Mark 🌳 SMS
@marktreesms.bsky.social
He/Him
Retro game fan.
PAL SMS advocate
Retro game fan.
PAL SMS advocate
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Iran has killed all connections to the outside. But in the early morning the regular internet works briefly. In that time, @hackimi.bsky.social sent me a letter about what it's like being a developer without the internet as the government tries to squash everyone:
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A Game Developer Without Internet
Iran has been without internet for 9 days. Arash sent a letter as a developer without the internet, in the few moments when the great firewall faltered.
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January 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Iran has killed all connections to the outside. But in the early morning the regular internet works briefly. In that time, @hackimi.bsky.social sent me a letter about what it's like being a developer without the internet as the government tries to squash everyone:
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Social media shouldn't be banned for under-16s. Here are four reasons why ⬇️ And the fourth is the one people never talk about...
January 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Social media shouldn't be banned for under-16s. Here are four reasons why ⬇️ And the fourth is the one people never talk about...
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like yeah maybe this is all copium, maybe I could be seen as taking things too personally, but I've met so many people over the years that are so passionate about old media, so passionate and sincere about making a new world with the old, that reducing their efforts to "nostalgia" feels criminal
January 4, 2026 at 11:37 PM
like yeah maybe this is all copium, maybe I could be seen as taking things too personally, but I've met so many people over the years that are so passionate about old media, so passionate and sincere about making a new world with the old, that reducing their efforts to "nostalgia" feels criminal
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I know I keep harping on this but I feel weird about how exploration of old media is perceived in 2026
I hear "nostalgia" bandied about more when it always felt like it was about more than that -- my exploration didn't really think about that so much as exploring temporal worlds I never accessed
I hear "nostalgia" bandied about more when it always felt like it was about more than that -- my exploration didn't really think about that so much as exploring temporal worlds I never accessed
January 4, 2026 at 11:23 PM
I know I keep harping on this but I feel weird about how exploration of old media is perceived in 2026
I hear "nostalgia" bandied about more when it always felt like it was about more than that -- my exploration didn't really think about that so much as exploring temporal worlds I never accessed
I hear "nostalgia" bandied about more when it always felt like it was about more than that -- my exploration didn't really think about that so much as exploring temporal worlds I never accessed
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In 2025 I released two new SEGA Master System games and started work on another.
In 2026 my goal is to release another two for SMS and another unknown project.
Thanks for all your support this year!
#mastersystem #homebrew
In 2026 my goal is to release another two for SMS and another unknown project.
Thanks for all your support this year!
#mastersystem #homebrew
December 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In 2025 I released two new SEGA Master System games and started work on another.
In 2026 my goal is to release another two for SMS and another unknown project.
Thanks for all your support this year!
#mastersystem #homebrew
In 2026 my goal is to release another two for SMS and another unknown project.
Thanks for all your support this year!
#mastersystem #homebrew
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Sega Channel Revival support is now available for MiSTer!
December 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Sega Channel Revival support is now available for MiSTer!
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And on that night, Ebenezer Sega, CEO of Sega, was visited by three spirits:
1. The Ghost of Christmas in America, who recommended they make the 32X
2. The Ghost of Christmas Japan, who recommended they make the Sega Saturn
3. The Ghost of Christmas Brazil, who just wanted more Master System
1. The Ghost of Christmas in America, who recommended they make the 32X
2. The Ghost of Christmas Japan, who recommended they make the Sega Saturn
3. The Ghost of Christmas Brazil, who just wanted more Master System
December 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
And on that night, Ebenezer Sega, CEO of Sega, was visited by three spirits:
1. The Ghost of Christmas in America, who recommended they make the 32X
2. The Ghost of Christmas Japan, who recommended they make the Sega Saturn
3. The Ghost of Christmas Brazil, who just wanted more Master System
1. The Ghost of Christmas in America, who recommended they make the 32X
2. The Ghost of Christmas Japan, who recommended they make the Sega Saturn
3. The Ghost of Christmas Brazil, who just wanted more Master System
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To celebrate the holidays, we've uploaded a lengthy review discussion of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on our bonus channel. To get a taste, here is Kiki's galaxy brained solution to the conundrum of Samus not speaking. This and more over in the full video. Click the link!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWj...
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
To celebrate the holidays, we've uploaded a lengthy review discussion of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond on our bonus channel. To get a taste, here is Kiki's galaxy brained solution to the conundrum of Samus not speaking. This and more over in the full video. Click the link!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWj...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWj...
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NEW VIDEO
Last Christmas, I found a Shiny Mythical I had been hunting for MONTHS - only to get really nervous and fail it spectacularly.
A Christmas fail asks for a Christmas poem. With gorgeous Seuss-style illustrations from @dhawyt.bsky.social, this is how Shiny Shaymin stole Christmas.
Last Christmas, I found a Shiny Mythical I had been hunting for MONTHS - only to get really nervous and fail it spectacularly.
A Christmas fail asks for a Christmas poem. With gorgeous Seuss-style illustrations from @dhawyt.bsky.social, this is how Shiny Shaymin stole Christmas.
