Desko

Desko

@deskodev.bsky.social

(He/Him) Former Windows logo guy. I like messing around with video games, both playing them and reverse engineering them. Big fan of Metroid, Sonic, Blaster Master, Ys, Dragon Quest, many others.

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Belated self-introduction incoming: Hi, I'm Desko! I make video game content and mess around with the contents of video games. I made a couple FNAF fangames back in the day (below: FNATI: Found), make mods for other games (below: Sonic 06 pointlight fix, Turrican MDRR) and sometimes upload YT vids.

Shoutout to the PS Vita's sleep mode power conservation, charged that thing weeks ago, played some SM64, never closed the game and it's still at 63%. More unhinged than a Game Boy Macro

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Reminder that Youtube is not a museum and that your favorite channel could be gone at anytime. Back up videos locally if you can.

Yakumono@luigiblood.bsky.social

We just lost a major YouTube channel that contained a ton of archived Satellaview footage and many many many other japanese tv shows

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I don't know how I feel about AI when it results into reverse engineering everything into constant slop to the point that sharing everything for the love of the game is now a problem when these people break the one unwritten rule

Looks like the non-Netflix iOS and Android versions of Street Fighter IV just got silently delisted. They were just a facsimile of the console/PC versions but still unfortunate that another version of SFIV is stuck on the seven seas now.

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One of the really fascinating things about Charlie Kirk is that his own people’s response to his death was so nakedly opportunistic that it’s like oh, ok, this guy is fair game for literally anything, he’s an object, and now his soul is trapped inside Grok for eternity.

Tickets are one thing but I've NEVER seen a company reimburse their PLAYERBASE's travel costs, that's two-in-one insane loss and insane dedication

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eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

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I think the funniest shit is how Sony never tries to reassure people on what they buy. Literally never. They just argue "people know they don't own digital games" and literally never does any actual promises about them

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social

PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue" www.eurogamer.net/ken-kutaragi...

I'm following up on this incredibly late but man I'm so glad that Cookie got freed this year

Desko@deskodev.bsky.social

It pisses me off how the copyright troll's all but won the Cookie's Bustle situation. The game's fallen into obscurity again, yet it feels like they've only ramped up the takedawns. "Brandon White" makes Tim Langdell look like a saint in comparison. God, I hope this situation gets settled.

"100% complete decompilation" *looks inside* it's formatted in the most ungodly manner imaginable, a third of the functions aren't labeled and littered with fakematches galore

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Repost if $30k would change your life right now

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social

I don't think $30k is a life-changing amount of money. Median American born in 1980 will have $2m in income in their lifetime. It's a 1% increase in earnings.

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If programming isn't art, then explain this series

honestly re: reverse engineering it just kinda blows to see your fun hobby get completely blown up by AI shit and people who love the slop machine because it's faster. AI art and shit at least *most* people correctly loathe + shun it, but too many people think that code isn't similarly creative.

okay Turrican shilling aside and getting back on topic with the main point of xkeeper's post, just seeing all the slop decomps coming out for the sake of porting games rather than actually trying to gain an understanding the code just comes off as embarrassing and flat-out contradictory to me.

Listen, I know plenty of others have shared the exact same thought but I gotta say it again: Konami figured it out? KONAMI?

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Vibe coded programs are extremely dangerous. You have no idea wtf the code is made to do, and neither does the person distributing it. Like sure, it could infect your PC or create backdoors, but also memory leaks, render files unusable, brick it so you can't boot, anything Do not install them

Nash@radiodeadair.com

If you still have the Epic Games Launcher on your system, don't update it and get it the fuck off of your computer. There's no telling what damage it can do or what vibecoded landmines are waiting in it.

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I'm a bit sad that a lot of people are following VGE on BSKY, a man who gives negative shits about artists and devs.

Darío@dariosamo.bsky.social

Apparently VGE hid the comment I left under his video. Here it is for anyone who wants to see it, as it seems to clearly bother him that someone wants to hold him even slightly responsible for the major damage he's been doing and continues to do this scene.

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Haven't been much active lately. The waves of AI recomp and similar has been heavily impacting my motivation to work on my decomp projects. I still want to finish them, but the will isn't quite there right now.

Just realized it's been five days since case 4 of Apollo Justice canonically ended. Five days since you-know-who had his legendary breakdown. Holy shit.

I ended up liking 64's new remake too btw

Desko@deskodev.bsky.social

The hype train for Star Fox 2026 reminded me of how addicting Star Fox 2 and OG Star Fox 64 are Please help I can't put them down