Gashi Gashi – E-can

Corruption as Art – Go Straight (remix EP)

Corruption as Art uses a real-time corruptor mod for BizHawk to flip random bits in memory while a game is running. Usually this just crashes the game, but sometimes things break in interesting ways. When applied to Streets of Rage 2, the music keeps playing but goes out of sync and creates strange remixes. Be warned that some posts, like How to Draw Kirby, feature “extreme flashing”. Lately I’ve been tearing things down and putting them back together in better organized ways, but this has introduced some glitches.

Source: Go Straight (remix EP), by ramon via corruptionasart via kinsie

Here’s a new bandcamp thing I put out just now, I’ll be sure to come up with clever track names and stuff like that when I get home from work later but the tracks are all there for your ears i guess

Canvas for Pebble

UPDATE: I made another Canvas screen called Wallpaper Watchface. Go get that one instead. It’s better.

Wearable devices are the next big thing in tech. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon with a Pebble, and I want to develop for it. On Android, Canvas for Pebble lets you quickly make watchfaces that nicely display the time, date, weather, and your phone’s unread message and missed call counts. I took a few hours and made a watchface I like that displays seconds, and you can have it too.

If you want to try on the Dr. Mo Day 1 watchface, you’ll need a Pebble running  firmware 2.0 beta and Canvas for Pebble 2.0 beta. These should still work when Pebble 2.0 and Canvas for Pebble 2.0 are released. Once that’s installed, visit this post on your phone and click the version you want below.

Dr. Mo Day 1 Imperial Dr. Mo Day 1 Metric

Ever notice how almost every watch ad has the time set to 10:10? Analog watches look better that way, but I'm not so sure about digital watches. It's a lot harder to fake the time on a cell phone.

Source: My blog’s first ever selfie, Numberphile, and Canvas for Pebble

Yuumei – Glass Instruments

Hi, blog! It’s been a couple months! I almost forgot how to do these posts. Yuumei, designer of the original Cat Ear headphones, painted some musical instruments made of glass. I wonder how they would sound. Crystal flutes exist, and I imagine string instruments would sound pretty normal too. When hitting a drum with water in it, the air and the water would make two different sounds at the same time. Then there’s the fish tank piano, which would take physical strength to play but make super deep, eerie tones. Underwater performances are possible!

Source: Yuumei via Pixiv several years ago

My glass instruments series :) I’ve been meaning to add more instruments in the future but it’s hard to find time between all the projects. They are all available as prints, wallscrolls, post cards and tote bags at https://www.yuumeiart.com/shop/

Stupjam – Swingin' with Swabbie

(I’ve actually met a few acquaintances by way of Sayonara Umihara Kawase’s North American leaderboards.)

Source: Stuplr via Yumi’s Odd Odyssey leaderboards (records) and his comment on my video

Europe and Oceania April 24th

My New Gaming PC

UPDATE: This PC now has a name: Red Cyclone.

I built a new $900 gaming PC, so I’m showing it off. It’s a Core i5-6500 with a Radeon R9 380 in an Enermax Ostrog GT case. My friends convinced me to get a Samsung 850 Evo which makes Windows 10 super fast. I haven’t found anything that can push this to its limits, but it runs all my games great. I wrote a lot more about this rig over on PCPartPicker.

Here's what my desk looks like. There's a Dualshock 4, a Das Keyboard Ultimate S (with unlabeled keys!), and an old Logitech G5 mouse I should replace soon. The side panel window is tinted, so you can't see inside the computer very well until I remove the side panel. I kept the red/black color scheme inside the machine where I could. The Enermax case made it very easy to fit everything in with tidy wiring.

There's a TV on my dresser, but it's only ever used as a second monitor. You can also see my stack of consoles connected to my video capture rig. The monitors seem far apart, but from where I sit at my desk, it makes sense. Gamepad games work well on the TV, and I run keyboard-and-mouse games on the main desktop monitor.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor: $199.98 @ OutletPC MSI H170A Gaming Pro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard: $129.99 @ SuperBiiz Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory: $84.99 @ Amazon Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5″ Solid State Drive: $84.34 @ Amazon Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5″ 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive: $74.00 @ B&H MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card: $213.98 @ Newegg Enermax ECA3280A-BR ATX Mid Tower Case: $76.35 @ Amazon SeaSonic X Series 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply: $129.99 @ Newegg LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer: $12.99 @ Newegg Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates): $1,016.61 Mail-in rebates: ($10.00) Total: $1,006.61

Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-26 05:10 EST-0500

Source: PCPartPicker and my phone camera

New Games From Columbus

I’ve updated the Bakamo Studios site with a new post about three locally developed games that could use some hype right now. While you’re waiting for Evo 2014 Championship Series to start, why not watch these trailers?

Lemma – first-person parkour playground

Breaking Block – polished creative Arkanoid-like

Hatch-It! – cute ice physics puzzle

Source: Columbus Game Developer Spotlight » Bakamo Studios which sources Evan Todd, Smiling Cat Entertainment, and Multivarious Games

Rockman 4 Minus Infinity

Rockman 4 Minus Infinity isn’t just the best romhack ever made. It’s superior to the NES Mega Man games in every way. Puresabe just released v1.00 a few days ago, and what it does to Mega Man 4 is ridiculous. This features redesigned stages, bosses, and weapons, tons of new music, autosaves, 8-way scrolling, difficulty options, a time attack, and multiple boss rush modes, and that’s just the start. JDetan and I call this the real Mega Man 4, and the other one just a beta.

It's a romhack, but I actually own a Famicom cartridge of this. It's only version v0.02, same as the video I linked above, but it has that delightful Engrish language setting. "This amplifies cruelty." "Ouch! Stop beating!" "Drills pierces everything." Sadly, this doesn't work on a Retron 5 or any other Famiclone; only a real Famicom can play it.

Source: https://sites.google.com/site/rockman4mi/ via JDetan; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pEt_A_13es via browsing YouTube for a R4MI video that fights two secret bosses, even though it’s an old version; also my photo of the R4MI repro cart that I bought from Warp Zone

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Hey Internet, you all need to do more fact checking before you post stuff. You could post that a dead gorilla got 15,000 write-in votes for president, but you’d be wrong. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is a comedy news show, but they love to call out mainstream media and celebrities when they say something that’s false. We all need more of that, and it’s easier to watch when it’s funny.

Source: Last Week Tonight via YouTube Trending

Wave – Commission - More Meowvels

Getting into MUGEN territory here. You know, in case Marvel wasn't broken enough for you.

Source: Suzuran’s DeviantArt via Capcom Unity five years ago

A commission from someone on DA to draw more Meowvel vs Catcom. XD

TMNT Tournament Fighters

Remember when Konami made video games? Their best fighting game was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Tournament Fighters on the SNES. Last night, we played a tournament in this at our local fight night, and I did my best to explain it during the first few matchups.

Source: Ragnorok64 via Columbus Fighting Games