it IS dhcp so that’s one less thing. will look into cron, cheers
Anyone sold pricy stuff on ebay with success? Ive got several sega genesis games that are worth a too much not to sell and im nervous about trusting paypal / ebay.
Yeah do domestic only, always get tracking and insurance, and cross your fingers.
Take lots of pictures and pack well. People will try to fuck you over anything.
If someone opens a claim on day 59 of 60 since you mailed it you know you are getting scammed.
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Also try and find a local collector and you can take out a lot of this stress for slightly less money and be done in a day.
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How cross-compatible are powered subwoofers? If I have a SUB OUT port on my stereo and it’s a single RCA jack is that likely to work on any woofer with a single RCA in?
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if it’s powered you should be fine, RCA audio is RCA audio
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I’ve always worked under the surely faulty but useful notion that achievements exist solely to better track what percentage of a game’s playerbase makes it to certain points within the game.
The game I’m playing now (Yankai’s Peak) has the standard “finished the first section”, “100% completed the first section”, “finished the second section” achievement layout but the percentages seem much harsher than I usually see, so I’m asking the SB hivemind if I’m just seeing ghosts or if this seems a bit outside of the norm.
It is at 26.3% reach the end of the first section with 20.9% doing all of the puzzles in it, dropping all the way to 12.6% for reaching the end of the second. That feels much lower than I can recall seeing in quite a bit, especially since I think 11% have the achievement for I believe reaching the actual end of the game.
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I would interpret that as: players are dropping out very quickly, either they hit a difficulty wall or are getting bored. Was this ever released on a service like Apple Arcade or Game Pass, or part of a pennies-on-the-dollar bundle? That also encourage dip-in play. Either way, it means that game is losing people after they’ve started playing, when it has the highest fraction of their attention it will ever have.
The case I first noticed this in was Spry Fox’s Road Not Taken, which had a Playstation Plus release. And something like 10% of players made it past the tutorial.
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Checking and it was part of a steam puzzle game bundle that I seemingly purchased at some point for a different game, which would solve the secondary mystery of how I ended up with a copy of this game. Given that out of the eight games included it is definitely towards the bottom in terms of name recognition, and that it is a bit odd mechanically, I guess that would explain that.
I think Yankai’s Peak is pretty hard to reason about. I can at least visualize most moves in Stephen’s Sausage Roll, but visualizing moves in YP is pretty hard. It takes a fair bit of experimentation for me to make progress in it.
I do think it’s a neat game, though, and the intro cinematic is hilarious.
edit: oh yeah even the controls are pretty complicated haha
Another cool game that can be overwhelming and hard to think about!
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Yankai’s Peak is a game with one joke, but it gives that single joke its all and I appreciate it.
I think it might also have a bit of a borked difficulty curve as I thought the second part was legitimately rather tricky yet blazed through 100% of the third in maybe a half hour. At this rate when I get to the fourth part it’ll either last me five minutes or two weeks.
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Damn this is on my backlog, can I get through it with my head full of rocks
yes but also it’s a weird game and idk if it’s “good” but i still think about it a lot
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Road Not Taken is very interesting yeah. Self-undermining, at cross purposes with itself. Like one of those scientific experiments that fails entirely but accidentally makes a different discovery. A strange, Odradek-style insight which will not be winning anybody any Nobel prizes, but a fascinating one if you’re on the right wavelength.
The difficulty of pinning down what it’s about or what my feelings are about it is part of what’s interesting. I wrote some half-formed thoughts about it last year, maybe I ought to replay it.
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There is like one google result for this but can anyone explain the suffixes on neo geo roms? “h” means home port apparently. “k” for korean. “a” “b” are questionable.
Also there doesn’t seem to be anywhere that explains what exactly neo geo rom hacks…have or don’t.
I haven’t heard that they did anything particularly unusual in terms of how they drew the sprites for the NeoGeo KOFs. They did redraw them between 95 and 96–a slightly larger size, slightly beefier style, but otherwise alterations to the existing characters were just costume tweaks and so forth, so that would help maintain consistency, as would always being on the same hardware. I would think they also used a smaller pool of artists than a larger company like Capcom, but I don’t actually know that for sure.
Edit: Also, they ran at a somewhat lower resolution than, say, Capcom’s fighting games of the time, and fewer pixels to manage would help consistency as well.
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What are some good Mario Worlr romhacks? I have the one where you play as a plump Princess Peach. Also what are some cool romhacks period. Thank you.
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http://smwdb.me/db/a/a0a9d007669c8b674162dad58e02b12e1720b528/index.htm?return=1
Call of Cthulhu uses some fantastic tricks of the SMW engine and is very short. The download here is weird, you gotta click the link then quickly refresh the next page.
Super Mario World the Lost Adventure Episode 3 is a lot of fun and not like, kaizo hard. Plus it does my favorite rom hack thing of having music, characters, and entire mechanics from other games.
Romhacking.net - Hacks - Mario Adventure
This is for SMB3, its really good. I guess its like, the most well known SMB3 rom hack but i don’t know if that translates to SB well known, ya know? Anyway its good if a little hard.
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I am going to start to play Loom! I have the Fm Town version… there are three proficiency levels: Standard, Practice, Expert. Which should I choose? What changes between Standard and Proficiency?
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I see Below is on sale for a 5er which means I should just buy it but the bigger issue is time is there anything there? The big complaint is it is just boring right ?
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