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jailbreaking the switch 2

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:21:07 +0000

ns2jb is a software-only jailbreak of the switch 2 for the current latest firmware 23.0.1

Tags: #gaming #hacks #nintendo #switch2

Vector & Vertex | Roger Boesch | Substack

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:08:23 +0000

Building the future on 1982 hardware. A devlog about Vectrex engineering, modern indie dev, and the code that connects them. Click to read Vector & Vertex, by Roger Boesch, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Tags: #feeds:subscriptions #gaming #retro #vectors #vectrex

Metal Gear Solid running natively on the ESP32-S3 | Velxio Blog

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:22:23 +0000

I have loved Metal Gear Solid since I was a kid. When I got a tiny ESP32-S3 board, one question stuck with me: could a PlayStation game run on something this small?

Tags: #diy #esp32 #gaming #hardware #metalgear #psx #retro

bearsgaming-ui/AIBeatsZelda: Full files where AI learns to beat zelda

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:50:14 +0000

An AI plays The Legend of Zelda (NES) — the harness, the journal, and the run This is everything behind the video: the player the AI wrote for itself, the notes it kept while writing it, and the input file of the final run (37:02 from power-on to Zelda, no glitches, no memory editing, no human input).

Tags: #ai #gaming #nintendo #zelda

How The Oregon Trail became a generational icon | The Verge

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:29:55 +0000

Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years you almost certainly grew up playing The Oregon Trail.

Tags: #80s #gaming #oregon #retro

SPACESHIPS

Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:57:24 +0000

Inverted Asteroids: you are not the ship. Place gravity wells and sling the rocks.

Tags: #asteroids #games #gaming #nifty

About OpenWF

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:30:11 +0000

OpenWF is a community project to play Warframe offline, specifically for preservation and customization.

Tags: #gaming #nifty #retro #warframe

rommapp/romm: A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 07:01:14 +0000

A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.

Tags: #emulators #gaming #retro #selfhosted

Soup Raiders Goes Native: What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine | Elias Farhan

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:16:11 +0000

This post grew far beyond my original idea, but I wanted to set out my thoughts on building a custom engine before delving into the technology itself. Building an engine takes time, but it gives us control over how the game loads and updates, removes engine-licence fees, and teaches us about asset compilation, rendering, and optimisation. We can even expose parts of the engine to players, allowing them to improve the game or create mods (and potentially entirely new games) with our technology. After Unity’s runtime-fee announcement, technological independence became an even more important concern for game developers.

Tags: #dev #gamedev #gaming

Blade-Punisher/SwitchNOW

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:55:05 +0000

SwitchNOW is a native Nintendo Switch homebrew client for GeForce NOW. It is distributed as an .nro and combines a controller-first Borealis launcher with native WebRTC signaling, H.264 video, Opus audio and low-latency input delivery.

Tags: #gaming #geforcenow #gfn #homebrew #switch

Converting a PS4 Persona 5 Royal NG+ Save to Steam with Adversarial Interoperability

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:43:59 +0000

Persona 5 Royal was 80% off on Steam recently and as I already established, I will repeatedly pay Atlus for their games. Only problem is I don't want to start a full play through yet again. Thankfully we have adversarial interoperability.

Tags: #atlus #gaming #hacks #persona

Xbox One controller faceplate and side rails re-upload by hypnotoadskin - Thingiverse

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:56:41 +0000

I found the upload of the xbox one controller side panels (side rails?) and faceplate so I decided to put them here for others to find as well. Enjoy!

Tags: #3dprinting #gaming #xbox

Dungeons and Dryers · thega.me.uk

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:04:32 +0000

But last weekend, while I was running my monthly ‘Storm King’s Thunder’ D&D campaign, I asked one of the group to help me get the dryer down from the shelf. Immediately the group set to work removing the back panel and trying to figure out what was wrong with it, while still playing D&D.

Tags: #diy #dnd #funny #gaming

World historic amounts of gamedev talent thrown out to rot – Laura Michet's Blog

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:14:37 +0000

There is a never-before-seen glut of experienced, highly senior talent just lying around right now, like cuts of meat someone threw out of the fridge to rot on the floor of the restaurant. Game dev teams don't get birthed as fully-formed agglomerations of talent... it takes years for them to come together as effective creative communities and start making material they can be proud of. So we're looking at an industry that's not only hemorrhaging talent, but also hemorrhaging the interpersonal trust and momentum you need to make good games.

Tags: #MSFT #gaming #sony

The console wars have been lost - Xe Iaso

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:11:21 +0000

Man, Valve really does win by doing absolutely nothing while the rest of the industry shoots itself in the head. I fear for what happens when Gabe Newell retires and the MBA cancer fully infects Valve.

Tags: #MSFT #gaming #sony #valve