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A significant part of this is emulated. Just converting mips to x86_64 and then emulating rest is not really native. It should convert to whatever OS native api’s

@Missingno128 One is a microcontroller and one is a single board computer. It’s not that different in concept to those crazy power pc boards for the Amiga. It doesn’t really run a full os like a normal raspberry pi. Just a little bit of bare metal code. They serve totally different purposes.

What passion is there in using Unity or Unreal.

@Missingno128 pi pico they are very different to any of the raspberry pi’s.

The incomplete DQ VI translation for Super Famicom I find in many ways much more humorous than the full official DS one. I wonder whether that will ever be finished.

So people are learning how to use something new. It’s improving at a phenomenal rate. I find AI does a better job at following Apple and Google design guidelines than human designers so far (I never understood what made that such a problem for them they both document what to do pretty well.) People are just messing around a bit with stuff like this. That new BSD variant that uses a lot of Apple lower level stuff is very impressive for the output of a single person even if it doesn’t really end up going anywhere. It’s not ready maybe yet for some stuff but it will get there it’s a great tool to increase individual productivity. (And it might finally get the banking system free of cobol. How many man hours have been wasted on that with no results.) I don’t see why people are complaining so much about the output of people messing around when so much absolute junk is coming out from huge teams of people.

I think getting something that can be played to completion is a worthwhile step in itself. Sentiment in Chinese and Japanese is harder but not impossible to do using machine learning. Some of the crunchyroll transactions are not amazing and there are better fan ones. It’s not impossible even with old school machine learning techniques.
If the only bit they are interested in is how to keep it playable that is probably the hardest thing.

There is nothing wrong with gen ai if it used properly. It is like a productivity multiplier for certain things. There is things I have tackled for myself that would normally taken a significant amount of man power that I wouldn’t have been able to get justified in terms of time and money. But has been useful to have. At the moment it is heavily subsidised through. I am pretty sure there are things I have done where it hasn’t been worth it for who I am paying. The hard bit has always been getting the spec right anyway. If someone had the right spec then it could do all n64 games properly. (Obviously that is not at all easy.) It depends more on the skill level of whoever is using it than anything else.

I still think I prefer F Zero GX but I don’t think it’s emulated well enough on Switch 2 because of how technical it is I do quite like Wipeout but it is a difficult buy in for me when the store is going down in a year.

The Series X enhancements for Panzer Dragoon Orta are very impressive I don’t know exactly what was done it plays really really well definitely locked 60 4k widescreen but it looks sharper as well and seems to enable HDR. (I suspect not having to do cpu emulation like 360 games allowed much more to be done.
It might be worth me getting the rest of the SEGA Xbox games if they are all as improved as much as this. It’s definitely much better than some of the games Nintendo ported from GameCube and wanted full price for.

I would quite like a way to get some stuff off my Switch and Series X because of some of the ports that require steam game files to work on my Trimui smart pro s. (Problem is a bet anything that could do it would enable large scale piracy and kill that platform. Maybe someone could do it (Nobody managed to crack the swgemu restrictions on the core bit). I don’t suppose as many people were trying though. (I think I should see if there is a way to run it now myself to just try the Jedi bit. If they had waited say 3 years to introduce Jedi and done it better I bet the game as a whole have made more money )

Some people love collectothons I actively really don’t like them. (I played Mario Odyssey which I really quite enjoyed but I stopped at the credits and never bothered with the rest of the collectibles.)

I am about half way the Switch 2 DK. (I wasn’t hating it but Xbox Hades 2 came out).

I didn’t do all the stats on Mario 63 (I did just enough for the proper ending.)

I hated what I played of the rest of the n64 collectothons. (My N64 was USA but I only played PAL versions of them that other people bought.)

@AxioMaxiM Should have looked further down just pulled it v

Does anybody have a direct link for those of us who avoid discord ?

