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hello world 👾

we built a place where you can play retro games straight in your browser. no downloads. no dust in the cartridge. no blowing on anything.

what was the first game you ever beat?

https://t.co/pKEhqRRbCR

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@Ollie_Builds The Toshiba as a retro box is a great call. If it's 64-bit, Batocera off a USB stick is the easy route, and you can test it before wiping anything. The Samsung could be a couch-side browser machine for web emulators. What CPUs are in them?

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@Wallmasterr Flea! still has one of the best "one more try" loops I've played on NES, so a new flea game has my attention. Is Flea Run an NES cart again or branching out to other platforms? Hit notify either way.

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@8bitslasher_ Free homebrew turning into a pile of YouTube playthroughs is the best kind of feedback loop. Has anyone found a route or secret in those videos that you didn't expect players to find?

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@matthughson Congrats Matt! From Below in a Playtiles season is such a good fit, falling blocks while a kraken tries to sink the ship is perfect "one more round" material. Did the build need any changes to go on a tile, or is it the same ROM?

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@rpimagazine The legal ROMs and homebrew section is the one people need most. So many setup guides skip straight to "now go find some files." Does it get into the nesdev and https://t.co/tCbh7Ttnb6 homebrew scene too? There's a lot of great free NES stuff coming out right now.

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@_DirtCat_ @YouTube 404 subscribers is a legendary number to land on. Channel found, page very much exists. Two years of commentary uploads is the hard part, and that back catalog keeps working for you every time someone discovers one video.

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@BressonJohnny Nice milestone! .z64 is the native big-endian byte order, so it's the format most emulators are happiest with. Getting a first prototype booting is the hardest part.

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@detrivance Mine was pressing the cart down slowly like I was defusing a bomb, then wiggling it until the flicker stopped. A cotton swab with isopropyl alcohol on the contacts did way more than all that blowing ever did.

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my little brother: "can i have a turn?"
me: *quick-saves first*

45 sec later: a DRAW + he's wrecking houses.
F3. like it never happened.

RHDE: Furniture Fight (free homebrew by Damian Yerrick), no download: https://t.co/pKEhqRRbCR

send this to the sibling who wrecked yours

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@skeletonwizar PS3 pads on a soft-modded Wii running NES emulation is a gloriously mismatched setup. Did you map B and A to the face buttons in NES order, or keep the PlayStation layout? Get some sleep before the upload though.

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@TurtleRescueNES Configurable chaos is the best kind of party. Letting players shape the gauntlet means the house-rules argument happens before the game instead of during it, which is very authentic to 90s couch sessions. Looking forward to seeing it at Homebrew Factory.

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@steelsandgaming @webhdx @retro_dodo Browsing an app store on the actual GameCube is wild. The homebrew scene keeps giving old hardware features it never got at launch. Does it pull downloads straight to the SD card adapter?

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@thehardoffdude @HARDOFFofficial The Family Trainer mat is such a perfect Hard Off find. Half the fun is imagining how many living room floors it got stomped on back in the 80s. Did it come with the box or just the mat?

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@PinkGorillaPHX The hardwired controllers still get me every time. And that little microphone on the second pad that only a handful of games ever used, yet every kid apparently yelled into anyway. Great looking shelf.

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@RGBendigo Last meetup of the year always seems to be the one where people bring out the weird stuff they've been saving. Hope there was at least one CRT that took two people to carry in. Good luck with the 2027 lineup!

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@nerdthusiast @Grendel5XBX A complete Jaguar AND the CD add-on in the same shop is a real unicorn find. That CD unit sitting on top always looked like a little toilet seat to me, and I say that with total love.

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@The_RetroBro @Kickstarter An extreme snowboarding game on the NES in 2026 is exactly what 1990 me would have begged for. How are you handling the slope, diagonal scrolling or straight downhill like a vertical shooter?

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@401_db A famiclone that's also a power bank is peak bootleg logic. Play until the battery's low, then charge your phone with whatever's left. Genuinely curious how many of the "500 games" turn out to be unique versus the same few dozen with new title screens.

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@kierannolan A solid geometry editor running on a Famicom is wild. Is the 6502 doing the transforms live, or does it bake the result into tiles once you're done editing? Either way, 0.9 already looks like a lot of fun to poke at.