Latest Posts by hitstun - Page 5
The Game Boy, a hardware autopsy - Part 1: the CPU
The humble Nintendo Game Boy had a low price and long battery life thanks to its cheap low-powered parts. JackTech is breaking down the Game Boy into pieces to show us exactly what each component can do. The Z80’s bare-bones instruction set made it a pain to code even basic tasks in assembly. That’s why I did all my old TI-83 games in BASIC.
Source: JackTech via YouTube related videos for Bafael’s Zangief BnB guide somehow
Desk – Street Fighter 5 Zangief Combo and Parry Video
I’ve been having a lot of fun playing Zangief in Street Fighter V. His Iron Muscle can shrug off most attacks, and the big guy can combo into throws from a dozen different moves. Have I really never posted a Desk video?
Source: Desk (biffotasty) via RSS feed
Girls and Space!! – pixiv Spotlight
These girls should be very dead. If I could survive without heat, air, atmospheric pressure, and radiation protection, then I’d wish I could float around in space too. Maybe they can do it because it’s cool, or maybe they’re robots? pixiv Spotlight posts twice a day in English, and this one’s about girls in space.
In a far off place not yet known to us… the cosmos!! Humans have long before wanted to travel through the universe… a very romantic idea! Ever looked up at the sky and just wondered about the Milky Way? Today’s Spotlight is about the fantastically magical cosmos… with girls! Mysterious and awesome, all at the same time. Check them out.
I wondered how I should reblog a pixiv Spotlight. For now, I'll copy the behavior of pixiv Spotlight's RSS feed, with one image that you can click to get to their full post. I hope this is OK. I mean, technically I should be spelling pixiv with a lowercase p and Nanahime as NaNa_HI_ME.
NaNa_HI_ME – Yume no Hoshi
Source: Girls and Space!! and ななひめ – ゆめのほし via pixiv Spotlight‘s English RSS feed
My New Gaming PC
UPDATE: This PC now has a name: Red Cyclone.
I built a new $900 gaming PC, so I’m showing it off. It’s a Core i5-6500 with a Radeon R9 380 in an Enermax Ostrog GT case. My friends convinced me to get a Samsung 850 Evo which makes Windows 10 super fast. I haven’t found anything that can push this to its limits, but it runs all my games great. I wrote a lot more about this rig over on PCPartPicker.
Here's what my desk looks like. There's a Dualshock 4, a Das Keyboard Ultimate S (with unlabeled keys!), and an old Logitech G5 mouse I should replace soon. The side panel window is tinted, so you can't see inside the computer very well until I remove the side panel. I kept the red/black color scheme inside the machine where I could. The Enermax case made it very easy to fit everything in with tidy wiring.
There's a TV on my dresser, but it's only ever used as a second monitor. You can also see my stack of consoles connected to my video capture rig. The monitors seem far apart, but from where I sit at my desk, it makes sense. Gamepad games work well on the TV, and I run keyboard-and-mouse games on the main desktop monitor.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor: $199.98 @ OutletPC MSI H170A Gaming Pro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard: $129.99 @ SuperBiiz Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2400 Memory: $84.99 @ Amazon Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5″ Solid State Drive: $84.34 @ Amazon Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5″ 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive: $74.00 @ B&H MSI Radeon R9 380 4GB Video Card: $213.98 @ Newegg Enermax ECA3280A-BR ATX Mid Tower Case: $76.35 @ Amazon SeaSonic X Series 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply: $129.99 @ Newegg LG GH24NSC0B DVD/CD Writer: $12.99 @ Newegg Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates): $1,016.61 Mail-in rebates: ($10.00) Total: $1,006.61
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-26 05:10 EST-0500
Source: PCPartPicker and my phone camera
Japanese TV Commercials Best Of 2015
Anime Hell brought the pain to Ohayocon again this weekend and, like I promised, I took notes. Most of their Japanese TV commercials this year came from the same source: JPCMHD’s Very Best of 2015 compilation. Just put this on in front of a room full of friends and soak it in.
Source: YouTube via Anime Hell
This is the very best from 2015. Hope you guys enjooooy! (^_^)–b
TASBot Plays Brain Age
Awesome Games Done Quick is known for its highly skilled human players, but TASBot’s tool-assisted runs stole the show today. In Brain Age, TASBot draws pictures and text that are somehow interpreted as numbers. It’s like Ryuto’s famous Brain Age TAS, but with a live audience?
(The run starts at 15:22.)
Source: YouTube via Games Done Quick
Control Config Menus
I’ve been updating my VOGJAM game Skeleton Hunter with new features like custom button mapping. PC games need this because players might have foreign keyboards, nonstandard gamepads, or disabilites that make the default controls unusable. Mine works like the PC version of Skullgirls where every action has both a keyboard key and a gamepad button, and you can assign them one by one or all at once. Please try it and tell me if the menus work the way you expect them to.