The management of Xbox I guess will have a knock on effect eventually but I just play the type of indies that are quite liked and many people play on Nintendo and Steam. (The VRR and input systems I love.). When I can’t get them anymore I might have a problem. (Most still get released I have given up on 'Gane Passs except for essential for online)

@Cronodoug It wasn’t that easy to do 360 piracy at least if you wanted to play online but anyway it was much harder than the earlier mod chips. There was the hacked drive firmware for a bit. But that glitching the boot up based one was very hard to install and I think you could still very easily get the console banned. It was the original Xbox that had really easy piracy.

@AngelFox I actually prefer the 3DS Galaxy Force 2 (I have to make it a bit easier than the default in terms of the amount of time you get.) I played a lot of Afterburner 2 on the real cabinet as a kid and I like it for the nostalgia but I think a lot of people write off Galaxy Force 2 due to the dreadful Mega Drive port. (Which was so bad it never should have happened at all.) I think they made some pretty bad choices with SEGA Ages (Or they should have been more patient and kept pumping them out like hamster does. I don’t think they are making accurate emulators just game specific ones for those Yakusa games. That’s why they can’t do things that way.

I only currently have the Neo Geo Super Pocket and the 4 Neo Geo Carts. But I would buy a Neo Geo version of the proper handheld (or the Bartop.) if it had the same games as the Super Pocket straight away..

I don’t think the £90 new carts for the new system based on the Moster core are going to have the longevity of the originals. (If they had the original mask roms they could have just reprinted them. A consolized MVS with the caps changed and stuff and HDMI out isn’t that much different in cost. The new joysticks will probably be desirable to me but they will probably be hard to get People don’t like the look of MVS carts but at least they will last. (I will probably end up with a 2 slot because I want the memory card slot and stereo is standard.

I don’t really see the point of making an ASIC of the Mister core. Making an SoC of the original hardware as sn ASIC including the Analog bits would be a much interesting project.

The common argument that this is trained on other people’s words doesn’t apply to images of SEGA s own stuff.

If the drive is not properly maintained it can cause a right mess to disks. If it’s not spinning perfectly it can cause a lot of damage. I have on those lg slimline ones that can run the firmware to dump disks. Although if you have to get the encryption keys elsewhere
I don’t really see the point.

I don’t know why they don’t keep the original mask roms for e.g the Neo Geo AES+ rerelease carts, Those are superior because they don’t degrade. I think Nintendo probably kept them all. (Not that they will ever use them.) The Analog bits of systems can never be properly done with an fpga. I think they should have started from the original if they are going to bother with the cost of doing asics. Then fix it for a modern process and add the features like hdmi most of the chips they used you can still buy 100% compatible versions or you can deal with the differences in the firmware. I think a consolised mvs with an hdmi mod would still be more desirable. (And probably a similar price maintained universe bios installed etc. I do kind of want to buy one but the more I think about it the less desirable it is.

@LowDefAl The sprites are completely redone. I don’t see what point there would be to write a mips emulator when the labour intensive bit is the sprites. Any proprietary Sony code would have had to be stripped out.

@LowDefAl It is ported not emulated afaik.

However I think the best version of SoN is the iPadOS version which only costs £2.99 and its.a really impressive port. (Not sure that I like the changes to saving but I certainly understand them).

Plenty of decent supported pad's these days (All Nintendo / Sony / Microsoft most 8bitdo not sure about others don't go for the really of MFi ones because most of them don't have clickable triggers).

On a side note you need at least an M3 iPad to get the 60fps Red Dead Redemption. (Due to poor optimisation its definitely powerful enough).

How can I extract this from a Series X though ? (I guess I can't) I wonder if the Xbox part of project helix will be completely separated off (To not do that would be madness for the piracy situation.)

You can see why the full version of the first Doom was so heavily pirated. I asked to be allowed to send off the required cheque and was told absolutely no way. It wasn't like buying an indie you like today where you could just pay by PayPal if it wasn't on Steam.

The shareware Doom was a decent chunk of game (Unlike the demo's of today). Which it was encouraged to share it was most peoples first experience of playing a FPS so obviously it had more longevity than stuff that came after it (Wolfenstein 3D just wasn't that good.)

