Rich Whitehouse

Hello friends! Before I get into what else I've been doing, here's a big dump of my thoughts on why AI as it's being sold to America is a lie and why the American companies behind the push are terrible: https://richwhitehouse.com/index.php?postid=78 I can't fault you if you don't want to burn the 15

I think I'm finally done with my main contract of the year (at least, I really hope I am) and am starting to get back to my emulation projects! I've done a little bit of work on my PlayStation emulator this week, and as with any emulator for a system that's already well-emulated, there's a lot of re

We're on the end of the second to last day of our Make-A-Wish trip to Turks and Caicos. I'm looking through the pictures we've taken so far and thought it would be nice to post one here to let everyone know I'm still alive. We're really enjoying our time here; I think if our daily routine consisted

BigPEmu and BigInstinct have both had minor version updates (1.221 and 1.01, respectively) to add desync detection and fix a Linux network plugin issue: Added some cheap hash-based desync detection to the network protocol. The host will now be alerted when a desync occurs in State Sync mode. (desync

Sorry for the 5 months of silence, I've had very little time/energy to work on my own stuff this year, but I finally got everything together for some new releases over the last couple of weekends. I've made BigInstinct public, while keeping all of the script modules Patreon-only. You can now link yo

I've been working full time on contract work for well over a month now, and I'd already run ahead of schedule on my current contract, so I was hoping I might have a bit of extra energy/time to give you folks some love in the form of some incremental feature builds right around now! Sadly, things hav

I've been unfortunately preoccupied trying to secure larger income-earning contracts this month, and currently have 2 (maybe 3) that I'm entertaining but have not actually signed anything yet. Add to that the pancreas/inflammation issues kicking up again this month, and I've been a lot less producti

For those of you who aren't on Discord or my socials, I'm working on a Killer Instinct 1/2 arcade emulator. It started out as a product of client interest and was going to be my main project to pay the bills this year, but then the client pulled out: https://bsky.app/profile/richwhitehouse.bsky.soci

For me, and I think a lot of other people, the theme of the year so far has been multi-faceted fascist oppression! I hope all of you are holding up alright. I had hoped to make a post announcing the actual BigPEmu Steam release by now, but that gets into one of those facets of fascist oppression. Be

Thanks to everyone who helped test and spread the word of BigPEmu's iOS release, we managed to break into the top 100 paid games list on the App Store! It was short lived, but we made it up to 250 or so copies sold over the first week or so, which is about where I had my more optimistic expectations

It's been a longer road than I might've expected, but I'm finally releasing BigPEmu on the App Store for $9.99 USD tomorrow morning! I've posted about this on my various social media accounts, but to reiterate here, it will help a ton for everyone to spread the message and encourage folks to purchas

I've been having quite a time lately, and just got over a double-bout of COVID. (I relapsed, without any PAXLOVID the first time through I might add) My brain feels pretty melted, and it's been a significant physical setback, since I was just starting to be able to put some muscle on for the first t

I'm still alive, but I did just spend a week in the hospital. Widespread inflammation from (as always) unknown causes, which culminated in a 10-day bout of acute pancreatitis. It went poorly, and hit pretty much all of my organs. They were concerned about necrosis and liver failure for a bit, and my

I just wanted to say thanks to all of you who signed up or bumped your pledges after my last expression of medical hardship. It means a lot, both emotionally and financially. I haven't formally given an update on the actual details of the medical situation in a while either, so I'm gonna try to do t

In case you missed it, I uploaded a new version of BigPEmu the other day. It includes a script which adds multiplayer to Alien vs Predator, a game which was never meant to have any multiplayer component! That script serves as an example of the scriptable network interface, and hopefully provides a p

I just posted a big thread on BigPEmu debugger features here: https://twitter.com/DickWhitehouse/status/1675697308661587970?s=20 I apologize if non-Twitter users can't see the thread, Twitter is having some serious issues lately. I regret being tied to the platform at all, but this is the future we

I've been chipping away at new BigPEmu features, and while the developer build stuff is still a work in progress, I've been working on the scripting system in tandem and it's become quite robust. Robust enough to fix sync problems, uncap framerates, and most impressively, hook into games to provide

Just a quick update on how things have gone since my nuclear ablation on the 15th. The day before, they discovered via nuclear iodine based imaging that I still have a 2cm mass of thyroid cells in my throat. That was entirely unexpected. Either it regrew quickly from something smaller (that would be

I figured I should do a little update to let you folks know where I'm at with BigPEmu and my health. I'll get the health out of the way first, since I like to put crappy things before happy things. I've been having a lot of joint pain over the last year, and have assumed this is probably inflammatio

Update: This is running now too. https://richwhitehouse.com/pubdata/bigp_rage.mp4 I don't actually have the hardware yet (it should be arriving in a few days, thanks to the generosity of our friend Mycah Mattox), but by using the CD BIOS and VLM as a guide, I'm successfully emulating the Jaguar CD a

There's been enough overlapping interest and communication over BigPEmu that I figured it would be a good idea to create a communal space, so I made a Discord server. It should be auto-linked to Patreon, and you'll get a special role if you're a patron. But otherwise, it's also open to the public, a

I hadn't anticipated that I'd receive this much love and support for BigPEmu, so I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who have come here and offered your patronage. I absolutely didn't expect to surpass that $300 goal this soon. I'm going in for surgery tomorrow morning, and will likely need

I've been kind of waiting to talk about this in any kind of detail, because it's taken a while to get an accurate idea of where things stand, but I think I've got a pretty solid idea of how this is going to play out at this point. About 3 years ago, I started experiencing tightness in my throat, fee