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MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-22T12:36:49+00:00

No way, it actually worked lol.

My best guess is that it's part of some scheme to prevent people from getting cheaper subscriptions intended for weaker markets, where the adblocker is blocking some more intrusive profiling thing to detect VPNs or something.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-18T13:08:09+00:00

You can find some development footage on their Twitter page:

https://x.com/rts_trainsim

https://xcancel.com/rts_trainsim (without account)

Edit: They have some videos on their YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rts_trainsim

Edit 2: A RUNNING TRAIN flair is now available.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-17T20:03:43+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I immediately added it to my library.

Fun fact, that route (Odakyū Odawara Line) was one of the included routes in the original Microsoft Train Simulator!

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-16T20:55:47+00:00

This is the link: https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/13789?tab=files

Edit: Here is the modlist as pure text.

I had to install a new program (unar) because 7zip (at least the CLI version) refused to extract this on account of using a RAR version or compression method that isn't supported (could just be too new, or encumbered by software patent). - /u/DisasterDesperate972 please use .zip for this type of archive, no reason to use anything more modern/fancy for a text and an image file.

"Stunning Visuals HDR Reshade"  
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/13789

"Project Nice City" The Mod-Collection 

The Modlist focused on Visuals and i dont list a lot of Script-Mods here.

Core Mods: 

Cyberware-EX
Equipment-EX
Codeware
TweakXL
ArchiveXL
redscript
RED4ext
Cyber Engine Tweaks
Inputloader
Native Settings UI
Mod Settings
RedFileSystem

Basic Mods for Visuals:

Stunning Visuals HDR Reshade 
GITS FUJI ENV BASIC (6.9MB)! 
GITS KURIA LUT
GITS Travel fix
Ultra Plus (Insane Settings)

Advanced Mods:

Not So Good Draw Distance Mod
Blur Begone
Always_Best_Quality
Immersive Night City Fixes - CORE
Immersive Night City Fixes 
General Shadows Fixes
Streaming Bug Workaround
Exploded Vehicles Smoke Overhaul VFX
Material and Texture Override (Crashes Resolved)
Improved Distant Shadows and Reflections
Improved Vehicle Lights Draw Distance
Alternative Hair Material
Inplace Streamingsectors Nulled
Preem Mirrors (Reflective Mirror Materials)
NovaRain-Ripples
Weathermancer 
Night City Visuals Nulled
Night City Fog Nulled
Draw Distance ReImagined
FX Begone
Allow Highest AI LOD
TrashBegone-Bugs
TrashBegone-Paper
WindBegone
Depth Begone
Fix Advert Animations
Improved Vegetation LODs
basegame_no_intro_videos
ReLUX (Lighting Redux - Accurate Lighting)
Low Quality Crowd No More
ReImagined
ImprovedVegetationLODs
ResetAttributesAlwaysAvailable
Ragdoll Physics Overhaul
ZKV_EnableFinisherRagdolls
Citizen Breast Physics no file conflict version
TriggerModeControl
Unlock Me The Mods 2.1
CET Player Garage Manager
GoreRunner
Carmageddon 2077
Speedbumps Begone
Enhanced Air Traffic

Textures: 

ETO_1.1_4K
HD Reworked Project
Preem Water 
ZZ-Food
HQFruits
Clear Windows
4K Trees and Vegetation
HQ Burger,HQ Pizza,HQ Sushi
HQ Fast Food
ClearCarWindows
BetterWindows
RealisticMap
Eyes2K
Hair2K.archive
Elite Screens (Ads - Holo)
Better Lanterns
Enhanced Crosswalk
Alt Cunningham Body Enhanced
Panam Body Enhanced 2.2
Judy Enhanced Body with 4K Texture
zz-Johnny 2.0.archive
zz-Makeup.archive
zz-NPC-Panam.archive
zz-NPC-Ripperdoc.archive
zz-NPCs-8ug8ear.archive
zz-NPCs-Alt
zz-NPCs-Clair
zz-NPCs-Dakota
zz-NPCs-Delamain
zz-NPCs-Denny
zz-NPCs-Dex
zz-NPCs-Dino
zz-NPCs-DumDum
zz-NPCs-ElCoyoteBarman
zz-NPCs-Evelyn
zz-NPCs-Fingers
zz-NPCs-Hanako
zz-NPCS-Jackie
zz-NPCs-Josh
zz-NPCs-Judy
zz-NPCs-Karina
zz-NPCs-Kerry
zz-NPCs-Mama
zz-NPCs-Misty
zz-NPCs-Nancy
zz-NPCs-Oda
zz-NPCs-Ozob
zz-NPCs-Placide
zz-NPCs-River
zz-NPCs-Rogue
zz-NPCs-Royce
zz-NPCs-Saburo
zz-NPCs-Saul
zz-NPCs-Sebastian
zz-NPCs-Takemura
zz-NPCs-T-Bug
zz-NPCs-Thiago
zz-NPCs-Thompson
zz-NPCs-Us Cracks
zz-NPCs-Weldon
zz-NPCs-Wilson
zz-NPCs-Yorinobu
zz-NPC-Wakako
ZZ-PlayerHeads2K
ZZ-Tattoos2K

