That’s awesome. The Dreamcast was the first console I played online.

Ooga Booga was a great game, and would probably still be fun today if it had some players.

Fun, sure, but not an experiment that would actually be meaningful.

The data from your phone’s microphone doesn’t magically appear in Google’s advertising servers. It would have to go through a lot of steps before it gets there, and one of the first steps is in your home (if you’re on WiFi). One can analyze the traffic/data that leaves their phone.

It’s good to be cautious, but worrying about your phone’s microphone is potentially like worrying about your windows while leaving your front door open.

Yet again, someone mistakes an anecdote for evidence. And evidence is also not the plural form of anecdote.

I’m sure we have people here who are tech-savvy enough to have actually examined the kinds of data that their phone is sharing.

If you have something like Google Home or Amazon Alexa, then yeah, those would be sending voice data back, and yeah, they could probably use it for advertising. But as far as I know, there is no evidence that phones are “always listening” and “always sending information back” when they’re idle.

There is a Piano Collection for every main FF game, unless they stopped doing them at some point. There are some beautiful arrangements that, to me at least, really highlight some of the tracks that I slept on when hearing them in-game.

Relm’s Theme and Rydia’s theme come to mind for me, but there are many more.

Different meaning, though!

Mozilla FirefOS?

Probably not as optimized though.

RCT could run on a toaster from the 90’s (ok, maybe early 2000’s) and looked amazing for the time.

OpenRCT can run on a toaster from the 2010’s and looks great because of the timeless art style of the original.

It’s still an incredible feat, though!

Flash carts? Or, for disc-based consoles, any of the ways of loading games onto those consoles. (ODEs, hard drives, expansion ports, memory card slots…)

Lots of exciting things in the emulation scene these days!

One who wants original hardware could also get a flash cart.

Get two of you want to simulate switching cartridges! Lol

I bought an N64 and some games for $25 like 15 years ago, and that was an insane deal back then too

I appreciate spreading the word about RetroAchievements, but I think you’ll win more flies with honey than with vinegar

I agree on the point of security theatre. I think the tracking stuff provides more actual useful information, but I also imagine it’s more for reactionary investigations rather than pre-emptive protections.

I could be wrong, though.

I’d call it both. Hassling people for taking sunscreen or water onboard is probably mostly theatre. All of the tracking and scanning is probably what they actually use to find any naughty people.

FF1 probably has the most remakes of any game in the series, and I believe Stranger of Paradise is a modern retelling of the original’s story. Not at all a remake though.

FF1 doesn’t really lend itself to FF7-style remake treatment, though. The Pixel Remaster is the most recent remake of FF1.

It is a lot, haha

What do you mean by “remake the original”?

The FF7 Remake games have a lot more content than the respective parts of the original

Hmm…if the price of retro games lowers, I’ll be more likely to get good deals…

But I’ll be in a worse position if I ever need to sell parts of my existing collection…

Your comment reminded me of the time I tried to connect my new phone number to my accounts, but had trouble with Amazon and AirBnB because the last guy with the number forgot to update his accounts.

Amazon told me it’d have to delete the old account before allowing me to connect my new number.

That’s not even the worst one though.

AirBnB gave me no other option than to log in to the other guy’s account through nothing but the SMS recovery code (which came to my phone since I have his old number now), starting the account recovery process from within his account, and then removing the phone number from his account.

After logging out (and closing the private browsing window and turning off the VPN), I was then able to link the phone number to my account. (And yes, I tried everything else – from within my account, it told me “Sorry, this number is linked to another account”)

Never had a problem with AirBnB or the new phone number since then though!

It’s weird, but it makes sense when you’re used to it. Z can be a bit awkward, though. Having the face buttons all be different shapes is a great plus imo.

This controller is probably the daddy of the original Xbox controller, and the GameCube controller (N64 is the mother there).

It was probably more comfortable than the Xbox one, and looked cooler than the GC one, but the GC controller wins in comfort.