I dont think most android users know you can install alternstive app stores and otherwise sideload apps

Click “visit random instance” a couple of times until you hit an instance that works

And dont feel bad for random rights holders of dead musicians or musicians who are already filthy rich. If your music taste is limited to taylor swift and some up and coming indie artist make sure the whole budget goes to that up and coming artist…

Yea me too, there are certain aspects of emulation that gives a better experience that in my opinion makes up for not playing on original hardware, such as save states and fast forwarding. I dont have the time to play games for two hours at the time often so if save options are scarce i wont progress without save states. And skies of arcadia would have been a nightmare to play without fast forward, i think i skipped 6-8 hrs of repetitive attack animations in my playthrough (as judged by diff in play time in retroarch vs in-game).

But i would love to play on original hardware once in a while still

Yup they suck. Gave up piracy for streaming services once, wont get suckered in again if an attractive new service comes along unless there is some proper ownership involved. But i cant really see that happening.

Ive been a nintendo fan my entire childhood and early adult life. I would say i am (at least clasically) nintendos target audience. I agree with the sentiments in the video. Nintendo is doing a lot of shitty consumer hostile things and people forking up ever increasing prices for decade old games will only validate their business practices and quality will further decay (like the games industry in general). That is essentially what he is saying. I will not buy the switch 2 (this video did not change my stance either way)

Granted his overly negative rant was a bit tiresome, it felt like he was impersonating the angry nintendo nerd without the comedy. But that just feels like any other yt video rant these days

For those more updated than me, what are your thoughts on Skyblivion and Skywind?

In almost any other sector I would agree. Food and water supply, not so much. War and other potential global disruptive events could cut us off from mainland europe or at least make deliveries more difficult. We are already very dependent on imports. This could make us entirely so. I dont want to starve.

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They are also anti-eu and unafraid to use populist tactics to sway people regardless of how true it is. With russian interference to be expected in the election (and likely promote anti-eu sentiments) i think we will see this parroted by sp and frp, and i see that as a risk of poisoning what is otherwise a necessary debate about our future.

I am also worried about our agriculture… it is difficult to farm here which makes us already one of the least self sufficient countries in terms of farmed goods and joining eu without any allowance for protectionism here would destroy what we have. Given the focus on preparedness for war and resilience these days that would in my opinion be a horrible idea.

edit: but we need a public debate to get some clarity in these issues asap and i am glad it looks like we are headed towards that. But i am also afraid of russian propaganda poisoning that debate and populist parties like sp and frp falling prey to that and driving a wedge in the population

Great post! Very enjoyable format. Will be checking out Deliverance on GOG (first one first, these games have entirely slipped my radar until now)

I love my surface duo for ds emulation!

When watching some videos from retro game youtube channels, they tend to point to how much more daring they were back then, and all new games will just safe it. New aaa games cost so much they cant fail, but then a flop was to a larger extend “meh” and move on for the studio. Guess that made some of these games feel more freaky as you say

I just completed bully on the ps2 (emulated on pcsx2)! Had a lot of fun, planning on going for jak & daxter series next i think. I never owned the console myself, so there are many gems ive never tried, and many i only played at friends houses sporadically.

This thread is a gold mine for suggestions!

I love soulcalibur 2! I played it (and still play sometimes) on gamecube tho, but apart from a different special character (link from zelda in the gc version), its the same game. Tried soulcalibur 3 as well, but didnt really get into it - cant put my finger on why, but it was ages since i tried 3

Ive never used their software, but it exists for android, so maybe you can use it on linux with waydroid?

I have the original and it works both with 2.4ghz and bluetooth out of the box. Been a very good experience.

Ironfox

Maybe you want to communicate through an encrypted service?