xdaniel

@xdaniel

He/they/she enby 💛🤍💜🖤 from HE, Germany 🇩🇪 Hobby programmer & wannabe indie game dev; retro computer & console enthusiast; anime, manga & Vtuber fan -- and more! de/native, en/good, 日本語/へた Visit Avatar: mono ep11

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xdaniel@xdaniel· 24d

For me, a timely and not really random #RandomGameSaturday post: Tales of Berseria for the PS4. Only just bought the game, after buying a PS4 a few weeks ago, and the first few hours were already quite the journey. Looking forward to more... and kinda not, considering all that happened already.

Photo of German release of Tales of Berseria for PS4 lying on table

xdaniel@xdaniel· 24d

My next four PS4 games have arrived~ Only wanted to try them really quick, but ended up playing for quite a while... especially Berseria. Almost three hours of that one alone. And, man, those were some three hours for sure... the difference between Velvet before and after all that alone... 😢

Photo of German release PS4 games on table; Tales of Berseria, Tony Hawk 1+2, Spyro Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot Trilogy

xdaniel@xdaniel· 26d

QTP with FOUR games that hold special memories for you! Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64) Metroid Prime (GCN) SimCity 2000 (PC DOS) Pokemon Gold & Silver (GB/GBC) [see alt text for more info]

Image to represent Zelda OoT and my memories of it; messing around with memory debugging stuff in the OoT MQ Debug ROM on hardware recently, after having been in/or adjacent to the OoT ROM hacking/prototype/etc community for over two decades

Image to represent Metroid Prime and my memories of it; the cold, snowy environment of Phendrana Drifts, one of the most memorable areas in maaaaybe the first game I felt truly immersed in -- screenshot via https://www.mobygames.com/game/7783/metroid-prime/screenshots/gamecube/33792/

Image to represent SimCity 2000 and my memories of it; my boxed copy of the DOS floppy version, rebought a few years(?) ago, to replace my long gone boxed copy from the late 90s, which is what I was playing when I stayed up all night for the first time ever

Image to represent Pokemon GS and my memories of it; my original copy of Silver in German, won in an NoE contest to be an "official game tester", which meant getting it (and a nice certificate, seen right) a week or so early

xdaniel@xdaniel· 26d

I don't suppose any of you know how to easily remove heatsinks epoxied(?) onto chips without causing irreparable damage? Found my old Elsa Erazor III Pro, a RIVA TNT2 Pro AGP graphics card with 32 MB RAM, but it's missing its custom fan (and the slot bracket's broken, but that's the lesser issue)

Photo of Elsa Erazor III Pro graphics card lying on table, missing its custom fan and with the top part of its AGP slot bracket broken

Photo of the same card, but of its back; stickers showing model, serial number, etc ate visible

xdaniel@xdaniel· 27d

More "trying to learn more advanced OpenGL and GLSL stuff", now with multiple colored lights. (can't recommend learnopengl.com enough, honestly)

xdaniel@xdaniel· 28d

My first physical PS4 game arrived -- Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. Just started playing, so I've just done the first few bits of action gameplay and not much else. The characters and script are pretty fun(ny) so far, and the game's quite pretty looking too, IMO! Will definitely keep playing! :3

Photo of German PS4 release box of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

Screenshot of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, with Sakuna herself slouched over saying "If not a royal nap, couldn't I at least royally procrastinate until tomorrow?"

Screenshot of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Sakuna and Tama resting in front of the house

Screenshot of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Sakuna standing outside; the camera positioned as to show off the game's visuals, grass, trees, etc

xdaniel@xdaniel· 29d

Took a break, then did some more OpenGL experimentation~

Screenshot of "Render Test Application", now showing a yellow-ish light above the tile floor from a distance; it lights up the immediate surrounding area but much of the floor is dark

Screenshot of "Render Test Application", now showing a yellow-ish light above the tile floor from a distance; the light's radius/intensity has been increased, so it now lights up more of the area

Screenshot of "Render Test Application", now showing a yellow-ish light above the tile floor from a distance; the light source is now much higher in the scene, lighting up even more of the dark floor

Screenshot of "Render Test Application", now showing a yellow-ish light above the tile floor from a distance; the light source is still located much higher in the scene, but the light's radius/intensity has been toned down, so it lights up less of the floor

xdaniel@xdaniel· 29d

Some more general messing about with OpenGL, trying to learn more concepts, math, etc... Normal mapping on LearnOpenGL at learnopengl.com/Advanced-Lig... Base texture from opengameart.org/content/urba... Normal map created using www.smart-page.net/smartnormal

Screenshot of "Render Test Application", showing a white cube floating slightly above a tiled floor; the cube lights up the floor somewhat realistically; two Dear ImGui windows with camera controls, and some application stuff (ex textures used) are visible as well

xdaniel@xdaniel· 29d

... oh right, I just remembered: Also ordered a copy of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin for PS4 over the weekend, which just shipped~

Cropped/redacted screenshot of Amazon order summary for Sakuna for PS4; 14.99 € total, expected delivery July 16-17

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jul 11

Just ordered my first physical PS4 games, three of four being remake/remaster compilations: - Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy - Spyro Reignited Trilogy - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 - Tales of Berseria (btw @iiotenki.bsky.social, didn't you work on Berseria or was it a different Tales game?)

Cropped screenshot of order summary page, showing PS4 games (in order): Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Tales of Berseria, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2; cover art on the left, condition (all "very good") below the titles, and price (all between ~7€ and ~17€) on the right

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jul 3

🏰⛰️👌

Screenshot of application rendering part of Zelda OoT's Hyrule Field pretty decently; the camera is pointing towards the entrance to the castle town on the left and Kakariko/Death Mountain on the center right; textures that should be transparent or translucent are rendered fully opaque; some Dear ImGui windows are visible

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jul 3

🛠️📃 (still not much further wrt squashing the renderer's bugs, but that's why I'm working on this part)

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jul 2

This'll hopefully be helpful in debugging my garbage interpreter/renderer. It's more accurate than, say, SceneNavi's in some under-the-hood ways already, but it's also pretty damn broken in several others...

