Quoting: Mountain ManIf you want to play Nintendo games, then buy a Nintendo console. It's as simple as that.

I HAVE been buying Nintendo Consoles all the way back starting with the Nintendo 64. I am even one of the 5 people who bought a WiiU.

But they don't really make TVs with composite slots anymore, everything's HDMI now. So it doesn't matter if I have physical hardware (Which I DO by the way), CRTs are dying one by one, I won't be able to play the games I grew up with forever unless emulators are allowed to exist. A future without emulation is horrifying. Entire generations of culture lost because of hardware that is not compatible with modern TVs.

There is no good argument in favor of removing emulators from existence. If you approve of this, I literally see you as no better than people who burned books under fascist regimes.

Additionally, let's say in a completely hypothetical scenario (which isn't our reality, let's be crystal clear) that all games were still readily available and that I didn't need an emulator to play Geist on modern TVs because N-Space is currently defunct and therefore cannot sell their game on virtual consoles while receiving money for the game. There's still a strong argument in favor of emulation due to being able to remaster games yourself. For example: On a WiiU emulator, you can play Breath of the Wild at 8k 240fps given powerful enough hardware. On a switch, it barely hits 720p 30.

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Quoting: WMan22I also don't like the tendency to say "Xorg is dead" [...] while I'm not Xorg fan, understand why it's deprecated, and really appreciate a lot of what Wayland is doing

Nothing really jumps out at me.

Maybe I can't do stuff when applications need to play catchup like WINE just isn't able to scale applications (StarCraft 1) on Wayland like 800p up to 3840p or Krita waiting on v6.0 and Qt6 for Wayland support.

I don't come up with a whole lot, and efforts like this to close the gaps are more than welcome, Valve has done a tremendous job getting the (linux) "ship" upgraded and optimized.

Screen Readers, for one thing. I like to use Crow Translate for its OCR capabilities to sometimes get a sneak peek at some manga before it gets translated by someone, but Crow Translate is completely busted on Wayland, at least on my setup.

Additionally, while I'm not PERSONALLY visually impaired, I knew someone who was, and the lack of screen reader capabilities for Wayland in general is a gaping hole in accessibility features.

Additionally, I do not appear to be able to span a game across multiple monitors in full screen unless the game is running in windowed mode, locking me away from eyefinity-like gameplay on my main PC.

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If there is anyone who understands testing and rapid iteration, it's Valve. 100% on board with this, but then again I am an end user, not a developer. I also don't like the tendency to say "Xorg is dead" but also "Why do you need [thing only Xorg can do]? We're not working on that." cause while I'm not Xorg fan, understand why it's deprecated, and really appreciate a lot of what Wayland is doing, when a user says "Hey, I need this because ____" the answer is never supposed to be "Well tough shit then." but I've seen Wayland development have that mindset at times.

Frankly, the amount of time it takes the Wayland project developers to agree on certain things is ridiculous (why do we not have application Multi-Window management yet last I checked? That's a really basic thing.) and I'm pretty much in agreement with the things Xpander touched on in this comments section.

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Quoting: _MarsDoes anyone know what the actual issue with the PlayStation Overlay is? I tried searching through Github issues at one point and didn't find anything.

Is it a Windows API that hasn't been implemented yet? Does it use libraries that don't work properly with Proton? Is it some sort of DRM/anti-cheat that doesn't work?

I find it odd that the overlay has been around for a while and I never even heard about what the problem is.

This, seriously, we never got word on WHY Ghost of Tsushima's multiplayer doesn't work because of PSN, I have never heard anyone say it's because of anticheat, it's kinda unique in that regard. I mean, Helldivers worked.

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As long as it works on linux, I'm not too fussed the way I play it. Don't like stuff putting shit in my /.config and /home directories anyway. At most to me this just means it takes 2 more seconds to start up.

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Quoting: CatKillerStealing good ideas, like Hall Effect hardware or extra controls on the rings of the sticks, is feasible - they've already done that by lifting things from the mod community and integrating them into the OOTB experience.

A perfect controller to me is just the steam deck as is with no screen or computer included, hall effect joysticks, and they add the HD Rumble/Haptic Trigger effects from a DualSense. Additionally they make the 4 grip triggers easier to press without adding rubber extender addons.

This way, all the steam input profiles that get made with a Steam Deck, can just transfer with ease over to docked mode.

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Quoting: pete910People will be really pissed if they announce/release the SD2 there first!

Not really, I'd actually just be super happy that the Steam Deck 2 exists at all, even in this magical fantasy worst case scenario where we get a SD2 release in Australia first I'd be more than happy to wait however long it takes for the SD2 to come to the states.

...Assuming it has the same control scheme as SD1, that is. I'm extremely worried that Valve is going to remove things because certain people think they don't need the touchpads and 4 grip triggers while I can't go back to not having those on a controller.

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Quoting: monyarmWhat does delisting mean in this case. If you own any of these games will they dissapear from your account? Or does it simply mean that you won't be able to see them in the search/store and buy them after they're delisted?

As someone who owns some delisted GOG games like Riddick Assault on Dark Athena, this usually just means you can't buy them anymore.

As for the games being delisted, I don't play favorites enough with games to think of this as anything but a tragedy for game preservation, but admittedly the only one of these games that looks slightly appealing to me is WarForwards and even that looks like it's missing something I can't quite put my finger on.

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Man, not 3.1? What a shame. Hopefully they fix this in an update later.
Like, listen, I'm happy to get framegen at all, but once you've tried 3.1 it's hard to go back to 3.0.

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