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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I think it has a bit to do with a lot of firmware or drivers being closed source too. I feel like a couple years ago I ran into that issue with camera my old Android phone had

 

I'm playing Pokemon Unbound and the clock is out of wack. It also think it's 2024.

I've tried the following options:

  • Emulation Station - There's a section to change the time zone but I would need to set the time zone incorrectly to display the correct time.

  • RetroArch - I couldn't find anything.

  • IUX (the basic system UI) - There's a section to change the time and date under the settings tab. It was way off. Years in the past and completely the wrong time. Changing the settings didn't do anything.

What I think would fix it would be connecting it to the internet using a driverless dongle and a USB C adapter. Unfortunately my wireless adapter doesn't seem to work so I would have to buy another one.

My RG Nano had an option to configure the RTC (real time clock) so I thought there might be a standalone app for it but if there is something like that in PlumOS I can't find it.

The Retro Games Corps How to Make the GKD Pixel II Software Suck Less doesn't seem to say anything about this.

Does anyone have any ideas?


Update: I just read about Rogue OS and it apparently has an app similar to the one I had on my RG Nano. Is one OS really more feature rich than the other?

Update 2: I switched to Rogue OS. The setup process was a bit weird. I had to flash version one then update the SYSTEM file to get the latest version.

Rogue OS seems fine. There were some shaders turned on for GBA I didn't care for and the firmware uses a different core for GBA so I changed both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you find you switch back and forth between games quite often?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

the screen hoopla shouldn’t have happened in the first place if they just ignore the 4:3 purists :P

What was the issue there?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mind doing a side shot? I'd be curious to see how thick they are compared to each other.

Also do the sticks and buttons touch the screen? I thought I heard that was an issue with some clamshell handhelds. Whoever the reviewer was I believe speculated it may ware down the screen protector.

 

Here is the Wikipedia page about Ship of Harkinian and some information from the article

Ship of Harkinian is an unofficial open source port of the 1998 Nintendo 64 video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time that runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Wii U, and Nintendo Switch. It has also been ported to the Android operating system by a third party developer.

It was first released in March 2022 for Windows, four months after Ocarina of Time's source code was decompiled and released. Since then, Ship of Harkinian has received ports to Linux and macOS, and homebrew ports to Wii U and Nintendo Switch.

Updates to Ship of Harkinian have attracted media attention, as they often integrate options and features which aren't present in any official release of Ocarina of Time.

The title of the project is an allusion to the philosophical thought experiment Ship of Theseus, as well as the name of the King from The Legend of Zelda CD-i games, who was infamous for the internet memes spawned from the games.


Here are the respective GitHub pages:


Here is Game Banana page if you are looking for mods:


Here are the respective PCGamingWiki pages


Here are some GamingOnLinux articles about the projects:

Numerous other sources such Kutako, PCGamer, The Verge, Ars Technica, and GamesRadar also wrote articles about them primarily between 2022 and 2023.


Bonus:

If you are interested in this you might be interested in other PC ports of Nintendo 64 games like Star Fox 64, Perfect Dark, Doom 64, Dinosaur Planet, and Super Mario 64. It's worth noting many of these projects have Linux releases and run great on the Steam Deck or emulator handhelds (ex. RG35XXSP) using PortMaster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe the blog that is hosted on a Nintendo Wii. It's not the most practical hack but I find console modding really neat and the "because I can" style projects are particularly fascinating to me.

Some other favorite hacks are a bit more practical and have to do with extending the life of existing products. RebbleOS, for example, is an open source firmware that took off after Pebble shutdown following their acquisition by FitBit in 2016. It's allowed people to continue using their e-ink Pebble watches largely unchanged. They can still do things like fetch the weather and voice dictation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

On a related note for anyone interested there are a lot of programs out there for using other peripherals such as webcams, Xbox 360 Kinects, PSVR cameras and headsets, and so on for VR on PC.

iVRy Driver and Driver4VR are some pretty popular paid programs on Steam that assist with the setup process.

/r/PSVRHack is neat if you are in that ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Wikipedia page for those that want to learn about this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

It depends if I feel the death is deserved and if I'm having fun.

If I'm playing something like Battlefield and keep dying because of someone's skills with a plane I'm fine with that and it definitely feels like it's on me. If it's someone sliding around shipment in Call of Duty mobile killing me as soon as I spawn and I'm lucky if I end their kill streak I feel like that's on the game because of baked in mechanics being frustrating to counter.

I would say it's definitely the most noticeable with games like Elden Ring. I suck so bad at them but I feel like I deserve each death and don't feel irritated by dying.

