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• He/they enby 💛🤍💜🖤 from HE, Germany 🇩🇪
• Hobby programmer; retro computers & consoles; anime, manga & Vtuber fan -- and more!
• de/native, en/good, 日本語/へた
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Oh? What's new, then...?

...

God, I can't wait for this fucking bubble to burst.
Cropped screenshot of Visual Studio installer after update of VS Community 2022, highlighted line above installed products saying "Visual Studio 2026 is here!" with a "Learn more" link and "Install now" button Cropped screenshot of VS 2026 release notes page -- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2026/release-notes "Visual Studio 2026 release notes We're excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2026. This release marks the beginning of a new era for Visual Studio with deep platform integration of AI, stronger fundamentals, and improved performance. Download Visual Studio 2026 to enjoy these new features and improvements."
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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For #RandomGameSaturday, a not so great photo but, from what I can tell, a fine adaption of the TCG at the time, and one of the system's vertical games -- Bandai's 2002 Digital Monster Card Game Ver. WonderSwan Color, for, well, the WSC~
Photo of Digimon Card Game WSC box being held next to and above a WonderSwan Color running the game
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Been improving my old "English mode enable hack" for Digimon Tamers Battle Spirit Ver 1.5 (what a mouthful!) for the WonderSwan Color a bit the last few days.

I'm pretty positive I got all instances of the GPIO check remnants, fixed a bug in the original localization, tweaked some graphics, etc...
Screenshot of title screen of Digimon Tamers Battle Spirit Ver 1.5, showing its normally unused English title screen Screenshot of title screen of Digimon Tamers Battle Spirit Ver 1.5, showing the player select screen with Guilmon selected, with the tiles saying "GUILMON" tweaked compared to the original unused English mode Screenshot of title screen of Digimon Tamers Battle Spirit Ver 1.5, showing the options screen in English, with the text spacing of the menu options tweaked compared to the original unused translation, and with the "ERASE DATA" option fixed -- the unused English translation swapped "YES" and "NO" compared to the Japanese version, thus selecting "NO" would delete your saved data; now, it correctly deletes the data when selecting "YES"
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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God, my C is reeeeeeally rusty... but here, have an emulated WonderSwan Color, err...fading from black to green, and black to green, and black to green...over and over.

... hey, it's something, leave my high-level C#-using self alone! 😅
Screenshot of VSCodium code editor showing some basic C code for the WonderSwan, of the Wonderful Toolchain's shell via MSYS2 running in Windows Terminal, and of Mesen running the ROM resulting from the code in VSCodium which shows a dark green screen
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Ahh, I knew I recovered it a while back alongside the rest of the data from a mostly dead HDD -- my old, IIRC relatively complete Digimon D-1 Tamers save data from 2006. Would be nice to use this on an actual WonderSwan eventually~
Screenshot of ares emulator running the WonderSwan Color game Digimon Adventure 02 D-1 Tamers, showing the Digimon party list
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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It's waiting...
Photo of translucent blue WonderSwan Color with modern display mod, lying on top of an opened black carrying case with three WS game cartridges on the left, running Digimon Tamers Battle Spirit
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Random phone screenshot, found new wallpaper~

Artwork by かさわら on pixiv: www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/...
Screenshot of redacted Android home screen with wallpaper using artwork linked to in post
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Back from a day out (pretty far out from here, in fact), and while my feet kinda hurt now, it was very fun~
Photo of the "Deutsches Eck", or "German Corner", in the city of Koblenz, where the rivers Mosel and Rhine join
October 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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*browsing last repost*

...oh. oh no ;_;

My infrequent reminder that I should've started watching Sana much earlier -- not just literally a day or so before her graduation announcement...

fontsinuse.com/uses/72170/t...
Cropped screenshot of https://fontsinuse.com/ as of right now, scrolled to the cover art of Astrogirl by former hololive Vtuber Tsukumo Sana Cropped screenshot of Astrogirl page, with the description "“Astrogirl” is the first and only original single by Tsukumo Sana, a now-“graduated” (retired) virtual YouTuber of hololive Production. The song was produced in collaboration with Snail’s House, a Japanese electronic musician, and written by Wunder RiKU. The cover art for the single features illustration drawn by MistletoesArt and typography designed by Spiritsnare. The latter features Megazoid by David Jonathan Ross, modified to be slightly more rounded. This gives the words a soft and playful appearance."
October 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Not 100% sure if it's strictly purple, but probably Nintendo's purple/clear GameCube controller, with the purple front and translucent clear back!