I never managed to get past the first (shareware) level of Doom - playing on Ultra Violence (To keep it going for as long as possible). But I did buy retail Doom 2, Ultimate Doom and the one with TNT and the other one I can't remember the name of. I don't understand in anyway shape or form how that encouraged piracy whatsoever.

I preordered this and then forgot about it so I am getting it later today. I got the New Geo Pocket so I thought I might as well get the carts but I haven’t even unsealed any of them yet The screen is too small and it doesn’t have the choice for AES mode like the big ones. I think Metal Slug 4 is probably my least favourite one. I think Blazing Star is too easy (And I generally suck at horizontal shmups. I much prefer playing Ironclad or prehistoric isle 2. (Pulstar is too hard for me.)

I bet most people here have secretly bought the Trump phone….

Is it based on the original have they rewritten it in 64 bit assembler ?

That’s just fraud. I think I got someone’s else to do something sort of similar at HNV (The game disks got trashed by a virus.) I bought it for £15 but the ones on the shelves were £45. I wasn’t even willing to try it being a kid but I got the £45. I only did it once and I knew it was wrong.

cross-retailer return fraud. That is what this is known as.

What Microsoft has just done for unreal 5 (And they already did for Godot) is exactly the sort of thing Nintendo should be doing for Unreal and.Unity. (I think they did for the Wii U Unity that’s why it had its own build etc). At the moment the end result is ending up total garbage for many indie games. (It’s not even that they are bad games and playing them on Xbox even before proved that to me but the Unreal recommendation to optimise as you go along is the complete opposite of what is normally recommended in programming books. Big Teams like e.g Sonic Racing Crossworlds can do it but small indie devs can’t that’s why there are so many technical problems with Switch and Switch 2 indie games. The Xbox dev mode hasn’t lead to any problems for current systems. (I think there is some sort of exploit for Xbox One now but it’s not a current systems anymore. If they are that bothered about exposing the low level API then they can lock those builds behind the dev portal. I hope they do something with monogame or fNA next but I don’t know whether they will because they deliberately dropped XNA but getting one or both of those two working really well with modern versions of .net would be great. The games that run well on Switch/Swith 2 either use some form of XNA or their own engines, Or Nintendo could do their own framework. I can’t believe the amount of absolute garbage that they are allowing to ruin their reputation for quality even for stuff people think is first party. (DKCR HD uses Unity really badly and the 2P mode is completely broken it’s stupid.) Links Awakening is just glitchy all the time. (It’s not that other people don’t release stuff in that sort of state but Nintendo had a reputation for not doing that.) I don’t know what is going to happen but I am going to be much more careful going forward. (Even DK Bananza .I think needed a bit more time fixing bugs. Especially as they don’t have working vrr in tv mode they really need to up their game or my attach rate is going to go right down.

@Shaw_Brothers Just get one of the injection molded ones that have a raspberry pi 2040 in them. Less then £10 off Aliexpress (They don’t make them themselves but it’s open hardware open software.DSPico I think they are called.) There is no reason to get anything else unless you want one based on the r4 because you want the gba adapter thing then I don’t know what to recommend. It’s not something that has ever affected me because I don’t have a DS with a gba slot. (I have a new 3ds XL ata DSi XL).

It might be good but I don’t go for none open source stuff anymore. (Not really bothered about cost or open hardware but I am bothered about open source for the firmware.). Maybe even only parts of it would be okay. (As long as it’s properly separated. ) If there were binaries for the add on chips then I would probably be okay with that. But even like it is I guess it will be reverse engineered fairly quickly. (Quite a bit of the stuff that has been added to some of the open source ones is stuff I didn’t even know I wanted until I had it,) I don’t think it will make much difference to the clones these days.

The thing is Nintendolife did used to do stuff properly (Like 45hrs for a major review) and you could tell by the content they weren’t lying.and to do Arcane Archives justice it would be necessary to know whether a 1 credit clear is possible. So I don’t think it would be easy to do it justice. You can get the list directly from hamster so those Articles are not much use (zones telling when a sale is on might be.)) stuff like how to flash that drive to rip retro games. I have done it and am glad for the article but actually doing it is a right pita.

