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I'm old enough to remember the idea of HLE being laughed at, and then proving viable.

But I'd always figured after a while, we'd have the horsepower to do it the accurate way.

I would be interested to see if YouTube could implement some sort of community-driven moderation. e.g. 20 upvotes from moderators could allow the video to be approved.

Similar things seem to work for Wikipedia.

And in fairness to YouTube, I've never come across anything particularly bad, unlike liveleak and such. So their approach of "err on the side of caution" at least makes the platform approachable in general.

@offal I stand corrected, but still, your attitude about it is uncalled for.

FWIW, here was my misinterpretation:

"and was interviewed by John Romero, giving fans their only insight into the mind of a programming genius – until now, that is."

@offal This was mentioned in the article, but the link is super handy!

The SFX for picking up the orbs (2:07 on the first video) sounds suuuuper familiar, I just can't put my finger on it.

@turboxray Nice! That works too.

Though, I think "Sega Mega Genesis" is fun to say out loud lol

@bring_on_branstons Let's just compromise and call it the Mega Genesis from now on.

Turns out I'm just, like, immune from input lag or something. I honestly have never noticed.

In fairness, I think I spent more years in my youth playing zsnes than I did a real snes. We had one, and I loved it, but emulation was so much cheaper.

Quit reminding me that I would kill for an official Dreamcast Mini

@qaopjlll Right? And a Wii U + USB Gamecube adapter gives you HDMI as well!

It seems like some ancient tech... but that audio broadcasting was something different!

We have nothing like this these days. We have consume-at-will, but nothing where everyone tunes in to the same broadcast. Imagine Tears of the Kingdom the music (and quests/NPCs) were live!

Granted we could do it with streaming services, but the satellite had the ability to multicast which I think makes the infrastructure a bit easier.

@bippity_bop This makes a lot of sense! Every scenario is different. Thanks for the help there.

Every time I hear about the speedrun community I'm impressed with the overall organization. In this case, that everyone can agree on a per-game basis.

I remember speedrunning Contra for the SNES as a kid (with lots of free time and only a few carts), but I never imagined that becoming a thing like it is today.

Is the time it takes to create those extra save files / slots not included in the speedrun's timing? I'm not familiar enough with the speedrun community to know the nuances here.

Reminds me a lot of the PocketSprite from a few years back but without the ability to play NES/SMS games

I absolutely loved Donut Dodo!

I bought it on my VCS — [dodges tomatoes] — which now acts as my arcade cabinet's CPU. So I now have a fully functional Donut Dodo arcade.

I'm really looking forward to this!

I was 11 years old. I remember pre-ordering it so that I could get the gold cart. I saved up my allowance money for like a year to pay for it.

When we went to Toys-R-Us to pick it up, they said they didn't have any more in stock. My dad, who was a normally chill person, was furious and gave them a hard time. I guess one of the employees was trying to keep it for themselves. In the end I got my gold cart, and I still have and cherish it to this day. Thanks Dad!

Some of my favorite codes were the ones I came across accidentally.

I remember trying to learn the keys to Tribes II, just pressing them randomly to figure out what's going on, and I accidentally enabled some sort of in-game map editor. I haven't been able to reproduce since.

Similarly, I remember learning that FWBARNEY (My sister was watching the purple dinosaur at the time) was a cheat code for Rebel Moon Rising.

I wonder if the folks at PCem can help? Emulating older PC hardware is sort of their jam

Maybe it's part of these negotiations/relationships they've been making with Nintendo

@Zenszulu I was one of those surprised! It blew my mind lol

It's an absolutely beautiful piece of art — though, I can see why some may have found it being a bit violent. To be honest, I had always seen it as him grabbing her to take her away and nothing more.

LPT: If anyone ever grabs your wrist/arm like that, push or pull towards the tip of their thumb. No strongman in the world has a thumb strong enough to hold a grip against that.

The Slide looks sick!

Reminds me of a T-Mobile Sidekick in a way.

Faster now, you know I got no brakes
No brakes!