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I guess people have forgotten how long you were waiting between game releases from ANYONE all the way through. Or how slow and poor CafeOS was (Eating HALF the consoles resources RAM wise), unintuitive controls and poorly engineered (3 Wii CPU's with a hand me down Xenos era GPU)

Pokemon BDSP also suddenly became incompatible with a recent update causing it to likely crash on boot. No clue if that's been fixed on the HorizonOS side yet for the compatibility layer.

Finished our December piece after shaking off the 6 month rust and post-op recovery. Been a while since I did a December Skye piece. Don't even ask us how I managed to pull the hair off because even I'M not sure honestly XD

#pixelart

"We're just normal time lords."
"What do you mean normal time lords?"
"We're just innocent time lords!"
*Cue corpsing*

I've mostly kept this quiet, but today I was informed my neighbor, someone who I've looked after and treated me as family since I came to the Isle of Man, has lost her battle with cancer due to Covid and Pneumonia.

I'm so sorry I couldn't do more, but Rest In Peace Linda. I'll miss you dearly.

I'm so sorry for your loss Nathan. If you need a rock to lean on or to vent at, my DM's are open and you know where I'm at.

I know I don't exactly have the widest range from our Bluesky posts, but I am curious.

Grew up with the original demoscene/warez before doing it myself, then doing official work for Sony for the Vita's SDK (PlayStation Suite aka PlayStation Mobile) then brief work with NERD before coming back full circle to emulation work and ROM hacking. Among many other fields.

Grew up with the original demoscene/warez before doing it myself, then doing official work for Sony for the Vita's SDK (PlayStation Suite aka PlayStation Mobile) then brief work with NERD before coming back full circle to emulation work and ROM hacking. Among many other fields.

You can. The Wii Shopping Channel, DSi Shopping Channel, 3DS eShop and Wii U eShop are all still alive and active to allow downloading of pre-existing purchased titles and system updates/IOS modules. You just can't buy anything new.

The only thing the 64DD support is missing is non USB/CML disk swapping for the Mario Artist games, Doshin/Doshin 2 and SimCity 64 for the custom NPC feature.

The EZ Flash Omega DE (With custom firmware) and Everdrive GBA X5 Mini are pretty much your only options. The DSPico's been in the works for a while that's looking promising for DS/DSi.

For 3DS users, use Open_AGB_FIRM. Best of all worlds with a DS Flashcart/NDS Bootstrap in tandem.

The Tepig sprite and animation I did for @somecallmejohnny.com 's Extra Life charity event, for our custom Pokemon Crystal ROM hack. #pokemon #tepig #pixelart #ドット絵

And here's the sprite sheet for it. These will work on real hardware, Virtual Console and even GB Tower in Stadium 2. #pokemon #tepig #pixelart #ドット絵

The Tepig sprite and animation I did for @somecallmejohnny.com 's Extra Life charity event, for our custom Pokemon Crystal ROM hack. #pokemon #tepig #pixelart #ドット絵

YouTube video by ModernXP Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Complete 100% Walkthrough - All Gems, All Orbs, All Talismans (Longplay)

I had to quickly double check this. And sure enough, you can clearly here someone (Probably the VA/ADR Director) saying yes. Must've been missed during audio mastering: youtu.be/L9ePJJp1P8E?...

The fun of confusing Nintendo's telemetry due to bypassing the 3DS' region locking, there's titles here I don't even recognize.

(And fo course, the Wii U's only real use for me back in the day lol)

PSP-2003 Model. Good choice.

How old is the Pro Controller? If it's from around 2017-2019 it'll be one of the early revisions that had defects with the dpad registering ghost inputs or not handling diagonals correctly.

And getting there requires a lot of horsepower to achieve. Most commercial emulation packages will slice as many possible corners as it can for timings and features until they have no choice but to do system level or per game hacks if that's what it takes to get it running on underpowered hardware.

Doing SNES well is a difficult task, chiefly because the hardware requires cycle accurate timings for certain S-PPU features, HDMA and IRQ requests, pseudo hi-res, all of which need to be in lockstep with the CPU and APU.

The co-processors add extra headache due to architectural variances.

The 3DS's ARM11 CPU isn't very strong for emulation tasks. Nintendo barely got SNES working on NEW 3DS thanks to having a MUCH higher clockspeed and a extra CPU Core. All 3DS games by default only use one core, the second is kept for HorizonOS, on N3DS the 3rd is for Stable 3D and 4th for games.

Leftover files within the 3DS Virtual Console (Which is a multi-system emulator unlike Wii/Wii-U) indicate the plan instead was to emulate the much easier to support GBA version using a GBA emulator. That was abandoned due to performance issues and they used AGB_FIRM instead (Full native GBA)

Yoshi's Island would be tricky to port quickly due to it using both the core SNES and the GSU-2, so you'd need to translate both SNES and RISC assembly to a modern platform.

