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    TheFlow has hacked the PlayStation Portal, manages to run PPSSPP natively on the device

    It's not. Who am I to judge. I am assuming if you are willing to do mod this is because you already own it. A Raspberry Pi 5 might be twice as powerful at half the budget otherwise.
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    OpenLara - a stunning GBA port of the 1996 classic Tomb Raider

    GB carts solved this by writing to arbitrary ROM addresses to inform the mapper to switch to specific banks. The trick is understanding the ROM mapper is physically inside the cart. Of course it would need to be a custom mapper. Emulators will need changes to be able to access the data, but its...
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    TheFlow has hacked the PlayStation Portal, manages to run PPSSPP natively on the device

    From a technical standpoint should run, at least, all portable platforms predating the PSP. Special mention to the DS as the screen has touch controls. I would expect PS1 and below but let me hold for N64 or Sega Saturn. DOS games, such as DOOM should be able to run. It has a Snapdragon 662...
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    When the Switch2 comes out, do you expect it to have full Switch1 compatibility?

    If we take into account: Nintendo has partnered with ARM for the CPUs on their portable systems since the GBA Switch is already an ARM64 device Switch's graphic stack is fairly standard (no 3D or fancy stuff besides dynamic res governed by acpi) Technically speaking the only thing blocking it...
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    'The Tetris Effect' book author sues Apple over its 'Tetris' movie

    A pile of money and recognition is always a nice to have out of a legal process but you don't need to desperately look for public approval while you're at it, right? It's not the public approval you need but actually some grounds on the claim your making. Also you arose a nice point which is...
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    'The Tetris Effect' book author sues Apple over its 'Tetris' movie

    I only see it as a free publicity stunt by this book author. Why the stress to assure legal claims were tried to be fired before the movie released? Why the need to look good to the public if only looking for his "legal" fair share of copyright claims? Nah, this John Doe wanted to reach the...
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    Microsoft is now suspending users who use Retail Mode emulators on their Xbox consoles

    The message from the xbox sales team is clear: they see emulation as a threat to game sells. I wonder why they are not using the old MS motto of embrace, extend, extinguish. They will never win at emulation by banning emulators on their platforms. Nintendo is learning slowly but learning...
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    Microsoft claims Starfield will have the fewest bugs of any Bethesda release

    I for once believe them. I mean, haven't been we beta testing it since 2016? Oh forgive me, I thought this was no man's sky.
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    "Game Porting Toolkit" by Apple will allow Windows games to run on Mac, similar to Proton on Linux

    This is just a devkit for ports of the games to be published in the app store. With some luck Apple users will see new M1/2 compatible games to purchase in the app store.
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    Tears of the Kingdom is both the fastest-selling Zelda game and fastest-selling Nintendo game of all time

    The messages this sends are clear as crystal, and a bit grim: If the players are invested enough in the franchise, the price tag doesn't matter. A company can rerelease a game with new content and charge full price. The 70$ a game era just started. Other companies will soon follow. EDIT: I...
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    Europe has approved Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition

    If this somehow means a crack of light in the doors of opportunity for an official linux release of the world of warcraft client, sign me in. Otherwise meh.
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    F#$% Stackoverflow

    You are trying to get an answer to a problem you are struggling with. There is people working at fortune 500 companies making money by making shit questions and copypasting answers from SO/google until it works, not even changing variable names. How do we provide the first and stop the latter...
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    why life is... really boring

    Yup that would be a life if you did absolutely nothing with it. A waste, so to speak. Ahoy with the prejudices about marriage. It can end well or not start at all. Same with retirement, you only would if you work at all. Being born and death, those are certain. The value comes on what you use...
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    Hacking Hardware Picofly - a HWFLY switch modchip

    I guess when everything settles a bit and you guys find the best ways and everything someone will grab the relevant information to help the rest be up to date with this right? I also have an RP2040 and a MH Rise limited edition Switch ready but besides of that I have literally no clue on where...
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    Editorial The nine year kart race - a Mario Kart 8 retrospective

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