[–] 3 points 9 hours ago

GameCube is still by far the best way to play Game Boy Advance on original hardware. Hacking it to play in 240p gives a wonderfully crisp image, and it's a lot easier now than it used to be, especially now that we have alternatives to needing the Game Boy Player disk.

I used my hacked Game Boy Player to play through Golden Sun 1 and 2 on my 20" Ikegami PVM and it was a glorious experience.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Because it doesn't just end with an easy mode. It ends with Monster Hunter Rise and Wilds, and an entire series losing everything that made it unique all so it can keep chasing the lowest common denominator, who always start their erosion of a once-great series with "it's too hard. :( Why are the devs so mean to the twelve people born without thumbs?!? Also you should totally remove all of the hunting aspects from the game because it's super unfair to make me use my brain for more than half a second."

    So I'd rather keep the dwindling number of games I enjoy as they are, and y'all can go play something else, thank you very much.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    All of your comments in this thread just scream "mad because bad".

    If a game doesn't have customizable difficulty, then git gud bruh.

    Or don't, and go play modern Halo. But either way quit insisting that others dumb down their art to your level.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

    If non-serious people are the reason a game series I love gets worse, then they have affected me. It happened to Monster Hunter, and I don't want it to happen to FromSoft games too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I've done DS1 no pyromancy all bosses SL1, and I'm almost finished with my first DeS SL1 run currently. Not really interested in doing the other games, but I might do some sort of similar challenge run for Sekiro

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Yeah, the position of most FromSoft players in my experience is: "You don't have to like the games, but you can't just demand that they change for you."

    Some people need to understand that not all games are for all people. I don't like RTS games, and so I don't play them! What I don't do is demand that they all add a turn-based option that would destroy game balance just because that's what I prefer to play.

    Like, what an insanely entitled thing to demand. And for some reason it's only Soulslikes that have to deal with this craziness. There are thousands of other games out there for you to play, people.

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    All of the wikis say that you can use Soulsucker on Garl (to the extent of having two different sections about ways to do it in the tips section), but I've just spent a solid half hour landing square hit after square hit on him, and no dice. I've tried catalyst in left hand, right hand, and even got him stuck on some geometry where I tried angle after angle with no luck.

    At this point I'm convinced that the wikis are wrong, and that you can't use Soulsucker on Garl Vinland in either the Remake or the original game. I may just be bad, but I don't think even I can be that bad for that long with dozens of hits that look like they're squarely connecting.

    I've looked around a bit and haven't actually found any evidence of anyone else being able to successfully do so either - does anyone here have any additional info on this?

    Maybe it's just black phantom Garl that it works on? I haven't checked yet, but that's definitely not what the wiki says.

    Edit: Can confirm that it does work on BP Garl (first try - I've had a lot of practice), but not on regular Garl. Wiki seems to be conclusively wrong.

    submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by to c/linux@programming.dev
     

    My wife recently switched over to Mint instead of upgrading to Windows 11, and everything has worked perfectly except for one thing.

    The Zoom app for Windows has native iPad integration, making it super easy for her to use her iPad when on a Zoom call, but the Zoom app for Linux doesn't seem to have the same functionality.

    Does anyone know of a way (preferably in Zoom, but also out of it if necessary) to easily share her iPad screen over a Zoom call?

    UPDATE: So, it's been confirmed that the option to connect an iPad wirelessly to a PC on a Zoom meeting is not available in the Linux version of Zoom, because it's a proprietary function on both Mac and Windows. The option is literally just not there in the Linux Zoom version.

    We ended up going with UxPlay, which isn't perfect, but it was better for her purposes than just doing the Zoom call on the iPad.

    Note that if UxPlay is laggy, you should start it with the command "uxplay -vsync no" to disable the audio/video syncing function, which apparently makes it behave more like a traditional stream, which is what she needed. And since she was only using it to draw and take notes for the group, she had no need for audio.

    Thanks everyone for all of the help. At this point I'm considering the issue solved, though the solution is a bit clunkier and more awkward than we'd like. Still, she's so tired of proprietary BS (even moreso now) and so glad to see her computer actually not acting like it's moving through molasses on bloated, last-legs Windows 10 that I think she's willing to accept a reasonable amount of clunk in Mint with a pretty big smile. :)

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