Refurbished Refurbisher

If you had access to wLE already, why didn’t you just back up the saves to a flash drive, or just make a complete image of the memory card?

Also on PS3, can’t you just copy saves to a flash drive in the stock OS? Even if not, jailbreaking is easy.

Yeah. There’s the ao486 core available on MiSTer.

There’s also the PCem (as well as forks 86Box and PCBox) software emulators which are excellent ways of emulating old PCs.

But emulation (regardless of whether hardware or software) is not the same experience as real hardware, especially when it comes to PCs. There is the tinkering with hardware, the process of building the PC, the satisfying click of the power button and turbo button, using floppy disks, trying to get it online, etc.

I don’t play shooters, but I love both 2D and 3D platformers, where you can absolutely notice a difference.

I can absolutely notice a frame of lag at 60Hz. Good way to compare side-by-side is by using an emulator with run-ahead mode.

YouTube is the only platform that I don’t think I’ll be able to quit any time soon. Hosting video on that kind of scale requires insane amounts of capitol, and P2P isn’t reliable enough, and I say this as someone who has streamed torrents before and has tried out PeerTube.

Also even if there was an alternative, having an alternative for creator monitization is even more difficult. LBRY and D-Tube tried to do it with cryptocurrency, but both of those projects seem to have fizzled out (and I think one is flooded with fascists nowadays).

Seeing as there are now fully grown adults who have grown up with those consoles, I’d say yes. Was the PS1 retro 10 years ago? Was the SNES retro 14 years ago?

PS3/360 can be considered retro now, and the Deck is powerful enough to run rpcs3 and Xenia, along with Cemu and Yuzu/Ryujinx for more modern Nintendo stuff.

Refurb 64GB Steam Deck is $20 more.

Nah. Closer to 15 years since emulation was possible on Android.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulators_on_Android

My C64 is an antique? Goddamn.

Also SNES and NES are Vintage? Oof.

Fuck. The DS is officially retro now, I guess.

I use the Yihua 8786D-I. Combo iron and heat gun. Works fantastically. Been using it for a few years at this point.

Yihua makes clones of Hakko products.

There’s also the Pinecil, which I hear is good.

Play Terranigma.

I guess the regulators didn’t care as much about Zenimax for whatever reason, even though TES and Fallout are some massively popular franchises.

My guess is desensitization. Every company is buying each other, and antitrust enforcement hasn’t been a thing since FDR.

Neoliberal economics at its finest. Thanks, Reagan.

Or better yet, Microsoft could just not keep becoming a bigger conglomerate. They just bought Zenimax, and Starfield is Microsoft exclusive (Xbox and Windows).

I wouldn’t be surprised if TES 6 and the next DOOM game are also exclusive.

Very clear case of monopolistic practices. Sony isn’t much better either, with their rumored aquisition of Square Enix.

These 10 year agreements are such bullshit. So Microsoft just has to wait 10 years to then perform monopolostic actions using their aquisition of Activision instead of doing them now? I don’t think Microsoft cares that much, so they’re willing to make these deals to appease the regulators.