Updates
v0.6.2 · 2026-10-19
Customers behind the counter
- Game Boy Color: the counter now covers the bottom of each customer, like on the Game Boy Advance.
v0.6.1 · 2026-10-19
Game Boy Color fixes
- Game Boy Color: the win and lose screens fit the screen (the title uses the full width, earnings and orders on their own line).
- Game Boy Color: the pause menu, music room and dev menu no longer run past their panels.
v0.6.0 · 2026-10-19
Game Boy Color version
- Chinito Sushi now also runs on the Game Boy Color: the same shift, recipes, slap cutscene, minigames, music and Spanish, English and Japanese text.
- Every screen redrawn for the Game Boy Color from the original art, with customers, portraits, food and chanclas as sprites.
- On the Game Boy Color, Select serves the dish (there is no R button).
v0.5.0 · 2026-10-16
Two new minigames
- Esquiva la Chancla: dodge Papá's flying chanclas for 30 seconds, three hits and you're out.
- ¿Está Maduro?: judge ten avocados — use the ripe ones, toss the green and the rotten ones before time runs out.
- The Minigames menu now has all three games, in Spanish, English and Japanese.
v0.4.1 · 2026-10-16
Real dembow & bachata
- Dembow del Chinito rewritten: 808 kick-bass on every beat, dembow snare and claps, hi-hats, synth riff and chord stabs, at 128 BPM.
- Bachata del Turno rewritten: requinto lead over a segunda rhythm guitar, güira on every beat, bongo on 4 and a syncopated bass.
- The music now uses a fourth sound channel, which steps aside whenever a sound effect plays.
v0.4.0 · 2026-10-16
Main menu, minigame & languages
- Main menu after the title: Play game, Recipes, Minigames, Music and Options.
- New minigame: roll the maki — stop the marker in the green zone, five rolls, faster each time.
- Music room to play the soundtrack in the game.
- Options: play in Spanish, English or Japanese, and turn the sound on or off.
- Pause menu and end screens can go back to the main menu.
v0.3.1 · 2026-10-16
Higgsfield art
- All game art is back to the Higgsfield set: title, restaurant, slap cutscene, portraits, food and poses.
- Twelve customers at the counter.
- Papá's scold screen shows the dizzy Chinito frame at full brightness.
v0.3.0 · 2026-10-15
Splash & music
- fixmylife presents splash screen (same style as Mui Thai).
- Two original chiptunes: Dembow del Chinito and Bachata del Turno.
- Music cuts out during Papá's slap and returns with the next customer; pause mutes the music.
v0.2.1 · 2026-10-12
Cleaner slap cutscene
- Each cutscene frame now shows a single moment instead of overlapping poses.
v0.2.0 · 2026-10-12
Game Boy Advance version
- The game becomes a real .gba ROM.
- Full shift: 10 orders, 3 mistakes, 3 recipes, 5 ingredients.
- Slap cutscene with screen shake, dialogue portraits, sound effects.
v0.1.0 · 2026-10-12
Web prototype
- First playable prototype in the browser (Next.js) to test the rules.
Coming next
- Chinito TV skits (the avocado reel first)
- Followers instead of yen — perfect dishes go viral
- Customer personalities (the salaryman in a hurry, the tía who wants more plátano)
- Days, rush hour and end-of-day ranks (C → S)
- New dishes: Chicharrón Maki, Tostones de Atún
- Papá's final exam