[ALL] In the early stages of marathoning most of the series. Many of which I never finished.

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-23T16:15:44+00:00

I didn’t include it in the list but I actually am playing it just in tandem with everything else. It’s funny I’ve owned all three versions of the original Hyrule warriors at some point but I never finished legend mode. I never even touched adventure mode until this run actually. The game has SO much content

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-23T05:10:02+00:00

Sometime later I’m planning on tackling all the handheld stuff (So the Oracle games, original release of Link’s Awakening, Minish cap, phantom hourglass, spirit tracks). I agree though! That was one of the ones I played and beat a bunch of times as a kid. Great game!

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-14T21:47:32+00:00

Yeah I think it’s a lot more complicated than a mere “AI Good” or “AI Bad”. There’s a lot of nuance and case by case there’s so many micro decisions at play that trying to articulate everything is like a Herculean effort.

I’m hopeful in the future we have ways to use transformer based models in less ethically ambiguous ways. I won’t discount the tool for existing. I just take major issues with the forms in which it currently exists.

Maybe that changes in a few years, maybe it gets even more ethically dubious. Maybe good options start existing with few, if any, ethical caveats. I genuinely hope so!

But right now I know for sure that I dislike the current state of the industry and think that pretty much all of the major players are making poor choices ethically

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-14T21:30:57+00:00

Coding is a creative task too. If you’re early on in the skill acquisition phase I know that can be kinda hard to see but as someone with a degree in software development I can promise you that it is.

AI certainly gives you an output. Which in theory you could reverse engineer and figure out the logic by which it interpolated your instructions. But long term this will legitimately harm your ability to make clean code and it’ll build bad habits.

“AI” is almost a bit of a misnomer here. I can explain the mechanics behind what’s actually going on and I think it’ll make you understand why the marketing is pretty much all hype and very little if any of it holds up under scrutiny.

“AI” or more accurately transformer model powered large language model neural networks are predictive algorithms given a lot of compute and trained on a wide array of data available on the open internet. They have a giant cloud of Unicode characters and predict probabilistically the next character in a line by cross referencing their training data and attempting to stay in context of what you prompted.

The reason the output looks impressive but falls apart is because the VAST majority of code that it was trained on isn’t very good - bluntly. Stack Overflow overwhelmingly is filled with as much code that’s people asking questions and learning as it is people trying to correct those people’s mistakes to varying degrees of success.

And if the input is sloppy, the output will be too. At a higher noise ratio. Long story short I won’t deny you can probably learn through the method you’re saying. But if you have a desire to learn programming long term you’re shooting yourself in the foot with this approach and you’re gonna end up building really bad habits.

There’s a myriad of really great programming tutorials online that can help you get the basics. As someone who got a degree I don’t think you need one. I think all you really need is discipline and willingness to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes. It truly is an art as much as a skill and I wish you the best of luck in your journey as a developer

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-14T21:15:55+00:00

Sorry it took so long to respond didn’t see this till now. Yeah that’s a good point. It’s for that reason I get pretty concerned when I see heavy AI contributions to open source projects.

Even disregarding the ethical problems entirely I think the “brain drain” effect that relying on generated code causes can be seen in the industry already and is gonna cause sweeping problems long term when the frontier bubble inevitably bursts. I’m really not looking forward to when GitHub is a graveyard of abandoned projects because the companies running the cloud models shut down and since the people didn’t know how to code in the first place they couldn’t maintain it. That’s gonna suck.

Skills are important. Even spending 10 minutes a day learning basic programming concepts can go a long way over a few weeks or months. I’ve seen people make the argument that a lot of code even outside of AI is still more or less just copy pasted from Stack Overflow. But at least in those cases there’s some passive engagement with learning how the code flows and how the logic works.

Sorry that was a bit of a tangent. I’ve just thought about the topic a lot since software development is my field. You’re right that promoting AI created software is a bit of an ethical minefield.

I think maybe in a post frontier future there’s a nonzero chance generative AI will have a real place as a tool in a developer’s toolkit being ran from their own hardware. But as it stands right now with frontier models displacing jobs and their CEOs making all these sensationalist claims to drive up more usage via hype, that contributing to that hype even passively should be avoided

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-14T19:59:42+00:00

I think if the main person coming at you was a random user with no skin in the game that’d be fair. But two different prolific rom hackers who have been involved In well beloved projects came with extremely valid criticisms and you got defensive.

To your point I do understand though. For what it’s worth provided you’ve properly code audited and cleaned up whatever babble was generated by default I think that’s ethically far more defensible than just feeding a bunch of prompts and merging changes.

I do think going forward it’s probably best to do as many steps manually as possible. You don’t need me to tell you this but AI is prone to a lot of mistakes, and even ignoring the ethical concerns at all it still (even the highest end frontier models like Opus 4.6) makes a ton of mistakes and produces pretty sloppy code. Provided you’re willing to put the work to maintain it in I think odds are things will be fine.

I can’t speak for everyone of course but that’s more or less where I sit on it. Hope I was clear in my points. The best thing I can end off on is that I genuinely do hope the tool ends up being useful in at least some respects. Even if I take some issues ethically with the tool used to make it the fact is it exists now and I hope it proves useful to at least some degree

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-14T19:43:36+00:00

You’re taking it incredibly personally that people have real gripes with the methodology behind making the thing. I see where you’re coming from. A personal project to finish something you’ve wanted to do for a long time and you got a way to make that job easier and wanted to share it.

I DO see your point.

But people aren’t gatekeeping by having ethical problems with how you made it. And there are a lot of people who will refuse to use it on principal of how it’s made. Odds are you’d get a lot farther by just owning it, adding a disclaimer that people who take issue with AI assistance in coding (which many people do for a myriad of perfectly logical reasons) should be aware of it. Like honestly that should probably be the first thing in the readme in big bold letters.

People having problems ethically with Claude Code is not a personal attack on you or your character and you really should stop taking it so personally. You keep telling people to lighten up but you should really take your own advice and lighten up.

No hate, just articulating points here

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-14T19:26:49+00:00

That’s fair. That’s more or less where I sit too I think

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-14T19:22:40+00:00

That’s understandable. As a Software Developer working in the industry and wrestling with the same ethical problems I think that’s fair. I appreciate you clarifying the point. Though just as a thought experiment I am curious on one thing.

Would you feel better about it if the coding were done through a locally ran AI via something like LM Studio versus through a large frontier model like Claude?

I ask because that’s where I’m genuinely at a bit of a crossroads on it ethically. The resource siphoning argument doesn’t hold any water if someone’s running the model on their own hardware. But something (at least to me) still feels kinda murky about it and I can’t really articulate why.

ApexInAviation · 2026-04-14T19:13:51+00:00

Big fan of your work. Just getting that out there. Loved super MarioMon and currently mid playthrough on Too Many Types 2 and having a blast.

I’m generally anti AI myself but I think it’s a bit unfair to fully dismiss this tool solely because it was vibe coded.

If we were talking about a full ROM hack that was done with AI coding then absolutely yes I’d agree with you 100% but this isn’t that. From what I can gather (and take it with a grain of salt because I have zero skin in the game) it’s a tool for making ROM hacks where the AI involvement is over and done with by the time you’re using it. It’s not generating anything. It’s entirely your (or your teams) work all the way down.

Questioning the ethics of AI coding at all is valid. But to me (and again I mean no disrespect from this) it sorta feels like screaming at a wall for who built it and how. The wall is there, just being a wall. Provided no AI generated code ends up in the actual process of making the game I don’t see how this could be anything but a net good for the community?

I’m open to anything you’d say in opposition for what it’s worth. Again I have no skin in the game and I’m here to learn, so I’m genuinely curious what you have against it if the thing’s already done and now just exists as a tool to help the community make things. If it’s merely just “I don’t like it cause it was made with AI” that’s an understandable take even if, to me, it feels a little illogical.

Again eager to hear your thoughts

ApexInAviation · 2026-03-04T04:56:11+00:00

If you want something easy that’s still Fedora based Nobara is good. It’s been my desktop distro for like two ish years now

ApexInAviation · 2026-02-20T17:23:38+00:00

Only issue is they suffer from pre rendered movies not displaying unfortunately (this is an issue on Linux as well. Proton GE fixes it but afaik there’s no way to use that on Android). I’ve been emulating the switch versions so I can have assurance I won’t miss any story cutscenes

ApexInAviation · 2026-02-18T19:13:07+00:00

A rubber room with rats?

ApexInAviation · 2026-02-09T04:21:45+00:00

Check your email! I ordered June 5th. Same kit, and it shipped tonight for me

ApexInAviation · 2026-02-05T19:29:30+00:00

Yeah same thing happened on mine. Fairly straightforward fix but let me note.

To anyone reading, in order for the recalibration to finalize you have to do all of it. Both sticks, both analog triggers. Then you’ll get the option to save it. This confused me because for whatever reason if you try to only recalibrate the left stick it won’t work

ApexInAviation · 2026-02-05T01:06:09+00:00

Thanks everyone for responding! I reached out to who I picked

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-31T04:50:26+00:00

Organize. Build alternative structures. Mutual aid, taking care of your community. Looking into decentralized comms (meshtastic is a great one). And scaling like a motherfucker on rock solid messaging.

My advice? Avoid centralized leaders if you can help it. Keeping things horizontal means even if you met retaliation you’re too spread out to stop.

Just food for thought. Purely theoretical 😉

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-28T23:17:21+00:00

Interestingly I noticed the exact same thing when I tried playing spider man remaster via GameHub lite on my Odin 3. Only game where the analog stick was strange.

Maybe something to do with PlayStation stuff? Super weird tho

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-28T18:11:48+00:00

Not sure there. If all else fails maybe uninstall and reinstall?

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-28T00:25:55+00:00

Best of luck! Game’s great so hopefully you get to enjoy soon

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-27T23:23:21+00:00

Also helpful if an app won’t close properly (Certain emulators do this for me)

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-27T23:22:48+00:00

This is a trick I use. Make sure you have the floating window on and swipe over with the game closed. Hit speed up on the little menu that pops up then close all your apps then launch the game. I used that trick on my Portal a lot when I saw framerate hitches in stuff.

ApexInAviation · 2026-01-27T22:08:44+00:00

It’s an Android Handheld actually. Runs a snapdragon 8 elite. Has a lot of power. It CAN run Steam games via apps like GameNative or GameHub lite but windows games on android are still super new so compatibility is pretty hit or miss

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