FAQ's

**Who Are You?**
I'm GameJ06 (thats the number zero, not the letter O), but usually am called Big Jon

**What games do you play?**
In 2016, the games i'm focusing on and learning in speedrun style are:

+ Lost Levels (SNES)
+ Super Mario Land 1/2
+ Mega Man X
+ Kirby'd Dream Course
+ Resident Evil 3
+ Resident Evil 1
+ Sonic (some 2d version)

Other than that, I'm mainly a retro streamer.  No Call of Duty and World of Warcraft here.  Hand me an NES or Sega Controller and lets get to the days of the late 80's and 90's


**Why Are You Called BigJon**
Because my name is Jon and I'm 6'4.5" tall, I guess is the reasoning.

**Why Are You?**
Because My Momma and Daddy made me

**Are you black?**
Nah, more so caramel colored.  I'm part Samoan.  But come to think of it, ain't we all related some way?

**Where do you live?**
In a house in the USA.

**What is the chat and follower/sub alert program you have that shows up on the stream.?**
I programmed my own alert in Visual Studio.  Connections to the Twitch API for followers and subs and Streamtip API for tips.  I designed the graphics and animations in Fireworks and SwishMax
The chat connects to Twitch's IRC server.  I run a local web server to display all the information, including parsing out all the info, downloading your avatar and displaying in on the on-screen chat.  Pretty neat stuff.

**When do you stream?**
Whenever I feel the urge to stream; no set schedule but you'll usually see me on in the morning 9ishAM to 4ishPM EST and some evenings EST.

**What do you use to stream?**
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)

**How do you normally play your games?**
I usually use an emulator for most retro consoles until I can get and everdrive for NES, SNES, and others.

**How do you get that thing that shows your inputs?**
I wrote a little app in Visual Studio that reads the joystick inputs from the computer

**What time split program do you use?**
Check out Livesplit (http://www.livesplit.org) with nearly endless customization