the16bitgamer

Now we aren't talking magical improvements. But before the game ran at about 75% (20-25fps), now its more 95-100% (28-30fps). Turn off the frame charts and you wouldn't even notice.

Just wanted to share an idea I had, in order to hope that another developer learns from my lessons, and hopefully either finds a work around or a better solution to this problem.

I wanted to find out if it was possible to locate your iPhone from your watch based on the latency of Bluetooth messages, since RSSI (signal strength) isn't available. I made a simple app, and started sending messages back and forth between my phone and app.

After much testing, the conclusion is no. Mostly because Bluetooth is amazing and the average latency for a message is 58-62ms. And because as Erik pointed out... apple just sucks.

I am hopeful PebbleOS can be updated to see RSSI or the app can expose the notification api to the PebbleKit JS.

If anyone want me to publish my code, let me know.

The raw data is here if you want to see it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Yr5XX0CXh5TifsnW3yOp10ZoaA_xx0q189f_fG8rMTU/edit?usp=sharing

So I wanted a bag which glows. This lead me down a weird rabbit hole that ended up with 3D printing TPU on top of cloth with a hole cut out of it.

The process was fun and it came close to the original design. Though I would made a lot of changes if I was to make this again.

I also made a TPU foam insert for the strap. Worked well.

Edit: more photos of the bag

This took forever to get right, but all my filament dryboxes are at 10% and I can’t get it any lower.

Started on Friday and it was for the first films 25th anniversary. My local cinema is small and locally owned so it does fun things like this from time to time.

Crowds were small but it was a good time.

Context: I am on a personal agenda to backup all my games myself. In this search I landed on the Open Source Cartridge Reader (OSCR) it was expensive so I held off until a few months ago when I could finally afford it.

When I got it, I also bought every adapter I needed including the Virtual Boy one, which comes as a Kit. I didn’t think it looked bad, which is why I ordered it. But I held off on making since I started getting cold feet.

Today however I got the courage to try and… it was awful. 60 teeny tiny pins needed to be aligned and individually soldered. It was setup so a skilled micro solder could doing the job in an hour or so… it took me 4 hours and scouring the floor finding pins which fell. Let alone unclogging holes which were accidentally soldered.

However after testing my patience and redoing the last step 3-5 times. It works!!!!!!!!

Now I can play Jack Bros without a VB, and Viper on 3DS is amazing.

Shoutout to Save The Hero Builders. I got everything from them and they were extremely helpful with a noob like me.

As U.S. President Donald Trump looks to expand his use of tariffs to pressure Europe over Greenland, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down previously imposed tariffs. The Supreme Court found Trump overstepped his authority when he invoked emergency powers to bring the tariffs into effect.

Yeah, for the price I was hoping for more. I mean I had a few cool things, like 2 spring loaded flaps to center the switch in the unit. Oh and its new legs are technically compatible with the original Virtual Boy.

But man are the screens and software a mess. The switch is too close for the UI to be fully visible without moving your head, especially with the Red lenses. Plus the screen door effect is so bad here that it reminds me of the first gen Oculus Rift.

It actually made me want to go back to the original VB, but with its decaying 30+ year old displays. Technically the VB wins this one by default.

Wait it also requires an 80/year NSO + Expansion Pass and Knuckles Championship Edition subscription. Which has to be payed yearly.

Honestly it might be cheaper in the long run to buy the original system. Even with the price of Jack Bros.

Been fighting this bug for a while now, but since I updated rocm to 7.2 DaVinci resolve died.

Took me a while to track down that it was rocm until I ran across an endeavour os post about it. But if you’ve noticed that resolve stopped loading and not showing errors, Try downgrading rocm and trying again.

Endevour OS Post: https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/can-t-use-davinci-resolve-studio-crash-to-desktop/77870/11

AUR post which the Endevour OS post was referring to: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/davinci-resolve-studio#comment-1058336

If you need to downgrade your amdgpu-install package, AMD's repo link is here https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/

So I did many things since I last complained that my display assembly was broken.

1. I tried ABS, didn't fix it.

2. I contacted Prusa Support and did get a print friendly copy of the Mini Y Front Plate. Which was nice.

3. However I fell in love with this design. It snaps in place, covers the back (one of my biggest gripes about it) and the angle is fixed. The adjustable display was nice, but I always felt it was fragile. This if fixed and it works.

You can download the print files here: https://www.printables.com/model/67519-prusa-mini-new-box-display-and-support

Worst part, this is the one component Prusa injection molded with no parts 3D Printable. I'll probably figure something out.

The Clip if you've never seen it before.

Recently I've been archive my PS3 library of games, and I just finished backing up MGS4. Normally a third party PS3 game is between 7-12GB, however MGS4 is 33GB. To play MGS4 on a 360 you'd need like 4-5 DVD's depending on how they compressed it.

Didn't realize how large games were back even a decade ago.