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ou can put any text you want in there the problem that has is we have a lot of duplicate entries spelling errors and different styles people have used take for instance a game with two developers a and b i ve seen all of the following different styles in the db a b a b a and b a with b a b a b a b a for pc b for mac not to mention duplicate entries not including typos for different company designations a ltd a ltd a ltd a ltd a limited this makes it very hard to migrate into a company table to normalize and very hard to manually go through the data to fix it we have nearly 15000 different unique entries just for companies i am slowly going through and fixing these to populate a new table that we can tie games and hardware to we also want to pull out all of the single person names to populate a person table that can be used for game credits as well as developer publisher fields the good news is once its done we won t have to worry about duplicates or typos going forward when submitting a game you ll just need to select the company from the existing values don t worry there will be a way to add companies as well if needed further since its hard to verify that there still won t be duplicates after this i m planning on adding a merge companies function for site admins in case there were mistakes in the migration once the companies are migrated there will be a few smaller tables that will need the same treatment such as controller and genre fields then a more programmatic approach can be taken to migrate all the actual games and hardware and tie them to new entries for all the mentioned fields standardizing all the data this data work will also allow us to start building concrete apis and ui mockups to move forward which will be much more tangible for most people reading this anyway that s all for this one i hope it was a fun read once more progress is made i imagine entry 3 will discuss some more of the data structure and api work that will need to happen to move forward permalink comments 10 a quick update posted on mar 3rd 2025 at 10 07 41 pm by slackur posted under update i probably don t have to convince anyone this has been a very tough season for illness the flu at least one stomach bug and a variety of other nasty things have been hitting folks all around and our family has been in the crosshairs our household is finally feeling a bit better and after over a month of failed attempts it looks like we will finally have a new account linked to the donate button this week next the plan is to set up the raffles for fundraising and start setting up for some fun podcasting that s the plan anyway permalink comments 2 my video game s o a p principle posted on feb 11th 2025 at 03 06 36 am by slackur posted under retro psn was completely down last friday and into saturday our family hosts a weekly gathering that includes playing magic the gathering watching movies playing video games and whatever else strikes the group s fancy four of us have had a regular friday night firefight with helldivers 2 and thus we were not pleased with the downtime i was reminded of one of many reasons why i am a physical collector and retro gamer while i do very much enjoy many modern games my preference is always going to be more towards anything s o a p switch on and play no worrying about updates online connections installation issues hard drive space etc video games should ideally accommodate us more than the other way around they exist for us yet we are slowly getting to the point that the expectation is to rearrange our lives around them we recently picked up the atari 7800 plus and as weird as it may sound i found it to be the perfect modern update to a classic system it is truly soap not even menus to fuss around it pretty much just works of course hd resolution is overkill for 2600 and 7800 games but boy do they look nice original controllers plug right in the games take a moment but load right up and it plays everything i ve tossed in without issue it even runs the halo port from a few years ago in fact my favorite gaming hardware purchases over the last few years have all benefitted from this soap mentality the robust evercade library the fantastic analog duo the genesis mini ii even the cheap hyper mega tech super pockets i love that name it sounds like something twelve year old me would name a portable at this stage in my life sometimes a few minutes of gaming is all i can squeeze in when i sit down for my daily exercise bike gaming time if there are technical issues that take time to resolve i just move to the next gaming option when i sit down and play something with the kids we don t want to rearrange our limited time window around what a game will allow us to play we just want to jump in and have fun our friday night quad will likely be back defending super earth this coming friday lord and servers willing yet as the years roll on our physical collection is getting more precious each year and not just in terms of monetary value having lots of options that don t depend on modern gaming tropes means we can always game on oh in case you were wondering what we ended up playing um the board game thunder road vendetta but my point still stands permalink comments 4 smilebasic 4 posted on feb 8th 2025 at 12 00 26 am by koola6 posted under smilebasic 4 smilebasic 4 coding level editors well gang we made it 2025 again rf generation is old make new content for it site refresh yadda yadda i ll skip the pleasantries i m planning on returning to one article per month again depending on what my time schedule allows as such i was wondering and wondering about what my first article for this month would be several ideas floated around in my head a nintendo switch retrospective an article about antonblast another article about animal crossing new horizons what i landed on today the day before the month s end was to spend some time talking about one of my favorite little toys to play around with this month smilebasic 4 so what makes smilebasic 4 special its story the captivating gameplay the music well i do quite like the music present in the app smilebasic 4 is a programming app for the nintendo switch it is essentially a closed off simplified basic ide with some pre built limitations that clever souls have found out a workaround for with the ability to save your projects as a file and upload them to a server full of programs in other words it s programming super mario maker back when i was in my young let s code i wanna code now lemme have at it aaaaaaa phase i quite often checked around certain quarters to try and find any sort of simple coding app one of these ended up being the nintendo switch s eshop sure enough i did find what i was looking for two coding apps were present on the eshop the aforementioned smilebasic 4 as well as an app titled fuze4 nintendo switch i may get back to fuze in a later article smilebasic 4 seemed right up my alley so i peer pressured slackur into buying it for me i tried it out and i was able to learn some simple commands and have extremely simple projects going on but after a couple of weeks i abandoned it i was also interested in the online functionality but when being hit with the fact that you can only download one program without a server ticket which to me at the time sounded like the server tickets were scummy mobile game microtransactions making it into my nintendo console i abandoned it and didn t return to it for several