Today’s game is Soul Silver. I spent my time prepping making a checklist of just how many of each Pokemon I need to catch to make a living Johto Dex. So hopefully this time it’ll be a whole lot easier.

I went ahead and setup retroarch this time to play while I fix up my DS. So far it’s been smooth sailing. One complaint though.

Retroarch has been mangling some of my screenshots for some reason. This one came out upside down. But I had some come out completely black except for a purple bar. It’s really weird. I’m not sure what’s up.

Now to actually talk about the game? I have mixed feelings about Johto as a whole. I love the region’s layout. Except the National Park. But the Pokemon I’ve never been a fan of. It just kind of feels like more Gen 1 Pokemon. Which yeah. It’s a sequel to Gen 1 so it makes sense. But I’m not a big fan of Gen 1’s Pokemon either. Maybe Snorlax, Vaporeon, and Vulpix?

But the sprite work on Soul Silver is gorgeous. That’s my favorite part here. Gen 5 may have pretty animations but Soul Silver is really pretty to the eyes in a static way.

The screenshot got trashed as well but I also like that the Pokemart sign spins. It was a detail that admittedly makes me laugh a little. I don’t know why. I guess seeing something so city-like in a little country-like town is just funny to me.

I’m already 3 Gyms in. Tomorrow I’m gonna try and push for another 2. Maybe even 3. I shouldn’t need too search too hard for most the Pokemon relievingly. So it should be a short list to collect for the next few routes.

I remember when the 3DS was region locked (cartridges can only be read if the console is bought in the same country those games are from) meaning it's a headache having to switch between two variants of the handheld (I had a Japanese 3DS XL and an American 3DS regular back then, alternating on each one depending on which game I wanted to play). The switch alleviated this by making the cartridges / console region free.

Best western fantasy action RPG on PS2, it's settled, lol.

My entire month will be spent playing these and several horror games on PC-98 (Neko Project 21).

I saw a video on spawnwave that talked today about what games people are enjoying in 2026 right now. And the different reactions of different social media/sites.

I personally am loving Wild Blue Skie s. Its just starfox. Thats what I want to play!
BALL x PIT is a whole lot of fun. I didn't think it would be but it keeps getting better and better. I also liked FTL back in the day so I picked up Void War . Its like warhammer + FTL and its fantastic.

EDIT: You all are great! Keep them coming! So many games (video games and otherwise) in this list!

Some ideas for how the afterlife might persist as a series of customizable games.

Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed Liberation. It’s been burning a hole in my storage space going unplayed as of late. So I thought I’d finish the story tonight and try for collectives. So far it was a pretty quick experience.

I will say the story kind of had me at a feeling of “what just happened”. It just feels like it kind of lost me a little.

I like that I got to go to New York and meet with Connor. Though. When it said New York I thought it meant the city. I was a little disappointed. The frontier section I got to play through though was fun.

I really liked the last Citizen E segments too. Something about parkouring towards him through a Animus that’s falling apart is a cool scene. Plus I love the Animus we see in the game. It made for a cool backdrop.

Finally, all that’s left now for me to do is to get the collectibles in this game. Which should be easy because there’s not a lot. I also need 100% synch but that shouldn’t be too bad. There was one mission that gave me trouble and that was the last so I should have it mostly in the bag.

Time for an article I wrote about Slot, an interesting custom firmware made specifically for the Anbernic RG SP. I chatted with its developer K-Wall about where it came from and why it deliberately does things a little differently.

Rather than trying to turn the RG SP into an everything-machine, Slot sticks to the Game Boy family and leans hard into the SP nostalgia: games appear as physical cartridges on your screen, the carousel encourages you to keep a smaller collection, closing the lid saves your game, and even the old stretched GB/GBC display mode is recreated. K-Wall took that attention to detail right down to the sounds, recording himself physically pushing a cartridge into his childhood GBA so that familiar 'thunk' could become part of Slot itself.

We also chat about burnout, his other projects Cannoli and Grout, why Slot started as something he never intended to release publicly, and his very candid approach to using A.I. during development as a tool. If you like the RG SP, unusual CFW projects, or software designed around a very specific bit of hardware rather than endless feature creep, hopefully you’ll enjoy it :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52692126

Steam, as on a Steam Deck

Today’s game is some Halo. I wanted to take it easy tonight, mostly because I had to be up early in the morning. So Halo was how I chose to relax. Somehow even the PvP sessions are relaxing to chill in. Well. Usually at least.

