"His mind settled on an unfinished project he'd been working on, in various forms, since 1998, when he was a young and inexperienced 15-year-old amateur programmer"
If this is true, this solves the mistery about his age. Someone, not sure if here or on some other forum, mentioned speculations about his age when he started on BSNES ranging from being a high school student to maybe a 30 year old guy. Looks like he's a "genius college dropout 30 year old furry failure" or whatever the original destinations were.
Also, how did he manage, of all things, to fuck up so bad with the ROM size? 64 Mbit from 24 Mbit can't be from just text, can it? Where did the extra 5 MiB come from? It's well known that a floppy can fit about 300 pages of plain text. Which is an entire book. In 1.44 MB. Somehow Byuu added 4 entire books worth of text. What the hell?