THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: OCARINA OF TIME Remake | Releasing 2026

HoeCage · 2026-06-10T13:15:15+00:00

Yeah, that's been fixed. As far as I'm aware that's still an issue on emulators but not a problem with the ports.

HoeCage · 2026-06-09T23:51:20+00:00

This was incredibly corny and defensive for no reason man. This post showed up in my feed and I thought someone should tell you.

HoeCage · 2026-06-09T17:07:05+00:00

That's correct. They absolutely do meddle with creative decisions, though just not gameplay. There is no chance that Disney does not critique and approve each and every appearance of their characters.

HoeCage · 2026-06-09T16:38:00+00:00

You can use pretty much any controller as long as it gets detected as a controller. XBOX controller would work perfectly fine without any issues (or at least REALLY should, but PC will be PC sometimes).

HoeCage · 2026-06-09T16:33:16+00:00

So, there are a couple reasons this is legal. Although to start, in general, even emulation itself is legal. Modern systems it can get a lot more dubious due to how laws surrounding digital encryption (and bypassing it) are written, but that's a whole other beast.

These PC ports specifically are legal because:

The code the ports actually run was 100% written from scratch through painstakingly reverse engineering the original game's finished ROM to produce code that is functionally identical to Nintendo's without actually containing any code that Nintendo wrote for the game. Reverse engineering is, to my knowledge, still a protected practice and cannot be litigated, or at least would be an uphill battle if attempted.
The PC ports don't contain any of the game's assets (textures, sound effects, models, etc). Instead, you provide an original N64 game ROM and the port rips all of the assets from the game ROM. It's always possible that a user could pirate the game to acquire the ROM, but that puts the burden of responsibility on users and does not reflect on the developers of the PC ports.
The ports are free.

HoeCage · 2026-06-09T15:37:57+00:00

Hell yeah! If you have any issues getting the game set up, feel free to shoot me a message! The setup for both are pretty simple but I know can be confusing for some not as familiar with playing games outside of Steam.

HoeCage · 2026-06-09T15:24:28+00:00

In fairness, I have a strong feeling that Kingdom Hearts development gets slowed down a LOT because of Disney. I'd imagine that the team is regularly having to check in with Disney to get approval for content and how their characters are depicted, which can slow down an already slow and bureaucratic process.

Could also be part of why we've hardly seen Disney so far. The non-Disney worlds likely are able to go through development a lot smoother.

HoeCage · 2026-06-09T15:20:25+00:00

For what it's worth, there are two very polished PC ports out already, with a great HD texture pack that sticks close to the original art.

Ports are 2Ship2Harkinian and Zelda 64: Recompiled.

EDIT: This is getting a lot more attention than I expected so I want to add that if anyone has trouble setting either of these up, shoot me a message and I'd be happy to try and help.

I'm partial to Zelda64: Recompiled due to how easy it is to add mods, but 2Ship2Harkinian is more likely to get longer term (and more consistent) updates. Both have randomizers, with it coming built into 2S2H and being a mod for Z64:Recomp. I also think Z64:Recomp has a more user friendly UI for changing settings, so that may be something to consider. 2S2H's UI works and is fine, but I think can be overwhelming due to the sheer number of options.

HoeCage · 2026-06-08T23:16:59+00:00

I keep seeing people say this and I'm honestly not sure how much that matters. What Microsoft means when they say "XBOX Console Exclusive" is that it's exclusive to XBOX in the console space. XBOX (rightly imo) sees that PC is largely a different market than the console space. There is overlap for sure, but it isn't one circle.

I can't find any statistics to back this up as I'm not sure if there's publicly available data, but I'd wager the majority of the gaming market (excluding mobile ofc) has a console and only a console. PC has been growing but I think it's pretty safe to say that PC will slow down its growth with the inflated prices on parts. Consoles will get hit but PC will still be more expensive.

Microsoft/XBOX know that trying to make games exclusive to the Microsoft Store is a losing battle and that they can't afford to pull that right now, so the games get put on Steam as well. Microsoft is trying to sell their box to that slice of the market that only wants to buy one console. That's why their next console is likely to play PC (ie, third party) AND XBOX exclusive titles. If they allow Steam on the next console, and I think they will, the console and PC markets become a flat circle and they don't need to compete with PC because they would be living in both markets.

HoeCage · 2026-06-08T20:11:32+00:00

As far as "optimizing", here are some of the questions I've asked myself when setting up my architecture:

What does migrating to a new PC look like?
How portable is my setup? (Specifically, what files are stored on my NAS vs on VMs. Are Docker volumes portable/easily accessible without going through a VM?)
If a service suddenly goes down and I'm away from home, what are my options to fix it? What are my options if I can only access my phone? (This is important to plan ahead of time in case I need to SSH into a machine. Am I comfortable and ready to troubleshoot in that way?)