I got out in a Griffball lobby for the very first game. My friend I was playing with got disconnected though so it was just me in public matchmaking with 7 strangers for this game. I didn’t realize Griffball was even an option in Matchmaking but I guess it is. We ended up tying after one of our teammates kind of betrayed us and huddled in the corner with the ball I guess? The enemy team seemed happy to let them do it and we can’t really betray our teammate so I guess that’s that

We ended up playing rally until the matchmaking ban was lifted. Or at least that was the plan, then others joined and we decided we’d just go play a Free for All game. Still. Rally was kind of interesting. I can only tolerate it for so long but it was an interesting change of pace.

Our final game of the night was Odd Ball. I like this game mode. It feels like even on low player counts there’s always action because you know where it is. On other game modes it’s very easy to get lost and not find the action. Especially on low player counts. That’s not really an issue here and I like it. Anyways. Tomorrow I’m gonna try and finish up AC Liberations. It’s been burning 40 GBs in my Hard Drive and I’d like those back please.

The creator of one of the most popular Total War: Warhammer III mods ever has deliberately corrupted it so that it will no longer work with “unauthorized reuploads,” amid a row over the rights and wrongs of AI-generated modifications.

Today’s game is Daikatana. I have heard that this game is basically not good. I had a left over handful of quarters though in my Steam wallet so I decided to pick it up. To really see how bad it is. I even decided to give it the benefit of the doubt and install patches and all that stuff.

First of all this game is so fucking green. You ever see that Episode of Futurama where they go to the Slurm Factory? I’m thinking that but it’s Mt. Dew. Like. It’s super fucking green.

My second gripe is the loading zones are bad. Half Life had them too but they felt fast. Even on a SSD I could be waiting a solid 30 seconds for it to load. And if I pass back over the line on accident i have to wait again.

Enough complaining about the design though. What about Gameplay? It’s okay I guess. It’s not the worst thing I’ve played. I didn’t feel like there was any way I could tell my shots were hitting. And the game felt really hard. But also that might not be fair to the game because Half Life felt really hard to me too. So I’m not really the person to trust with that. I will say the story seems kind of interesting. At least what I could pick up through my glitching audio.

I ended up getting to this door way and I kept getting my ass handed to me by these bird things and then an even bigger set of birds. I can’t figure out what to do. I’ve died here like 20 times now and no dice. So I ended up calling it quits. I want to try again eventually because I would at least like to get a decent ways in before forming any sort of opinion. So, did “Romero make me his bitch”? Eh, the jury is still kind of out.

Please look a the video it will explain the problem whole lot better than I ever could. But if you think it is important please sign the petition.

The EU Commision is rolling out a law that will severly impede our rights when it comes to digital products.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52609321

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52609302

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I hope you like it. It's been at 95% finished until about a week ago when I had to finish it.

Today’s game is some Halo PvP. Admittedly today after a single match I was more focused on taking photos in theater mode than actually playing in lobbies. Partly though this is because I’m working on setting up stuff to take a Group Picture of my Halo Group. It might sound Tacky but I’ve got a inkless photo printer and I’d love to have a picture of my group in there. Some of us have moved away and it’d be nice to have that as a way to have a photo of them.

Anyways, sentiments aside, I really love these photos. I usually don’t share the ones with ReShade on. But in the case of this one I feel the presentation is best with it on, and I’m really proud of it. Without the Depth of Field layer it all just kind of blends together.

Anyways. This match, although the only one, felt kind of special tonight. There wasn’t a particular reason, just a lot of memorable things. My favorite was when I was driving the warthog, and a guy hijacks it but I sent it over the edge right as he stole it. Then, right as it goes over I get rammed from behind by a ghost and end up going with them anyways.

I also just straight up got my ass kicked here though. There was this one pair of players that dominated the entire time. It felt like they were nailing all their shots with the Gauss Hog. It was honestly impressive how they could snipe me across the map with the gauss hog.

A lot of the match I spent taking out the larger vehicles. I found I wasn’t standing a chance against the enemy in direct combat so I tried to make myself useful and take out their vehicles. I like Big Team Battle for that. It feels like even without being super skilled like older players you can still bring aide to the table.

Anyways, it just felt nice to be back in the metaphorical saddle for Halo. I love this game. I missed playing it. I hope soon to get my friends together though. Not just for the group picture but for some PvP as well.