I failed a Shiny Mythical Pokémon on Christmas Eve
YouTube video by cecilily
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December 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
NEW VIDEO
Last Christmas, I found a Shiny Mythical I had been hunting for MONTHS - only to get really nervous and fail it spectacularly.
A Christmas fail asks for a Christmas poem. With gorgeous Seuss-style illustrations from @dhawyt.bsky.social, this is how Shiny Shaymin stole Christmas.
Last Christmas, I found a Shiny Mythical I had been hunting for MONTHS - only to get really nervous and fail it spectacularly.
A Christmas fail asks for a Christmas poem. With gorgeous Seuss-style illustrations from @dhawyt.bsky.social, this is how Shiny Shaymin stole Christmas.
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I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.
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The Xbox Boycott (Still) Matters
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I need every cis person who is framing the OU situation as an academic controversy to read this for the context they are missing and so desperately need to be loudly fighting against.
I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I need every cis person who is framing the OU situation as an academic controversy to read this for the context they are missing and so desperately need to be loudly fighting against.
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The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
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Oh what's this?
The complete and uncut Let's Play of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within from me and @shirokumahi.me now presented as one uninterrupted video instead of a continuously broken YouTube playlist? That's right!
There's even CHAPTERS!
Go watch! It rules!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qw...
The complete and uncut Let's Play of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within from me and @shirokumahi.me now presented as one uninterrupted video instead of a continuously broken YouTube playlist? That's right!
There's even CHAPTERS!
Go watch! It rules!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qw...
Let's Play Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
YouTube video by Dia Lacina
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Oh what's this?
The complete and uncut Let's Play of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within from me and @shirokumahi.me now presented as one uninterrupted video instead of a continuously broken YouTube playlist? That's right!
There's even CHAPTERS!
Go watch! It rules!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qw...
The complete and uncut Let's Play of Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within from me and @shirokumahi.me now presented as one uninterrupted video instead of a continuously broken YouTube playlist? That's right!
There's even CHAPTERS!
Go watch! It rules!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qw...
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Took me a while to get around to it, but here is the English translation of the interview from two weeks ago! I hope it'll be an interesting read to all of you.
gensakudan.com/en/blog/phan...
gensakudan.com/en/blog/phan...
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Took me a while to get around to it, but here is the English translation of the interview from two weeks ago! I hope it'll be an interesting read to all of you.
gensakudan.com/en/blog/phan...
gensakudan.com/en/blog/phan...
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Having concluded our business with the Blue Prince, it's time for @shirokumahi.me and I to begin a new adventure...
Echo Night!
Come join us as we get sucked into this atmospheric PSX ghost story from From Software!
youtu.be/YahfzrWxnV8
Echo Night!
Come join us as we get sucked into this atmospheric PSX ghost story from From Software!
youtu.be/YahfzrWxnV8
Let's Play Echo Night - Episode 1
YouTube video by Dia Lacina
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Having concluded our business with the Blue Prince, it's time for @shirokumahi.me and I to begin a new adventure...
Echo Night!
Come join us as we get sucked into this atmospheric PSX ghost story from From Software!
youtu.be/YahfzrWxnV8
Echo Night!
Come join us as we get sucked into this atmospheric PSX ghost story from From Software!
youtu.be/YahfzrWxnV8
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Samus protect - Metroid Prime 4 Beyond
#MetroidPrime4
#MetroidPrime4
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Samus protect - Metroid Prime 4 Beyond
#MetroidPrime4
#MetroidPrime4
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November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Continuing the joy of PuPu Week on ff8isthe.best
Would you buy this PuPu merchandise? Yes you would. You are weak
Must acquire maximum PuPus.
ff8isthe.best
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Continuing the joy of PuPu Week on ff8isthe.best
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We have been blessed with high resolution Robbit.
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We have been blessed with high resolution Robbit.
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It is increasingly clear that there is a crisis of trust in legacy media, five-alarm fire stuff. It is bad for any news outlet to have a reputation that wards off people it should be talking to, and the wary are growing in number
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It is increasingly clear that there is a crisis of trust in legacy media, five-alarm fire stuff. It is bad for any news outlet to have a reputation that wards off people it should be talking to, and the wary are growing in number
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Looks like we've been going for 6 years today. Happy birthday, Transparency Boo! Celebrate us, cowards!
We'll do a stream tomorrow to mark the occasion. 👻
We'll do a stream tomorrow to mark the occasion. 👻
![Sloppy paint drawing of Alicia and Kiki surrounded by two Boo faces and nonsense text saying "transparancy [sic] boo 6th", "happy day", "six?" and "birthed!".
Alicia: "on this day, transparency boo the youtube channel on youtube.com has been around for exactly VI years"
Kiki: "damn, that's like eighteen months or something"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v2ncjz4o63yrbahanps6wlpa/bafkreicxpzqh3wkmjcku63dax7tslszb4eyqk4w5wgvrxwbpcrtwws56jy@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Looks like we've been going for 6 years today. Happy birthday, Transparency Boo! Celebrate us, cowards!
We'll do a stream tomorrow to mark the occasion. 👻
We'll do a stream tomorrow to mark the occasion. 👻
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I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
This is a very impressive PS1 game by @eliasdaler.bsky.social running on SuperStation.
November 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.