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The Best Way to Play Super Mario 64: on Apple Vision Pro
Michael Steil presents diorama64, an open-source project that turns Super Mario 64 levels into living dioramas on Apple Vision Pro that sit on a real table while you play with a controller, and contrasts Nintendo's takedowns with Microsoft's embrace of similar fan projects.
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Sammy Hajhamid (pepsipu) details ns2jb, a software-only tethered jailbreak for the Nintendo Switch 2 on firmware 23.0.1 that runs arbitrary native code as a sysmodule and as fs, enabling homebrew, game modding and save backups, including how Codex was used in the research harness.
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James Mackenzie explains why running 90s DOS games like Quake in their software renderers at high resolutions on fast real hardware looks and plays better than most people remember, why he prefers native DOS to DOSBox, and lists games worth trying.
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Introducing Playground: Create and play custom games
Google introduces Playground, an experimental browser-based gaming platform where anyone can create custom games by describing them in text prompts, then play, share and compete in community games with leaderboards and multiplayer. A Unity Spark integration is coming, and Playground launches for US users 18 and over at playground.google.
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Against All Odds describes PasRISCV, the custom RISC-V emulator that runs a full Linux userspace inside their game SEEDS so in-game tools can execute as native ELF binaries even on Windows hosts.
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Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
How the PS5 Broadcast RTMP pipeline can be intercepted and redirected: reverse-engineering the stream path and what that unlocks.
4 min · 1,016 words
Over 10 years later, Gabe Newell's advice to devs still holds up
PC Gamer revisits Gabe Newell’s decade-old advice to game developers and argues why the core points on players, iteration, and shipping still apply in 2026.
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A custom virtual machine for the Stars! 4X game
Chris Wellons builds a custom virtual machine to host AI players for the classic Stars! 4X game, covering bytecode design, performance, and interfacing with the original binary.
5 min · 1,116 words
The "$60 Gaming PC" — AMD BC-250
The AMD BC-250 is a single-board PC based on a binned PlayStation 5 APU (RDNA 2 GPU, Zen 2 CPU, 16GB GDDR6) originally designed for cryptocurrency mining. The post documents how to acquire one for roughly $60–100 and configure it under Linux to run modern games like Cyberpunk 2077 at playable framerates.
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Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
The AgingGamer dissects Sony's legal argument that game purchases are licenses rather than ownership — agreeing with part of it while skewering the secondary claim that software cannot be "sold" because it is not a finite commodity. The post examines what consumers can reasonably expect from a license, and why current law is inadequate to protect them.
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The Many Many Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06
Isaac Marovitz, working on the Marathon Recompiled project, digs into Sonic 06's rendering and cut content to show how much unfinished lighting, effects and polish the game shipped without, and what the recompilation can restore.
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