Got mine over 15 years ago, maybe around 2008? Still works great and is my go-to for Cube and Wii games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros or Zelda WW/TP.
Photo of GameCube controller with purple front and translucent back, via https://www.pricecharting.com/game/gamecube/indigo-&-clear-controller
October 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Somebody stop me, I'm having way too much fun starting new games, I need to get back to Bouncing UFO and whatnot...!

... siiiiiigh. That said, uhm, "The Saga of Bootleglda: Fauxink's Jumping-Out-Of-Bed"?
Screenshot of WIP game in OG Game Boy-style, greyscale at 160x144, showing a character sprite at an indoor location with graphics very reminiscent of Zelda Link's Awakening, with torches on the walls, doorways, etc.; some of the floor tiles spell out "Hi"
October 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The...the fox friend got even cuter... How do they keep getting away with making them even cuter all the time...?!

... and I hope they do keep getting away with it ❤️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=36H6...
Screenshot from linked video, vtuber Shirakami Fubuki with a bright smile
October 6, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Still not finished by any means -- not tested, HDDs not back in, not screwed together --, but we're looking good so far 👍
Photo of SCSI tower from earlier, now much much cleaner looking and powered up, with the overall power LED, and the drives' ready LEDs all lit
October 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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And the Plextor PX-W1210TS, 12/10/32x CD-RW drive from January 2002, cleaned up even nicer than the PX-40TSi.

Also, have a beauty(?) shot of the two together~
Photo of front of Plextor SCSI CD-RW drive, labeled as "PlexWriter 12/10/32 S" on the tray Photo of CD-RW drive model label, showing model, manufacturing date, etc. Photo of both drives stacked on top of each other, Ultraplex up top, PlexWriter at the bottom, the latter is slightly less yellow than the former
October 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Plextor PX-40TSi, 40x CD-ROM drive from August 1999, still untested due to a lack of easily accessible SCSI-capable machine, but at least much cleaner than when I got it and the other drives :3
Photo of front of Plextor SCSI CD drive, labeled "Ultraplex 40 max" on the tray Photo of model label of Plextor drive, showing model number, manufacturing date, etc
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Correction: The SCSI tower also has two hard drives inside, at least one of them being a 36.7 GB IBM Ultrastar~
Photo of the SCSI tower opened up, with one IBM hard drive visible and another peeking out underneath it
October 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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First Sunday of the month flea market finds~

Got a pretty dirty four-slot SCSI tower with two optical drives by Plextor (one CD-ROM, one CD-RW?), for 15€, and a copy of XIII for the original Xbox, for 5€ 👍
Photo of 4-slot SCSI tower with two Plextor drives installed, and a German copy of XIII for Xbox
October 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Colors on completion~
October 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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P009 from Picross S btw, IIRC 👍
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October 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This took me longer than I care to admit, but I ~think~ I've got hints in my nonogram/Picross thingy figured out and working... I think. But I bet there'll be some edge cases or, worse, blatant problems I'll find later on...

pastebin.com/HGsqU9x5
Screenshot of the code in the Pastebin linked in the post
October 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Had me dig out mine (NTSC US) to see if it still worked, since it was a pretty poor condition flea market find over a decade or so ago -- but yep, still works! :3
Photo of US PSone with attached official LCD screen, with a laptop in the background showing the photo from the quoted post
September 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Oops, I Switch-ed up my nonogram~

(did not directly copy any graphics from any Picross S game -- tho some hint numbers ended up extremely similar --, but did copy the basic screen layout very closely; plus, all graphics are subject to change anyway)
Screenshot of WIP nonogram/Picross game, showing graphics and layout rather similar to the Picross S games on Switch
September 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Screenshot of WIP nonogram/Picross-like game, showing finished 5x5 puzzle, a small heart Screenshot of WIP nonogram/Picross-like game, showing 10x10 puzzle in progress
September 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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September 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Based on an old attempt in MonoGame from 2023, now using Foster -- haven't ported the graphics and whatnot over yet tho, so it looks just a tiny bit basic, heh 😅
Screenshot of simple nonogram/Picross-like game, showing an in-progress 10x10 puzzle Screenshot of simple nonogram/Picross-like game, showing the finished puzzle, a heart with the text "C#" inside
September 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM