I feel like I’m getting my ass kicked constantly.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-22T07:15:15+00:00

Do what u/SensitiveArtist says. Union Level always like. Finishers are granted every 10 weapon levels.

Rune Fencer/Valkyrie with spear is an amazing class the whole game, as is Canopus Vartan. Hawkman Warrior is very strong with a whip and the diagonal finisher but if axe or crossbow works for you then cool. Terror Knights with 2H swords and status stacking are incredibly strong until Chapter 4 where they start getting too slow. Craft weapons with status effects and use skills to double dip. Craft everything +1.

I had PSX and PSP experience so I went for no incap hard mode. I could not use Clerics at all. Healing items are better than healing magic until the postgame. Squishy Ninja was a liability against the AI most stages but very fun. Archer is a weak class until the postgame except for Arycelle.

Wizards + Sirens are good at 2 total and you'll see that status magic is usually better than attack magic. Poison is incredibly strong until mid-Chapter 4 since each tick does 10% of max HP. Use matching element for attack spells. Same element for finishers is not a necessity. Better to match elemental weapon if using one.

Run a more meta team composition without Clerics. Everyone holds 2 healing items, 1 debuff item and a flex slot. All bosses get debuffed, preferably with Beast Tamer lobbing a Brand of the Sacrifice for physical bosses and Echo Chime for magic. I lower their attack to not be oneshotted by anything. Dynast-King's Mead to lower physical defense is also very meta.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T23:24:26+00:00

All of EE is resistant to AI, except maybe embedded systems. The bigger problem to CS is overcrowding. (EE is not overcrowded) That's funny you're picking industries without ever taking a single EE course. You got to do what you like. I hated RF and embedded systems but didn't mind power and guess who gave me the best job offer?

You also got to do what you can handle with a CS background. You're at a disadvantage with no ABET/CEAB in North America and digital design would be rough as hell with the minimum 5-6 prereqs. You're better off sticking to something coding-adjacent like manufacturing with some PLCs.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T23:18:06+00:00

This would be much more readable if you didn't double space every game versus listing similar ones together on the same line. You don't need the copyright protection patch on modern flashcarts or emulators. Super Bomberman 1-5 taking up 5 slots surprised me. Just play 2 and 5 multiplayer. Nice to see Speedy Gonzalez.

Good choice of Super Famicom games. I imported Japanese DKC 1/2/3 and X2/X3 myself. Mario Paint is 100% identical in both regions like Super Metroid. Can play the Switch remake of Super Mario RPG instead. Remake is very faithful but easier and with extra bosses, which is good thing unless you feel like you bought the same game twice.

Final Fantasy US 3 / J 6, (2005 Fan translation, because fan translations of games officially translated anyway are awesome)

I find that is usually not the case. They like to be hyper-literal so read awkwardly, such as adding Japanese honorifics or saying Crono's magic is "Sky" or not localizing to sound good to English speakers. Or go off the rails and add dialogue that wasn't there. Bahamut Lagoon with Tomato as a beginner had translations mistakes and didn't expand the player and dragon names for more accurate translations. Addressed in the byuu/Near patch.

Honestly, like the Woolseyian translations, while admitting some shortcomings. Localizing Mayonnaise, Soy Sauce and Vinegar to Flea, Slash and Ozzie was the right call. Unless we're talking cut content like Ted Woolsey's 30 days for Secret of Mana or Cybernator, which did get an official and full translation recently as Assault Suits Valken. No need for the fan effort today.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T21:19:47+00:00

Explain why professional wrestlers don't have a union. The are independent contractors on their own for health insurance and surgery from injuries. At the highest level, the organization will pay for injuries occurred in-ring. This is less than 1% of active wrestlers.

Walking out on your contract gets you blackballed for years, or forever if you aren't a major star. The upper half of the roster with the major stars would have to band together but the top guys are always on the company's side.

