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Posted by Broseph

Yeah, I'm all for more energy-efficient, less polluting stuff but 'tis true: most people only think about the end result or whatever they're emitting themselves whenever they're driving. It's nice and all not generating much emissions whenever driving but if there's the fabrication process you gotta think about: if you're eliminating the pollution while the vehicle/object is being used but you have a very costly/polluting fabrication process, then you're just moving the pollution around.

Posted by creaothceann
Lots of I'm a Web developer! I don't need to learn about the underlying technology! in this thread. :)

Posted by CaptainJistuce

But on the other hand most americans have no idea that, just as an example, we forcibly relocated japanese-americans to concentration camps during WW2. I grant that WW2 is also around where our US history classes start running out of time and shift into fast-forward, but IT IS KIND OF IMPORTANT.

Posted by Nicholas Steel
How do you stop websites from overwriting "open in a new tab" behaviour? For example https://www.catch.com.au/ will convert such commands to a "Open" command, causing middle mouse button clicks and the context menu item to open a link in the current tab... which is very frustrating.

Posted by byuu
> it's even better than bzsnes

Irony is dead.

> I can fix the SA-1 speed at a slight speed penalty
> There, the SA1 speed is fixed, so half this patch is unneeded.

True SA-1 timing is *insane*. Cycle-accurate isn't enough, you have to synchronize every clock tick. And even then I only got things about 90% correct (much better than the 10% we were at before.) Granted, the test cases are extremely unlikely to ever occur in real games.

Still, if you want some fun, try out https://github.com/VitorVilela7/SnesSpeedTest ^-^

Posted by jimbo1qaz
So is sneeze9x less accurate than snes9x, except the SA-1 timing is more accurate?

Posted by tomman
Your friendly reminder from the engineers at Toshiba that spinning rust storage devices still have plenty of future ahead:

https://www.storagereview.com/toshiba_announces_16tb_mg08_series_hdds
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/product/storage-products/enterprise-hdd/mg08.html

Yes, those are your next SWEET SIXTEEN TERABYTES* for your pr0n, RAWMz and Steam backlogs. On helium, no less!

I want two, please.

*Actually 14.55 TiB. Sadly, beancounters still run the show at Toshiba.

Posted by wareya
Shared memory is better when the emulator tries to do shittons of texture modifications, for example.

Posted by JILost
The reason I suggest that it might be a RAM issue is because I've been told that far weaker CPU's have blown through higan easily. Dolphin gets 10-30 fps on a good day. Same with Saturn emus. I should be able to run all of these at over 60 fps with my current CPU, shouldn't I? Am I lacking some kind of Open GL components that would be present on a dedicated video card?

Even if I did upgrade my processor, would any of the above improve or would I need a whole new mobo?

What would be the benefit of going to an SSD over a HDD? Would it just be a reliability/stability thing or would the performance actually pick up in any significant way?

Posted by Kakashi

Posted by wareya
I have over a terabyte of music. Could you imagine if I stored backups of every show I've ever watched? The space it would take would be huge.

Yeah, that's kinda impossible especially with HD, these days.
As a side note, I have 2.1 TB just for one band, alone.

Posted by Nicholas Steel
With an SSD you should put the O/S on it for the most meaningful performance improvement, then maybe some games with long load times like Dragon Age: Inquisition for example.

Posted by Screwtape

I've heard bad things about Samsung loading their phones with weird Samsung-specific extras, trying to "value add" but mostly making a mess. Did that happen to your phone, or not enough to notice/worry about?

Posted by Screwtape
- The phone only has a USB-C port for charging and connecting with a Real Computer, but my Real Computers don't have USB-C ports. Is a converter cable a passive thing like USB-A to USB-B, or an active (expensive) thing like VGA to HDMI?

Posted by Screwtape

And because they're not widgets, they're hard-coded into the home screen, there doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of them. Ah well, that's what I get for exploring the boundaries, I guess, I should be grateful that Google stuff can be disabled at all.

Posted by Broseph

Let's see, the Nexus 4 has a...ahh, Krait CPU...never really heard of it. ARM-based, from 2012 if I got this right. Yeah, would have been surprised if it ran full speed. Well, at least full speed is achievable with 9x on phone devices like this so that's good.

Posted by Nicholas Steel
Will the game run at 60FPS like the original? It will feel quite off if it's 30FPS. I mean the original game is 60FPS on hardware that's 100,000th the power of the Switch (or even less).

Posted by CaptainJistuce
Honestly, it depends how it plays out. Zelda 4 did have a cartoony nature to it, but it kinda doesn't sustain through the entire game.

I likely would've made it with more of a loose, floaty painting aesthetic rather than the polished cartoon look they've chosen. But I don't think they're doing this from a place of love. It is a shameless cash grab, and that's what it looks like to me. I COULD BE WRONG.