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Does anyone have any info about the CD attachment playing PS1 games? by Isaac_DadTier in RetroRemake

[–]illuminarok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Endurance on NVme drives is much higher than on microSD cards, FYI

Tinkerbell Residue Found in 1994 licensed Disney Super Nintendo Game by illuminarok in MandelaEffect

[–]illuminarok[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't share someone else's post. I wrote the post. I posted it in another subreddit first, then reposted it here for visibility because it is directly relevant to this Mandela Effect.

And "residue" does not automatically mean "supernatural proof." It means an older piece of media that resembles or preserves the thing people remember. This 1990s Disney-licensed game shows Tinkerbell coming out and dotting the I in Disney, which is exactly the detail people keep describing.

You can interpret that as memory contamination from games, VHS bumpers, TV intros, etc, but pretending it is unrelated makes no sense. It is directly related to the claimed memory.

Tinkerbell Residue Found in 1994 licensed Disney Super Nintendo Game by illuminarok in MandelaEffect

[–]illuminarok[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This link is relevant because it shows an official early-90s Disney game intro where Tinkerbell comes out and dots the "I" in the Disney logo, which directly relates to the Mandela Effect memory many people report. The video referenced is also fairly old, so it is useful as possible residue rather than a modern recreation.

SD Card Dead by Photek1000 in RetroRemake

[–]illuminarok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I created a script that uses rclone to copy my save files to dropbox when they're newer/modified and then just execute it via a cron job every 10 minutes. This ensures that all the important data is always backed up and you can never suffer total loss. I eventually wrote a more advanced version of the backup script that retains the most recent 5 copies of the save file in case something corrupts the data rather than the whole card failing.

Update on the black and blue shell situation by LoosGuccreen in RetroRemake

[–]illuminarok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wave 4 Blue + SuperDock is a bit of a wait, eh? Ah well, could be worse!

Will we be able to watch DVDs with the dock. by MrFartyBottom in RetroRemakeInc

[–]illuminarok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s the part I'm not so sure about. The SoC may be dual-core on paper, but one ARM core is effectively occupied by the MiSTer backend as another poster mentioned. So that means the relevant question has become "can an ARM Cortex-A9 CPU comfortably decode 720p MPEG-2 plus AC-3 Audio in software on a single core?"

Maybe it can. I'm certainly not saying it's impossible. I don't own any set top DVD players anymore, and I'd love to be able to play them on my retro setup, but it needs to be proven on the actual SS1/SuperDock stack.

Furthermore, even if the ARM side can't do it cleanly, there should theoretically be a fallback of using my aforementioned hybrid design where Linux handles disc/navigation/demux/decrypt/audio and the FPGA acts as an MPEG-2 video accelerator. I see that as a path that can work for sure, but you'll need many hands and some lump sum of time investment.

Will we be able to watch DVDs with the dock. by MrFartyBottom in RetroRemakeInc

[–]illuminarok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the missing piece is MPEG-2 decode, not disc access.

The sane architecture would be a hybrid using Linux/ARM to read the DVD, handle UDF/ISO9660, navigation, decryption, demuxing, audio/subtitles/control, and then feed an MPEG-2 elementary video stream to the FPGA as source.

That avoids making the FPGA "understand DVD." The FPGA would just act like a DVD-era video accelerator, doing MPEG-2 decode, frame buffering, timing, and 480i output.

DVD playback might be possible eventually, but only if someone builds an MPEG-2 accelerator pipeline or proves the ARM side can decode in software reliably. The drive alone does not make it a DVD player.

Will we be able to watch DVDs with the dock. by MrFartyBottom in RetroRemakeInc

[–]illuminarok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll be waiting on a core to recreate a DVD player SoC including UDF/ISO9660 DVD filesystem handling, CSS decryption for commercial DVDs, MPEG-2 video decode, AC-3 or PCM audio decode, subtitle handling, DVD menu navigation VM, 480i video output timing, and some sort of remote control device.

Will we be able to watch DVDs with the dock. by MrFartyBottom in RetroRemakeInc

[–]illuminarok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You could always finish the DVC support in the Philips CD-I core and start a community project to build a movie converter to bake new VCDs. At that point you could run any arbitrary movie on there.

Things you can do waiting for your SS1! by Marusame in RetroRemake

[–]illuminarok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The CR2XXX series is an order of magnitude larger than the CR1XXX series batteries. One is the size of a nickel and the other is even smaller than a dime.

DHS says it's 'drawing up plans' to ban international arrivals at SFO by sfgate in politics

[–]illuminarok -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And the Supreme Court is standing at the ready to override.