It's only in situations where someone is hacking that I would actually blame another player.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I recommend joining the official discord group as well as AngryTurtle’s discord group for friendly people to play with.

Is this a YouTuber's group or something?

Thanks for all the other tips though.

The added caps I got from people on my team completing quests was nice. I am still not sure how voice chat works with teams though. It seems like I can voice chat with them no matter where they are on the map but I don't know if that removes the proximity voice chat.

Is scrapping legendary gear better than turning it in to that legendary exchange machine? I still haven't figured out what that does.

 

If you have a device like the Miyoo Mini Plus that has no touch screen or analog sticks this might be helpful.


RetroAchievements

ROMHacking .net


The RetroAchievement's lists aren't complete. A lot of games haven't been catalogued on the RetroAchievement's website. I imagine results are also going to vary a lot from game to game. For example Stardew Valley can be played with PortMaster on handhelds like the RG35XXSP, you don't need analog sticks a majority of the time, but you do need analog sticks to move around where you want to position buildings on your farm. It wouldn't surprise me if stuff like that comes up.

How has your experience been playing DS and PSP games on devices without touch screens and analog sticks? Can you think of any games that you would recommend?

I'd be interested to hear any other ROM hacks that remove or minimize their use.

 

Well, if you are not, this changes now: KNULLI Gladiator has gone public! The brand new version of KNULLI comes loaded with a whole lot of new features and improvements, such as:

  • Added device support for the Anbernic RG34XX (including tate mode)
  • Improved support for TrimUI devices (toggle switch support, RGB, suspend mode, d-pad-as-stick toggle)
  • Switched default file system to exFAT
  • Introduced access via USB in MTP mode
  • Added quick resume mode to boot directly back into your game
  • Improved Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity
  • Automated assignment of controllers to players
  • Automated switch between Bluetooth audio and built-in speakers
  • Extended power management settings in EmulationStation
  • Integrated RGB settings into EmulationStation
  • Improved RGB behavior
  • Improved power management and battery saving
  • Improved EmulationStation launch speed
  • Replaced Drastic-Steward with Advanced Drastic as a new NDS emulator
  • Added MPV media player
  • Automated detection of ScummVM games
  • Applied 60 Hz patches for RG35XX SP, RG34XX, and RG CubeXX (Thanks to @TheGammaSqueeze!)
  • Added USB Audio support
  • Added ZRAM swap support
  • Tons of bugfixes and performance improvements

The information above is from the Release Notes section of the GitHub page. The actual change log page has more information.


Has anyone tried it out yet on the RG35XXSP?

I was unsuccessful in getting a lot of PortMaster games working Knulli despite following the recommended installation instructions. My post from nearly a year ago about trying to get Stardew Valley working can be found here. I was able to get PortMaster working on MuOS at the time but I prefer Knulli's frontend.

I also noticed an issue where connecting a display to the HMDI output would not work and prevent the system from booting though I admittedly only tried this briefly.

The developer has stated because it's a major update people need to reflash their SD cards. Most of the changes that come with this update aren't things I care about so I figured I'd ask before switching over.

Apparently there is some kind of fix for exFAT file systems in regards to PortMaster so I may try that first. I'm relatively confident my system is running EXT4 though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Which is a shame, because it’s just as fun as FO4 otherwise.

I get you. I would definitely play a Tale of Two Wastelands mod that combines Fallout 4 and 76.

 

I'm about 30 hours into Fallout 76 so far and I'm surprised how much I am enjoying it. There's a lot of unique locations and creatures that make exploring fun. The MMO part of the game isn't super blatant outside of the microtransactions for skins and certain items. When I do come across other players it's usually because I stumbled into their camp and we just emote at each other a couple times before I move on. I don't think there is a way to actually talk with other players outside. I think there might be voice chat but I haven't tried it. The story seems pretty shallow though and mostly done through terminal entries and notes. I haven't really felt compelled to follow the main story line. I've been slowly working my way East then South doing miscellaneous quests along the way and exploring.

I'll probably play at least another 30 hours. I am not too sure how grindy late game quests will be. It costs caps to fast travel and they aren't as easy to come across as they are in Fallout 4 so if quests objectives have me wandering back and forth across long distances I've already explored I could see that getting tiring in a hurry for example.

The only bug I've come across was being unable to move sporadically in the over world and consistently being unable to move indoors. It turns out this was due to my high FPS and I needed to cap it using AMD Chill.

I do wonder what was added in the Wastelanders DLC and how the game was before it.

