I don’t know, it’s cool that there’s finally a use for the port, but just being able to use Bluetooth controllers and having a few audio enhancements isn’t really something most people waited for, I think. The price is also kinda high for that.

Just tried it out, there have definitely improvements been made since I last tried it, I’m happy to see it get better.

This ones great. Where does it come from?

I recently bough a new flashlight, a Wurkkos FC11C to be exact. It’s pretty good for the price, and it really can’t hurt to have a good flashlight around. I made a post about it in !flashlight@lemmy.world about it, and there are some other posts too.

That’s funny, I’ve actually been playing through it for the first time recently. I played NEO 2 years ago and loved that, and I definitely love the og game too.

Really cool and creative game, both from gameplay and story. And mate, the music, its fucking art. Like the rest of both games, yeah.

Thanks for sharing, just tried it out. It seems really well made, especially since its the first version. It even has a built in PDF viewer. Not bad. I might actually replace Material Files with it, which is what I was using until now.

Yeah, actually starting and going through with it is half the work

What a coincidence. Just yesterday I saw a video about how Mario Galaxy works from a technical perspective, and water was one of the topics.

As it turns out, the water effect was done by manipulating the floor texture with a noise pattern to make it squiggly, and then putting a transparent layer above. It looks pretty good and doesn’t need much processing power.

I just thought that was interesting.

Awesome to hear that it works on real hardware. It’s so cool to play new mods on decades old consoles.

This is really interesting, thanks for your insight. I don’t really know a lot about cars, but maybe I’ll give it another try one day. I will definitely keep this in mind :)

Absolutely. The Wii U modding community is really active, I feel like there’s something new every few months. I love it!

And that’s fine too, I think. This is what gave the Wii the perfect backwards compatibility, allowing many more people to enjoy Gamecube games on original hardware without getting a Gamecube, which are way more expensive today.

And you know, the Wii is like a beast when it comes to sub HD stuff. It’s the most powerful console that ever released that wasn’t designed with HD TVs in mind. That lead to many Wii games just looking really damn good and clean. Seriously, Mario Galaxy on a CRT in RGB looks absolutely stunning.

But maybe they did go to far trying the same thing again with the Wii U.

I know I know, you’re right. This is a rather temporary setup, I plan to arrange the consoles a bit differently so they’re less in the sunlight.

Even now, its just during the evening, and my Gamecube, which is the most susceptible to yellowing, is already kinda yellow unfortunately. Same for the wavebird receiver.

But you’re still right, I should put something over these consoles for now.

Right? It feels like gaming peaked with the 6th console generation. Just a fun time to look back at.

Yeah, having some evening sun shine into a room just gives it a great vibe. I just wish it wasn’t 29°C in here

Anyway, thanks for commenting as well!

That VCR is from my parents, they don’t use it anymore. I don’t really have any tapes for it though.

We had the first 3 Star Wars movies on VHS, which was the reason I set the thing up. Unfortunately, these tapes have somehow disappeared completely, they are nowhere to be found.

So it’s just decoration for now, but I’ll definitley get some other movies one day. Thank you for your comment!

Haha true, but only dust for me, no pets. I guess having carpet doesn’t help either. Let’s just say that it adds to the vibe.

Thank you for your tips. I do remember reading the forums, but never getting the point of it. Maybe I should set my game to English instead of German, the translation for the latter is very weird.

I also had the problem of finding rivals during the night that I just couldn’t beat, because they were way faster than I was. And that was the case even after upgrading every part of my car. Maybe I just made the wrong choice for the first car? Which one did you start with?

Man, I would have never expected so see someone talking about Kaido Racer here. I tried that game about 2 years ago, but never got far. I only ever had the first track to play, since I never beat the right enemies to unlock the other ones. I probably should give it another go, it seems pretty well made even if the translation is a bit funky haha.

What about you? How far are you currently?

Micro Mages, let’s go! This is such a cool game, it’s always great to see people online play it on anything but a PC. I for myself played it on a modded Wii on a CRT. I love how everyone plays this game differently.

Anyway, nice little emulation console you got there too, glad it worked out with the custom firmware as well. Enjoy!