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A blog and portfolio featuring my game modifications, patches, and technical writeups for PC and console games.

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113 from 12 May 2018 to 15 Oct 2026
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2026 10

  1. Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Drift – Japanese Soundtrack | Updates
  2. Discovering BLACKWOOD: Ambitious game on a smaller scale
  3. GTA SilentPatch 2026 Update Hotfix #1 | Updates
  4. SilentPatch for Grand Theft Auto: 2026 Update
  5. SilentPatch for Grand Theft Auto: 2026 Update | Updates
  6. Kaido Genkai (Demo): Freeroam Split-Screen | Updates
  7. GTA SilentPatch 2024 Update Hotfix #2 | Updates
  8. The Indie Games Corner | Updates
  9. iRacing Arcade review – casual racing under a serious brand
  10. Bonus Codes Generators for LMA Manager 2003-2006 | Updates

2025 21

  1. D2GI for Hard Truck 2: King of the Road | Updates
  2. Xbox Controls Layout for Juiced (PS2) | Updates
  3. A technical dive into Project Motor Racing – we’re racing, not farming (with mixed results)
  4. NASCAR 25 PC review – good game, basic port
  5. 60 FPS patches for NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona | Updates
  6. Modding Gran Turismo 2000 beyond boundaries
  7. New modifications for Gran Turismo 2000 | Updates
  8. A technical dive into JDM: Japanese Drift Master
  9. How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2
  10. How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 | Updates
  11. SilentPatch for Yakuza Kiwami 2 – Build 2 | Updates
  12. Solving the mystery of Need for Speed: Underground’s Magazine 22 with SilentPatch
  13. SilentPatch for Need for Speed: Underground (PC, PS2) | Updates
  14. Need for Speed: Carbon and Need for Speed: ProStreet (PS2): Fix Most Wanted Black Edition save detection & ported PS widescreen patch | Updates
  15. Black Box-era Need for Speed – series research
  16. Need for Speed: Underground (PS2): Trigger control mappings | Updates
  17. Tokyo Xtreme Racer (2025): Dynamic Day/Night Cycle Mod | Updates
  18. Importing custom decals into Tokyo Xtreme Racer (2025) | Updates
  19. A technical dive into the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer
  20. Tokyo Xtreme Racer – series research
  21. Widescreen patches for Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero updated | Updates

2024 14

  1. Widescreen and Deinterlace patches for Tokyo Xtreme Racer: Zero | Updates
  2. Blog update
  3. Blog update | Updates
  4. Bonus Codes Generator for Colin McRae Rally 04 updated with support for the prototype builds | Updates
  5. GTA SilentPatch 2024 Update Hotfix #1 | Updates
  6. SilentPatch for Grand Theft Auto goes open source!
  7. GTA SilentPatch 2024 Update | Updates
  8. Flipper95 app for Flipper Zero | Updates
  9. Speed Boost for all cars and Disable Catchup cheats for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2) | Updates
  10. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (PS2): Trigger control mappings | Updates
  11. Bonus Codes Generators for TOCA Race Driver
  12. Bonus Codes Generators for TOCA Race Driver | Updates
  13. Mode 7 Demo for Flipper Zero | Updates
  14. Mahjong Numbers for Yakuza 0 & Yakuza Kiwami | Updates

2023 7

  1. 10th anniversary of SilentPatch!
  2. Discovering cheat codes in Midnight Club: L.A. Remix
  3. Fan research vs official fix – EA Sports WRC decal rendering on GeForce GTX 10 series cards
  4. Fixing EA Sports WRC decal rendering on GeForce GTX 10 series cards
  5. Exploring the history of Juiced through prototypes and PC demos
  6. SilentPatch for NFS2: Special Edition, NFS3: Hot Pursuit, NFS4: High Stakes and NFS: Porsche Unleashed
  7. Remastering Colin McRae Rally 3 with SilentPatch

2022 6

  1. World Racing 2: Champion Edition releases on Steam!
  2. New release of Dreamcast Restoration 2.0 for Crazy Taxi
  3. Gran Turismo 4 Loose Chase Camera
  4. Gran Turismo 2 Combined Disc
  5. Year 2038 problem is still alive and well
  6. Second release of SilentPatch for Scarface: The World is Yours

2021 8

  1. New modifications for Gran Turismos, NASCAR Dirt to Daytona, and more
  2. New modifications for Gran Turismo 2
  3. Dreamcast Restoration 2.0 & SilentPatch for Crazy Taxi
  4. Yakuza Arcade Machines Player - Native Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown on PC
  5. SilentPatch for TOCA 2 Touring Cars
  6. Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown Unlocker for Yakuza 6 and Yakuza: Like a Dragon
  7. Analyzing the official Yakuza 3, 4, 5 patches & SilentPatch update
  8. SilentPatch for Yakuza 3 & Yakuza 4 Remastered

2020 15

  1. About Cyberpunk 2077 and AMD CPUs
  2. Second release of SilentPatch for Mass Effect
  3. Fixing a completely random bug in Cxbx-Reloaded - Star Wars: KotOR
  4. Introducing modifications for console games
  5. Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
  6. Second release of SilentPatch for Mafia II: Definitive Edition
  7. Coding a Single Instance Application the wrong way
  8. SilentPatch for Mafia II: Definitive Edition, fixing (some) saving issues
  9. SilentPatch for The Wonderful 101: Remastered, fixing frame pacing issues
  10. Restoring the gold filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut
  11. SilentPatch for Scarface: The World is Yours & launching a Patreon campaign
  12. Fixing mouse issues in AquaNox
  13. Third public beta release of SilentPatch for Bully: Scholarship Edition!
  14. Emulator bug? No, LLVM bug
  15. SilentPatch for Yakuza Kiwami 2 releases – fixes Toylets and more

2019 11

  1. New SilentPatch release – “The Corona Update”
  2. Participating in GitHub Sponsors
  3. New SilentPatch releases with support for Rockstar Games Launcher version!
  4. Crashing DInput8 DLL with two lines of code
  5. How NOT to operate on paths – Metal Gear Rising
  6. Silent Hill 2: Enhanced Edition UPDATE #3 is out!
  7. SilentPatch for The Godfather The Game – Build 2
  8. Co-Driver Splitter - Co-driver calls on headphones
  9. 30th Release of SilentPatch for San Andreas!
  10. Fan research vs official fix – Yakuza 0 lighting
  11. Clever bug exploitation – backface culling

2018 21

  1. 5 years of SilentPatch!
  2. Polishing Shine ‘o Vice - Part 1: Saving crash
  3. Excuse me PCSX2, do you sprechen Inglés?
  4. My thoughts about Wooting SDK
  5. GInput in Wooting CODE IT contest
  6. I can’t type properly when the game is minimized, why?
  7. Blog update – now (nearly) feature complete!
  8. Correcting “run over pedestrians” dialogues in SilentPatchSA & 10,000 YouTube subscribers
  9. Cross Racing Championship Extreme releases on Steam
  10. High resolution timers and high uptime headaches
  11. New public beta release of SilentPatchBully!
  12. Automation & BeamNG.drive joint update is the best thing since sliced bread
  13. Fixing a Direct3D9 bug in Far Cry
  14. Identifying issues in Street Legal Racing: Redline v2.3.1
  15. Don’t disable warnings, please
  16. New vehicle animations in SilentPatchSA
  17. New SilentPatch builds for Grand Theft Auto!
  18. Fixing game-breaking issues in The Godfather: The Game - Part 1
  19. Fixing game-breaking issues in The Godfather: The Game - Part 2
  20. Finding a right DLL to hook is harder than you think
  21. Anybody here? Ah yes, welcome!