Nicole Express
@nicole.express
i like video games too much // neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire // she/her // https://nicole.express
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incidentally I tried to use libretro for a project a few months ago and it was... you know how people say "it's the worst option, except all other options", what they usually mean is "the problem space is inherently hard". This one felt like the worst by default, because there simply WERE no others
Some Libretro Thoughts
Many years ago I set up a disused Pentium 4 desktop with Debian as an emulator console connected to our TV. The system served well enough - I played through all of Chrono Trigger on it, at least - but...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
incidentally I tried to use libretro for a project a few months ago and it was... you know how people say "it's the worst option, except all other options", what they usually mean is "the problem space is inherently hard". This one felt like the worst by default, because there simply WERE no others
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Me: Can we get a PS2?
Mom: We have a PS2 at home.
The PS/2 at home:
Mom: We have a PS2 at home.
The PS/2 at home:
February 9, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Me: Can we get a PS2?
Mom: We have a PS2 at home.
The PS/2 at home:
Mom: We have a PS2 at home.
The PS/2 at home:
i'm seeing people say "you don't need discord, you don't need emoji, you can just use irc", and uh, does irc not support multibyte unicode characters?
because unless you're going out of your way to filter it, good unicode support brings emoji for free! it's actually a nice thing about emoji
because unless you're going out of your way to filter it, good unicode support brings emoji for free! it's actually a nice thing about emoji
February 9, 2026 at 10:28 PM
i'm seeing people say "you don't need discord, you don't need emoji, you can just use irc", and uh, does irc not support multibyte unicode characters?
because unless you're going out of your way to filter it, good unicode support brings emoji for free! it's actually a nice thing about emoji
because unless you're going out of your way to filter it, good unicode support brings emoji for free! it's actually a nice thing about emoji
Kind of a fun map; interesting that I'm not actually very close to the Retro Computing clusters... I guess I'm hanging out with the "pros"
February 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Kind of a fun map; interesting that I'm not actually very close to the Retro Computing clusters... I guess I'm hanging out with the "pros"
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why we stop making computers look fresh
February 9, 2026 at 8:47 AM
why we stop making computers look fresh
decided to search for a company that put out a stupid ad. search engine gave me a much better recommendation on how to spend my time
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
decided to search for a company that put out a stupid ad. search engine gave me a much better recommendation on how to spend my time
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This is the Casio #WQV-1, the world's first camera watch. Originally you would sync via an IR serial dongle on Win98, but most of the IR pods are long gone. I made a device that syncs, converts, and mounts as a USB drive to get your photos!
February 9, 2026 at 1:56 AM
This is the Casio #WQV-1, the world's first camera watch. Originally you would sync via an IR serial dongle on Win98, but most of the IR pods are long gone. I made a device that syncs, converts, and mounts as a USB drive to get your photos!
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Thou nosey users with peering eyes, Readers of this file, I despise,
I'll create a curse of fear and dread, Hackers, I do not like," Chris said...
I'll create a curse of fear and dread, Hackers, I do not like," Chris said...
February 9, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Thou nosey users with peering eyes, Readers of this file, I despise,
I'll create a curse of fear and dread, Hackers, I do not like," Chris said...
I'll create a curse of fear and dread, Hackers, I do not like," Chris said...
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i heard you were looking for an illustration of Olive Oyl using her nintendo famicom, with the tv-net modem peripheral plugged into it, so she can use "daiwa my trade", and make trades on the japanese stock market, with the help of popeye.
well here you go
well here you go
February 8, 2026 at 7:38 PM
i heard you were looking for an illustration of Olive Oyl using her nintendo famicom, with the tv-net modem peripheral plugged into it, so she can use "daiwa my trade", and make trades on the japanese stock market, with the help of popeye.
well here you go
well here you go
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"Kaneda" by Groogy (2024), a gorgeous recreation of the iconic bike slide from Akira on the ZX Spectrum in its standard graphics mode.
February 9, 2026 at 12:06 AM
"Kaneda" by Groogy (2024), a gorgeous recreation of the iconic bike slide from Akira on the ZX Spectrum in its standard graphics mode.
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There's something incredibly funny about ugly American Mega Man being on display at a museum
February 8, 2026 at 6:21 AM
There's something incredibly funny about ugly American Mega Man being on display at a museum
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Commission work done for @dogemario12.bsky.social
Tiffany makes a devastating blow to Morrigan
#fanart #pixelart #spritework #anime #manga #Boxing #punchout #crt #CAPCOM
Tiffany makes a devastating blow to Morrigan
#fanart #pixelart #spritework #anime #manga #Boxing #punchout #crt #CAPCOM
February 8, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Commission work done for @dogemario12.bsky.social
Tiffany makes a devastating blow to Morrigan
#fanart #pixelart #spritework #anime #manga #Boxing #punchout #crt #CAPCOM
Tiffany makes a devastating blow to Morrigan
#fanart #pixelart #spritework #anime #manga #Boxing #punchout #crt #CAPCOM
was that an ad telling me to watch an ad; man we have really taken advertising to an extremely high level of... something
February 9, 2026 at 12:20 AM
was that an ad telling me to watch an ad; man we have really taken advertising to an extremely high level of... something
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Spent the better part of 3 hours trying to get an old Pentium 3 dell to work.
