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Time Extension | Commentshttps://www.timeextension.com/feeds/commentsen-GB(c) 2024 Hookshot MediaSun, 16 Feb 2025 21:43:54 GMThttps://www.timeextension.com/feedsdgpCMS/1.0 https://hookshot.media[email protected] (Time Extension)10https://images.timeextension.com/site/icon/128x128.pngTime Extensionhttps://www.timeextension.com/128128Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:29:43 GMTRe: Creator Of New Open-Source Game Boy Disagrees That FPGA Is Superior To Software EmulationI was almost tearing my hair out from all the cart swapping with the system powered on! I don't think I ever tried it back in the day, wasn't the recommendation that the system be turned off to do this?
Someone mentioned the original GB had a cartridge lock but I guess it must have been safe as later models had no cart lock.

By UltraSuperMega

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:14:35 GMTRe: Creator Of New Open-Source Game Boy Disagrees That FPGA Is Superior To Software Emulation@avcrypt Analogue used Near's research (Higan/Bsnes/Ares original dev) too, which is not surprising since they were incredible knowledgeable and talented. And they were behind the MSU-1, the custom extension chip for the SNES.

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:16:19 GMTRe: Excited About Sega's Mooted Skies Of Arcadia Remaster? Horizons Of Achaea Might Also Be Worth A Look@TheVaudevillain @MARl0 Yes, I was referring to 2. I know it's not floating in the sky but it has the same feel. And hearing now how 1 and 2 are apparently conceptually very different just convinces me more that it's not a series for me.

Still, wish the devs of this all the best. It does look good.

By Daniel36

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:12:23 GMTRe: M2's 'Operation Night Strikers' Collection Adds Two More Classic Taito Titles@RejectedAng3L Someone already mentioned it is an S, not an 8. It just really looks like an 8.

By Daniel36

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:50:28 GMTRe: New Custom Firmware Update Allows You To Connect Your PSP To WPA2What can you do nowadays with your custom FW PSP whilst online?

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:35:57 GMTRe: The PS3 Version Of 'Like A Dragon: Ishin!' Is Now Playable In EnglishThe three most notable changes I remember are that Yakuza 5's "stat boost" system you got from eating was also in the original Ishin, and the intro is just gone. This was a recent change to the entire series with I think Yakuza 6 because the intros just blatantly spoiled the in-game story before you'd even pressed "new game". A fair few faces/likenesses are also changed - characters who couldn't have been in the game when it released due to it being earlier than their actual debut aren't in the original, whereas in the remake we have some newer fan-favourites like the Lieutenants from Yakuza 0 and Joongi Han from Yakuza 6.

The ACTUAL most notable change, however, and I think you'll agree with me is the greatest crime ever committed, is that they greatly increased the amount of fog covering Kiryu and Ryuji's lower regions during their naked brawl in the bathhouse. THE GREATEST QTE IN THE HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES [Kiryu straight up smacks Ryuji's ass before using that grip to throw him. This is a real video game] is completely hidden due to this.

Aside from that, uh... minor balancing? Gun style may be a bit better in the original? But frankly it was already really strong in my opinion in the remake, so if they nerfed it, it couldn't have been much. Every other change is just objectively better QoL stuff - knockdowns no longer last for 56 centuries, weapon seals are not permanently locked to the weapon you're using them on, etc.

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:29:28 GMTRe: Creator Of New Open-Source Game Boy Disagrees That FPGA Is Superior To Software EmulationAlready tired of this blowhard and his comments showing up everywhere. Anyone with a lick of braincells knows the differences between hardware and software emulation, where the benefits of each lie with differing purposes and often differing audiences, and why it's silly to assert that one is definitively superior. So sick of savior complexes like this of people who just can't sleep at night knowing some random on Reddit is going to say the wrong thing about emulation. Randoms, who are almost certainly going to extract the wrong information from this guy's pedantic rants.

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:22:28 GMTRe: M2's 'Operation Night Strikers' Collection Adds Two More Classic Taito Titles@Moroboshi876 it probably will work just as well as the Wii did!?

Honestly... and I know the IR sensor is there.... as well accelerometers too

.....but I have yet to ever play a motion based game or light gun type game... even something like Links crossbow training (which why isn't that ported yet?)

Nada, not one "lightgun game" anywhere!!

Probably should give House of the Dead a spin.... and see if that is as good as the old-school arcade game

By RejectedAng3L

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:19:01 GMTRe: M2's 'Operation Night Strikers' Collection Adds Two More Classic Taito Titles@Daniel36 yeah that's kinda weird being as all the various versions of all the games totals to 9 games of the 4 different games.

Are they gonna add 4 other games?

Did Taito even have 8 light gun Operation Wolf sequels?

Or is maybe M2 giving us fully updated remakes maybe od all 4 games and haven't announced it?

By RejectedAng3L

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Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:07:39 GMTRe: New Custom Firmware Update Allows You To Connect Your PSP To WPA2At first I thought I must be one of those unlucky sods with a "mixed mode" as I can't get an IP address even though I got ARK4 installed. Once I entered my IP and subnet mask manually along with some DNS servers (try Google, it's all 8's like Stanley Parable) it worked!

By MegaManFan

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:38:56 GMTRe: The PS3 Version Of 'Like A Dragon: Ishin!' Is Now Playable In English@Sketcz ha ha, what I meant was: I've not played this game so I wouldn't know what specific content is in either version. But someone out there had to be incredibly attached to something about the PS3 Japanese version which isn't in the PS4 English version, in order to put so much time and effort into this project. And usually when people are complaining about this kind of thing it's usually because the newer localised version covered up some skin somewhere or cut some risqué or problematic scenes.

