Oh so each card acts like a credit card then? Steam does not charge anything for using PaySafe, but some other shops do. So I get the full money from the card to Steam. I just learned that every month PaySafe** charges a little fee for having money on the card**. Just be warned about this. So I would not wait any longer than a month anyway.

Edit: Typo

There are too many. I’ll post here some lesser known tracks and games, and no JRPGs. And no CD based tracks, just good old 8-bit and 16-bit chip music. :-) Invidious is a privacy respecting alternative frontend for YouTube, so I have both links to the songs. Also I have a little bit of bias towards SNES.

• Slime World 1 - Global Gladators by Tommy Tallarico (Genesis / Mega Drive): YouTube | Invidious
• Stage 03 - Over Horizon by Masaharu Iwata (NES): YouTube | Invidious
• Track 5 - Monster Max by David Wise (Game Boy): YouTube | Invidious
• House of the Dead - Addams Family Values by Keith Tinman (Super Nintendo): YouTube | Invidious

Alright, I can’t hold it any longer back, here are few which doesn’t care my above rules:

• Battle Theme - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest by Ryuji Sasai (Super Nintendo): YouTube | Invidious

I still need to figure out, when I’m in the menus and untouch the stick to control menus with the d-pad.

In this situation the gyro is still enabled (in Mode 1 as described above). The problem is, we can only bind a single condition to when gyro is enabled or disabled. So we put any number of buttons to be touched or untouched, but the condition is defined by a single “untouch to disable” effect. That means I cannot have a separate rule with opposite condition for each key (enabled when untouched and disabled when touched).

Hope this isn’t too confusing in reading. Simply put, there can only be one condition to enable or disable per mode. That’s why I have two modes, but have to switch between them right now. I thought about incorporating the second right stick sensor… but it started to get complicated.

I haven’t really used the grip sensors. … They’re an interesting tech but less useful than the capacitive sticks imo.

I use both at the moment in two different modes for the same game, in combination with gyro control in Automobilista 2, a racing simulation:

1. Gyro is ON by default mode: As long as the the left stick is touched, gyro stays disabled. So quickly touching the stick will recenter the gyro position. Or touch the stick constantly to take over control with the stick, in situations where using the gyro controls become awkward (especially in menus).
2. Gyro is OFF by default mode: When I press on the left stick, the controller switches to a “gyro off by default” mode. Here gyro is only enabled, as long as both grip sensors are touched. If one of them is untouched, then gyro is off. Useful for navigating in menus, but on track controlling the car, its a bit awkward to have one side the grip sensor untouched, in case I want to take over to control with the stick.

Still in experimentation phase, but looks like the stick method is more useful to me for this particular game. On the other side for other type of games where the stick isn’t used much, the method to disable or enable gyro by grip sensors can be very handy too. So which of the tech, grip sensor or stick sensor, are being more useful depends on the game.

Is it really sideloading if its a normal functionality of the system? Valve themselves say and advertise that the Steam Frame is a PC.

I just wanted to ask the other user about the compatibility breakage issue. It was breaking with every update of the Steam Beta and I had to rerun the installer for the plugins. I really like the plugin system, but this breakage is annoying.

Also the irony the trailer even being Remastered, sort of. :D

LOL I did not notice how this looks, I was so focused on the date.

Not always. Certain 3DS games require either lot of horse power and some don’t play well without touch screen or a second screen. I also recommend to get another 3DS and hack it, and dump all your games as Roms to play on the hacked machine without emulation. So that way you preserved your own save files and games at least for yourself, in case they say “bye bye” to you. Otherwise, yes, emulation is your friend. :-) (Me a big emulation fan, BTW.)

This is really cool. But I wonder how useful it is.

On a personal level, I also don’t like Epic and Tim Sweeney, but recognize how important this is of a change. Tim said in the past they don’t care bout the Steam Deck, because it is not selling well. They will care if it is selling in the tens of millions. (I can’t link to the original Twitter/X post, so I rely on correct quoting from other places.)

“If we only had a few more programmers. It’s the Linux problem. I love the Steam Deck hardware. Valve has done an amazing job there; I wish they would get to tens of millions of users, at which point it would actually make sense to support it.”

- Tim Sweeney

Unfortunately its not Open Source.

Steam Boy

Ah, I see. Sounds like a similar issue with native Steam games, where the Proton / Windows version works better.

It’s actually not a bad “problem” to have. ;-) Thanks, looks also good its wishlisted now.

So I just started playing Brotato, the cousin (or should I say brother?^^) of Vampire Survivors, as if I didn’t have a backlog enough. I avoided these games until now, for whatever reason my curiosity picked up. But now I can see the appeal to it. Well for one price was not the actual issue. You can get them for 5 Dollars / Euros, or 3 on a sale.

Why would I chose to play Brotato instead the more famous (and vampires are cooler) Vampire Survivors? After researching and reading opinions about both games, I came to a conclusion that Brotato might be better on the gameplay side, with more depth in it through meaningful different characters and items. And Vampire Survivors is also focused on collectables, which I’m not such a big fan of, but for many that is a plus. I also like the idea of Brotato releasing enemies in waves and then in between one can purchase stuff with money in a shop. I will probably end up playing the other game too… and then there is Mega Bonk, which I also ignored until now.

Man the community with the recent recompilations of old classics to play them natively and enhance them is crazy. I have to get into this too (but different games). I would have thought with the recompilation of a game on Windows, a native Linux version should be possible too.

It would be boring if I started talking about RetroArch again… so I will not mention it. At the moment I’m not playing too much on the Steam Deck, or in general for that matter. But I started recently playing Wreckfest, which is like Destruction Derby on Playstation (I’m old). Still early on and need to see if its any good in todays day and age.

I also want to go back to Shenmue 3, as a fan of the original Shenmue 1 and 2 on the Dreamcast. It feels like I would emulate an old game, lol. Man, I’m such a sucker for these oldschool games. There is also a new enhanced edition of Shenmue 3 upcoming, not sure if its worth the price and wait. Maybe I get it for free as an owner of the original version, just like that Rockstar did with GTA 5. Or maybe a discount…

I’m not really someone who focuses on one persons knowledge and level and follow as a measurement. I’m more like reading across a group of people, then doing my own thing of type of person.

The difficulty ratings most of the listed stuff for me would be at least 8/10 up to 10/10. I mean this guy rates Threaded Virtual Machine as 6/10 and just takes 1 week to do it. Why isn’t x86 OS kernel or a Compiler for a C-like not a difficulty of 10/10? There is no task this guy rated as 9 or 10/10 difficulty. I don’t know who the audience for this guys blog is, but its way above my head.