wait, then what’s the problem? you should be able to reproduce disk images from Macintosh garden
Like burning a cd is a pain and is also one directional
you can hook appletalk up to an iMac G3 and in turn hook that up to ethernet like the world’s biggest dongle
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and to be clear this is actually how I outfitted my preservation lab a decade ago pre bespoke vintage hardware like the greaseweazel because that’s some of the most widely available and compatible hardware from that era (the comparable edge case dongles from back then are considerably rarer)
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Hmm now I have an excuse to get a G3
Best way to get rid of that Playstation Stinky Funk on a controller?
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Replace shell, buttons, PCB etc
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So uh my switch split pad pro left joystick started randomly going down.
I foolishly bought the GuliKit hall sensing joysticks but they’re not compatible with the split pad pro at all. I got them into my old regular drifting joycons instead but it’s impossible to go back to regular joycon ergonomics after playing with the split pad pro for years
This is the inside of a split pad pro, is replacing the joystick / stickbox possible for a layman?
Never been this close to just buying a steamdeck
Last night I have a sudden and vivid recalled memory about this late-eighties mecc game that tried to teach me about pulleys and levers but only succeeded in teaching me to develop the minimum required pattern recognition to get to the mammoth background. Does anyone else have this experience?:
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I don’t think this game has crossed my mind since I played it in middle school, until now.
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This reminds me of Rocky’s Boots, one of the GOATs
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At a glance it looks like you’d need to desolder and replace the stickbox, because it’s on a proprietary PCB.
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Random question, how do you access 2-4 in ZeroRanger? I assumed it was something like “don’t take any powerups for the whole game” (because “zero” in the title) but I keep getting the bad ending in 2-3 regardless.
Should I wait for the Persona 3 re-release or play an older version? Seems like this is becoming the gaming equivalent of which cut of Blade Runner you should watch.
I feel like the OG PS2 version feels special because of the AI controlled party members. IDK if any of the later versions retained that as an option
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i played the ‘remaster’ of portable on gamepass at the beginning of the year and concluded that i’d have been better off emulating the ps2 version with the undub and controllable party members patches
would probably wait and see how the remake turns out at this point
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Controllable party members kinda messes with the design though is the thing, it’s balanced around them not making perfect choices and your Persona cycling is partially about compensating for their bad choices.
It also incentivized certain strategies to reveal enemy weaknesses since the AI will actually avoid those if you have ‘discovered’ them mechanically.
That said, patched OG or FES is still going to be better than P3 portable because the menu based navigation really kills the vibes, and the plot alterations undermine it’s themes? Something I’m really worried the slick looking remake will do even more.
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Oddly I feel like I have absolutely no memory of the world map in Persona 3. I think maybe because Persona 4’s Inaba burned itself into my brain.
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Is there a specific song or album that videogame underwater music, like DKC’s underwater theme, draw their lineage back to?
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the underwater theme from SMB1 is obviously a waltz in the vein of incredibly famous classical pieces like the Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky or the Blue Danube Waltz by Strauss
there’s a lot of new agey instrumental music that seems like a pretty obvious influence on the soundtracks of SNES games like DKC or the Secret of Mana series. a lot of this stuff is derived from minimalist composers like Steve Reich/Phillip Glass and obviously like, celtic and other folk music traditions:
a lot of instrumental synth/soundtrack music at the time is very easy to hear influence in as well. like check this Vangelis theme here and compare it to DKC2’s “Snowbound Land” theme… it’s a dead ringer:
in general with the DKC soundtrack and a lot of 80’s and 90’s game music generally are informed by a lot of prog music (bands like Yes/YMO especially) and 80’s synth pop. here’s example of a pop song i can hear in a similar sort of vein to DKC music:
famously the swamp theme from DKC2 is very reminiscent of In The Air Tonight as well:
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