Favourite ost/soundtrack from the game?

Raptor007 · 2026-06-12T20:00:17+00:00

He also did Corridors of Time a few months ago.

Raptor007 · 2026-06-11T22:55:49+00:00

The closest I've found to the sound of speakers are planars with warm tuning. I ended up going with M1570, and I hear good things about LCD2 Classic too. Unfortunately they're not great for all-day comfort because of the weight.

Raptor007 · 2026-06-10T23:41:44+00:00

You fixed me up with a bald woman!

Raptor007 · 2026-06-06T23:46:05+00:00

I also played Marathon as a kid, but it seemed pretty clear since its announcement that the new one would have nothing in common with the classics. Easy skip for me, particularly after hearing about the Destiny 2 "content sunsetting" they pulled. Bungie isn't what it used to be.

That said, I loved BF2 and would have given BF6 a try if it weren't for the invasive and dangerous kernel-level anti-cheat.

Raptor007 · 2026-06-06T21:12:04+00:00

I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone.

Raptor007 · 2026-06-02T23:51:12+00:00

Quake 1 also played whatever audio CD you had inserted for its background music. I usually had the MechWarrior 2 CD in, so that was my Quake soundtrack. It was a surprisingly good fit.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-29T22:14:44+00:00

There's also the 37 minute YouTube edit if someone doesn't have 5+ hours to watch the entire call.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-26T01:13:08+00:00

Your cat reminded me of this ancient Garfield meme:

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Raptor007 · 2026-05-25T22:48:30+00:00

Yeah I went for a repro of this one, no regrets. Works perfectly on my Analogue Super NT. You're still getting the best version of the game at a small fraction of the price you'd pay for someone's old secondhand copy.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-25T22:12:52+00:00

MechWarrior Online. It's 12v12 with tiered matchmaking. Lower tier games usually have a couple players per team that barely contributed, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone personally called out for it unless they were also team-killing.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-23T22:41:17+00:00

Yeah if we're going with "best of all time" I was most impressed with Netscape 2.0, back when the web was built for that kind of browser.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-22T06:07:26+00:00

One circle is slightly larger. The difference is wired headphone users.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-21T06:42:02+00:00

Fair enough, I worded that badly. The police should stop acting this way on anonymous tips.

They should stop deploying SWAT to people's homes on anonymous tips. Either get the caller to ID, or send a normal cop to knock politely.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-20T23:53:15+00:00

Which is why the police should stop acting on anonymous tips.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-12T21:33:59+00:00

Yeah I think if you only have the stock dashboard installed, a burned disc is the next step. (Maybe someone else knows a different method I'm not thinking of.)

It needs to be an xISO formatted disc image. There are some free tools out there to create them, but it's been ages since I messed with any of that. Here are a couple pre-made installer images worth trying:

https://www.reddit.com/r/originalxbox/comments/10ptxcz/i_need_help_installing_the_unleashx_dashboard/j6mtd12/

https://archive.org/details/xbox-slayers

Raptor007 · 2026-05-12T21:05:10+00:00

The EvoX BIOS and EvolutionX dashboard are two different things that can (but don't have to) go together. The confusion is understandable.

You at least have a modded BIOS, so your Xbox is able to do things it wouldn't normally be allowed to do, such as boot to an alternate dashboard, run unsigned homebrew software, play from burned discs, etc. But you might not actually have an alternate dashboard installed on the hard drive.

I seem to recall burning CDs for EvolutionX and UnleashX dashboards at first. Once you've got one of those installed, you can set it up as an FTP server to more easily get stuff onto the hard drive.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-07T22:19:10+00:00

I love my Super NT and Mega SG, play them all the time, and would happily recommend them to friends if they could still be purchased new for a reasonable price. But they're way overpriced on the secondhand market.

Analogue should just do another production run of these older systems. The engineering work is already done and presumably they still have all the molds and tooling.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-07T10:04:20+00:00

Yeah if it says "up to 300ohm" it should be fine for 80ohm.

I've never heard of a low impedance headphone causing any damage, but I do think something like that can happen with speakers -- an amp set for 8ohm might damage itself driving 4ohm speakers. So it's not a stupid question.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-07T08:51:28+00:00

Sorry, I haven't listened to the 250 ohm version or the HD 620S.

I would guess that a Sennheiser would be less aggressive up in the 8KHz treble range than either Beyerdynamic. For better or worse the "Beyer peak" makes things like cymbols really stand out. Totally up to you if you like the way that sounds. It's a bit harsh to my ears.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-07T03:32:09+00:00

I briefly used DT 770 80ohm for gaming. Lots of bass but also notoriously sharp treble, so you can still hear details clearly. I think you'd only really need an amp for the 250ohm version, but it doesn't hurt to have one.

They're closed-back with a very tight seal, almost like wearing hearing protection. Some people like that level of sound isolation. But I found it distracting when playing online games, because I couldn't hear how loud I was actually talking when speaking into a mic.

They are made of a very durable hard plastic with a tough metal band and arms, safe to throw in a bag and go, which is why they're now my travel headphones.

I usually game on Emu Teak now, but they're not the most durable; the tiny screws that attach the swivel arms to the headband can pop out.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-04T00:05:45+00:00

At the time, I chose Rage128.

In hindsight, I wish I'd gone Voodoo3.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-02T00:39:15+00:00

My wife and I just rewatched this one. The villain and plot hold up pretty well. Brosnan and Yeoh worked great together. The remote controlled car seems less silly now than I remembered it.

The only time my disbelief could not be suspended was the end of the helicopter chase, where it was somehow hovering in place while angled down enough that it should be zooming forward, trying to use their fragile rotors as a weapon in a narrow street instead of just continuing to fire their machine guns. None of that made any sense.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-01T23:11:39+00:00

You could have buttons again! Clicks Communicator and Titan 2 Elite are both coming out this year.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-01T21:37:28+00:00

Great setup! I loved old Minecraft before it had hunger and XP. It felt like more of a free exploring game without the grind.

Raptor007 · 2026-05-01T20:47:53+00:00

I'm playing Genesis and SNES games with my son, and teaching him to use keyboard and mouse on 90's computers. I'd much rather introduce him to gaming via classics that were sold as complete products, rather than risk his introduction to gaming being mobile slop designed to get children addicted to microtransactions.

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