Andrew Borman

Save the Games 2.0 Call for Papers is open! The symposium will be held at The Strong in Rochester, NY on July 29 and 30. The deadline for submissions if February 20, 2026! museumofplay.org/save-the-games…

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@RobertDaleSmith One day I'll get it to work.

@Borman18 OMG yes! I have been wanting to see the backend

Found a LodgeNet controller today.

@Carnivol @IGN And with the initial seller, they had very good reason to sell in the first place. I would do the same in their position.

@Borman18 @IGN Thinking about all the other (still unreleased) games that first buyer had back then (and probably still has); and how the people who patiently spent ages putting up with their demands (+a small fortune), in order to at least get one out, are the ones dragged through the mud.😅

Before Capcom finally created Leon and Claire's nightmare in the RPD, Resident Evil 2 was a very different game. For the series' 30th anniversary, we take a look at Hideki Kamiya's cancelled RE "1.5" prototype. bit.ly/3NxmJp2

@Carnivol @IGN The stories that get made up about this game are wild.

@Carnivol @IGN It also didn't come from a deceased Capcom employees estate.

@Protodude @ThunderTheDevil I loved it at the time. Havent gone back after the first 3 or 4 games, but I was hooked.

@ThunderTheDevil On the U.S side, it was a bit of a mix bagged. I remember people wrote it off as a "Pokemon rip-off", but definitely not everyone. You can see some early coverage here - web.archive.org/web/2001051517…

I really wish I could go back in time, and see in the reactions of to Battle Network from Megaman fans at the time. Did they love or hate it? It was my introduction to the franchise so I don't know

@RobertDaleSmith Someone has been working on it!

Has no one already reverse engineered and documented the LodgeNet controller protocol yet?!

@dtoxmilenko @wutyes I'm sure I learned about it from Blackstorm X in the first place, and I vividly recall early 2000s camera footage of it. I'm sure OldEngineer probably had it, which was sold to.m a collector. The difference was I spent time doing VGA capture of it.

@Borman18 @wutyes Borman be like

Was bored last night and RE'd the rendering pipeline for Xbox Dashboard build 3424, from April 2001. This version used triangle strips instead of triangle lists, and had falloff shaders defined in the XAP scripts rather than the C++ engine. Got it rendering on macOS via UIX Desktop. It's beautiful! Long live BlackStormX, the dashboard mod that tried to recreate this original aesthetic using REZN8's design concepts, and ultimately merged with tHc to become TeamUIX.

@wutyes @dtoxmilenko I was there.

@Borman18 @dtoxmilenko Source?

@dtoxmilenko @wutyes This build has been online forever. There were videos going back to like 2004 too.

@wutyes @Borman18 Ok? That doesn't mean you should go around throwing that man's business out there. It's rude.

Excited for the arrival of a donation from @WOWCube_system to @museumofplay. I love devices that blend classic toys with new tech, a perfect fit for the collection here!

@EdTheNerd @LinusTech @linusgsebastian They are big, that's for sure!

@Borman18 @LinusTech @linusgsebastian I bought a 5 pack of blanks for laughs. They’re absolutely huge

Hey @LinusTech @linusgsebastian, want to bring a D1 deck down so we can digitize a few tapes? It's only a country over or so. There might be another handful other than these.

@ShawnLayden It also inspired me to finally get this going, probably the first time it’s been seen since 2004

@ShawnLayden It got as much play as my Switch would have, nearly none, but at least it didn't take up a ton of space.

Sunday afternoon with the most portable of PlayStation Portables. 🤏🎮💥💙

@BrianFargo I would love to read documentation from Interplay for Descent! Having been fortunate to see some of your papers, and material from Parallax, that would help complete the picture, should it exist somewhere. Sorry for missing you at GDC, your stories about Rebecca were everything.

Doesn't seem like yesterday but sure doesn't seem like 30 years!

@LV54Spacemonkey @dark1x This exactly!

@dark1x I remember playing a demo of the original Splinter Cell on Xbox and there was a plastic segmented curtain you could interact with like that and I spent ages just watching it flow over Sam Fisher by walking back and forth through it over and over.

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