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Best way of playing Wipeout these days? in c/retrogaming

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would recommend to pay a visit to Wipeout Phantom Edition.

It's an enhanced PC port that uses the original assets from the Playstation CD and I had a lot of fun with it on my deck a few months ago...

Game Gear (VA0) - works when removing C49 in c/consolerepair

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

No, I didn't. But I suspect that there might be some unwanted bridge somewhere which is directing electricity where is shouldn't and lowering the overall voltage in that part of the circuit.

I had no time yet, but I was thinking to remove the components of that part of the circuit and solder them onto an external board one by one. If I reach a point where the circuit starts working, I should then see if the last component moved was shorted with another one.

It will take a while, but I'd like to keep searching for the answer until it's found :)

Do you play non-steam games? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I use regularly Lutris, Bottles, ScummVM, Dosbox-X or EmulationStation. So I can play from GOG, Epic, Itch.Io or plain old games (Dos) / emulated.

I do have many titles on Steam as well and generally I don't look too much at whether something is verified or platinum on ProtonDB, I just avoid titles from companies like Activision, EA, Ubisoft and generally all works very easily or easy enough!

South Philadelphia police officer and his cat in c/cat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

No, it's Ryan Howard.

XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? in c/selfhosted

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That is a good point... on average it's around 500Mb of RAM usage, between 0.5% and 1% of CPU (it's a 2.4Mhz four cores).

Space is 5Gb, mainly media files accumulated over two years.

So overall, not bad.

XMPP as a Discord alternative for small group? in c/selfhosted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've been self-hosting Matrix Synapse for more than two years to chat friends and family and it has been rock-solid and it's on a VPS that os hosting a Nextcloud and Lemmy instance as well. It is definitely not really resource hungry for small groups of people.

If you want to try again this route, just make sure that everybody saves a backup of their keys as the messages are all encrypted and while you can authenticate a new client installation from another client that the same user is logged in, some people - like my mother - only use one, on her phone, which is understandable.

So in summary, I'm very happy with it! :)

SteamOS as your daily driver? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

So, I've been using my Steam Deck as my main driver for more than a year. While there are options to install software without having those removed when you update (steamos-btrfs, nix, distrobox), you can just boot another OS from an external drive.

I have WinesapOS on a SD card so I can use SteamOS without restrictions (and there are other options like Bazzite that others have mentioned).

So far, I have not found anything that was not possible on my machine, because, well, it's a computer with an Arch distro on it!

Something that I read elsewhere, not in this thread, is about limits when it comes to work with external peripherals. Now, I can tell you that I use an external Bluray player, printer, scanner, drawing tablet, floppy drive reader (to make images of floppies), azeron pad, programming esp32, work with sound with a Creative GC7, and I'm not sure I'm missing anything. My SteamOS is great!

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Game Gear (VA0) - works when removing C49 (lemmy.stefanoprenna.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/consolerepair

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Hello fellow friends of Console Repair!

Today I'd like to ask for some ideas about an old Game Gear (the first one I ever recapped) as it is showing the "red light for one second and off" issue.

Basically, as this was my first attempt (and a successful one) at recovering a Game Gear, I knew I did not clean the board too well or properly removed solder before changing caps, so when I saw the issue, I removed all the caps, cleaned the board and changed the caps again for good measure. Still, the issue is still there.

So here is my fruit of my troubleshooting afterwards:

the voltages from the power board are correct (I tested as well with the working power board of another VA0 I have around, no change). And all the capacitors are of the correct value and polarity.
the issue seems related to the VBat circuit as I observed that:

R50 receives around 13V from the power board, which seems the rough amount expected when powering from the wall adapter.
R50 ends with just 0.90V - however, removing the resistor (it's a 9.1K one), and testing with a multimeter, provides 9.01K, which is good enough, and definitely not something that would kill the voltage that much
as we get 0.90V from R50, the other resistors just reduce the voltage even more. I removed R51 and R52 and they both tested well on the multimeter (2.98K for the 3K one and 1.09K for the 1.1K one).

I thought that the diode D4 might be faulty and replaced it, but in reality it seems it was just dirt, anyway, it's a new one now...
VRef at the power board outputs 1.26, but it arrives to the ASIC as 0.30V.
Finally, as part of the troubleshooting, I noticed that removing C49, the system works fine... After the removal of C49 all the voltages that were too low becomes higher, in line with the ones of the other working Game Gear.

So here my doubts that I hope someone might help me clarify:

What could affect VRef as in principle is directly connected from the power board to the ASIC? Following the schematics here, I don't see anything that should interact with the circuit, modify the current. Still, the removal of C49 normalizes the voltage to around 1.25V...
what could be the reason why the voltage drops when the capacitor C49 is installed?

I think it might be useful to share a couple of pictures of the relevant parts of the board, but I can share more, if needed.

Built like Christian Bale in c/memes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Yep, I definitely look like him!

What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Cofi seems quite nice! I've already installed it as it seems much better than me using the standard Android stopwatch! Thank you for sharing!

I finally nuked windows in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I remember when I did the switch in 2008 and never looked back. I had a similar experience where across a few years I have been trying different distributions and finally settled on Lubuntu. Years have passed and different machines as well. Now my main driver is a Steam Deck with his Arch based OS and a secondary pure Arch on a sd card for more specific tasks.

Linux made my life more comfortable and relaxed, without even mentioning secure. My family uses Linux now, Windows is long dead.

We are free.

A review of the ASUS RT-AX88U Pro + I need your advice! in c/technology

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I cannot see any tests...

Linux reaches new high 3.82% in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

As stated from official Valve's page https://www.steamdeck.com/en/oled

"Use your Deck as a PC, because it is one." So Valve did market it as a PC and it's one of the reasons I bought one more than a year ago. And it's really my desktop (that I bring with me to places occasionally)c