Tag: NES

  • Mega Man 2 Randomizer Tournament 2026

    Livestreams Hosted by SpeedGaming on Twitch

    Casual Tom, an avid Mega Man player, is a streamer and content creator who focuses on blind playthroughs of romhacks while occasionally throwing some speedrunning into the mix. As a staff member of Final Fantasy IV – Ultima, Casual Tom often features Final Fantasy mods on his streams. You can follow Casual Tom via YouTubeTwitch, or Twitter/X.

    The upcoming race tonight will feature Casual Tom, last year’s tournament finalist.

    To watch the livestream, use the link below.

    https://www.twitch.tv/SpeedGaming

    For the tournament bracket, click here.

    The randomizer can be found here.

    Says the tournament organizer ICharlieboy:

    Welcome to the Mega Man 2 Randomizer Tournament

    The tournament is open to players of all skill levels.

    The seed will be provided to you 10 minutes prior to the race.

    To participate you will need to be able to stream your gameplay (either from a console or emulator).

    Please familiarize yourself with https://racetime.gg/mm2r as it will be used for official timing.

    In the case of a tie, Admins will review the race.

    Admins reserve the right to review any race in which players finish within 3 seconds of each other.

    Reviewed races will be judged via frame count and if no clear winner can be determined it will be requested players play a tie-breaker game.

    You will be expected to join a Discord server, which we will use as our main source of communication.

    The matches will be streamed, with commentary, to the SpeedGaming Twitch channels.

    After a race players may choose to be interviewed, if there is time. 

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  • Battle of the Titans: Dog Versus Alex T

    Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) 2026, Semifinals

    For clymax’s projects, click here. You can also follow him on YouTube or Twitter.

    The official playlist has just been completed and is available here.

    In a epic rematch of the CTWC 2024 Finals, the following players duke it out in a most anticipated match of this year’s tournament:

    • Dog, 2x CTWC Champion (2020, 2021)
    • Alex T, 2x CTWC Champion (2024, 2025)

    Will one of these players advance to the finals and ultimately be crowned the first three-time champion since Jonas Neubauer?

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  • Retro Tinkertoys Released

    New Retro Disassembly Tools for Ghidra

    chipx86 is a software dev and game enthusiast who should probably dev less and play more. He is also the co-creator of the web-based collaborative code review tool, Review Board. Aside from Twitch, where he does coding and other streams, you can follow his work via his website, blog, Twitter/X, Github, or Buy Me a Coffee.

    Says chipx86:

    This is a set of scripts I’ve developed initially to aid in my Faxanadu for NES disassembly work.

    His work on Faxanadu has resulted in source code is fully byte-for-byte recompilable, and relocatable within each bank.

    You can also find Retro Tinkertoys on our Tools page.

    Overview

    The release includes the following Python 2.7 scripts for Ghidra:

    Data Scripts To:

    • Add a reference to each value in a selection with a given bank and offset.
    • Perform a search/replace of text in any label names referenced in a selection.
    • Update the types of data values without losing comments or references.

    NES Scripts To:

    • Export annotated assembly files and a hyperlinked HTML disassembly for NES 6502 code.
    • Select a 16 byte NES PPU tile data and generate a visualization in a comment.

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  • Faxanadu Restoration (NES) – Mod Showcase Livestream

    Romhack of Faxanadu (NES)

    Xynosaur is a fan of retrogaming who is also a creator in demo/chip music. You can follow Xyno’s work via YouTube, Bandcamp, or Soundcloud.

    The romhack is courtesy of Ascended Mermaid, whose work you can follow on YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, or Github.

    Writes Xyno:

    I know, I know…the game was made by Hudson Soft but it says Falcom on the title screen ! :O

    Forget about Ys or Trails tonight…we gonna go back in time, when the only Falcom games that was released here was Ys on the Sega Master System and Dragon Slayer IV (named Legacy of the Wizard in US) !!

    Playing on the Rest[o]ration romhack patch in which you get the original Japanese sprites, better translation, recovered the name system that was removed from the US version and NO MORE PASSWORDS !!! (Thank GOD !)

    The hack publication can be found on RHDN here, or check out the Faxanadu Randomizer and Romhacking Discord here.

    Part two of the Let’s Play follows.

    Respinner TBA

    Check back here for an announcement of clymax’s respinner based on the successor Retranslation hack of Faxanadu Restoration.

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