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Obviously not technically a third party console but I'm not really sure where else to put a question about a third party hacked DSi running NDS Bootstrap and TWiLight, so any help is appreciated: A few times now the system has just completely shut off abruptly- I've had it happen in both the main menu as well as in a game (DQ5 specifically). DQ5 has also got really weird and bad video issues during the opening video, like the screen starts flickering and tearing. This may happen in more titles but honestly I haven't explored enough to say for sure. Additionally I've also had time where closing the console for sleep mode doesn't change anything (I can hear the audio playing when closed), and once it simply shut off entirely. And yeah the console has been well-charged in all instances. Anyone ever dealt with something like this? It's hard to get comfortable playing anything when the console may simply turn off randomly.
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E: Re: Worms Armageddon Just add infinte jetpacks and the overpowered shotgun will be the least of your problems.
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Countblanc posted:Obviously not technically a third party console but I'm not really sure where else to put a question about a third party hacked DSi running NDS Bootstrap and TWiLight, so any help is appreciated:
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The_White_Crane posted:Gonna say Worms Armageddon is real good. Pinnacle of the series, I still play it with a friend of mine before our weekly movie nights. not sure if you can do it on the PS1 version, but if you're concerned about bad spawn points there's an option to let everyone place their worms manually at the start of the game
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The_White_Crane posted:Gonna say Worms Armageddon is real good. Pinnacle of the series, I still play it with a friend of mine before our weekly movie nights. Holy hand grenade right off the rip, round one. Negates any shotgun or bat shenanigans that may occur.
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Man I miss worms. How’s the steam version? I may toss it on my deck
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the steam version of WA is in a very good place because T17 handed over the source code to a couple of community members who completely fixed it up for modern versions of windows, and did various other QOL improvements, and their changes were pushed to the steam version officially that was an own-goal for T17 because it undermined all the newer worse worms games but im not complaining lol
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Worms WMD is good as well and is on all current systems.
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yeah WMD was the best one since WWP though Open Warfare 2 was good on both systems
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TadBradley posted:Anyone got recs for a good retro turn-based multiplayer game that could run on a miyoo mini? My wife and I are about to have a 14 hour flight, and it'd be nice to play something together that we could pass the miyoo back and forth on. Something like Mario, where multiplayer is just two alternating single-player runs, is less appealing than something where we're working together or against each other. I hope I’m not too late, but motherfucking Battle Hunter on PS1. It’s a turn based multiplayer board game/dungeon crawler with progression between runs. You race your friends to treasure chests and try to escape with the key item before they or the monsters get you. Also nthing Advance Wars
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In case that goon hasn't left on vacation yet: you can set up coop games against the CPU in Advance Wars 2. Just go to Versus mode and select the 3p or 4p maps. It takes like two minutes to set up and you can pass the console back and forth when your turn is done. It's pretty much the best road trip thing ever.
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Heroes of Might and Magic for gameboy is another interesting take on a turn-based strategy game that I think could work passing it between players, but it's very obtuse
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Got my Firebat in. Time to see what this puppy can do. 
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The Anbernic RG ARC-D for $70 USD is back up on Amazon in case anybody missed it prior link
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shyduck posted:The Anbernic RG ARC-D for $70 USD is back up on Amazon in case anybody missed it prior mine arrives today and im psyched. edit: son of a bitch, post office / amazon. Now it's back to tomorrow. Me and my big mouth. otter fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Has anyone got the ARC-D and tried it out yet? I almost pulled the trigger last time and am waffling on if I need yet another one of these. If it could play Saturn well I'd probably be all in, but the reviews seem to come down somewhere between "most stuff works OK", and "don't bother". Still looks real nice for genesis stuff though.
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I've had the ARC-D for a while, what specific questions do you have? It's good for 16-bit Sega, and as long as you don't hate the d-pad it's great for fighting games too with the 6 face buttons. The Z/C buttons aren't super well supported in Retroarch/Android. Feels fine in the hands, looks decent. The Linux it comes with is pretty bad imo, and CFW for it seems limited (a lot of people just stick to GammaOS to replace the Android). I don't really play Saturn games, so I can't speak to performance there.
