matt sephton

matt sephton

@gingerbeardman.com

💾 FITS ON A FLOPPY 🤓 Indie Dev since ~1990 🟨 YOYOZO (GOTY 2023) 🕹️ Retro Games 🗿Moai 💿 Macintosh Magazine Media 🍎 ex-Apple https://blog.gingerbeardman.com

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If we've never met in real life and you pop up on my socials eager to discuss incendiary topics like politics/religion/war/ai…it's an instant block.

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itch halloween sale!!! as i fight the greatest horror of all: rent and groceries at the same time 5 good games including 10S FOREVER for 3.33 (half of 6.66) these are good games. you know theyre good games. listen to your heart and/or friends and/or enemies itch.io/s/209909/the...

I want to play games that are like nothing that has gone before. New ways to play. Abstract. Imaginative. Cute. Puzzling. Daring. Funny. Weird. Thought provoking. Nothing like real life.

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#RadRide at auction today bonus feature! Anyone want a vehicle that is every bit as much substance as style? Then you want this 98 Mazda Titan! This style is known as Dekotora: Trucks covered in art, lights, custom bodywork and interior mods! Still a functional dump! DM for interest or to bid! #JDM

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while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

Had a crazy idea. This might just work. (Also, this means that there are two endings!) #gamedev #visualisation #graph #mermaid #svg

Porthole, my forthcoming camera/video capture app, now communicates with a custom build of Homebrew Channel (hbc-reborn) to allow my Mac to control my dev Wii! Mouse to act as pointer, click as A, keyboard as d-pad, etc

"Rolling Extreme" (1999, Gaelco) is playable in MAME but buggy, with graphical glitches and...no sound. Fixed it! This video is perhaps the first time the game has been heard outside an arcade. "This is not a TV show—it's real! Have you been good? Get to the bottom first!" 1/3

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I'm playing Rolling Extreme here on my M4 MacBook Pro with a Switch Pro Controller: • tilt controls for turning • triggers for brakes • dpad Left and button A for side smash left/right 😎

Marvelling how Bubble Bobble (Arcade) ran a tiny cooperative multitasker in its Z80's RST vectors: a handful of tasks, each with its own stack. Every vblank it wakes tasks whose timers hit 0; tasks yield to share the CPU. Coroutines in mere bytes! WHAT A GAME. Surely the GOAT 🐐

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"Rolling Extreme" (1999, Gaelco) is playable in MAME but buggy, with graphical glitches and...no sound. Fixed it! This video is perhaps the first time the game has been heard outside an arcade. "This is not a TV show—it's real! Have you been good? Get to the bottom first!" 1/3

"Rolling Extreme" (1999, Gaelco) is playable in MAME but buggy, with graphical glitches and...no sound. Fixed it! This video is perhaps the first time the game has been heard outside an arcade. "This is not a TV show—it's real! Have you been good? Get to the bottom first!" 1/3

2/3 The audio in this game turned out to be ADPCM, and it has dynamic music! Songs are split into chunks that can loop. The song progresses if you're doing well, and if you're not it loops at a "boring" bit. With suitably weird/cheesy lyrics, ofc. "A handful of daredevils..."

3/3 I also mapped out all the missing GPU properties, which adds missing translucency (windows), blending (shadows, etc). "On your back! 70 miles an hour!" And I added a 2× mode in my build for high resolution rendering. Pretty pretty cool! "Can this be real!?" in MAME soon

Here's a comparison of GTI CLUB: Corso Italiano rendering options on Wii (left to right) 🚗💨 • Straight 480p • 4× SSAA (960p supersampling) • 3× MSAA (16-bit with dither, like the original arcade hardware) This is called SWEATING THE DETAILS 🤏👀

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GTI CLUB: Corso Italiano ...on Wii 🚗💨 🎞️ Solid 30fps in-game (same as arcade) 🖼️ Renders 2× supersampled (960p) downscaled+sharpened to 480p 💾 SD card cached streaming (arcade used CF card) 📺 16:9 & 4:3 support 🎮 Motion, Classic & GC controllers, Rumble 🔰 + Mission Mode

The macOS app for my Genki ShadowCast HDMI capture dongle was strangely laggy. And I knew it's as simple as AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer to get a feed of a connected video device...so I made my own capture viewer app, with recording, shaders, OSD, etc.

GTI CLUB: Corso Italiano ...on Wii 🚗💨 🎞️ Solid 30fps in-game (same as arcade) 🖼️ Renders 2× supersampled (960p) downscaled+sharpened to 480p 💾 SD card cached streaming (arcade used CF card) 📺 16:9 & 4:3 support 🎮 Motion, Classic & GC controllers, Rumble 🔰 + Mission Mode

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Baby gecko trying to climb. Added option to leap and stamina bar. All legs are individually controlled 🦎 #gamedev #indiegame