Posted by NovaSquirrel

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Posted by Zoinkity

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The answer is obvious: download to physical media from satellites. You could even do it on a rotating schedule. (Not that any major game publisher ever did that before or anything...)

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As an over-the-air TV fan I would gladly welcome another Satellaview-like. There's just something cool about non-Internet connectivity in this era of smart devices and Internet streaming.

That said, while it's cool to dream big and have a lot of ambition, it's also very important to start small if you haven't done anything like this before. I'm thinking something more along the lines of Uzebox and GameTank, or even trying to make something with a small computer like a Raspberry Pi.

Getting a new platform to take off is also extremely difficult, even for a big company with a lot of money. Like Google wasn't able to do it. I was also really excited for Ouya and the stuff it was trying to achieve, and then was disappointed with how poorly it did. It's probably best to approach it as a for-fun thing.

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Posted by Zoinkity

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I'd argue the 3rd Amendment as well. Why should I be burdened with the cost of time & energy of supporting the Man's botnet, huh?

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Posted by Zoinkity

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SVG? Something vector graphics. Scalable?

Current plan is to still have it generate an initial SVG then feed a bunch of commands into GIMP's command line interface. A vector art program is less ideal in this case. It actually does need to be a raster image in the end due to a bunch of the things you need to provide to the minimap entry as far as reference points go like which pixels act as keys.

Part of this is being super-picky about the output replicating the originals for existing maps. Really should just finish this one course manually and leave the automation for the future, but...

Minimaps are unique to the N64 games but they changed considerably between them. Not too thrilled with the newer version, and really the in-game grid overlay is much cooler (and scalable to a degree), but at least three of them are mandatory.

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Posted by Oz74

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You know, it's funny how straight-forward they are by saying "it's like checking ID at the airport." I think they want to make it impossible to create and distribute apps that they or their partners don't like, e.g. apps that circumvent Google ads or humanitarian resources that enrage not-so-humanitarian regimes. It also seems to be an attempt to circumvent right-to-repair by making it harder to root your phone or install custom ROMs which would give access back to your choice of third-party app host. I don't think it's truly about malware, because we already have third-party apps blocked by default. Android warns you it's an APK from an unknown source and it could hurt you, and makes you enable installing it, which is pretty hard to do accidentally.

That said, I think most emulators should be fine. Almost all of them use handwritten code and nothing proprietary. Google Play already hosts some. I assume most of those developers aren't gonna have a problem with package signing or authenticating themselves, because no one of consequence is going to have an objection with their work existing. Corporations lost the battle over emulators long ago.

I did disable Play Services out of principle though, because I completely agree it reeks of overreach. I don't use anything that relies on it anymore, and will be using alternative APK sources from now on. I paid for the phone, and shouldn't be able to do any less with it than I could when I bought it.

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Posted by Zoinkity

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Oh, how they laughed at me when I said I don't have a smartphone, I just use a desktop as a computer. Who's laughing now, huh? MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


(Everything is open-source once you publish the disassembly.)

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