The Future Is Now

Now, I know almost every technical writeup on this blog is obscure, but this is going to be a really weird one.

If you spend enough time on certain corners of YouTube there’s a good chance you’ve run into “they didn’t have to go this hard” videos where people highlight the kinds of songs they’ve found in obscure places they allege had no reason to be as good as they

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been working on a fan translation for a Sega Saturn game called Magic School Lunar!

This is a story from the old days before we had YouTube or the bandwidth to stream audio.

People who have been following me on social media may know that, for the past few years, I’ve been working on a fan translation project for a Sega Saturn RPG called Magic School Lunar.

Flexing the brevity muscle today with a short post to set the record straight on a weird video game history quirk I spotted online.

I’m happy to announce that I’ve been granted permission to resume development on dist/cargo-dist, the easy-to-use binary packaging and distribution tool.

Every now and then, I run into a bug so mystifying on its face I know it’s going to be a journey just from the error message.

I’ve written a bit recently about CD-ROM preservation and some of the more niche, easily-missed parts of the format.

I’m releasing a tool I wrote for myself: cue2ccd, a commandline tool to convert CD-ROM disc images from the BIN/CUE format to the CloneCD format.

(This was originally posted on a social media site; I’ve revised and updated it for my blog.)

I’ve seen a lot of professional archivists who use flux disc image archiving techniques for their collections—a technique in which a specialized floppy controller captures the raw signal coming from the floppy drive so that it can be preserved and decoded…

I’ve used a lot of tools over the years, which means I’ve seen a lot of tools hit a plateau.

The short, no-clickbait version: to switch the Mac version of Puyo Puyo Fever to English, edit ~/Library/Preferences/PuyoPuyo Fever/PUYOF.BIN and set the byte at 0x266 to 0x01—or just download this pre-patched save game and place it in that directory.

Awhile back, I had the chance to dump a game for MAME.

Every now and then, when working on ScummVM’s Director engine, I run across a disc that charms me so much I just have to get it working right away.

My latest blog post is over at my employer’s blog post and talks about the work I’ve done to get system dependency management integrated into cargo-dist, an open source release management tool for Rust.

I was testing out a new Macromedia Director CD in ScummVM, and I noticed a non-fatal error at startup: 1 2 3 WARNING: ###################### LINGO: syntax error, unexpected tSTRING: expected ')' at line 2 col 70 in ScoreScript id: 2!

I recently had the chance to do something that I’ve wanted to do for years: dump an arcade game to add it to MAME.

I’ve been spending some time lately contributing to ScummVM, an open-source reimplementation of many different game engines that makes it possible to play those games on countless modern platforms.