Video Games

Thanks all for Amiibo advice. It was purely zelda related stuff. I've downloaded Tagmo and found a .bin dump. Ordered some NFC215 cards which are due today. Kiddo is going to decorate them and keep them next to his Yoto card library in his first foray into piracy.

That is incredible. Skipped through it as at work, but will watch properly as need to do it justice. The amount of work, detail and art that modders put into these things is astounding - i can barely find the time to play a flipping game. That fact that they do it for free / further a community restores some of my faith in humanity.

I find Doom modding fascinating, it's a prime example of (extreme) limitations leading to creativity and ingenuity, and the ideas people come up with are just incredible (I'm sure there is lots of dross released also)

Watched the first 1/3rd of this intermittently whilst working earlier and it’s great. It’s like an actually well written creepypasta.

it's a prime example of (extreme) limitations leading to creativity and ingenuity

Absolutely. Mind you, the whole (too long) stretch where PC software was locked into the 640k memory prison was such a period for PC software in general. Whole industries of clever innovation crashed when the 386 came out.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23882768/unity-new-pricing-model-update

probably way too late

Starfield, not to give away spoilers, but if you head to the Andromalia II planet (spelling) there is an incredible Easter egg in the 'Safe house' location. Not even a mission or activity...

Edit it's - Andromas 2 - safe house gamma

Also, what is with all the 'we compare X to real life' videos these days, where X is guns or spaceships from video games.

Why would you compare guns on a space future video game to real life guns?

Seems so odd, but massively popular for all sorts of games.

I need to get over myself and get back to it

Wut

"real space engineer compares starfield ships to real life"

"How realistic are the guns in cyberpunk?"

"We compare swords in final fantasy to real life swords"

All that nonsense.

Indeed. It was on my dad's Amstrad 286 running MS-DOS that I really learned to program. My mum's boss had a Mac and I wanted one, so I started building a clone of System 7 in Turbo Pascal. I learned how to write my own mouse driver using interrupts, worked out how to create XOR masks to make mouse cursors display without obliterating the background underneath, and how to switch sections of the background to memory and/or disk so I could make windows moveable and resizeable.

When my dad bought a 386 and Windows 3.1 came out I sort of lost interest.

Of course then they invented the World Wide Web and for several years front end development was entirely made of extreme limitations, and I had the best time ever trying to build the impossible.

I idly watch a lot of this type of stuff. Can't completely put my finger on why but it's interesting but seeing how feasible and based in reality something is Vs pure 'rule of cool'/ designed something is compelling to me

Turbo Pascal

Now, there was a company that capitalised on the shortcomings of the PC architecture and the lack of an actual operating system.

One of many once-huge companies who were totally unprepared for the arrival of Windows 3.1 and thought they didn't have to bother.

Got a Retroid Pocket 3+ today. Not totally sold on it. May consider selling it on for what it owes me (£160-ish).

Anbernic RG405M is a better buy at that price range
RP3+ looks good but feels kinda cheap

I'm not a fan of Android on these devices anyway, would much rather have a solid linux frontend that you can easily navigate with the buttons only. Supposedly Garlic OS is being developed for all T618 devices

Yea it’s the Android that makes it shit. Should have gone Anbernic, I like my RG35xx, just want Dreamcast on the fly and with horizontal.

Returning it for a refund.

Tempted by that RGB30? Whatever it is, the square-screened one, for arcade stuff.

Which of the hdmi Linux/pi emulators with controllers are worth buying?

Not sure if anyone is interested but I just ordered myself a CoolBear Leviathan to replace my mammoth enclosure.

https://www.thecoolbear.co.uk/leviathan

I’ll be using my Sanjuk v6 with Crown 202 buttons and a brook ufb. I’ve got a month off work so might as well polish up on Mushihimesama, Espgaluda and Ketsui.

Nice. I've made the switch to leverless but still have some deeply ingrained muscle memory for sticks on some games.

I do play tekken and have been tempted by leverlessz But as I play shmups to tekken 80/20 lever makes more sense.

What are you using? At one point I almost pulled the trigger on this https://www.okiboardarcades.co.uk/

The Okiboards look very nice but I'm too tight so I built my own with a brooks UFB and sanwa buttons. I also recently got a very cheap tiny one off AliExpress and it's pretty decent https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005514619389.html

Got a picture of the homebuilt? I stared with a hori Blazblue board maybe a decade ago. Got back into it with a mayflash (good value for money). As with cycling the rabbit hole goes deep.

My mate gifted me a mayflash that I've replaced all the parts in too. My issue now is I have a ps5 so that and my other 2 sticks are now pc only until I can get a wingman adapter.

I'll get a pic of my homemade one but I just bought some acrylic sheets, araldited them together and stuck on a pre drilled top.
https://www.arcadeworlduk.com/products/replacement-black-acrylic-top-for-the-awuk-empty-metal-hitbox-case.html