Source: my game Skeleton Hunter v1.02 reusing code from my Control Config Demo
Thank You Scientist
Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist is the gift that keeps on giving, and yesterday it introduced me to Thank You Scientist. This seven course dinner of a crossover prog rock band uses strings, saxophones, and brass to fill out their sound.
Source: Thank You Scientist via Spotify
Kawayoo
Kawayoo is a busy artist, and not just in drawing illustrations for art books and Pokémon cards. His electronic music puts me in the mood to write code. I’ve been working on adding a key config menu to Skeleton Hunter, and when it’s finished, I’ll tell you all about it.
It's been too long since this type of post. pixiv is just a fire hose of cool art. I could start browsing tags and artists and lose my entire afternoon there, so I don't check it like I used to.
Source: kawa/yoo found somewhere on pixiv last year
Common MythConceptions
Information is Beautiful is here to tell you you’re wrong. This infographic goes over dozens of common misconceptions in an easy-to-read color-coded format. Read it; you might learn something!
Six video posts in a row? Really? You guys seem to like the image posts more, so I'll try to do them more often. Click this to go to the full infographic.
Source: Information is Beautiful via several Tumblr users via Kuroutsubasa; infographic sources Wikipedia
Spruce Creek Fly-In Community
It’s 2015; where are our flying cars? In his search for flying cars, James May visited Spruce Creek, Florida. This village treats airplanes like cars, parked in garages and taxied right down the street to the local runway. If every town was this well adapted to small planes, we’d all be flying from place to place, right?
By the way, my Friday night stream has moved to Hitbox! I’m attacking games like Super Back to the Future II, Panorama Cotton, and Sayonara Umihara Kawase, so stop by and chat!
Source: James May’s Big Ideas episode 1
Adam Savage – Duck Army
The Duck Army battlecry is slowly spreading all over the Internet. On Twitter, Adam Savage from Mythbusters discovered the screaming Duck Army and quickly weaponized it. I just now found it too, so let’s embed some tweets and see what happens. (Tumblr doesn't support Twitter's embedded tweets at all... That's sad... Click here for the duck bomb video.
Source: Adam Savage via several Tumblr users via Trynant, based on Kevin Synnes – Duck Army
Koji Igarashi's Super Mario Maker levels
Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi has been spending the past couple weeks distracted by the same thing I’m playing: Super Mario Maker. Polygon asked him to make a level and we got to see how he messes with the player’s expectations. This level isn’t open to the public, but IGA has been hard at work uploading even more creative levels for all to play. He’s working on a faithful recreation of Rondo of Blood with creative use of stacked enemies.
Source: Polygon via a DuckDuckGo search after playing Castlevania Rondo of Blood Stage 1 with bugfixes suggested after playing Waffledog’s level Monty Max: Fury Rainbow Road
AndyTHPS's Shipyard Style Line
In 2003, I had just started making levels for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 when the legendary AndyTHPS unleashed this Shipyard line on the Internet. This changed my life. It didn’t only motivate me to buy a capture device and start recording my own videos. This video also introduced me to Dillinger Escape Plan and started my descent into math-metal insanity. I was hooked for years.
Source: AndyTHPS via the tXo‘s old web site
Mortal Kombat Arcade With NBA Jam Sound
What happens if you swap out Mortal Kombat’s sound board for one from NBA Jam? YourMKArcadeSource had some extra Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam boards and gave it a shot. As it turns out, you get a totally playable Mortal Kombat with a confused announcer that loves to say “Nuggets!”
Source: YourMKArcadeSource via Nathan Phillips and Now You’re Playing With Podcast
Marty Friedman and AKB48 – Death Panda Death
Japan will make anything cute. To make metal cute, ex-Megadeth lead guitarist Marty Friedman brought in pop idol group AKB48 to create Death Panda. Friedman loves J-pop’s complicated song structures and how bands like Babymetal apply them to metal.
Source: YouTube via the Lost Gamers Japanese metal panel at Matsuricon
Kodi
Kodi, or XBMC, is flexible open-source software for streaming media players. It has dozens of add-ons for playing video from lots of places on the Internet, right on your TV. At the fair today, I saw a couple shady vendors selling little Android boxes with Kodi for hundreds of dollars. If you really want to save money, just buy a cheap Amazon Fire TV stick and do it yourself. It’s not that hard.
Finally, XKCD makes an indirect apperance on the House of Hitstun. Randall Munroe also answers lots of hypothetical "What If?" questions online and offline. I've linked to this video in the "Source" section below.
Source: Found on an original Xbox and an Amazon Fire TV, also screenshot of my Amazon Fire TV playing Randall Munroe’s TED Talk
Retromania!!
Two weeks ago, Columbus Retro League put on an excellent pro wrestling-themed event. More than just a tournament, this show had all the promos, interviews, and hype you’d expect from a Pay Per View. About two hours in, I defended my CRL Season 2 #1 ranking in Fire Pro Wrestling D and WWF Royal Rumble, both on Dreamcast. Check it out while you’re binge-watching speedruns from Summer Games Done Quick.
