concordes navigation
computer, and he built me my first computer, so I learned to program 6502 code using hex with just
256 bytes of ram. I phone up some local software companies and told them what I had written, they
asked me if I could write games for them, so I did.

3. How did you happened to work on Mortal Kombat? What was your role in this development team?
I was an independent subcontractor, I had done a lot of work with Probe Software, I was paid about
2000 pounds a week and I had a small royalty in my contract (25p per unit). I was the team mostly,
there was a producer “Gary Liddon” who helped me schedule stuff, he also wrote a C program that
extracted the original graphics from the arcade machine source code, we all got the full source

machine source code, we all got the full source code from Ed Boon at Williams, we had all the assets from the arcade machine, including all the original digital camera images of the martial artist/dancers. I wrote a piece of software that took the original images and converted them, this was an editor / converter that automatically converted all the graphics, it also processed and compressed everything into a number of ROM bank images.
Allister Brimble (allisterbrimble.com) did the music using a music engine that was started by Jerone
Tel and updated and finished by me. Eric Bailey did some character backgrounds for gameplay and menus like attract mode/start screen/plater select screens/etc, he tidied up and optimized the
originals. (Eric was a super cool guy)

4. Did you know about the Mortal Kombat franchise before working on it?
It was just released in the arcade, we pretty much got the cabinet when it was released. it was
controversial, but only a month old.

5. Did you had any specific instructions for developing this game?
Not really, although I would chat with Gary about stuff, although Ed and John had final approval of
the finished game.

6. Have you developed a Game Boy game prior to Mortal Kombat?
No, it was my first GB game, BTW, I built my own development system for the GB, because I didn’t
want to spend 5000 pounds on the Nintendo system. I had worked on Sega Master System and Game gear though.

7. Because of its limitations, did you have any concern about developing a fighting game on Game Boy? Was there any challenge?
Many, The game was completely rewritten in GB80, which has no relation to the TMS32010 processor of the original, Ed’s version was massive, my version was ~64x smaller. I wanted to keep the players large, so I used some tricks to do that, the game ended up a little slower, but I felt that it looked better and still played well. I don’t like fighting games with tiny characters, it looks silly. I had to rewrite the whole thing to make it fit. The AI was pretty difficult to do, it was a redesign, but I used some of Ed’s ideas.

8. How much time did you spend on developing the GB version, from beginning to end?
Started about November 1992 and was finished in mid-June 1993.

9. The graphics are one of the highlights of Mortal Kombat on Game Boy, especially the big detailed characters sprites. How did you managed to achieve that?
It wasn’t possible, the Gameboy doesn’t have big sprites, but I broke the laws of physics. No, I used
GB hardware sprites at the edges of the characters and background characters in the middle of the sprites, I cheated, but it costs some processor power to redraw backgrounds.

10. Did the members of the original team (Tobias, Boon, Vogel, Forden) had a look at the game, did
approved things or were involved in any way ? What was their feedback?
I never heard of Vogel & Forden, perhaps they did sound and other stuff. Ed & John had approval,
they said can you make it faster, so I explained, you can have tiny characters or it can run a little
slower. They wanted big!

11. You have developed the very first modern fighting game on Game Boy, a system that would
receive a surprisingly high amount of fighting games during its long life span. Have you played any other game of this kind on Game Boy later on (MKII and 3, Street Fighter II, Killer Instinct, King of

November 6, 2025 at 9:49 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Acheté dimanche à OctoGônes en avant-première, je me suis lancé dans la peinture des 6 micro-figurines de "Gloomhaven : Boutons & Bestioles" avec l'obectif de finir pour les vacances demain.
gamusik.netsan.fr/Collection/A... #J2s #peinture #hobby

October 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Petit projet de peinture express terminé !
Photos et détails ce soir (le Space Marine est là pour l'échelle)

October 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM

Yome NetSan

@yome.netsan.fr

Hello !
Pour ceux qui ont des contacts dans l'industrie du jeu vidéo, est-ce que vous avez entendu des retours sur les écoles formant aux métier de game designer / programmeur comme Game Sup, Gaming Campus ou Brassart ? Est-ce que vous connaissez des gens qui sont sortis de ces cursus ?

October 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM