xtools
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Creator of things no one asked for.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
what i did is going for the smallest sd card, and buy a proper bigger one, then clone the “stock” card, and copy over roms and metadata from my nicely curated Batocera drive.
it can be super tricky to get any OS that officially supports the R36S to run on the clones, so i run the OS it came with. the device isn’t connected to the Internet so i don’t worry too much about malware.
dreamcast is simpler to emulate, n64 notoriously isn’t, I’ve been struggling with this system during my Raspberry Pi 3 emulation era already. the “real” R36S apparently is a tad more powerful than the cheap knockoffs, but i can’t seem to find it anymore - the closest available official one would be the RG35XX for $55
- Comment on 2 days ago:
at that price point, the R36S clones on Aliexpress, i got one on sale for ~€22. they play everything up to ps1/dreamcast, n64 not so much though. the romsets they come with and their metadata are really bad, and the sd card it comes with is prone to die spontaneously, so it requires some tinkering
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 1 month ago:
time for a Nero move
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
🏴☠️ might be the answer to this conundrum
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
true, the only issue i see is that newly released games might have higher firmware requirements. the ps4 is de-facto end-of-life, no need to put much thought into modding that
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
probably not a bad idea :) ps3/xbox360 are also totally worth it and easy to crack, if you have one lying around or are on a budget. my xbox360 is rocking ~120 games on 1tb (including xbox classic games), more than i could ever play in a lifetime
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
nope it has to be BD. honestly just get it from aliexpress, a BD burner is €100+, not really worth it to buy one for single use
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
exploits are getting fixed over time 🤷♂️ check out modded warfare on youtube if you want to learn more
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
it works up to firmware 12.52, if you haven’t updated for a couple of months it should be fine
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
this will do the trick, scroll down to the product recommendations and you might find an even cheaper listing
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
you can also burn it yourself if you have a bluray burner, the software the aliexpress discs use is freely available
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 months ago:
the PS4 can be jailbroken with a €4 disc from aliexpress nowadays, and it has a great catalog of games. slap a 1tb external hdd on it, download games from archive.org, presto
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 2 months ago:
that’s a bingo! rest of the world doesn’t use corn syrup
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 2 months ago:
thx for the diabeetus
you know you don’t have to turn it into corn syrup right? that crap isn’t used widely anywhere but in the US
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
just like all the news coming from the US nowadays
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 4 months ago:
Frankrijk
- Comment on Or jorkin' 5 months ago:
or… here me out… trear your kids with a modicum of respect? they might turn out to be actual human beings when they grow up that way
- Comment on Great plan 11 months ago:
i take 6 weeks of unpaid leave every year, additionally to my 5 weeks of paid leave. i can only recommend it.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 1 year ago:
super tux cart on linux is free and open source