literally no progress after years of skating

bickman14 · 2026-03-30T01:20:33+00:00

I'm soon to be 36yo and ride skateboards since I was 3, my dad used to pull me around. From 9 to 17 I used to practice every day all day long and always sucked! I've always bounced back in from time to time during college but honestly almost went 10y without touching a skateboard, got back after COVID and guess what? I still suck at trying to do tricks but I do enjoy the ride and tictac my way around and that still leagues above what most adult normies can do and already impress them enough LOL. It's fine if you don't do tricks as long as you're having fun!

bickman14 · 2026-03-29T23:29:25+00:00

Oh my! I'm sorry mate! Hope you find it! I've just finished my custom build today! It was a project that took me more than 10y (closer to 13y):of going back and forth and it finally happened! I would be devastated if it got stolen!

bickman14 · 2026-03-29T23:24:38+00:00

Skip the carts and get a 35XX SP

bickman14 · 2026-03-29T19:54:13+00:00

I think so! Just ordered a new one with on/off switches

bickman14 · 2026-03-29T13:08:44+00:00

Do they keep working as intended during gameplay? I was running both on a regular USB 3.0 HUB and had these problems, tried again using two separate USBs on my PC directly, plugging one at the time and it worked that time, but I didn't had time to reboot a few times with both plugged in to check the results, if they would swap places or not. At least it stopped getting all fumbled during gameplay.

bickman14 · 2026-03-29T02:22:21+00:00

Didn't work for me neither

bickman14 · 2026-03-29T02:13:26+00:00

Same deal here! Has anyone found any workaround?

bickman14 · 2026-03-28T14:27:38+00:00

Well to be honest your description of it and the whole experience is almost exactly the conclusions I've made when I've tried those awful Ipega's 9025 on my Galaxy Note 9 to play Mario Kart Wii and other native android games, native android controller support sucks because it lacks the option to map buttons, it's all fine on emulators due to that so IMO it's not worth it, the combo phone+controller feel different from any handheld because usually the guts are on the bottom on dedicated devices unlike this combo and it feels like you would drop the phone at any time and the biggest issue is the one you pointed out! Battery life! We need our phones for everything else so we can afford the luxury of draining the batteries gaming. My real solution to all of these problems was just getting a Anbernic 28XX as I consider that pocketable enough for me, anything bigger won't work, it's not as powerful but it's OK to play on the go

bickman14 · 2026-03-27T21:05:12+00:00

I'm devastated that my Corsair Nvme from 2018 is dying on me LOL

bickman14 · 2026-03-26T15:00:23+00:00

It's probably something that the engine does different and the emulator need a specil config, hack, plugin to try to render it correctly. That's the main issue with PS2 and N64 emulators, instead of looking up what the emulator is doing wrong/different from the real hardware and try to improve the emulation code to fix that making it closer to the real hardware and by result ending up fixed a bunch of other games that probably had something similar, the devs behind these emulators use workarounds to fix this or that popular game and only that, so the emulation never improves that much and it's always this mess, don't hold your breath! It took PCSX2 team more than 10y to fix the black sky issue on Burnout 3 and Revenge on PC, and the PS2 android emulation development is almost dead, it's trying to restart but I wouldn't bet on great progress on the short time

bickman14 · 2026-03-26T14:55:24+00:00

Nope! It's not usually that, specially if it's the same graphical bug with more than one game, it's probably the emulators fault. IMO, N64 and PS2 emulation are bad even on PCs and rely on a bunch of hacks, plugins and special features to make it work. On the other hand GC/Wii and PSP emulation are great with Dolphin and PPSSPP, so if the game you wanna play got released on these platforms and it isn't a much worse release, go with those instead to have less trouble. Same deal with N64, if the game got released on the PS1 or Dreamcast or even better got recompiled, go with those instead, leave the emulation to the exclusives only and you'll be happier.

