Saved you a click.

It’s called Emerald Resprited. Has a Vanilla version with just the sprite changes, and a different version where all 386 are catchable and trainer rosters are adjusted to match up with each artist’s contributions.

Incredibly inconsistent quality of the sprites. Just take a quick scroll through their google doc. Actual artist work right next to obvious child scribbles.

Oh fuck off with this shit Capcom. I hope no one has forgotten where all the fan support for Megaman Legends 3 got us.

Bastards couldn’t even be assed to release the already finished 3DS demo (which we know was in a decently playable state from videos they released).

Beyond my Megaman saltiness, I have a very hard time believing that fucking Marvel needs fan support to prove profitability. You just need to not make some bullshit microtransaction filled live service game like the ones that are repeatedly failing.

I feel like that’s a stretch, and there’s some important things to consider here.

People are weird, and can fetishize all sorts of shit. There’s no reasonable way to control say, someone jerking off to pictures of hand models. Or to stop someone shlicking it to your shlubby beer gut at the beach photos you put up on social media if that’s their thing (and I know a woman who’s thing was “straight bears” for a long time).

But no one has any agency or ability to prevent that. No one has any agency to prevent any random person passing them on the street and then later using that memory plus imagination as cranking fuel.

For the sake of every individual’s personal sanity, I think it’s important that each and every one of us understand and accept that. Existing in the world is naturally giving up a certain amount of control. This is part of it, as disgusting as it is.

This is even more the case when you put content out there. Whether through acting in film or other media, creating artwork, posting pictures, etc. Creating content in the current age of the internet is inherently ceding ownership and control over it. The moment it hits the public space, you cannot control what is done with it, and the sooner people can learn to accept that, the better off I think we all will be.

I understand that feeling of violation to learn that someone has used you purely as an object for arousal.

That said, there is nuance. This content was not edited, it was merely taken out of the original context. Are we going to prevent news from doing this to prevent using content in ways unintended and unanticipated by the original creators?

“I’ll know misuse when I see it” is not a sustainable method for evaluating misuse at scale.

“If it’s clearly being used for erotic purposes” likewise doesn’t work, as defining that line isn’t straightforward. Do we ban reposts of bikini shots?

This isn’t something that was created for private use that was leaked. It was content made for public consption. Being disgusted with how the public chooses to consume it is your right, but there’s no way to control that.

Again, I entirely sympathize with the women experiencing this. Being used in this manner is dehumanizing.

But there’s no stopping it. Best to accept as best you can and ignore it.

Lol, tell me you’ve never worked IT support again.

The average user can’t remember passwords without browser autofill. They don’t want to tinker. A “just works” linux distro with a relatively limited set of default features targeted to a specific hardware set to avoid complications, like SteamOS on Steam Deck, is pretty much at the limit of the investment level the average user is willing to put in to keep things working.

Neat, sounds kind of like the Game Center CX/Retro Game Challenge Nintendo DS games. In-game “famicom” games that release over time with different challenges to beat, in-game magazines with previews reviews and cheats. Lots of good fun.

Use the delocalization/undub patch for the first one and the fan translation for the second one.

It’s also possible that in 24 months, I grow wings made of fish and get into anime style battles in the sky with hungry seagulls. Just as likely.

Yep, it’s blatant attempts to decrease costs of employment. Just like outsourcing various tech jobs, automated phone trees, and every business tech “no code required” automation/workflow platform ever devised.

Convince people they can do more with your particular flavor of less. Charge them enough that they save money on the books but you make a profit through them using your toolkit.

At the end of the day, you will always still need someone to fully understand the problem, the inputs, the expected outputs, the tiny details that matter but are often overlooked, to identify roadblocks and determine options around them with associated costs and risks, and ultimately to chart a path from point A to B that has room for further complications.

Whatever the tool set, job title, or perceived level of efficiency provided by the tools, this need will never go away. Businesses are involved in a near constant effort to reduce what they have to pay for these skills, and welcome whatever latest fad points towards the potential of reducing those costs.

Just use the nointro romsets off archive.org. About as close as you can get to dumping the cartridges yourself.

Given some of the crazy stuff that has been said in interviews by the original staff, and the weirdness that are the really old Sugimori mangas, I think that once again fans are making a much bigger deal out of a small detail than the original creators ever did.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat as hell, I just see a lot of fandoms engage in absolutely absurd levels of hero worship.

Fans often think much deeper about things over time after the product releases than the original creators did during the comparatively shorter development time. If this provides some sort of emotional closure for you, go right ahead and take it.

