Ikr? And I like messing with stuff, I am at least 40% of the computer toucher they want me to be. But I want a graphical archiver that functions.

It really is, like why tbh. Unserious emulator frontend.

The Tactics Ogre save is literally all zeros--nary a set bit in sight.

This is now in unhinged territory.

I noticed this too because I went in with HxD to try to edit the last 16 bytes - all zeros. I copied it off of that Sandisk 32GB SD again - still all zeros. So I went and checked it on the Wii U Retroarch, where it still boots and shows my Knight of Lodis save.

Why?

I guess I could grab the SD and look at the data on the card, hang on - and HxD ALSO sees the save on the SD card as all fucking zeros. So either HxD and ImHex are goofballs or Retroarch can read a zeroed save file just fine. Somehow. I checked again btw and it still loads on the Wii U fine.

EDIT: the .sav in the roms folder Retroarch makes is apparently a dummy file. My beautiful better half discovered: if you go Retroarch -> Cores -> savefiles you will find the actual SRM files. I have loaded it on a peecee, thank you for going back and forth with me about it.

I finally gave up and just reinstalled Windows LTSC on my secondary laptop. It's hard to describe how bad it feels installing Windows over Endeavour, but having used Endeavour for several weeks and finding out that every graphical archiver is a travesty, (don't fucking talk to me about cli, I want to click and drag files to the desktop not enter the file path) and that the start menu launcher thing can't even be downsized to fit a 768p screen properly, I'm just so done. I was trying to test GBA save files and several versions of VBA downloaded with no GUi, splendid.

I like yay -Ss [searchterm] and I like how fast it is, but really the lack of a proper 7zip implementation is a total dealbreaker. There is no program on Arch, that I know of, that does exactly the same thing as 7-Zip in Windows. And yeah I know linux powerusers are gonna be laughing in my face for not writing my own but man, I'm trying pull one file off a 7z archive on the network. Ark doesn't work because it tries to copy the entire 12gb archive to tmp just to open it, Engrampa takes several minutes to open each folder. Not serious.

I have mGBA troubles but yeah I plan to. My better half is a huge fan of Mother 1 as well, so that too tbh.

I know right? I make a habit of doubling my saves with savestates always, so I have several .ss0 files to go with em, which also do not work :)

Sure, here is the FF VI save. This uses a USA ROM patched with this colour patch and this sound patch but I can't imagine it changes the save data at all. I still have the original ROM patched with FLIPS fwiw.

And this is the Knight of Lodis save. This is for a completely stock USA Knight of Lodis ROM.

I read a lot about byte orders being different and an EEPROM save converter, none of that worked. The FFVI does say it's 32,768kb.

RGB is pretty good, dunno...

It is always disheartening to remember that every console up until like, the Playstation was sold with an RF box thing as standard. Just why? I mean I get it, common TVs, but goddamn.

That's because an artist made that image intetionally to look a certain way on the CRT medium.

Yeah but like... it doesn't, though? As in, the added shading, banding, stuff you're talking about is native to composite video itself. A proper YPbPr video feed into any decent CRT has a very small amount of colour bleed, on account that the colours are separated at the cable. You can get really sharp images off a CRT...

I've seen demo images of like, Guardian Legend and how much more detailed it looks on a CRT! and they were using a Famicom hooked up via RF. I just don't have a face for stuff like that. Like, a decent YPbPr or RGB feed going to a decent (so like 20"+) consumer set is not going to be that "naturally blurred", or else playing Sonic 1 on the Wii's GenesisPlusGX over component would produce exactly the same "blurred" dithering you get with composite... right?

What I'm saying, and again correct me if I've misunderstood or something, is that only the lowest quality analog connections to a TV will produce the "blurring" that makes the "otherwise poor choices" of the dithered Sonic 1 waterfall or whatever "look amazing". And at that point you're getting such a degrated image (combined chroma+luma lmao) that why bother? The allegedly intended way to play them is through the worst video hookups possible?

Oh sick

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I beat Earthbound which is actually pretty good, the gamers were right for once.

Thank you but also no lol

Corporations are made up of people, they're a social construct like gender!

Sick, we can accelerate and abolish them too. The Corporate Acceleratitonist Manifesto

This is a post for @Angel@hexbear.net but you're just gonna have to accept my inferior version of their posting :/

Branding this as "real misandrists" is kinda funny but tbh the post is all true. This type of biological determinist shit also never takes more than a few seconds to start getting real transphobic real fast. Ideologically it's for liberal "feminists" with 0 intersectionality who only want to improve their standing within the patriarchy, not dismantle it, posing women as innately benevolent, good and non-oppressive, and men as inherently oppressive, violent and horrible. And then they get to decide who is "men" or who has "male vibes" or "male coding!" Isn't this fun?

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