Well that’s installing from disc but still using it to play the game, a precursor to the way it continued to work on future Xboxes (with the differences that install was optional on 360, and that on later Xboxes sometimes games required a download to even install).

This rumor would have to be a step further.

This is my favorite game ever. Enjoy the playthrough! Try to see it with young, wonder-filled eyes.

Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

Shine On is so beautiful. Then the middle songs, especially the title track, scratch that more catchy, accessible itch.

Already mentioned in OP, but a copy of Wikipedia would be first priority.

To say something else, I’d also grab the archive of GameFAQs guides.

Was going to guess Evolution, didn’t remember that there was a second one. That protagonists certainly looks familiar, tho I thought his arm was weirder.

There’s also a recommendations community here !recommendations@lemmy.world

It’s not active enough to be all that useful. But hey, the more people that subscribe, the closer that is to changing.

Like any other signal, the options have been found out and probably, mostly, reduced to noise. But Wirecutter and Consumer Reports claim to test things and recommend. The latter needs a subscription, but you may have one through your local library.

For electronics, rtings was quite good last I used it. Some categories are free, but they are (or were) quite open about letting you sub, find what you want, then cancel after the month. It was nice that most of the data was objective stuff presented in tables you can filter by. But many data points are definitely subjective ratings.

I don’t think it pervades all of Lemmy, but I do think rage bait does well here. Seems like the most popular comments are expletive laden diatribes about how x, y, or z is evil and bad, and the most popular posts are headlines about megacorps or evil politicians doing it wrong.

It’s not even that the outrage is usually misplaced. Reddit and Windows and Gen AI and Facebook are indeed all bad things in various ways and degrees. But there’s room for nuance, and no need to jump down people’s throats about stuff.

Certainly there’s a selection bias - enough of the people here left Reddit in principled stands. That or they’re just into open source enough to try niche projects.

To be fair, the taste for negativity isn’t just here. Online culture seems to have that slant at large these days. But it does seem more here in some ways.

Just finished The Memory Police today. Thought it was great! Some beats were very clearly telegraphed, but it was nice how it emphasized atmosphere and attitude in the face of loss.

Earlier this week I finished Dragon’s Teeth and Thunderstones. Still agree with my initial impression that it’s mostly not my jam. But I thought it was a little more interesting near the end.

Headed back to the library today for another couple of books. Between the ones I just read, and my next couple, should be able to wrangle that pretty close to a bingo. Memory Police is written on a different continent, and the fossil book can fill either ‘nature elements’ square or the ‘supplemental info’ one (almost any non-fiction fits that last one I think).

Just the other day I found a copy of this at a yard sale. A vintage, cheap feeling paperback, which (materially) feels so classy now by way of contrast with most of my other books.

Glad to see the high praise of it! Grabbed it on a whim. When I get to it, will be the first of Le Guin’s that I’ve read.

Definitely a thing. Dolphin has support for netplay, and Melee in particular has a great rollback implementation in Slippi. Fightcade for classic fighting games, mainly arcade.

Feels like it should be widespread across emulators, but I guess I’ve only really happened across it in that handful of cases.

I also didn’t realize the community was doing the bingo thing, that’s kinda cool. Might try to get into that, and I can use the summer reading stuff as a jump start.

My library is doing summer reading, and they added a version of the challenge for adults. Their goal is to read 4 books over the summer, for bonus points one can be a non-fiction book about dinosaurs (their theme).

In the spirit of that, planning to read 4 library books. I’ve checked out Dragon’s Teeth and Thunderstones: Quest for the Meaning of Fossils (McNamara) since it was out in the display and ostensibly about dinosaurs.

So far I am not loving it, lol. It’s slow, spending a lot of time reiterating that ancient people made stuff out of rocks and sometimes those rocks were fossils and they thought those looked cool. And the author has repeated the phrase ‘they looked for all the world like _’ like 6 times. Distractly uncommon phrase to use so much. On top of that, it’s not really about dinosaurs even, most of the fossils mentioned are sea urchins. /shrug At least it’s short and has pictures to make pages go quick.

But alongside it I also checked out The Memory Police (Ogawa). In the opening pages it seems really interesting and well-written. The premise is a bit on-the-nose dystopian tho, so we’ll see how well it’s executed.

It’s the first game that came to mind for me, too. Destruction there is very satisfying!

Buuuut people keep shooting at you. When playing it, I got constantly annoyed with the TPS elements and just wanted to tear stuff up. After a bit I bounced for that reason.

There are a lot of good ones. I’ll just highlight Streets of Rage 2. Plays great, music is great, looks good. It’s my favorite game on either system.

It’s fun to see which games get cool borders or color palettes!

I have not noticed the faster frame rates. But I’m one of those weirdos who couldn’t tell you 30 from 60 unless I’m staring hard at a side by side or something. So take me with a grain of salt, lol.

Really it’s up to your preference. I like the Super Game Boy for plain GB games and GB Player for Color/Advance. But the cost on the latter is annoying, so if it were me I’d start with the SGB and enjoy that for a while since you already have SNES hardware.