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I did play through Prime with Primehack, a fork of the Wii/GameCube emulator
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Dolphin that adds the ability for Metroid Prime to be controlled like other
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modern FPS games using a standard twin-stick setup. Playing it on my Steam Deck
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has been _a blast_ and I easily get 4+ hours of batttery life on a single
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I understand why this is on peoples lists of all time best games. It is worthy
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lume/src/blog/anbernic-win600-review.mdx
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run and when it is able to run something, it runs it decently well. I was
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surprised that Tetris Effect ran smoothly on the device, but it can
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realistically drop down to something like 45-30 FPS in more graphically dense
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areas. Retroarch works like a dream, I've been combining it with Tailscale in
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order to let me store my roms on my NAS and then SMB mount it to the Win600.
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After playing all the way through Super Metroid, I can say that the d-pad is one
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of the best d-pads I've used in recent memory. You can do walljumps fairly
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reliably with Super Metroid, which is an almost frame-perfect trick. All 2d
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consoles run flawlessly, and anything newer can be hit and miss depending on the
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emulator's maturity. Dolphin works fine on some games, but the thumbstick
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position issues make actually playing things painful enough that I don't bother.
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I can say that the d-pad is one of the best d-pads I've used in recent memory. 2D games are a near flawless experience, if only the perfection translated over to 3D.
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I don't think I can reccomend that people buy this device. It could have been
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I don't think I can recommend that people buy this device. It could have been
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really great for its money if the price was about half of what it currently is,
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but it's really just an overly expensive "Steam Deck at Home". It's a wholly
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inferior product compared to the Steam Deck in just about every single way I can
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lume/src/blog/apple-macbook-air-m1-review-2021-02-15.md
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title: "The Worst Experience I've Had With an aarch64 MacBook"
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date: 2021-02-15
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- aarch64
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I've had my hands on this M1 MacBook Air for a few weeks now and I have gotten a
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lot of opinions about it. I wanted to go over them and give my thoughts. This is
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an amazing laptop. Its battery life is iPad tier. I can run iPad and iPhone apps
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seamlessly.
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That being said, aarch64 macOS is still very much in its teething phase. Rosetta
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is nothing short of a technical miracle, it's amazing how close it is to the
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[iMazing](https://imazing.com) to get installable versions of some apps I wanted
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to put on my mac (such as Skip The Dishes so I could get its notifications in
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the same place and Procreate so I could use Sidecar to draw using the M1's GPU
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power and extra ram), however they work well enough in general.
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power and extra ram), however they work well enough in general.
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It would be nice if more companies toggled the "supported on M1 Macs" flag. I'm
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willing to use a degraded experience if it means it's easier to access things
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that are otherwise exclusive to my phone (such as Facebook and my banking app).
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It would be great to use Netflix without having to open Safari.
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native build. I'm able to play Gamecube and Wii games at retina resolution and
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the MacBook doesn't even get warm to the touch. The amd64 version of Dolphin
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uses some Just-In-Time compilation that Rosetta can't emulate at all, however
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the aarch64 one runs a lot faster than it has any right to. It must be easier to
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translate binaries between RISC processor types or something. You have to build
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Dolphin from source when you do this, however it's worth it.
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## The Hardware
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Recently I did a stream called [Twitch Plays Super Mario 64][tpsm64]. During
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This implements the following commands:
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| Command | Meaning |
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| `a` | Press the A button |
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| `b` | Press the B button |
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Currently analog stick inputs will stick for about 270 frames and button inputs
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will stick for about 20 frames before drifting back to neutral. The start button
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is special, inputs to the start button will stick for 5 frames at most.
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is special, inputs to the start button will stick for 5 frames at most.
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### Debugging
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Debugging two programs running together is surprisingly hard. I had to resort to
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the tried-and-true method of using `gdb` for the main game code and excessive
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amounts of printf debugging in Rust. The [pretty\_env\_logger][pel] crate (which
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amounts of printf debugging in Rust. The [pretty_env_logger][pel] crate (which
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internally uses the [env_logger][el] crate, and its environment variable
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configures pretty\_env\_logger) helped a lot. One of the biggest problems I
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configures pretty_env_logger) helped a lot. One of the biggest problems I
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encountered in developing it was fixed by this patch, which I will paste inline:
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[pel]: https://docs.rs/pretty_env_logger/0.4.0/pretty_env_logger/
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