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BobDendry, do games w Developer Interview: my Q&A with The RomM Project
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@PerfectDark I only recently cames across with project and it looks amazing - like a Jellyfin for games. I only wish there was plugin support for Retroarch/Lutris or something similar rather than needing to rely on EmulatorJS.

I love the work you've done sitting down with the team and it's definitely convinced me to put this one down as the next of my ever growing number of services going onto my homelab cluster.

As an aside, I also wanted to thank you for your writing in general. I used to do a lot of writing (heck, I did three quarters of a journalism degree a lifetime ago), and the effort and quality you put into this stuff has definitely started that itch in me again...

PerfectDark,
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As an aside, I also wanted to thank you for your writing in general. I used to do a lot of writing (heck, I did three quarters of a journalism degree a lifetime ago), and the effort and quality you put into this stuff has definitely started that itch in me again…

Please do!!!

I’d love to read more from ‘our’ circle of people. I find there’s…not enough, which is (in part, anyway) why I like to try my best at sharing this kind of thing. Especially in an atmosphere where short videos are consumed like crazy, where A.I. can slap together (poorly) someone’s writing, and where the big sites are just click-bait or begging for subscriptions and support.

IDK, I’d love to read whatever you’d be writing!

And thank you so much for writing this, I’m gonna link the RomM team to a new convert :P

zurdi,
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I only wish there was plugin support for Retroarch/Lutris or something similar rather than needing to rely on EmulatorJS.

We integrate for now with playnite (lutris for windows) and any handheld that can run muOS or Portmaster, but Lutris integration is on the list! Sadly, retroarch doesn’t have a plugin system, so for now that’s discarded

PerfectDark,
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Oh nice to see you are here on Lemmy, Zurdi! :)

zurdi,
@zurdi@lemmy.world avatar

Of course! Btw, you are totally right with my game recomendation, I meant “Outer Wilds”, not “The Outer Worlds” :D

BobDendry,
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@zurdi good to know!

zurdi,
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Hi! I’m glad you are enjoying RomM! A Lutris integration (not plugin but a direct PR into the core) is on the works!

Dunstabzugshaubitze, do games w Game media preservation, where?
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archive.org has old media of all sorts including game magazines, demos trailers and manuals.

a lot of video material has been uploaded to youtube, that was formerly hosted elsewhere. hell i’ve watched the old eoLithic frag movie from like 2002 a week ago.

vimm’s lair is also worth a visit if your are looking for old game manuals.

fullovellas,

Yeah I’ve sometimes used all those sites at some point, but they’re so vast (or have only manuals, like vimm’s lair). I was interested in finding something a bit more curated and game-oriented.

LunarLoony,
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This one Archive.org user has a bunch of “Champion Collections” which may fit the bill. archive.org/details/

fullovellas,

awesome!

BlameTheAntifa, do games w Steamdeck or....

Nintendo is a terrible, anti-consumer company. Unless you simply can’t control yourself when it comes to their first party franchises, the Steam Deck is far and away the better choice.

Goretantath,

ALL the gaming console companies are, INCLUDING steam once gaben dies. Even currently you dont actually own your games on steam like you would a physical copy, you have to download a crack to play your steam games without steam.

BlameTheAntifa,

You are right. Unless the world starts to enshrine digital ownership laws very, very soon, things will get bad. They already are bad, but they could be, and will be, far worse in the not-to-distant future.

Jtskywalker,

True, but Steam deck lets you boot into the Linux desktop environment of the os and you can do whatever you want with it. I have installed games and emulators outside of steam on mine pretty easily.

You could probably even put a different Linux OS on it entirely if you wanted to.

That control over the platform was the biggest selling point for me. More control even than the windows based handhelds.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

I don’t see Sony shutting down ShadPS4 despite the fact that PS4 games are still released

Dettweiler42, do games w Day 311 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing

Somehow, our gaming habits keep overlapping. I just started playing Minecraft again a few days ago. However, I’m playing “All The Mods 10”. I’ve been focusing on creating an aesthetically pleasing factory this time. So far, I have a cozy house with a workshop. My mineshaft is behind the house, and it’s my starter shack converted into a garden shed.

victorz,

I should get into Minecraft again. You all are inspiring me to play some more calm games with these posts and comments.

Dettweiler42, (edited )

I highly recommend playing with a mod pack on a return playthrough. You can still do all of the vanilla stuff, but the experience is also expanded upon with things like steam quarries, programmable mining bots, digitized wireless storage, blood magic, dimensional travel, and cozy kitchens with in-depth cooking.

I used to dive pretty hard into Feed The Beast, but All The Mods seems to have taken over it. The big thing with these packs is making all the mods play nice with each other, so they can share resources and be cross compatible.

I recall one pack where the world was a wasteland. All the ores were depleted, and the oceans were toxic. You had to figure out how to try to grow crops, make survival gear to explore, and eventually make mystical crops that could produce tiny bits of ores that you could harvest.

victorz,

I never even made it to the End though. Haven’t played in about 10 years so this will be vanilla. There’s enough new stuff to discover to last me years if I even get into it at all.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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You should do it! It’s a good time. I’d recommend Prism Launcher if you’re doing mods (or playing on Linux).

If you’re looking for a legacy console experience though you can do the 4J Modpack on Java (I’ve heard good things about it) or run it through Xenia, RPCS3, or CEMU.

Most if not all version of Minecraft can be played. I think the only one I haven’t been able to play is Bedrock edition PC and that’s only because it needs windows 10/11 and I use Linux.

victorz,

I will be playing Linux vanilla Minecraft if anything, I believe. I haven’t played in probably 10 years, so the basic experience will be plenty new for me as it is. 😅

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Probably the best route to go down lol. Super simple to setup

victorz,

☺️ Just gotta get my old pal to get on board that I used to play with. Might be hard… Or just go solo. Not as fun but could be peaceful.

