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  1. I know this world has become shit and strange, and like, this entire year's been like an April's Fools run amok.

    But.

    At least I can meet eternal sleep happily knowing that the Fight of the Year 2026 is between [*checks notes*]

    ... Kenshiro vs Cristiano Ronaldo, I guess.

    youtu.be/Hc4KNwFjhnE

    #FatalFury #GarouCityOfTheWolves #FatalFuryCityOfTheWolves #FOTNS #FistOfTheNorthStar #Kenshiro #vidya

    PS.: DJ'd by Salvatore Ganacci I guess. Because why not.

  2. @eniko While I know of some games that have managed pretty good visuals in small screens (eg.: Monster Hunter on the 3DS, 224p), 1.- those use a vastly different visual art and engine, highly reliant on zoom and 2.- 100px is still too small for that, IMO.

    At that size limitation and if you might be facing redoing all the art for porting to consoles anyway, have you considered switching the art style to "symbolic" and using "symbolic tiles" rather than "graphic tiles"?

    Kinda like games such as #ZZT did back in the times of the DOS, when you had to deal with 80×25 terminals (no graphics mode, even).

    Symbolic visual art can also give a game a pretty fresh coat of paint depending on the genre, as can be seen in games such as #VVVVVV , and on a console port you could even add a "retro option" switch for the visual engine like how #MonsterBoy does, for extra fancy.

    For extra bonus, on symbolic tiles you could even just use fonts for some symbols, since many of them have a 10pt option.

    #vidya

  3. Initially wanted to test something out in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Ended up playing through the whole game. Didn't finish it the first time around due to a hard drive crash and no save backup.

  4. New video. Explaining uses for DS4 to DS4 emulation in DS4Windows. Forgot to mention the PS4 Remote Play use case though. youtube.com/watch?v=RdQAuboYYKo

  5. Too much has changed. Planning on a new release tomorrow.

  6. This software is now at a point where I can play Heroes 5 with a controller comfortably. It works better for that use case than even my old project. Too bad DS4Windows would not be usable to play Oblivion. Hopefully it will get there sometime.