@ozidual
I did translation hacks, fixes, and re-releases for the N64. Games: OoT/MQ, Majoras Mask, Shiren 2, Getter Love, Doshin, SimCity 64, 40 Winks, Glover, SSSV, etc. Now I do scanning, type-ins, and game preservation with Gaming Alexandria
it's "funny" that this article is going to be used by the most annoying people in the world as proof that human translators go too far and should all be replaced by AI when the complaint is specifically about word-for-word translations that don't go far enough
I've 3D scanned a keshi figure depicting Galoomba, one of seven Super Mario World figures included in Epoch's "Super Mario World Mario's Lucky Coin" (ในใผใใผใใชใชใฏใผใซใ ใใชใชใฎใฉใใญใผใณใคใณ) coin pusher toy.
Get the scan here: archive.org/details/kesh...
'Super Mario RPG' was released on the Super Famicom 30 years ago today in Japan.
Box art for a Super Nintendo game called Ice Hockey, depicting 3 players, a large player on the left, a medium sized one in the middle, and a taller skinnier one on the right, all dressed in white and blue uniforms. The game is rated Kicks-Ass, has the Super NES Rumble Pad support icon, and the Rumbleminze logo of a beagle on the box.
A special extra port that I did over the last week or so. Ice Hockey! In honor of the double gold medal winning USA Men's and Women's hockey teams at the Olympics!
No big features here other than a bit of rumble support if you've got the LRG controller.
Available Here:
mega.nz/folder/4phX1...
A screenshot showing 24 Japanese magazine cover thumbnails on archive.org They're Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine's 1987 issues.
Awesome news! @ozidual.bsky.social edited the full run of the 1987 Famimaga (Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine) magazines that I scanned a while back which means they're so much easier to flip through and read now! Check them out: archive.org/details/@ozi...
Here's a few pieces of concept art I recovered from Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Startropics NES cartridge and manual, with the letter still attached to the manual. The previous owner took some notes on the back of the letter.
Startropics NES cartridge with the unfolded letter from Uncle Steve.
Pulled Startropics for #RandomGameSaturday this week! Even have the letter from Uncle Steve still attached to the manual.
Added a video that was removed from Twitter on my Game Processor mini site in the Games & Dumps section
luigiblood.neocities.org/gameprocessor
One of the Discord peeps let me know that The Secret of Monkey Island is being ported to the SNES by making use of MSU-1. github.com/astrobleem/S...
I started up my third attempt at a SNES Central database, this time with SQlite. I have already surpassed my second attempt (which was in PostgreSQL) in just 4 days!
Brian telling you that you should avoid going outside as much as possible The setting Megaman
The SNES just got a full FMV port of the Dragon's Lair arcade game
Developer astrobleem has released Super Dragon's Lair Arcade, bringing the complete 1983 laserdisc classic to real SNES hardware via the MSU-1 chip.
#Retro #snes #romhacking #homebrew
sato shiranami from paranormasight: the mermaid's curse, turning her head to look behind her with a large smile. she is a young woman with long black hair, wearing a pinkish shirt top over a white dress with a plaid pattern. sato is holding up a famicom controller in one hand; in the background is an 80s style japanese television with a famicom disk system setup on top. the front of the tv has the wood grain panel, a couple knobs, and a speaker panel. on the screen is the game famicom detective club: the missing heir, specifically a moment in which you would be talking to ayumi tachibana in the office ๐จ
sato shiranami at one point in paranormasight: the mermaid's curse WISHES she could play one of those new video game consoles with cartridges, as a fun new thing to experience on the television...
so wait till she finds out about the famicom disk system!
Yesterday, Yuvi preserved a Klonoa chara-den! This is an avatar you could use for videophone calls on i-mode keitai. Each number on the keypad corresponds to a different emotion!
Here is a 3D scan I made of a Hammer Bro pencil topper keshi from 1986! I believe this was made by either Amada or Takahashi.
Download the model here: archive.org/details/kesh...