By N64-ROX

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:00:38 GMTRe: I've Just Resurrected This Zelda Scratch Card Game From 1989@Sketcz Long time no scratch, but I was just gifted some complete scans of Series 2, so I think we have everything now :0

...I just have to put it all together, haven't touched it in a while...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/vjuhg594ykchqhx/NES_Cards_S2.zip/file

By Asaki

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:21:02 GMTRe: Creator Of New Open-Source Game Boy Disagrees That FPGA Is Superior To Software Emulation@Slobbert for the most popular cores, yes. Accuracy falls off on some less popular ones like the X68000, but they're still pretty close. The Saturn core is still polishing edges, so it's not quite to the point of Mednafen Saturn. (I'm sure it will, just not yet.)

And it's not selling FPGA short, just pulling it back to reality. In all honesty Analogue did some damage in their marketing claims that has been hard to reeducate the larger enthusiast audience about. The Mister SNES core authors, for instance, got most of their info from BSNES/Higan, the software emulator renowned for how accurate it is. That's not a secret and they're open about it. I'm not well versed in that core-set, but from what I gathered, they're as accurate as one another.

In regards to the article, I've hardly seen any discussion near devs compared to the more charged discussions I see elsewhere. The author here, an FPGA core dev themself, is just being open and honest about putting things into perspective. I've been chatting with a couple core devs on the side since this article dropped and nobody's felt slighted so far (at least in my little nerd network).

By avcrypt

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:04:23 GMTRe: New Custom Firmware Update Allows You To Connect Your PSP To WPA2Thanks for sharing this great news. I'll need to figure out how to switch custom firmware to ARK4.

By Chocoburger

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:51:47 GMTRe: Why Famitsu's 'Perfect' Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Review Highlights "The Sorry State Of Preservation"@HammerGalladeBro just grab the torrent at datassette.org

you're welcome.

This have also a huge HUUUGE content of complete videogame magazines from almost 60 countries. A good bunch of famitsu too, but alas, the Ocarina edition is missing there.

By fagnerkof

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:51:45 GMTRe: Why Famitsu's 'Perfect' Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Review Highlights "The Sorry State Of Preservation"@nocdaes sadly, Japanese copyright laws prevent digital distribution of scans by internet to your browser or email. Snail-mailing photocopies is OK though! See the blog link in my earlier comment. Photos are also OK. The key is that the total content shared by the OK methods is no more than a certain (I forget exactly how much) percentage of the item total.

So whilst it's technically possible for the publisher to do it, they'd be breaking Japanese law by doing it and would be at least fined and probably worse. The National DIET Library in Tokyo has everything scanned but most scans can only be viewed in person on site for the same reasons as above.

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:31:42 GMTRe: Creator Of New Open-Source Game Boy Disagrees That FPGA Is Superior To Software Emulation@spysmily Oh, also, save states and suspending your game are possible on FPGA, and even on original hardware with certain Everdrive models, but it generally works better on software emulation. – That's actually one of the main reasons I still sometimes use software emulation over original hardware, even if I prefer hardware.

By RextheSheep

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:22:11 GMTRe: New Custom Firmware Update Allows You To Connect Your PSP To WPA2I just added custom firmware to my PSPs like a month ago and ran into this very issue! I'll have to try this out soon.

By MARl0

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:15:50 GMTRe: Creator Of New Open-Source Game Boy Disagrees That FPGA Is Superior To Software Emulation@spysmily Rather than thinking about it in negative terms, consider this: software emulation is still really good for enhancements – i.e. resolution, frame rate, or adding new features on the emulator level, particularly for newer 3D consoles. You can definitely do enhancements in FPGA too, but software is still king there in my opinion.

It's also still not really viable in the consumer space to do FPGA implementations of something like Nintendo GameCube or Xbox 360/PS3 yet. That's another reason why software emulation is still relevant.

(I also considered netplay, particularly for arcade games, which hasn't been done on FPGA systems yet to my knowledge. I'm not sure if that's even possible or not; it feels like a huge challenge, but I don't feel certain enough to say it isn't possible.)

By RextheSheep

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Sat, 15 Feb 2025 16:11:25 GMTRe: Creator Of New Open-Source Game Boy Disagrees That FPGA Is Superior To Software EmulationAh it is of course a bit of a semantic discussion.. I guess analogue started 10y ago the 'no emulation' branding because they had to explain why their device was 3x the price of e.g. the retron 5 of those days..

My life in gaming just released a compilation of their old fpga videos... in their analogue nt review they copy the ' no emulation' monicker, later they start using 'hardware emulation''....

Of course they both have a place in gaming preservation...software because you can have easy access where you are.. (the best gaming device is the one in your pocket on your lap), and fpga to reduce lag and to understand how they worked on a chip level..

for me personally the analogue pocket really changed a lot.. I use to re-enjoy some carts... I use it to emulate lots of games on the go... I made a sort of mistercade out of it with a turning screen for Tate, and with the analogizer and snac I now enjoy the same device on a CRT tv too... up to 16 bit I'm now in heaven...

sill my Miyoo mini is always in my work bag.. more portable and cheaper..and achievements..

the accuracy for me is visible in the Amiga core.. I play sensible soccer on World Cup level.. and the timing of running is just off on wine cores.. the amiga was a complex beast with custom chips... you can feel the difference there

By romanista

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