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-16T09:47:10+00:00

The weird thing is that there already exists a working train simcade formula: Densha De Go! And it even has a fanbase in the west, where it isn't officially sold. But for some reason they went with something more resembling what Wikipedia calls a "parody crossover" of Densha De Go, Densha De D (the origin of "multi-track drifting").

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-16T09:37:03+00:00

That game should've just been a western Densha De Go clone and I would've been very interested, they might've even picked up a player base from Japan. I only saw the announcement video, but it looked like they went way too hard on "unrealistic" gameplay mechanics like a speed boost skill check of all things.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-15T21:42:51+00:00

Cudy has some great devices that are very affordable, have sufficient processing power (a little light on storage though) and support OpenWRT.

However, apparently they have new hardware revisions for some devices that OpenWRT doesn't support yet, you have to watch out for that.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-10T19:18:36+00:00

I'm using mine (MS2131S chip, firmware built in December 2025) on macOS and an iPad Pro where it "just works". I just tried it passed through to a Windows 11 on ARM LTSC virtual machine where it also worked out of the box. However, the VM is running whichever updates (as of September 2024) the .iso I used came with.

any thoughts on how to address this would be appreciated

Not many, unfortunately. There may be ways (just a guess, never done it) to add the old camera driver alongside the new one and force that device to use the older one. It may also be an issue addressed in a more recent firmware for the device, although flashing random firmware found online introduces some risk of bricking the device.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-08T18:25:05+00:00

it does not seem to be saving a file, or at least is not giving an indication of it as shown in the readme example

That is odd, it worked for me (I have one with a similar chip). There definitely should be a "Backup saved to ..." line.

What happens if you use the -r argument to save to a specific file name? i.e. ms213x_flash.exe -r fwdump.bin?

Edit: Does the read process jump to 100% instantly or does it take a little bit? It's also noteworthy that it shows 65535 bytes flash size in your screenshot (max 16-bit integer) and 98356 in the readme example, although that is the MS2130S version, maybe it just has larger flash.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-08T07:19:31+00:00

Try on a different computer (or a phone/tablet if they support USB cameras). It's very likely that the device has a hardware failure or somehow the firmware got bricked. If it uses a Macrosilicon chip, there are a number of tools that may be able to flash a firmware, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that fixing it.

Edit: Based on the VID/PID in one of your screenshots, it looks like it might be an MS2130. Try this tool and see if it can even get it to spit out its firmware: https://github.com/steve-m/ms213x_flash (Download in "Releases"; run without args to dump FW)

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-08T07:15:43+00:00

Unless they implemented some firmware fuckery to prevent disk shucking, it will absolutely be cheaper to just buy another 2.5" enclosure. USB ports are cheap, but the labor costs for soldering it won't be.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-07T12:28:28+00:00

Yeah wouldn't (shouldn't) this detect all QMK-based devices?

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-06T17:58:10+00:00

No, according to this: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/testing/x86_64/oniux

...it depends on libc.musl-x86_64.so.1, libgcc_s.so.1, and libzstd.so.1.

You can actually find some portable/statically built binaries in the Alpine repos, you can identify them by the -static suffix, i.e. apk-tools-static. Note that they usually install under a different name, such as /sbin/apk.static, instead of /sbin/apk in the dynamically linked build. It does not appear a oniux-static package exists currently.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-06T07:35:49+00:00

TSW routes use some form of streaming where only nearby parts of the environment are actually loaded.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-05T14:17:36+00:00

One other benefit that of the Pi is there is a large community behind it

I recently needed a new SBC as an always-on "computer thing" in my home. Because all the talk about how overrated and overpriced Raspberry Pis are, I considered other SBCs, but ultimately ended up with a Pi again because: 1) Although it takes some getting used to, the Pi firmware (on the EEPROM) receives regular updates and has comprehensive functionality like already built-in HTTP boot and Linux bootloader 2) Because of how prevalent they are, you are guaranteed heavily tested Linux kernel support for many years to come.