Whoops... I have uncovered more Star Fox 2 music that we missed in the Gigaleak, I guess I'm gonna be busy
February 2026 review for The Stacks is up, with the big news that The Stacks is now open for paid submissions (well, and has been for a week).
Please feel free to submit any pitches my way if you think your work would be a good fit!
thestacks.ca/posts/2026-0...
A photo of Sega HQ, a white-and-glass tower, seen from an upward looking angle so it looms
Two Sega artists at a Digitizer Mark III unit, with one standing and pointing at a screen with a large sprite of Ax Battler on the screen while another manipulates a mouse-like device over a large pad while sat in front of the terminal.
A really neat shot of the Digitizer Mark III and its screens, and a very busy desk with floppies and the digitizer pad and handheld device you slide around it.
A snot of the studio/workshop with many desks and computers and crt monitors filling every square foot of space aside from space to walk around
๐น๏ธ Bytes of Gaming History โณ
A glimpse of Sega Japan sometime in 1991 during the development of Golden Axe too, snapped from a Megaforce magazine feature. Not only do we get a lovely photo of Sega HQ in Tokyo, but some very cool shots of how game art was created and then digitised onto the screen.
Ocarina of Time
A tribute to my favourite Zelda game
So it looks like J4U no longer delivers to the United States. The days of me bulk buying Famicom cartridges from them is over (for now at least).
SEEEEGAAAAAAAA
Mail day! A big thanks to @sudden-desu.net and @cpi.pinball.horse for arranging this all ๐
Am I the only one who ever wonders why Capcom never closed the loop with a sequel called Goblins โN Ghouls?
Family Computer Magazine โ Issue 105 June 22nd 1990 has been scanned in 600DPI. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/02/f...
A feature on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess from Hyper #142. Scan by Retro CDN, possibly by Doc eggfan.
A feature on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess from Hyper #142. There is an interview with Eiji Aonuma on this page. Scan by Retro CDN, possibly by Doc eggfan.
A feature on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess from Hyper #142. There is an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto on this page. Scan by Retro CDN, possibly by Doc eggfan.
A feature on The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess from Hyper #142. There is an interview with Koji Kondo on this page. Scan by Retro CDN, possibly by Doc eggfan.
Australian magazine Hyper has a short interview with Eiji Aonuma, Shigeru Miyamoto, and Koji Kondo in the August 2005 issue, #142.
Miyamoto said in a 1997 interview that his favorite item in 3D Zeldas was the boomerang, and here he says it is his favorite overall.
An early build of the arcade Mario Bros. recently surfaced and man you can tell from playing this was before the game was refined to how we expect it to control. You are forced to tap the direction to move and stopping will result in Mario or Luigi to continue moving until you tap the other way.
Newly free this week, @jparish.bsky.social @feitclub.bsky.social & @johntv.bsky.social embody Power, Wisdom, and Courage in daring to discuss The Legend of Zelda for its 40th anniversary
retronauts.com/article/2482...
Ad for Fushigi no Dungeon 2 - Furai no Shiren from Jugemu magazine, issue 1996 01
Ad for Fushigi no Dungeon 2 - Furai no Shiren from Jugemu magazine, issue 1996 01
๐น๏ธ Fushigi no Dungeon 2 - Furai no Shiren
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In 2024 I scanned this Kabuki keshi figure from Ninja-Kun on Famicom.
The figure had some minor damage: a missing bomb wick! I promised I would rescan the figure if I got an undamaged one in the future.
Today I make good on that promise.
archive.org/details/kesh...
A keitai game that's a port of... a Casio LCD calculator game?! Preserved last year by Yuvi, "Boxing Game" was developed by G-MODE and originally released for i-mode devices in 2001. Our preserved version, which has better graphics, dates to 2004.
Okay, side note, I can't stop laughing at all the weird Ai mistakes in that art! HIS EAR(S)
but also, yeah, seriously, that's so sad. At some point it's going to take people holding the book and proving it's real. I get worried if it's going to start affecting auction listings for old publications
