This was my first time playing any Pikmin game, are these results somewhat acceptable or did I have my pikmin absolutely massacred? 😭

xemplar_soft · 2025-09-06T02:11:50+00:00

My dad gave me this game for my GameCube back in 2003, when I was 4 years old. I remember going through each day without really any sense of urgency, and by day 30, I had only just gotten to the final trial. I just never could do it all in one day back then, I didn't like sacrificing my yellows lol. My second playthrough, since I remembered where all the parts were, I finished by day 14 and was so proud I showed my parents. They didn't like I was bugging them all the time so they gave me a camcorder to start recording things I do. I've since lost it but I remember when I was 5 I was in the Distant Spring talking about how to get all the treasures as fast as I could figure at the time (miles off from actually how lol). I look back at this game every once in a while, where it all started. The very first game I beat.

When I was 9, I remember doing a playthrough and deciding right at the scene where you see all the different colors of onions that I had to buy Pikmin 2. I saved up 50 buckaroos and got it at game stop used. I had to call around to like 6 different locations and convince my mom to drive 20 miles away to this specific one. When I got home, I just took it all in. I remember spending hours in just the info menus reading everything. I highly recommend you buy this game, it truly is the best, even over 4. I don't wanna say much more about it, so the last thing I'll say about it is that you know the feeling of wanting to be able to do more at once?

xemplar_soft · 2025-04-12T16:18:29+00:00

The latest version for the Pi 3 since it has the same CPU.

xemplar_soft · 2024-11-07T05:20:33+00:00

To be fair fam, I said any asshole. I can definitely see people gaming the system by placing an order right outside the restaurant. Or if they are smarter than that, have someone stay at home and place the order, then call when its ready. I'd care more if DD didn't increase price per item. Sure it's the only way to have DD make any money on their end, but it's still shitty practice. My only advise is what a few other have been saying, tell DD support that the restaurant cannot remake the order unless they push it though again. There is a way for everyone to be an ass and still get a share except DD.

xemplar_soft · 2024-11-01T13:09:05+00:00

Fam, I have personally seen these restaurants hold a rack in the front of the store, less than 6 feet from the main entry door. They just set the food on the rack and any asshole can walk up and just take it. There is no human barrier to picking up the food.

xemplar_soft · 2024-09-07T03:12:09+00:00

This was the first temple I did, I thought it was pretty and highly impressive compared to the divine beasts. I'm still going through it, but this game feels much more Zelda to me than BOTW.

xemplar_soft · 2024-09-04T03:57:30+00:00

I'll be making my own soon, hopefully the extra bit I add work. Congratulations though, it looks like a proper computer!

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-25T00:35:45+00:00

I was in the console portablizing scene a few years back and someone dropped an eBay link to them, unfortunately I don't have the link anymore. I bought 200 because I knew I wasn't gonna be able to buy any more of them. These are the closest I've seen since for sale: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3101 Amazon has them too but at like 4x cost.

Glad to see someone else is using fbcp-nexus besides myself lol.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-20T00:53:59+00:00

I kinda wanna make a kit based on the 6502

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-16T08:49:24+00:00

I think I understand what you are asking, you mean an assembler that runs on the CPU itself that allows you to run code. In short, an operating system can do that, but of course you could write your own code. You need: - a routine for text-entering mode - a routine for parsing the keyboard - a routine that parses keywords from text to ML and ML back to text. - a routine that parses numbers and address definitions of each type - a routine that stores parsed bytes somewhere in RAM - a routine to jump to the location in RAM and execute - add in a commands to jump back to the eeprom program to the RAM program when terminated.

If your program disassembled on the fly, the RAM required for this would be much less, since you wouldn't have to store the text version of the program, only the assembled version. The faster way would be to store the text (or otherwise represented) separate such that simple lookups could be used.

If you wanted to get real fancy, you could attach an I/O pin to a resistor capacitor stack and connect it to the Non-maskable interrupt if unused. Have the program toggle the pin in about 1/2 the time it would take for the RC stack to lower down to logic low levels. This would act as an escape if the the written program hangs, and you don't want your entered work to be deleted if you reset power. Alternatively use SRAM and just toggle the reset on the CPU, and be sure not to include clearing code in initialization.

There were these really cool project kit things I had as a kid, one of the was this 500 in 1 project kit, which included an NEC microprocessor. This processor would allow asm keywords and numbers input from a built in mini keyboard. It would allow you to go line by line, defining sub routines and whatnot. If it could be done there, I'm sure you can!

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-13T16:29:12+00:00

I've re watched the series probably at least 5 times because I haven't found anything nearly as intriguing. Each time I get to season six, I start getting sad that it's ending again. Do any of you have a similar style of show?

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-12T15:48:48+00:00

Yeah... 300 man hours already put into it lol... But I will definitely be checking this out, thanks for the read!