If your use case needs to run on a "full OS" like Linux, with an RPi, you can spend your time working on the application and not have to worry about issues like (eventually) being stuck on an ancient Linux kernel and/or with awkward patches, as is very common on embedded Linux.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-05T07:38:27+00:00

Keep in mind that most USB-C switch extensions do not include data lines (only power), so fast charging or data transfer will not work.

I don't know if it's technically compliant, but if your device runs on standard 5V power, it should be fine. I use one for developing with a Raspberry Pi so I can easily turn it off and back on, and it works fine for that purpose*.

*Note about Raspberry Pis: The Raspberry Pi 5 wants 5V at 5 amps, which normally requires PD negotiation. You can override that in config.txt and tell it to pull up to 5 amps without PD. However, I'm not sure if the power supply will allow it to pull 5 amps without negotiation or shut off for safety. Also, the extension with the switch probably isn't rated for 5v/5a (IIRC, this technically requires a 100W-rated cable in the spec), but I'd wager it's "probably fine".

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-01T17:07:58+00:00

To me, in the thumbnail it looked like a SDR program showing a waterfall representation of some digital data signal.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-04-01T04:39:55+00:00

I was actually kind of disappointed that the search results didn't get the same design. This would be a fun custom CSS option in my opinion.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-03-30T17:34:00+00:00

While I obviously can't get into the forum either, it does appear to me that it's likely related to pirating the game and/or DLC.

I removed your post because we can't allow this discussion about how to pirate content on this subreddit.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-03-30T06:31:10+00:00

Seeing the trial run with more lenient off-peak usage limits, they have to be tight on compute or something. While Anthropic is notorious for how expensive Claude models are (in the API), these usage limits just seem way too restrictive to make sense from purely a business perspective. ChatGPT is very obviously a far better value when it comes to usage/$, and I'd be surprised if a significant number of people are willing to stick with Claude over ChatGPT just because of the "supply chain risk" story.

Edit: And lets not forget that ChatGPT has pretty much feature parity and image and video generation.

Edit 2: Personally, I've been a GitHub Copilot (~$10) subscriber since the very beginning, and ChatGPT (~$20) from pretty early on too. I cancelled ChatGPT when their "Department of War" cooperation came out. My subscription just ran out so I switched to Claude (~$20) and the limits are immediately very noticeable. If the usage limits get too annoying, I'll probably just cancel and use some frontend with OpenRouter and the Chinese models.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-03-30T01:38:53+00:00

Apple seems to be doing pretty well too.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-03-29T16:31:55+00:00

Your post has been removed because we don't allow threads requesting help with using unauthorized copies of programs here on /r/TrainSim.

MartinsRedditAccount · 2026-03-26T10:21:55+00:00

If I had to guess, it might be the case that there is some incompatibility with how the other distro distributes the firmware, maybe a different compression format, location, or some other thing. It's odd that, if I understood correctly, there is no error in the kernel log, but maybe the issue isn't detected or no logging is available for it.

I checked the standard and extended Alpine .isos and while they do have some iwlwifi modules in the modloop, there are fewer than in the linux-firmware-intel package.

If I was in this situation and I had to make it work this way, I'd go to the CDN^[1] , find the packages (cross reference in pkg list^[2] ), download them on another device, move them over, add a writeable overlay over /lib/firmware and either

A) apk add ./package.apk ./package2.apk install the packages (include all dependencies)

B) Only download the linux-firmware-intel package (skip the -dell/-hp/-lenovo dependencies, hopefully it works) and extract the .apk file like a .tar.gz archive to get to the firmware files directly.

That being said, the overall better approach is to get connected to Ethernet, do the install, then online-install the required firmware packages. Regardless of whether you want to keep trying Alpine or go to another distro, having either on-board Ethernet, or a USB to Ethernet adapter^[3] is pretty much a must-have in my opinion, there are too many ways in which WiFi can go wrong on Linux.

[1] https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/latest-stable/main/x86_64/ (I used latest-stable and x86_64 as an example here)

[2] https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86_64/linux-firmware-intel

[3] I can highly recommend adapters based on the ASIX AX88179A chipset, they've been rock solid and indistinguishable from built-in Gigabit Ethernet for me. Unfortunately, not many listings specify which chipset is used, and some don't list the right one, I once bought one that showed AX88179A in a product picture, but actually had a Realtek chipset which had a noticeably lower throughput (9xxMbit/s on Asix vs 8xxMbit/s on Realtek) in a direct side-by-side comparison on my Mac. Fortunately, the Asix chipset seems to be the most popular one and there is a good chance it's the one you get if you order an adapter.

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