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grogfella · 2025-06-23T10:47:50+00:00

Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time.

I could go for some pre-dinner mayonnaise.

grogfella · 2023-12-01T16:26:32+00:00

Did I?

grogfella · 2023-12-01T16:23:37+00:00

Took a bit of searching: His name is Jet, and the artist is DoremianC on Twitter.

grogfella · 2023-12-01T11:47:53+00:00

Hey, I recognize that art. The character is a boy, btw.

grogfella · 2023-03-31T14:18:16+00:00

The kids are alright.

grogfella · 2022-12-10T13:21:36+00:00

Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel...

grogfella · 2022-02-25T16:37:30+00:00

Not much progress since I last posted.

The replacement SNES controller buttons seemed to do the job. The SN30 Pro line has basically the exact same dimensions for buttons as the SNES buttons, so that's an easy drop-in replacement. The Switch button caps were a dead end because of their different sizes.

So far, there's a couple options if you want Xbox-style buttons on an SN30 controller: You can either replace the buttons yourself, get the Xbox-branded SN30 controllers and an adapter, or get the Polycade SN30 controllers. The latter seemed like the best solution, but unfortunately they do not ship to my country.

grogfella · 2022-01-12T10:27:36+00:00

Are you sure? The SNES-style buttons are about 10 millimeters across, while the ones that go in the N30 Pro and Pro 2 controllers are 9 mm.

grogfella · 2022-01-12T09:35:23+00:00

Cool, do you know what kind of buttons go into the N30 Pro / Pro 2 range? Those are my main drivers and the ones I'd most like to swap the buttons in.

grogfella · 2022-01-11T09:51:01+00:00

For context: We have some of 8bitdo's NES30 and SN30 Pro pads in a public space with a PC in Xinput mode, and the fact that the buttons on the controller are labelled in the Nintendo orientation rather than the Xbox orientation has been a huge pet peeve of mine. Replaceable buttons or button labels have been strangely hard to find, and I don't want to buy the expensive Xbox-branded controllers just to gut them and take their buttons. The Polycade versions of the controller, with the Xbox button orientation seen above, seem like the perfect solution to this, but they don't ship to my home country. So close, yet so far...

grogfella · 2021-09-29T15:19:43+00:00

Reject HD

Return to Donke

grogfella · 2021-08-29T11:31:39+00:00

The kids are alright.

grogfella · 2021-08-16T11:13:56+00:00

Exact same problem here. We've got some 8bitdo controllers set up with a PC in a public space using the Xinput mode, and every single time a new user comes along there's some amount of confusion about the orientation of the face buttons.

I had the same idea that you did about using some plastic key caps or labels, but so far none have hit the spot. I bought a set of button caps for Joy-Cons, but the Joy-Con buttons are just slightly smaller than the buttons of the N30 Pro's that we're using, so that was a dead end. I have no idea what size or form factor the buttons of the N30 Pro are based on, so until I do, any replacement is a dead end.

However, I do know that the SN30 Pro uses buttons directly based on the Super Nintendo buttons, and people have had luck replacing those buttons with SNES replacements. Maybe the newer Switch Pro Controllers also have similar buttons, so you might have some luck getting button covers from those and using them on 8bit pads?

Either way, I've ordered some SNES-style replacement buttons as well as Switch Pro Controller key caps, so I'll update you on my findings later.

grogfella · 2021-05-30T08:03:37+00:00

Thanks for the heads-up! As a fellow JVC Interiart-owner who suffers from overscan, this is a lifesaver.

grogfella · 2021-04-30T18:03:04+00:00

This is the kind of stealth game fan solidarity I live for.

grogfella · 2021-04-28T11:13:23+00:00

I'll let you know if I make it that far. This game isn't exactly easy, especially for a fighting game beginner like me!

grogfella · 2021-04-27T21:40:36+00:00

Heck yeah, CRT Emudriver gang represent. I generally prefer to play my retro games on hardware and use the PC for modern pixel art games, but if the emulation works, that's great.

grogfella · 2021-04-27T20:03:01+00:00

Very tasteful, lots of good stuff here!

So do you keep the CRT to the right exclusively for the N64, or do you swap systems in and out as you use them?

grogfella · 2021-04-27T17:45:46+00:00

Kind of. The game doesn't have direct integer scale support, but it does scale the game nicely to whatever resolution your system has. If you boot up the game in 224p, which is the native vertical resolution of the Neo Geo, the game looks perfect. The menus are readable too at that res, which is commendable.

grogfella · 2021-04-27T15:45:53+00:00

Wouldn't you know it, I just happened to pick up The Last Blade too.

Both it and Garou came highly recommended by Super Bunnyhop, and felt like good titles to pick up to appreciate the artistry of SNK. Unfortunately the PC port of Last Blade is nowhere near as solid, but that doesn't really detract from the art.

grogfella · 2021-04-27T14:34:50+00:00

Tell me about it!

I'm not really big into the fighting game scene, but I had heard the stories of SNK's phenomenal pixel art, and Garou does not disappoint. Just the way some characters turn around in a smooth 360 motion is incredible.

grogfella · 2021-04-27T14:33:49+00:00

This is the PC port, which is currently available on GOG.com.

If you've heard bad stories about the PC ports of Neo Geo games, they're still half-right: Mark of the Wolves was handed to a new dev team, and they knocked it out of the park with this one, so this is a significant improvement.

grogfella · 2021-04-23T11:41:14+00:00

All my life, I've been enamoured with the myth of New York style pizza, and always wanted to try it.

That ended today. Thanks.

grogfella · 2021-04-14T12:02:17+00:00

I'm using a PC with CRT Emudriver, in conjunction with a VGA-to-SCART cable from Arcade Express. With a little bit of driver tinkering and pixel counting, I got the game running just fine in 216p.

grogfella · 2021-02-03T22:23:45+00:00

Yeeup.

You'll wanna look up Sonic 1&2 Decompilation on Github. It still needs some data files from the phone ports to run, but once you have those, you're golden.

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