xdaniel

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β€’ He/they/she enby πŸ’›πŸ€πŸ’œπŸ–€ from HE, Germany πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ β€’ Hobby programmer & wannabe indie game dev; retro computer & console enthusiast; anime, manga & Vtuber fan -- and more! β€’ de/native, en/good, ζ—₯本θͺž/へた β€’ Visit https://xdaniel.neocities.org β€’ Avatar: mono ep11

Artwork of Shizuka Hiratsuka-sensei in a wedding dress by Oregairu illustrator/chara designer ぽんかん⑧ -- image source: https://yande.re/post/show/470385
Screenshot of "Render Test Application", rendering a 3D model of Shiki from Digimon World Next Order for PS Vita sitting on the ground; Dear Imgui windows for rendering & animation control and camera info are visible as well
Screenshot of "Render Test Application", showing a 3D model of Shiki from Digimon World Next Order (PS Vita version) jumping and punching the air in front of a gray background and above a colored quad; two Dear ImGui windows are visible, one for renderer/animation controls and one with camera data
Screenshot of "Render Test Application", showing a 3D model of the female Ace Trainer from Pokemon Sun/Moon running in front of a gray background; there are two Dear ImGui windows: "Debug: Renderer" showing a tree of loaded models and their animations as well as a time slider and checkboxes for animation autoplay and wireframe rendering, and "Debug: Camera" showing various camera values like position, pitch, yaw, etc
Photo of German release of Tales of Berseria for PS4 lying on table
Photo of German release PS4 games on table; Tales of Berseria, Tony Hawk 1+2, Spyro Trilogy, Crash Bandicoot Trilogy
Image to represent Zelda OoT and my memories of it; messing around with memory debugging stuff in the OoT MQ Debug ROM on hardware recently, after having been in/or adjacent to the OoT ROM hacking/prototype/etc community for over two decades
Photo of Elsa Erazor III Pro graphics card lying on table, missing its custom fan and with the top part of its AGP slot bracket broken
Video of lighting demo in OpenGL, showing multiple colored lights, some static, some sweeping or otherwise moving around
Photo of German PS4 release box of Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Screenshot of "Render Test Application", now showing a yellow-ish light above the tile floor from a distance; it lights up the immediate surrounding area but much of the floor is dark
Screenshot of "Render Test Application", showing a white cube floating slightly above a tiled floor; the cube lights up the floor somewhat realistically; two Dear ImGui windows with camera controls, and some application stuff (ex textures used) are visible as well
Cropped/redacted screenshot of Amazon order summary for Sakuna for PS4; 14.99 € total, expected delivery July 16-17
Cropped screenshot of order summary page, showing PS4 games (in order): Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Tales of Berseria, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2; cover art on the left, condition (all "very good") below the titles, and price (all between ~7€ and ~17€) on the right
Screenshot of application rendering part of Zelda OoT's Hyrule Field pretty decently; the camera is pointing towards the entrance to the castle town on the left and Kakariko/Death Mountain on the center right; textures that should be transparent or translucent are rendered fully opaque; some Dear ImGui windows are visible
Cropped screenshot of application showing Dear Imgui window with N64 display list decompilation; one display list is loaded & being rendered in the background behind the window, a single chunk of grass of Hyrule Field from Zelda OoT; one gsDPSetTile command is selected, one gsDPSetCombineLERP is hovered over, a popup shows the latter's color combiner equation
Cropped screenshot of Dear ImGui window, bits of Hyrule Field from Zelda OoT showing through around the edges etc; window contains a list of display list addresses on the left, a (incomplete) decompilation of the display list on the right, showing function calls like ex. gsSPVertex, gsSP2Triangles, etc with a gsDPSetCombineLERP instance highlighted; the bottom of the window shows a line of text with raw info about the command (address, opcode ex. G_SETCOMBINE and raw 64 bits of data)
Screenshot of application showing a somewhat crude rendering of Kakariko Village from Zelda OoT, with some relatively correct textures as well as a lot of geometry just rendering as red (CI-type textures) or white (textures from unhandled segments)
Screenshot of application showing crude-ish rendering of Kakariko Village from Zelda OoT, with placeholder textures but otherwise correct-ish colors, plus wireframe overlay and some Dear ImGui windows
Screenshot of application showing unused "N coin" GI model from Zelda OoT with wireframe overlay and using its vertex normals for colors resulting in a rainbow effect all over it
MK64 PAL controller pak menu in ares
Crop from US MK64 manual about controller pak data menu
Photo of OoT file select showing Ship of Harkinian extended file info with items, songs, equipment, etc obtained, number of hearts, rupees, etc etc
Screenshot of cube rendered in OpenGL, textured with one of the common grass textures from Zelda OoT; some Dear Imgui windows are also visible
Unit conversion, 40Β°C == 104Β°F
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Phone weather widget, 39Β°c at 13:59
Screenshot of OpenGL test/demo/something application, showing colored rotating cube and two Dear Imgui window, one with OpenGL context info, the other showing the raw MVP matrices
Cropped screenshort of Commodore 64 User's Guide, page 68, "Introduction to Sprites"; PDF page 78 in PDF at http://cini.classiccmp.org/pdf/Commodore/C64%20User%27s%20Guide.pdf
Photo of Zelda OoT quest status screen, all melodies, all medallions except spirit, 38 gold skulltula etc
Character intro image of Shima Rin from Yurucamp season 1, showing several illustrations of Rin, 4 of them with the hairstyle I mean -- really wonder why I've come to like the OG hairstyle of one of my favorite characters ever!
