These are made for X86, so I’m not sure they technically count as “old games”, but I’ve had a blast with recompiled+ported versions of TLoZ:OoT and Perfect Dark.
Ship Of Harkinian in particular adds so many features and improvements, that I’m not sure I would enjoy the original OoT played on an actual N64.

They may still hold up when emulated, though…

If you want to comb the game for unique dialogue and Lea expressions, make sure to start and finish a Sergey Hax run when you do get back to it

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CrossCode, for the third time in about two weeks.

I’m 5 years late to it because for some reason I thought it was a JRPG…

Didn’t that turn out to be an issue related to adblockers?

I had the opposite experience with Windows (7 up to 10), every now and then I would have to reinstall it to get some random feature working, which made the system run smoothly for a while - which checks out, considering Windows’ affinity for software rot.

Then again, I increasingly debloated it as time went on, which I’d assume contributes to its instability.

They say 2 wrongs don’t make a right, but 3 rights sure make a left

Lost access to your email? Nuh uh.

I’m not sure about specific packages, but in general a packager may not want to increase the upstream version even if they can do it themselves - for example, they may have made some mistake in the packaging process.

A recompilation or repackaging of Linux 6.6.6 is still Linux 6.6.6

With the last two big things I’ve heard about (Yuzu and… Dolphin, I think?) they were legally in the right, but at least where I live there is absolutely no way to spin a recompiler + asset extractor as something illegal - they can’t even claim the developers are circumventing DRM, because OOT and MM didn’t have any.

Though, I would not be surprised if there’s something in US law that can be exploited for this.

Ship Of Harkinian (and similar projects) have kept gping for a long time, and they don’t do anything remotely illegal either

Gotta recycle this:

That’s exactely what happened in my mind when I was getting started with Linux (kind of), although it’s arguably a habit that comes from using Windows where people don’t really think about OS users and permissions

I don’t think references are variables: you can’t modify them, and AFAIR you can’t have pointers to them, with the possible but unlikely exception of non-static member references.

I’m very confused by this thread.

Progress bars are handled by the applications themselves, whether flushing happens or not;

immediate flushing does not increase storage lifespan, in fact letting the OS decide when to do it may allow wear-leveling to work better.

(Though, IMO immediate flushing should be the default for removable media on user-friendly distributions, like swap partitions are)

Hot take: A scripting language is a programming language whose execution starts from the beginning of the file | stream.

They’re rubber-duck debugging

Jokes on them, the Covenant have broken long ago

Some do, unfortunately getting mad about them is sometimes all they can do in some cases (e.g. the OP)