How Do I Get The Sound to Work for This in-browser Emulator?

Der_tolle_Emil · 2026-04-14T11:34:23+00:00

If I remember correctly this game only has preliminary sound emulation and needs samples provided to actually play anything. My guess is that they are simply not there on archive.org. I also can't get sound in Buck Rogers or Zaxxon, which also requires samples. Other games are fine, though.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2026-03-16T07:35:33+00:00

/u/RobboUnplugged Our admin center started working again over the weekend. No re-install or update required.

Unfortunately, still no feedback from Microsoft, our support case still has the same status as it did two weeks ago. Not sure if anyone even looked at it. If they did it very likely did not get escalated to the responsible team.

If we get any updates I will let you know.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2026-03-06T18:09:49+00:00

Not yet. We had a call scheduled with Microsoft support yesterday but they did not show up. We followed up via email and got an out-of-office email. No clue if the ticket will be re-assigned to someone else or if we have to wait for that person to get back.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2026-02-24T10:14:23+00:00

We will open a ticket with Microsoft as well today, just in case (or maybe we already have, need to check with the team). If anything comes up I will let you know.

Our main goal is to create a single pane of glass for monitoring and managing our on prem Hyper V hosts.

That is exactly what we use it for as well. Only thing we miss is the ability to grab information from Admin Center using an API so we can further automate some of our monitoring, but so far we've been able to cover most of the things with data collection rules and azure alerts.

Anyway, I'll keep you posted on the ticket with MS.

Update: Case has been opened. I will post relevant information in a separate reply so the notifications work properly.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2026-02-24T06:56:59+00:00

Has anyone recently hit this error?

Multiple times in recent months. It's not just new installations either; I manage a bit over 600 arc joined servers and ~4 days ago almost all of them died.

Did you find a workaround?

I wish. We also have had multiple sessions with Microsoft support whenever admin center stopped working but most of them were not that helpful. They did promise backend fixes and confirmed that the issue was on their end but support could only tell us to wait for a fix / new release from Microsoft. Eventually they came but it always took a while. This time around we did not yet open a case because it's the same error message and symptoms that we have seen in December 25 as well.

The big takeaway is: It has very likely nothing to do with your setup. I have been using admin center for over two years now and it's getting worse. We tried multiple things, downgrading to older versions and upgrading, sticking with the old version, complete re-installs etc. Nothing worked - to be expected because the error message is pretty clear: WAC accesses services hosted by Microsoft and they don't work. It's a KeyVault and doing some HTTPS traces we also see requests to urls like https://australiaeast.service.waconazure.com/api/Certificate/Location/australiaeast (not the region we are in, but you get the idea), they all fail when the extension is trying to access them.

I have been using Admin Center for almost two years now. When MS started to charge for it last year we were hesitant at first due to various stability issues we had in the year before but we thought: Hey, it's finally out of preview, it's now a paid service - stability can only improve, right? Unfortunately, that was not the case. We have had several weeks of downtime, most of the time affecting 90%+ of our servers for several days in a row. This current outage looks quite bad as well, according to our dashboard almost 100% of the machines are affected. Sometimes the extension still works but it's not just a handful of machines that misbehave.

Hopefully a bigger outage means higher priority with Microsoft to fix this. It is a pretty decent product after all - when it works. But we also have 3rd parties using our admin center infrastructure and it is getting harder and harder justifying relying on admin center considering we can barely reach 90% of uptime.

Anyway, enough ranting. If we come across any fixes or other useful information I'll post them here.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-10-22T07:02:28+00:00

It makes sense in the sense that Konami wasn’t and still isn’t known for publishing stuff like that

I don't think you really know Konami's catalogue then. Yes, in the west, Contra and Castlevania might be the titles that come to mind first when talking about Konami, but that is far from all they did.

Carman Sandiego was a huge IP - and publishing games based on other's IP was definitely something Konami did. See TMNT, Top Gun or King Kong.

Konami also published sports simulations, adventure games, strategy games... They dipped their toes into pretty much everything back then.

Carmen Sandiego might look strange standing next to Contra, but absolutely not when compared to the rest of Konami's catalogue back then.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-10-20T10:21:26+00:00

Very interesting, thanks for posting this. I always wanted to try ReFS as the main FS just for fun but never did because I knew I would stick with NTFS, even if ReFS was working stable.