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Substandard posted:Has anyone got the ARC-D and tried it out yet? I almost pulled the trigger last time and am waffling on if I need yet another one of these. If it could play Saturn well I'd probably be all in, but the reviews seem to come down somewhere between "most stuff works OK", and "don't bother". shyduck fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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The ARC-D has a touch screen, right? Does it support touch as light gun emulation? I need my Lethal enforcers / Area 51 fix.
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I'll tell you this - it's yet another Anbernic handheld where they didn't bother putting in the resistor to let you do basic charging off a C-C cable. If the battery is dead, you're gonna have a fun time charging it on a C-C cable.
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EVGA Longoria posted:I've had the ARC-D for a while, what specific questions do you have? It's good for 16-bit Sega, and as long as you don't hate the d-pad it's great for fighting games too with the 6 face buttons. The Z/C buttons aren't super well supported in Retroarch/Android. Feels fine in the hands, looks decent. The Linux it comes with is pretty bad imo, and CFW for it seems limited (a lot of people just stick to GammaOS to replace the Android). I generally dislike Android for these 4:3 devices, so I'm probably more interested in the linux performance & firmware, although I feel like I've hear relatively decent things about Gamma OS. Is Retro Arena in a usable state? You're not the first person to say the stock system is pretty bad. I know this is a dual Android / Linux device. Do you just swap SD cards back and forth to switch? Is there some dual boot option? Do they have the same rom structure and whatnot?
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There are two sd slots and linux and android are on seperate cards. It boots into Linux by default, android if you hold down the home button while powering it on
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flavor.flv posted:There are two sd slots and linux and android are on seperate cards. It boots into Linux by default, android if you hold down the home button while powering it on I think more technically, Android is on the device itself. It will attempt to boot SD1, where the Linux firmware would live, and if it doesn't find that, defaults to Android. You can also hold down home instead of removing SD1. Substandard posted:I generally dislike Android for these 4:3 devices, so I'm probably more interested in the linux performance & firmware, although I feel like I've hear relatively decent things about Gamma OS. Is Retro Arena in a usable state? You're not the first person to say the stock system is pretty bad. The stock Linux is unusably bad, and TBH I don't even have the SD card it came with anymore. I didn't like Retro Arena on previous devices for a few reasons, so I haven't tried it. On the Android side, what specifically do you dislike? I generally prefer Linux to Android on these things for a variety of reasons, but if you setup ES-DE or Launchbox as a front end, it's pretty similar, though not as good.
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clones and variants of the DE10 Nano board that the MiSTer is built around are starting to show up, including a handheld variant apparently https://twitter.com/TakiUdon_/status/1785117861943607661
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Taki was the one that claimed they designed the retroid pocket 3 right? They seem pretty unhinged to me are they actually trustworthy?
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hatty posted:Taki was the one that claimed they designed the retroid pocket 3 right? They seem pretty unhinged to me are they actually trustworthy? He loves to inflate his own importance but is connected enough that he does get shown this kind of stuff before most other people in the space since he's based in China. He's basically a marketing mouthpiece who thinks he's a serious hardware reviewer so if he's showing his own photos of something he probably got it from the company making it. The Chinese companies pushing into the FPGA space is pretty interesting if they can get the price down and consolise it in a smart way, the MiSTer Supersystem already tried being a consolised MiSTer but ran into the same problem as every other small hardware project by being expensive (around £500-600) and eternally out of stock.
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Ok. Spent the last couple evenings setting up my T8, and straight up, this thing is a little powerhouse. It's great. Flashed it to Debian 12 right after taking it out of the box. I decided to forego an all-in-one emulator front like Lakka/Batocera/etc because I also intend to eventually set it up as a media server, and it gives me generally more flexibility. I loaded Retroarch, Dolphin, PPSSPP, and PCSX2 up for testing. Went with default settings on most in order to get a baseline on how everything runs. N64 off Retroarch is smooth as glass. Same with PPSSPP and trying out Valkyria Chronicles 3 and Birth By Sleep. Dolphin (GC only, haven't tried Wii) and PCSX2 are somewhat hit-and-miss but are generally very good. Rouge Squadron 2 and 3 off Dolphin gave me some minor slowdown during transitions and some audio tearing during intense 3D scenes. Less intensive games like Viewtiful Joe had zero problems. One odd issue is the controller will stop providing inputs for some games if I try to load them after having closed out of a different game. Really weird. As for the PS2, I got a decent amount of audio and video slowdown when I loaded up the Armored Core games. Persona 3 FES had very minor audio clipping but no other issues. God Hand ran perfectly. And the DDR games were actually emulated well enough that I could actually sync the arrow chart with the music just using the games' internal offset feature (which is a first for me trying to emulate those drat things). I'm sure I can get things running a helluva lot smoother, but I need to start tweaking settings which I'm not terribly knowledge about. Time to start digging into some documentation.
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repiv posted:clones and variants of the DE10 Nano board that the MiSTer is built around are starting to show up, including a handheld variant apparently Well might have to actually look into that kind of thing if they're going to start being more reasonably priced
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I just found my PS Vita.....that I had thought I had sold when I bought a Switch a few years back. What do people do with these things now? Is there a system that they are particularly good at emulating that I can't do on a 35xx or RG505? Is there an easy hack available? It's a PCH1001 system.
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Mine is really awesome at sitting on a shelf.
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Vita hacking is pretty easy these days https://vita.hacks.guide/ There's a big old homebrew frontend here if you're interested: https://vitadb.rinnegatamante.it/#/ Edit: I should add that Vita emulation tops out at like, Sega Genesis and GBA. It really shines playing PSX/PSP/Vita games (although some people don't like how PSX uses a virtual layout for R2/L2 etc, you can remap the buttons natively on the fly at least) and there's a bunch of Android ports out there now. Plenty to love there if you ask me. Marx Headroom fucked around with this message at 22:05 on May 1, 2024 |
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Vitas are fairly easy to jailbreak and add CFW to now. I don't think it does anything particularly better than the devices you mentioned. Maybe PSP games.
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RestingB1tchFace posted:I just found my PS Vita.....that I had thought I had sold when I bought a Switch a few years back. What do people do with these things now? Is there a system that they are particularly good at emulating that I can't do on a 35xx or RG505? Is there an easy hack available? It's a PCH1001 system. I like the Vita, personally. As trite as it may sound, it is really the best way to play PSP and, well, Vita games. It does everything up to PSX really well. Haven't tried Saturn on it.
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It's still the best way to play a Tempest game on a handheld OLED screen!
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I'll probs never shut up about this but just using a Vita is kind of surreal because it's a very seamless, polished, cutting edge product despite being released over 10 years ago. The little touches like sleep mode, OLED, wifi, Bluetooth, etc are still not super easy to find all in one affordable device even today.
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shyduck posted:Vitas are fairly easy to jailbreak and add CFW to now. I don't think it does anything particularly better than the devices you mentioned. Maybe PSP games. Afaik it's the only way to emulate Brooktown High and Silverfall PSP as neither work in ppsspp Uh not that you should want to
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The vita sort of sucks for emulation of even some of the more demanding 16 bit titles. The vita rules for: -Vita games -PSP Games -PS1 games Which, to be honest, is a hell of a library right there.
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So I'm having a bewildering issue with my RG353P and it's probably something I'm doing wrong but I'm not seeing it. I needed an SD card for something temporarily and used my JelOS SD card. It's a Samsung card, not the stock one with the original firmware. I do have a dual SD card setup. When I was done, I went to go reinstall JelOS and move on with my life. Reflash and put it in -- boots directly to Android. Re-reflash -- same thing. Try Rocknix -- same thing. Try both with a Sandisk card - same thing. Try the stock SD card with original firmware -- it boots just fine. Rinse and repeat the prior steps - still directly going to Android. I tried win32diskimager, I tried Balena, I formatted the cards with SD Formatter. I'm stumped. I'm gonna try again. But I'm stumped. edit: ArkOS works? shyduck fucked around with this message at 02:04 on May 2, 2024 |
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Make sure you're deleting all the partitions, I guess?
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kirbysuperstar posted:Make sure you're deleting all the partitions, I guess? I did get ArkOS to work just now so.... yeah I don't know what happened
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