Yeah, this seems to be a common pitfall for popular tools/projects. I get that the creators pour an astounding amount of effort into these things, so it’s not unusual to desire compensation for your work.

That said, it pretty much guarantees that your little project has no chance of continuing to stay off Nintendo’s radar anymore.

As an aside, I also really dislike this slow shift in the hacking/modding culture away from the “everything should be free” ideology. Every hobby does not need to be turned into a job or supplemental income stream folks!

Better off not using an in browser emulator, for a large number of reasons. Biggest one is that you’re likely to randomly lose your save data.

4chan’s Emulation General thread wiki for emulators etc.

NoIntro Romsets on Archive.org for roms.

The android version is hit or miss. Better off saving a few dollars and emulating it. Plenty of emulators available on Android phones.

4chan’s Emulation General thread wiki for emulators etc.

NoIntro Romsets on Archive.org for roms.

Don’t make me get the spray bottle.

Online emulators are crapware. You don’t know what other code they’re running on your machine, you don’t know if you’re playing a legit copy or some random ass hack, and most importantly it’s a quick route to randomly losing your save data. Also those sites are far more likely to get targeted by copyright enforcement.

4chan’s Emulation General thread wiki for emulators etc.

NoIntro Romsets on Archive.org for roms.

Plus, if you use a decent emulator, you can often tale your save files on the go. Retroarch can be a bear to set up, but I can play on my big monitor at home and pick right up on my phone later while I’m waiting at the doctor’s office or something.

I believe rule of thumb is to track/log at least one level deeper than what you show to the end user, to ease with troubleshooting and debugging.

Beyond that, logs are only useless until they aren’t, and then if you don’t have them you’re in for a universe of pain.

Man, I remember ancient gmod addons released using (iirc) turtle svn so they could auto update. Was a wild time.

There’s a handy “Take Action” button at the bottom of the article where you can look up your representative and send them an editable pre-written email.

Crowdstrike is not owned or in any way in a business relationship with Microsoft, offers the software that caused the issue for Mac and Linux as well, and in fact caused similar issues on specific Linux Distros a few months before this recent cock up.

The issue only effected Windows OS machines that were running the Crowdstrike Falcon endpoint protection software, which runs at ring 0, kernel level. This presents the same potential for causing boot loops in all OSes due to the nature of running software that deep into the guts of things. The only caveat is that some Linux Distros have separation preventing things from running at that low level, and apparently so does Mac OS.

The update was not pushed out through Microsoft, as many are incorrectly repeating. It was a malware definitions update which was downloaded automatically by the Falcon software itself, without any configuration options available for admins to stage and do partial rollouts for testing.

Also, I significantly doubt that any company is going to do a complete overhaul of its IT architecture to switch over to a new OS for end user devices, when the simplest solution is to just switch to a different endpoint protection software. I’ve worked half a decade in an enterprise architecture type position, that simply isn’t how things work in this world.

Oh boy, if you haven’t played Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, then you’ve got another treat to look forward to!

Since Konami doesn’t make many games anymore, the director of Symphony took a lot of the big names involved in making it and made his own studio. They crowdfunded Ritual of the Night as a spiritual successor to Symphony. It’s a modern SoTN done right by the people who made the original.

I will say that it does have some of the same jank in its blood though, with stuff like overpowered rare item drops and some requirements for the true ending practically requiring a guide. It also hides the fastest movement ability (think the wolf dash in Symphony) in a side challenge in literally the final area of the castle before the true final boss, which is kind of shitty.

But if you enjoyed Symphony, warts and all, you’ll probably love it.

I’m around 35 hours in, just about to get the true ending on normal difficulty. There’s something like three more characters I can play through with, a classic (Castlevania 1) mode, a built in randomizer mode, and a Simon’s Quest style classic mode 2 dlc that I’m probably going to play through before I call it done, so good value for the price too.

On the highest level, they have a constant firehose of as much audio data from a sea of customers as they wish.

Send it to cheap overseas transcribers, use it to train and improve voice recognition and automatic transcription.

Have a backchannel to television viewing and music listening patterns.

Know when different customers are home or not, improving demographics data.

Know what is discussed within the house for data on ad penetration/reach, brand awareness, and better advertisement targeting.

It’s not a direct data to money pipeline, but having an always on listening device in someone’s home nets you a ton of useful data as an online retailer and advertiser.

Spoiler, it didn’t run on the test itself. It ran on hardware shoved inside the test shell if I recall right.