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- Comment on I miss play-by-email games 1 day ago:
Probably not exactly what you’re looking for, but Board Game Arena is pretty good for asynchronous multiplayer, though as you might be able to guess from the name it’s digital versions of tabletop games rather than normal video games
- Comment on Question about the Switch 2 port of Civilization VII: does it support multiple controllers for local multiplayer? 5 days ago:
Some of them still are! I played some Golf With Your Friends recently, that has the classic hot seat experience. The Jackbox games are different but also good for a party.
- Comment on The Issue With Wii U Gamepads And How To Clone Them 1 week ago:
I often wondered why they didn’t do a Nintendoland-style game for the Switch once they started pitching it as a per-person device rather than a per-household device, having some games which use one Switch connected to the TV and another replicating the gamepad could have made for some cool mini-games
- Comment on The Issue With Wii U Gamepads And How To Clone Them 1 week ago:
What devices are supported? Steam Deck Linux (check Wi-Fi hardware compatibility) Nintendo Switch (requires Broadcom firmware patch or external Wi-Fi adapter) Android (currently frontend only) Windows (currently frontend only) Raspberry Pi (requires external Wi-Fi adapter)
Sounds like it!
- Comment on The Issue With Wii U Gamepads And How To Clone Them 1 week ago:
this finding was immediately turned into a GitHub project called Vanilla Wii U, that enables a Steam Deck to be used as a gamepad, as well as any Linux – and presumably BSD – system with a compatible WiFi adapter
Look at me, I’m the gamepad now
Seriously though, this is a really cool discovery!
- Comment on Xbox 360 superfan amasses all 1,353 North American discs after two‑decade collection spree 1 week ago:
It sounds more fun if you read it in an Aussie accent
- Comment on GB and GBC 1 week ago:
If you’re playing pokémon red and blue there’s one colour palette which makes it quite simple to navigate rock tunnel without flash
- Comment on GB and GBC 1 week ago:
Pokémon gold and silver were also GBC games but in a GB cartridge
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Pottering? Or is this the long-awaited golf expansion?
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
More than things like the Phillips CD-i which makes the Wikipedia list, so they’re at least distinguishing between consoles and PCs
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia seems to think they are. I’ve seen “home consoles” used when you want to exclude handhelds, what makes you say that they’re technically not consoles?
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
Looks like the data is a little out of date, seems the PS5 has outsold the 360 now. Also why are handhelds missing?
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 4 weeks ago:
There were three steam games posted in !freegames@feddit.uk yesterday!
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Seems a bit mad that with all their money and a game already made they couldn’t be bothered to file off the serial numbers a bit more. I imagine this happens all the time with licencing deals, I know for instance Warcraft was originally written to be a Warhammer game.
- Comment on What are your gaming highlights of 2025? 5 weeks ago:
Depending on the system it can be really easy to dump/rip your own discs. Hacking a Wii for homebrew requires jumping through a few hoops but then you can dump Wii, GameCube, and even Gameboy games. You can dump WiiU games by inserting an SD card and going to a single web page in the browser!
- Comment on My PS1 died today 1 month ago:
So the ps3 is running an emulator? I thought console backwards compatibility usually came from having the original console’s CPU available (as a sound processor or similar)
- Comment on My PS1 died today 1 month ago:
Ooo didn’t know the ps3 could run ps1 games
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 1 month ago:
Haha it’s nowhere near as bad as it was playing the original Mario Party on the N64
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 1 month ago:
Excellent news!
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 1 month ago:
Same thing happened to my 3DS analogue thingy (it’s not really a stick), I just use the jaggy plastic bit and stop playing when it hurts my thumb too much!
- Comment on The Xbox 360 came out 20 years ago 1 month ago:
The 360 era was the only time I remember xbox being ahead. I knew nobody who bought a ps3, but spent plenty of time playing halo on various friends’ machines.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Why no link to the actual game?
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 1 month ago:
I’ve been hurt by every TimeSplitters announcement I’ve seen for the last 20 years, do I dare to believe that it’s once again time to split‽
- Comment on 1 month ago:
This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).
- Comment on Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard 1 month ago:
Did we really need an article saying “I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot”? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that’s the one to go for? Or perhaps it’s the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 1 month ago:
This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it’s usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking “how did this ever work!?”
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
I recently played the original via Primehack, a fork of Dolphin Emulator which (among other things) modernises the controls
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 2 months ago:
Don’t go for a whole guide, pick something smaller like all the recipes or a map of Dry Dry Desert (two things I remember printing off back in the day!)
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 2 months ago:
Well if you add the games to steam then you can launch them all from game mode
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 2 months ago:
The official itch launcher works on Linux too!