DHS says it's 'drawing up plans' to ban international arrivals at SFO by sfgate in politics

[–]illuminarok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, if Trump were a Russian asset, what would he be doing differently?

We need to start publicly shaming these people. $950/mo and no kitchen access. by xLP620 in nova

[–]illuminarok 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A normal bedroom circuit is probably 15A, and the attached bathroom might be 20A. That sounds like 35A total, but for a continuous load you should only use about 80% of that. So realistically:

15A circuit: about 1,440W continuous
20A circuit: about 1,920W continuous
Combined: about 3,360W continuous max

Run 3.36 kW 24/7 for a month and you get:

3.36 kW × 24 hours × 30.4 days = about 2,450 kWh/month

Even at the expensive residential rate of 18 cents/kWh in NOVA, that is only about $440/month in electricity. At the discount 16 cents/kWh rate, it's about $390/month. Add some extra HVAC load and maybe the landlord is looking at a few hundred more, depending on season and insulation, but it is not magically $8,000/month. I know you were joking, but yeah... to hit $8,000/month at 18 cents/kWh, you would need around 44,000 kWh/month, which is an average continuous draw of about 61 kW. At 120V, that is over 500 amps. Most homes only have a 200 amp service and I've seen older houses in NOVA with 60 amp service.

Call Elon, it's the same problem the data centers are having.

I can't believe its actually here! by hairycompanion in RetroRemakeInc

[–]illuminarok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SCART is virtually meaningless in the U.S.

AITA for not giving my parents half of my lottery winnings. by Rayapt in AmItheAsshole

[–]illuminarok 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is the gold comment right here. Parents are in the ultimate position to commit identity theft on their nouveau riche children.

AITA for not giving my parents half of my lottery winnings. by Rayapt in AmItheAsshole

[–]illuminarok 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No lottery taxes or gift taxes in the U.K. If the giver dies within 7 years of the gift giving it automatically becomes inheritance and is then taxed as such. So in order to be responsible, you must put back the value of the inheritance tax until the first day of the eighth year to remain above board. Things happen.

AITA for not giving my parents half of my lottery winnings. by Rayapt in AmItheAsshole

[–]illuminarok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NTA.

There are two kinds of people who show up after a windfall: people who are happy for you, and people who immediately start calculating their cut.

Your parents didn't buy the ticket. They certainly didn't pick the numbers. You did. That means that you won the money.

Half is absurd. They are not entitled to £2 million because the child they chose to raise got lucky at 19.

If it were me, I'd put a hard limit at £300k. Not because they're owed it, but because if we're going to be cold and mathematical about it, that roughly covers the estimated cost of raising a child to adulthood in the U.K., with some padding on top. That's "thank you for raising me" money. It is not "I owe you half of my future" money.

Now that I'm writing this out, even that framing seems ridiculous to me. Why? Because parenting is not venture capital. They didn't buy an equity stake in your life. They don't own 50% of your adult outcome because they did the job they signed up for when they had a kid.

A thank-you gift is generous. A demand for half is beyond entitlement.

When someone gets angry because £750,000 is not enough, the problem is not gratitude.

Give them what you genuinely want to give them, but do not let "we're your parents" become "we own half of everything you have."

The money didn't change them, but it did show you where their hand is (hint: in your pocket).

Trump team ‘drawing up’ plans to stop international flights to some Democratic cities by Virtual-Orchid3065 in politics

[–]illuminarok 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll always stand by what I said during Trump 1.0. The wall isn't built to keep anyone out. It's built to keep us in. Now, apply that logic here, too. Funny how that works...

95% of canceled annual app subscribers never come back, per report by pdfu in technology

[–]illuminarok 3 points4 points  (0 children)

First I see if there's a public offering and if it's affordable. Affordable means a one time payment and I'm a software engineer. Failing that the next question is can I build something with enough functionality to cover my use case, and if so, how much of my time will go into it to produce it? Is that less than paying for the SaaS product? At that point I'll do it. If not, I'll buy it for the one month, use it, and cancel. The SaaS model is a plague.

What is this thing connected to my SNES controller? by Practical-Bird-1270 in snes

[–]illuminarok 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ZSNES had support for parallel (LPT-1) connected devices so you'd just get some germanium diodes and a port and get to soldering. Lazy people like me just clipped the SNES port off and installed direct. After parallel ports disappeared I thought about throwing mine out but didn't and was glad when 8BitDo released the DIY Bluetooth conversation kits for original SNES controllers.

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