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    Gaming Which Wii2HDMI should I buy?

    If you have a TV with component input, get a Wii component cable and set the Wii to output in 480p. This will produce the best quality output the Wii is capable of. The Wii2HDMI adapters are just active component to HDMI adapters with a Wii AV plug for the input, and will yield the same picture...
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    Hacking Need M3 Lite help!

    Still keep it around, as it will play most GBA games perfectly.
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    Hacking Need M3 Lite help!

    This flashcart is so old that ROMs needed to be patched with a PC utility first (M3 Game Manager). Most modern games (2009 onwards?) will not even run after patching due to antipiracy or lack of support in the old patching tool. You should really get a modern slot-1 flashcart with current...
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    Hacking Backup Loader that mounts WBFS or ISOS and boots back to the menu

    SNEEK+DI or UNEEK+DI will do this as part of their NAND, ES and DI emulation. They don't use ISOs or WBFS dumps tho, they need games extracted with DiscEx.
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    Microsoft Removes Mandatory Kinect Connection

    I argue that "installing" (writing the software to a local piece of storage and creating the required configuration and registry entries) is different from "purchasing"/"activating" (obtaining the software in your account in the first place, either via Steam store or physical copy with a...
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    Microsoft Removes Mandatory Kinect Connection

    I have never tried to install a Steam enabled game from physical media (I have a couple, but my gaming laptop has no DVD drive - 2nd HDD instead, and I have 60mbps internet) so cannot comment, however I have manually copied Skyrim between a pair of Steam installs (both my account, both offline...
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    Microsoft Removes Mandatory Kinect Connection

    Apart from Amazon MP3 (DRM Free MP3), Google Play (DRM Free MP3), Xbox Music/Zune Market (DRM Free MP3, Some DRMed WMA), and many smaller stores (infact, the only stores still using DRM are Napster and Rhapsody AFAIK, and they use PlaysForSure WMA). So no, iTunes is not the only marketplace to...
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    Homebrew Is it possible to run DSLinux like a normal game?

    Go grab http://dslinux.org/builds/dslinux-dldi.tgz, and unpack it to the root of your MicroSD. Run dslinux.nds from your Acekard's menu/loader. No repartitioning needed, dslinux's filesystem lives in the folder called linux. Make sure you turn off the DS by running the command poweroff or you...
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    ROM Hack Is there a way to patch an original ds cartridge?

    Since you seem to be dead set on doing this - go take a look at how the PassMe/PassMe2 worked, as they intercepted the header comms between the cartridge and DS and patched the entrypoint in the header. Another useful reference would be GBATEKs "DS Cartridges, Encryption, Firmware" section...
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    Android Oh dears. Lock Screen exploit for Samsung Galaxy SIII with Android 4.1.2

    I wonder if it works if you have a PIN code set and device encryption turned on?
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    has anyone emulated

    A build of Mupen64Plus exists which has extremely partial support for the 64DD, but AFAIK all dumped games crash during the startup sequence/menus (nothing playable). Zelda OOT +Disk gets to the save/load screen, but crashes on load. Other games don't even get that far. It's possible to load...
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    ROM Hack Is there a way to patch an original ds cartridge?

    On systems like the Game Boy/GB Colour/GB Advance, yes, as the cartridge is part of the system address space (code executes directly from it, remove it and a crash is *almost* certain), and is directly connected to the address and data buses of the processor. On the DS, etc. the cartridge is on...
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    Best (cheap) capture card compatible with Win7?

    Virtual VCR (http://virtualvcr.sourceforge.net/) is the preview/record tool I use with my capture setup (a BT848 based PCI card with btwincap drivers on an XP64 desktop), though I have also used VirtualDub / VirtualDubMod (http://www.virtualdub.org/) in the past.
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    Best (cheap) capture card compatible with Win7?

    If you are playing games thru it as a TV replacement, the one thing you care about above all else is input lag - basically how long between the video signal going into the capture device and it being shown on the screen. My experience with several capture cards is that most USB ones have...
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    Hacking EZ4 + Wine

    Just use the SRAM patcher in GBATA (http://www.no-intro.org/tools.htm) which should run under wine (winetricks for a runtime may be needed) and copy and rename a blank sav file made by the EZ-Client to the same name as the ROM.
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    Gaming I Need Really Bad Graphics Quality for Portal 2

    Try changing the launch options to "+sv_cheats 1 +mat_postprocess_enable 0". Then turn all your graphics settings down to the lowest possible and it might work without texture mods. This works for me on an Intel GMA3150 (similar GPU, used in netbooks/embedded Intel Atom's)
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    Homebrew Why(technically) don't some menus load commercial ROMs

    As far as I know, most DS homebrew is loaded fully into RAM in a similar way to your example, and then it can load any additional data via FS access/DLDI; However a real DS game cannot be DLDI patched, as it is not designed to be played from a device with a filesystem - so the game has to be...
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    Hardware PS3 Laggy?

    Fujitsu haven't made hard disks for 4 years. All PS3 Slim units I have seen have Toshiba hard disks. Are you sure someone hasn't swapped the hard disk before you bought it?
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    Hardware 16 GB stick can't be read

    You mean you actually used 14GB of it? If so it probably was real and has failed. As it was fulfilled by Amazon you shouldn't have too much trouble returning it...
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    Hardware 16 GB stick can't be read

    It's fake or has a corrupt/dead first flash block. Did you use more space on it than usual or remove it whilst being written to? Pretty much all you can do is return it...
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  • Jayro @ Jayro:
    The phat model had amazingly loud speakers tho.
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  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    @Jayro, I don't see whats so special about the DS ML, its just a DS lite in a phat shell. At least the phat model had louder speakers, whereas the lite has a much better screen.
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  • SylverReZ @ SylverReZ:
    They probably said "Hey, why not we combine the two together and make a 'new' DS to sell".
  • Veho @ Veho:
    It's a DS Lite in a slightly bigger DS Lite shell.
     +1
  • Veho @ Veho:
    It's not a Nintendo / iQue official product, it's a 3rd party custom.
     +1
  • Veho @ Veho:
    Nothing special about it other than it's more comfortable than the Lite
    for people with beefy hands.
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  • Jayro @ Jayro:
    I have yaoi anime hands, very lorge but slender.
  • Jayro @ Jayro:
    I'm Slenderman.
  • Veho @ Veho:
    I have hands.
  • Veho @ Veho:
    king-shark-hand.gif
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  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    imagine not having hands, cringe
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  • AncientBoi @ AncientBoi:
    ESPECIALLY for things I do to myself :sad:.. :tpi::rofl2: Or others :shy::blush::evil:
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  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    @SylverReZ if you could find a v5 DS ML you would have the best of both worlds since the v5 units had the same backlight brightness levels as the DS Lite unlockable with flashme
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    but that's a long shot
  • The Real Jdbye @ The Real Jdbye:
    i think only the red mario kart edition phat was v5
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    A woman with no arms and no legs was sitting on a beach. A man comes along and the woman says, "I've never been hugged before." So the man feels bad and hugs her. She says "Well i've also never been kissed before." So he gives her a kiss on the cheek. She says "Well I've also never been fucked before." So the man picks her up, and throws her in the ocean and says "Now you're fucked."
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  • AncientBoi @ AncientBoi:
    :O:ohnoes::lol::rofl::rofl2:
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    lmao
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    anyways, we need to re-normalize physical media

    if i didn't want my games to be permanent, then i'd rent them
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  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    Agreed, that why I try to buy all my games on disc, Xbox anyways. Switch games (which I pirate tbh) don't matter much, I stay offline 24/7 anyways.
  • AncientBoi @ AncientBoi:
    I don't pirate them, I Use Them :mellow:. Like I do @BigOnYa 's couch :tpi::evil::rofl2:
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  • cearp @ cearp:
    @BakerMan - you can still "own" digital media, arguably easier and better than physical since you can make copies and backups, as much as you like.

    The issue is DRM
  • cearp @ cearp:
    You can buy drm free games / music / ebooks, and if you keep backups of your data (like documents and family photos etc), then you shouldn't lose the game. but with a disk, your toddler could put it in the toaster and there goes your $60

    :rofl2:
  • cearp @ cearp:
    still, I agree physical media is nice to have. just pointing out the issue is drm
  • rqkaiju2 @ rqkaiju2:
    i like physical media because it actually feels like you own it. thats why i plan on burning music to cds
    rqkaiju2 @ rqkaiju2: i like physical media because it actually feels like you own it. thats why i plan on burning...