If you haven’t already tried 3D Dot Game Heroes for the PS3, and have ever played the original Zelda, you really ought to pick this game up post-haste. Not only is it replete with in-jokes that you’ll only get if you’ve been a gamer since at least the NES days, but it is HARD, like how games used to be in those same days of yore. The game harks back to when games were Serious Business(tm). It is, in Atlus’ words, “the ultimate love letter to retro gamers”. Its graphics are pixelly despite being “3D”, its music is “chiptune” or 8-bit, and its gameplay can be absolutely brutal at times if you’re not used to managing half a dozen ogres bearing down on your hero, each of which take a dozen or so hits before they fall,

And one of the best features? You can make your own hero in its 3D pixel editor.

So, since the copy I got my hands on came from none other than Kelly McCullough, author of the Webmage series, I knew exactly who I had to make first.

Behold Melchior, tiny blue magical webgoblin, wielding the gigantic Holy Sword of Dotnia.

To install Melchior, download this file. Find a USB drive, formatted FAT32 (ugh, I know), and extract the zip to the root of that drive. It should create a PS3 folder (if there isn’t already one you tend to use), with all the appropriate files and folders under it. Insert it into your PS3, go to Game > Saved Data Utility (PS3) > USB Device, then find the yellow Edit data with the tiny blue goblin on the left. Hit Triangle, choose Copy, then you can load up the game and when prompted to choose a character, you can select Edit Data and choose Melchior from the list. If you have multiple edited characters, you’ll have to find his tiny blue arse manually, as it doesn’t seem to sort in any way I can tell.