Set Side B
The Flipside of Gaming, covering topics retro, niche and indie. Some topics include roguelikes, obscure secrets in Nintendo games, internals, deep dives, development, romhacks, weird gaming-related videos and other things too. Updates daily.
- Created by John Harris
- April 2022
- Free
Recent posts
October 5, 2026
Mac OS/X, or “macOS” as Apple would like me to stylize it but that ain’t happening, is based on a number of prior OSes: NwXTSTEP, OpenBSD, and a kind of intermediate step after OpenBSD called Darwin. When OS/X was new Apple made much hay out of Darwin being open source. Was it ever really,…
October 4, 2026
That’s the title on the video. Here’s a link to it . (4 minutes) It’s played by “ The 8-Bit Big Band ,” and it’s pretty snazzy. Even if you haven’t heard the Mii Channel theme since your Wii left service, it’s a pretty popular piece of game music even now. The channel doesn’t post often, but they…
October 3, 2026
Skawo over on Youtube explains a lot of early 3D Zelda weirdnesses well, and they have a new video (8 minutes) explaining a great strangeness in Ocarina 3D on the 3DS. Here it is, a basic summary follows: The scene: Lon Lon Range. The time: Adult Link’s period. The event: rescuing Epona from farm…