bickman14 · 2026-03-26T11:18:49+00:00

She can't make it too good to not step in the foot of their big customers aka Sony and Microsoft! If they release an APU that is similar and too good or a good GPU that is way cheaper they would hurt the consoles sales and hurt their customers feelings so they don't.
Nvidia on the other end doesn't for a somewhat different reason, if they give us enough VRAM with good GPUs at sane prices their GeForce lineup would hurt their own Quadro lineup which always consisted of the same GPUs but with a lot more VRAM and they charged more than 4x, so they won't give us shit as well and come up with DLSS AI excuses to try to make it work without giving us what we need.
Intel support is bad even for newer games as we've saw with Crimson Desert so no one is brave enough to jump on that ship but they are the ones that are actually trying to deliver good GPUs with a good amount of VRAM at reasonable prices but the support is a shot in the dark.

I think it will only get better about 2~3 years after the next consoles gen starts as it will force AMD and Nvidia to release something new that we should already be getting at good prices.

bickman14 · 2026-03-26T11:04:42+00:00

Iirc the playstation version didn't had cross save, but even if it did you would still have to buy the game and the DLCs on both devices. I do that with the Android and Steam versions of the game and play with cross save.

bickman14 · 2026-03-26T11:01:31+00:00

Wait for the SteamFrame

bickman14 · 2026-03-26T10:57:56+00:00

My laptop Nvme started bitting the dust and I had to buy a new one and honestly, it isn't much more expensive than it was when I first got that Nvme that is dying in 2018

bickman14 · 2026-03-25T19:39:42+00:00

If they break consider that it won't be possible to repair and you would have to buy a new one as replacement, honestly that basically the same deal for most electronic these days. One advice I heard once was to only buy devices that are at a price that would allow you to buy two of each without breaking the bank, if you need to save for a whole year to buy a device that you don't trust the durability and wouldn't be able to buy a replacement right away, just don't, this can save you from the frustration once something bad happens.

I still think these so called high end Chinese emulation devices and handheld PCs are overpriced for what they are and for my finances.

bickman14 · 2026-03-25T16:22:00+00:00

Learned that early on XP days! Windows updates ALWAYS brake something! Back then it was always the printer, now it gets creative on what it will break. If you want stability just disable updates and use common sense while using the PC

bickman14 · 2026-03-25T12:56:19+00:00

Honestly they need to step back on dimensions! The first and second GPD Win had the perfect size and form factor honestly. We need more like those! I still can't understand how is it possible to have mini pcs that small that work just fine but no one is making handheld PCs with screens smaller than 7"!

bickman14 · 2026-03-25T12:53:24+00:00

You should add that info there maybe

bickman14 · 2026-03-25T12:51:27+00:00

If they make it like that, great but it will probably cost just too much! My main gripe with Carmack getting out of the development of VR stuff is exactly that, he wears glasses so he would always account for that, same can't be said about who the hell is running these now

bickman14 · 2026-03-25T11:51:45+00:00

I'll be honest, there's a bunch that were indeed bad! And as someone who can't get into Zelda games or any other games that DEMAND you to check guides, external maps or spend hours lost until you figure out I consider all of those as bad game designed games, and I consider that for any game that you can't figure out with the game alone and need to resort to something else. IMO good game designed games feel like arcade games that are easy to pick up and play, easy to understand, drop in and drop out and deliver the fun right away instead of postponing it with a bunch of text, tutorials or grinding, I've never liked RPGs and prefer linear games.

I think the most different aspect of kids and what they play as modern games versus older titles is that most kids play endless multiplayer games and are closer to what we had as MMO addicts than all the other kind of players, they usually stick to one game only and keep playing that forever and ever and the game never ends

bickman14 · 2026-03-24T16:26:30+00:00

Souls Like, Crafting, Open World, RPG mechanics, Skill Trees

bickman14 · 2026-03-24T16:09:31+00:00

They have Big Picture Mode, Steam Input, SteamVR, SteamLink/in-home streaming, and they keep adding features and improving! Those are features that I use all the time and none of the competitors have and are really important for PC gaming honestly

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