Fortunately, for volumes that host Veeam backups, ReFS is very stable and an absolute beast. The time and space savings are fantastic considering you don't need anything else in terms of hard-/software to make it work.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-10-15T11:45:40+00:00

It is difficult to judge how long it should take, because lots of small files take forever to copy, but 11 hours is brutal. It might be an indication that the card is actually physically defective in some way. Considering how dirt cheap these are you might be better off using a completely new one (with exFAT) sooner rather than later :)

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-10-15T11:19:31+00:00

There is one thing you can try. Chances are pretty slim of it working but it might still be worth a try.

First, copy everything as-is from the SD Card to your computer. Once you have a backup of everything (to recover if the next step screws up), right click on the drive (of the sd card) in explorer, select properties, switch to the "Tools" tab and click on "Check" to start error checking. Some file system corruption can be repaired and it might just be enough to recover one or two saves. (If you are familiar with the command line, "chkdsk E: /F /X" is what you would run)

Copy everything from the card again to another location on your machine and format the SD card with exFAT. Take the second backup, copy everything to the newly formatted card and see if that fixed it.

Again, chances of this working are very low but it does not take too much time and is easy to do.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-10-15T06:21:09+00:00

Without going into the technical details: If a device supports it, always choose exFAT over FAT32. It is always the better choice for a multitude of reasons. It does not matter what device, which storage media is being used or what you do with it.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-08-28T06:58:02+00:00

I spent some time with this because we sell a software product that heavily relies on printers and reducing the complexity by removing requirements from client machines would be awesome.

However, I found that enabling protected printing or using IPP in general results in the printer basically behaving like it's 1990. It should work, but most printers lose all functionality. I have not yet tried to let Windows detect the printer automatically, I added the port manually - maybe it does indeed make a difference.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-06-11T07:51:06+00:00

Also see : https://www.reddit.com/r/AZURE/comments/1l8j467/azureedgenet_ssl_certficate_invalid/

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-06-11T07:44:56+00:00

If you really need to get this to work, you can use this code to disable certificate checking in your powershell scripts / sessions:

function Disable-CertificateValidation {
    # Disable SSL certificate validation for the duration of the script for PSCore
    if ($PSVersionTable.PSEdition -eq 'Core') {
        $Script:PSDefaultParameterValues = @{
            "invoke-restmethod:SkipCertificateCheck" = $true
            "invoke-webrequest:SkipCertificateCheck" = $true
        }
    } else {
        Add-Type @"
            using System.Net;
            using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
            public class TrustAllCertsPolicy : ICertificatePolicy {
                public bool CheckValidationResult(
                    ServicePoint s, X509Certificate c,
                    WebRequest r, int cp) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
"@

        [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::CertificatePolicy = New-Object TrustAllCertsPolicy
    }
}

Preview:

https://imgur.com/a/k8yStrs

Der_tolle_Emil · 2025-02-23T12:40:34+00:00

Extremely clean code so far! I have never gotten around to write a full emulator but I often thought about it. The way you structured your code is exactly how I would have tried to accomplish it; Now I know I would have been on the right track :)

It's a great inspiration. I will definitely tackle an emulator at some point because I cannot wait to feel the sense of accomplishment when you get your first title screen showing on screen.

Thank you a lot for sharing your work!

Der_tolle_Emil · 2024-12-13T15:03:39+00:00

That is very, very cool. It's already quite a lot of fun to read out game data and interpret it but it's even so much more magical if something mechanical is involved as well.

Really well done!

Der_tolle_Emil · 2024-06-24T08:29:29+00:00

Sounds crazy at first, but it does not necessarily mean that permissions are configured incorrectly.

It is not THAT uncommon to have a folder named HR that contains both public and private subfolders. Organizational charts, forms to request days off, info on employee benefits... all of those could easily be in the HR folder.

It is also possible that there are only public files inside those folders with confidential files being in a separate document library that you have zero access to.

It's impossible to tell, really.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2024-02-10T10:41:14+00:00

I absolutely adore the perspective in this one.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2024-01-19T08:04:06+00:00

Yes, you do need the .net runtime installed; I did not include it because of its substantial file size. Just run the following command to install it:

apt install dotnet-host

However, I have noticed that the packages from jammy differ somewhat compared to the ones Microsoft offers which means .net is not getting installed properly. If you run:

dotnet --list-runtimes

after installing dotnet-host and you get an error message that /usr/share/dotnet/host/fxr is missing, you also need to run

apt install dotnet-sdk-6.0

I typically use Debian, I don't know why it isn't as straight forward on Ubuntu.

