Lampooning, Lambasting & Lamenting the state of the Games Industry. 🕹️🎮 Retro is the Bestro 🎮🕹️ Pro-Emulation, Pro-Physical Media, Pro-Ownership ⇩⇩⇩⇩
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SS United States being sunk today. Shame the government never intervened and prevented this despite having both the power and money to do so. Everyone today calls the scrapping of RMS Olympic in 1935 a mistake. Nobody at the time cared. History repeats... youtube.com/watch?v=aWUMomnh…
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Kris retweeted
Every three years, we get a chance to push back against Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and fight for your right to repair, modify, and truly own your technology.
Here are the 4 petitions FULU is backing in the 2027 triennial rulemaking process to give you back control:
🔓 Security Camera Footage Control: Allows users to redirect camera footage (like Ring) away from corporate servers to local storage like a hard drive.
🔓 Smart TV Surveillance Removal: Fights back against Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) software collecting your viewing data and building personal profiles.
🔓 Reviving Obsolete Devices: Gives you the right to install alternate operating systems on older gadgets abandoned by manufacturers so they don't become electronic waste.
🔓 Removing In-Home Screen Ads: Gives consumers the right to remove uninvited ads pushed by manufacturers onto smart appliances like refrigerators.
Kris retweeted
“If you want to be able to fix what you bought and paid for, that should not be a crime.”
Louis sat down with @WIRED to talk about Right to Repair, Section 1201 of the DMCA, and why ownership is the real fight.
wired.com/story/the-big-inte…
Kris retweeted
You bought it, you own it, you should control it!
We caught up with attendees at the 2026 @semashow to talk about what Right to Repair, vehicle ownership, and the freedom to modify tech means to them.
The consensus is very clear: cars represent freedom, creativity, and the right to fix your own stuff without being forced back to the dealership. Thanks to @Niles19klee, @GearWrenchTools, and @ChristinaLardie for taking the time to chat with us! 💥
What does the Right to Repair mean to you? 👇
Credit where it's due, @EA releasing these on GoG, DRM-Free is a preservation win. Do it for all your games! ea.com/news/ea-classics-laun…
Well hot damn another one! Of course I'll play Prime Remastered again!
A Metroid Prime Remastered recomp is out and updated to make it good! I tried the first release and waited a minute...and the wait was worth it! (vid in reply) #gaming #gamingnews #metroid
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Found my wife on there too. emailed them for removal. This website is scraping public info from here, bsky, twitch, yt, kick & others, attempting to broker deals & partnerships with brands using made-up rates creators never agreed to or even knew about, and apparently holding any payments received in escrow (meaning they're just scamming money out of companies using content creators' names)
Hit up every creator you know and get them to check if they've been scraped.
Insane this tech is legal. Worse that its true nature is obscured so people willingly bring it into their homes. I'm far from a luddite, I love modern tech, but I don't want to be spied on, so I still use a TV bought in 2015, and drive a 2014 Car with no intention of trading up
"They are actually taking data from your devices without your knowledge." 🚨
Researchers from Northeastern University break down Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology, which captures audio and video frames right off your smart TV's screen.
From tracking religious and political content to potentially capturing personal FaceTime calls cast to your TV, learn how ACR works and why clear, simple privacy terms are urgently needed.
Read Ilgar's full research findings in the paper Watching the Watchers: watchingthewatchers.github.i…
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Not even fan projects escape the dreaded compiling shaders screen 🤣
🚨 SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY RECOMP
POWER MOON RECOMP 0.2.1 EST DISPONIBLE ! 🔥
Et cette fois, de grosses optimisations !
✅ Shaders précompilés : environ 1 460 compilations en jeu réduites à une seule lors des tests du développeur ! Adieu la majorité des stutters !
✅ Optimisation CPU : traitement du rendu sur un thread séparé, avec un coût CPU réduit jusqu'à 75 % sur cette partie !
✅ Corrections d'artefacts en mode 120 FPS interpolés.
✅ Vibrations et réglage des zones mortes des sticks.
✅ Pas besoin de recompiler tout le jeu !
Une mise à jour particulièrement intéressante pour les configurations modestes 🤘
🔗 gitlab.com/zzzarathustra-dev…
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レトロゲームのROM・ディスクイメージをまとめて変換、管理できる無料ツール「OpenROM」が登場!!
