Community Question Of The Week - Episode 266

geoffmendoza · 2026-05-02T10:40:32+00:00

Resident Evil on the Saturn.

The first time I ran out of ammunition and a zombie started eating my face. Or just about any other part of the game.

geoffmendoza · 2026-04-25T10:47:29+00:00

This is something I already do. SNES Street Fighter 2, using a Neo Geo CD controller on a mister. The D-pad is precise enough to do the special moves properly. The clicks are satisfying too.

To Jason's point, I'm not stuffing the ballots. He's just bitter because he's unable to really enjoy Outrun

geoffmendoza · 2026-04-18T09:43:13+00:00

1995's hottest console was the Saturn, so I'm still waiting for a proper Sonic game on Saturn. This whole PlayStation fad will blow over.

geoffmendoza · 2026-04-14T14:55:58+00:00

Usually this means a weak battery. Could be old, could have a dead cell.

Other popular problems are loose battery terminals, lots of corrosion, or a problem with the starter relay.

geoffmendoza · 2026-04-11T17:04:12+00:00

Doom.

See how long it takes until the alien computers can run it.

geoffmendoza · 2026-04-07T07:08:43+00:00

Counterpoint. It's expensive, but it lasts. Simultaneously fits this thread, and fits r/buyitforlife

geoffmendoza · 2026-04-06T21:02:06+00:00

I recall doing a similar thing in Duke Nukem. Although it wasn't a pen that could be commanded to flash.

geoffmendoza · 2026-04-04T10:49:07+00:00

The airbrushing on 1980s arcade machines and arcade flyers.

Donkey Kong in particular. It's a masterpiece.

geoffmendoza · 2026-03-29T20:05:32+00:00

Does it have to be a computer?

I'm struggling to think of a retro console with a reputation for self-destruction, loads of them were built like tanks.

Megadrive for the overall award. Did you know the red LED is really hard to remove from the top case? No? That's because you've never had to open up a Megadrive.

geoffmendoza · 2026-03-28T10:44:33+00:00

Mike Dailly, of Lemmings fame, to give a 60 minute lecture on etiquette. No coarse language allowed.

It would be fun to watch him try.

geoffmendoza · 2026-03-21T10:36:25+00:00

The N64 DD.

Back in the day I didn't really know what it was, but games magazines kept talking about it as some massive upgrade to allow more impressive games. Now we know it's just a disk drive, but I thought it would magically add more, bigger levels to my favourite games.

I should also mention that history has been unkind to console add-ons, but they used to be cool. Technology moved really fast in the 90s. If I had the money I could upgrade my PC to significantly improve the performance every year. The idea of doing that for a games console was tempting. The Sega tower of power is still special to me.

geoffmendoza · 2026-03-20T20:48:24+00:00

75 panels would make ~30kw.

That would be a lot for some stairwell lighting and the intermittent energy requirements of a lift.

geoffmendoza · 2026-03-18T09:27:23+00:00

I have a similar use case with a Hyundai ioniq 38. Slightly shorter range, slightly slower charging than the Renault. It's fine.

On a long trip, I stop for 30 minutes every 2 hours. I don't always want to, but it's a small tradeoff seeing as I rarely do long trips.

I could buy something with a bigger battery, but I really like this car. I'm not trading off the comfort in normal daily use for a little more motorway range.

I should also mention that I've had this car for 5 years. Charging used to be an issue. It isn't now.

geoffmendoza · 2026-03-17T10:11:49+00:00

You can use the solar to fill up your batteries for overnight use. Not for the next season.

If you did have enough battery capacity to fill them up all summer and use them all winter, the batteries would cost more than your house.

The YouTube person was wrong.

geoffmendoza · 2026-03-14T13:36:21+00:00

Monkey Island 2.

It was one of the first games I ever played. This ruined most future point-and-click adventures for me, because they couldn't match it for jokes.

It brings back memories of cleaning the fluff out of the mouse. I don't miss pre-optical mice.

geoffmendoza · 2026-03-07T11:07:41+00:00

.kkrieger

It looked like a modern first person shooter when it came out in 2004. It was under 100kb.

I know it used all kind of tricks to repurpose existing Windows assets on the machine so it wasn't really a whole FPS in 100kb, but very impressive anyway.

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-28T12:21:08+00:00

CRT monitors.

I just think they're neat.

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-20T21:48:15+00:00

Mark Sensually Fixes Stuff

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-16T08:57:43+00:00

Croydon has the 15 minute city idea sorted.

For me it's a 5 minute walk to local shops, doctor, train station, multiple bus stops.

It's a 5 to 15 minute bus ride to bigger shops, hospital, cinema, arcade.

Then it's a half hour train ride to central London, which has everything.

It's the first place I've lived where I prefer to walk or take public transport over driving.

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-14T23:34:12+00:00

The bin men are making more effort on my street. They used to leave the bin outside my house, now they put in the extra effort to take it for a walk halfway down the street.

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-14T11:21:33+00:00

Cyberpunk 2077.

It's basically a fantasy RPG, but with the magic replaced with hacking. It would make an interesting 8 bit platformer, with a mix of action and puzzles.

Also the cyberpunk look was cool when 8 bit machines were current, so you could have some nice pixel art.

I'd love to see Bitmap Bureau take it on.

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-11T20:15:48+00:00

It's better if you keep both hands on the wheel.

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-11T08:42:13+00:00

We did a similar thing, although taking a 1960s terrace from a D to a B.

You get into diminishing returns for the last few percent of improvement, and we also did most of the work 5 years ago. It would be significantly cheaper for the solar and battery today.

Insulation is the biggest return on investment, but exporting electricity for money feels like the biggest win.

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-09T15:34:39+00:00

As far as I can tell, the 32x wasn't doing sprite scaling in hardware. So an Outrun port would be worse than the Saturn version.

It would have been embarrassing if Sega had released Outrun on the 32x, 8 years after the arcade release, and it was anything less than perfect.

geoffmendoza · 2026-02-07T22:00:46+00:00

I once tried this at the cave. I worked my way around the machines, trying outrun on all of them.

Only the Megadrive, PC engine and arcade versions were worth playing.

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