When this site started it was really good quality I don’t know if they kept back a lot of material that they would have otherwise published on other hookshot sites but recently it has stopped being very interesting for me. (Would have thought at a minimum this site would review every Arcade Arcade Archives release and pure Xbox would review most of the big games. Even the Nintendo Life reviews you can tell that often they have not even played the game properly.. if it’s a substantially good game but doesn’t work probably due to lack of power it should at least be reviewed on Xbox and ps5. There are too many reviews where they haven’t even bothered to learn to play the game at all.. (The news just comes from anywhere without attribution.) A small amount of the interviews are interesting but not very many. That must be the fault of the interviewer though don’t think it’s the choice of people to interview. Stuff like the firmware for ripping disks was interesting . (Be more interesting if they provided a proper all in one flasher.)

I love all these games pretty much I prefer Final Vendetta to Streets of Rage 4 or the new Turtles games. I really like Battle Axe (I don’t think the procedural aspect for when you have finished is that good but I think the first play through being properly designed is better than the games that go for procedural all the way through with permanent upgrades.) Xeno Crisis I am less sure about because I find it pretty easy with twin stick or extremely difficult with SNES smash tv type controls, I think the balance should have been changed in that instance.

Did the original not have loads of slowdown ?

This was a en enjoyable football game although having an American N64 didn't help matters and it cost me a fortune to import. I think it might have been the most expensive N64 game I bought.

(Not having a USA SNES was something that I really regretted. Having a USA N64 I am probably 50/50 on whether I regret it or not).

@h3s Just pull the full sets of archive.org and run the mame program that checks romsets.ClrMAMEPro (It's better than basically paying a pirate and really easy.)

There is no way that this site cares one bit about that. (Coverage almost entirety relies on who sends free stuff).

But it was a junk game iss was far superior. (At least during the 16 bit era it was like a 7/10 vs a9/10 or 10/10.

It does look better than abh NES homebrew and the there is less imfootmation around sto good for thrum.

I would e interested in a home console from them with open core (Not particularly bothered about any other features.): Whether it’s standalone just for that or runs.stuff for another system.. I want the most powerful fpgas I can get also not necessarily bothered what coores it runs right now.

I think that I perhaps have a similar dream but BzArcade Club seems to keep people happy enough. W hat I would want is perfect controls. The controls were all like a brand new fight stick in late 90's London. They all match and look right at arcade club but they don't play rignt. Those brand new parts are what in what would probably be a smaller Arcade. Hong Kong Arcades don't have that issue. Not been to Japan recently.

@mjparker77 I don’t think the people with original hardware and AES cart collections that are still worth loads will bat an eyelid. (Maybe if the system used the original Verilog/VHDL and had new asic versions of all the chips as well as proper mask Rom carts that make a bit of a difference but I think it will sell out straight away like all Neo Geo homebrew tends to.

I will give it a go this is my sort of thing as long as it comes to Xbox it looks better than Mighty Numbrt 9

I would get it but only if it was on Xbox maybe it will later. (I guess if it had a notorized x86 Mac version I would take that also).

I wish there was an analog open core product that was for tv's. (Not like a jailbreak) but the fpga's are more powerful than mister afaik.

@MontyMole I think we can somewhat agree. I don’t like what OpenAI did or is doing when it comes to changing from a none profit to a profit. I think it genuinely would be better to have people with different goals with the control over it. But I can’t say the same of Anthropic . But I think we are in a bit of a transitional phase. (At some point it’s going to have to be sold for at least what the resources cost.

Buyback have had quite a bit of enjoyment reverse engineering cheap Chinese junk and making it work properly. (Before now I would have had to either use the pirated IDA buy IDA which really isn’t cheap or just not do it and just buy some more junk and hope it works this time.

(I bet that Mythos model could blow the Switch 2 security to pieces I hope that doesn’t happen).