Blue_Morpho

Blue_Morpho, 9 dni temu

There’s no precedent. Nintendo sues, the developer doesn’t have money for lawyers to defend themselves so they remove it.

That’s how it’s been going for a long time.

Blue_Morpho, 8 dni temu (edited 8 dni temu)

It doesn’t matter that they have no basis for a lawsuit. Nintendo starts a lawsuit, no matter how ridiculous, and the developer has to pay a lawyer to defend or they lose to default judgement.

The US isn’t like EU. Everyone pays their own costs whether you win or lose. If you win, you can then start a new lawsuit to recover legal costs but that costs more money and you aren’t guaranteed to recover the money.

Edit: I don’t understand the downvote. It’s exactly how the US system works. I experienced it with a contractor. Contractor took the money and didn’t finish. I sued and won. He then sued saying he was owed all that money back for absolutely no reason. Of course it didn’t even go to trial but I still had to pay my lawyer to defend myself. Otherwise it would have been a default judgement for him.

Blue_Morpho, 2 miesiące temu

I have a RP3+ but after using it a while, Android is too much of a hassle.

Miyoo Mini or Anbernic equivalents running Linux are so much easier. There’s no setup- just put your roms in a folder and go. I spent hours on the Retroid just trying to to get launchers looking nice and emulators configured.

But the critical feature is Android will never have is fast boot. When you hit the power on the Miyoo it saves the game state and completely powers down. It doesn’t go to sleep like Android where the bat is dead a day later. The Miyoo will have power weeks later. And because it boots in 10 seconds right into the middle of the game exactly when you hit power off, it’s not a problem to wait for a full boot.

Blue_Morpho, 2 miesiące temu

I have/had ( bought for friends or myself) Anbernic 35xx, 35xx SP, rg cube x, 351 mp.

There are so many variations that it’s really personal preference. Like are you doing 16:9 games or 4:3? I wanted something for old arcades like pacman and space invaders so I got the cube. That screen ratio also happens to work well for Gameboy

Yeah Miyoo only makes a vertical and a flip. Retro game corps says the flip has some quality control problems.

Blue_Morpho, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

They run Linux but you don’t need to know anything. They work out of the box. Guides are for upgrading to different user interfaces. You do need to learn how to make a copy of a micro SD card because the ones that ship with the devices are extremely low quality and will quickly fail. I use the one from Raspberry Pi. It’s for installing pi OS but it does anything. www.raspberrypi.com/software/

Installing a different OS on a hand held is only picking a different image file like Knulli or GarlicOS when copying onto an SD card.

Blue_Morpho, 2 miesiące temu

It’s weird how MS’s putting developers first became a joke. Back in the 80’s, companies like HP and IBM had open warehouses with coders at desks lined up like factory workers. MS was the first big company to give a private office to every programmer.

Blue_Morpho, 2 miesiące temu

Oh sure, it was crazy. But the sentiment behind it was good. It’s like how Howard Dean got dunked on for his scream.

Blue_Morpho, 3 miesiące temu

Its $500 today but at the time it was $1500 and required cable and beacons.

Blue_Morpho, 3 miesiące temu

I’ve been using minipcs with integrated graphics ( and one with a laptop class GPU) instead of desktops and see no reason to stop.

Blue_Morpho, 4 miesiące temu

I just played Return to castle Wolfenstein again. Too bad the public servers are 100% bots all the time. I know it’s old but I expected at least one or two other players.

Blue_Morpho, 6 miesięcy temu

Nvidia says the $2000 5090 comes out in January. They haven’t even hinted at an announcement for the 5060 so it will be a very long time before it comes out.

Blue_Morpho, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

One but buy extra controllers so 4 people can play Mario Kart, etc together.

Edit: btw I had the same confusion over the switch which caused me not to buy it for years. Last year someone visiting with their child expressed the same confusion.

Blue_Morpho, 8 miesięcy temu

First was Orko from He-Man.

Blue_Morpho, 8 miesięcy temu

Marvin didn’t have the wizard hat.

Blue_Morpho, 8 miesięcy temu

Jawas didn’t wear the wizard hat. Same reason Marvin doesn’t fit.

Blue_Morpho, 10 miesięcy temu

What was the game!

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

I’m hoping this gets adapted to cross compiling for all the retro handhelds.

