PerfectDark

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

Hmmm that’s pretty specific!

I’d look at:

• Cara Ellison. She’s touched on it before, that I’ve noticed when writing for The Guardian - how strong videogames are for the medium of telling stories, and also for expressing art.
• Matthewmatosis on YouTube, does some great work on at least the artistic choices teams make when creating the games
• Critical Distance is a good site, critiquing games as a serious art form

I mean…this is in my eyes, and in my experience reading them. The thing about art is though…it’s so damned subjective, so what I found related to that point, you might find is totally, totally off-the-mark!

Hope it helps, a little though! <3

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu (edited 3 miesiące temu)

Well, you’ve got a lot of options!

Since getting my Steam Deck, I sold my Switch collection, since (for the most part), emulating Switch games are a breeze. Theres obviously ones which perform poorly, but the vast, vast majority run so well!

You can always get the original launch model of Switch - you can jailbreak it with a little ‘jig’ and its the easiest thing in the world. No mod chip required. There’s even tablet-only ones, even OLEDs on aliexp if you want to have someone do they hard work for you, too!

The Steam Deck is incredibly hard to beat - Steam games, GOG, Epic and Amazon games. Emulation. Its a lot of gaming :)

(And as to frequency posting these? Lately, every 3 or 4 days!!!)

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

I know Lazorne is on here, so I have no doubt this comment will make them smile!!!

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

I’m a sucker for OLED screen

R.E. the OLED, you can write me on Matrix if you’re there (or join the Revolt server!) and I can help you with a pointer for it!!!

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

I only access it via their website!

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

I’ve seen the same.

And I can’t claim any ownership of this, this is purely Gardiner’s server! I just…happen to know a lot of the devs and creators in the space, and I’m slowly inviting them in because - well I guess a place like this, more focused and small where we can chat about what we love: developing for Linux, and gaming on Linux might be a nice thing!

I’d just encourage you to make a throwaway account (if you’re so inclined!) and ask in the server yourself! No one can answer better than Gardiner can :)

This is literally like…idk 2 hours old at this point. No ‘big’ posts have been made, just me prodding the odd folk (like here) to join in and see if they like it :)

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

I think there is an option for DRM-free. It’s going to be a controversial take but…when companies pull this kinda thing? I’m more inclined to be a pirate girl than support this kind of process.

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

Its far less than it used to be.

Check 1337 and you’ll see the quality of uploads is generally the exact same literal thing as you’d find on a streaming service, or disk.

I fucking loathe DRM. loathe it!

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

There’s zero percent chance of this.

Sadly, of course, coz I’m the world’s #1 GOG fangirl, but…I mean Remedy asked every publisher if they wanted to be involved. None did.

Alan Wake 2 just would not have happened without Epic. They fronted the money: Epic is the reason it exists at all!

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

Hey, this is so sweet of you to say!

Nope, no selling here. Ironically I had a couple of legit job offers for this kind of thing when I was writing these on Reddit last year (before leaving it). So…in some odd alternate universe, I might have been doing just that selling!

For now, I’m very fediverse-addicted. No selling here. I’m glad you enjoyed the few things I found interesting myself! :)

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

Simply untrue.

These are known, and you’d better believe Nintendo knows everything there is to know about each and every emulator that exists. They tried pressuring the team behind Cemu years ago, but it ended up being pointless.

Some of these are years and years and years old.

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

I really appreciate that! Thank you :)

I love this kind of thing, so as long as others will put up with it, I’ll share them :)

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

I do plan to!

I get impatient, because I adore writing these, but I plan to write these weekly :)

Thank you!

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

The irony, after you posted this we’ve seen Nintendo send out a DMCA notice for a ton of Ryujinx forks! Link here is to my post on it!

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/915746e2-425e-4c19-ae62-13a908c1c628.gif

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

I’ll install, and report back on how it is! <3

PerfectDark, 3 miesiące temu

Now this has been done, the team have made the tools available to learn from. I’ve seen a lot of users in forums talking about how they’re planning to tackle other games from the same gen of gaming, so…I’d say given some time we’ll have a good chance of a lot of games getting the same treatment!!!

<3

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

I guess I have the fact that I wasnt alive for that ‘era’ of gaming, so its maybe a bit more fascinating to me to see a more utilitarian design over what we get now.

I dislike the move in PCs and consoles where everything has RGB (you’ll see it everywhere on SBC retro handhelds), or just looks garish. To me this boxy-box just looks BEAUTIFUL. Gray/beige hardware wins me over every time

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Pastel pretty colors?

