u/itchyd

I think the end game is that the handhelds catch up to the latest mobile hardware. So if they came out with a handheld running a snapdragon 8 elite Gen 5 right now...  That is a rolling target as new hardware is released but I could see it happening. Its probably not that desirable because we don't have the emulators or drivers to support the latest hardware yet.

I think there is still room for some innovation though... 

• IP rated water / dust resistance

• ruggedized (I can't believe there aren't any of these yet)

• 3ds style no glasses 3d

• incredible battery life like 50+ hours this could be done with a low refresh eink screen already. I'm surprised there are no handhelds that use a color eink screen. They could just be targeted at old school rpgs!

• we are getting pretty close to a truly wireless wearable pair of glasses that projects a screen onto your vision so you'll just be holding a controller and wearing the glasses when you want to play.

• a handheld from a "big" manufacturer Sony, Samsung, Intel, Nvidia...

• An official arm based steam deck

• high end clamshells... This is the closest to reality.

Defunct but very cool TiltFive glasses pictured.

Was watching s2e1 of the show Northern Exposure which aired around 1992. They momentarily show an episode of wheel of fortune.

My wife and I are trying to come up with a solution.

Anyone know what it is or confirm our guess?

>!slapstick movie or snowstorm something or sandstone cliff!<

• Bloons TD 6
• Bridge Constructor Portal
• Dungeon Clawler
• Earn to Die
• Evoland 2
• Galaxy Attack (Premium)
• Graveyard Keeper
• Hitman Sniper
• Incredibox
• Lara Croft GO
• Let's Create! Pottery
• Motorsport Manager 4 Racing
• Rusty Lake Hotel
• Rusty Lake: Roots
• Shadow Fight 2 Special Edition
• SpongeBob SquarePants BfBB
• Titan Quest
• Townsmen Premium
• True Skate
• Wreckfest - Demolition Racing

Credit to MishaalRahman for originally bringing this to my attention

Haunted Castle is an often ignored arcade based Castlevania. If it is not a true castlevania it is definitely a cousin.

It is remarked on due to its quarter munching difficulty level. The revisited game gives you level selection and infinite continues. It's still pretty tough but far less frustrating than the original. You can even continue from phases of boss fights! You will likely have to because the Dracula fight is unfair as hell.

The game is buried in the extras section in the Castlevania Dominus collection.

It is mercifully short and I finished it in about 2 to 3hrs. I used maybe 10 to 15 continues, mostly on Dracula.

The boss fights are definitely the highlight of the game. Surprisingly Death (a Castlevania staple) does not make an appearance.

If you have eden setup already it might have a place in your library.

My settings should be apparent in the video. I tried with opengl, system driver, and turnip 26 r6 with no changes.

Is there a setting to fix it?

After finishing Castlevania 3 a week or two ago I went back and played the first one. To my knowledge Castlevania 2 is the only 2d game I haven't played.

The original is much easier than 3. 3 made me crazy. Surprisingly the original is also much more random. If you're getting stuck and keep trying you'll get different items in the same spot sometimes. Including an occasional invincibility potion.

I breezed through most of the game before getting stuck in a few tricky spots toward the end for a few hours.

I was dying over and over to death before I got mad and started the level over. I played straight through and stomped the shit out of him.

According to angry video game nerd the medusa head / knights hallway before death is the hardest part of the game but I had more trouble with the many hunchbacks right before Dracula.

I used save states in the bad hallway before the death fight and right before the Dracula fight.

My advice? If you're only going to play one Castlevania game on the NES make it 3!

I have a PC here I built myself. I recently reinstalled Windows 11.

Now my usb stuff is no longer listed by name. For example a device that used to be identified as Ayn Thor will now be identified as MTP USB device. The connection is also extremely flakey like I will try to browse my Ayn Thor to upload something to it or download a video from it and explorer will crash on my PC.

Here's my PC info. https://imgur.com/a/xlcOqCs

I've never encountered anything like this so I'm not sure what to do to sort it out.

I figured it was a driver issue but I'm struggling to find what driver to replace with what driver as they all seem to be working.

Thanks!

If you have completed this game without save states I salute you! I used one in level 8, 2 in level A and 1 in the Dracula fight.

The game is hard as nails.

I've honestly spent too much time on it.

There's an excellent guide on YouTube I relied on:

https://youtu.be/rpo7n4bKoZM?si=IcfJGTi8O3uabMeI

Even with save states and the guide it's still a major challenge and time suck. I heard it was deliberately made more difficult so it could not be finished during a 1 or 2 night rental. The Japanese version has a check point before Dracula for example.

I rented it as a kid and never even knew there were multiple playable characters!!

I made this custom arcade controller and definitely felt some cyberpunk/cyberdeck builder vibes while I was working on it.

​Credit to Banksy for the graffiti.

Credit to gp2040 community edition for the firmware I used in the raspberry pi Pico that powers the screen.

Credit to me for CAD design, printing, assembly, wiring, soldering, and testing.

The screen shows the mode (currently x-input), current button and joystick presses, as well as a history of presses. It can do macros and many other things.

Latency within the controller is too small for me to measure. Supposedly just a few microseconds.

Features:

• integrated art
• flush press, rimless buttons
• no surface fasteners
• print in place buttons allow the art to cross the surface of the controller easily

Still to do:

• move pi pico to edge of controller to allow for external usb-c connection. Right now the pico is kinda flopping around in there with an external wire connected to it.
• improve wiring / wire routing
• more support for joystick side
• Pinball style sidebuttons

Picture looks really weird and sparkly, not sure why.

​Credit to Banksy for the graffiti.

Credit to gp2040 community edition for the firmware I used in the raspberry pi Pico that powers the screen.

Credit to me for CAD design, printing, assembly, wiring, soldering, and testing.

The screen shows the mode (currently x-input), current button and joystick presses as well as a history of presses. It can do macros and many other things.

Latency within the controller is too small for me to measure. Supposedly just a few microseconds.

First prototype of my GP2040CE Controllers

• integrated art (rat art credit to banksy!)
• flush press, rimless buttons
• no surface fasteners
• print in place buttons allow the art to cross the surface of the controller easily

Still to do:

• move pi pico to edge of controller to allow for external usb-c connection. Right now the pico is kinda flopping around in there with an external wire connected to it.
• improve wiring / wire routing
• more support for joystick side

If I do all that I'll be pretty happy with it!

edit: someone came in here and downvoted all the comments. why bro?

I was playing Castlevania 3 today and I tried CRT-Consumer(as recommended by u/TheTechDweeb) on my Miyoo Flip V1. I got very strange results (see image). I would've used CRT-Mattias but it does not seem to be included with my version of spruce.

I just switched to sharp shimmerless but I'm kinda missing scanlines even though it is a pretty small screen.

I hate CRT geometry distortion btw, I'm really just looking for a sharp(ish) image with scanlines!

What's your setup for a 640x480 screen?