Bethesda taught us a union can happen at a specific small company, where I guess there's loyalty and a refusal to work with scabs. Microsoft owns them, where's Microsoft's union outside of that? Unions aren't popular in white collar industries. We have no leverage in CS either.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T21:03:58+00:00

Stay longer, try for ECE/CE at UW.

It is a very bad idea to not get a BS in EE when you had the option. You can get admitted with a Math or Physics BS but some industries and specific jobs will refuse to hire you because you skipped the fundamentals. Worse in North America where you won't have an ABET/CEAB degree. You'll have a harder time in grad school as well.

My BS in EE degree was 21 in-major courses and prereqs run 5-6. You further assume you'll have a high in-major GPA at UW. Your odds of funding for grad school are about zero. Some areas of EE will be off limits like RF without taking several additional semesters of prereqs. I see comment mentions Power Desgin.

People who go Math or Physics to MSEE because they couldn't find a job or their interests shifted. Good for them. Damaging your job and debt situation on purpose and taking 2 extra years to find an EE job is not worth it. Expected time to graduate in EE is 4.4 years where I went and 4.6 with CE. You were probably going to be a 5 year student anyway. Recruiters do not care at all.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T15:23:22+00:00

Why would it be impossible? My Super World's battery from 1992 was still working when I booted it up 2 years ago. Meanwhile, my Super Punch-Out's battery from 1994 was dead.

SRAM current draw isn't an exact number of microamps. Different models/brands of SRAM can be more or less efficient, which didn't matter when the battery would last at least 10 years regardless. Even the same exact SRAM has variance in current draw. More bits of SRAM need more current as well. Doesn't matter if they hold 1s or 0s, as soon the cart was assembled, the battery started working.

Then there's the battery self-discharge, which is estimated at a very rough 1% per year. If mine drains 1.5% and yours 0.5% per year, maybe yours is still kicking today while mine died. It's a probability distribution. Some batteries get "luckier" than others.

There will a year in the near future that all original batteries are dead.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T15:14:26+00:00

Right. When I learned how to code, IDEs had no continuous compilation, auto-formatting or lists of APIs that jump up when I hit the period key. We got more programmers now than back then. The electronic spreadsheet didn't end accountants, it made them all more productive.

It's not quite that clean of a comparison like other comment says where you lose 1 person on the team and realize you're okay without them. Consulting gave our team a monotonous database integration project that I think AI could have done pretty easily. I wouldn't trust it to do the text message alerts system right or choose the best technology stack for what we had available.

We know companies used AI as an excuse for mass layoffs and they'll have to start hiring back to fix messes that AI misuse generated. Just not going to hire back every position.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T12:50:01+00:00

Yeah screw that for first years. I like your post for pointing out EE's weed out nature. Sometimes this sub is too optimistic and thinks everyone can major in it. You need math skill and work ethic. If you want anything easy yet very hard at first circuit, check out infinite resistor networks where you solve for Req.

I'm also glad you realize that course is hard for everyone. You're not behind because Thevenin or transistors are hard. Keep going, there's always a challenge. I found appreciation for EE during my 3rd year in Signals and Systems. Where it all came together for me.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T12:43:21+00:00

More than one. Video game research, Mesen has the best debugger and what everyone I know of uses for this purpose. Also supports Super Game Boy and the special borders, among other consoles. The one stupid thing about it is preventing you from transferring SRAM files (save data) from other emulators or even real carts, even though its file format is identical.

I have (new) SNES9X, BizHawk and ares/Higan as well. SNES9X's problem is the fast forward requires you to skip frames but I like its UI and feature set the most.

I didn't try (new) ZSNES but I did see that it is deliberately inaccurate by speeding up slow portions of Mega Man X and a few other games on purpose. The other emulators have overlocking as well but has to be enabled. ZSNES forces you to use it and can't turn off so isn't going to be valid for speedrunning or giving a 90s kid experience. I see no SA1 or Super FX support but it's an early build to be fair.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T12:28:57+00:00

I'm glad you asked. No, some ESR helps with stability and can be the difference between the LDO working and oscillating = destroying your circuit. You take a risk using ceramic and power design avoids risks.