I went through crazy hoops to get a native compiled Mario64 running on my Anbernic and the results were amazing compared to emulation.

This could bring a large library of N64 to every low end handheld.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

I bet like the emulator they “stole”, they will use this software without even acknowledging the author.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu (edited rok temu)

I followed this guide:

retrogamecorps.com/…/guide-super-mario-64-port-on…

It was tricky both because the website that retrogamecorps linked sometimes didn’t work and there are many variations of the SM64 ROM that all play identically but the website that reads your ROM only works with one particular version. I downloaded several before I found one that worked.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

While I agree that ROM + emulator is best for preservation, you absolutely can fix the space invader bug because you have the C code which would let you add in delays. Just like there are many versions of Space Invaders for different consoles an none of them use emulation but play like the original. I’m a fan of si78c, a memory accurate reimplementation of the 1978 arcade game written in C.

Of course Space Invaders wasn’t written in C so this new tool doesn’t apply.

But the article does talk about how the decompiler sometimes introduces bugs and how they were manually fixed before compiling.

So you were right but the problem you brought up has already been addressed. (And will continue to need to be addressed as more cross compiling bugs are found in each game.)

I interpreted the word “legacy” the OP used as the fandom for old games rather than perfect preservation.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu (edited rok temu)

I mow the lawn myself but I outsourced the design and manufacturing of my mower. Same with string trimmer and leaf blower. I also buy my gasoline instead of making it myself.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

Interlacing is native to US broadcast TV. Crt’s don’t have to be interlaced. Computer CRT’s were rarely interlaced.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

I’m just being nitpicky because you are using CRT interchangeably with Television. CRT’s are used in TV’s but aren’t interlaced unless the circuitry around them sends interlaced. So no, interlacing is not native on CRT’s when receiving an interlaced signal. If I plugged a Nintendo into my old ViewSonic CRT, I wouldn’t get a signal because it didn’t support NTSC interlaced input.

It’s like saying interlacing is native on LCDs. LCD TVs are interlaced, not LCDs.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

If you were trying for good communication you would have said, "Interlacing is native on TV’s which is what the SNES was made for. "

Everyone knows what a TV is.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

They weren’t as buggy. People making excuses classify exploits as bugs ignoring that modern games have more bugs and exploits.

I played Atari 2600 games like space invaders, adventure, and pitfall for thousands of hours without ever running into a bug. The only game with an exploit was Combat where you could put your tank muzzle into a corner and make it loop across the map. But both players could do it.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

I’m unfamiliar with that game. Was World Games buggy or just bad? The quality the OP referred to was bugs, not gameplay.

Even the worst AAA game today has better game play than anything from 30 years ago. It’s the nature of extreme complexity that allowing players freedom makes complete debugging impossible.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

Click bait. This is from an interview from before Herbert saw Star Wars.

“while Herbert hadn’t yet seen the movie, he did have some thoughts about its similarities to his seminal series,”

Although it goes on to say that Herbert continued to have resentment for Starwars for the rest of his life.

Heretics of Dune:

“He’s a three P-O,” they said, meaning that such a person surrounded himself with cheap copies made from déclassé substances.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu (edited rok temu)

There are better and cheaper options this year so you didn’t miss anything. There’s the Atari Game Station Pro that emulates many old systems including Atari for $75 and the Atari 2600+ for $130 that directly replicates the 2600 but with HDMI.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

Steam was considered an abomination when it was released. Drm and a launcher to run HL2? GTFO.

Yet here we are where everyone loves Steam. Its no surprise other companies wanted to follow knowing that in 20 years, a horrible consumer policy could become beloved.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

No additional launchers or log ins, no waiting 30 minutes for the game to update

That happens on consoles all the time. Don’t play your modern console (switch or newer) and the same thing happens. I avoid Xbox now because every time I go to play it’s a 30 minute wait for system and game updates. -and my Xbox is hardwired Ethernet to 300 mbs service so it’s not slow Internet

I even booted up my switch before family visiting on Thanksgiving because I knew it would want an update. At least Switch was nice by making it optional.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

So you can’t complain that a PC needs updating if you left it turned off for a when when consoles work exactly the same way.

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

Whaaaa? Where? The dude said he couldn’t release because of copyright. Is it on torrents?

Blue_Morpho, rok temu

Thanks! I thought you got a hold of that remake done in Unreal Engine.