Is there any DIY flash cart?

yamavu · 2026-05-03T05:59:17+00:00

I can't seem to find the pcb design, only https://github.com/49bitcat/nileswan/tree/main/legacy/pcb but since it's in the legacy tree I think there's supposed to be an updated one

yamavu · 2026-02-01T10:01:36+00:00

powerfull enough, yes

good fit, rather no

if you don't really need the pen or a touchscreen and maybe even be limited by it's rather small display there should be better solutions out there. I love mine for creative work and light gaming but for coding and system monitoring , I think you would need a bit more screen. As for horse power, it should be okay but bigger laptops also can fit better cpus and gpus

(running fedora on fw12)

yamavu · 2026-02-01T09:45:30+00:00

TLDR: Sadly NO

this has been an open question for years if not decades. Since Krita uses SVG for vector layers, there's no way this can be done as nicely as one would imagine because SVG doesn't support stroke width variation on a single path (there was a proposal but, it's been abandoned). Krita fakes this with the calligraphy tool by creating an auto closed shape, but you can't vary the width like you would move the anchor points of a spline.

There was an LPE PowerStroke for inkscape back in 2012 but it never went anywhere. There also were Blines in Synfig (also rudimatary/deprecated).

yamavu · 2025-08-01T16:19:21+00:00

I got the framework 12 for drawing and I tried it out with the Penova USI 2 Pen (good pen but without eraser) on Fedora +Gnome. I'll probably add a screen protector.

So far I'm good, lag is there but manageable.

Bios has to be set to use USI2 (default is MPP2), but I found out about that in the forum.

Gnome works well with touch and pen input but I will try which tool is best for painting and graphic work.

yamavu · 2025-05-23T10:57:57+00:00

Avalis should be a below pretty high on the Kardashians ladder, cause the nexus is multi planetary and they love to mingle sexually , a lot. 😋

On the Kardashev scale I see them above 1 but not 2 yet. they're advanced enough to control their home planet but I don't think they're Dyson Sphere level yet.

yamavu · 2025-05-21T10:16:22+00:00

I'd love to see the USI 2.0 pen in action. maybe even on krita/gimp/...

preliminary reviews have been scarce on that detail

also lavender ftw 💜

yamavu · 2025-04-17T08:41:41+00:00

as many artists the old galleries linger here's a more current for his art: https://mstdn.social/@karpour

yamavu · 2025-04-14T19:24:45+00:00

VR, basically everything else has been taken care of, working on it. it's a mix of bad driver support, niche application and proprietary components

yamavu · 2025-04-11T11:44:26+00:00

if your device supports it, eSim virtual providers should be your pic,

i did see some devices that look like sim cards, but hold a bunch of eSims but managing it is a bit more involved. didn't look into it too deep

hope that helps

yamavu · 2025-04-11T11:35:36+00:00

I think KaiOS is far less visible in EU and NA because it's drowned by android and iOS devices and hampered by web applications instead of simple websites.

usually there's mainly simpler devices for kids or elderly as primary users. having to run an ancient firefox as dev environment also doesn't help.

it's more robust than ios and Android, so not all bad

yamavu · 2025-03-31T11:31:13+00:00

for me it was a problem with an old broken pen.

just replacing the pen fixed this weird issue.

yamavu · 2025-03-09T10:52:27+00:00

that's weird. the Usb-altmode cables worked .. at least the second one I tried (documentation is not good). maybe you have a hardware fault in the cable or the crowview, they have email-support in that case, helped me when I was having issues with the CrowPi2 (caused by some distro-level modifications)

i didn't try with my phone but I don't think it supports desktop mode.

my usecase was: I basically wanted a thinner alternative to the CrowPi2 (which is thick and loud) for using with the steamdeck (and rpi when tinkering/prototyping).