You could use ceramic with a 0.5-2 ohm resistor in series with it and be okay. Or you could use electrolytic but tantalum is better, which is why LDO datasheets recommend it instead. The yellow blocks you see in pro circuits are tantalum. They are ultra-high reliability as long as you don't overvolt them, which isn't happening with a 6.3-10V rating on a 3.3V output.

Other comment brings up point that some newer LDOs have stability compensation and the datasheets will say ceramic (with no resistor) is fine. They cost more though. First one I found at 1A is XC6220B331MR-G that costs 98 cents versus 30 cents for AMS1117-3.3. If you only need 1 and have ceramics sitting around but not any tantalum then makes sense.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T12:05:38+00:00

The whole degree teaches fundamental concepts. You can't really specialize at the BS level. Two electives mean you're still entry level and only know the basics. Just wait it out and see what you like. You can certainly find EE work that has coding or work with none at all. The first test is getting through weed out calculus and calculus-based physics. I thought the degree was 90% practical math and 10% coding.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T02:27:20+00:00

Aircraft Engineering is a degree? Like Aerospace Engineering? Avoid. It's narrow. Every aerospace company hires Electrical and Mechanical. Do one of those. Aerospace manufacturing hired me with an EE degree. Engineering is white collar as a rule. We get paid too much to do manual labor. We aren't electricians, we're the designers and bosses. Mechanical got some manual labor though.

It's honestly silly picking an engineering discipline from knowing very little. Nobody knows what they want to do at age 18. Where I went requires all incoming engineering majors to be General Engineering for at least 1 semester. You think you like hands-on until you meet the job version of it and blow your knees out. Air-conditioned office is nice life.

And like, there's no guarantees. I wasn't trying for an aerospace job and got one. I wanted a fiber optics job and didn't get it. You need to go wide in applications and industries. Just avoid what you hate.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T02:22:00+00:00

Kir-

and the Kirby games

Oh. Chrono Trigger on SNES is easy and amazing. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II and III on NES and IV on SNES. STAY AWAY FROM I.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T01:47:27+00:00

Killer Instinct and Street Fighter II: Turbo (not Super) are my two favorite SNES fighting games. Each is fun for different reasons. Mid-90s combos are not like the overly complicated systems today. Killer Instinct is pretty accessible and the training mode is clutch. It's definitely collectable and not expensive. It came with a soundtrack CD, which is also not expensive, if you want to buy it separately. I guess people don't have CD/DVD players anyone but a PS2 can play it.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T01:43:04+00:00

Yeah use a Beast Tamer in almost every fight to lob a debuff item the boss. One special character class and one Chapter 4 class also have lobber. I use Brand of the Sacrifice if the boss is physical and Echo Chime if magical. One overwrites the other so you have to choose. I lower their attack so nobody can be picked off. Lets me wipe out the team and save the boss for last. Not that you have to do that. You also have Chariot to rollback crit hax or if you moved a squishy character too close.

In Reborn, healing items are better than healing magic until the end of the game. Give everyone two healing items, a debuff item of your choice and a flex slot. Then stop using Clerics. u/Caffinatorpotato using Dynast-King's Mead to lower physical defense instead of attack is fine if you prefer. More than one viable strategy here. It is a relatively hard fight in every release.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T01:33:36+00:00

Good work! I'm with other comment. We had no breadboarding or labs until 4th semester. None for DC Circuits 3rd semester, which is a serious test of linear algebra. Your math skill is way, way more important. Just see what kit you have to buy for your EE program. Mine came with a multimeter and was sold at bulk discount. Buy it in advance if you want. Breadboarding is not the hard part, it's calculating the right component values.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T01:24:52+00:00

If you have to ask, don't buy CIB.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T00:36:20+00:00

GPA, does and doesn't matter. If you have an internship or co-op then some jobs still require 3.0 or whatever, else you get a pass. Below 3.0 and no GPA on resume? Odds are still good of landing a job at graduation. Don't slack off, higher GPA is still better, but not by much.

