richyawyingtmv @ richyawyingtmv @lemmy.ml

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Don't bother.

I tried this route, you'll be disappointed. I would advise getting a pre-owned Rift S which are cheap as fuck now.

Works perfectly with steam VR, and has proper tracking controllers. You can't play Half Life Alyx with the PlayStation set - you can with a rift s. You're basically cutting out the vast majority of PC VR experiences if you go with the PSVR.

Also you don't need a Facebook account for the rift s, unlike the quest headsets.

Here's a fun one

Open up retroarch and apply the following as settings for a game:

• adjustment filter to mirror the screen, I think it's in an image adjustment folder but can't check which one at the moment
• swap left and right in the controls (in-game remap, not the menu controls)

Mirror mode! On any game! As long as you don't care about text, it's a fun way to add replay value. Great for platformers like Donkey Kong Country 2, Mario, etc.

If you really want a mindfuck, play a top down game like Zelda Link to the Past with the above but ALSO top down inverted too. I do that with the ALTTP randomizer sometimes.

Edit: hang on, I got Yoshi's Story at launch and I 100% remember the ultimate aim of the game is to actually get all the melons. It's not an alternative mode really, it's the actual goal for 100%. At least, it's how I played it in 1998.

Yeah, hasn't stopped me in...15 years? Half my entire library is pirated and emulator shortcuts lol

No

I've installed cracked windows versions of games on the steam deck before, adding them as a non steam game, going to properties and setting them to boot with proton. I even installed a few this way by adding the installer exe as a non steam game and running that in desktop mode, under proton. It's a hassle to find where it installed it after, but it worked for me anyhow

That game (Ys VIII Lacrimosa of Dana) is fantastic on PC too and has an exclusive two player co op mode where someone else can play a team member alongside you instead of the AI. Well worth getting for a replay when it's on sale if you're able to

Fuck. It could be Wario Land or Donkey Kong Country 2 (a bit later, 1996?) for me. Been playing them almost constantly since 1994 along with Mario 1-3. This gets even more fucked when you throw in all the ports, randomizers etc.

For actual hard numbers (roughly), it's Xenoblade for me.

1. Played once on the Wii when it came out here in the UK in 2011. 107hrs.
2. Played it again through on the Wii. This was around the same, savefile says 142 hrs.
3. Played through it on Dolphin. Probably 80hrs or so, I don't have the numbers on this. Throw another 100 hours on.
4. Played through it to 100% on the New 3DS port, twice. This was probably another 200+ hrs.
5. Definitive edition. Played through once on the Switch to 100% (this took 97 hrs) then twice again on Yuzu in 4k. 150 hrs so far on Yuzu (just got to Valak Mountain in this current playthrough)

Don't even get me started on X, 2 and 3. but well worth it.

Lots of memories of this one too. Mostly on the HTC One for me, I think.

Why bring up PayPal again? They've had nothing to do with x.com since 2017 at the very least. Again, what the hell are you on about?

Sometimes we all post things that sound clever to begin with but looking back on it, maybe not. This could be one of those times for you I think.

Elon is still a dick regardless, but man

Um, what?

Elon Musk owns x.com, he launched it over twenty years ago. It split into what became PayPal, and then he bought it back.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

"X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho in 1999 in Palo Alto, California."

He bought the domain rights back in 2017.

Literally less than a minute on Google to find that, dude.

£30 a month for gigabit unlimited usage. UK. Connection is rock solid.

Dude, it literally took me two clicks from this post to get this:

"Time to re-experience this classic survival-horror game with Machine Learning upscaled backgrounds, seamless masks and many other small improvements in this all-in-one texture pack. Please note that RESHDP is a free fan project. Please check the FAQ before playing"

Donkey Kong Country 2

This will be interesting

Before your time? Wait what

Fuck me, I'm getting old.

But it's not just handheld games. My analogue pocket has the entire SNES, NES, Mega Drive and Pc Engine libraries, plus Amiga. Loads of MiSTer cores have been ported.

Playing SNES on the pocket is amazing. And it's better on the pocket than any other device I've ever used.

Well, I have a degree in tech. Work in finance. Tech hobbies, programmer second job

So I probably don't fit. Most of my working life was retail though.

I met Jeremy Clarkson - he was alright, very pleasant and funny

I mean, what if they live in Australia or South Africa? Not summer there. It's winter.

Yep, already done. I can do no more.