MyNameIsAtticus,
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You should share a picture of the factory! When I play with create with friends I’m that guy and always make factories for my stuff so I love seeing a good factory

ICastFist, do gaming w Nostalgia is a cruel bitch
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Meanwhile, Jak & Daxter and Sly Cooper languish as distant memories

codexarcanum,

While true and sad, I did just learn about OpenGOAL. The team has created a new engine to run the original code of Jak1 and Jak2 (working on 3), so you can now play them natively on PC! Jak1 has been working great, its a lot of fun to revisit!

No Sly Cooper remakes yet sadly, stealth games always get ignored.

ICastFist,
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I wonder if we can get Andy Gavin on board with helping? That’d be an epic move

all-things-andy-gavin.com/contact/

PillowTalk420, do gaming w What a waste
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I want this. Just build my main personal rig and a couple dedicated game servers into a single box. That would be rad as fuck. Especially if the box itself was climate controlled. Fuck, man… Maybe I’d just live in the box.

rc__buggy,

I have a smaller cabinet and thought it would be cool to put my gaming machine in a Sliger case and keep the cabinet next to my desk until the next time I had to actually use my laptop at the cabinet. Sounds like a jet compared to my gaming rig, so I decided it can continue to live in the basement. I’ll get a KVM for the servers or something

setsneedtofeed, do gaming w Now this is gaming
@setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world avatar

Here’s my pitch: The story and aesthetic of Fraiser, the gameplay of FEAR.

Remember_the_tooth,

Alternatively, Dark Souls gameplay. The surprise disasters would vibe well with sitcom tropes.

Broadfern, do gaming w Quests? Storylines? Never heard of her
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Everybody 300 hours into Skyrim: what’s a main story?

FoxyFerengi,

So many hours jumping up mountains just to see if there’s a view from the top. Or at least a faster route to the waypoint. spoiler: No

taiyang, do games w I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?

Couple other things to add to this beautiful list others have: meta gaming and chat.

They barely added achievements and only for a couple games, while steam has that, guides, community art, and even a newish notes feature in case you’re playing an OG game that makes you track stuff. Guides have kind of been better than more traditional sources.

Chat is… better on steam, although discord kind of supplanted it. Game based emoji, stickers, etc. It’s actually very good, though, with support for couch coop stream gaming, etc, with voice comms.

One could also point to the generous family sharing function, but I’m not sure what Epic does in that regard. DRM is DRM though. Do keep in mind, though, the philosophy behind Steam is to make DRM palatable by adding features. Epic philosophy (on paper) is to give devs a higher cut, although I’ve heard devs feel more supported by steam-- especially since they aren’t afraid to throw obscure indie games into a users discovery queue.

Nikls94, do games w What game is this? (On the Switch that they're holding)

That image gave me overstimulation.

GF has ADD due to depression meds and I started sitting on the balcony just to get some quiet

Edit: it’s splatoon 3

Wrufieotnak, do games w Life is Strange road-trip

Thanks for the post, I always enjoy reading about people finding the real life inspirations of stories. And your pictures definitely invoked memories of Arcadia Bay bubbling up again. =D

NeryK, do games w Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom
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What a roller coaster of a ride ! At least they have a fighting chance, and (hopefully for them) did not take too big a financial risk.

thatKamGuy, do games w Medal of honor on the PS1

Not sure if this had the same campaign as the PC release (ah, the good ol’ days where games on different platforms could be completely different); but both Medal of Honor and the very first Call of Duty were formative FPS experiences for me.

EncryptKeeper,

Naw, this and the PC were different.

gurnu,

It’s a different game, you’re thinking of the sequel MoH: Allied Assault

thatKamGuy,

The moment you named the subtitle (Allied Assault), you hit the nail on the head!

WOW, I never realised that the series began on the PS1 - or that Allied Assault was the THIRD entry in the series! I guess I’ll have to add both PS1 entries to my hunt list.

HeyJoe, do games w Medal of honor on the PS1

Wasn’t this the one that started with D day and storming the beach? I remember being blown away by how good it looked, which I’m sure would not be the case today!

Marafon,

Yes! This game was amazing at the time. Storming Normandy and a later mission on German u boat are both core memories for me. And I can confirm (though this was almost 10 years ago now, so it’s probably worse still) graphics do not hold up today at all but I remember still liking the actual gameplay still. Might try to spin that up in an emulator sometime for shits and gigs. Thanks for the blast from the past OP.

cfi,

Sounds like you’re thinking of Frontline.

MOH1 starts with you parachuting into France

Marafon,

I am absolutely thinking of Frontline! Thanks for setting me straight!

EncryptKeeper,

No, you’re thinking of Medal of Honor Allied Assault.

This is the PS1 game.

cfi,

Frontline and Allied Assault started with D-Day. MOH:AA was PC only though

HeyJoe,

Thabk you! It was Frontline! I just went and looked. I guess I never played the original.

Agent_Karyo, (edited ) do games w Day 296 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing
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I really got to try Daggerfall, some of the mods radically improve the coherence and depth of the open world.

For some reason, I really like the graphical style (probably nostalgia).

Wizard_Pope,
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The style also kinda has a charm to it.

Agent_Karyo,
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I agree. I love the style. But that being said, I have some younger family members (in their 20s) who are into gaming and they think this is some old school stuff that’s unappealing (they like modern RPGs).

MyNameIsAtticus,
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The general vibe i really love. The NPC portraits i don’t really care for but everything else looks gorgeous. I especially love the snowy region

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