MeltyPlayer (meltyplayer.bsky.social)

They/them idiot addicted to ripping video game models, reverse engineering, and composing desktop music.

[MeltyPlayer (meltyplayer.bsky.social) @MeltyPlayer]

I've updated my tool for extracting models from Mario Artist, improving accuracy and fixing a bunch of bugs!

Please give this new release a try!

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[Longest Arms @LongArmsPerk]

N64 Young Link feels like a traditional plucky anime boy protagonist in the the vein of Astro Boy while Remake Young Link looks like an actual child that has been sent to war.

[AlexTheFlyQuestGuy | LIS CHAMPS‼️ @AlexTheFQGuy]

I’ll always remember walking out of the theater BEAMING with happiness and hope.

Fuck corporate greed or whatever other bullshit that tries to tell us that this wasn’t PEAK.

[Conrad Barski @lisperati]

it's still insane to me that a lol of Nintendo and super Nintendo games would essentially just stick a whole new computer into each cartridge to beef up graphics for a game, and that this was a financially viable thing to do

[MeltyPlayer (meltyplayer.bsky.social) @MeltyPlayer]

@miaaowing I tried to fix my bad handwriting by training myself to write the fancy lowercase a

But I tend to not fully close the bottom of the a

One time someone asked if the a in my name was z

[natalie @natalie_thenerd]

this makes me feel things

[BloodyVenus☢️🎸 @ParukoEnjoyer]

i hope nintendo are aware that if they do the one item/jump button thing again the Majoras Mask remake is going to suck hot ass

[ScootJoot @Thunderjolty]

disrespectful adventures of link

[Robin Poe 🐑 @RobinPoedev]

its kind of shocking how Zelda the series invented this very convenient file select system, but has since replaced it with an all together worse single save + arbitrary number of auto saves

and they say the remake removes friction 😏

[Khushi @khushiirl]

RAM prices are dropping again

[Chat Noir 𓃠 @sicksadwife]

Au bout d'un certain âge, on a plus de patience. Ca y est ils nous ont gonflé les hache viande.
(J'ai fait pareil)

[Naya Torinko 💛🐥 @nayatorinko]

TLDR on the Big Walk article. Some awards judges say they won’t vote for games that used gen AI during development. House House used a chatbot to help fix bugs. The studio says it didn’t use AI to make the game’s art.

The example they gave was a bug in Unity’s graphics system. The game kept trying to draw shadows from objects way behind the player, so it ran about half as fast for a bit at sunrise and sunset. The devs dug through the code and even asked someone at Unity for help. A chatbot eventually suggested a workaround, which the devs had to change quite a bit to get working. The fix ended up being about 10 lines of code.

This is where I wish people had a little more nuance. I’m all for calling out gen AI when it rips off artists. I also think asking a chatbot why your game runs like garbage at sunset is a different use from asking it to make the art players see. You can have concerns about how the chatbot was trained and still care about what the devs actually used it for. That detail matters to me.

Everyone and their mother was singing Big Walk’s praises. Now I’m seeing people curse out and wish bad things on the same devs who made a game they were just having fun with. You’re allowed to enjoy a game and disagree with a choice the people making it made. I just think going after them personally over what sounds like a pretty minor use is a bit much. Like, can we at least get past the headline first?

[🐯Rubix🐲 @Rubixkun]

THERE'S NO WAY THIS WORKED

[Anthony Fu 🦋 @antfu.me @antfu7]

Hey Japanese learners! I built a font that renders Furigana or Romaji above Kanji, with ligatures to support words. You can apply it anywhere to get furigana notations for free.

Give it a try, and I hope it will be helpful :)
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[evilNEKO @Evil_NekoDS]

この悟空とセルの初戦、めちゃくちゃ説得力があるのだけど、小安津二郎氏の映画のようにローテクで限られた技術だからこそ、一動作一動作を「完成された静止画」のように表現する工夫を強いられていた時代だったからだと思う。それが、実際、全体の流れの中が力強く出たんじゃないかしら。

[Lankay🔜SS SURGE @_Lankay]

heheheh

[MeltyPlayer (meltyplayer.bsky.social) @MeltyPlayer]

Okay I hadn't heard about this until just now but apparently F-STOP (Portal 2 beta) leaked???
https://t.co/5pXF3QOYMR

[Spawn Wave @SpawnWaveMedia]

I'm surprised the real story isn't that the Unity engineers couldn't figure it out, but a chatbot solved it in a few prompts. That sounds ridiculous. https://t.co/gELv6RoMb5

[Zophar @TheRealZophar]

Great news!

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

Cultural fracking in action.

[DustyBubo @Dustybubo]

I dub them Lank and Lunk