Thats a backrooms I'd almost enjoy being cursed to be lost in.

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Yeah i'm rocking muOS on my 35xxSP (I hate that name everytime I have to type it), and its pretty dang great. In not much of one for the curated library experience with like lush game covers and cool flashy layouts so I dont have much insight to offer there. I downloaded a Star Trek LCARS theme and that was good enough for me.

MUOS has had no problem reading roms off the main boot SD card (which thanks to their rom directory rules is super grab and go, select a rom, select a core your first time and you're off) is really seamless. You can set favourites etc its very intuitive with on screen button guides. By just launching retroarch on its own you can load roms off the second SD card even if its not formatted to their ROM directory rules which in my case is good because me second SD is just my mass storage card and isn't organized, so its a bit more of a manual Retroarch process to play but not problem for me.

The SP hardware is fully supported, there is lid close detection and you can tell it how you want that handled, I have it set to save my game state and power down after a set time. My play sessions are typically 3-5 minutes long when I have a brief moment to myself (job and family = gaming atrophy) so its nice to just close it up when I am needed and not have to worry about powering down etc, then when I power it back up again it does take a minute or two to boot but then instantly brings me right back to the game and state I was in when I left. Very nice and it saves me having to constantly charge a dead device I forgot to power down.

There are some omissions like bluetooth audio, but I've never really had a good experience with bt audio and emulation on handhelds in general so its not glaring for me. I make do with wired headphones if I need them, but the audio response is very quiet. Not sure thats MuOS fault. I think there is also support for BT controllers, but I've never tried that. Nor have I experimented with HDMI out or the like.

The team making muOS are pretty cool and seem like they have a good vibe. Recently they announced they were actively making changes to the firmware to block a third party application that automagically downloads roms, and it caused some discord drama. I get their motivations, and their desire to protect their work from unwanted ninty litigation, it just kinda seemed like an over correction to me. Just one parasites opinion though. I don't think they are being dicks, just looking out for their hard work and I respect that.

On the side of general purpose computing theres a number of convenience apps built in, an MP3 player, a video player, some file management tools, a terminal. Theres also an integrated backup and restore tool if you want to nuke and pave. There's also a web based file server if you want to transfer files over wifi which has been SUPER handy.

On the whole I feel muOS has been a really good experience on the ANBERNIC RG35XXSP and if you're on the fence about trying it consider this a recommendation.

I love Future's End. It's so much fun!!

Adjacent to the bridge. Close enough.

It was cool how they killed off Kirk though. He died as he lived; on the bridge!

Lower decks is the only star trek my kids give a damn about, we've watched every season together. The only reason they even considered watching SNW is cause they knew Mariner and Boimler were in the episode.

I'm going to really miss it.

Canon is a beautiful lady and we love her.

Smart watches really feel like the palm pilots/pdas of this generation.

Wow. What a question. Its hard for me not to be dismissive.

I'm going to have to go with Mario 64 by a country mile.

Appreciate the thought experiment though.

They ain't hurtin anyone by having some fun.

I wish 12 year old me was still here to see this he would've flipped.

I too would like to hear some hot takes on core xy

Oh for petes sake.

I love old consoles... but old media (carts, cds/dvds) not so much. Flashcarts have been a revelation for me. I'm happy to help out the collectors out there by lowering the demand for original cartridges for my NES or gameboys.

And honestly its a much purer and more fun experience than an everything emulator where you spend most of your time setting it up and then deciding which game of all the games ever created you feel like playing right now. But I do also enjoy setting up emulator devices be they handheld or set top, and playing on them. I'm not a snob, it's all good stuff and its a great time no matter what your choice, tbh.

I wish I had known about this game back in the 90s. What a sleeper hit. Easily in the top ten Gameboy games imo.

I always just figured it was a port of the arcade game. Imagine my shock after the first few levels it turns into its own amazing game with some zany puzzle platformer mechanics.

I ended up buying the cart because it was just too good not to have a copy of.

I love my sensorwatch!! I have an f91w and an a158w with an OG sensor watch and a lite respectively and they have been so much fun to mess with.

Glad to see the Pro is on the way!

To my knowledge the only way to "turn off" the menu bar is to run a program in full screen mode on a mac.

Some of us never forget. And the path it paved for the greatest trilogy in gaming (for Mac users anyhow).

Somewhere in the heavens they are waiting...

Videos like that I'm always amazed the creator even bothers uploading. I'd be so fucking embarassed it would never see the light of day.

But I guess its sunk cost fallacy. Gotta get that content out there I spent a week working on. I guess I can appreciate that. Theres also something to be said about being honest about your fuckups. I was so embarassed for him I noped out of that video so I dont really know how it ended, but I dont recall there being much humility about it?

Hey cool thanks for the critiques! I'll make some changes with that in mind.

I dunno what everyone else is using pis for but for me it's not media centers or servers. The pi has a full gpio header with i2c and spi. I can hook up LCD screens, sensors, servos, etc without much additional components. It's like an Arduino except I get a real file system, network stack, multicore performance.

It's more than just a single board computer it feels like an ultra microcontroller.

I feel like this whole "micro PCs are better than raspis" is coming from the group of people who never really used pis for what they were intended? I don't know. Maybe I'm out to lunch here, I'm not trying to defend the pi because it is definitely a really bad choice for a lot of things but honestly despite all the bad blood they've accrued there still isn't an sbc that can really match it's utility and community support at least that I've seen.

Someone should update this. Put a gun in the hand of the standing astronaut and add a line of dialogue "always has been"

*hhaha oof I'll show myself out.

Theres no way that stairwell is to code.

War never changes.

Even as a kid watching that I remember being like "wait what... really?"

Always wanted to get one of these and make it into a drivable Star Trek workbee

I imagined that as a Gary Larson cartoon for some reason.

When they made it a major part of nemesis I was so annoyed.

This comment thread was a trip!

That was how me and my friends would get around the Foolproof software on the macs in high school.

Put a bootable os 9 system folder on a zip drive, boot from it, open the Foolproof control panel in resedit, delete all the resources, reboot into regular os 9, open quake3arena, profit.

It is yeah. His other key has his call sign on it.

Maybe its less like a number as we know it, and more like an ant poem or other mnemonic representation?

The best part was finally getting more lore on Grandpa Bob. Im so glad none of the internet theories were correct.

One of those movies I just can't bring myself to watch again. Almost feels like we're living it now.

Ensign Sonya Gomez over here thanking the replicator

TNG "Q Who?"

SONYA: Hot chocolate, please.

LAFORGE: We don't ordinarily say please to food dispensers around here.

SONYA: Well, since it's listed as intelligent circuitry, why not? After all, working with so much artificial intelligence can be dehumanising, right? So why not combat that tendency with a little simple courtesy. Thank you.

GIMP is great but it definitely needs its own Blender 3.0 moment where they just completely overhaul the UI.

I've used it as my primary raster app so I'm way used to it now, but I totally understand the people who just never even bother to learn it because they are so turned off by the absolutely bonkers design decisions.

If that were true Steve Jobs would still be alive I guess?

Incredible detailing. So atmospheric!

We had a black cat once that jumped in a preheating oven when a back was turned and we didn't see her. We heard her crying before she got hurt but it haunts me what could have happened.