Siana Gearz
sianagearz.bsky.social
Siana Gearz
@sianagearz.bsky.social
Love Dreamcast and Demoscene. Embedded dev and computer engineering, former game engine dev, 3D printing. Dabble in a million different things.
There was a fish... in the percolator.
October 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
there is no end grain, it's not automatically texturable. there is only one grain.
October 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
fish flavoured coffee is a psychedelic, right?
October 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Oy that's my jam! I shall tell all my friends.
August 24, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Sonic Adventure games on Dreamcast are actually sort of reasonably lip synced in Japanese while English is just comical.
May 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
how deep fried does one have to be in order to not recognise the typically GPT-arse wording, and recognise that every inclined reader is going to recognise it?
May 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Oh there's been several of them released but real prints never looked as good as prepared demos.
May 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I know it's only a personal top10 so I know my favourites aren't going to be in it but I'd like to shout out Breath of Fire 3 and 4 as well as Grandia 2, Skies of Arcadia, and Anachronox.
May 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
One would think the picture is obvious satire, wouldn't one.
May 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The PlayStation can produce mindboggling effects!
April 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Found another one of ours, doing some advanced PS1 work, bsky.app/profile/elia...
Also with permission to be added
bsky.app
April 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Say should we pitch you onto this pack here? Seem like a perfect fit! bsky.app/starter-pack...
April 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A funny trick is LossyFLAC, which is LossyWAV-preprocessed FLAC. Haven't tried it yet, rumour is, save some space at minimal audible loss, keep FLAC's phenomenal decode speed.
April 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
To be said few DC games use sequenced music, it's mostly ADX - a curve prediction 4-bit ADPCM scheme which sounds OK. QOA was inspired by ADX but expands prediction and drops one bit. These all sound loads better than linear prediction IMA ADPCM.
April 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
One problem with CDDA is that you can't be doing that at the same time as streaming in some data. Other nice choices include FLAC and QOA. Back when i checked MP3 was a little slow compared to libtremor (Vorbis) but they might be equal now. FLAC and QOA are faster.
April 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Would you like to welcome Falco bsky.app/profile/falc...

He's developing on the Dreamcast. One of the responsible for the recent GTA3 port. He wouldn't mind being added on the pack.
bsky.app
April 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Oh Dreamcast certainly looked good from day1, which wasn't really the case with so many consoles. Like hello Soul Calibur as launch title? You could stare at the attract screen for hours. But it was very very far from peaking when it was discontinued.
April 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I haven't seen something that works better than the C920 (or whatever its slightly modernised successor is C922 i guess) but it's still 14 year old tech with some software jank on top and you'll still be disappointed. Maybe ELP with manual zoom lens? Heard good things about Obsbot i guess.
April 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
What is "holy shit" about it? HKP's action is reasonable and a little unsurprising, but it doesn't actually change much since it's one mail carrier among many and one which has been losing importance for Chinese exports, as opposed to CPGC, and there's numerous others.
April 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM