• MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly I do think piracy is a good path to a girl’s heart. Almost all of the girls I’ve met were unaware you can just get overpriced media for free and we usually became closer after pirating the sims and all it’s DLCs :stalin-approval:

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Every few months I completely blow up a person's brain by showing them emulators exist. Every person so far has asked if the can get Mario on their phone. It's actually kind of magic.

      • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It's genuinely my favorite small thing to help people do.

        The joy I've gotten to experience from people realizing they can re-play their favorite childhood games is worth it every time and usually brightens my day up as well.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Super Metroid is now available on the PC in the office at my work cause I showed people how to do it.

      • Owl [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        What emulators do you recommend on phones?

        I've used emulators for decades but I spent like 5 minutes a day on the phone, so I know nothing of this world.

        • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Android or iOS?

          If Android, for about as simple as you can go from a setup perspective, Lemuroid has solid support (through retroarch cores) for essentially everything through the PS1 era. It's essentially a pared-down version of Retroarch for people not interested in fiddling with as many settings who just want to scan a folder for roms and play games.

          If you're looking for more fine control or a broader list let me know and I'd be glad to elaborate.

          • Owl [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I'm on Android, so I'll check that one out. Thanks!

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Retroarch and Lemuroid are good frontends for a bunch of emulators. There are others if you wanna have more individual control over controls or shaders or whatever, but just avoid the SNES emulator SuperRetro16 like the plague.

    • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Reminds me of back in high-school when I was the stupid foreign accent girl who's dad wouldn't buy any expansions but the girls who don't know the location of any thrift stores were maxed out and hover vacuuming my cringe walletcel tears.

      • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        For sourcing roms/isos/whatever: https://r-roms.github.io/

        To play Windwaker you'll want to use Dolphin (a GameCube and Wii emulator): https://dolphin-emu.org/

        If you have more questions feel free to drop them here and I/someone else can surely get you up and running.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        The biggest thing here will be if your laptop can run it. Emulating takes more out of your computer than just playing the game, it also has to do the work of pretending to be a wii. How to has been addressed, I have a molded wii that I use for GameCube emulations/homebrews so I'm not really sure how beefy of a laptop you'll need.

    • space_wizard [any]
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      2 years ago

      became closer after pirating the sims and all it’s DLCs

      literally had this experience multiple times with exs

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Come with meeee

      And you'll beeeee

      In a world if pure imagination

      It's pure as we can get today

      Cause at least you never pay

      For the exploitation