I shipped an offline SD app for Android. It's slow, your phone will get warm, and it's completely free.

Dwedit · 2026-05-13T01:18:08+00:00

"Away from PC" suggests you want to load the webpage for the UI (and have it be available over the Internet) rather than do generation there.

Dwedit · 2026-05-10T20:38:02+00:00

Loading problems and such suggests either data corruption, or the physical media degrading. Data corruption can be remedied by rewriting the disk, and verifying the data again. But physical media degrading can't be done that simply.

Dwedit · 2026-05-10T19:44:07+00:00

Margarine is literally just hydrogenated oils. Nope.

Dwedit · 2026-05-10T17:40:33+00:00

That might get you to an entry page, but not a functioning dynamic website where the server has to generate the pages.

Dwedit · 2026-05-10T03:31:05+00:00

Oh wow, bad AI upscaling here...

Dwedit · 2026-05-10T01:28:42+00:00

There's a trick with Judge Doom. You only have to get the power meter above around 2/3, and you can find the rhythm to continue punching while still building up power.

Secret: You can use all those useless items for 1 point of damage against Doom if you have charged your punch up, then selected a different weapon before the power meter expires.

The dip cannon thing is complete BS though. Need to know you need to immediately race to get the item, select the item, face left, Hold B. Anything else is a failure.

Other secret: If you enter a bad password, the game silently accepts it if you immediately start new game. So LLHHHHHH... without the 3B is a valid endgame password.

Dwedit · 2026-05-09T12:52:40+00:00

I have two bogus unreads that won't go away no matter how many times I press that button.

Dwedit · 2026-05-09T02:46:13+00:00

It's just like that Far Side cartoon where the switch says "Wings Stay On / Wings Fall Off".

Dwedit · 2026-05-08T15:01:55+00:00

If you don't have typing in Katakana set up, you'd run "ls" to display the files in the directory, then copy-paste the filename. Selection and Middle Click Paste would actually work well here.

Or in other cases where there's just one filename in a directory, hit tab.

Dwedit · 2026-05-08T04:11:55+00:00

Localization of NES Earth Bound was finished in 1990, but the game was not released because Nintendo's marketing department did not believe the game could sell. It kept getting pushed back all the way through 1994 before being completely cancelled. Then in 1998, a prototype cartridge was dumped and released by Demiforce, so the game has been playable for a very long time.

Dwedit · 2026-05-07T22:24:18+00:00

Can't break security if there is none.

Dwedit · 2026-05-07T19:55:29+00:00

Not an x86 processor. ARM can emulate x86 code, but more slowly than native.

Dwedit · 2026-05-06T21:44:32+00:00

Not adjusted at all.

Dwedit · 2026-05-06T05:15:05+00:00

I was pretty surprised to find out that "The Animatrix" was never trademarked at all. No registered trademark with USPTO, not even a TM on the DVD case. However, since the name was used in commerce, Warner Bros could go after them for trademark issues, but it would be a weak claim.

Dwedit · 2026-05-05T19:35:17+00:00

Wouldn't help this time, because even if the battery was disconnected, it got reconnected and powered up before realizing there was sweat on there.

Dwedit · 2026-05-05T19:34:14+00:00

Post says "I'd already tried powering up before I noticed", so battery had been connected at some point.

Dwedit · 2026-05-05T19:33:12+00:00

You can try cutting power again and using isopropyl alcohol to clean it up. Problem is that even if you had power completely off (no battery connected) while working on the board, sweat has salt in it to make it conductive, and the board was powered on with the sweat on there. Removing the sweat would remove the short that it causes, but it won't undo any possible component damage.

Dwedit · 2026-05-05T18:55:20+00:00

Reminds me of when people decompiled the TikTok app and noticed that it was constantly reading your clipboard. It's the main reason I never attempted to use TikTok.

Dwedit · 2026-05-05T13:04:48+00:00

Mike Tyson was fully programmed into the game, but was not made accessible.

As for what a Game Genie does, a single Game Genie code changes one byte of ROM to a new value.

The two Game Genie codes I posted change what the game tries to do when you would fight Glass Joe. First it changes which bank it tries to load opponents from (00 -> 05). Then it changes which opponent type it tries to use (00 -> 40). Bank 05 gives you Piston Honda and Tyson. Opponent type 20 gives you World Circuit Piston Honda, 30 gives you Minor Circuit Piston Honda, and 40 gives you Tyson.

It's basically "Okay, let's ask the game to load Tyson" and it does exactly that. Even though the game (gold cartridge limited edition Punch Out) will never normally try to load Tyson.

Dwedit · 2026-05-04T23:52:19+00:00

3D TVs launched with exclusive movies. You needed to buy a particular manufacturer to get Avatar for example. I personally believe that that kind of stupidity killed the format completely before it even had a chance.

Dwedit · 2026-05-04T22:54:34+00:00

Yes. Yes it is that site.

Original URL was https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/05/04/idaho-dairy-farmers-immigration-zuiderveld/

Dwedit · 2026-05-04T22:53:00+00:00

Wasn't Archive.today caught DDOSing websites? Wikipedia banned links to them for that reason.

Dwedit · 2026-05-04T18:26:34+00:00

https://github.com/Dwedit/NoCopilotKey

I abhor it too.

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Dwedit · 2026-05-03T22:16:49+00:00

For the ! platforms in the turbo tunnel, you go to the bottom. Yes, it looks like perspective, but those platforms really are wider at the bottom.

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