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5 months ago

I only just realised that the screenshots I took for Toejam & Earl and Wonder Boy in Monster World through OBS had the video source resolution incorrectly set to 720x576 INSTEAD of the correct 640x480 and that's why the screenshots for those two reviews are so garbage and low quality, because they're badly scaled up to 576p by OBS and scaled back down to 480p, I am so sorry and so mad at myself jhgfkjhgkhjgfuj

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overclockworked 5 months ago

Next time I play through both of those games on my own time I'll grab new screenshots to replace the crappy ones (but the gifs will remain untouched)

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5 months ago

segaages/toejamandearl

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pirahxcx 5 months ago

great review, feeling like replaying the game

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p7uen 5 months ago

This game sounds great and your review is hilarious. The whole section and screenshot about pants really got me, made my day!

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overclockworked

5 months ago

New review is up, looking at Toejam & Earl on Mega Drive: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/toejamandearl/

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5 months ago

New review is up, looking at Wonder Boy in Monster World on Mega Drive: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/segaages/monsterworld/

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5 months ago

50 hours of playing Metal Slug. Quite possibly just as much time researching, writing and editing the shrine, if not more. 29 A4 pages of analysis in LibreOffice documents. The Metal Slug Shrine is finally up! https://overclockworked.neocities.org/mslug/

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overclockworked 5 months ago

As a result of the size of this update, there may be errors throughout that I missed, as well as things that generally could just use a visual touch-up. Either way, I'm happy to finally be able to share this!

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p7uen 5 months ago

Aww yeahhh! That's my next few lunchtimes sorted.

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overclockworked

6 months ago

Overclockworked now has a mirror! Kindly hosted by my friends at the Cleft of Dimensions MUD. Aside from simply being a backup, it's my intention to eventually get this mirror of the site Classilla/Mac OS 9 compatible, though it's not QUITE working 100% on OS 9 just yet. For everyone using modern web browsers though, no issues! https://overclockworked.cleftofdimensions.net

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overclockworked 6 months ago

To further clarify, the Neocities version of the site will continue to be updated alongside the Cleft version, and I'll remain active on this site and on these activity feeds.

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overclockworked

6 months ago

Working on something big for the site! It'll be a while before it's ready, but my next shrine is well underway for an arcade game I've been dedicating myself to practising for the past few weeks; Metal Slug 1. I hope to provide similarly obsessive attention to detail as I have with the Blood shrine with this!

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overclockworked 6 months ago

I started playing Metal Slug as a way to unwind on hiatus (because I'm a freak and practising 1CC runs of really hard arcade games is how I relax) and then it turned into the next project for the site ahaha. Still, a change of pace!

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overclockworked ripemachine

6 months ago

Thanks for the follow! Just read your review on Golf Story partially because the intro resonates with me (Mini Golf is SO much more interesting and less of an ecological nightmare) though I have also guiltily enjoyed a few golf games myself despite thinking the sport irl is blegh. Everybody's Golf on PSP was my main one, ahaha. Really enjoyed your review!

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ripemachine 6 months ago

Thank you so much! I really enjoyed reading through the Blood Shrine on your site. Looking forward to reading through your retro reviews!

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6 months ago

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overclockworked 6 months ago

Only just realised that the guestbook borked the front page on mobile, oops, fixed up now

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overclockworked

6 months ago

New Amiga review is up, looking at the first game in the legendary Turrican series: https://overclockworked.neocities.org/amiga/turrican/

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overclockworked 6 months ago

Creative burn-out is kicking in, so I think it's time to take a hiatus for a bit and unwind. Thanks for reading all, will be back when inspiration hits again!

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p7uen 6 months ago

I look forward to catching up on your Amiga reviews, have a good rest!

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6 months ago

OverClockWorked now has a guestbook on its front page! Feel free to say hi if you want to say hi.

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overclockworked soundmindandvision

6 months ago

Immediately smiled at the use of Realmz music on the main page. Loving the vibe here! DROD incidentally is on my to-play list, I'm big into those kinds of puzzle games (Lemmings addict)

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soundmindandvision 6 months ago

Hahaha thanks! Found the soundtrack from The Obscuritory and loved the hell out of it... Forgot where I heard about DROD though, but good lord I'm sad it seems so obscure, especially since it's a 30+ year old series that's still getting games.

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overclockworked

6 months ago

New blog update, sharing my thoughts on generative AI (I don't like it): https://overclockworked.neocities.org/blog/2026/18-1/

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overclockworked 6 months ago

As I mentioned in the post itself, this is a bit dryer and more cynical than my usual stuff. If you're not feeling yet another AI rant, you might want to skip this. A new review is in the works and nearly finished, so more fun content is on the way soon!

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underwhite 6 months ago

I agree with this review a lot, I hate how people are misusing AI to replace rather than its intended purpose, which I still would not use because I don't wanna. I do want a petition to call AI "artists" AI commissioners because their way of making their "art" is more similar to commissioning an artist (the only difference is that the "artist" is GenAI) than drawing.

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pixelglade 6 months ago

I agree with this. I also hate how genAI and AI are bundled together. A lot of old machine learning algorithms that don't pirate people's data are lumped in there. It doesn't help that genAI users claim things like "technology is always advancing art like photoshop, there's just an adjustment period" like they are in any way equivalent in terms of how they work.

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overclockworked 6 months ago

@pixelglade There's a Taiko no Tatsujin game on Steam that has an AI content disclaimer because it uses Vocaloid songs, and it was when I first saw that that I realised just what a mess this whole AI terminology has become, since Miku is harmless!

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p7uen 6 months ago

I used those robots.txt files from Neocities since htey were available but Google still has me (but says I provide guided meditations based on games which... actually now I really want to do). My question is why are those people writing/arting/whatever if the computer is doing the creative bit. Literally the whole point is that is your unique voice! Oh well.

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overclockworked 6 months ago

@p7uen Yeah, seems Google also still has AI summaries of me last time I checked after adding robots.txt. It's minor, but my main objection is the emphasis of the AI summary to emphasise nostalgia when summarising my site. I consciously try to avoid getting hung up on nostalgia when writing for my site, plus most of the games I review I'm playing for the first time! Ah well.

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