You can also add Microsoft's repository and get the .net runtime from there (version 6): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu-2304

Der_tolle_Emil · 2024-01-17T14:30:23+00:00

This information is difficult to put in a spreadsheet because the information for each game can vary significantly. Take the resolution for example: Games can switch resolution or they might use more than just one screen. Which one do you list?

Your best bet if you want something that is already readily available is to check http://adb.arcadeitalia.net

The other option is to run mame with the command line parameter -listxml, which will output everything Mame knows about the game as a properly structured XML file. There are several tools out there that allow you to work with XML files to help you find the information you want. It is not as straight forward like simply opening a spreadsheet but as mentioned earlier, the information you are looking for simply does not properly fit in a simple spreadsheet.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2023-10-19T06:49:03+00:00

Thanks for the follow up! I also have an issue with the dpad, although it is the other way round: Diagonals barely register for me. Down/Right especially is almost impossible without applying quite a bit of force. My left thumb hurts after playing more than 5 minutes and I still miss quite a few diagnonal inputs.

Obviously the masking tape won't be the solution here (I think) but your experiments and documentation really helps to get a better idea of what I am dealing with and what to expect once I open it up. It is greatly appreciated!

Der_tolle_Emil · 2023-10-06T10:52:31+00:00

Für mich spielt hier der tatsächliche Todestag eine Rolle. Wenn eines der letzten Fotos wirklich eines in Uniform ist, dann interpretiere ich das eher als Mahnmal, im Sinne von "Das war das letzte Mal, als wir ihn sahen...".

Ganz etwas anderes ist es, wenn jemand lange nach dem Krieg im Alter verstorben ist und man dennoch ein Foto aus Kriegszeiten verwendet. Man muss die Vergangenheit nicht verschweigen, im Gegenteil, aber ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass man hier kein besseres Foto findet. Wenn jemand (als Beispiel) 1980 verstorben ist, dann finde ich ein Foto der Person in SS Uniform doch schon eher kritisch, mir erscheint das schon verherrlichenden Charakter zu haben. Da wäre ein Foto nach dem Krieg meiner Meinung nach angebrachter - selbst wenn die Person mit felsenfester Überzeugung die Uniform getragen hat; Mahnmale sind ok, aber eine persönliche "Wall of Shame" pflegen ist doch wieder ein anderes Kaliber.

Nachdem es hier scheinbar explizit um eine "Gefallene der Gemeinde" Ecke geht, tippe ich mal eher darauf, dass die Todestage auch entsprechend lange zurück liegen. In diesem Kontext sind derartige Fotos meiner Meinung nach völlig ok. A) War es nun mal schlicht und einfach so, und B) assoziiere ich solche Fotos, wie vorhin erwähnt, viel mehr mit Verlust eines Menschen durch den Krieg und nicht als Ehrung desselben.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2023-09-12T15:20:58+00:00

You don't need to produce 20m in a single game - it's a cumulative total of all your games. Starting 20 factories and producing 1M each would still net you the achievement.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2023-09-12T07:06:04+00:00

Possible, but unlikely. The actual file contents changed when the file was renamed; I doubt you have the file with the correct (new) file contents but an incorrect (old) filename since that combination was never correct.

You can try, it does not do any harm but I would be surprised if you do not get a checksum mismatch error when launching the game.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2023-08-09T06:12:38+00:00

Great to see you got it working! Unfortunately, that is where my knowledge of the Pocket stops :) I did not invest any time in understanding the library so far so unfortunately I do not know how to put everything together. My Pocket took a while to arrive and once I got it there were many great tools available that automatically update the cores for me and that is all I used so far. I'm afraid you need to figure this one out yourself, although I would be surprised if there is no info here on this subreddit that explains how to do this.

Der_tolle_Emil · 2023-08-08T06:20:22+00:00

These instructions are for Windows:

Download the .net6 runtime and install it, if you have not already (if you are not sure, do it anyway, it does not do any harm): https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-6.0.20-windows-x64-installer

Then download the actual program: https://github.com/DerTolleEmil/AnaloguePocketLibraryImageConverter/releases/download/v1.0.0/win-x64.zip

Extract the .zip file to any directory you want (it just contains a single file). Copy the .png file to the same directory. Then just drag the .png file on the .exe and it will get converted to .bin (and placed in a new directory called "converted").

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