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We are deeply saddened to hear of Eric Bauza's passing. His voice talents extended to Ratchet & Clank, Spider-Man, Batman: Arkham City, MultiVersus and so many more.
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Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres is introducing legislation that aims to ensure you own your digital games, rather than having a license. bit.ly/4in3YRA
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Project Dream, the SNES prototype that eventually turned into Banjo-Kazooie, had just been uploaded to the Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/project-…
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We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library.
Here's what the charity does ⬇️
rollingstone.com/music/music…
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I know this sounds corny and cringey and naive and whatever, but Dolly Parton felt like America when it was trying to be the place it promised to be.
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#PSBlackout DAY 3!
Purchasing habits never mattered for Sony, only your money did. That's where to hit them. Don't buy. Don't subscribe. Don't even share your payment info. Show Sony what abandoning loyal fans means. Stay clear until they change!
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PSPMAN can now handle a 1,000-song FLAC library. Around 30–50 GB of lossless music.
This thing launched in the era of 32 MB Memory Sticks.
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A PBS station has taken legal action after losing access to more than 50TB of programming and archives spanning 70 years of television history
It claims its files became trapped after its cloud storage provider apparently went out of business
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This is the most GORGEOUS Gameboy emulation I've ever seen. The creator was insanely dedicated to replicating the look and feel of the original Gameboy screen, replicating not just the software, but the physical properties of the screen and how light interacts with it. BEAUTIFUL!
昔の携帯ゲーム機の画面がなぜ「あの感じ」なのか。液晶ではなく、いちばん奥に敷かれた反射板のせいでした。
背面から照らさない液晶は、外光が液晶を通り、奥の板で反射して、もう一度液晶を通って目に届きます。だから明るいところの色は液晶の色ではなく、板そのものの色。そして実機の板には、わら半紙のような細かい模様があります。
勘でノイズを乗せず、公開されている液晶モジュールの接写画像から測光しました。1ドット12.9px換算で、粒は0.3〜0.5ドット、方向性なし、振幅は合計±3.9%。反射率のばらつきなので加算ではなく乗算で乗せる＝明るいところに出て、暗いインクでは自動的に消えます。
動画は2倍に寄ったところ。地の部分がうっすらざらついています。
#5→ note.com/kathoc/n/n5ceb773a3…
ブラウザで動きます→ sonohoka.sakura.ne.jp/brickb…
#ゲーム制作 #レトロゲーム #ゲームボーイ
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Hideo Kojima on the end of physical disc production for video games:
"Since production is ending in 2028, this is about video games, but I grew up with physical media, so I find it really sad. Currently, I’ve been buying up a lot of Blu-rays, such as various movies, and CDs too.
The situation is different for games, as they are downloaded to the hard drive, that means the game data remains on your own hardware. However, if things shift to streaming in the future, that won’t be the case anymore.
With streaming subscription services, like Netflix or Amazon, there is a server somewhere, and you essentially just have the right to turn the tap, and when you do, the data flows out. That’s how movies work on these platforms, right? You don't download the data, you access it directly through a subscription. And the consequence of that is that you don't actually possess the data yourself.
There are companies that own these servers and let you 'turn the tap' for a monthly fee. However, with nations, politics and various ways of thinking, one naturally has to consider the possibility that if there is a change, the data inside will stop being distributed. And if that happens you won’t be able to watch or play the movies and games you like.
That is what is frightening.
So, what is happening to video games in 2028, might also happen to movies. I’d like everyone to keep that in mind."
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Hello, everyone overseas.
This time, I’m going to introduce the development materials for the NES game *Metal Slider Glory*.
These are the actual tools used during development, and with just this single disk, you can create everything from pixel art to animations.
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I'm one of the creators of the initial trilogy.
30 years have passed — it feels both long and short.
Those early works have become classics.
Yet a work isn't finished when completed; it keeps growing within the people who receive it.
They've grown in their own ways. Thank you! 😊
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Shigeru Miyamoto told the story of how Donald Glover became Yoshi!
He said Donald Glover really wanted to be in the Mario Movie and said he’ll even play Yoshi. They responded “You know Yoshi only says ‘Yoshi’, right”. Donald Glover said something like “I can do 20 different types of ‘Yoshi’”.
He said there isn’t a Japanese VA for Yoshi as they decided that Donald Glover can be Yoshi in all versions of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie around the world.