3DS doesn't have the horse power either to emulate it well either, not even with the NEW 3DS' better CPU.

Correct. 3D Classics are heavily modified ports in order to pull off the 3D effect. The Sega 3D Classics are using a modified Mega Drive emulator (Creating a fantasy platform known as GigaDrive)

Yup. It's pretty much the golden model of the entire Master System range. Throw in a catridge adapter for the main cart slot or use a adapter to go through the Expansion Port for US/PAL games (Matches the intl cart slot, just inverted) & you have everything needed to experience the entire library.

Beautiful machine. Never trusted the expansion port though, especially the ribbon cable for the FM Sound unit.

A few years later, the "Mark IV" would debut as a re-release of the international Master System in Japan, with the 3D glasses, Turbo and FM Sound all built into the console.

LHU Mode 05: Dragoon A unknown mutation created during the clash with the NU Fragment Wielder has resulted in the fusion of the Light Hawk MKIII with Myld Malestorm's RAVEN Suit whilst he was within it; creating a draconic knight that exudes immense pressure and a sense of dread to all who lay eyes on it. Based on initial reports by the LHU team, they has asserted the pilot is completely non responsive in this state, with this new bizarre form speaking in some form of language not native to Voietella, instead bearing the same language RAVEN has used within it's various systems. Initial analysis indicates identifiable traits of all 3 components, such as the Light Hawk's Photonic Crystals used for it's power source; the Auhre Engine and Dvorak Drive now protruding along an elongated spine that's formed into a draconic tail and several large claws on the legs, whilst the crafts main cannon now forms from the golden wrist gauntlets attached to the entity, potentially boasting more power output. The Auhre Engine themselves have split open at the shoulder to form large, armored plates with energy pulsating from the original vents The RAVEN Suit's armor frame is identifiable from it's knee caps, limb plating & chest plating. It's split cape having now fused into a cape with a different color, somehow becoming capable of sustained flight like a pair of wings. Finally, Myld's beloved scarf has mutated into a dual sash emerging below the Auhre Engine, now bearing glyphs that matches those found within the RAVEN OS and currently untranslatable by current methods, with many elements baring his feather color scheme. Research has unable to produce any previous sightings of this form throughout Linnu history records, nor can they identify the colossal sword it wields. Eddy's current theory is that it's energy blade is drawing from the entity itself and the surrounding environment for further power. Upon forming, NU's already maddened state only accelerated with a deep fear.

After a delay for IRL reasons. LHU-003 Mode 5 is complete. Mode: Dragoon, a unknown mutation that has somehow fused the craft with it's pilot & his RAVEN Suit directly, creating a otherworldly entity that rarely speaks and drives a deep sense of fear to all who lay witness. #pixelart #ドット絵 #mecha

LHU Mode 05: Dragoon A unknown mutation created during the clash with the NU Fragment Wielder has resulted in the fusion of the Light Hawk MKIII with Myld Malestorm's RAVEN Suit whilst he was within it; creating a draconic knight that exudes immense pressure and a sense of dread to all who lay eyes on it. Based on initial reports by the LHU team, they has asserted the pilot is completely non responsive in this state, with this new bizarre form speaking in some form of language not native to Voietella, instead bearing the same language RAVEN has used within it's various systems. Initial analysis indicates identifiable traits of all 3 components, such as the Light Hawk's Photonic Crystals used for it's power source; the Auhre Engine and Dvorak Drive now protruding along an elongated spine that's formed into a draconic tail and several large claws on the legs, whilst the crafts main cannon now forms from the golden wrist gauntlets attached to the entity, potentially boasting more power output. The Auhre Engine themselves have split open at the shoulder to form large, armored plates with energy pulsating from the original vents The RAVEN Suit's armor frame is identifiable from it's knee caps, limb plating & chest plating. It's split cape having now fused into a cape with a different color, somehow becoming capable of sustained flight like a pair of wings. Finally, Myld's beloved scarf has mutated into a dual sash emerging below the Auhre Engine, now bearing glyphs that matches those found within the RAVEN OS and currently untranslatable by current methods, with many elements baring his feather color scheme. Research has unable to produce any previous sightings of this form throughout Linnu history records, nor can they identify the colossal sword it wields. Eddy's current theory is that it's energy blade is drawing from the entity itself and the surrounding environment for further power. Upon forming, NU's already maddened state only accelerated with a deep fear.

After a delay for IRL reasons. LHU-003 Mode 5 is complete. Mode: Dragoon, a unknown mutation that has somehow fused the craft with it's pilot & his RAVEN Suit directly, creating a otherworldly entity that rarely speaks and drives a deep sense of fear to all who lay witness. #pixelart #ドット絵 #mecha

And this is what we call a artistic massacre. Extremely bad upscaling on assets, no VWF, everything smeared to buggery with HQX filtering that some people insist on it improving pixel art for some dumb reason when it does the exact opposite

Oh, and this is blatantly PS1, not Saturn as they claimed.