Cropped screenshot of Dear ImGui window, bits of Hyrule Field from Zelda OoT showing through around the edges etc; window contains a list of display list addresses on the left, a (incomplete) decompilation of the display list on the right, showing function calls like ex. gsSPVertex, gsSP2Triangles, etc with a gsDPSetCombineLERP instance highlighted; the bottom of the window shows a line of text with raw info about the command (address, opcode ex. G_SETCOMBINE and raw 64 bits of data)

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jul 1

With how this looks, it feels like bloody 2011 here right now...

Screenshot of application showing a somewhat crude rendering of Kakariko Village from Zelda OoT, with some relatively correct textures as well as a lot of geometry just rendering as red (CI-type textures) or white (textures from unhandled segments)

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 29

Screenshot of application showing crude-ish rendering of Kakariko Village from Zelda OoT, with placeholder textures but otherwise correct-ish colors, plus wireframe overlay and some Dear ImGui windows

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 28

As far as my still-very-muddy-from-the-heat brain has gotten with this project; a very *very* **VERY** rudimentary display list parser and renderer. (also its still like 24°c at 11:40pm where's the thunderbolts and lighting very very frightning or whatever that the weather forecast promised?!?)

Screenshot of application showing unused "N coin" GI model from Zelda OoT with wireframe overlay and using its vertex normals for colors resulting in a rainbow effect all over it

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 28

Just grabbed US and both PAL ROMs (1.0 + 1.1) and tried in ares, holding Start on boot *or* reset does show the pak menu on both, so it's an ommision in the EU manual, tho that doesn't explain why it didn't work for you

MK64 PAL 1.1 controller pak menu in ares

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 28

...including the US manual, actually. Only the EU one says to hold it while pressing Reset, the others say you can do it either way! Which is... yeah. I'm just confused now. www.videogamemanual.com/n64/Mario%20...

Crop from US MK64 manual about controller pak data menu

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 27

SoH OoT progress on Nijika, technically ready to fight Ganon, but doing side quests and stuff first. Just got the Biggoron Sword, another Heart Piece and Gold Skulltula or two.

Photo of OoT file select showing Ship of Harkinian extended file info with items, songs, equipment, etc obtained, number of hearts, rupees, etc etc

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 26

Loading textures from PNGs from disk can be annoying, especially if you're using C# with just some rather thin wrappers around GLFW and libpng... Next up, more I/O stuff, eventually loading and parsing geometry, etc, etc... (again, I seem to like reinventing the wheel all the time)

Screenshot of cube rendered in OpenGL, textured with one of the common grass textures from Zelda OoT; some Dear Imgui windows are also visible

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 26

btw

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 26

🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 26

Ffffffff

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 25

I somehow like working on low(-ish) level OpenGL stuff, very often reimplementing the wheel in the process. Today... again. I might just be a coding masochist or something.

Screenshot of OpenGL test/demo/something application, showing colored rotating cube and two Dear Imgui window, one with OpenGL context info, the other showing the raw MVP matrices

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 22

Some Fortnite kids seem to be particularily stupid 🤦 Also, "sprites" in the non-Fortnite sense are older than me, and I'm almost 40! (ugh) (PDF source: cini.classiccmp.org/pdf/Commodor...)

Cropped screenshort of Commodore 64 User's Guide, page 68, "Introduction to Sprites"; PDF page 78 in PDF at http://cini.classiccmp.org/pdf/Commodore/C64%20User%27s%20Guide.pdf

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 22

Zelda OoT via Ship of Harkinian on MacBook Pro Nijika: Just entered Spirit Temple as Adult Link for the second half of the dungeon. And now I'll try to sleep since it's 4:18 am here now. Tho still at 22°C. Boo. Good night y'all~

Photo of Zelda OoT quest status screen, all melodies, all medallions except spirit, 38 gold skulltula etc

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 20

Random thought of the day: I've come to really like this "hair bun + side tails(?)" hairstyle, I have no idea why. *COUGH*

Character intro image of Shima Rin from Yurucamp season 1, showing several illustrations of Rin, 4 of them with the hairstyle I mean -- really wonder why I've come to like the OG hairstyle of one of my favorite characters ever!

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 18

This is fine 🔥🫠🔥

Cropped screenshot of weather widget on Android showing 34°C at 15:00 (3 minutes ago) with forecast showing max of 32 (today), 33, 34, 34 and 30°C respectively

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 16

Played more Zelda OoT on my MacBook Pro Nijika through Ship of Harkinian -- became Adult Link, went through Forest and Fire Temple, got a few optional items, Heart Pieces, etc, and just entered Ice Cavern. About three hours, all on battery, from ca. 95% down to 18%. I love this little machine :3

Photo of 13 inch MacBook Pro from 2015, running the Ship of Harkinian Zelda OoT port under macOS Monterey, with Stats CPU pulldown opened showing system uptime of 3h 1m, battery is at 18% charge; a Switch 1 Pro Controller is resting partially on the keyboard on the right

xdaniel@xdaniel· Jun 13

Tried the Fujitsu-Siemens OEM card in the K6-2+ build really quick, it's detected by NSSI as a Sapphire Radeon VE -- later renamed to the Radeon 7000, after the 8000 series was released. The other cards... I can't test on this board. The board's AGP 3.3V only, it doesn't support 1.5V cards :/