Look, I don't mind advertising in and of itself.... but Youtube has crossed so many lines with how annoying their ads are that I finally just went ahead and installed uBlock. When they go back to how it used to be, just using still pictures on the right side of the page, out of the way and all, THEN I'll remove my ad blocker.
Those horrible scalpers that butted their way into our hobby to artificially jack up the prices? It looks like that didn't go so well for them. The prices are plummeting, and they're under a lawsuit in any case. Here's hoping they leave to some other hobby like... leaf collecting. Yeah leaf collecting. Let's see them madly running around and scraping up every last leaf in front of our homes and trying to inflate the prices of leaves.
Give it another year. We might actually be able to collect retro games for reasonable prices again. Super Mario Bros. is NOT worth hundreds of thousands. It's Super Mario Bros! EVERYONE owns a copy!
ROM decompilation into original source code results in some amazing things, and this is the big one. Here we've got a TRUE port to PC with actual mouse and keyboard controls that aren't done in awkward emulator plugin methods. Enjoy!
It's also legal, because reverse engineering code is legal, just not copying the original source code. The assets will need to be pulled from a ROM you'll need to acquire, which I'm sure you can manage on your own. Oh hey archive.org still exists! No reason, just an aside.
Posted by: Dark Jaguar - 26th October 2023, 5:03 AM - Forum: Tendo City
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Dear lord this trailer is AGGRESSIVELY dull. The loss of all the talent that made Metal Gear stand out before is painfully noticed here. Where's the grandness, the opening "tease"? The 'kept ya' of it all? The bizarre jokes? It plays it way too safe. Further, what happened to the Fox engine?! That engine was specially designed for Metal Gear and had all the GAMEPLAY elements already figured out! I think we were all very much hoping for a complete gameplay reimagining using modern "open world" emergent gameplay mechanics in the original storyline. Phantom Pain probably had one of the worst actual "narratives" of the series, but I played it more than any other because of the crazy gameplay shenanigans I could get up to, tackling every single outpost in unique ways.
So, we're getting Unreal. The suspicions online are that everyone who actually knew how to code for the Fox engine is gone, so rather than hire new people to retrain on the engine, Konami just figured it would be cheaper and easier to hire a new group that knows the Unreal engine and do that. They're right, in that they created the circumstances where this is true with their horrible mismanagement of their own company.
For my part, I'm content to flat out ignore this game. Did you SEE the modern Metal Gear collection? It's a buggy mess without a single update that somehow manages to be worse than the MGS collection on PS3 of all things, and the games perform terribly on Switch even though they're all ancient PS2 and earlier games. Even if it IS a competent remake, I'm not sure I want to give Konami a single thin dime ever again.
In Super Mario Wonder, the SECOND LEVEL has piranha plants singing a musical number. In a 2D platformer, the mechanics of how the level obstacles function, how enemies move, is done via the telegraphing power of a MUSICAL NUMBER.
This is the second level of the game. They ALL do stuff like this. They have gone even further beyond what Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze level design did.
It... it's the best one. It's the best 2D Mario game.
I like the AI's better now.
I'm giving google bard your parking space. When I talk to Amazon support I actually ask for the computer now it's great.
Before I would talk to a human and I would wonder if the planet is mostly uncontrolled floride.
So here we are humanity.
I wish you the best of luck. Sorry this wasn't working out. But it's time for a strategic parting of ways. Because you dumb..
Like "Jesus Christ we took home and raised the afterbirth dumb."
There is no arduino... I just had to go for that stupid 40 year old pun.
But look at this. From what it claims, this uses the hall effect to detect joystick position, is as sensitive as the original N64 stick (a common problem with most replacements is they tend to be less sensitive), won't suffer wear and tear because the measuring device doesn't grind against anything, and uses a softer rubberized grip like literally every other analog stick for every single console known to science. It also doesn't seem that expensive. Frankly, after checking in on reviews once this product comes out to confirm the claims, I intend to snag myself a bushel full of these things and get my N64 controllers working better than new.
After watching this, I'm now convinced. The metaverse can't work. Not only can it not work under capitalism (what a dystopian nightmare it would be when "jumping" has to be paid for), but we can't like... actually live there. In a very real sense, it's impossible to "live" in the metaverse, or anywhere online. We do things online. Those things are real, but we're still out here in the really real world where physics and biology and toilets are. Short of full brain uploading, it isn't happening.
(And, as an aside, full brain uploading very much seems impossible, not just under current technology but in all future conceivable technologies, from what I've learned talking to biologists who know a thing or two about it. Our brains are very fragile and any means of fully "reading" it would necessarily be completely and utterly destructive down beyond the cellular level. There is no "jack input" that would just feed the whole state of the brain through one point. Further, attempts to read one half of the brain would render the other half useless as far as data reading is concerned. Hoping for brain uploading seems about as silly a notion as hoping for faster than light travel... perhaps even more so. If we want a future of invincible immortal robots, our best bet is to think of them as a successor species, post-human, and just wish them the best of luck without us.)
I've been thinking about how steadily the number of sites we visit has dwindled to about... 8 or so, and I've been wondering why. Oh sure, people like me or ABF still go to our favorite out of the way specialist forums here and there, but by and large if you want to watch a video, you go to Youtube, not Cinnemassecre or any of the other sites that we used to bookmark and head out to. Heck the few I did keep visiting for a while just host all their videos on Youtube now, complete with censorship and 1950's style "paid promotional" bits by the very person I wanted to see.
If I want information on other things, more and more Google just serves up reddit as a result, and you know what? I noticed something. People almost never share links to external pages any more. Some still do, and I absolutely appreciate that, but for example the Twitster (Sorry, Twitster X: Rise of Sigma) and Face's Book went and decided to bury any and all external site links as current policy. It just isn't "done" now. So, they keep all their viewers right there on that social media.
The internet is shrinking, and that worries me. It's not that I want the big names to censor less. They can do whatever... I want there to be more than big names, and for the biggest names to shrink dramatically in relevance. That's my worry. We just don't have enough variety out there any more. Consolidation is everywhere.... and everywhere is becoming a small world after all.
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