Source: YouTube via Chris Bidwell
Stupjam – the “Tournament”
I found Stupjam on the leaderboards for Yumi’s Odd Odyssey/Sayonara Umihara Kawase on the 3DS. Stupjam has since moved on to other Nintendo stuff, taking runner up in the Splatoon Art Contest, and is now accepting commissions. Since this artist is on Tumblr, I’m trying out Tumblr’s oEmbed code. Hopefully it works for everyone. (Update: It doesn’t work in Feedly, but I can try adding Tumblr’s own embed code manually next time.)
Source: Stuplr via Yumi’s Odd Odyssey leaderboards (records) and his comment on my video
the “Tournament”
Stupjam – mfw nintendo direct
(My original Wordpress post about Stupjam was a bunch of Tumblr oEmbeds rather than my usual re-posts, so I didn’t write specific mouseover text for each image. I’m writing a little bit now so I don’t break my post format too bad.)
Source: Stuplr via Yumi’s Odd Odyssey leaderboards (records) and his comment on my video
mfw nintendo direct
Stupjam – Snake Villager
(I actually main Snake in Brawl, so I miss him. Villager is a lot of fun too.)
Source: Stuplr via Yumi’s Odd Odyssey leaderboards (records) and his comment on my video
i won’t miss him at all
Stupjam – Swingin' with Swabbie
(I’ve actually met a few acquaintances by way of Sayonara Umihara Kawase’s North American leaderboards.)
Source: Stuplr via Yumi’s Odd Odyssey leaderboards (records) and his comment on my video
Europe and Oceania April 24th
Codecademy
If you ever wanted to learn a new programming language from nothing, Codecademy is the place to start. It taught a 12-year-old kid and a homeless guy to code, and it can teach you too! I’ve been using it to learn jQuery, and I’m impressed with how it introduces new concepts and drills them into your head with practice.
You'll be doing this a lot. I actually like how it eventually makes you start the code from scratch in every section. It's good practice.
Looks like my schedule is finally consistent again. You can see a new post here every Friday night sometime, and it will probably have nothing to do with whatever the Internet is obsessed with at the moment. My Instagib stream is back on Wednesday nights now, but at 9pm EDT.
Source: Codecademy via I think Wired
Pentatonix – Daft Punk
Pentatonix is here to remind you that there is no better musical instrument than the human voice. After running away with the Sing-Off, this seriously talented a cappella group won a Grammy with this jaw-dropping Daft Punk cover medley. Even their videos are top notch.
Source: Pentatonix YouTube via Nicole Starcher DeTray
Minion in the Museum
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery had this Despicable Me minion balloon stuck on a high ceiling. When it finally came down, the security cameras caught footage of it wandering the museum like it had a mind of its own. Whenever I get a balloon, I add weight to it to get it to silently float around like an Air Swimmer. It’s a rare sight, and if you don’t expect it, you might think it’s a ghost!
Source: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery via WHDH via Google News
Spirited Play
The local arcades here recently got some exposure in the Columbus Dispatch. 16-Bit started a movement, and now a bunch of new arcades are popping up around town. Once I get to play at all of them, I’ll rank them in a fighting game tier list right here.
When Benjamin Morgan pitched his idea for an arcade to investors, the particulars of his upscale game plan didn’t quite click. “Their response was: ‘So, you’re opening a Chuck E. Cheese?’?” said Morgan, 29. Not exactly. His Old North Arcade is an adults-only hangout north of Ohio State University stocked with 30 vintage titles and 20 craft-beer taps. The venue targets nerd-chic enthusiasts of both Missile Command and microbrews. Call it Arcade 2.0.
In other local news, Columbus Retro League’s Chris Bidwell is playing in the Nintendo World Championships 2015 in Los Angeles. Watch him beat down a bunch of YouTubers this Sunday.
Source: The Columbus Dispatch via Arcade Super Awesome, and Nintendo of America’s Twitter via Chris Bidwell
Alpharad – How to Play Villager 202
YouTuber Alpharad has spent the past five months making hype highlight videos of online matches. He has finally finished his “How to Play Sm4sh 101” series with one last Villager video, showing off his absurd damage potential and mindgames.
Source: AlpharadTV via Shoryuken because YouTube subscription RSS feeds are still broken; music from BotanicSage
Dog Thinks Through A Problem
Sorry about the slow updates lately. I’ve got a new job, so I need a new schedule for stuff like blog posts and Instagib streams. I’m pretty sure I can make it fit if I bang my head on it enough.
Source: AFV Animals via TwistedSifter
"Weird Al" Yankovic – Word Crimes
“Weird Al” Yankovic is fed up with your misspelled and misused words. It’s not that hard, people. Even on phones, keyboards like Swype make it easy enough to use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation. There’s plenty of red pen in this video, but this is the first time since high school that I’ve seen a sentence diagram. I heard this song at RiffTrax Live’s screening of The Room, a legendary bad movie that commits crimes against words, storytelling, logic, anatomy, and football.
Source: YouTube via the trivia slides for RiffTrax Live: The Room, parody of Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell