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Mak0rz: Aug 2, 2008; 😎🐗🚬

LethalGeek posted:

PS2 has a stupidly complex CPU for no good reason and thankfully everyone seems to have learned their lesson and just puts x86 in everything now.

GameCube and Wii used PowerPC though.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 07:01

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# ? May 17, 2024 19:16

evobatman: Jul 30, 2006; it means nothing, but says everything!; Pillbug

I've made some nice pocket change buying up used Wiis for $10-20, unloading the games at Gamestop, and then softmodding the Wiis with emulators and ROMs and selling them online as retro gaming machines for $100.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 07:20

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

evobatman posted:

I've made some nice pocket change buying up used Wiis for $10-20, unloading the games at Gamestop, and then softmodding the Wiis with emulators and ROMs and selling them online as retro gaming machines for $100.

This makes me irrationally angry for some reason.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 07:24

Carth Dookie: Jan 28, 2013

Casimir Radon posted:

I miss joysticks being a required peripheral.

Same.

Tangently related: the death of development for modern aircraft combat flight sims and to a lesser extent, civvy flight sims. The fact that a strong contender to the king of the heap is a community modded falcon 4.0 from 98 is both amazing and depressing.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 07:27

Instant Sunrise: Apr 12, 2007; The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

i have an x52 from before mad catz bought them, and it still works decently.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 07:41

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

I miss when Saitek made those crazy looking sticks with bits you could customize and pull off. Hence I had R.A.T. 7 Mouse super comfy now I have the right attachments on it and plenty of buttons to push! On the other end of the spectrum I use a $10 Jaycar keyboard - nice to type on and cheap.

On the talk of custom controllers for Elite etc. I have been thinking of building a custom control station much like Steel Battalion. I have the technical skills to do it - but I am a lazy lazy man.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 08:33

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

nigga crab pollock posted:

just the progs.dat. the source isn't too terribly coded or complicated and besides the pointer math i understand all of it, but i have never actually compiled anything in my life. it really needs to get fixed because theres some precaching errors and some janky code that leads to some oddities but i am kind of in over my head u could say

it's not an engine mod, it's fully winquake compatible. which also means that putting it on the dreamcast or psp or android or gently caress literally anything is just a matter of repackaging it

I've not compiler quakec for a long rear end time but I can give it a go. Do you have it online somewhere I can grab it?

# ? Sep 1, 2016 09:20

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

Instant Sunrise posted:

i have an x52 from before mad catz bought them, and it still works decently.

I have a 13 year old X-45 that still works great.

# ? Sep 1, 2016 13:17

nigga crab pollock: Mar 26, 2010; by Lowtax

TTerrible posted:

I've not compiler quakec for a long rear end time but I can give it a go. Do you have it online somewhere I can grab it?

yeah this is the zip that comes with the mod

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByI0OQ-Q0eW7Yy1LR1JZYVp4ckk

it has the compiler he used included but its 16 bit and loving ancient, i tried using gmqcc but this is what it throws up. entirely lost on there not being enough parameters to function call on line 290, theres nothing there besides a definition that seems to work for the 5 other defined things?

code:

C:\navy seals 3>gmqcc
Mode: progs.src
There are 60 items to compile:
  item: defs.qc (qc)
&#8592;[0;36mdefs.qc:500:14: &#8592;[0;36mwarning: &#8592;[0mfield `oldorigin` already declared he
re: defs.qc:111 [-Wfield-redeclared]
  item: mydefs.qc (qc)
  item: waypoint.hqc (qc)
  item: squad.hqc (qc)
  item: rankings.qc (qc)
  item: menu.qc (qc)
&#8592;[0;36mmenu.qc:290:14: &#8592;[0;36mwarning: &#8592;[0mtoo few parameters for function call:
 expected 2, got 0
 -> it has been declared here: menu.qc:290 [-Winvalid-parameter-count]
&#8592;[0;36mmenu.qc:334:13: &#8592;[0;31merror: &#8592;[0minvalid types in assignment: cannot rear end
ign void() to void(entity, float)
&#8592;[0;36mmenu.qc:408:6: &#8592;[0;36mwarning: &#8592;[0munused variable: `dummy` [-Wunused-var
iable]
&#8592;[0;36mmenu.qc:438:7: &#8592;[0;36mwarning: &#8592;[0munused variable: `result` [-Wunused-va
riable]

its got shell casing physics (!) and a weird really cool implementation of a laser sight (its just a tiny 3d cube that goes where you're aiming) it works besides the fact that its offset from center (why, gooseman, WHY)

ive tried a whole lot of different designs for maps im not really sure what direction to go. some type of black mesa esque generic underground complex is kinda what i was going for but i feel like i missed the mark. its like some hosed up mix of futuristic and weird early 70s modernism/brutalism which i am probably going to run with in the end

# ? Sep 1, 2016 16:41

Buttcoin purse: Apr 24, 2014

nigga crab pollock posted:

its like some hosed up mix of futuristic and weird early 70s modernism/brutalism which i am probably going to run with in the end

It sounds (and looks) cool to me!

Would it be playable with any of the newer Quake (1) engines that offer better graphics features?

# ? Sep 2, 2016 11:22

nigga crab pollock: Mar 26, 2010; by Lowtax

yeah but im definitely doing it in glorious software rendering on purpose because i think it looks better.

but also you have to mess with the settings to make darkplaces not look like poo poo and adjust the lighting on the map to make it work as dynamic active light sources instead of being baked into the map geometry. idk. it works though and should probably work on anything

darkplaces with full dynamic lighting

qbisms8 (an open gl reimplementation of software rendering) rendering at basically 3ds resolution pixel doubled

native software rendering on the 3ds. I stretched it to make it big. that mipmapping tho

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# ? Sep 2, 2016 17:16

Three-Phase: Aug 5, 2006; by zen death robot

FilthyImp posted:

Saturn had its guts in some lament configuration of parallel dual processors right? That was bitchmode to program?

Then Sony goes "pah, that's scrubtier. Bring on the Emotion Engine!"

I don't know if it's the PS2 or PS3 but I heard a rumor that you could tell where the development units at Sony were because you'd hear the programmers cursing and yelling very loudly when things were screwed up on the Dev system.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 17:20

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

I've got the Navy Seals QC down to a single error but it makes no sense. Its something weird in the menu system :psyduck:

# ? Sep 2, 2016 17:35

nigga crab pollock: Mar 26, 2010; by Lowtax

TTerrible posted:

I've got the Navy Seals QC down to a single error but it makes no sense. Its something weird in the menu system

The menu system is used for the squad ai I think? (literally no clue what that entire feature is or how to use it since there's no documentation) that and the weapon mode switching that I want to get rid of anyways. Maybe? in fact I don't even really know what's up with it

Could you try and gut the bad code? Idk if it even important. Hell, maybe the old compiler just ignored the error and the version of the mod has that entire feature broken and the newer compilers throw a shitfit

# ? Sep 2, 2016 19:19

Gay Weed Dad: Jul 12, 2016; cool dude, flyin' high

drunk asian neighbor posted:

AFAIK, even to this day, if you upgraded your PS3's firmware past one of the really early updates, your only option if you want to mod it is to get an EEPROM flasher, which is both expensive and risky if you gently caress it up. The 3DS is a constant cat-and-mouse where Nintendo updates the firmware to block old exploits, then they come out with new exploits, etc.

I'm personally a huge fan of modding and homebrew - I still have an old-school regular Xbox loaded with every emulator from Atari/C64 all the way up to SNES/Genesis and everything in between. I also absolutely love my old-school PSP, since it's super easy to mod, and playing GBA games on it is a better experience than playing on an actual GBA. Also there's some great homebrew and ports on there (remember Tyrian? loving love that game, and now I have it wherever I go!) Not to mention loading times for actual PSP games are way better than reading off a UMD. Plus you can patch games (the Final Fantasy Tactics slowdown patch is a must!)

I remember when modding a Wii was like a 2-hour affair, now I'm pretty sure you plug an SD card with the right stuff on it and it does it all automatically in 5 minutes.

Original Xbox soft modding was so loving awesome, at least once a year I'll have someone ask me to do an Xbox and I always jump at the chance. In fact, I keep an old school Dell Dimmension in the closet purely because it is the only machine I own that still has IDE for Xbox modding.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 19:58

Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

Gay Weed Dad posted:

Original Xbox soft modding was so loving awesome, at least once a year I'll have someone ask me to do an Xbox and I always jump at the chance. In fact, I keep an old school Dell Dimmension in the closet purely because it is the only machine I own that still has IDE for Xbox modding.

How so? I'm genuinely curious.

Mine is hardmodded though, it has a little switch on the front that lets me bypass the mod chip so I can pretend the original Xbox Live servers still exist

# ? Sep 2, 2016 20:12

r u ready to WALK: Sep 29, 2001

Xbox modding was a glorious thing, like the fact that you could actually buy this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Lso4tMvKs

I still have mine, it was the best media centre ever until it ran out of oomph when everyone switched to HD videos

It still is a pretty nice way to play old 8- and 16-bit games :shobon:

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:12

Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

error1 posted:

Xbox modding was a glorious thing, like the fact that you could actually buy this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Lso4tMvKs

I still have mine, it was the best media centre ever until it ran out of oomph when everyone switched to HD videos

It still is a pretty nice way to play old 8- and 16-bit games

Ok that's badass, mine just has a dinky little switch and a blue LED

:agreed:

that if it was powerful enough to smoothly render HD video my Xbox would probably still be my media hub

IIRC the Xbox was the first system people really started modding the poo poo out of, casemod-wise (probably because it's loving gigantic amirite)

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:17

SCheeseman: Apr 23, 2003

I stopped using mine for media center duties around 2008/9, HD video playback was becoming a requirement at that point.

It's still fun for the occasional OG XBOX game, though emulation duties have been taken up by my HTPC since newer emulators are a lot more accurate and in the case of MAME, a lot more compatible. Even a Pi3 could probably do a better job at that kind of stuff than an XBOX can these days.

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:18

Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

SwissCM posted:

I stopped using mine for media center duties around 2008/9, HD video playback was becoming a requirement at that point.

It's still fun for the occasional OG XBOX game, though emulation duties have been taken up by my HTPC since newer emulators are a lot more accurate and in the case of MAME, a lot more compatible. Even a Pi3 could probably do a better job at that kind of stuff than an XBOX can these days.

I've never run into any compatibility/speed issues on my old Xbox :confused:

granted I only ever played NES/SNES/Genesis games on it

# ? Sep 2, 2016 21:20

Gay Weed Dad: Jul 12, 2016; cool dude, flyin' high