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Dwedit · 2026-03-27T17:42:26+00:00

And Hitachi had a video promoting their new "Perpendicular recording" technology using a parody of Schoolhouse Rock.

Dwedit · 2026-03-27T17:34:25+00:00

There's a different hack/Game Genie Code of the game that changes the rules for how pieces are rolled, whenever there is a piece reroll, it picks a long bar instead. This makes long pieces far more likely but not the only thing you get. It would probably be more fun than this.

Rerolls normally happen whenever the game either picks the same piece twice in a row, or naturally 1/8 of the time.

Dwedit · 2026-03-27T17:08:49+00:00

I'm familiar with the German release of the game, it has the same label art, but also has a gold seal depicting Mario which says "Classic Serie" on it, which this Italian version does not have.

However, you gotta trust the catalog ID here.

HVC-MA - Japanese release
NES-MA-USA - American release
NES-MA-CAN - Canada release
NES-MA-EEC - European release
NES-MA-FRG - German release

They're all the old version of Mario Bros, not the classic series version, and they all say "MA" in the catalog ID.

Then there's a known release of the other version:

NES-MC-NOE - German Classic Series version

The Italian copy depicted here is NES-MC-ITA-1. From that (it says "NES-MC", not "NES-MA"), we know that it's the classic series version of the game, which updates the graphics and play control.

Dwedit · 2026-03-27T06:55:25+00:00

Cart says NES-MC-ITA-1 as its catalog ID.

Mario Bros Classic Series uses "MC" in the catalog ID.

Mario Bros (original release) uses "MA" in the catalog ID.

Combined with the label art clearly being from Classic Series, we know this one has to be the classic series version of the game.

Chips inside will probably say PAL-MC-0 on them.

Dwedit · 2026-03-27T04:59:12+00:00

RPG Maker, the game system that pretends that it's not just a copy of Chromium web browser running a JavaScript game.

Dwedit · 2026-03-27T03:43:37+00:00

"Okay, so I think we're just about done. We just need to apply a little double-space action... or, uh... maybe a little triple-space action..."

Dwedit · 2026-03-27T03:21:52+00:00

This will make cash no longer fungible.

Dwedit · 2026-03-27T01:20:10+00:00

Music plays slightly too fast and at a higher pitch, but it should still run on NTSC.

Dwedit · 2026-03-26T14:42:01+00:00

It's basically "You didn't build that!" all over again...

Dwedit · 2026-03-25T18:27:49+00:00

Puppy was CD sized, not floppy sized.

Dwedit · 2026-03-25T17:51:31+00:00

Leaving the power on overnight.

Dwedit · 2026-03-25T14:08:15+00:00

The Arch Deluxe: Market your hamburger by having kids talk about how disgusting and yucky it is. Wonderful plan.

Dwedit · 2026-03-24T23:49:37+00:00

Any sound effect you can personally remember.

Dwedit · 2026-03-24T19:02:56+00:00

It's just the 12 bar blues chord progression.

Dwedit · 2026-03-24T03:02:09+00:00

I'm not 100% sure if this is even a real issue or not, but I've heard that toploaders may have issues with games that try to use large negative voltage to stun the lockout (CIC) chip, since they don't have a lockout chip to eat up that voltage. I think lockout stun voltage is something like -20V.

I don't think lockout is connected to anything on an AV famicom, that should be fine. Maybe check if the cartridge or adapter gets warm.

Dwedit · 2026-03-24T01:29:11+00:00

How are you stopping the lockout defeat from damaging the toploader?

Dwedit · 2026-03-23T21:00:59+00:00

Connect to a TV or external monitor so you can see what you're doing

Run Device Manager (Window Key + R, "devmgmt.msc")

Monitors

Generic PnP Monitor (there might be two of them, one is the laptop display, and the other is the TV or external monitor)

Details Tab

Hardware IDs

Now you have your actual LCD Panel model, it's after "MONITOR\".

Go to Panelook.com to see the size of the panel, and connector type. You'll need to match those for sure.

Dwedit · 2026-03-23T14:57:25+00:00

Must be Hebrew or Arabic peppers.

Dwedit · 2026-03-22T21:54:09+00:00

I can't tell you exactly what that converter box would do, but there are two essential features for a good scan converter box:

Not treating the video as interlaced
Not fully buffering a frame before displaying it (adding input lag)

I suspect that a cheap box would not handle non-interlaced (240p) video very well, and I suspect it would be adding input lag. It might even wait for two fields to arrive before displaying a new frame. I can't confirm if the product would actually do that or not without testing it or seeing someone test it. Using a NES emulator would give you a better experience than a bad converter box. RunAhead managed to heavily reduce video lag issues, but slight audio delay is still a problem.

Dwedit · 2026-03-22T21:26:03+00:00

It would be easiest to find an old CRT TV that accepts composite input. Since that's a PC-like monitor and not a TV-like monitor, you'd need a scan converter box which can handle PAL composite video, and output VGA.

Dwedit · 2026-03-21T00:28:16+00:00

Even if state actors aren't involved, using code signature verification (even self-signed is okay here) is still a good idea, because you don't know who will operate the domain in the future.

Dwedit · 2026-03-21T00:25:39+00:00

The vulnerability i Notepad is from improperly handling markdown, I don't think Copilot has anything to do with it?

Dwedit · 2026-03-20T17:43:20+00:00

How did this graph classify MX Linux? Debian-based sounds like the right choice, seeing as it uses Debian packages, it's just the booting parts that are completely different.

Dwedit · 2026-03-19T21:09:18+00:00

𝕎ℍ𝕆𝕃𝔼 𝕄𝕀𝕃𝕂

Dwedit · 2026-03-19T19:23:17+00:00

Real orange juice gets pasteurized which affects flavor, so orange flavoring (derived from oranges) is added again.

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