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by byuu 7y ago
I wrote a userscript to do this if you're interested: https://code.byuu.org/google It blocks search and image results by pattern, and also removes the URL tracker wrapping wherever possible.
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by byuu 7y ago
All I can think is what a liability nightmare that would be in the US if a pharmacist made a bad call. For both the pharmacist and the company that employed them.
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by byuu 7y ago
This has caused me quite a bit of trouble with my image gallery as well, I've taken to just using exiftool to remove all rotation from my photos, which breaks half of them, and then manually hard-rotating them using ImageMagick, which
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by byuu 7y ago
Correct. And since the scrambling XOR pattern is known, it's possible to burn a disc that ends up being all zeroes or ones post-scrambling anyway. I'm told such sectors tend to be unreadable, but I haven't tried it.
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by byuu 7y ago
That is exactly what I need, but unfortunately the post is from 2004, and he didn't link to that precious sample of data =( Still, some very interesting info there. It looks like if and when I get this data, I may need a follow-up arti
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by byuu 7y ago
I feel we're already reaching a point where game preservation for older systems like Mega CD and PC Engine CD really need to have multiple rips that then weigh all the rips to try and correct for individual errors in each rip. In fact
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by byuu 7y ago
> The RS decoders used in typical CD players doesn't come anywhere near the theoretical performance possible from the format, they're only used as erasure codes. Reed-Solomon is fascinating, especially the way both RSPC and CIR
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by byuu 7y ago
Emulator development has cross-sections across many diverse fields of computer science, and I'm trying to share my experiences with all of them. If anyone here has suggestions for future articles for my site, I'm all ears ^-^ Whil
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by byuu 7y ago
Stop worrying about 9-bit bytes, only logical shift right for signed integers, ones-complement and sign-bit integers, etc and define this stuff in the standard. PDP-11 was a long time ago. C++20 is heading in the right direction with defini
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by byuu 7y ago
In my line of software work, I needed variable-precision integers (think uint5_t, uint13_t, etc) to express details of the architecture cleanly and avoid lots of manual bit-masking, which naturally meant having to use templates. I found tha
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by byuu 7y ago
Tengai Makyou Zero (SPC7110 + RTC-4513) suffered much longer, and the fan translation of it even longer still. Absolutely worth the wait though.
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by byuu 7y ago
My favorite bragging point: the code in the necdsp folder (and the CPU core itself at component/processor/upd96050) there was used by Stephen Hawking when they emulated his old voice machine that used the same chip. http:/&#
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by byuu 7y ago
bsnes is an SNES emulator I've spent the last 15 years working on. I'd love some help from anyone who's interested in working on improving the project with me, so I'm submitting my GitHub project page link here for anyon
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by byuu 7y ago
I've not been enjoying trying to manage topics via GitHub issues, so I'm thinking about reopening a development-only forum without any of the general discussions, but things are still a bit in flux as I build up the new site. It w
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by byuu 7y ago
The latter. I support this, but it does no good when no one uses the format. The most prominent databasing effort will not include any additional files. Not even metadata, they're missing the coprocessor firmware required to play games
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by byuu 7y ago
A combination of two things: one, I redesigned my site from PHP and raw HTML articles to C++ and Markdown articles, and didn't want to update all of them to the new format. Two, I feel I was a bit too confrontational and opinionated wi
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by byuu 7y ago
A very useful article, thank you for sharing. This is definitely a hard problem for solo developers who are like me and have significant difficulty with social aspects. I've never submitted any of my projects or writing here, because I
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by byuu 7y ago
I very much agree. My vision was a ZIP file that when selected in an emulator, could be extracted for instant access, and any save RAM, cheat codes, save states, etc could be stored alongside the game in said folder. It would be bundled wit
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by byuu 7y ago
Hi, sorry for the rapid-fire on these articles ^-^;; I'm trying to build out the site to debut it on an upcoming AMA, as right now it's quite new. By October, new articles will proceed at a more reasonable pace. I do greatly appre
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by byuu 7y ago
That is correct. Every cartridge on every system can do this, if you don't care about the cartridge potentially being oversized. There is no reason you couldn't put a Raspberry Pi Zero inside of an NES cartridge. You would just ne
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by byuu 7y ago
Indeed, every approach has significant trade-offs. I've even had it non-jokingly suggested to provide netlists of the game cartridges. But well, that's great if you don't mind your SNES emulator never reaching 60fps. And good
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by byuu 7y ago
My RSS feed is now live at https://byuu.net/feed/ for those interested, thanks for being patient with that.
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by byuu 7y ago
We have pinged them in the past about it, actually ^^;; It's been a mini-obsession of mine since I found it, hahah. They regrettably don't remember how it was made.
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by byuu 7y ago
That's not a bad idea. When I was restoring older articles on my new site's CMS Markdown format, I stopped at around 2016, but I could go back to older ones.
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by byuu 7y ago
There was also the Cx4, where segher had to reverse engineer the entire instruction set because it's a totally custom, undocumented ISA based on the Hitachi HG51BS architecture.
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by byuu 7y ago
I'm currently in the middle of a higan GUI rewrite, and I'd be most happy to get some feedback! It's really difficult because we can't simplify things that would break edge cases on other systems.
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by byuu 7y ago
I would like that, thank you! A few people have tried over the years, and we even contacted the person who made the original image, but he didn't remember how he did it ^-^;
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by byuu 7y ago
There's certainly limits to idealism. This is currently the best we have for the listed systems, I'm afraid. Hopefully someone reading about this will take interest in trying some things like you mentioned and helping to improve t
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by byuu 7y ago
There's definitely room to improve the article. I'm intending it to be more of a Wiki-style site with additions over time. Indeed internally my emulator calculates 16-bits per channel, performs gamma, saturation, luminance adjust,
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by byuu 7y ago
Also on this list: write your own toy programming language, even if it's just an interpreter that builds ASTs. Nothing broadened my view of computer programming more than that.

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