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people are recommending the retroid pocket 5, but i had a flip (1) which is internally equivalent to a 3+ and it ran gamecube perfectly. the flip was discontinued (and for good reason, it’s battery had a nasty tendency to go spicy pillow) but you can buy the 4 new cheaper than the 5 and there are a few used 3+s floating around on ebay

interesting read. usually when people lay out the history of the series, they call 20 years ago the dark ages and 10 years ago as when things started to turn around. the thing for me is that 20 years ago we were still getting amazing side games that kept the lights on like the Advance series, and it was only when those stopped and Sonic Team had to stand on their own that things really fell apart. but now here we are with then collaborating with others and getting gold like Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog and Superstars, and meanwhile Sonic Frontiers is the first Sonic Team Sonic game i’d call genuinely good since… Adventure 2? Which speaking of which just got a brilliant movie adaptation. we’re so back

i’d love if they skipped ahead of TOS and did a show set in or after the movie era. bring on the monster maroons!

i’m definitely gonna wait until hori releases a joycon 2 pro set or whatever before getting a switch 2. even just the regular joycons are an ergonomic nightmare, and my hands are fucked up to the point where that makes the difference between whether or not i can play for more than five minutes. and even if they release a better mouse, if it’s not a vertical mouse then it’s the same issue. you’d think with the huge role computer inout devices play in out daily lives, ergonomics would be a bigger focus by everyone across the board!

Air Ride’s big differentiator was it’s City Trial mode, where instead of racing you drove around a city collecting upgrades and after a certain period of time only then do you race (or fight or do a minigame). the new Mario Kart’s free roam mode has some overlap with that conceptually but maybe it was a late enough addition and Air Riders was too far along to scrap or something, or maybe City Trial isn’t the focus of the new game and they’re trading places. it’ll be interesting to see!

people being nice online? god forbid!!!

i think gunpei yokoi called it “lateral thinking with withered technology” or something like that. it’s a lesson i wish the rest of the industry would learn- even “weak” computers today are capable of incredible things and we could be passing those savings to the customer or spending the extra budget on actual innovation Wii-style but no! more triangles!

“i don’t understand, we trained it on hours of the anime and it keeps using electric moves on rhydon!”

what kind of software is available for windows nt powerPC? i figure being a different architecture you can’t just run x86 windows programs but my google fu is failing to find anything i can

stack overflow

so long as Nintendo remains a more niche player

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i am 100% with you. there must be something to it if it’s that important to so many people but i genuinely can’t tell the difference as long as it’s stable

and if it does make a difference, for competitive games wouldn’t you want it to be consistent between all players instead of “better” based on whoever has more horsepower? it all makes no sense to me

same here, I see a direct youtube link

it’s wild just how many Pokemon ROM hacks there are. there’s one that recreates Sword and Shield on the GBA and it’s pretty wild how faithful it is, it even has the raid battles. another cool one is Emerald ROWE which is an open world conversion where you can start anywhere. it uses some advanced hardware features so it doesn’t work in every emulator

there’s a hack of Sonic 3D Blast for the Saturn that basically chains all of the special stages into their own game, it’s a very cool look at what a true 3D Saturn Sonic could have been, even if the stages are all just halfpipes

if you count translations, i have poured an ungodly number of hours into Shiren the Wanderer 2 on the N64 (different from the Shiren 2 on the DS). it’s another one that doesn’t always play nice with emulators but if you take copious savestates you’ll be fine. each of the post-game dungeons is essentially a whole new game, and while i’m usually not much of a completionist i just can’t put it down

the reason transactions take so long is because of compliance. COBOL, CICS (the tramsaction manager) and mainframes themselves are constantly being updated and optimized because no flavor of the week in the last three decades has been able to handle the throughput needed by the companies that still use them. if anything in the tech stack at banks is slowing down your paycheck getting cashed, it’s the small army of nodeJS servers whose entire codebase gets rewritten every six months because some exec thinks COBOL isn’t sexy enough and we can get rid of it we say the word “agile” enough. the fortune 500 has been planning on being “off the mainframe in the next 3 years” since the 90s

hell yeah, it’s very comforting to know that someone actually gives a crap and is advocating for us. when i first started driving, driving at night was one of my favorite things, bar the occassional asshole with permahighbeams. now driving at night is a truly horrifying prospect. between that and car size, i feel like 90% of the cars being built today shouldn’t be street legal

of course the best possibility is replacing cars entirely with bikes and robust public transit- and that’s coming from someone who loves (or loved) to drive- but in the mean time i’d really just love to be able to drive to rite aid or the laundromat after work and not be blinded six or seven times on the way there!

the ultimate lifeform does not do “simple”

you’re getting downvoted but you’re not wrong. N64 emulation has been as good as it’ll get for a long while (remember, we were playing N64 games flawlessly on the Wii, which itself is now retro to many!), and compared to older consoles with quirky bespoke hardware, the benefits of hardware emulation like FPGAs over software emulation are diminished for the N64 to begin with. if you do want to go the FPGA route, Taki Udon’s MiSTeR Pi is cheaper than this and can load any number of cores instead of just the N64. ultimately you’re paying a premium for an experience that’s either as good as or worse than a plethora of cheaper options

oh hell yeah

this might not be too far off, i know flarum is planning to include activitypub in their 2.0 release and nodebb already has it working in test