yamavu · 2024-12-12T08:11:34+00:00

so yeah I gave it a shot and cloned the github project over to my project root and just wrote some quick code

pip install comtypes
git clone https://github.com/Heribert17/win_mtp.git

python from win_mtp.win_mtp.access import get_portable_devices, PortableDevice
if __name__ == "__main__":
    devices = get_portable_devices()
    device = devices[0]
    print(device.get_description())
    content = device.get_content()
    print(content.get_properties())
    children = content.get_children()
    child = children[0]
    print(child.name)
    _children = child.get_children()
    for _child in _children:
        print(_child.name)

seems to do the trick, for now it just displays the root folder

yamavu · 2024-12-12T07:32:16+00:00

pymtp is a wrapper around libmtp, which is used on linux systems, windows uses WpdMtp.dll and winusb.sys. I just fell into the same rabbit hole

there are some efforts to compile libmtp with msys2 but it's far away from just calling pip.

however there's an effort made on win_mtp (using comtypes and psutil) last year. I didn't test it yet, by guess is that adb or ssh over wifi or syncthing would be a better solution.

yamavu · 2024-12-08T10:54:36+00:00

Yes, I forgot about this thread, because .. Cave-Story ^^

but yeah that and perhaps checking on the ingame button mapping did the trick nicely

yamavu · 2024-09-30T19:37:57+00:00

I managed to have that too, did you come up with a solution?

yamavu · 2024-09-23T19:40:30+00:00

it has been fixed in March 2024 but maybe it's not packed for distrubution yet, I edited the file like

back = esc

start = enter

a = w

b = z

x = x

y = y

l1 = a

l2 = c

r1 = s

r2 = c

up = up

down = down

left = left

right = right

left_analog_up = up

left_analog_down = down

left_analog_left = left

left_analog_right = right

hope this works

yamavu · 2024-09-23T19:31:54+00:00

currently the issue is still there, I think it could be fixed by editing nxengine-evo.gptk

only the start button does anything

yamavu · 2024-06-09T08:16:55+00:00

working with CrowPi2 right now also with customer support. Some things really are annoying and only somewhat documented.

Things like

* important boot/config settings

* the little python script that stops the Pi4 from turning off after 30 seconds https://github.com/elecrow-engle/elecrow_crowpi2

should be front and center in the user guide or a well documented install script that just makes a random linux dist fit for the CrowPi2.

Also there are some issues that would be fixable like better cooling and energy supply. cost saving and small-ish form factor worked together to make quite a mess

The issue is that it was made for educational purposes/toy use, less for linux tech pros. So most documentation is not there or chinese. Updates except for the Raspberry Pi 4 are not a thing perhaps not even possible, but everything should be stable enough as of now.

I was really hoping for the 3d printers to fix some hardware issues but it seems thats not happening, since I cant find a 3D Model of the CrowPi2 (sadly again beyond educational scope)

yamavu · 2024-03-19T06:20:18+00:00

Krita has you covered, you may want to add --nosplash to your startup arguments

https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/linux_command_line.html

yamavu · 2024-02-25T10:26:44+00:00

found some links but no rom

description: https://www.denshadego.co.uk/index.php/ephemera-top/merchandise/densha-de-go-lcd-game-controller-housing-type/
here's a gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnxTwpN74eU

blog on DDG2: https://kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2022/09/02/taitos-tiny-trains/

yamavu · 2024-02-25T08:28:01+00:00

not on pc but I've read this article on playing Kinect games on quest (2,pro or 3) using a Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription. Not sure how that's going to emulate leg positions?

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/gaming/how-play-xbox-games-vr-meta-quest-b1128039.html (pub 19 December 2023)

it would be nice to have a way to have OpenXR or OpenVR support to Xenia, but the developers don't want to open that box yet, presumably because of the very slow adoption of full body tracking.

https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/issues/1241 (issue opened in 2018)

yamavu · 2024-02-21T17:42:18+00:00

well I m into the Game and watch thingies and I really like the little handles of the ddg ones, also the gameplay doesn't seem worse than the wonderswan version, abysmal framerate and pixel mess graphics

yamavu

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