Gideon Zhi (Hire me!)

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Tech, localization, reverse-engineering, retro gaming. Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria. He/him. https://aeongenesis.net

A Japanese screenshot of Super Robot Wars 4. Getter Liger has just dodged an attack with Mach Special. The popup indicating as much appears far to the left of the actual unit on-screen.
A clearly fake spam email from "Linda Lin" with the subject line "Your Take on Living in Seattle, Washington D.C.?"
Arby's "One of the Sandwiches of All Time" logo. Subtitled "Also with potato bits"
Wachenroder for Sega Saturn. Pictured are the game disk and case, manual, obi, registration card, mini artbook, a few advertisement inserts, a sticker featuring character Carol Mew, and strategy guide.
Pepsiman Power Gym not-tamagotchi.
Drac's Night Out NES prototype cartridge in a 3D printed frame. (The frame back is held on with thumbscrews so the game can be removed easily. It is not slabbed.)
My git activity for this year. Lots of commits between feb and march mid, even more between late april and end of june
ZERO WING opening scene, except it says "AT XX:YY PM" instead of "IN AD 2101"
Real Robots Final Attack for PS1. Case, manual, obi, and game.
Sayaka attacks, starting Mazinger's theme music. Then Mazinger attacks, and the theme continues. The theme only changes when the Gespenst attacks.
A Futurama stillframe. Bender is in costume as a nurse on the internet, having just convinced someone to pay him for naughty talk. His naughty talk is "So, how about them Knicks?"
A photo of the Crime Crackers at book, page 29, featuring the cut Mario character.
The Aeon Genesis website with "Robot" in the search field
The talking moose
An image showcasing the Aeon Genesis Announcement update on project crimecrackers
Crime Crackers's opening crawl, but replaced with the Spaceballs opening crawl. ("Once upon a time warp.... In a galaxy very, very, very, very, far away there lived a ruthless race of beings known as... Spaceballs"
An image showcasing the Aeon Genesis Major Release update on project rrfa
A small psyduck plush hanging from a peg in my office. It was purchased at the Mega Don Quijote in Shibuya a few years ago.
Testing Crime Crackers out on my office TV.
Crime Crackers subscreen with Leaza, Emilia, and Dragmn's names in English.
iS internal section for ps1 front cover. It's very red, with a pattern of circles vaguely shaped like iS.
Leaza looking smug
It's the Crime Crackers "Official Art Book"! Features Emilia in a pink dress, prominently popping out of a circle on the cover. The rest of her crew is behind her.
The four Crime Crackers ̶g̶e̶n̶d̶e̶r̶s̶ playable characters...? Emilia, Leeza, Dora, and... Mario?
Crime Crackers equipment screen. The characters' names are still in Japanese, but the weapons and armor all read "Dummy" in English, except for Emilia's, which reads "Handgun"
A retroid pocket 6. It's captioned "RP6"
A two frame short of Futurama. Professor Farnsworth is saying, "What do you mean, no power? We're living in the future!"
The text now correctly says "If you're starting fresh, then select NEW GAME. Otherwise, choose a file!"
Text now reads "Ifaaaa'aaaaaartaaaaafaashaataanaaeaact NEW GAME aaOtaarwaaeaacaaoaaaaaaaaiaa!"
No more zalgotext, but the paired letters are all reversed.
Crime Crackers text except most of it is garbage. You can still make out a few words here and there though.
U-Force manual cover
Crime Crackers memory card screen. The dialog text says "If you're starting fresh, then select NEW GAME. Otherwise, choose a file!" NEW GAME is highlighted in yellow.
Hemborger (consider)
Quest 64 Brian
Crime Crackers in English with a full proportional font. Dialog is currently placeholder.
Crime Crackers's new game screen. It has English text that says "Select a file for your game!"
Crime Crackers Japanese script dump spreadsheet. Screenshot shows an excerpt of Act 3's text.
Ridegear Guybrave for PS1. Case, disk, manual, and obi. All show the titular mech character standing and looking brave, or at least as brave as a robot can look.
Python code describing the initialization of a CrimeEvent object. Passes index, opcode, original address, parameters, and goto destination.
The quoted tweet. "An error occurred" is centered on the monitor in the video.
Some Japanese text, as rendered by a hex editor with a table file
A screen capture of Shadow Labyrinth. The character is falling down a cliff, and there's a red sparkling spot in the upper middle of the screen.
A snapshot of a page of the Lowrey Cotillion D-575 service manual. Too much text to copy here, but there's a lot of technical jargon about parallel interfaces, circuits, word writes, voltage, etc.
One of the Takeshi's Castle Famicom games.
Haunted Lands achievement for 100% completion. 0.4% of players have this achievement.
A screenshot of Dear Lanigrasser. Village people says "..... Someone.. help.. ...."
It's Dwayne The Rock Johnson as Maui from the Moana live action remake. He's got curly hair and is holding his hands apart. I've captioned it "ALIENS"
It's one of those "intel inside" stickers, except it says "anthill inside" instead. Top left reads "HEX". Bottom reads "pratchett processor"
US Tales of Phantasia GBA cartridge.
The complete Steel Titan model. There's a little placard showing that it has ???/??? HP.
The model's head. The smaller jewels are about 2.5mm at their longest point.
Same photo as before except now the torso is in the frame. It's a big barrely deal with the kanji "dai" on its chest. Photo is a bit zoomed out and there's an Everybody Polka CD in the background for some reason.