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  • If you’re going to be doing any amount of soldering, I’d highly suggest the Hakko FX888D. You want to use a good iron, otherwise you’ll get poor results and/or be more likely to hurt yourself. (Hitting one’s thumb with a hot soldering iron is not fun.)

  • "Sengoku Youko" anime PV (Will air in 2024)

    The 3-cour TV anime adaptation starts from January 2024

    Studio: WHITE FOX

    Cast:

    • Jinka (CV: Soma Saito)
    • Tama (CV: Yuki Takada)
    • Shinsuke (CV: Ryohei Kimura)
    • Shakugan (CV: Tomoyo Kurosawa)
    • Senya (CV: Hiroki Nanami)
    • Tsukiko (CV: Maaya Uchida)

    Staff:

    • Director: Masahiro Aizawa
    • Series Composition, Script: Jukki Hanada
    • Character Design: Yousuke Okuda
    • Music: EVAN CALL

    Synopsis \[Source: TOKYOPOP\]

    >The world is divided into two factions: humans and monsters called katawara. Despite being a katawara, Tama loves humans and vows to protect them from evil, even if it means fighting her own kind. Her brother Jinka, however, hates humans, despite mostly being one. The siblings are joined by a cowardly swordsman named Shinsuke, who wants to learn how to become strong. > >When the group uncovers a plot to experiment on humans and transform them into monsters, they vow to defeat whoever is behind it... Even if it means battling an entire army of warriors. > >The people they meet, places they see, and creatures they battle will be legendary!

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    What is your gaming "comfort food" and why?
  • Was thinking about this earlier today, but lately I've gotten burnt out on Final Fantasy XVI whether that be due to the tone, design or combat I am not too sure. Had a slow weekend for once and decided to pop in Atelier Ryza 2 as I recently picked up Ryza 3 due to it having a small print run. Spent most of the day playing it off and on, but the brighter and more positive tone was a boon compared to the drudgery of FFXVI.

    Atelier isn't always my comfort food, but that was a nice change. That distinction would have to either go to rhythm games or to stuff like Trackmania or Minecraft where you can "shut off your brain" and just play. TM has a certain "flow" to the tracks that isn't like anything else out there and Minecraft just throws you into the world and lets you go. (Albeit on Peaceful.)

  • What is your gaming "comfort food" and why?

    We all have that one game or genre that never gets old and we return to time and time again.

    What is it for you and why is that the case?

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    How Often Do You Discuss Best Boy/Girl of the Same Gender as You?
  • Not that much. I get together with a group of guys to watch some anime that aired that week every Sunday and other than memes like Roy from last season’s KamiKatsu, we mainly focus on talking about best girl.

  • Introducing the Morph 4K, a modular 4K upscaler that form fits your setup
  • There are two 4k capable scalers announced for retro games:

    • Retrotink 4k
      • Made by the same guy who made the Retrotink 5x Pro among other scaling devices such as the Retrotink 2x, RGB2COMP and COMP2RGB devices. The 5x is a scaler that works better than the OSSC and can go to higher resolutions along with more effects to help emulate the CRT look and feel.
    • Morph 4k by PixelFx
      • Made by the same team behind the DCDigital (aka. DCHDMI), PS1Digital and now the Retro G.E.M. which is the recently announced console agnostic HDMI modification.

    There is also the OSSC Pro, but the details are sparse and we haven't had too many updates about it.


    PixelFX has lost any and all respect that I had for them and almost made me want to sell my PS1Digital modded system just to be rid of owning anything they've touched. Their announcement video for the Retro GEM took the piss on Digital Foundry by doing a cringe-inducing "parody" called "Digital Infidelity" and was wildly inappropriate. Couple that with the news that the GEM would have DRM on the extra features for an additional $80 once you bought the device and it left a very sour taste in my mouth.

    Prior to their terrible announcement, I was determined on buying what ended up being GEM as I could get HDMI out right from a PS2 I bought specifically for that mod and now I won't bother.

  • How Should I Retro? (OC, Long Post)
  • In fact, since I posted that comment another 4k scaler has entered the ring, this time by the creators of HDMI mods such as the PS1Digital, DCDigital and such. Called the Morph 4k, will have an HDMI-only one for $400 and one with an analog connectors for $500: https://www.pixelfx.co/morph4k

  • How Should I Retro? (OC, Long Post)
  • While it has an upfront cost, I’d say the best way to play old consoles is by using flashcarts/ODEs/softmods and a proper scaler like the Retrotink 5x Pro or the Open Source Scan Converter. Those scalers take a multitude of inputs, scale and digitize them for output over HDMI. The RT5X can even do crazy stuff with filters to emulate CRTs and other effects.

    That said, doing all of that comes at a cost. SCART cables for each console are about $40 each and the scalers run ~$325 for the RT5x or $120 for the OSSC. Then if you want to get a way to switch inputs, thats another $50-200 there too. Worth it if you like your old consoles, but to just revisit that’d be an expensive proposition. Is a great way to futureproof them, even moreso with the upcoming Retrotink 4k but that thing won’t be cheap. (Estimated price is ~$1000)


    If you want to do it on the “cheap” but get as close to the originals, I’d highly suggest getting /making a MiSTer setup. This uses a FPGA to do emulation via hardware, which is about as close as you can to the originals providing the code is up to par. That’ll run about $300 all said and done, but gets you a crapton of systems all outputting over HDMI.

  • Nintendo Rumored To Show Next System At Gamescom
  • I believe it is sarcasm, but with the death of E3 anything is possible.

    That said, I’d say it is more likely to see Nintendo announce it at the Tokyo Game Show instead. (This would put it at late September, which is right around when the Switch was revealed back in 2016.)

  • Filter an entire instance?

    Would it be possible to filter an entire instance for posts?

    I don’t mind comments from their users, but it’d be nice to completely hide posts based upon their default instance. (Yes, I could roll my own fediverse instance to defederate what I want to hide, but that is a lot of work for a layperson to do.)

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