Wave – Ultimate Meowvel Vs Catcom 3

Revo – Wicked Flight

30-Day Video Game Music Challenge (Super Hard Mode) Day 27: Music from a handheld game From Bravely Default (3DS, 2012)

JDetan keeps telling me about Bravely Default’s fantasy rock soundtrack. He also says I should never trust a fairy, whatever that means. If a portable RPG rocks this hard throughout, I’ve got to play it.

Edit: Yikes! The first YouTube video I had here was taken down today! Here's a different upload. I use official YouTube Music uploads where possible, but none exist for Bravely Default's soundtrack. Edit 2: I had to replace the YouTube video again.

Source: YouTube, challenge by OverClocked ReMix I think?, via NintendoCapriSun

Control Config Menus

I’ve been updating my VOGJAM game Skeleton Hunter with new features like custom button mapping. PC games need this because players might have foreign keyboards, nonstandard gamepads, or disabilites that make the default controls unusable. Mine works like the PC version of Skullgirls where every action has both a keyboard key and a gamepad button, and you can assign them one by one or all at once. Please try it and tell me if the menus work the way you expect them to.

Source: my game Skeleton Hunter v1.02 reusing code from my Control Config Demo

TerminalMontage – Something About Super Mario 64

Super Mario 64 is fun to speedrun and fun to break. YouTube animator TerminalMontage captures this pretty accurately in this animated 0-star speedrun. I’m heading to GDEX to play some local indie games and break them, of course. EDIT: GDEX got too serious and too expensive, so I actually didn't go.

Source: Something About Super Mario 64 ANIMATED SPEEDRUN (Loud Sound Warning) ⭐️ 0 Stars 01:49 Legit Non-TAS via Jiko

Hideki Naganuma – Teknopathetic (e-Pop'n Disco 80's Mix)

I started listening to RadioSEGA again and they’ve been playing this song from Ollie King, an arcade skateboarding game that was the spiritual successor of Top Skater. Sampling artist Hideki Naganuma provided the soundtrack, including remixes of a couple of his own songs from Jet Set Radio Future. I had no idea Ollie King had beats like this.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqxg3FpuDA via a DuckDuckGo search via RadioSEGA

Yatsude – Country of a Thousand Nights and Ten Billion Mornings

That’s my best guess on the translation of the actual title “Sen no Yoru to Hyaku Oku no Asa no Kuni”. Anyway, this is my new desktop wallpaper, and it really is shockingly good. It’s the kind of fantasy town I want to live in, but it’s almost realistic, too. I highly recommend logging into pixiv to see this in its full 1800×750 glory. I’ve been mildly addicted to pixiv lately, and I plan to post plenty more of this stuff one image at a time.

Oh Yatsude, your scene splits my dual monitors perfectly so.

Source: 「千の夜と百億の朝の国」/「ヤツデ」のイラスト [pixiv] via 「ヤツデ」 's Works – Illustration [pixiv] via the recommendations page that came up when I bookmarked Yukihiro Nakamura via One Morning Train

Katrina Yu – Witching Activities

When foraging for /r/FloatingIsFun content, sometimes I find something with a special mass appeal. Katrina Yu is a crazy talented photomanipulation artist that loves levitation. This gallery on Bored Panda features her as a witch going about her daily life. There’s plenty more from her on Reddit, Behance, Flickr, Tumblr, Instagram, and Redbubble.

Have you ever wondered what witches do on their ordinary days? I like to think that they’re always there, living among us and witnessing the world’s ordinary miracles. So this for Halloween, I imagined a daily life of a witch and tried to recreate it through my work.

Source: Katrina Yu

Feedly and RSS Feeds

Feedly is where I spend most of my time on the Internet. It’s the window through which I organize and read posts from dozens of other sites in one long page, and you should use it too. If you frequently read a news site or blog by visiting their front page every time, you’re probably doing it wrong. Read the rest of this post for links to some RSS feeds I recommend and links to subscribe to them in Feedly or your favorite RSS reader. You’ll be hooked.

I don’t want to spam up the main feed with a lot of links, so you’ll have to click through to the real post this time.

Here are some RSS feeds to get you started. Click the links open the feeds in Feedly so you can follow the feeds there. For those of you with other RSS readers, click the (RSS) after the feed’s name to get its RSS feed. Here we go:

House of Hitstun (RSS) | stuff from the Internet Bakamo Studios (RSS) | my game company RT (RSS) | world and US news from Russia WBNS 10TV (RSS) | manageable amount of Columbus news ESPN (RSS) | sportsball headlines Consumerist (RSS) | Consumer Reports news, tips, and complaints Shoryuken (RSS) | fighting game community news and videos SlickDeals.net (RSS) | bargains from the Internet Wired Science (RSS) | Wired Space Photo of the Day and more Noirlac Sourced (RSS) | nice old video game backgrounds xkcd (RSS) | snarky stick figure webcomic The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (RSS) | high quality serial webcomic Sinfest (RSS) | open-minded webcomic I posted about Did You Know Gaming (RSS) | video game trivia I posted about Botchamania videos (RSS) | pro wrestling outtakes I posted about Classic Game Room videos (RSS) | retro gamer reviews all video games TASVideos Top Rated Movies (RSS) | best new tool assisted superplays Building Feedly (RSS) | updates to Feedly service

Yes, I really have 1,889 unread articles, some dating back to 26 days ago. The biggest backlogs are RockPaperShotgun (269), my YouTube subscriptions feed (261), UsVsTh3m (208), and DarkSakura's blog It's All Around You (160). They're all not accessible at my work so I can't catch up on them there.

Source: a screenshot of today’s Wired Space Photo of the Day from NASA’s Curiousity Mars rover’s Mastcam on my Feedly home page in Pale Moon

GameHut Coding Secrets

GameHut is a YouTube channel run by Jon Burton, founder of Traveller’s Tales and producer of Lego games and movies. His series on Coding Secrets dives deep into the Sega Genesis versions of Sonic 3D Blast and Toy Story to explain how he achieved those great graphics. He really used all the resources to do things the hardware was never meant to do.

Source: GameHut via YouTube Recommmendations on Did You Know Gaming? videos

THPS 1+2 Donut Land

For the past two months, I’ve put an unhealthy amount of time on my PS4 building my Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 park, Donut Land. It’s a city with the size of a normal THPS2 level, filled to the brim with ramps, combos, tunnels, transfers, and giant gaps. It’s in the community’s hands now, so I’m curious to see what lines and remixes they come up with.

Source: myself, music from Savaged Regime’s Xeno Crisis soundtrack

Tool-Assisted Speedruns Out of Context

In only one week, @TASNoContext speedran becoming my new favorite Twitter account. TASVideos publisher EZGames69 posts short clips of old games freaking out when they receive frame-perfect sequences of gamepad input. Already, the tool-assisted madness has consumed Contra III, Sonic 2 and 3, Pokémon Yellow, UMK3, Donkey Kong 64, and dozens more.

Edit: In less than a year, the Twitter account is retired because some idiot billionaire bought Twitter and did his own speedrun of destroying it. Tool-Assisted Speedrun Clips has moved to Tumblr.

Source: @TASNoContext media posts after their clip of pirohiko & FinalFighter's TAS of Mega Man