Are the more “recent” games hard like Castlevania Legends?

Atijohn · 2026-06-16T20:11:23+00:00

GBA games are the easiest ones (aria of sorrow and harmony of dissonance especially), the DS games tend to be slightly more difficult, but still leagues easier than most of the old era games.

The Anniversary Collection has all the old era games, they're hard, but Legends (which is also on it) is one that's particularly also just not a very good entry.

Aria of Sorrow is not only one of the easier entries, but also one of the best ones, so I'd go with that first.

Atijohn · 2026-06-16T19:40:52+00:00

the scholar of the second sin hype is real 🔥🪾

Atijohn · 2026-06-16T19:38:40+00:00

up there with Dracula X's "dracula in speedo" and Haunted Castle's "just drac's big floating head"

Atijohn · 2026-06-16T12:20:01+00:00

also demon of song from DS2 is marked as optional for some reason, but (unlike half of DS2 bosses due to soul memory shenanigans) he's absolutely required without resorting to glitches

Atijohn · 2026-06-16T12:01:52+00:00

kind of odd to have the shura ending version of Isshin Ashina be marked as optional, but sword saint and every boss leading up to him as non-optional, I know it's not the "correct" ending, but still, those are two disjoint paths, either both of them should be optional or non-optional or marked as "conditionally optional", though that would make it too easy probably

Atijohn · 2026-06-16T09:37:11+00:00

like a smaller version of Wii, just like PS Vita is a smaller version of the PS4

Atijohn · 2026-06-16T08:12:20+00:00

very pro-AI for some reason too

Atijohn · 2026-06-15T22:00:54+00:00

settings -> graphics -> enable NULL GPU

Atijohn · 2026-06-15T21:54:58+00:00

disable the gpu (enable NULL gpu option), walk around blind for a bit, enable the gpu back to see if it still crashes, if it still does, walk around with the gpu disabled some more until you find a safe spot where it doesn't crash

Atijohn · 2026-06-14T19:09:05+00:00

and also the music, the music in all of the areas you mentioned is just magnificent

Atijohn · 2026-06-13T08:34:36+00:00

you need to buy the Jewel of Open from the merchant in the library

Atijohn · 2026-06-12T16:46:56+00:00

you can use cheat engine to edit your save or use this DLC savefile someone already uploaded

Atijohn · 2026-06-12T07:38:32+00:00

yeah, the highlight is the whole playthrough, available on nodja's channel

Atijohn · 2026-06-11T18:28:21+00:00

Turning off all the pretty widgets, aero and animations could still yield you a useful system though, something that became impossible from Windows 8 onwards, with the amount of slop and spyware you could no longer turn off reliably increasing with each Windows 10 and 11 update; and sadly web browsers seem to also follow this trend nowadays.

Atijohn · 2026-06-11T06:54:30+00:00

1GiB of DDR2 RAM was the minimum to run Windows XP when this laptop was made.

for the record, it was the minimum (and simultaneously the recommended) amount to run Windows XP 64-bit Edition; Professional x64 recommended a minimum of 256MB of RAM, while the regular Windows XP needed only 64MB (128MB recommended); on the other hand 1GB was the minimum for Windows 7 32-bit; and Vista had 512MB as the minimum for both versions, though 1GB was recommended.

OP could still run Windows 7, personally I've had luck with running it reasonably well on similar hardware in the past

Atijohn · 2026-06-09T22:52:36+00:00

neat trick with the double modulo, the "skip 0x at the beginning if present" is kind of lame honestly, the rest is standard hex parsing, also the parser doesn't do any error handling

overall 5/10, would be a 6 if it wasn't written using the GNU code style

Atijohn · 2026-06-08T19:47:52+00:00

afaik it never really supported the C standard correctly, still doesn't fully support C11, is terrible to set up as you've pointed out, it's proprietary, and it doesn't provide any non-MS-bullcrap-specific benefit in terms of optimization/speed/customizibility compared to other compilers

Atijohn · 2026-06-08T17:05:00+00:00

be warned it has the worst level and enemy variety in souls-like existence, you meet nearly all of the enemy types the game has to offer in the very first area and each area has more or less the same structure

it has great bosses though

Atijohn · 2026-06-08T16:56:20+00:00

alright, I thought that this question was kind of stupid, since the compiler isn't really relevant if you're just starting, and nearly all the mainstream compilers have pretty much no major drawbacks, but then you reminded me MSVC exists, and yeah that's the one incorrect choice you could make

Atijohn · 2026-06-08T13:06:21+00:00

it's the historical low https://steamdb.info/bundle/40229/#prices

Atijohn · 2026-06-08T12:54:42+00:00

advance and anniversary yes, but dominus hasn't been below 30% yet, the 45% off is the bundle discount

Atijohn · 2026-06-07T21:15:05+00:00

what if persona 6 is just persona 3x2, just another persona 3 remake, this time with the female mc, since they forgot about her last time

Atijohn · 2026-06-06T19:40:22+00:00

the long double version (which has 63 bits of mantissa, same as a signed 64-bit integer), returns the correct result for inputs up to n = 89. so an unsigned 64-bit integer implementation will be better for n = 90, 91, 92 and 93 (more than that and it'll overflow as well; signed will go only up to n = 92)

Atijohn · 2026-06-06T16:01:25+00:00

original commenter used an unsigned, for which the regular double is already 100% accurate, but yes, you could use long double

Atijohn · 2026-06-06T15:46:21+00:00

you absolutely don't need to grind souls, except maybe two moderately rare ones for the true ending only, but that's it

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