@joel@fosstodon.orgI returned to #Castlevania #AriaOfSorrow because @jefklak scolded me for having the Dominus Collection and not even have completed this one first. Kinda fun so far!
But I need to get the double jump...
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Thank you #gameDad, #pinePhone, #eReader (#butSpecificallyAnOldEReaderWithButtonsThatDoesNotGoOnTheInternet) for being nice fidgety little devices that can go in my pockets and bring me harmless joys throughout the day
Aw thanks Dan, I didn't expect
Not you
Ran out of Rollercoaster Tycoon levels to play on my #gameDad so rather than downloading more I've been playing Deluxe Galaga (the Amiga version) and WOW that game has held up well.
I guess I could go with one of the cheaper #gamedad boxes?
I guess I'll have to see how low those go.
(this is a thread! This is the part of the thread where I'm speculating around my own problem. If you're going to give me advice, please read the previous posts as well.)
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@mdhughes@appdot.netAlso played a lot of 2600 Gravitar, which is *weird*, compared to the arcade game. It's a long-play game, the physics are fun, but the missile aim is so terrible it's kind of unwinnable.
#atari #retrogaming #gamedad
️ @mdhughes@appdot.netGot my Indie Heroes 1 Evercade cart. First impression, didn't like Twin Dragons much, NES SMB with shooting but not good.
Alien Cat 2 is excellent, this might be a Chu-Chu Rocket level addictive puzzle game; however, its menus & between-level scenes are UNBEARABLY slow, and it only does password saves? Good thing the Super Pocket has state saving.
️ @mdhughes@appdot.netGot my 64 cart, the other is next week. Some of the games ported well. Others have very obscure keybindings, and I keep having to hit Select for virtual keyboard, and cursor around picking those, trying to see what happens behind it.
In practice I play a LOT of Berzerk, I'm getting into low thousands of points and staying alive a lot longer, but I haven't really optimized my strategy.
"Chicken, fight like a robot!"
"Destroy the intruder!"
"Got the humanoid!"
#atari #retrogaming #gamedad
Oh I didn't update this, yes I put a deposit on this car haha
But also, personal development of the semi-ungood-kind update: I've gone through life trying my hardest not to find out too much about cars, because hell I've gotta specialize in SOMETHING and I've got Too Many Other Things to fix. In a week of fixing coinops at dayjob and coming home to a pipe with a pinhole leak and brickwork that needs repointing and the dryer breaks down, it's honestly a great comfort to just drive the car to a dude who'll straight-up change the oil for me.
Like... oh no, check engine light came on? GOOD THING I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CARS HUH, time to have a day off! Sit my butt down at the mechanic's and play Final Fantasy on the #gameDad! Ask a stranger "So what're you in for" and end up going for lunch together and telling bad jokes!
In the right context, not knowing stuff can be a massive privilege. It's a bloody holiday is what it is.
The only problem is when the car craps out and the mechanic's booked up for days on end, and then you end up poking around a bit and going "Hmm, this looks electrical, I know electrical stuff at least," and you carry on doing just, like, odd little bits here and there y'know?
And then one day you go see a liar whose Honda Element won't start and they're all "Any ideas?" and you smile your blissful ignorance smile and you say "Sorry, I don't know anything about cars," and look just past the jump leads and go "but having said that, the ground braid connects from engine to frame with the battery in the middle, and if it's corroded where it bolts to the engine like yours is then it ain't ever gonna pass enough current through the starter motor to crank it when it's this cold outside. Yeah look just down there, see it's hanging by a couple threads. They're not expensive, fifteen minute fix, I did mine this summer. If that doesn't fix it try swapping the starter and AC relays round, they're just in that little box there."
You just said you didn't know anything about cars. I don't, thank goodness. aw SHIT
️ @mdhughes@appdot.netScreen's nice and bright, and you can turn on light or dark scan lines, pixel perfect or scaling. Speaker's mono, in front, can be very loud, has a headphone jack I haven't tried y et.
The only Atari theming is the logo on body & screen, otherwise just black & red. *REALLY* wish they'd made the special edition woodgrain the standard, that's kind of a dick move only making 2600 (ha) of those.
Still, best handheld in a while. I'll be pretty busy with Adventure.
#atari #retrogaming #gamedad
credits roll on TMNT, originally for the GBA here played on my #gamedad. fun little beat em up! #gaming #RetroGaming
Got a widescreen high-def CRT with a HDMI socket for a dollar outta Goodwill a few years ago, had some magnetic problems, I went "Eh, I'll fix that and play some games on it," and dear Fedi I WILDLY overestimated my energy and inclination to fix monitors all day at work and then come home and fix a monitor.
Anyway I bought a fine working 4:3 TV to plug my #gameDad into via a HDMI->Component box and all is well, leaving me with this ugly widescreen Samsung sitting in my basement being neither use nor ornament. So I post it to the local retro gaming group, no takers. Eventually I stick it on Craigslist and after all of Pittsburgh shrugged at it, I've got one guy bouncing in his chair and writing me excited emails about how it's a three hour drive but he can set off as soon as he gets out of work and can he give me some money to hold it until 6 tonight and the old adage about trash and treasure REALLY shows its sharpness in this kinda situation
Any competently run forum removes wallet-flashing posts and bans images entirely, this post brought to you by #gameDad subreddits that are just endless scrolls of pictures of consoles and every twenty posts is someone asking a question and ten people jumping on them to tell them that their console is junk and they have to buy a more expensive one
I updated my tiny little handheld-emulation-box website with a tiny little post about how Game Dads can create time for you to play games that you wouldn't have otherwise had time to play:
https://gamedad.club/meta_timecondenser.php
Sometimes we think "I don't have time to do fun stuff," when the reality is even sadder; we DO have time, we have LOTS of time, but our time is all chopped up, like bits of string too short to be of any use, so it gets eaten up by the doomscrolling anxiety rectangle. This little post is about letting the Game Dad act as a time condenser, rescuing those useless seconds from the Feel Bad Machine and turning them into fun minutes filled with good stuff instead.
D'you remember having a good time in a mechanic's waiting room? I do, because last time I spent it playing Final Fantasy Tactics! Anyway have a gander at my silly little website lol
(and then, because I respect your time, stop looking at my silly little website and go play some fun games instead haha)
EDIT: oops I hardly ever use hashtags so I forgot to say #gameDad
gamedad.clubTime MachineCheap little emulation handhelds
@joel@fosstodon.orgHere is my #review of the #Anbernic RG35XXSP, the clamshell experience I always wanted.
This is day 72 of #100DaysTooffload
joelchrono.xyzThe GBA experience I wantedThis is a review of the Anbernic RG35XX SP, but I was not going to disgrace my blog archive with such an ugly name as a title, so this will do.
I'm delighted to see that the 6.10 release of the Linux kernel adds support for the Allwinner H700 (H616 variant) and explicitly calls out the Anbernic RG35XX series of #gamedad devices as a motivating reason!
However it _kills_ me that even with this addition, the thing stopping hundreds (thousands?) of excellent cheap handheld gaming decks from becoming e-waste is a 64-bit Mali G31 GPU blob extracted from an automotive firmware package².
²: https://plus.rg35xx.com/en/the-future-of-rg35xx-firmwares/
CNX Software - Embedded Systems News · Linux 6.10 Release - Notable changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures - CNX SoftwareLinux 6.10 has been released. We look at some newsworthy changes and dive deep into the changelog for Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures.
@joel@fosstodon.orgHmmm, would you look at that...