I failed.
So I'm buying a Compaq Presario with a 1GHZ AMD Athlon with Enhanced 3DNow!™ Technology instead.
I failed.
So I'm buying a Compaq Presario with a 1GHZ AMD Athlon with Enhanced 3DNow!™ Technology instead.
February 8, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Spent the better part of 3 hours trying to get an old Pentium 3 dell to work.
I failed.
So I'm buying a Compaq Presario with a 1GHZ AMD Athlon with Enhanced 3DNow!™ Technology instead.
I failed.
So I'm buying a Compaq Presario with a 1GHZ AMD Athlon with Enhanced 3DNow!™ Technology instead.
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“The choice is made. The destroyer of worlds has come.”
“Whoa! Whoa! Nobody 'choosed' anything! Did you choose anything?”
“No.”
“Did you?”
...
"Cloud?"
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us:"
“Whoa! Whoa! Nobody 'choosed' anything! Did you choose anything?”
“No.”
“Did you?”
...
"Cloud?"
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us:"
February 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
“The choice is made. The destroyer of worlds has come.”
“Whoa! Whoa! Nobody 'choosed' anything! Did you choose anything?”
“No.”
“Did you?”
...
"Cloud?"
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us:"
“Whoa! Whoa! Nobody 'choosed' anything! Did you choose anything?”
“No.”
“Did you?”
...
"Cloud?"
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood, something that could never, ever possibly destroy us:"
New blog post! How did Jaleco adapt their Mega System 1 hardware to the needs of mahjong? And the plot of this game is... what? Mahjong Daireikai! nicole.express/2026/spooky-...
Story Follows Function: Mahjong Daireikai
We like to say that video games are art, and there’s truth in that. But in the capitalist world, video games are also a business. Not everything is the produ...
nicole.express
February 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
New blog post! How did Jaleco adapt their Mega System 1 hardware to the needs of mahjong? And the plot of this game is... what? Mahjong Daireikai! nicole.express/2026/spooky-...
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blasting jock jams as i turkish ice cream man this little brat himejoshi-style
February 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
blasting jock jams as i turkish ice cream man this little brat himejoshi-style
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Today's #randomgamesaturday is this scuffed box of Rescue on Fractalus from LucasFilm Games for your Commodore 64 or Atari 8-bit. I wonder if this game was the reason I didn't understand the hype about the new 3D of PS1/SAT/N64 gen cause we always had 3D games as far as I knew. Want to play again
February 7, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Today's #randomgamesaturday is this scuffed box of Rescue on Fractalus from LucasFilm Games for your Commodore 64 or Atari 8-bit. I wonder if this game was the reason I didn't understand the hype about the new 3D of PS1/SAT/N64 gen cause we always had 3D games as far as I knew. Want to play again
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The Oregon Trail predates Rogue by 9 years, therefore all roguelikes are technically Oregon-likes
February 7, 2026 at 9:41 AM
The Oregon Trail predates Rogue by 9 years, therefore all roguelikes are technically Oregon-likes
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i'm not gonna sugar-coat it — your intuition is absolutely correct, the sega master system release of Shanghai (1988) definitely released after Sega was actively working to utilize AI into their ecosystem.
February 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
i'm not gonna sugar-coat it — your intuition is absolutely correct, the sega master system release of Shanghai (1988) definitely released after Sega was actively working to utilize AI into their ecosystem.
because Random Stranger is completely correct about Shadow of the Beast, I will choose a random game that is a good Master System game: Shanghai
The fact that this never got a Japanese release, despite having an FM soundtrack and Japan loving Shanghai, really shows what a flop the SMS was there
The fact that this never got a Japanese release, despite having an FM soundtrack and Japan loving Shanghai, really shows what a flop the SMS was there
February 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
because Random Stranger is completely correct about Shadow of the Beast, I will choose a random game that is a good Master System game: Shanghai
The fact that this never got a Japanese release, despite having an FM soundtrack and Japan loving Shanghai, really shows what a flop the SMS was there
The fact that this never got a Japanese release, despite having an FM soundtrack and Japan loving Shanghai, really shows what a flop the SMS was there
man I've got to say if I were a horrible person who inherited a brutal dictatorship from my father I'd have had a way better taste in video games. like when the people rise up and righteously burn down my palace in anger they'd be destroying irreplaceable arcade machines and prototypes
February 7, 2026 at 4:47 PM
man I've got to say if I were a horrible person who inherited a brutal dictatorship from my father I'd have had a way better taste in video games. like when the people rise up and righteously burn down my palace in anger they'd be destroying irreplaceable arcade machines and prototypes
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The world has 8.3 billion people…
And most of them live in Scotland 🏴
And most of them live in Scotland 🏴
February 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM
The world has 8.3 billion people…
And most of them live in Scotland 🏴
And most of them live in Scotland 🏴