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This post made me wanna check out the rest of the soundtrack through a .spc rip and woah Dean Evans' work in here is really good. The Password Screen track is so smooth.

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how do you choose who to donate to? it always feels like such an awful choice, everyone needs it so badly but i can only give to a few people at a time with what i have. how does anyone choose who to help, or how much to give each person?

gazafunds.com loads a randomized fundraiser for people with this anxiety

you could also buy esims for Gazans or donate to Gaza Municipality Project

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Some art I made about like 3 months ago I simply never uploaded.

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hello, if you would like to make an impact, consider donating to alaa [ @alaakh99 ]. she is a mother of two and is raising money to evacuate her family from gaza. she has been displaced many times and has been affected by hepatitis.

[verification]|[telegram channel for alaa]

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To add onto this, I think the loss of RHDN accepting newer submissions really hurts the 80-90's game console hacking scene. There really aren't a lot of sites I'm aware of outside of RHDN that offered the ability to distribute game patches in such a clean way! Especially for 'niche' titles. You want to distribute your Super Mario World hack? Ah, that's no issue. SMWCentral is right around the corner. However, finding a place to promote and share patches for say an obscure Japanese only Game Boy title become a bit trickier. I think RHDN's 'News' page and recent updates/random screenshots really gave people an area to discover and discuss these freely. I think the site still saw enough foot traffic that people would see those passing through. I get that since everything has been backed up to the IA it's not going to all disappear overnight, but man. A lot of things are going to be trickier to recommend to people because you're going to have to dig through that archive if the author hasn't been active in a couple of years. If I ever do anything else, or want to find a new hack, I gotta look elsewhere. I'm really hoping another centralized website for sharing .IPS/.BPS files pops up and picks up where RHDN left off. I'm not sure I feel comfortable touching most of the drama surrounding the decision to shut down new submissions, either.

Sad news, romhacking.net is shutting down.

This makes me sick to my stomach. Romhacking.net has been the place to go for ways to play english fan translations, quality of life hacks, bug fixes, creative twists on existing games that maybe let you play as other characters or have new abilities, or total conversions that essentially take your favorite games and make something new out of it, not to mention many valuable tools for learning how to make your own romhacks. It even hosted work arounds for modern problems. Did you know it's now possible to play Duck Hunt and other light gun games on an LCD TV now? Before, it was only possible to play it on an old fashioned CRT TV. You could also play Gyromite without ROB the Robot, and Mario and Wario without a SNES Mouse.

When I would play a retro game, I'd tend to look for the best possible way to play it. More often than not, that usually meant just playing the game as is, but there are some games that are practically unplayable in their default form. Festers Quest needed to impliment all the changes from the European version of the game into the NTSC release in order for the game to play as intended, without shots disappear when they collide with walls. The original Zelda and Metroid encouraged players to draw their own maps because there was no map system included, but both games have hacks that include maps. Many NES games without the ability to save your progress now have Sram saving, and can save your game on a real NES.

I'm sure there will still be romhacking websites. Specialized sites for Mario 64, Sonic the Hedgehog, Zelda, MSU1, and Super Mario World still exist. There's a few lesser known hacking sites I won't mention, places that distribute hacks, and youtube channels that showcase them. But this is still a huge loss that retro gaming will take a long time to recover from.

So I urge you, if you like any romhack, please learn who the creator of the hack is, and follow them wherever you can find them. And boost their work whenever you can.

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A reminder that there's a small petition you can sign to try to convince Google's CEO and Google Cloud's CEO to end Project Nimbus. They're getting rather close to their signature goal too! Please take the time to throw your name on the list if you can.

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Tumblr's previews for small GIFs do not do them any favors at all and they look so much nicer when they're actually posted.

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how you can help palestine

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

‼️ help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

mohammed is a friend of ahmed (90-ghost) and is a haemophilia patient. him and his family are currently living in a tent on the streets of rafah.

help gaza’s children

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani - gofundme

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

Petitions

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

location specific petitions

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

ceasefire and allow aid to enter gaza - oxfam (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

reach out to countries to back up south africa’s invoke genocide convention at the ICJ

‼️ international criminal court

submit evidences of israeli war crimes

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

‼️ BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

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I think he's mad. I screwed up the proportions ever so slightly here but ah well. Alternative version without the change in Fritz's skin (and the original sketch) below the cut.

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I think he's mad. I screwed up the proportions ever so slightly here but ah well. Alternative version without the change in Fritz's skin (and the original sketch) below the cut.

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This is a fascinating little read! Pretty interesting to learn that apparently this was just a developer screwing around and he didn't add this with the intention of giving pirates an easy way to play around with burned discs. It still has the novelty of being snuck under Sony's nose. The only other thing that I can think of that's somewhat comparable is Sega Smash Pack Volume 1 intentionally leaving instructions to a piracy group. In said instructions, the developer explains how the Sega Genesis emulator used in the collection worked, so anyone could use the emulator to play whatever Genesis titles that could properly boot: DCEmulation • View topic - Smash Pack programmer wanted Echelon to release ROM Loader (archive.org)

(Credit to The Cutting Room Floor for this information. The archived forum thread I linked first as it provides a bit more context not initially covered in the Wiki entry.) The extra kicker is that the collection was released onto the market the same day Sega announced they were discontinuing manufacturing of the Dreamcast system, so this very much seems like an intentional 'final present' to everybody who had the system.

This is wild; apparently Martin Piper - a developer on Alien: Ressurections for the PS1 - helped ship the game with a secret cheat code that turned the game into a boot disc that allowed you to boot any pirated PS1 game from the console.

That's a huge (and super cool!) secret to hide for over two decades!

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A Crash drawing I kinda rushed through. Really wanted to try drawing him again as sort of a followup to an older piece I did ages ago, but with much better proportions. The original sketch is below:

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What if he had like tiny feet. Like smaller tiny Wario feet to contrast the rest of his body.

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Doctor Gerald Fritz ~ The World's Greatest Self-Proclaimed Genius! Far off the coast of the town of Blueburg lies this nefarious man, who lives in a small castle that he inherited from his family line. Tragically wronged years ago in his adolescence, he now plans to take over the town of Blueburg to prove his own self-worth...and to satisfy his fragile ego. While he's very eager to scheme, his own over-confidence usually throws him (and others) into danger. As a result, Fritz usually has to play the (Anti-)Hero just to live another day. Tragic for him, hilarious to whoever's watching from a safe distance. The only other person keeping him company is some guy he hired off the streets who thinks he can fly planes pretty well. He apparently needs a way in and out of the city and is too stubborn to admit he isn't terribly good with robotics...Y'know, if he's employing people, maybe he isn't that bad. The original sketched illustration is also included down below:

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Ramen. That new DLC thingy made me want to take a more serious stab at drawing him. I hate how his head came out, and his hair is very difficult, but the rest of him is super fun to draw! His redesign is also really well done - the hoodie pockets feel as if they should've always been there.

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One more self-indulgent piece before I try some fanart.