years fast forward to the christmas season of 2024 i am in the christmas spirit i e actively checking the eshop to see what i may buy if i receive a nintendo eshop gift card as one does right this is normal right right right when i decided to look through my list of deleted games sure enough good ol smilebasic shows up there and i decide you know what it s been several years my own game has gone through several iterations and has received a final released version since then and i am currently working on a second game plane i m going to try and figure out this program i went to the coding tutorials section again viewed one and decided i ll get back to coding later i want to check out the games even if i have to download them one at a time download them one at a time i did for around two weeks in that time i was able to pick out several games that i thoroughly enjoy that i shall now list tiny huge world although this may at first sound like that one super mario galaxy level or like a game jam game in which you manipulate object sizes this is actually a very simple extremely floaty platformer about a white block the entire game feels very tech demo y and is very buggy but is pretty fun this was also the first time that i saw any sort of 3d in smilebasic it s presented in a 2 5d sort of view a technique i am very fond of it has a lot of levels and even a level editor go give this one a try using the access code 4pkke8vhv celeste classic a full port of the original pico 8 game i don t think i need to go into more detail about this one to explain how cool it is its access code is 45kyv334j finiti 3d engine a simple efficient 3d basis for making games its project file comes with several cool tech demos you can find it at 4anxxxx rally500 para4 a simple elimination rally game the game is split up into several checkpoints wherein you need to have passed enough cars to pass there are wide turns and avoiding the cars is fun i ve found it helpful as one of those games that you can just turn your brain off and play you can find this one at 4n3s33exy marble run 3d demo this game reminds me of one i saw in dreams named ball world adventures this one has less expansive yet more creative levels in my opinion the access code for this one is 4k28xw3ke fairhythm a very fun simple rhythm game this game has the highest production quality overall among all of the smilebasic games i ve played the most features and is one of the most fun ones i d highly recommend the app for this game alone check it out using its access code 4c44ex394 neon driftway this is the one i was the most impressed with this is essentially neon infused vector graphics mario kart and it plays exactly like it i d recommend this one to just about anybody the whole thing is super polished and my only issue with it is that there is only one track its code is 4tamve3qj overall i d very much recommend smilebasic 4 it truly shows what creative people can do with even the most simple of items and commands i just got back into this because i ran out of nintendo switch online permalink comments 1 some reflections on early final fantasy games posted on feb 4th 2025 at 05 37 17 am by slackur posted under final fantasy ah final fantasy after a long and frankly ridiculous series of confusing events the pixel remaster compilation of the first six final fantasy games became available physically for switch and ps4 for under forty bucks total this was during the end of 2024 and the price has jumped up again since then i will readily admit to some fomo during the initial sold out launch before it was later confirmed to be re released for a cheaper price by the time it became more widely available i was comfortable waiting until a further sale why did i want the compilation it is kind of absurd as we have in our collection possibly every other physical na release of almost every game in the series snes psp playstation 2 3 gba ds 360 ps4 ps5 etc we have the cd soundtracks to at least half of the games several versions of most of the guides and the spirits within and advent children movies we already have the ready ability to play all six of the first games in several ways why on earth would we need another the short answer is that i just like the series the best iv and vi in my opinion are some of my favorite games the middle tier are generally better than average rpgs and even the least preferable often have some interesting ideas some of my favorite characters music and story beats come from final fantasy games having six games with orchestrated soundtracks all on one disc cartridge with a few extra bonuses and qol improvements although missing some added content from other releases was enough to get me to bite although as mentioned i definitely waited for a sale my history with final fantasy goes all the way back to the first game on the nes i stil have my second cib copy although the poster is hanging up in our basement i had already finished dragon warrior and a few c64 dungeon crawlers and when nintendo power hyped this new release and even published a guide for it i was pumped it didn t disappoint although my thirteen year old brain would have been forever stuck without that nintendo power strategy guide i grinded for hours and hours after school determined to 100 the game i would put it down for other games and then pick it back up but i often forgot where i was and just kept leveling my characters and wandering around and then the super nintendo was announced i was simultaneously delighted and saddened it looked amazing in magazines but i was a poor kid and my parents had scrounged years before to get me the nes i had traded and hunted garage sales with chore money to build up the meager twenty nes carts i owned and they would be my only possible method to acquire a new console a friend got his snes and our friend group was amazed it sealed the deal i was determined to find a way to get one in the back of a gaming magazine electronic gaming monthly i think were lists of dollar amounts funcoland offered for nintendo games after some simple math i found i could trade my nes and all of my games to get a shiny new snes my parents would buy f zero so i had more to play than super mario world which i had already completed at a friend s house long before i got my own copy i got 14 for final fantasy i remember because i debated about letting it go but there was no other way i tried to finish it but by then i just didn t have the time i reluctantly mailed off my nes and all fourteen games the next few weeks felt excruciating but one day the mail delivered the gaming console i still have to this day yellow tint and all and i played super mario world and f zero for hours every day after school loving every minute and scrounging to rent every title as it came in to our local store about a year later i overheard a classmate discussing an epic narrative of dark knights and redemption of chivalry and summoners of dragoons and magic i literally thought they were discussing a movie but i later found they were gushing over the epic story of a game of which i was only vaguely aware final fantasy ii for the super nintendo actually iv but that s a different story i waited and waited until our local rental store got a copy and then waited more as it was always checked out when i finally got to play it i was amazed i fell in love with the story i found the combat much more interesting and entertaining than the first final fantasy and even my dad who never had interest ...