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New build of PCSX2 Reliquary is now public! Highlights are improved networking stability, VHD hdd image support and Parallel-GS fixes for RDNA2 and Arc. As always, latest upstream sync too! Have fun! github.com/DiscoStarsla...

Security folks this week: Pwned PHP Also security folks this week: LOL “4” Me: Oh hi I found a code execution exploit in the CD-ROM drive of a 26-year-old game console

Thanks to an exploit found by @libby.bsky.social, we can now dump Mechacons from all versions of PS2! A new dump method was found that works on 1.x Mechacon versions, which do not work with her current SPC970 dumper. I’ll release the new dumper soon after cleaning it up and writing instructions.

Thanks to the helpful ps2 community and a very close call semi-brick of a rare variant, we now have verified dumps of every North American SPC970 mechacon 🎉 Any Australians willing to burn some life out of their eeprom for preservation let me know, lots of gaps there!

After 4 years of effort, I'm happy to announce that one of the final secrets of the PS2 has been broken wide open! It's been a long process of decapping, optical dumping, and now at last a software solution. Thank you @libby.bsky.social for finding the exploit from our dirty optical dumps!

@azeria-labs.com thank you for the new cat bed which also doubles as a fantastic book!

Happy to announce the public build of PCSX2-reliquary. Now with full Konami Python 1 + 2 support. Enjoy talking to virtual dogs in dogstation or stepping to Vanilla Ninja in dancing stage fusion. The mysterious Python 1 is now open for all! github.com/DiscoStarsla... Enjoy!

Finally!!! This is the first time any Konami Python 1 arcade title has ever been emulated! This is technically "in game", however PCSX2 hard crashes after this step so still lots of work ahead. Nice to see some progress after entering the FireWire torment nexus

Big 🧵time! Lets talk about my new friend, the Konami Python. It's kinda the odd duck of the family. The middle child between the Konami Viper and the Konami Python 2. The system was a short lived platform.

i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r...

For absolutely no real reason whatsoever, I spent the weekend creating a patch for Bug! and Bug Too! to run on modern Windows Bug!er Up fixes Windows 11 compatibility; adds support for XInput controllers, removes the CD-ROM requirement and allows custom soundtracks. github.com/LukeUsher/bu...

Weavings by Marilou Schulz (Diné) on view in “Once within a Time” at SITE Santa Fe.

Thomson EF9345P

Nuvoton MS51FB9AE 8-bit MCU

SIS 85C471

Practicing macro shots of silicon dies

beans

Motorola SC79190FN

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Herman miller wanted $700 CAD to replace my 10 year old seat cushion. Time to add amateur reupholstery to my skill set. My backbone will enjoy this greatly. Old cushion for comparison.

I'm so concerned for the fate of the hobby electronics industry in the US. I have friends who run small online shops selling modern hobby retro gear and it feels like, at least for now, it's going to end in short order. No one can absorb these tariffs. blog.adafruit.com/2025/05/08/h...

Anyone use Intel's 386 processor from 1985, the first 32-bit x86? To improve performance, it preloaded instructions into a 16-byte prefetch queue (highlighted in red). Why does such a small queue take up so much of the chip? Let's look under the microscope at its complicated circuitry... 1/N

Edmond Jordan and I attempted to make a diode today! We over-cooked the spin on glass (SOG), but a lot of great lessons. Hopefully I'll cut a video soon

ESS ES6688FA Vibratto-II DVD Processor

🫡 #AEWDynamite

A multiplexed narrowband RGB light source: ic.onidev.fr/en/die/monoc...

I'm going through user-made tilesets for an old DOS mahjong solitaire game and I found what's possibly the most evil one

Been working on this new little robot for around 3 days it's a hexapod that also works as a tool box. #Maker #robot

Close shut the Jaws of Oblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is available today with @gamepass.xbox.com: xbx.lv/4jEoSu1

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is out today for Xbox Series X|S, PC (via Steam and the Xbox App for Windows PC), Game Pass, cloud, and PlayStation 5. Find out all the details inside: news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/0...

Picked up some controllers for the museum

FOSSF Silicon has applied to @opensaucelive.bsky.social to bring FOSS semiconductor fabrication tools in a mock fab. Hope to see you there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JADZ...

Happy Easter

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

A new version that supports all motherboard revisions is finished, however due to tariffs and Hong Kong halting shipments to USA I'm uncertain when I will be able to test it. Hopefully sooner rather than later. :(

If you love your library, listen up…

The great @redherring32.com made me an amazing case for the Tiny Tendo! I love it 😻 Now I have to get to trimming some chips #midwestgamingclassic

Honored to have met so many wonderful people at this years #midwestgamingclassic How did they get a monster truck to the third floor?

It's another #RandomGameSaturday! I reached over to our OG Xbox library and came away with the third (and final) game in the Midtown Madness series. Trivia: The PAL version here has a sound bug where pedestrians speech will sound like stone golems trying to talk. Let's see what you got, peeps!

my toxic trait is wanting to reverse ever device i have to make a pink pcb for it

Puppetry on parade in this Japanese commercial from 1993 for the Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. Feels very appropriate given how wonderfully strange Link's Awakening can be! #VideoBytes

Sony CXA2016S

On April 19, 2025, we will be performing live at Revision in Saarbrücken (DE)! The demoscene and crackscene music and culture have been shaping the very essence of this project since day one and playing at the world’s biggest demoparty is an honor that truly takes my breath away. SPREAD THE CODE

Who’s that Pokemon?

This is a very neat in-depth explanation for how the FF7 "Cloudsurfing" glitch works, which lets speedrunners walk across the ocean. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHn6...