More 32X testing in the most recent BlastEm nightly - still got framerate problems, but Kolibri in particular kind of highlights where the problem seems to be coming from.

By disabling the (still very much scratchy-sounding) music in the game's options, the framerate jumped to a near-consistent 59~60 with only the occasional dip to 54, which means something in the emulator's sound-handling is likely what's causing the lag.

Compiled MAME again. Spent the wait-time looking through a bit of software news and found out that XPS development might not be as dead as I once thought, and I'm really hoping it's not bullshit.

One coffee, one pancake platter, and one more coffee through the day so far - nothing of substance to really show for it.

Yep, it's a Sunday.

Felt like playing Rushing Beat for a bit... though, having basically torn through Shura so many times in a row, I went back to the first game for a change of pace (it feels so primitive in comparison now).

I spotted a little something familiar in the background and couldn't pass up a screencap.

I expected today to be a little weird, but it ended up being rather nice. Girlfriend brought pepperoni and cheese sandwiches (her folks didn't have the dough in reserve to make pizza, so she slapped that shit on some burger buns - fuckin' delish).

The time I spend with her is my reminder of why I work on my renders... and why I really need to just get off my ass and take that goddamn model back into Blender so I can actually work on the armature (even if it means reworking entire portions of the body mesh, which probably would've happened regardless), because I'm absolutely NOT handing it over to her as it is.

Right as I finished this piece, my inbox got flooded with "Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!" messages with sketches attached ...except for the last one, which had no attachment and just said "Have the door unlocked for me or I'll kick it in and eat you."

Okay, woman, I hear you. Time to put the model away and sweep the dust bunnies out of the dining room.

Since the love of my life wants to be mildly absurd today, I may as well get some of my usual tinkering out of the way now before she does whatever it is she's planning to do.

She called this morning... after coming out of one of her LSD naps. From the way she talked, I'm not sure if I should be keeping watch on my inbox or keeping watch for a guest.

Today's probably gonna be weird.

I don't know how many people around here are running forums using phpBB, but this got posted in the News and Updates section over at VGMRips, and it looks like something very important to know.

https://vgmrips.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=20206#p20206