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Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop
- bitxbitxbitcoin 6y agoI wonder how the Noom Stonks are doing in ACNH?
- navaati 6y agoWeird flex, but OK. :)
- taneq 6y agoPretty good flex IMO. :)
- egypturnash 6y agoIs this being served off of a Switch or something? Because it's sure not loading for me.
- jugg1es 6y agoIs Noom Stonks different from the Turnip Stalkmarket?
- Multicomp 6y agoThis is why I visit HN, the little side projects like this are simply delightful. This is however not rendering anything but the controls on mobile so I will have to take your word for it.
- 542458 6y agoHunh, that’s strange. Works fine on my iPhone. What are you running?
- Multicomp 6y agoFirefox Fennec on Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Android 10 Desktop Firefox works fine.
- throwanem 6y agoSame issue with Fennec 68.7 on a Gemini PDA running Android 8.
- Mogzol 6y agoWorking fine on my Android 10 phone in both Firefox 68 and Chrome 80
- wheybags 6y agoWorks fine for me on Firefox mobile, on lineageos on a oneplus6
- aplummer 6y agoI think I'd really like Android if all my experiences with it weren't on Samsungs
- benbenolson 6y agoThis is exactly how I feel about Android; it's a little frustrating to me, looking at my family's Android phone usage, that most peoples' experiences of Android are solely on Samsung devices with extremely heavy modifications to the interface. It's great that companies are allowed to customize the interface to fit their devices, but at the same time, it can create a skewed perspective of Android devices as a whole. My parents both liked Android all right, but had issues with Samsung-specific interface choices, and eventually switched back over to Apple as a result. Same with my sisters (who only experience very early Android phones), etc. Same issue with my wife, except she finally got a Pixel, which fixed her skewed perception of Android devices.
- therobot24 6y agohug of death for me, will bookmark and see if it's up later
- tobz1000 6y agoSeems to be broken on Firefox.
- prophesi 6y agoWorks for me, v75.0 (64-bit) on MacOS Catalina. You were probably experiencing the hug of death.
- codys 6y agoyep. opening in FF 75.0 on Linux shows a white blank page. Opening in chromium renders properly. Looks like it's three.js failing to initialize webgl in firefox. Probably some firefox webgl issue.
- nsilvestri 6y agoSame here. Broken on FF 75, works on Chromium 81
- modsWork4appl 6y agoClassic Nintendo fan. Not enough content to satisfy, make your own entertainment.
- echelon 6y agoQuite the opposite. So enthralling one obsesses over it and incorporates it into their own dreams and fantasy. Nintendo is quite special. The Studio Ghibli of gaming.
- modsWork4appl 6y agoI'm pretty objective since I've beaten every Zelda and I can't agree. Their games just aren't at the same level as anything modern. They use a big marketing budget to push their otherwise medicore platform. Although I think n64 was decent.
- echelon 6y ago> I'm pretty objective since I've beaten every Zelda and I can't agree. Their games just aren't at the same level as anything modern. A lot of "modern" games come with rough edges. I'm not saying that they're not good games, but you can tell it was a bunch of people working to crank out features, exercising every new capability their engine provides. There's a level of polish that a lot of Nintendo games have. They don't necessarily try to push technical boundaries. They'll take a simple concept or gameplay paradigm and then attempt to be fully immersive within the scope of they've defined. Modern AAA games feel like summer blockbusters. Marvel superhero films. Nintendo games feel like Miyazaki. Breath of the Wild legitimately felt like playing through one of his films.
- modsWork4appl 6y ago>There's a level of polish that a lot of Nintendo games have. I'm not sure what games you are referring to, unless you are talking about n64 and GameCube era. Botw was empty and Animal crossing has huge problems. Not to mention the failures of Mario party.
- bertrandom 6y agoSorry for everyone who couldn't open this, I tuned some apache settings and the site should load much faster now!
- dsl 6y agoJust a heads up, OpenDNS blocks your domain for "Web Spam". You might want to poke around and make sure you don't have unprotected comment forms or open redirects. https://domain.opendns.com/bert.org https://domain.opendns.com/bert.org
- bertrandom 6y agoYikes, thanks, I'll submit that for re-review.
- moioci 6y agoAt my work: This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers.
- aasasd 6y agoI don't mean to start a flame thread, but people moved away from Apache precisely because it's too heavy and slow. Nginx should work much more smoothly, unless there's some dynamic backend bottlenecking instead (and even then, Nginx' buffering frees up the backend faster).
- xwdv 6y agoWhat was the process for extracting the file?
- lostgame 6y agoSo much this. Is the Switch really that insecure that there are ROMs floating around of this already? o.o
- stryan 6y agoYes, there's already emulators able to run the game (if barely and not really playable)[1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdJ2dfL9S8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EdJ2dfL9S8
- eBombzor 6y agoWell that's a 2500U, almost nothing but the simplest games are playable on that chip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdDfcEkxXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdDfcEkxXM This one looks more playable albeit still very choppy.
- kop316 6y agoThere was a hardware boot ROM exploit a while ago that enabled arbitrary code execution, and I am presuming that is allowing the ROM dump.
- ddoolin 6y agoSeconded. I'd really love to know more about how it's done.
- Jasper_ 6y agoJudging by the output folder structure, it was likely done with KillzX's Switch Toolbox https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Switch-Toolbox https://github.com/KillzXGaming/Switch-Toolbox
- vzidex 6y agoGave me a smile and a quiet chuckle, thanks for this little bit of fun OP.
