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TheOneCalledJ
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Formerly known as Malaert64. Maker of various things. 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

he/him, 20+ | writer | programmer | #retrogaming geek | #pixelartist | 🚫 NO NFTs / AI 🚫 | Commissions: OPEN | cyberspacecafe.xyz
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Rolled credits on Silksong (true ending) today. Pretty good game overall, I give it a 7.5/10.
Eventually I'll come back and do 100% completion and get the remaining achievements, but that won't be for a long while. 👍🏻
#silksong #gaming
Completion percentage screen in Silksong, displayed after getting the true ending. Percentage rate of 76% in 39 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds.
October 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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To anyone who’s never witnessed a Neo Geo cartridge before, here’s a PS2 game case for scale.
#retrogaming #arcade #neogeo #kof
PS2 version of KoF XI next to my MVS cartridge for KoF 2002.
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Finally ready to show this off. My basement gaming setup is getting out of hand, not that I particularly mind though 😎
#snk #arcade #neogeo #kof
Chinese imitation of a Namco Noir Cabinet, running SNK Neo Geo MVS hardware. This now resides in my basement. Got a copy of The King of Fighters 2002 installed, I intend to get other games eventually. Chinese imitation of a Namco Noir Cabinet, running SNK Neo Geo MVS hardware. This now resides in my basement. Got a copy of The King of Fighters 2002 installed, I intend to get other games eventually.
October 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Happy 39 years of Konami’s Castlevania! One of my favourite video game franchises, I’ve collected most of the games over the years.

First image is my entire collection, and the second is just the main canon (with DXC standing in for Rondo). My fav is Order of Ecclesia~ 💜
#castlevania #悪魔城ドラキュラ
All the Castlevania games I have in my collection as of now. The canon timeline of Castlevania, substituting Rondo of Blood for Dracula X Chronicles (and Rondo is on the DXC disc so it technically still counts).
September 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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A teaser of my current ongoing major project… 👀
#arcade #retrogaming #snk
A single slot Neo Geo MVS system in the bottom of an arcade machine.
September 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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My first ever GDQ run starts in just over an hour 👀
August 23, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Damn, I think I might be addicted to Wplace ngl (this is really relaxing and fun 💜) #pixelart
August 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Currently about 75% through writing a blog piece on the Super Famicom version of Art of Fighting 2. My first post investigating a single video game, it's been a bit since I've written anything like this. I'm having fun with it! Stay tuned~ 🐯🐲🔥
#blog #retrogaming #snk #aof
Super Famicom cartridge for Ryuuko no Ken 2 (Art of Fighting 2) and an SNES controller. Photo of the title screen of Super Famicom Art of Fighting 2, displayed on my Sony Trinitron WEGA and taken with my Canon camera.
July 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Having finally watched Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995, Leslie Nielsen & Mel Brooks), I can confirm that this is easily one of the most enjoyable Dracula adaptations ever made.

No I will not elaborate. It's just great fun. #movies #dracula
July 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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July 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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We are *so* back, y'all 🙏🏻🙌🏻💜
June 27, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Wrote about this in my most recent blog post, but still felt the need to share separately here: I've gotten my hands on the special edition box set release of Art of Fighting 3. 🤩

I LOVE this game. It's instantly become one of my most prized items in my retro collection. 🔥🐯 #retrogaming #snk #fgc
June 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Lupin the 3rd pixel art! Always been a fan of that scene of Fujiko on a motorcycle in the Pilot Film, so I decided to do my own take on it.
#lupinthe3rd #lupinsansei #ルパン三世 #pixelart #anime #fanart #digitalart #retro
Pixel art of Fujiko Mine from Lupin the 3rd, riding a motorcycle in front of a setting sun. Based on a few shots from the Lupin the 3rd Pilot Movie and the Lupin the 3rd Part I credits. Did my own spin on the environment, and tweaked the motorcycle design substantially so that it made more sense both proportionally and in terms of construction. There is zero consistency in that bike's construction from shot to shot in the Pilot Film; I ended up pulling a lot of inspiration from the Honda CB750.
May 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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So I bought a Sega Saturn today.
More pics tomorrow when I've got an opportunity to set up some nice shots.
#retrogaming #sega #snk
May 19, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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After many months of being busy (and procrastinating), I finally got around to finishing this project. Looking forward to getting better at FGs on this! 💜
#3dprinting #fgc #arcadestick
May 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Found three of the Nintendo Power magazines I was looking for today: 106, 116, and 145, which contain coverage of Castlevania Legends, 64, and Circle of the Moon.

My game magazine collection is pretty small, I just go for what I’m into. 😅👌🏻 #nintendo #nintendopower #castlevania
First page of the Castlevania Legends section in Nintendo Power 106. First page of the Castlevania 64 section in Nintendo Power 116. Castlevania: Circle of the Moon coverage in Nintendo Power 145.
March 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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A few things I received for my birthday today. The Orient Express is, for the record, a gift from myself - I missed out on The Emerald Night as a kid, wanted a train like that ever since. 😅💜
March 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Polished up my tech pixel art stuff from last weekend. Always nice to get in some drawing time amidst my busy schedule. 💜👌🏻 If you can guess which Neo Geo Pocket Color cartridge that is, you get a cookie!
#pixelart #digitalart #retro #retrotech #retrogaming #pcengine #neogeo #famicom
Pixel art of a 3.5" floppy disk, audio cassette, MiniDisc, PC Engine HuCard, Famicom cartridge, Neo Geo Pocket Color, and NGPC cartridge.
February 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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WIP of some retro tech pixel art doodles from this weekend. Planning to clean these up and post the finalized versions later this week. 💜
#pixelart #digitalart #retrogaming #retro #famicom #pcengine #neogeo
Various pieces of retro tech (3.5" floppy disk, audio cassette, minidisc, Famicom cartridge, PC Engine HuCard, and Neo Geo Pocket Color + cartridge) drawn as pixel art.
February 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Today I spent some time testing the early 2000s Toshiba CRT I found on the side of the road last month. It’s pretty good! Here’s some Castlevania 64 pics. 👍🏻💜
#retrogaming #nintendo64 #castlevania #crtgaming
February 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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A handful of work-in-progress versions as well. I got the general shape of the castle down pretty much immediately, and then refined some of the smaller details, lighting, and colour later. #pixelart #castlevania
January 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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A little pixel art I drew of Castlevania (Dracula's Castle). Intending to use this as the icon for a Castlevania Discord server I run.
Decently different from the art I typically do, turned out quite well I think!
#pixelart #fanart #castlevania #悪魔城ドラキュラ #digitalart #castle #konami #retrogaming
Pixel art of Castlevania, Dracula's Castle, that I drew as a Discord server icon.
January 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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It was a Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia kind of day today. Got my owl familiar up to max level before fighting Barlowe~ 💜
#retrogaming #screenshot #gaming #castlevania #nintendods
Shanoa at the entrance to Dracula’s Castle, with three owl familiars perched on her.
January 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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My 2024 self-portrait. Promising myself that I'll draw my 2025 one in July/August. 😅
#pixelart #selfportrait #digitalart
Yearly pixel art self portrait.
December 30, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Belated happy 20 years of Cave Story! A fantastic game that helped the indie scene (and the metroidvania genre) take off - definitely need to replay this one in the near future. 💜
#retrogaming #indiegames #pcgaming #cavestory
Cave Story (2004) running on my IBM T42 Windows XP laptop.
December 25, 2024 at 4:08 AM