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- Comment on Usually the word "alternative" should be replaced with the word "bullshit". Ex: alternative facts, alternative medicine 4 days ago:
Kellyanne Conway, U.S. Counselor to the President, in 2017.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 4 days ago:
Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely “bad” sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game’s manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying… leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!
To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 5 days ago:
The company that made my TV is engaged in copyright infringement, you say? Transmitting copyrighted images over the Internet for profit?
Huh.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Phones’ modems have their own firmware that gets flashed by the cell provider, so I think spies would target that.
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Math 2 weeks ago:
I left my heart in ?SYNTAX ERROR
- Comment on Commodore 64 ASSY 250407 Blank Screen Repair 5 weeks ago:
Thanks! I had not heard about the MOS glue logic ICs being flaky before.
- Comment on Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell 5 weeks ago:
me@yourmumshouse.cum
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 5 weeks ago:
Tim Sweeney traveled to Saudi Arabia with Donald Trump’s entourage this past week.
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 5 weeks ago:
No adapter is necessary, I set mine up recently.
Some WiiU NAND chips have been prematurely failing, so I recommend adding isfshax when done with the Aroma setup; it makes it easier to unbrick a console with bad NAND.
- Comment on Top 10 PC exclusive platformers -- not available on console. 5 weeks ago:
It’s lemmy.ml censoring it.
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 1 month ago:
Many 80s games have an amusing hybrid design. Galaga has its game code and sprites in ROM, but has an entire custom chip that is a dedicated circuit for generating the ship explosion sound, another custom chip that only makes the scrolling starfield, etc.
- Comment on Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now. 1 month ago:
We had tons of pirated Commodore 64 games. Some single-player games became two-player with my little brother; “OK, I’ll drive the car while you try every key on the keyboard.”
- Comment on Most under-utilized consoles? 2 months ago:
GoldenEye has the dual controller schemes too. A bit awkward in that you still have to be able to access the A & B buttons from the center grip; “2.1 Plenty” and switch the camera control off of inverted, personally. Hold the right controller at a slight angle to reach A & B and it’s not horrible… 😅
Can you tell my family’s been getting back into N64 lately? Some are experiencing the turn-of-the-century gaming for the first time. Although I’m spoiled from playing the recompiled Perfect Dark on Steam Deck and having total “control of the controls” including gyro aim.
- Comment on Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke? 2 months ago:
That’s so good! Minibosses have a badass medley of Mega Man II as well.
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 2 months ago:
You’re right. I got a “Timex Sinclair 1000” at a garage sale, it’s a 2KB modified ZX81. The other manufacturers you mention had more software available, and Commodore often played dirty.
I’m tempted to replace the TS1000’s failing keyboard with one of those new ones with tact switches, but that’s a bit of an investment for what would sit on the shelf anyway. My C64 at least still gets played and demoscene stuff showed off!
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 2 months ago:
Agreed, cheap DB-9 used for all kinds of different connections. I used this site for info: wiki.icomp.de/wiki/DB9-Joystick
In the US, Sinclair and Amstrad seem to be rare. We do have the problem where Master System was uncommon but Genesis was massively popular, so many people refer to the Genesis as “the Sega”. You can’t say, “Sega controllers are OK for C64” with Master System implied, because someone will use a Genesis pad and blow up the CIA when pad buttons and keyboard keys are pressed at the same time.
- Comment on C64 Retro Battlestation 2 months ago:
I thought this only applied to Mega Drive/Genesis controllers, as many two-button joysticks back in the day were advertised as compatible with “Atari, Commodore, and Sega”.
I opened my Master System controller (Model 3020) and verified that there are no resistors or components, and the Sega’s +5V pin (pin 5), and the C64’s +5V pin (pin 7) are the two wires that are not connected to anything. So this particular pad is safe. Other pads may be wired differently!
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
In the USA, Section 230 protections are going away in 2027 so that should finish off any remaining forums.
- Comment on fetching bleach after this one 2 months ago:
They’re going to be sad when they find out that tiny dicktator mushrooms only give a puff of spore dust.
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 3 months ago:
Game Genie had a thicker circuit board than a game cart, to get a good connection in the frontloaders. The toploader’s cart slot is pretty tight, to get a good connection. Combine these, and it feels like the cart slot is going to pull off of the circuit board before the Game Genie lets loose. Everdrive/Powerpak would work fine.
Galoob offered an adapter for the toploaders but they are extremely rare.
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 3 months ago:
Remember Craigslist? I got a toploader for $40 with games because it had been stepped on and crushed! Some Bondo, paint, AV mod…
Toploader not recommended if you like to use Game Genie.
RGB mod: It’s expensive IIRC because you need to replace the PPU (video chip) entirely with one from an arcade board or a modern FPGA reproduction.
- Comment on Mario Bros and I Were Born in '85, This is What I Bought For Our 40th B-Day This Year 3 months ago:
At the time, if you bought a new US toploader then complained to Nintendo about the video quality, they would replace it with a revision with no jailbars. There’s also a very rare US toploader with the composite AV port and no jailbars!
- Comment on What exactly are they teaching in our schools? 3 months ago:
Psychology. The sign gets extra attention and also makes one think the people holding the sale might be stupid and not know the value of the items they’re selling.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 3 months ago:
That goes without saying… another user here says the drive can’t be larger than 8GB but I’m fairly certain I tried that, too.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 3 months ago:
My Canon photo printer can be converted to a tank-style with a drill and a highly illegal cartridge resetter. 😂
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 3 months ago:
I heard Brother was good, then I spent way too long formatting different USB sticks in different cluster sizes and formats, and never got ours to work with any of them. Don’t buy Brother if you want that feature, either.
- Comment on fingerme 3 months ago:
We had a slutski here, too 😂
- Comment on Hawaii and alaska hiding in the attic 3 months ago:
Yeah, but it’s every state legislator’s duty to ignore or do the opposite of what the President says until the courts make you cooperate, like with Obama or Biden, right? Those traitors aren’t doing their jobs anymore!
- Comment on A funny thing in Iran is how they repackage old PlayStation consoles 3 months ago:
It sounds like these are modchipped if they come with a USB stick of games (that the owner then burns what they wish?)
