@“cass”#p88738 I want Satiator cuz I want to leave my disk drive alone. There is also this SaturnSwitcher mod for Fenrir that lets you keep disk drive. And both together are still cheaper than Satiator and looks more fun to install. But of course they're all out of stock.
Good thing about Mode is you can attached hard drive so you can absolutely max the hell out of your Saturn/DC.
I can't spend that much money on ODEs right now so I'm using Pseudo Kai cart to run imports and burned discs. A lot of work burning those discs but I got a couple of Daiso mini CD binders filled and feel nice to flip through them and slap them in.
Satiator also has a really sweet custom menu in development called RINGS that has cover art (in proper JP aspect ratio, unlike MODE which is totally not tweakable and everything is US longbox aspect only… just poorly designed in general showing all cover art at once instead of one at a time)
@“KennyL”#p88811 playing games off burned discs is so much fun. I need to get a working CD/DVD/BD burner again cause it‘s the only option I’ve got for my Dreamcast (I‘m someone who doesn’t want to remove my optical drives) and I have never properly probed that console's library.
I recently got a PS3 Super Slim for cheap and unfortunately the optical drive seems busted. Everything else works fine in terms of booting up and using it otherwise. Is keeping and installing PS3HEN worth it? I just have never dabbled with it before. Any advice is appreciated!
@“darkseiken”#p89731 DO IT. You can run PS1 and PS3 ISOs pretty easily once you are up and running. Only hard part is you can't rip your own discs as I did and those PS3 file size can get pretty hefty
I recently bought one of those cheap Ryzen NUC-likes that are rebranded from Ali Express. I changed jobs, my new work computer is very locked down and I needed something to do lightweight volunteer consulting for a non-profit. Basically just a mid-tier laptop board in a tiny box. It‘s ALSO become my little emulation machine when I’m taking breaks from work, which has been so nice.
After watching the [LGR video on the Roland MT-32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiZOxUhQj10), I started looking into emulating that in DOSBOX and SCUMMVM. I had no idea that, essentially, SCUMMVM has the shockingly accurate Munt MT-32 emulator built in. I've been sampling some games with that and it makes the music in the LucasArts adventure games sound so incredible. I love it and it's super easy to do, just dropping some ROM files into the SCUMMVM folder and changing the audio settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdd2CNlcqn0
It's kind of wild to me that these companies went to all the work of implementing the MT-32, making games sound incredible for it. The thing cost $700 in 1987 money when it launched and seems incredibly complicated to set up. Like, how many people actually experienced the [Insert Buckazoid display joke](https://youtu.be/ApX60Y8djPI?t=243) in Space Quest 3 on real hardware? Is it even hundreds?
I haven't tried implementing Munt in DOSBOX yet, though it seems a bit more complicated. You can also add other soundfonts to SCUMMVM but I'm not sure what goes into that.
Today I was Disassembling, cleaning out microplastics, and lubricating n64 controllers for the first time. I have some pretty tight sticks and would like to keep ‘em that way. I wanna do this with all my joysticks for every console eventually
@“treefroggy”#p90113 So I switch out the sticks on VGNYs N64 controllers for new ones and we have a pile of the ones I took out. Are they salvage-able? We are considering down the line trying to make an account that just sells our scrap parts.
if they‘re not properly lubricated and they wear out, all floppy and loose, there’s not much you can do to salvage them. they‘re scraping around inside the bowl and you can’t undo whatever gets shaved off.
You can install replacement parts, like getting a fake hip or knee replacement.
@“copySave”#p90653 Cool. This makes sense, but considering I can bang out 20 controllers in a session (since I also get in and clean everything) by putting new sticks in, I am going to assume doing this kind of repair is just not going to be cost effective for us. Those sticks are just not designed to last when almost everything else on the N64 is.
@“robinhoodie”#p90679 Ah yes - very good. What type of replacement sticks are you using? I have a few controllers I may prefer to quickly repair myself
@“connierad”#p89679 installed this on my series x today. everything I’ve tried has run PERFECTLY. I don’t like increasing resolutions etc beyond their original values, but those so inclined can now run basically anything in 4K at 60fps.
@“copySave”#p90681 We use the Old Skool Sharpshooters as they are just an easy drop in replacement once you've got the controller open. Not sure how durable they are in the long term, but considering how many just wrecked controllers we get in, they have brought boxes on boxes back to life.
Well, this is certainly a surprise. About a year ago, I downloaded some Wii games, and for whatever reason, USB Loader GX just didn't want to detect them. Today, I found out why:
I had somehow managed to extract the contents of the ISOs into the folder USB Loader GX would normally read GameCube games from. (I could've sworn these folders were empty when I last checked them.) Anyway, the reason I'm even bringing this up is because I want to know if I can somehow cobble these files back together into something any program could make sense of, or if I have to resign myself to downloading these games all over again. I know what sequence of files I have to convert into; I just want to know whether doing so would accomplish anything.
