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The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing
  • Nintendo could pay the salary for one retro gaming hardware restoration YouTuber and they would be able to restore and set up every single console within months

    An entire wing of the museum could show how they restore the old consoles, replace the capacitors, use new or new old stock chips to replace failed ones, de-yellow the console plastic, etc.

  • Final Fantasy Tactics is probably the worst SRPG ever made, on par with Shin Megami Tensei: Another Bible for the Game Boy
  • I ran into the issue of my party members permadying when I first started playing and I had a rough going in FFT.

    The FF Tactics games aren't the best SRPGs, but I played them before any others so I'm used to the shortcomings. A few tips I remember helping are to let some characters die because you have a few turns to either end the match or revive them, take care of the archers and mages with characters that have high jump/move stats right away, and use a text guide. I can't stand videos, but a quick primer on each story-mode battle gives you a good start.

    You got my special interest in this jump started again, so I'm going back into FFT Advance on my phone emulator now

  • Final Fantasy Tactics is probably the worst SRPG ever made, on par with Shin Megami Tensei: Another Bible for the Game Boy
  • The story in the original FFT is great, as we at Hexbear have covered before.

    I'd say play the PSP version emulated so you can turn up the speed, and it includes some better cutscene animations. Same with the GBA versions, emulate them and turn up the speed.

    If you get lucky you don't need to grind much if at all in those games, if you go the route of having a few extra characters with heals or the throw command. Then if you have a battle wrapped up you can spend the last few rounds attacking and healing each other to get extra experience points.

  • What's Some Tech That Was Better Than It Is Now?
  • Doorbells. I had to replace a relative's doorbell recently and the old one that lasted 60 years was built 10x better than the incredibly cheap model that all the hardware stores carry.

    The options are either a cheapo doorbell that has an LED in it for no reason, a Ring surveillance doorbell, or a very expensive reproduction doorbell sold on some random website.

  • iOS 18 could 'sherlock' $400M in app revenue | TechCrunch
  • AllTrails and other apps like it put publically accessible trail/hiking maps into app form and have user reviews and trails rated for their difficulty. And they use GPS for trail navigation to help out inexperienced hikers or mitigate poorly maintained trail markers.

    They also charge a subscription fee for features like the ability to download a map and use it while not connected to the internet. "Pay us or you'll get lost in the woods" is profitable, apparently.

    Apple might be embedding trail maps into Apple Maps, but this article doesn't explain that.

  • Final boss of Quora
  • Quora is Yahoo Answers, except the majority of posters there have contracted terminal LinkedIn brain and the site has the SEO of Pinterest.

    I don't think your theory about it being a CIA op is too far off - Jorban Peterman first got famous on Quora, and the power users' politics range from libertarian hustle grindet to fascist.

    But, the site would be no different whether it was ran by libertarian tech bros or the US state department.

  • Oh tell me again how it loads faster and takes up less resources
  • This might be known already, but I bet that Microsoft decided to switch Edge to Chromium instead of forking Gecko/Firefox because Google either bribed them or threatened to lower Microsoft sites' ranks in search results.

    Otherwise why would MS use a web browser controlled by one of their very few competitors?

    Edit: maybe they were enthralled by the promise of using Proton/Chromium based "desktop applications" (which just contain an entire Chromium browser in their install directory) to cheaply create apps that people are forced to use in their jobs, like Teams. Which is still awful even after they made it a full UWP desktop app. Like Skype already was.

  • Musk's stupid car killed Mitch McConnell's billionaire sister-in-law
  • If I had a billion dollars I would simply never drive myself, and I would not ride in a Tesla. It's the same car that techbros drive and has a subpar safety record.

    A lot of celebrities used to drive Priuses as the eco-friendly choice back when it was new, and I didn't read anything about them dying in crashes. But Priuses don't have the acceleration of a drag racer or quality control problems.

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