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# April Highlights
- URL: https://darylbaxter.com/posts/april-highlights/
- Published: 2025-04-25T12:14:52.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-30T09:32:23.000Z
- Author: Daryl Baxter
- Tags: Highlights

A very hectic month. Switch 2 is pre-ordered, and I've been ill for much of April, but a secret project I'm working on is nearly ready. More on that in June.

There have been a lot of great videos and articles published this month, which is why I've slightly gone over the usual amount for each section below. Enjoy.

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[Listen Bitch! DreamsPodcast Episode · Miss Me? · 21/04/2025 · 33m![](https://darylbaxter.com/content/images/icon/favicon-180-3.png)Apple Podcasts![](https://darylbaxter.com/content/images/thumbnail/1200x1200bf-60-2.jpg)](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/miss-me/id1735016800?i=1000704099529&ref=darylbaxter.com)

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[Burari Kawagoe GAME DIGG turns indie and doujin gaming into a tourism initiative | scrmblJapan has a tourism problem. Not that it can’t bring in tourists, o…![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)scrmblNews![](https://darylbaxter.com/content/images/thumbnail/Screenshot-2025-04-23-at-21.53.06.png)](https://www.scrmbl.com/post/burari-kawagoe-game-digg-turns-indie-and-doujin-gaming-into-a-tourism-initiative?ref=darylbaxter.com)

> So at the start of Half-Life: Blue Shift there's this really cool train crash. I had a discussion about this in a gamedev server where we were trying to determine how this was done. There's nothing in the game files to suggest it was an animated model, so I decompiled the map to check it out and...
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> — [Kim (@iibo.games)](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k73kk5otegfj2atanref44mq?ref%5Fsrc=embed&ref=darylbaxter.com) [2025-04-08T10:56:00.024Z](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k73kk5otegfj2atanref44mq/post/3lmcctf65i22g?ref%5Fsrc=embed&ref=darylbaxter.com)

[Modding a Nintendo 3DS is precise, but doable in 2025I went through the act if installing custom firmware on my New Nintendo 2DS tonight, and I wanted to shout out this guide for being absolutely spectacular. Not only does it have the best step-by-step instructions I think I’ve ever seen, it even has branches off the main guide for![](https://darylbaxter.com/content/images/icon/birchtreefavi-1.png)BirchtreeMatt Birchler](https://birchtree.me/blog/modding-a-nintendo-3ds-is-precise-but-doable-in-2025/?ref=darylbaxter.com)

[GEX Is Back!: Interviewing Limited Run Games On Re-releasing The Original TrilogySuper Mario 64 changed everything for platformers when it arrived on the Nintendo 64 console in 1995\. 2D games in the genre were now instantly irrelevant, with games like Rayman, Bug! and Earthworm Jim looking outdated compared to the infamous plumber in his 3D debut. Another casualty was GEX, a![](https://darylbaxter.com/content/images/icon/R-FAVICON.jpg)Retro DodoDaryl Baxter![](https://darylbaxter.com/content/images/thumbnail/gex-trilogy-lrg-interview.jpg)](https://retrododo.com/gex-is-back-interviewing-limited-run-games-on-re-releasing-the-original-trilogy/?ref=darylbaxter.com)

*Thanks for reading/watching/listening.*