Yaknowwhat, it's not by any means ready yet but I'm heading out the door in a minute so I'm just gonna post my #gameDad website and see if it holds up under the Fedi Hug, here ya go lol
@venya that'll do ye nicely! What colour didja get?
I'm currently changing my daughter's 35xx from GarlicOS to Koriki; the GarlicOS one saved/shut down instantly when pressing the power button, resuming right back at the game, and I was all "Wow that's cool, wonder how it shuts down so quick without corrupting the SD card," turns out it doesn't
@ifixcoinops I love it, I already have one, but I have a question. You alluded to things that are powerful enough to run PS2 games. Do you have any links or names of such things off the top of your head?
Last time I looked for one they didn’t quite exist
@crazybutable not off the top of my head, but the PS2-capable things are basically handheld PC's, think Steam Deck style of things. Not happening for under 300
@ifixcoinops ah gotcha. I have enough computers I don’t need another one
I do love my game dad, I got it last year based on one of your threads. So thanks! I basically downloaded all of the games I already have because my physical consoles have been slowly dying.
I had to get the magic HDMI cable so that I could use it on a big screen because it’s more comfortable than peering at the screen with my reading glasses. I just wish I knew how to remap the buttons for one of the emulators
@crazybutable what kind did you get? If it runs RetroArch then if I remember right you can remap controls per emulator or per game, although the process for saving your changes is pretty counter-intuitive
@ifixcoinops
i'm very unlikely to buy one of these (maybe because my phone still has a keyboard lol) but i really enjoyed reading this site
(the Unihertz Titan is kinda Game Dad shaped, but it's a phone with all the evil that entails. and playing games on it is almost impossible bc Android game makers are not tryna support a square screen)
@acetone_kitten that was one of the very few Different Phones I considered before settling on a FairPhone 4 and I often wonder whether I made the right choice
Well I'm back from picking up the kid and gamedad.club is still up and still responding instantly, huh
Given that this same server contains the website that provides my livelihood, as well as several other websites whose owners would have Questions if the site were to become overwhelmed, I suppose I'd better not post the link to https://www.gamedad.club again and then immediately go take a shower away from the computer
I spent a long time commenting the source code and not one of you animals have right clicked this thing yet and told me how awesome I am, shame on you all
Well while I was out for dinner and a movie with spouse (Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was pretty good btw, always fun watching nazis get shot) y'all hammered the heck out of my brand new website to the tune of SEVEN MEGABYTES
@ifixcoinops ...I think you may have successfully inspired me to go look at my own PHP-fragment bloggity-do and maybe even fix the stuff I've just been living with broken for some 20 years
Also now I want a Game Dad to play my fave old Atari 2600 games on, so well done you
(and if it could also do Katamari that would be nice)
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