Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Not available on handmade.social.
handmade.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
handmade.social is for all handmade artisans to create accounts for their Etsy and other handmade business shops.

Administered by:

Server stats:

39
active users

handmade.social: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.6

#retrogaming

24 posts23 participants1 post today
Public
Rev. Charles Browning

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day. According to legend he cast out snakes from Ireland. Well I cast out… whatever it was that has kept this NeoGeo Pocket (the greatest handheld console of all time, btw) from working these last, uh, 25 years or so.

So guess who’s playing SNK vs Capcom the rest of the day?

A hand holds a blue Neo Geo Pocket handheld gaming device displaying a game screen with characters and dialogue. In the background, a multimeter and various tools are visible on a table. The setting appears casual, with additional clutter surrounding the gaming console.
#diy#repair#RetroGaming
Public
Gytis Repečka

Back in 1995 I had no chance owning Sega Saturn :blobcatgamer: Most folks I knew, who owned gaming consoles, pretty much jumped from :sega: Mega Drive (Genesis) to Sony PlayStation 1 :ps1: - there hasn't been many (if any) :segasaturn: units around in Lithuania back then :blobcatnerd:

Yet Sega Saturn is awesome console with CD tray (for game discs) and cartridge slot (mainly used to extend memory). Joystics still feels top: inheriting shape and layout from Mega Drive :blobcatthumbsup:

Can you spot 10 differences in this photo? :blobcatcheer:

Two Sega Saturn consoles: (left, Japanese) gray with memory unit in cartridge slot, with dark trim and blue buttons, (right, European) black with gray buttons and SAROO card in catridge slot. Both with gray joysticks plugged in slot 1 of each console
#sega#megadrive#saturn
Public
pixelglade
My latest artwork is a shinto shrine inspired by the town of Sawara, Japan. Also, the first pixel art I've made in Krita on Linux! I could never get Clip Studio Paint to work with Lutris so knowing I can transfer this workflow is awesome.

Long image description (with some anatomy of a shrine type terminology) on my site gallery: https://pixelglade.net/artwork/pixelart.html#pixelart-shinto-shrine-sawara

#pixelart #pixelartist #commsopen #commissionsopen #openforcommissions #opencommissions #ドット絵 #illustration #pc98 #retrodev #retrogames #retrogaming #videogames #gamedev #pixelartist #1990s #digitalart #MastoArt #gameart #visualnovel #backgroundart #1980s #80s #80saesthetic #80svideogames #snes #gba #animeart #anime #pixels #shrine #japan #krita #kritaart #kritaartist #pc98
A winding path leads to the steps of a shrine in the woods with a sacred tree by the entrance.
Public *
randomwizard

In Richard Garriott's DND1 written in BASIC in 1977, I thought this bit of code was interesting.

It would be Death Saves for HP in more modern discourse.

If the characters's HP are 0, the character survives if their CONSTITUTION is 9 or above.

If the characters' HP are below 0, the character survives if their CONSTITUTION is 9 or above, but they lose 2 points of CONSTITUTION and gain 1 hit point.

This was only 3 or 4 years after D&D had been introduced to the world.

#dnd#crpg#rpg
Public
Dr. G. Power

I'm not entirely surprised—I’ve noticed that old digital watches tend to run faster over time. I have a few vintage models from the '70s and '80s that have noticeably picked up speed with age. I always assumed this was due to the natural aging of quartz crystal resonators, but perhaps there’s more to it than that. Could there be another factor at play?

#gaming #electronics #retrocomputing #retrogaming

ign.com/articles/speedrunners-?

IGN · Speedrunners Left Scratching Their Heads After New Discovery Suggests the SNES Works Faster as It Ages - IGNBy Michael Cripe
Continued thread
Public
Gytis Repečka

Update: must have been some glitch with console itself - rewritten SAROO v0.7 (latest) firmware to SD card, changed battery, reset Sega Saturn console - it works now :ablobcatattention:

General idea is such that removing cartridge boots original :sega: firmware. When cartridge is inserted - one from it. So the cartridge is not supposed to do any damage to console itself :blobcatnerd:

#segasaturn#sega#retrogaming
Public
Texan_Reverend

I finally assembled a racking setup that allowed me to get all the CRT TVs organized - except for the two in the house for active use.

All of them are rescues, and many still need more thorough testing or calibration, but they're all shelved and accessible now.

One day, I'm hoping to do an interesting combined display with it, like Matrix-style raining text or something kinda spooky for Halloween trick-or-treaters.

Photo of a set of metal shelves filled with different sizes of CRT televisions as viewed from just outside a raised garage door. The shelving rack takes up most of a wall inside this garage, with only enough remaining space for a trash can at one end and a water heater tank at the other. More to the center of the garage, a CRT computer monitor sits on a dolly and a wooden pallet supports three stacks of media players - DVD, VHS, 8 Track, etc.
Photo of the same set of metal shelves filled with various sizes of CRT televisions, but this time, they are viewed straight-on from the opposite wall of the garage. There are 22 TV sets varying in screen size from 9 inches to 36 inches, and some of them have built-in DVD players or VCR units.
#CRTTV#CRTGaming#RetroGaming
Public *
PerfectDark

Another in the long line of well obsolete tech I adore is my love of the #SEGA #Dreamcast VMU cards.

The tech and hardware community being what it is managed some time back to hack them into proper #HandheldGaming machines and each time I search them I find more being done with them!

It isn't easy, but they look amazing - and I'm sure far more dependable than most #SBCGaming handhelds.

#RetroGaming on legit retro devices? Yes plz. Also the #design is pure magic to me (𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵)

A transparent blue visual memory unit (VMU) from a Dreamcast - it has had a screen put in and reused / repurposed as a handheld console. It shows Toy Story 2 title screen on the color screen
A transparent blue visual memory unit (VMU) from a Dreamcast - it has had a screen put in and reused / repurposed as a handheld console. It shows gameplay of Mario Kart on the screen
A stock gray visual memory unit (VMU) from a Dreamcast - it has had a screen put in and reused / repurposed as a handheld console. It shows Sonic 3 title screen on the color screen
SearchLive feeds
About