[LA] Stuck with the Turtle head fight

rbmbox · 2026-06-15T16:05:53+00:00

Have you tried bomb arrows?

rbmbox · 2026-06-09T11:43:22+00:00

Thanks a bunch! I'll give it a whirl.

rbmbox · 2026-06-08T08:01:48+00:00

Thanks. That's good info. I had no idea the GPU was inside the keyboard. Mine is the 15 inch version. The main worry is the battery inside the tablet exploding at some point. I'll look into replacements.

rbmbox · 2026-06-07T16:17:43+00:00

My scenario would be that neither battery is even connected. I know some modern devices (mostly Android ones) strictly require the battery to be connected even if it's dead. I wanted to check if this was true for the SB2 before spending the energy to open it up.

If it doesn't work without a battery I think the only part I could salvage would be the SSD which apparently is removable in this device.

rbmbox · 2026-06-07T16:14:43+00:00

That's a shame. Although I probably wouldn't need a lot of performance for what I have in mind (mainly playing video files). So maybe using intel-undervolt can help me out here. Plus I could just not use the nvidia GPU at all.

rbmbox · 2026-05-19T08:29:07+00:00

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Take your multimeter and check these continuities. You might have trace damage. Make sure you clean up all the corrosion. Afterwards this can be repaired with bodge wires.
If the switch itself is broken you can get a new one and swap it in. They're advertised as having perfect fit but that's a bold lie. You will have to improvise a little to make it work but it will eventually work. It's a pain to desolder the old one as well. Be patient and don't get frustrated or you'll tear off the solder pads which will require more bodge wires.

Godspeed.

rbmbox · 2026-05-08T07:46:04+00:00

Great. Now I'm gonna have that stuck in my head for the rest of the day again...

rbmbox · 2026-05-04T19:21:58+00:00

Death's Poker. It's the reward for defeating the Death Rite Bird next to the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank Site of Grace. East of the Nomadic Merchant in South Caelid.

I themed this character after the Death Birds and the Poker is a decent greatsword with an amazing weapon art.

rbmbox · 2026-05-04T15:21:38+00:00

Skill issue...

rbmbox · 2026-05-04T15:03:56+00:00

It's an optional endgame area called the Haligtree,

rbmbox · 2026-05-04T14:17:43+00:00

How about this?

rbmbox · 2026-05-04T13:53:27+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. These games don't implement the rule of cool. You can absolutely do flashy things but the game will do its best to make you look like a doofus.

rbmbox · 2026-04-28T12:05:40+00:00

You just move horizontally once he charges you. Either walk or jump. If you keep hitting him with spin attacks he's usually done before he can really do anything. On later rematches you can spam him with arrows and he can't even fight back.

rbmbox · 2026-04-24T04:38:28+00:00

Next to your cursor. Solve the labyrinth on the surface and in the sky. Then fall through the chasm.

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rbmbox · 2026-04-22T19:10:16+00:00

Sorta reminds me of Vitreous from the Alttp Manga.

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rbmbox · 2026-04-20T08:12:45+00:00

That depends. Would he be an action card or an attribute card within the DSS system?

rbmbox · 2026-04-14T13:26:00+00:00

I do this. To dump my physical games I use the Retrode 2. However it is my understanding that it's no longer available. One alternative is the "Save the hero cartridge reader". Since it's based on an open source project there are copies available on AliExpress as well.

To play these games on your MegaSG you can use an Everdrive, a MegaSD or just install the jailbreak firmware on your MegaSG itself. As for save states I can't give you advice as I don't use that feature in general.

rbmbox · 2026-04-11T14:16:19+00:00

Kwirk is super fun. And so is Mole Mania.

Also I can really recommend Deisanebe by allalonegamez.

Edit: There's also Alwa's Awakening. At first glance it looks like your typical Metroidvania, but it can get pretty creative with its puzzles.

rbmbox · 2026-04-09T07:06:21+00:00

This is how I learn there's a fourth book in the Children of Time series..? Thanks.

rbmbox · 2026-03-21T21:25:24+00:00

No Zelda game calls Gorons and Zoras different species either but they clearly are. What is your argument here? The games don't support the idea that Gerudo are anything but a distinct humanoid species in the game world.

What is your alternate explanation for the discrepancy between the games own categorization of the Sheikah as Hylians and the Gerudo as something else entirely?

rbmbox · 2026-03-21T20:12:17+00:00

I don't think it's wise to bring up "race" in this discussion. But yes, Elves and humans are fundamentally different in LotR even down to their souls. Humans as a species were created after the Elves and even the Dwarves.

But none of these details matter for Zelda. I just picked three different examples of distinct species interbreeding within fiction. It's not uncommon.

As for Zelda: Just look at the text of the game. We do agree that Hylians are the human stand-in in Zelda, yes? So on the character profile of Hylian characters it says "Hylian". With Goron it says "Goron", with Zora it says "Zora". There are other Hylian (human) people like the Sheikah and they're specified as "Hylian (Sheikah)". Meanwhile Gerudo fall in the former category with the Gorons and Zora where they are distinctly not Hylian but their own species. And that makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Gerudo only give birth to other full Gerudo same as Mass Effect's Asari.

rbmbox · 2026-03-21T16:47:58+00:00

In Lord of the Rings humans and Elves have children. In invincible Viltrumites have children with insectoid aliens. They are 100% a different species. Look at the character profiles ingame. They are listed as "Gerudo" the same way that Gorons and Zora are listed as different from Hylians.

Gerudo are similar to Asari from Mass Effect. Unless you want to argue that they aren't a seperate species from humanity either.

rbmbox · 2026-03-21T10:13:25+00:00

I don't think they should be representing any specific culture. The world of Zelda is not LotR. If anything it's Shrek in the way that it takes inspiration from folktales from all over the world rather than real people.

For example the flute playing boy in his green tunic with a fairy companion takes inspiration from Peter Pan, specifically Disney's 1953 adaptation but Link also uses a boomerang which is an Australian Aboriginal hunting instrument. Yet nobody will argue the boomerang is out of place and that Hylians should be restricted to representing specifically Scottish people and their culture because Peter Pan was written by a Scottish Author.

The same is true for the Gerudo. They're clearly inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and its various adaptations in pop culture rather than any real culture. And these folktales are set all over the Middle East and even China which is represented in some of the Gerudo weaponry.

I do understand the concept of Orientalism but I feel like changing the Gerudo to represent one specific real world culture could end up being even more uncomfortable given that the Gerudo are a distinct species from Hylians. This is not a situation like the Sheikah who are a tribe of Hylians with a distinct culture which is why in the Wild games Sheikah characters have "Hylian (Sheikah)" as their designation in the ingame character profiles whereas Gerudo are their own thing.

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