Mega

On the 26th of February 2026, ZUN held his monthly drunk radio stream. As usual, @tara_touhou collected some interesting quotes from the stream. I'll be translating some of them. I'll also include some moments that I watched on my own. A thread 🧵

Myrient, likely the best ROM site around with its ~390TB worth of content (almost all No-Intro, Redump, TOSEC sets, MAME software lists, Total DOS collection, DLC, patches and other useful stuff kept up-to-date and conveniently centralised in one place), will be shut down on 31 March 2026 due to the maintainer's inability to cover the rising monetary costs of running the site in the face of dwindling donations, hereby bringing us back into the era of scrambling for games in fragmented manner across dozens of websites, some stuff may even become permanently lost and not available anymore. This is like the burning of the Library of Alexandria, for the emulated games instead of books. Download what you consider important and participate [into this Myrient back-up project to contribute as a data hoarder with a lot of archival storage](https://discord.gg/fQ8bQZQxr) ([alt. link 1](https://discord.gg/57ZqUVNDZV), [alt. link 2](https://discord.gg/CKgcXY8w), [alt. link 3](https://discord.gg/UKsqxVb5)), and [join the Signal group](https://signal.group/#CjQKIDWfNSPWJ0PAyDV6P2GxdZCGEjPZvqc5Y1ozgW5BaRncEhDRYxBykQGGoGBJGiAFWRnL) to share Myrient torrents. [ArchiveTeam Warrior](https://tracker.archiveteam.org/) is [potentially usable as well](https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior). Some scraping effort seems to be going on [this Telegram channel](https://t.me/s/savemyrint). Make sure to [donate to Myrient](https://myrient.erista.me/donate/) despite its imminent shutdown, its maintainer is going to be hit with a huge bill for used download bandwidth used by people making back-ups. This notice will be removed after the expected shutdown.

Sharing this notice from GameTechWiki in case anyone wants to help, alt text includes all the links but here's the most important ones

Myrient donation: myrient.erista.me/donate/
Backup project: discord.gg/fQ8bQZQxr
Signal group: signal.group#CjQKIDWfNSPW...

I say this as a professional who came up from fan translation and has friends at Sega who will likely never get to work on this officially: when you fan translate ANYTHING that was previously untranslated, you have a deep, heavy responsibility in setting people's first and typically only impression.

Illustrations
packaging design
logo design

Persona Q box

Back of Persona Q box

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth for #RandomGameSaturday

I grabbed this during a NIS America clearance. It came with some Persona Arcana cards which are, uh, in a shoebox somewhere in my house.

I love your interpretation of Link for the final issue of Nintendo Gamer. That art of Mario, Link and Samus is one of my favourite works of yours.

I don't recall paying €20 to play a GBA game back on Wii U

Just replayed SML this month it's a vibe

What's an A-tier way to play handheld games?

Antdude thumbnail

Huge day for grifters

He loves to crack open a cold one.

Industry-leader in pixel art and animation, Yoko Shimomura in peak form, tons of fun original characters, Bowser is hilarious, unceasing variety throughout the entire playthrough and one of the toughest secret bosses in Mario history. It's just too good.

Bowser's Inside Story box

Back of Bowser's Inside Story box

Spine of Bowser's Inside Story box

Interior of Bowser's Inside Story box, showing the manual and game card

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story for #RandomGameSaturday. Top 3 DS game for me, at least until I play Strange Journey and Radiant Historia.

Okamiden 👌

Map of Castlevania with pink arrows and circle drawn over it in the bottom centre

This is where the game becomes brutal

I keep seeing folks say they'll just accept a Teen Friendly account on Discord rather than scan or ID and I don't know if I wanna mass normalize leaving NSFW pals out in the cold yet again. Especially with all the censorship stuff goin on I think we gotta stand with the freaks now more than ever.

We love the Bowserposting

This would really bother me as well. Feels like the game is constantly terrified that the player is about to get bored and stop playing

It's my real name with 1 letter gone

I'm completing the monster index, K'eeg.

Steel yourselves - the Harry Potter Universes Beyond is inevitable. It will start with a Secret Lair and sell out in nanoseconds, then blossom into a main set.

To assist those of you that play MTG, I will pre-write some excuses for you. When (not IF) it happens, feel free to use them.

Seems my Wii U games got hit with this the worst

Mario Kart 8 disc

Mario Kart 8 disc with light shining onto it, revealing patches of mold.

Mold growing on some of my games 🤢 Guess the last house I lived in was too humid. You wouldn't even notice unless you hold it against the light a certain way. I'm taking today to wipe all my discs with distilled water and a microfibre cloth.

I feel the same way.

Wario Land title screen on Super Game Boy 2

Wario and two powerup blocks

Wario standing underwater near a giant powerup block with a polite expression

Wario Land world map

#ScanlineSunday

The powerup blocks in this game do the flushed 😳 emote.

Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 // MiSTer FPGA Super Game Boy core // RGB scart 240p // Panasonic PAL consumer CRT

Launch model 3DS son vs pale pink 2DS daughter

Solatorobo box

Back of Solatorobo's box

Interior of Solatorobo's box, containing the manual and cartridge

Solatorobo's manual, showing some flavour text about Hunters

#RandomGameSaturday

This boxart is so funny. It's like, mere hours before it went to print, they suddenly became scared that nobody would buy the game if they weren't promised the ability to pilot a powerful robot.

I think it's tragic that physical media basically doesn't exist in the realm of PC gaming anymore and we don't talk about it enough. I would ditch my PS5 in a heart beat if PC games got physical releases.