Okay judging by all these anti-gray/beige comments I’m an outlier in what I find lovely, but even this looks nice to me!!!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

The ‘SteamGridDB’ plugin is the one which does this!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

…well at least it’s prettier this time!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Sure, once I figure out if there is anything fancy needed in cross-posting and do so in a sec!

I was on Lemmy years ago, but its been so very long that ive forgotten almost everything I once knew!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Done, as its own post in the community. Happy to!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Hah!

You got it in one there. Thanks so much :)

I just hope the little, fun and interesting things I love to share keep on being interesting to others! And its nice to be here, I was very sad to leave Reddit towards the end of last year, and the Steam Deck community I built up there. Nice to see an alternative like this exists here (with nicer folk, so far!)

I appreciate it!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

I’m sorry, that’s not really my scene! I haven’t ever played any PC racing games locally (which makes me seem rather sad, doesn’t it?)

I can recommend Mario Kart 8, emulated, for this though! Which might or might not be something you’d consider. Friends and I often play this through my Steam Deck or PC!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Further:

• sadly no store pages are live yet to wishlist
• the release date is September 5th (for some reason skipping Judgement Day’s date?!)

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Thank you so much!

It was bought by a crypto company that pushed aggressive monetization, and fired most of the original staff.

Constant nerfs to the original gameplay, invalidating months of users’ grind by removing (‘improving’) core mechanics.

This is why the popularity dropped, but as to their official announcement, it was very short on details. Just another failed game, sadly.

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

*ma’am!

You’re so welcome! It’s a bit of awful thing, writing up something like this and wondering if it’s going to go down okay (for me anyway!), but that might be a lot of the typical Reddit user responses tainting my previous experiences doing this kinda thing!

I’m glad the responses are positive here, you can count on this being a regular thing <3

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

It’s definitely more polished and complete now! The dev also works hard, especially if a user has any little issues, they have a Discord and Git page all where help and previous issues are detailed and worked out step-by-step on a fix. There’s also a huge list on games which work via Legendary, and any tweaks users have reported to make games work are listed there on the Discord, too.

I’d be curious how you find it, after so much time has passed between the beta and now! Do update how you go! (I’ve shared that people have written comments here about Junk-Store, with Eben the dev (hi Eben), so I know he’ll be lurking here)

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Thank you! So much! This is really helpful for reading through :)

Next time will be far prettier then, I pinkie-swear!!!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ae5415d1-32db-477a-99ee-514487c35d88.gif

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

I love finding other GOG fans! They’re my absolute number one, and that tended to be my focus. I’ll keep it in mind that especially here, there’s more of us!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

I promise I will be!

My only issue is somehow keeping it formatted nicely (I miss peppering these with pretty pictures and GIFs), and being able to stop!!!

And you should try both! They’re very easy to install, and I absolutely swear by RetroDECK

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Oh my Gosh the Steam Deck has been by far my fav gaming purchase. I was the same, rarely playing anything, looking for something new, but the convenience of this thing changed everything for me.

I adore how it plays to two strengths: for those who want a simple console-like experience, it works right away! And for those who want to tinker (me) - the sky is the limit!!

Look for my friend’s work if you decide to buy one, he makes something called Decky Loader. From there the customization is endless!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Make sure you check for a ‘Xenia compatilibility list’

This is a spreadsheet showing whether any particular games are working, and how well they work. Some don’t play at all, and some play perfectly!

I have 5 PS3 games installed on my Steam Deck, through RetroDECK right now that play perfectly, and a couple that required tweaks!

I do remember that Xenia (the 360 emulator!) plays Skate 3 perfectly, though!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

This is so sweet of you to say!

Really, this is fun for me. Its going to take all my resolve to not do this again in 24 hours (because, over saturation!), it just makes me happy to find what interests me.

I’m lucky to have found a place like this community, where it just so happens others find that same stuff (so far!) just as interesting!

Thanks for this, made me smile!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Check the link in my post, it links you to Russ (Retro Game Corps) new video on it, and he will detail how!

Or, I also write about it in a guide I made last year, here:

rentry.org/steamdeckpirates-retrodeck_guide

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

Thank you!!!

I’m still cross (not really tho) that when I reached out to you all last year, you never wanted me to interview you!!!

RetroDECK has been my one true emulation love for so long now, and I’ve adored all your recent updates. You should all be so proud! I went into a little more detail for the users here on RetroDECK on my latest news post here on Lemmy too!

<3

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

I missed you too!!!

PerfectDark, 4 miesiące temu

I feel so heartbroken that I never got a sequel to Prey