These source code leaks are going to bring a decades worth of new total conversion mods and rom hacks to the emulation realm. It’s pretty exciting. I can’t wait to see if people get the rumored multiplayer code working in Mario 64 at some point.

I ride my bike pretty much every day, and from aug-nov i have to thread like 50 cable ties through my helmet like a CROWN OF THORNS to keep these motherfuckers away.

I had a local shop that had stacks of Saturn and 32X games that just sat around forever, never able to sell. He eventually dropped the price on them to nothing and they were bought up. Wish I would have had the foresight that they would go up so much in price. This was early 2000's and no one in my little town wanted…

You’ll be missed. Best of luck!

If we could only be so lucky that said douche disconnects from the internet forever...

“So if I don’t connect to the internet ever again I can keep playing as the Redskins forever?”

Yeah, I woke up and read about and watched videos of the unlabeled federal officers in full military camo kits in Portland, where I live, tear gassing and firing off riot munitions without warning or discretion, all at a largely peaceful protest, and, yeah, that’s cast a shadow on my day.

It’s well worth it at this point. Doubly so if you have a VR set.

This game never ceases to amaze me with how much better it gets with every update. You gotta love how dedicated Hello games is to making NMS the game we were all promised. Honestly I think they did that a few big updates ago but here they are continuing to add to it completely free of charge. 

This is closer to pre-ordering than funding, in a way. This is a big, expensive product with a relatively small market. If they know they can sell, X thousand of them at $Y each, it’s worth it. If it’s just “Let’s make 50,000 of these things that cost us $200 to make and put them on shelves for $350, and hope for the…

They do it because there are a lot of toys people claim are high demand then nobody buys them. It keeps them from losing money.

Just to put this in perspective for folks who haven’t been covering this: imagine if just before going into the NBA playoffs we learned that 4 out of 5 starters on every single team entering the playoffs had abused minors, as well as 100% of the coaching staff.

I personally go with the CRT filter as it hides some of the flaws originally hidden by scan lines. I think NES looks fine in 4:3, but SNES needs the filter.

I’m really sorry for your loss. Thanks for sharing that beautiful little tale 

Grief hits you in the weirdest ways. I lost my father to COVID in early April. (He was already in ill health, and was recovering from an operation in the hospital when he caught it, and passed away a week later.) When I was growing up, the SNES was the first system we got, and I have very fond memories of playing DKC…

the kotaku podcast team (Kirk Hamilton, Maddy Myers, Heather Alexandra) and the god-tier Jason Schrier have all left Kotaku in the past six months. Paul Tamayo and Tim Rogers — the video review team — have left as well. Rogers, to start his own studio/blog, Tamayo seems to be heading to Polygon to join Patricia…

Isn’t the Saturn still a bitch to emulate? 

I’m with you, and think that’s a fairly common approach to trophies/gamerscore. Only maxing out the games you feel really attached to. I have a total of 3 platinums over the PS3 and 4 era. Assassins Creed 2, Batman Arkham Asylum and the newest Ratchet and Clank. All 3 of them I really enjoyed and all of them I…