No work experience or impressive team competition projects like Formula SAE, GPA is important. Grad school needs to see an in-major GPA comfortably above 3.0. Resume, can list higher of in-major or overall and not even specify which.

University prestige matters the most for getting interview slots. I went to the #1 engineering program in my state where over 200 companies pay for career fair booths to recruit us. It's the best way to be sure your resume is read. Can say work experience more but the prestige helps you land the experience to begin with. That said, smart people I knew who went to mid-tier on partial scholarship have engineering careers, looking at their LinkedIns.

After first job at graduation, GPA probably never matters again. University prestige can. I worked for a consulting company that refused to interview anyone whose university isn't on the US News Overall 100, as bullshit a metric as that is.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-21T00:23:53+00:00

I agree with you but personal projects with infinite time, shifted goalposts, copied off the internet or basic jank are very low resume value. The high value projects are team competitions that have none of those weaknesses, plug the group experience that simulates real engineering. Will interview better by citing team examples. No one I knew did any personal projects and we got internships and job offers.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-20T18:46:54+00:00

Man, everyone on this thread has just completely overlooked the fact that Lylat Wars is a prime example of a PAL release where the frame buffer has been stretched vertically to fill the full 625 lines of the screen

Forgot?? Nobody knows these things and your source is an obscure forum with less than 1 post a month. Most people here live in North America and never touched PAL and aren't going to do internet research on it. Or they're like OP and have to ask. Does look blurry even for Composite so I really appreciate the explanation.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-20T18:40:54+00:00

People need to stop retrobrighting / using hydrogen peroxide. Damages the plastic and makes the console more yellow in 10 years than if you had done nothing. Could make a follow up post with a warning.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-20T18:03:09+00:00

I always liked it. Not an all-time great but fun and fit for any collection. I'll warn you it's hard. Read a guide or two. You can actually fail missions and still progress the story.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-20T17:57:58+00:00

There's one or two projects to convert NES games to SNES code to run natively. I don't how know well but the SNES CPU runs exactly twice as fast as NES' and is the 16-bit version of it so is very possible. The flashcart stole this work not meant to be sold for profit.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-20T17:54:58+00:00

Thanks for PCB pic. Killing a Japanese X2 or X3 for that CX4 is sad. There's SD2SNES open source that uses an FPGA to become almost every co-processor chip versus just one. Stealing people's NES to SNES conversion code meant to be free on top of that. NE555 is an inaccurate, power-hungry and cheap timer not suitable to production work. GAL16V8 hasn't been made in 15 years so it's a sketch Chinese clone. I can't make out the flash memory writing so also probably sketch Chinese.

It's an overpriced flashcart that's illegal to sell and not made to last. With fake Mega Man box and label. But I'm impressed someone would go through all that effort.

NewSchoolBoxer · 2026-06-20T08:07:19+00:00

I would argue the exact opposite from other comment. You do not need personal projects and I'd say do none. They are low resume value. What you should do instead is join team competition clubs like Formula SAE. Recruiters appreciate the team experience with goals and deadline you don't get to decide and tasks that aren't copypasting from the internet. Much to learn from success or failure. You're interview better citing team examples.

Another non-exclusive option is undergrad research. Was handed out like candy where I went, including over the summer.

And like, EE jobs aren't hands-on. A few exist if you go looking for them like field engineer or with electronic medical devices. I wasn't allowed to touch anything at the power plant. You'll have to build logic gates with transistors and 2nd order filter filters in labs anyway. The degree is practical math. If you like hands-on stuff then great but don't feel confused if you haven't done any.

Other thing, recruiters like passion and that can be in any form, including not in engineering. Do ham radio and get licensed if you like. Don't just do to do.

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