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This guy made some of the best video game music of all time. I hope he has a long, healthy retirement.


Hard to replicate the typing experience on the Deck when the hardware doesn’t have dual trackpads.


If rpcs3 uses a dynarec, then one would have to specifically be made for RISC-V. The interpreter can probably already run right now.





You say that, but not all art is made solely for money. Just take a look at the indie scene (games, music, film, TV, etc) as an example.


ZSNES was also how I got into emulation for the first time. Ended up using SNES9x more, though.


Emulation is magical. It’s how I discovered most of these games.


The best thing about this reply is that literally none of those games are on my list, since I haven’t played any of them (except for a Flash clone of Worms as a kid). That just goes to show the sheer amount of quality gaming that there was.

My list is moreso comprised of console games. In no particular order, and includes some later indie games:

  • Chrono Trigger (GOAT, ranked number 1 above all the rest of these. Fantastic story, gameplay, music, pacing, etc. I haven’t played any other game as polished as this one)
  • Terranigma (A surprisingly deep and philosophical game for the time, even compared to other great JRPGs of the same era, or of any era)
  • Yoshi’s Island (just raw fun)
  • Super Mario 64 (also just raw fun)
  • Majora’s Mask (Surprisingly deep and emotional for a Zelda game)
  • Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3 (2 in particular opened my eyes to actually being able to feel emotions for the first time)
  • Super Meat Boy (Addiction: the video game)
  • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Crack: the video game)
  • OMORI (another fantastic and emotional game, almost on the level of Silent Hill 2, but replay value isn’t very high IMO)
  • A Link to the Past (Just raw fun, but in Zelda form)
  • Guitar Hero 1, 2, and 3 (I was especially involved in the customs scene back then)
  • Final Fantasy VI (A fantastic story in general)
  • Super Smash Bros (the series as a whole)

Yeah, but the stories aren’t really connected; they’re all standalone games.


The 90s era of gaming, extending to the early 2000s. SNES, Genesis, PC Engine, N64, PS1, PS2, GameCube.

It was the era before the Internet and video gaming became extremely linked. The sheer number of classics that still hold up today, even compared to modern games, are very numerous.


If you haven’t played Terranigma, you should do that. It’s on the level of Chrono Trigger in how good it is.

It was never released in North America, so get the PAL ROM along with the NTSC (60Hz) patch from RHDN


Both Discord and Messenger have shit privacy practices. I’d try out Matrix or Conversations (XMPP). Niether require a phone number to work.

If you don’t mind using a phone number for registration, I’d recommend Signal.

Signal is probably going to be the simplest to use, but the other two are also pretty easy to get up and running relatively speaking.


Wonder how much it cost to make Candy Crush. The profit margins must be rediculous on something that isn’t even an original concept and is filled with ads.


Has King even made anything other than Candy Crush? Seems like they’re just a shitty mobile game company.




The forced arbitration EULA, ads on the homescreen, and prevention of installing your own apps didn’t already convince you?


If they want to gain back support, they could open source the engine.


Goddamn. I’ll have to try it out. The story is by far the most important part of any JRPG for me, though.


OMORI is incredible. The gameplay is okay (typical JRPG stuff), the music is okay (I’ve heard better in other games), but the storytelling is some of the best in all of video games, up there with Silent Hill 2 and 3.

The Binding of Isaac is an incredibly addicting game. It’s basically rougelike 2D Zelda dungeons, and upgrades stack on top of each other. It’s the game that I have the most hours in on Steam (specifically the much better-programmed remake, Rebirth). The DLC is great as well, adding a ton of content. Its replayability is damn near unmatched.

Super Meat Boy is just a really fun, fast paced 2D platformer, that is challenging, but fair. The controls are some of the best of any 2D platformer out there, beating out both Super Mario World and Yoshi’s Island IMO.


Tied with Chrono Trigger? That’s some insanely high praise. Why do you say that, exactly? I’ve never played Chained Echoes, so just curious. Chrono Trigger is my favorite game of all time.


I only played the first one, and it just dodn’t have as much of an impact on me as I was hoping for. OMORI on the other hand…



Why do they dynamically link libs instead of static linking, or better yet, distributing an AppImage?



I’m 70% sure that Sony just ported their drivers almost directly from Orbis (the PS4/5 OS) since Orbis is based on FreeBSD, which is POSIX-compliant. Windows is not POSIX-compliant, so they’d need to do more work porting it over.


Probably. Sony provided upstream Linux with drivers for their controllers, and have been for a while now. The controllers arguably work better on Linux than they do on Windows without third party software/drivers.


Yarr. From what I hear, ZA/UM fucked the developers hardcore. Not too sure of the details because I’ve been trying to avoid spoilers.

Wonder if there’s a way to pay the devs directly.


TIL it was in the works to begin with. Still haven’t played the first one, though


It includes a shitty PS1 emulator compared to unofficial PS1 emulation, and they took the Bluepoint HD Collection and directly ported it without any new options, not even the option to render at a higher resolution.

Just lazy, more than anything else. With the PC version specifically, fans made quite a few improvements to it with mods very shortly after it was released. The fact that Konami couldn’t implement these same improvements to begin with is just sad.


Hopefully they hire someone compitent this time who can reverse engineer the original PS1/PS2 code. The SH HD Collection and the recent Metal Gear Solid Master Collection both turned out terribly.

Konami famously lost the original source code for the original Silent Hill games, which is a big reason why the HD Collection turned out so terribly, along with hiring Hijinx, who was an unproven development company.

Historically, Konami has shown that they care more about money rather than art. I don’t trust their efforts are going to be any better this time around.

Also, I’m pretty sure PS4 and PS5 both have PS1 and PS2 emulators included in their OS, so they could just release the original versions on those consoles if they so chose. It would leave out Xbox and PC users, though (although PC users can already play these games in HD with emulation and/or fan-made mods to the PC versions).


I just use git in Termux. The official CLI tool is also available.


If you know the name of the partition, you can access it in /dev/block/by-name, or find out where they point to by using ls -lah /dev/block/by-name

But not really sure what you’re asking

If you want to copy a partition, you’re going to need to have root access.


You can do cloud gaming through a browser, but not the same as native.


This is the main reason why I never made an account, despite the free games.


6 hours.

I’ve never even heard of EVE Online lmao.


Looking for games that will make me cry
Basically what the title says. I've only played two games like this so far (Silent Hill 2 and OMORI) and am looking for more. Could be games, ROM hacks, mods of existing games, etc. EDIT: So many great suggestions! Getting a bit overwhelmed by how many there are, so I'm going to need to find a way to put this in some kind of list with an order to play the games in. By all means, keep 'em coming, though!
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