Cropped screenshot of weather widget on Android showing 34Β°C at 15:00 (3 minutes ago) with forecast showing max of 32 (today), 33, 34, 34 and 30Β°C respectively
Photo of 13 inch MacBook Pro from 2015, running the Ship of Harkinian Zelda OoT port under macOS Monterey, with Stats CPU pulldown opened showing system uptime of 3h 1m, battery is at 18% charge; a Switch 1 Pro Controller is resting partially on the keyboard on the right
Photo of NSSI system information utility running under DOS, showing graphics card specs for a Sapphire Radeon VE, AGP 2x bus, with 32 MB RAM
Photo of cards listed in post, lying on table and partially closed laptop lid
Screengrab from Hit Save! capture of GBA/GCN demo tape, showing title screen of early version of F-Zero for GBA running on Wide-Boy 64 AGB; title screen has a debug overlay of sorts, the logo is missing the (R) mark in the top right corner, the "For Game Boy Advance" title uses a different font, and the 2001 Nintendo copyright is missing
Screenshot of home screen on Android 16/Xiaomi Hyper OS 3 on Redmi Note 15 Pro 5G
Screenshot of WSC homebrew showing Progress Pride flag, "HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!" wavy banner, and Cool Crab
Cropped Windows Explorer screenshot showing "Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7.04 Anniversary Edition (German).mdf" & ".mds", dated today at 19:44, at a bit over 330 MB total
Screenshot of Disgaea 4 test map from TCRF, https://tcrf.net/Disgaea_4:_A_Promise_Unforgotten
Photo of Paint Shop Pro 7 AE introductory manual on the left, reference manual in the middle, anniversary edition bonus pack manual on the right, and the registration card and CD on top of the reference manual
Photo of software mentioned in post, Windows 3.1 unpacked with box, manual and both floppy disks sets visible on the left, Paint Shop Pro 7 AE box next to them on the right
Cropped/redacted screenshot of listing on eBay Germany titled "Microsoft Windows XP Professional 90MT GOLD UKG VGA WATA", which is a copy of Windows XP Pro's upgrade version in English entombed in a transparent box, graded as "90 MT GOLD" by some UK grading company and being sold for 1490 Euro or best offer; it's also shown by the ebay UI to be in one cart and watched by 36 people
Short video clip of simple WonderSwan homebrew demo for pride month
Cropped screenshot of r/hololive subreddit post "Happy Pride Month yall! All hail Homolive!" with 5066 upvotes, with the text "Never forget, this is and always has been a queer friendly space!" and several thumbnails of pictures of various hololive members being queer (ex. Autofister hugging in a 3D collab, Kiara offering Gura a direct kiss after Gura joked about indirect kisses, a stream thumbnail[?] from Ollie saying "I'M GAY" etc)
Cropped screenshot of text document with notes: --- Messed around w/ coding games before, never produced anything beyond broken demos; mostly worked on model viewers, file conversion utils, etc for existing games Renewed efforts in indie game dev born from finding FosterFramework for C# & experimenting with it Foster library by Noel Berry, Maddy Thorson (Celeste), et al; handles low-level stuff via SDL3/SDL_GPU, lots of utility classes to use, several samples to get started - Link to Noel Berry's post "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)": https://www.noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/ Got results very quickly even w/ from scratch project: moving sprites around, keyboard and controller input, etc, etc - Bouncing UFO, previously GameTest1 - born from experimentation with FosterFramework + especially physics - relatively complete wrt gameplay, not much content, only 5 levels that arent well playtested [...]
Screenshot from a Youtube video of Principal Skinner from The Simpsons, giving a thumbs up at the end of the Steamed Hams segment
Photo of Sidewinder Game Pad sorta hanging in front of LCD monitor's panel, Sega Rally is on screen paused on the desert stage
Image of grid of Hololive talent and staff portraits, with descriptions like Kamioshi, Favorite Gen 0, Gen 1 etc, Favorite Alum, and such below: Kamioshi: Ina, Gen 0: AZKi, Gen 1: Fubuki, Gen 2: Subaru, Gamers: Korone, Gen 3: Flare, Gen 4: Watame, Gen 5: Polka, holoX: Lui, ID Gen 1: Iofi, ID Gen 2: Anya, ID Gen 3: Kaela, Myth: Ina, Council/Promise: Fauna, Advent: Biboo, Justice: CC, ReGLOSS: Raden, FLOW GLOW: Vivi, Alum: Fauna, holoAN/Staff: A-chan, Not my type, but...: Pekora, Best Live Performance: Calli, Most Content Creativity: CC, Most Hilarious & Funny: Gigi, Comfort Zone: Ina
Photo of loose Microsoft Sidewinder Game Pad with gameport lying on table
Short video recording showing very basic gameplay from incomplete Tetris clone being run from Visual Studio
Screenshot of German Amazon Music page for CCGG MADNESS
Screenshot of window of game test #4, a nonogram/Picross like game, showing a timer, an unfinished puzzle and the colored solution next to that
Animated GIF of Nadeshiko from Yurucamp slurping cup ramen
Photo of German Pokemon TCG card of Metang, slightly damaged and bent around the edges
Photo of Panasonic radio lying on table using its built-in kickstand, tuned to FM 105.9 MHz, stored as FM preset 1
Photo of Panasonic RF-B45 4-band radio now fixed and tuned to FM 89.3 MHz
Photo of items mentioned in post lying on table
Screenshot of C# program showing Dear ImGui windows, one "graphics test" that shows a combobox with Digimon names (Botamon selected) and buttons for various animations, one "animation controller" with various stats from said animation controller like current frame index, animation/frame timers, animation/texture name, etc
Photo of component side of adapter PCB