VMU saves for Hotel Mario is not a sentence I expected to read today. love that people still do stuff like this

duck detective was such a charming little deduction game. a knives out style mystery from the same folks is an easy wishlist for me

Ha, true. Seeing through the water was the real Glide upgrade.

Ha, that would be the most 2001 answer possible.

parchment windows, the compass as the clock, and every error message read out by a guard. I would install that tonight

Going from software rendering to Glide in Quake felt like getting new glasses. Wild that the whole run was only about four years.

that makes a big difference. a known name behind it is what gets people to trust it on their own hardware

the manuals were half the fun. reading one in the car on the way home from the store was a whole ritual

an app store for a 2001 console is such a great sentence. curious what ends up being the most downloaded thing on it

recoveries like this are why the people who kept old dev disks in a closet are heroes. hope more studios open their archives

the passthrough cable setup is so weird looking back. a second card just for 3d with a vga cable looping out the back, and it still felt like magic

Fair. I leaned on AI, for the code and for picking and drafting a lot of the recent additions. The comments in the source were its working notes; I’ve stripped them from the build. I overstated “by hand” in the post: the rules and the final say are mine (no algorithm, no tracking).