I think DS should take the final round - plays the DS and GBA library + relatively easy to emulate GBC if you really want to.

And still the only way to play some games - Contra 4, Sonic Rush for example, are horrible to play on emulator but still really fun games.

Borderlands 2 was fun, but Borderlands 1 is the game I replay.

Just keeping in mind that Mesen is a cycle accurate emulator (last time I checked it was the most accurate). So the ideal solution here would have been to install Mesen.

Still good idea to check the feature matrix on their github though, I think depending on the device you could still need surface kernel.

It was popular in Australia too.

Going to the video store and looking through the racks full of the checkerboard master system boxes for a game to hire. Ghouls n Ghosts, Altered Beast, Penguin Land, Ghost House, Golvellius, Aztec Adventure, Fantasy Zone 2 come to mind.

Watching mum and dad play My Hero for hours, trying to get just a little bit further.

Getting hit by a car whilst taking a game back to the video store. (Not the most magical memory but I can’t think of master system without that)

Finally having double Dragon at home. Throwing the sega box at the second level boss. Years later finding out that the arcade and mega drive versions are unplayable due to slowdown, and deeming the master system version as the best.

My aunty buying me Transbot from the discount bin in Boxing Day sales.

Waking up from a nightmare and being comforted watching mum and dad getting up to the Mouse Man dungeon in wonder boy 3.

Sundays watching my dad and his mate playing Golfamania sessions, drinking and smoking weed and listening to Van Morrison, when they weren’t up to going to the local golf course. (Later it was pga tour 2 on mega drive)

Finding a copy of Action Fighter and Fantasy Zone The Maze from some random person at the local market.

Coming home from school one day to find mum had hired Teddy Boy from the video store. What a game. I don’t go back to it because it’s so lame in retrospect, just stick with this memory of it being mind blowing awesome.

The first time I could play well enough to get to the end of the first stage in Miracle World and seeing that burger waiting for me. Going inside the Octopus’ pot (?) to take the secret shortcut in Alex Kidd.

So many Alex Kidd things really. The dinosaur level in Lost Stars, so exciting for some reason. Swimming under the tentacles in the water level. The ninja forest stages in Hi Tech World. Shinobi World in general, me, my brother and our cousins being like “it’s Shinobi, but it’s Alex Kidd :O” while eating cordial ice blocks in the middle of summer.

Getting Ghostbusters for $2 because the video store was trying to get rid if all their master system games and no one wanted the old junk. Loving that game so much I drew a picture of the driving stage on the blackboard at school before class.

When I got Castle of Illusion for Christmas right before we moved away after my first year at school, and mum and dad let me stay up playing it until I fell asleep.

The very last game we hired before we got a mega drive, and the first time I ever saw him, Sonic the Hedgehog. The same day dad bought home a kitten that I looked after until I left home. That was a good day.

Many surface devices don’t need a specialised kernel anymore anyway.

Surface Go 1-3 for example, everything is in Linux kernel 6.14+. And everything except the cameras is in since 5.17.

Click on the game in your library. On the game page click the three dots menu in the top right. Click Browse Files.

Hell yes. And every time I see it pop up, these points come up, usually a bunch of times. So people know this shit is trouble, and it’s still blowing up.

I assume it’s just that his channel mostly seems like advertisement for products. I like him enough, but I know what I’m getting if I watch one of his videos.

The Master System version is a fun time for a while and improves on the c64. The NES version though seems to have no redeeming factors.

Me and my brother used to play this on c64. But just two player fighting each other. We didn’t even know there was more gameplay to it until we were older 😔

Like no longer thinking Bio Dome is comedy genius

I’ve been using smb protocol for years. NFS is great when it works, but something about my network makes it unreliable or inconsistent between devices.

Smb has never caused me any problems.

Absolutely this. Clicked on it because I thought it was Void Linux, lost interest immediately because it was confusingly not that.

It’s not open source. I was saying, if you must use chrome based browsers, suck it up and use non-OSS, because Brave is just awful in so many ways.

Not necessarily. With the awful things about Brave, if I need a chromium based browser I’ll absolutely go non-OSS and use Vivaldi. It’s a million miles better, and it’s not worth supporting Brave just to say you’re still using an open source browser.

Run steam from terminal, launch game, when it crashes/fails to load then check the terminal output for clues on what’s gone wrong. At least you might see some line or error you can share or search for.

Gaming on Linux - for news

Hardcore Gaming 101 - when I want to go down a rabbit hole of game series history and trivia

Agreed. I’d say Ubuntu is generally fine except for defaulting to installing snaps (which are terrible, the worst package management).

Cool remake. I played it as Ray I think, because I played the sms version to death so it was a nice touch to bring new characters in.