In the season two finale, Malachi and Nick talk to the entire dev team behind Star of Providence about "Fraxy", a freeware shmup focused on user-made content.

Flan, Garoslaw, PureQuestion & AlexMdle all met within the Fraxy community and spent a lot of time there.

What was special about Fraxy? And how did it lead to the foundation of Team D-13?

A huge thank you to Team D-13 for making time to talk to us once more!

Some additional shout-outs to prominent Fraxy members not mentioned in the episode: Connor/The2Banned2One, MrLRG, Coreshooter, Enyx, Kohuded, Line Rider, and Dabir.

The new PXtone album Garo mentioned is here, featuring remixes of tracks from Star of Providence and Astronautilus: https://pxtunes.bandcamp.com/album/starseeker-astronautilus-vs-star-of-providence

Here are a bunch of Fraxy videos for further study:

• https://youtu.be/xbr9eKFAZRE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEpzoLNugLo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wewPpbdfDTw
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_HnfShhdI
• https://youtu.be/wUmELEEN0zA
• https://youtu.be/JH4XbRAXgLI
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTeZrno8DNc

Our awesome theme music was composed by Garoslaw, and we will always be grateful for it.

A huge thanks as always to both Garoslaw and AlexMdle for allowing us to use their music and sfx in this podcast.

Their work is available on Bandcamp: https://arcofdream.bandcamp.com/

We hope you enjoyed Upgrade Terminal!

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On the penultimate episode of season two, Malachi and Nick share their thoughts on the podcast and what Star of Providence has meant to them.

Then, over twenty community members contribute their thoughts on what StarProv means to them as well.

The episode closes out with a poem by Malachi called "Little Ships".

Thank you so much to everyone that sent us a recording to use in this episode!

Thank you to the PXtone community, who let us use some of their tracks from the Star of Providence Remix Album.

You can find it here: https://pxtunes.bandcamp.com/album/star-of-providence-remix-album

A new remix album, featuring remixes of tracks from Star of Providence and Astronautilus was just released this year.

You can find it here: https://pxtunes.bandcamp.com/album/starseeker-astronautilus-vs-star-of-providence

And immense gratitude to Malachi's dear friend Aureate for creating the soundtrack for the "Little Ships" poem!

Our awesome theme music was composed by Garoslaw, and we're still floored it exists!

A huge thanks as always to both Garoslaw and AlexMdle for allowing us to use their music and sfx in this podcast.

Their work is available on Bandcamp: https://arcofdream.bandcamp.com/

What does Star of Providence mean to you? Join the Discord server and let us know!

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Upgrade Terminal presents a short report on PAX West 2025, including an in-person interview with developer PureQuestion and friend of the show Lilac Olligoci!

A big thank you to the both of them for speaking to Malachi at PAX!

Thanks as always to Garoslaw and AlexMdle for allowing us to use their music and sfx in this podcast.

Their music is available on Bandcamp: https://arcofdream.bandcamp.com/

Have you been to PAX? What do you like about it? Join our Discord server and let us know!

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Upgrade Terminal presents "A Cup of Lethality" by Nick, as read by Nick, WHATiFGirl, Malachi and Seth Sturgill of Bit Harmony.

After the piece, Malachi, Nick and WHATiFGirl chat about it and also some thoughts and suggestions on creating fanart in general.

Also discussed: making cookies, nature walks, getting all the medals, a true Balatro sicko, and enjoying a listener recommendation.

Check out WHATiFGirl's stuff!

• Blueksy: https://bsky.app/profile/whatifgirl.bsky.social
• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/whatifgirl

Check out all of Seth's many podcasts!

• Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twodollarhero.com
• Bit Harmony: A Video Game Music podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ba8qb4cWkblzH51nsvZNf?si=b91ca26109784c5a
• The Koopa Cast is Seth's Nintendo-themed podcast, and here's the episode featuring Upgrade Terminal: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3hIid7qgXKSJps6bqubcPr?si=5761d19e916f4779
• All N Media: https://alln.media/

Our awesome theme music was composed by Garoslaw, and we're still floored it exists!