ISO、BIN/CUE、CHD、CSO、RVZ、XISOなど20種類以上の変換経路に対応。PS1、PS2、PSP、Xbox、ゲームキューブ、Wii、Dreamcast、セガサターンなど幅広い機種をカバーする。
CHDからBIN/CUEやISOへの変換にも対応。PCへの非公式移植などで、ゲームデータを別形式に戻したい場合にも便利だ。
ROMパッチの適用や一括圧縮に加え、DreamcastのIP.BIN編集、GDIのトラック解析まで搭載。変換後のファイル検証も行える!!
github.com/M5Devs/OpenROM
ちなみに、CHDの変換・復元精度を重視するなら、実ディスクイメージ42枚での往復変換検証を公開している「CHD Manager」も要注目。
github.com/Mr-Shizzy/CHD-Man…
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🤣 @Google @Microsoft @Sony @EA @Ubisoft @amazon @SEGA I think the X algo has a cow if you tag too many accounts. These guys are just for starters though...
You bought it. You owned it. Then, a mandatory software update killed it. 💀
Lately, it feels like we don’t actually own anything. Too many companies have gotten into the habit of bricking perfectly good hardware, discontinuing app support, or stripping away features we already paid for.
It’s frustrating, it’s wasteful, and honestly, we’re tired of it.
So consider this the place for you to call them out and share your story. Whether they shut down the servers, locked features behind a paywall, or sent your device to an early grave, we want to hear about it.
Simply tag a company and share what they killed. Let’s remind them that the customer’s voice matters. 👇
#ConsumerRights #PlannedObsolescence #ConsumerDefenders #CorporateAccountability
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My feelings on Switch 2 emulation aside, I cannot deny this is extremely fucking impressive performance on the SD8G2 chipset not even 2 weeks after the first jailbreak.
Mario Kart World running on the Ayn Thor!
I definitely feel like the game gets better once the it's done Compiling Shaders.
I think if I build a Shader Cache I can get running much better.
#AynThor
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Kris retweeted
Here's part 3 of my Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor blog series. This part covers all the improvements made to the Bad Update exploit to get it near 100% reliability. Part 4 which covers the Peer Pressure exploit will be out in the next week or so... icode4.coffee/?p=1746
Question to ask is will Nintendo look for an alternative supplier, or just say screw it and reduce true physical print numbers while leaning further into GKC's?
Macronix, Nintendo’s main ROM chip supplier for Switch game cards, is getting out of the ROM business.
The Taiwanese company is phasing out production and won’t develop any new ROM products.
- Q3 2026 will be the last quarter it reports ROM sales separately.
- Macronix will shift towards other memory techs, including NAND.
This will affect the supply chain behind Nintendo’s physical game cards.
Hey @capcom_official seems @PlayStation is abandoning the platform you made VR versions of Resident Evil games exclusive to. Time to release them officially on PC? Or don't, money being left on the table though... roadtovr.com/sony-psvr-2-out…
Very simple, I've explained it before. The backlash in 2013 taught the industry ONE thing only, that they'd need to get the next generation of gamers comfortable with digital licenses & not owning their games first.
Which they've now accomplished via years of pushing codes in boxes, incomplete physical editions requiring downloads, constant free or 75-90% off digital offers, cloud subscriptions giving you access to hundreds of games for a monthly fee that's cheaper than buying full priced games, consoles without disc drives cheaper than ones that have them, and smaller, much more limited print runs for true physical editions. All to make digital the default & most convenient choice.
So here we are. Digital is completely normal to anyone under about 25 years old and this younger gen massively outnumber the rest of us.
Thats why the outrage isn't there.
They were either too young or not even born when physical media was dominant and have no direct memory of that time, you can't miss what you never had, and they won't start caring for another 20 years or so when it's their turn to be told to re-buy or rent things they already paid for years ago.
So if you care about the way out, the ONLY way out, back and amplify @FuluFoundation in their push to reform the DMCA so you own the actual software itself and remove publishers ability to control, revoke, delist & destroy things you've paid for.
Everyone wins.
The industry gets its digital future, you get to keep what you bought forever, and a market opens for press on demand & limited collector runs for those who want physical editions.