TL:DR I'd say it's worth picking up on sale and if you want to explore a bit. It doesn't feel as deep as other Fallout games but it's something.


Does anyone here want to play together? I'm on PC and mostly wandering around exploring but keep dumping most of my ammo into Sheepsquatchs. If you do want to play together shoot me a message and I'll give you my Steam ID.

 

Basically I'm looking for a deck mod that has additional joker slots. I've probably modded in over 100 new jokers and want to try some over powered combinations.

I'm thinking a deck mod would be ideal because I could still play vanilla decks, I still want some level of randomness and don't really want to pick and choose which jokers I get, and if this was done with spectral/tarot cards I would have to go through the process of finding them.


Here are some links I used to find the Balatro mods I use now by the way

The Wiki is probably the best source I have come across because a majority of the time it lists exactly what the mod is adding. It does kind of take away a bit of the mystery but I feel like it's worth it if you want to know how well a mod is going to mesh with the game.

 

By 'stealth archer equivalent' I mean the stereotypical easy/newbie or basic bitch way to play the game. It may be easy to pivot to and get stuck in a rut of playing that way.


I thought about this while playing Balatro. I kept trying to do creative combinations like Stone Joker and Marble Joker to see how far I could go with stone cards and pairs but pretty much always end up doing 8 Ball flushes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't an initialism a subcategory of acronym by definition?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Is that correct? I think by definition an initialism can be considered a form of acronym. The way I worded the question includes those subsets of acronyms

 

I'm running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?

 

I don't think it makes a difference unless I want to use a fortune enchanted sword. Is this correct?

 

This is the kind of bar of soap I am talking about. It's kind of a contoured oval.

I know there are copyrights on soap shapes. I've read several soap shape patents like Theodore G Brown's hollow bar of soap designed to contain slivers of old soap and Douglas Lee's helical soap.

I've tried to go through Conopco Inc's list of patents (the trademark holder for Dove) but I can't seem to find much. They also own a plethora of other companies though so it's been challenging to swift through.

On that note I also looked for subsidiaries of Unilever (they own Dove) to see if any of them make similarly shaped bars of soap but it doesn't seem like it. Brands of soap outside of Unilever such as Irish Spring (owned by Colgate-Palmolive) do sell contoured/"dog bone" soap but I don't recall seeing any that match Dove's design.

I did find a book called Chemical Product Design: Towards a Perspective through Case Studies from 2007 and chapter 9 is titled "Design of the Dove Beauty Bar" which sounded promising but it seems to be mostly about the chemical composition and reducing soap scum in bathtubs. This is also apparently one of the theories as to why they are branded as beauty bars instead of soap. The other theory being it was an advertising tactic by David Ogilvy to appeal to women.

Someone on Reddit claims their grandfather invented the shape of Dove soap and posted the original wooden models. They backed up their claims by getting into contact with Unilever. I couldn't find any useful information in the comments.

I could probably go to a grocery store and see if any other brands have similarly shaped soap and cross reference that with the release of that style of soap by Dove to see if the copyright has lapsed but that would probably mean looking for old advertisements.


For context I was in the shower thinking about different shapes of soap and it made me wonder if that specific design (contoured oval) was originally chosen primarily to either:

A) Minimize the amount of contact on surfaces after being used to limit residue build up and prevent it from becoming stuck to tubs, shower, sinks, and so on.

B) Work better with the human body by maximizing the area that comes into contact with skin and wearing more evenly.

I imagine these days Dove would say both but that feels a bit like saying the stay-on-tabs you find on canned drinks were designed with a hole to hold your straw in place or keep bees out of your drinks during the summer.

All of this made me wondering if there was a patent somewhere and I've now spent about two hours looking for it. I don't really know why I became so invested in this. I suspect there's going to be a simple answer.

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Chocolate bloom (en.wikipedia.org)
 

I mentioned Simitone in another post here and it made me consider giving it a try. A couple years ago I attempted to set it up (I think it may have been around 2018 after seeing a post like this on ModTheSims) but ran into some kind of issue that kept me from actually being able to play. I'm wondering is it worth the effort?


From talks in forums it seems like it isn't being developed anymore.

The SimsTek Wiki goes into specifics stating the following:

Simitone was cancelled when Rhys was sent a ceased and desist from EA over attempting to publish the project to Apple's App Store sometime after EA announced The Sims Mobile. He noted that it had the real potential to cut into EA's revenue and that the company wasn't having it. The code was released to the public but is still treated as proprietary software.

But doesn't site a source.

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