- drewzero1 6y agoOoh, it looks like the black MacBook from 2007! Definitely my favorite Apple laptop I've ever used. Less plasticky feeling than the iBook it replaced, more comfortable to use than the metal unibody machines that replaced it. I had the plain old white version and stuck a bunch of blackbook replacement parts on it to make it look kind of like an oreo.
- AgloeDreams 6y agoTotally, something like a mix between that and the Sony TZ series. Also gives me flashbacks to the Google CR-48, which itself looked like a Blackbook but a bit sexy-fied.
- wayneftw 6y agoLooks to me like a Windows UI or one that was influenced by Windows.
- Talanes 6y agoWas that the model that introduced the magnetic power cables? I got one of those right out of high school and it was the first laptop I'd owned that wasn't a 3+ year old hand me down. It was magic.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoOkay, I have to ask - are the app names from the game, or your addition?
- bertrandom 6y agoI took some creative liberties there.
- jameshush 6y agoYou did an excellent job naming these. This made my day.
- ebg13 6y agoThe app labeled "noom" looks like Skype, not Zoom.
- caleb-allen 6y ago"Weird flex but okay" I love it!
- geoah 6y agoYou can actually get this as an item in the game and customizing it will give you the option to chose one of those backgrounds. I'm not sure how you can acquire it by normal/elgit means, but if you are able to extract your save file from Animal Crossing New Horizons you can use a save editor (google kwsch/NHSE) to add this item to your inventory. ps. Don't cheat, it's a nice game.
- companyhen 6y agoI saw it for sale in the shop for 70k bells
- Pfhreak 6y ago> Don't cheat, it's a nice game. Cheat if you want to, or need to, or whatever. If it makes the game more enjoyable for you or if you need an accessbility assist for any reason or just because you like to see content that might be locked behind arbitrary gates. Not everyone approaches games with the same intent, and not everyone can approach games with the same abilities. Cheating is a way to both experience games differently (e.g. speedrunning) or at all.
- Waterluvian 6y agoSome people believe that if you cheat, even in a single player game, it lessens the reward for them. FWIW: I've experienced "cheating" both utterly ruining and enhancing a game.
- rezonant 6y agoFor the person playing or the person doing the judging?
- furyofantares 6y agoThat actually heightens the reward for me to cheat in a single player game, so I guess it all evens out.
- tetris11 6y ago
- selimthegrim 6y agoCan someone write a song about this to the tune of John Brown's Body?
- delecti 6y agoIt's odd that the logo is "PC" instead of the typical Nook leaf which is pretty reminiscent of the Apple logo.
- sonofgod 6y agoSo it looks like they use ethernet and SD cards in the Animal Crossing universe too (right hand side) (the middle is probably USB but rectangles aren't very diagnostic) And I think there's HDMI and a 3.5 mm headphone jack on the left? :P
- jchw 6y ago3 full size USB ports, a USB-C port (could it be Thunderbolt?), a 3.5mm headphone jack, and an SD card reader. All in all, Tom Nook’s laptop appears to have pretty decent connectivity options for a modern laptop, while still remaining relatively thin.
- oneplane 6y agoMaybe the inside is bigger than the outside to fit all of that stuff in ;-)
- zimpenfish 6y agoGiven the apparent prevalence of Time Lords and Tardises in the Animal Crossing universe (looking at you, Blathers), it wouldn't surprise me.
- jml7c5 6y agoAnd is that an ethernet port on the right?
- jchw 6y agoOhh, good call: I wasn’t able to readily identify it. Now all I wonder is what the other 3.5mm looking hole is... maybe power?
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- wintorez 6y agoWeird flex, but OK.
- throwanem 6y agoWild that it's "noom" and not "nyoom", tbh.
- Apocryphon 6y agoTom Nook's Chromebook
- pkamb 6y agoHas Mario Broth seen this? https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog
- soperj 6y agoSmall space bar, weird enter key. Other than that only thing I'd really want is a trackpoint.
- tjohns 6y agoThat style of enter key is common on European and Japanese keyboard layouts. Similarly, the small spacebar is common on some Japanese keyboards to accomodate for extra language input keys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_input_keys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_input_keys
- soperj 6y agoAsk and ye shall receive. I love how the answers are always provided :)
- LeoPanthera 6y agoIt's extremely similar to the Japanese MacBook layout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Japanese_Mac_-_Apple_Keyboard_(MB869JA).svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Japanese_Mac_-_Apple_K...
- gorgoiler 6y agoVery fun :) ...weird flex, but ok! There’s a slight reflectivity to the laptop. At certain angles I can see a white light reflection but I can’t quite make out if there’s any shape to it. I’m sure it’s nothing, but perhaps you could embed an Easter egg of your own?
- avipars 6y agoJust why?
- musicale 6y agoCan anyone translate the text?
- johnnyAghands 6y agoThat spacebar.
- jackhalford 6y ago> So I extracted the model resources for his laptop from the game binary and rendered it here. Weird flex but ok. Best faq ever
- winrid 6y agoRuns great on my 2017 One Plus, good job!
- throwaway180118 6y agoVery nice work! How did you narrow down your search to extract the laptop model specifically, among what must be thousands of 3D assets. I'd love a breakdown of your process!
- rashidujang 6y agoSeconding this! It'd be great if you could include the extraction process from the beginning too for those of us who are unfamiliar.
- buffin 6y agoI don't play this game, but I have heard of it. Took me way too long to figure out what the discussion was about. It's from Animal Crossing game on Nintendo Switch.
- Noxmiles 6y agothumb up for doing this. Also, nootube is great. Cat video is going on ;)