Around 2000 my Sony VAIO laptop had iLink but I’m not sure I ever used it. The was long before I bought a PS2 (which was for Katamari)
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Do companies still obstinately refer to standard plugs and protocols with their own name? Like sony in this era just called Firewire/IEEE1394 iLink but i cant think of anything that currently does that.
also cool video but that AI thumbnail can heck itself
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Yup. Unnecessary.
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I haven’t tried it yet, but a non-persistent Xbox360 soft mod just became possible. This might be the easiest way to play Afterburner Climax now in the year 2025?
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This is a story in play right now in all the exciting ways. Currently you no longer even need Tony Hawk to get the exploit to trigger. But the breakthrough I am waiting for is a version that triggers more reliably or triggers faster. But if there was ever a path forward to a 360 soft mod, this is it.
I can’t think of any cable standards where this happens anymore, but the closest I can think of is every TV branding their implementation of HDMI CEC as something totally different.
Sony has Bravia Link, LG has Simplink, Samsung (most confusingly) has AnyNet.
All names for the exact same function.
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I did a thread search for this and folks here seemed to be more negative on it two years ago, but what’s the current thought on using your modern Xbox as an emulation machine? Specifically I’m interested in using a Series X
My deal is that I’d like to get rid of the Pi 4 I currently use as a TV emulation box. I have a Series X (and a series S that I intend to sell, but someone said that’s somehow better?) I’d like to use in developer mode with an external HDD for emulation with Retroarch and a few bespoke apps (for GC/Wii and PS2, namely). This seems great to me for a few reasons, including: don’t want to own a Pi anymore, saves me an HDMI port, can run lots of the stuff the Pi can’t (Saturn, GC/Wii, PS2), can handle nice CRT shaders that’ll look great on my OLED TV, having an external HD means more storage and easier to manage ROMs, won’t have to dig out an extra controller. At a glance, the current opinion from emulation scene YouTubers is very positive. They claim that after a hack-free, non-warranty-voiding setup, this is easy-peasy, I just switch my Xbox over to dev mode and enter emulation box land. Seems nice.
But I’m curious what made the forum seem cool on this – what’re the drawbacks? Any risk of Microsoft getting narc-y and just disabling usability, etc.?
They would have disabled it long ago if they were going to.
I have the set up but never end up using it as SiSter became my default emulation set up and I haven’t had the need to delve into the PS2 / GC / higher end arcade emulation that the Series X could offer.
I guess if I knew it could like, do Model 3 emulation without a hassle I might push harder to get it fully running.
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finally an HDMI CEC standard for me
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2005 was the year I did my first solder hard mod hack, dumping and editing Animal Crossing Wild World save files. I still remember the website I got the instructions from.
Today I found another adjacent 2005 site for e-reader development, and this instructional page for modifying the e-reader to work with the Nintendo DS. So cool.
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Is there a way to cloud sync saves in retroarch?
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They are supposed to be adding support for that in some official way RetroArch Cloud Sync (Apple Devices) - Libretro Docs
But all I have done is tell it to save my data in a folder that I have already set to be cloud synced with my other devices.
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i’ll just put my save in telegram everytime unril then. Thanks!
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Called “Open Heart”, Dustin Odell’s mod uses a Raspberry Pi Pico or compatible board to add TMSS bypass, a dual-frequency oscillator (for switching between NTSC and PAL), in-game reset and an overclock.
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