Beyond the Blackbox: Repurposing ROM Hacking for Feminist Hacking/Making Practices - gender binary vs. gendered binaries

[UE 558]

i rather see romhacking be this

Shitty Toilet Racers

http://www.baddesthacks.net/?p=3175

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ROM Hack Showcase - SNPCFF1337

THIS VIDEO IS NOT FOR KIDS AT ALL. PLEASE DO NOT FLAG. THANK YOU. This is a gameplay video of Dr. Floppy's hack "Super Nazi Penis Cartel Freedom Fighters 133...

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Wilford Brimley Battle (RCR) - NES gameplay

http://gameblorg.com/nes-reproductions/ A complete playthrough of Wilford Brimley Battle - a ROM hack for River City Ransom, played on a modified RCR cart to...

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Rockman 4: Minus Infinity — Hard Mode no Damage Run (Tool-Assisted)

Hack's Author: Puresabe Minus Infinity isn't just an ordinary hack. Tons and tons of ASM modifications were made to Rockman 4 that it's even hard to believe ...

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Super Mario Bros. 3Mix World 1

Oh boy! A NEW Mario 3 Hack! and Good is NOT enough to describe it! Description from Romhacking.net: "Super Mario Bros. 3Mix is a large-scale hack that change...

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works of art and total conversions, not what mario's gender is

Penis cartel is a piece of art that belongs in the library of congress

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Remember when feminism actually meant something important?

No and neither does anyone who was born after 1980.

 

[UE 558]

No, you see screwdrivers were designed by men. That means women can't use them as they're "too heavy or too large for women to use".
This is how they're proposed non-sexist screwdriver looks like:
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Apparently they don't know that you don't need an electric screwdriver for cartridges or maybe non-electric screwdrivers just look too phallic.

I’m male and most of my screwdrivers are small and light, I kinda envy women sometimes because their thinner fingers would probably be better for small components than my short, stubby ones

 

[JM 590]

Was that written by machine learning? It certainly doesn't read like a human wrote it. Do you have any examples of people getting the shits?

It really seems that way. Even the first few games mentioned were strange.

Introduction

Many Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video games were based on cartoon and toy franchises that embodied hegemonic masculinity, such as G.I. Joe, Beavis and Butthead, Darkwing Duck, Popeye, Transformers, and Toxic Invaders.

There was no Beavis and Butthead NES game, the Transformers game was Japan only, and "Toxic Invaders" probably refers to Toxic Crusaders.
I collect NES games, and I've never played G.I. Joe or Darkwing Duck. What a weird selection of games to open with.

And this article's 31 paragraphs long. Fuck. And not even a single mention of the greatest romhack ever made, The Legend of Zelda - Link Gets Laid:

 

[Safir]

I haven't read all of it yet because too much of it might break my brain.
But this is absolute gold.

ROM hacking is sexist because you need a (sexist) screwdriver to open up the cartridge.

Remember when Bic for Her was universally laughed at?

 

[Marissa Moira]

It really seems that way. Even the first few games mentioned were strange.



There was no Beavis and Butthead NES game, the Transformers game was Japan only, and "Toxic Invaders" probably refers to Toxic Crusaders.
I collect NES games, and I've never played G.I. Joe or Darkwing Duck. What a weird selection of games to open with.

And this article's 31 paragraphs long. Fuck. And not even a single mention of the greatest romhack ever made, The Legend of Zelda - Link Gets Laid:

Hold up there was also a GIJOE game for Atari as well as the Atari Star Wars games.

Now then the 2600 had real dated graphics, the whole sexism bullshit doesn't even work on the atari when you can't even tell what your guy even looks like. Not to mention the Star Wars games involved roping ATATs and doing the Death Star Trench run both of which could be done by male or female since the game doesn't specify.

I'm going to say that girls in general never really gave a shit about games for decades and only started caring a tiny bit when games could replicate movies.

I'm almost certain that as of today girls in general still won't start playing consoles games at the age of 3 and continue to play them during their formative years and beyond.

 

[neverendingmidi]

I’m male and most of my screwdrivers are small and light, I kinda envy women sometimes because their thinner fingers would probably be better for small components than my short, stubby ones

Most of the guys I know seem to only envy women for having fingernails, makes it easier when picking up tiny washers and such.

 

[UE 558]

Most of the guys I know seem to only envy women for having fingernails, makes it easier when picking up tiny washers and such.

Ikr, i’d love to not be reliant on magnetic screwdrivers