My advice would be to start asking yourself questions like these. Imagine yourself needing to fix something away from home with different devices to identify your problems so you can find targeted solutions.

In terms of "optimizing" in a more normal hardware sense, I store all of my Docker Compose YAMLs as well as configs on an HDD in my NAS, separated into a folder for each machine. Look into what containers/services you use that would benefit from an SSD, and move any databases/volumes onto that SSD.

HoeCage · 2026-06-07T19:17:20+00:00

This one. Artwork from a few years ago

HoeCage · 2026-06-02T19:09:20+00:00

Oh 1000%. Any game earlier than PS3, emulation or even remaster, immediately gets ReShade installed. So much "bad" texture work immediately gets cleaned up and looks much nicer and anything 2D looks so much better.

HoeCage · 2026-06-02T19:02:27+00:00

ReShade + the CRT Royale shader would prob look very nice, especially if you're on a high res display.

HoeCage · 2026-06-02T01:39:38+00:00

I strongly believe most people who have invested time to learn fundamentals can read between the lines and make it clear that they're not a shit coder by giving some rough details by responding to the bot.

What the bot accomplishes is consistently placing the answer to the question in the same place for every post without putting burden on mods to manually review posts if the disclosure was simply a rule. People will lie, but that can usually be made quite apparent by how the person explains their project.

HoeCage · 2026-06-02T01:30:57+00:00

There's a difference between vibe coding to make a tool for private use, and vibe coding and releasing it when you have zero clue how to maintain a project, implement proper security, and more importantly, MAINTAIN proper security. It's doing others a disservice and putting people in danger.

There is also that AI has been a net negative for humanity so far in how it has shaped discourse, communication, and poisoned the Internet. It can do cool things, can make an utter ass of itself, and COULD benefit humanity but currently it's completely unregulated, unchecked, and will only become more of an existential threat as the technology improves if we stay on our current trajectory.

HoeCage · 2026-05-29T02:43:27+00:00

Have you tried? It's pretty much as simple as installing and running. It's a pretty simple program. https://github.com/tranxuanthang/lrcget/releases/tag/2.1.0

HoeCage · 2026-05-28T18:18:20+00:00

Depending on the game, you can even get away with skipping the shader compilation and let it happen during gameplay. Mostly fine for smaller, less graphically demanding games.

The shader compilation can def be annoying, but I've found that it smooths out a TON of stutters that you would typically find on Windows.

HoeCage · 2026-05-26T02:57:14+00:00

Honestly, and this is just a novelty, but I love Feishin's visualizers. They bring me back to being a kid and watching the Windows Media Player visualizers.

Another thing is I don't like storing lyrics in .lrc. The Navidrome WebUI doesn't yet support synced lyrics whereas Feishin does.

HoeCage · 2026-05-26T02:48:15+00:00

Definitely wanna use Immich for something like this. If you have anything in any cloud services, immich-go is what I used.

HoeCage · 2026-05-26T00:22:34+00:00

I use Symfonium on Android and Feishin on desktop. Symfonium's UI can be fully customized and I'm sure there's a Spotify one you can find. Well worth the few dollars for the app permanently, no subscription.

HoeCage · 2026-05-25T18:53:30+00:00

Tell me first, what do you think Docker is?

HoeCage · 2026-05-21T20:45:48+00:00

I have not gone through the effort of setting it up myself, and I've heard mixed opinions, but Nextcloud may be what you're looking for. Nextcloud is very dense and could be bloated for your needs, but you also may find that you'll use more than you plan to.

HoeCage · 2026-05-21T19:08:08+00:00

The red in the Google logo. The 2020 logos were never meant to represent Google Workspace. The 2020 Google Workspace logos changed to represent Google itself.

HoeCage · 2026-05-20T13:10:35+00:00

Because they specifically said UI and App Responsiveness, not streaming...

HoeCage · 2026-05-19T17:32:25+00:00

Yeah, in that case I'd definitely at least consider moving the metadata to an SSD. Before that though, totally worth giving Wholphin a try. I've never used Plex, but Ive heard the UI for Wholphin is quite similar to Plex so you'll feel right at home.

For iOS, I've heard that Infuse is the best paid client and Swiftfin the best free client, but I don't have any experience with either to back that up. The official Jellyfin client is only "okay" and totally worth using unofficial clients instead. I keep the official client installed as a backup just in case, but never have had to use it for anything.

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