A huge thanks as always to both Garoslaw and AlexMdle for allowing us to use their music and sfx in this podcast.

Their work is available on Bandcamp: https://arcofdream.bandcamp.com/

What type of coffee is in your cup? Join the Discord server and let us know!

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Upgrade Terminal presents "Perched At The Boundary - First Ritual" by PunishingBirb, read by Malachi.

After the piece, Malachi and Nick discuss the piece and some commentary from PunishingBirb.

Also discussed: multiplayer matches, music and rain.

Thank you to Ivo Vicic, Andy Rapaporte, Cinematic Sound Design, Wild Audio, Unrealsfx, Cristian Lucchetta, and Artlist Studios.

Romi Kopelman played the cello version of Eric Satie's Gnossienne No. 1, while Bishara Haroni played the piano version used at the end.

Their work is available on artlist.io and I highly suggest you check them out!

(All Rights Reserved to www.Art-list.io for the music and sfx)

Our awesome theme music was composed by Garoslaw, and we're still floored it exists!

A huge thanks as always to both Garoslaw and AlexMdle for allowing us to use their music and sfx in this podcast.

Their work is available on Bandcamp: https://arcofdream.bandcamp.com/

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Malachi and Nick are joined by videogamedunkey & Sean from Bigmode...for real!

They talk being a publisher, Star of Providence, and the new aim assist update that is coming to Nintendo Switch soon.

Also discussed: turkeys, evil bird song, Anhinga investigation, inheriting recipes, and the corn pit.

Things to Check out:

Bigmode: https://bigmode.com/games

Bigmode Discord: https://discord.gg/fR5JBhw4Fb

Bigmode 2025 Game Jam Playlist, courtesy of Witch Hazel: https://youtu.be/TKcXbtI39WQ?si=ODpI4vM0f2n9uG2h

Star of Providence Modo: https://bigmode.com/shop/star-of-providence-modo

Sean's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@videogamesean

Our awesome theme music was composed by Garoslaw, and we love it to pieces!

A huge thanks as always to both Garoslaw and AlexMdle for allowing us to use their music and sfx in this podcast.

Their work is available on Bandcamp: https://arcofdream.bandcamp.com/

Have you tried playing with aim assist on? Join the Discord server and let us know!

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Malachi and Nick chat about the Arena Blaster (AB), Armsmaster (AM) and Skully ships in Star of Providence.

Community members Wertus, Doom Man, Algol, Lurkermeyer, kali, and AgitatedSkelling10 generously contribute their written opinions in this episode!

Skully hacks into the episode to cause chaos, but in spite of that it's a good conversation.

Also discussed: Knights of Guinevere Pilot, and late huckleberry treasure.

Here's the Knights of Guinevere Pilot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAdbUaMlAE

Our awesome theme music was composed by Garoslaw, and we're still floored it exists!

A huge thanks as always to both Garoslaw and AlexMdle for allowing us to use their music and sfx in this podcast.

Their work is available on Bandcamp: https://arcofdream.bandcamp.com/

Thanks to artlist.io for the radio sfx, specifically KEDR Audio's - "Distorted Radio Transmission Shortwave Receiver Voices Static Slow Whine"

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Malachi and Nick are joined by H1data, the (re)translator of Star of Providence into Japanese. They talk about h1data's start in localization, some of the changes they made to the original translation, and how they became the retranslator in the first place.

Also discussed: cold coffee and the end of summer, getting into BallisticNG, and the gift of tea.

h1data's Website: h1data.github.io/contact/

h1data's Mentions:

Hirohiko Araki (Baoh: the Visitor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohiko_Araki

Kenji Miyazawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Miyazawa

Pathos: Nethack Codex https://pathos.azurewebsites.net/

Our awesome theme music was composed by Garoslaw, and we're still floored it exists!

A huge thanks as always to both Garoslaw and AlexMdle for allowing us to use their music and sfx in this podcast.

Their work is available on Bandcamp: https://arcofdream.bandcamp.com/

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