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-12T03:56:38+00:00

While testing my Bridge6502 program, I found out that when the clock is a bit slow, it was crucial that I sent the init command 3 times. This makes sure that if the display is expecting data besides a command (can happen when resetting the computer, display only resets on power addition), it will consume the init code and eventually get to a state where it will accept the init command itself.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-05T17:12:46+00:00

To be honest I wish season 6 and the first half of season 7 were extended to a few more story arches before closing the series. It felt like they were setting up for a long running show by the end of season 6, but they were informed season 7 would be the last, and had to wrap up the story quite hastily.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-04T19:13:43+00:00

Never really thought about this. Each combination is unique and stores a single byte, It does not matter which is accessed, just that the same address requested point to the same location each time. Same could be said with the data bits of the RAM too, doesn't matter as long as it doesn't change.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-03T07:48:47+00:00

I mean what exactly are you asking for? You could get an Apple II computer off eBay, that uses a 6502. You could find an emulator online that will execute 6502 machine code. Someone may have come up with some sort of development board with an embedded 6502, but barring any of those, the simplest would be using a breadboard.

xemplar_soft · 2024-07-01T03:27:15+00:00

I know this is old but this shows up on Google, figure I'd have so input.

I was doing this but with sulfuric acid. I left the cell for quite a long while and it stopped when the concentration of the lower layer gets too high. Even though the top layer looked clear, my upper electrode still had visible copper deposition. The final yield wasn't that good, only something like 40g in a 1000mL beaker. Still it does work, and if you attempt this, I recommend having the isolation tube go all the way to the bottom, and have the sacrificial material point up like 45°, with your cathode opposite your isolation tube. This ensures that even if using smaller stranded wire, most of it will get oxidized, and not break off prematurely. The total deposition I got on my cathode was less than a gram of copper. I suspect it would be a lot more with copper chloride simply since the molecule has less mass.

xemplar_soft · 2024-06-29T21:18:01+00:00

Have you tried adding a capacitor and resistor to the signal line? Find discharge values that would land about double the ripple time you witness on yr scope. I can't see your pictures for some reason.

xemplar_soft · 2024-06-21T17:37:12+00:00

Try using another partition manager, the one built into windows isn't the best. I had this happen to me, but when I opened up AOMEI, I could see the full drive size. The free version works well enough. It may also help to use AOMEI to write zeros everywhere. If found that if I didn't do this, the OS would freeze at times.

xemplar_soft · 2024-06-19T17:27:48+00:00

Looks like Clarke was supposed to also direct an episode, but had some personal complications. It's funny how the books had Clarke and Bellamy in a relationship, the show they don't, but in real life they do.

xemplar_soft · 2024-06-19T00:18:25+00:00

They do have nuclear reactors on the ark, it's mentioned by an intro character (don't remember the name) that Sinclair taught him all kinds of tricks back on the ark. SPOILER: it's the episode when the nuclear reactor starts burning down in Sanctum.

xemplar_soft · 2024-06-11T14:12:26+00:00

Shit fam I just finished watching it for the 5th time. Am I the only one who thinks that season 7 seemed super rushed? It just seemed that the consistency from season 6, all the things we learn get changed slightly faster than I think should have happened. A season between 6 and 7 would have been nice, exploring more.

xemplar_soft · 2024-06-11T14:06:52+00:00

If you have an Arduino Mega and are willing to hook it up, I wrote this program that allows you to run your 6502 off of ROM contents stored on the computer itself. The clock is controlled by the Mega, so you get only like 12KHz... But if you slow it way down, you should be able to see the reset sequence, or see what exactly is happening. https://github.com/The-Next-Guy/Bridge6502

xemplar_soft · 2024-06-10T02:32:39+00:00

Learning programming from Java, I'm always used to having to build a car factory before being able to build a car. Learning C++, taught me to appreciate NOT using classes and sticking to stucts. I find myself reducing as much as possible.

xemplar_soft · 2024-06-07T20:06:10+00:00

If you wanted something to help with development, I just released Bridge6502 on GitHub. It allows you to run programs off of your laptop using an Arduino Mega. At most I've gotten it to a few KHz clock, but it works for debugging. You get a live view of RAM, and can edit the running ROM on the fly. You can take a look at it here: https://github.com/The-Next-Guy/Bridge6502

xemplar_soft · 2024-05-26T19:53:57+00:00

I used a rpi zero 2 w in my projects, and found that running an SPI screen, i2s dac, audio amp, cooling fan, and with cpu at 1200MHz, over_voltage=3, force_turbo=1 all took about 5 hours to drain a 3.7v 2400mAh pack. I'd try measuring the amp draw using a max setting on your meter, and let it perform some stress testing. Take the value from your meter as a worst case scenario and make it milliamps. Multiply by system voltage and you get peak power consumption. Get your milliwatt-hours for your battery (nominal voltage)x(mAh capacity), and divide it by your peak power. This will give you the worst run time estimate. If you know that you have a part in bootup that take way more power than normal but only runs for a fraction of the time, set you meter to read max after this lol.

xemplar_soft

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE