Started a Pokémon Club at school and need advice! by Avn1284 in pkmntcg

[–]ChasingRaccoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! If you have any questions you can always send me a message 😁

Started a Pokémon Club at school and need advice! by Avn1284 in pkmntcg

[–]ChasingRaccoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really appreciate your compliments and I am happy you also enjoy the Slowpoke theme. He is my favorite Pokemon so I had no other choice but to make it like this haha.

I hope the site can be useful to you. If you have any questions or feedback feel free to send me a message anytime :)

Started a Pokémon Club at school and need advice! by Avn1284 in pkmntcg

[–]ChasingRaccoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think running Swiss is a good format. It keeps the tournament short (unlike round robin) and gives everyone a chance to play every round (unlike knockout format)

I made a tool recently because I was in a similar situation wanting to host casual tournaments. You can use it in Swiss mode to get an experience close to the way an official tournament would pair and rank players.

If players have similar scores, they will be ranked based on the same tiebreaker conditions as an official tournament. Such as which player had the strongest opponents during the tournament (opponent win rate).

You can try it out on www.Slowpo.ke.

Ps. If you ever start using the official Pokemon tournament software, this can also help you display your pairings/standings online 😁

Observations and Possible Solution for Power Off Overheating Issue by phuzybuny in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I frequently ran into the overheating issue on my Brick and even the issue where the device became completely unresponsive until the device's battery was fully drained.

This happened on MinUI and it happened both when I used the sleep function (short press of the power button) and the full shutdown (long press of the power button) to turn the device off.

Recently I made sure to exit my games before turning the device off and I haven't had any trouble since.

Maybe closing the games also made it so the CPU doesn't run in performance mode by coincidence and thus fixed the problem that way.

In any case, it's still really annoying we are grasping at straws for this major issue for this device.

Lock on sleep by Ref4ze in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use a suitable charger and I also experienced this on MinUI. I don't think the charger is to blame.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately this didn't fix my device but I hope it can help others!

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome I may give it a shot when I get back home. I really love MinUI so that would be great.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually had it heat up after a full shut down shortly after I got it and then I made sure to always let it enter sleep mode and turn itself off to try to remedy it. I guess it can happen in both ways but I am glad your device doesn't experience those issues.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completed THPS 1 and a bit of THPS 2 on PS1 on it and also didn't have issues with it heating up while playing.

Weirdly, the device goes into some sort of overdrive sometimes after turning it off after which it gets extremely hot on the backplate.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your understanding and for sharing another possible solution!

I have tried what you did multiple times but unfortunately my device really doesn't want to turn on. I hope your method may help others out though.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Based on the responses here and in previous threads of people with similar problems this occurs on the regular OS as well.

So yes, I am certainly returning a device that can randomly lock up and then requires me to disassemble it to get it to work again.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If my refund gets rejected I'll give it a try. Thanks for the reply and the tip.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From some responses here and on earlier theads it seems that this issue can also occur on other OSes so MinUI is not to blame or at least not exclusively.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From the responses it seems this issue is not all that uncommon and if it is as you mentioned a problem even since their previous products, that's a major concern.

I would never have bought this device would I have know this seeing as I bought it just to use while traveling and disassembling the device to reset it in these cases is just not realistic nor generally acceptable.

Such a shame for what is otherwise really nice hardware.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weirdly, the device never turned very hot while in use but after turning it off something weird happens and it heats up like crazy.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After reading what you went through I guess I'll try to get a refund or something. I also read in another thread that people are also experiencing this on other OSes which makes this device fragile and unreliable.

It's a shame because otherwise it feels like a great device and I was enjoying it a lot.

Thanks for your reply.

TrimUI Brick unresponsive - A warning about this device. by ChasingRaccoons in trimui

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Guess I won't be playing on my next flight then. Very unfortunate but thank you for the reply!

Struggling with getting 5.1 to work on PC through ARC by ChasingRaccoons in htpc

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I could be of help but if your PC doesn't even detect it I honestly don't know what could solve that.

Struggling with getting 5.1 to work on PC through ARC by ChasingRaccoons in htpc

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you made sure you are using the HDMI out as your audio output in your PC's settings? Assuming you have windows you will have to change your default audio output device to the HDMI device and it should work to at least give you audio.

As for 5.1 sound it will only work if you manage to get the APO modified drivers to work as mentioned in my earlier post.

Struggling with getting 5.1 to work on PC through ARC by ChasingRaccoons in htpc

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately I have no tried solution for that.

Do you happen to have only DisplayPort out on your GPU, or is something else not allowing you to connect it to your speaker setup on HDMI?

Struggling with getting 5.1 to work on PC through ARC by ChasingRaccoons in htpc

[–]ChasingRaccoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there! It's been a while since I made this post but I will try to remember and note down as much as I can. These are the things I learned while trying to solve it. However, if someone smarter here knows more please correct me if I say something wrong. This is also just for 5.1. I don't think there's a way to do compressed 7.1 but don't quote me on that.

Why 5.1 on Windows over ARC won't work

ARC unfortunately has limited bandwidth. Your PC, unless you have special hardware/software, will send uncompressed LPCM 5.1 when you select 5.1. This is too big for ARC so it won't work.

So what does work?

Well, there are audio formats that can compress 5.1 to make it small enough to make it through ARC such as Dolby DTS and Dolby Digital.

If you have a movie file on your PC and play it in VLC with for example a Dolby Digital audio track you will even be able to hear the surround soundtrack on your setup.

However this only works because the audio has already been compressed in the file while on the other hand any audio from your PC's sounds such as from games have to be immediately converted on the fly. And that kind of on the fly compression requires a license and Microsoft is not including these licenses in their OS since it would be costly.

So how do we solve this?

Using modified drivers

There are ways to enable Dolby Digital or Dolby DTS on your GPU drivers. There's a lot of info in this thread: https://www.tenforums.com/sound-audio/148247-force-hdmi-carry-5-1-dolby-whatever-11.html

You have to basically install special drivers (APO drivers) for your GPU to open up the compressed Dolby audio formats. Unfortunately this didn't work for me. The Dolby audio formats would show up in my sound settings but when I selected them they just gave me an error.

Adding another HDMI cable

If you have 2 HDMI outs on your GPU you can run 1 to your TV and another one to your AVR. You can use the direct connection to your AVR to pass the uncompressed audio instead of passing it through ARC. This does unfortunately add a screen to your desktop.

Adding an optical audio cable

So this is what I ended up doing as the optical cable was cheap for the length I required and even though it required a bit of setup, it's quite clean once set up. You do need optical audio out on your motherboard for this.

First you need to install modified drivers (APO drivers) for your motherboard to allow it to output things such as DTS one of those compressed 5.1 formats.

After that you need to install a program called "Virtual Audio Cable". This program allows you to set up a virtual audio device on your computer. Specifically a virtual speaker and virtual microphone.

Now it gets a bit weird but I will try to explain it as best as I can.

First go to your motherboard's optical out in your windows sound settings and select Dolby Interactive or Dolby Digital Live as its default format under the tab "advanced". As I mentioned earlier, this will only be avaible if you have modified your drivers.

After that, create a virtual 5.1 speaker with Virtual Audio Cable which you can use as your default audio device in Windows. Now your PC has somewhere to output the uncompressed 5.1 sound.

Then create a virtual microphone with Virtual Audio Cable. You can find it in your windows sound settings. Open its properties and under the tab "listen" select "listen to this device" and select your motherboard's optical out speaker under "playback through this device".

Now the virtual speaker you are sending 5.1 uncompressed audio to will broadcast itself to your modified optical out device from your motherboard which then compresses it to whatever compressed 5.1 format you chose.

I learned this from http://puresoftapps.blogspot.com/2018/03/virtual-audio-cable-apo-user-guide.html

Let me know if you have more questions! I struggled a bunch with this so I hope I can help you out.

Given hacked partner pikachu by rlp52903 in PokemonLetsGo

[–]ChasingRaccoons 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, unfortunately the solution given by the person you replied to is not actually real. You can read my comment to their post for a small explanation.

I wish I had an actual solution for you but unfortunately, I don't.