I was specifically recommended AntiX on Hexbear after I asked for distributions suitable for ancient hardware

I’m currently in the process of formatting and re-installing AntiX with the Live USB I still had. I guess I should’ve taken the opportunity to upgrade to AntiX-23 while I was at it, but I can do that later.

Like I said though, the official repos didn’t seem to have the most up-to-date versions of the media players I use

There’s nothing mission critical in there so I’m mostly fine with reinstalling.

I just wanted to update VLC and my other media players so Youtube would work again. The AntiX repos only had outdated versions, which could be due to the fact that AntiX-21 was followed by AntiX-23 last year. Maybe it’s no longer kept up to date? I tried grabbing the newest versions direct from their websites/githubs first but it’s not as simple as grabbing an .exe and clicking it on Linux so I gave up and just went ham on the repos, assuming they wouldn’t let me brick my computer.

Lesson learned, I suppose

I always forget how the Dreamcast shared games with both the PS1 and PS2.

I started with the PlayStation so both the SNES and MD are a bit before my time. I have delved into the SNES catalogue since there’s lots of well-known and still talked about games and series for an easy jumping-off point. Streets of Rage isn’t actually a bad recommendation at all, it’d probably fit my handheld use case very well. Do you have any favored Mega Drive/Genesis emulator on Android? I assume there’s a RetroArch core (or three) for that

I have played Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense… but on the PS1. Maybe I should look into PS1 games that I like that got DC ports, though I will say that the Dreamcast having only 2 shoulder buttons is annoying when you’re used to a game being able to use more, like with DOA2 where you have two less options for binding button combos

I guess I don’t need to sleep if its a weekend

PCSX2 has a Linux version so you should be good to go. (Steam Deck users can play the games online too, in case any are reading this)

I think I saw someone mention somewhere that the Xbox port of PCSX2 works with online games including the Outbreak fan server, so maybe the Android version does too? 🤔

Edit: Looked into it and netplay was never implemented. It does indeed work on XBSX2 though, according to this post

I found a sprouted pepper seed growing out of my sink drain

Kiss my ass bitch!!

You can even hear him say this in the video. Was that the Jim player actually using his ability? I didn’t see what was happening so I thought he was just getting pummeled by the boss

MY LIFE IS SHIT

I had never really played Outbreak too much back in the day since it just didn’t appeal to me as a single player experience even though I loved all the other Resident Evil games. As soon as I heard about the fan server I knew I had to try it out with some friends.

From what I understand the fans reverse-engineered the server by analyzing the packets the PS2 was sending out to the official game servers, not that I really know what that means It was just unbelievably cool to get to experience the PS2 online experience 20 years later and I have nothing but respect for the sorts of people who make things like emulation and fan servers possible

Having done a couple of test runs with a few different friends, I can agree that yeah, the adlib system is cool… but I definitely wouldn’t want to have to rely on it. If Capcom made a game like this today (which they won’t since they seem to prefer failed live services like RE:Verse or that Resistance thing) a proximity chat system like in Lethal Company would probably be a good fit.

I already know it’s on its way out, CrystalDiskInfo has been flagging it as “Caution” for like three years now due to the amount of reallocated sectors. I only use it for Windows restoration points since I figure out it’s not likely my Windows install and the drive are going to go bye bye on the same day. I’ll replace it the next time I splurge on a big hard drive.

Thankfully it looks that way. I was just disappointed it was once again something specific to AMD hardware.

Yes, both Ryujinx and Yuzu can do multiplayer by emulating the Switch’s wireless functionality, though Yuzu’s servers have been shut off for obvious reasons. You can still play online on Yuzu through Hamachi or similar though.

Other emulators also have multiplayer, several PS2 multiplayer games are playable on PCSX2 with community servers and there’s an entire Xbox Live replacement service for the original Xbox.

Might be fun to mess with some multiplayer Switch emulation with Ryujinx 🤔

Somehow this plain family car makes perfect sense as a collaboration between huge German and Japanese corporations.

But it’s not even a cool product placement car