Shonumi
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Shonumi
@shonumi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Video game historian and preservationist. Author of the GBE+ emulator.

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@thevideogamelibrary.org No worries! Keep up the great work 👍
August 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is particularly worrisome since some international shipping options simply never recovered from the effects of COVID.

If you're a researcher in the US like I am, there's about a month to get anything you need before the tariffs apply, so plan accordingly.

I'm just glad that I've already […]
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July 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
@tharo Yup! There's a bit about TEAM POKéMé and Breakpoint 2005 in the introduction, along with some early homebrew games later on (PokéSnake, PokéMaze, SOKOmini and more).

I still play the SHizZLE demo in GBE+ from time to time. I'm actually a big fan of 8-bit and 16-bit demos ever since I […]
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June 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
@thevglibrary Huge fan of the Video Game Library. Just thought I'd ping about this!
June 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Final piece of evidence:

No European magazine seems to have coverage of Pokemon Tetris. If the game did launch at the same time as the Pokemon Mini, it would have been reviewed along with the 4 other games (Party Mini, Puzzle Collection, Zany Card, and Pinball Mini).

Instead issues like Game […]
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June 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Further evidence of Pokemon Tetris' late EUR release:

Revista Pokemon featured ads on the back of each issue. Starting with Issue #27 (Sep 2002), they briefly showed an ad for Pokemon Tetris.

Makes sense that they'd time the ad to coincide with the release date (Aug/Sep).
June 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Further evidence that the Pokemon Mini came out waaay before Oct 2002 is an old Nintendo World Report article from Sep 2002 about the redesign of the Australian Pokemon website.

It mentions Pokemon Minis being on sale currently (and even discounted) in Australia […]
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June 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Here's another tidbit about Pokemon Race Mini:

In Time Trial Mode, if you go backwards, the game counts that as a *negative* lap. It won't display it as negative, but internally that's how it treats it.

So, say you go backwards 3 laps when you start a race. You have to complete 4 laps just to […]
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June 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Pics so people don't have to give Reddit any clicks:
June 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
With the GBKISS LINK, you can finally emulate every single piece of hardware for the Game Boy platform (DMG, GBC, GBA)!

This applies to officially licensed hardware only, but still it's a milestone that I've been working towards for 8 years now. Basically everything thing the Game Boy ever […]
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June 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM