ive had success playing RTS games using an xbox controller mapped with joy2key (or steam input). you can also use a ps5 controller as a touchpad (ds4windows for mapping)
For a long time I’ve thought we just need a left hand joystick to pair with mouse. Could still have a thumb hat too. It would probably break my brain trying to mix all the different muscle memory maps though.
Yeah the thumb stick is what sold me on that azeron but now I’m wondering what my fingers are going to do if they aren’t on w a s d at least for fsrthest frontier it’s mostly wasd and mouse clicking so I guess I’ll just now use all the shortcut keys instead of moving the mouse to the build buttons and all that all the time
Non traditional input devices are fascinating, so thanks for posting your research. In your precise situation though, my advice would be to put down the baby.
I like it a lot. It’s a nice sized keyboard, and the mouse surface is also more than big enough. I actually don’t even take the keyboard out, and just use the entire thing everyday.
That’s so cool! The original Super Mario Maker is what made me get a Wii U, and I obsessed over that game for a couple years. I made a few levels that were fairly well regarded, too! Funnily enough, I’ve barely touched the second one.
That’s awesome! I unfortunately never got to play the original (unless you count the watered down 3ds version haha) but was super into the sequel for a good while. I love Mario maker a lot but more than anything it got me into smw rom hacks! Still trying to put together one of my own
You know, if I had millions lying around I’d want to build or buy a small <10km line in rural buttfuck Saskatchewan and ride train cars around, just for myself and letting people that made it here use it for fun. I haven’t tried estimating how much that would cost.
Have a look at the West Coast Express, opened in 1995 from Vancouver BC to 43 miles out at an estimated cost of 40 to 80 million Canadian dollars, equivalent to 53.4 to 106.8 million of today’s USD. There were musings of it as far back as 1971, but it sounds like design started sometime after 1981 and construction started in 1994, finishing late 1995.
The price tag would include 5 engines and 5 sets of bilevel railcars, leasing tracks for CP and BNSF, building a handful of turnouts and sidings to hold the trains when out of service, build or contracting wash and maintenance facilities, maybe some small track and signalling upgrades along the route, and station facilities in 7 places.
Another example is the Rail Runner Express in New Mexico that runs 96.5 miles from Santa Fe to Albuquerque. The NM Governor Richardson announced it in August 2003. Construction began in October 2005. The first portion of service began in July 2006 and the full line went into service by December 2008. The cost to build the line was about 285 million USD total equivalent to about 438 million USD today. A operational deficit of 10 to 20 million USD annually was reported and criticized, but roads and bridges of that length cost as much to maintain anyway.
This hugely depends on many factors. What quality should the rail be? Do you transport freight at 30km/h or pasenger rail at 200 km/h? Is there electification involved? How is the soil along the tracks? How many trains of what type do you need? Do you want electric train protection and signaling? How nice do you want the train stops to be? Does it cross property of private individuals that you need to aquire?
I just want to say that this is not really a question that has an answer since it depends on so many factors. You also have to think about regulations for rail traffic. Building a rail line in your backyard isn‘t neary as expensive as one you use commercially because of safety standards you have to comply with, which is a good thing.
Oh and even if you could specify a project, i still would have no clue since i‘m not a project manager nor civil engineer, just interested in rail and trains :D
Is there transit on both ends as one of the challenges with rail in NA is once you arrive at your destination, it can be hard to make that last mile or so transit. It also has to be as fast or faster overall than driving and it has to be cheaper as people will just default to cars again. That has been my experience living in cities around the world.
Well I suppose it depends on your definition of cheated 😛
It’s true that the community did not know a tas existed until today. So really only 1 actual tas (that we know of) was made. There were however a lot of glitches (and I believe some hacks) that made it into levels that either: got deleted by Nintendo from the servers, or became unbeatable due to the game getting patched and the glitch no longer being possible.
A slightly unrelated but also interesting point. A ton of levels that were uploaded to the game were deleted by Nintendo. The reason being that in Mario maker 1 only, Nintendo would delete any levels that didn’t get a star (equivalent to mm2’s “like”) after 1 month being uploaded. The numbers that the team 0% discord reports are:
Total remaining uploaded levels: 10,610,412
Total ever uploaded levels: 68,550,789
So, nearly 60 million levels that were uploaded were deleted
You might find this video about the brightline rail in Florida interesting. They started off as only a short section and the video discusses the costs and funding.
I think it is bold that it lets you wall climb right from the beginning (it’d be like a 20 hours unlock if this was metroid). Yet it managed to deliver an interesting and challenging experience. Frustratingly difficult even at some points, but most levels are fun. The characters are impressively well animated and I like the story a lot. It’s so cool to be a legendary solider in this cyberpunk world. Hard recommend for anyone who doesn’t hate action games.
I’m happy that the community feels satisfied with this ending. I’m not sure I buy it, though.
I’ve seen every move in this level be completed. I think it’s incredibly difficult but still possible. Based on everything I’ve seen from the creator recently this seems more like an attempt to get people to shut up about it to me.
I understand how you feel. But you have to keep in mind:
Mario Maker 1 requires a creator to beat their level in order to upload it to the servers. The creator did not beat the level, so it’s an “illegitimate upload” (as team 0% is putting it).
It definitely seems possible to beat, but for team 0% goals, I understand the decision
The creator says they didn’t beat it. I’m saying that based on their history, I actually think they are lying right now to get people to stop bothering them
They reportedly were highly addicted to SMM around the time they uploaded this level, having messed up aspects of their lives. They wanted to be left alone about this whole situation but the Internet doesn’t let things like that happen.
Saying it was a TAS is the easiest way to get everybody to stop playing the level and hopefully stop the discussion 2 weeks sooner.
I’m happy Team 0% is satisfied with the conclusion. I’m just skeptical, especially considering nobody knew about TAS’s existing for the game near that window.
Well you’re certainly allowed to believe that. The mods say they have been shown the proof that he is telling the truth so I suppose you have to take their word for it. According to ThaBeast721 in the discord:
Ahoyo showed it to a small group of us and a much more detailed story. I hope he has a way to show someone else how to implement it the tas. I’d like that
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