I just remember playing megaman 1 on NES over and over mostly to listen to the music after you beat the first bosses, i loved the music of that game so much!
My most memorable gaming moment would be when I beat Magus in Chrono Trigger for the first time. The build-up to this bad-ass of a character was intense. The whole first part of the game had you thinking he was the final boss. He had everything: a cult worshiping him in 600 AD, ominous music, bumbling henchmen and a castle surrounded in shadows and mists.
For those who've played the game, who can forget when you first come to his room? Everything's black, there's this scary weird chanting in the background, you're running into the darkness. Suddenly, blue flames burst to life on either side of your party. Oh yeah, this is it.
You find him facing an altar, in bad-ass pose mode, arms outstretched. A few exchanges of short, characteristic dialogue. Cue in music.
"The black wind begins to blow..."
And it begins.
I died like 5 times before I beat him. But getting beat by Magus, especially when you're around 13-14 years old and really into CT's story, could not get any more exhilarating and jarring at the same time. Of course, after I got Crono's Luminaire, it was all over. Still, one of my best memories growing up, especially since I loved the archetype of the anti-hero.
Second best gaming moment would be when I found him again after the fall of Zeal, only to find out you can have him as a party member! I never thought twice about what I wanted. In fact, I don't think I've ever done a playthrough of CT without choosing Magus to fight alongside me, even to this day.
Is it possible to get some kind of notification when there are replies to your comments or posts, so that you can more effectively participate in conversation with other users? Maybe there's a setting I'm not seeing?
Isn't this already present? Just hover over your username, then go to Settings. Under Notifications, there are four checkboxes:
Notify me of comments in my threads - self-explanatory
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I took a good look around Lemmy and its instances, but found the UI a tad too compact and busy for my taste. kbin in comparison is a bit more relaxed and easier to read. And sign-ups were open when it was time to make my decision. That was literally it.
However I feel about the wording Emma chose, at the end of the day it was within her right to call you out. It's a great sign of good faith that you took the criticism, apologized, and are acting on it. From personal experience I also take stuff from the internet for personal projects... except my personal projects don't grow a thousandfold in terms of users almost overnight.
I'm a brand new Street Fighter player. I've very casually played Mortal Kombat since I was a kid, but I never took any fighting game seriously. I'm having a great time playing ranked SF6, and I can already see improvement. All of these characters are new to me other than Ryu and Ken being in Smash and hearing some of the other...
Marisa, full-send. I've been a bit busy with work though so I haven't even completed my placement matches yet, 5 done out of 10 though. Hoping that I'll end somewhere decent to get that rank anxiety off my mind.
Just a quick and dirty userscript to add some features I feel are super important. I'll probably look into creating some real PRs, but I figure the devs are probably in "put out fires" mode right now....
Saw you post this last night but couldn't get around to testing it until today. Works great! I needed the collapse function, but showing the source domain is a great bonus and adds clarity to kbin.
Personally, I always try to go for the closest possible version to the original as much as I can. While the PC port is probably the most feature-rich and has extra content, if emulators are in the equation then I go that route.
Short answer: I'd say it's safe to wait, particularly because there doesn't seem to be any indication of ASUS running out of units to sell anytime soon.
Long answer: I left a rather long YouTube comment which detailed my first day experience with the Ally which I'll copy below. But the TL;DR is that there's a number of pain points and troubleshooting that you have to go through, especially if you're not doing the standard route of unbox -> initial setup -> download your games -> play.
Besides the "shiny new toy" feel though, I would say that objectively it's still an excellent handheld computer - there's just software bugs at this point that take away some of its shine (that, and however you feel about Windows).
I'm a bit of a tinkerer so troubleshooting (and more importantly, arriving at a working system) is fun for me. I have mine up and running now, but it took a while. I'm confident that months down the line these issues will be ironed out, but us day-one people gotta go through the pains, which I fully expected. Here are my experiences:
First boot-up all the way to the OOBE setup for Windows was fine, until I ran into the wifi connection screen. Pressed the command center button to try to bring up the keyboard, no command center (I think the .exe crashed). Tapped on the screen, no pop-up keyboard. Tried the M1 + Up shortcut, no pop-up keyboard. Rebooted and tried to connect to wifi again, doing the shortcut made the keyboard pop up this time.
Once I confirmed everything was working fine (no joystick to mouse issues) shut down the device and removed the backplate to install my SSD. Attempted to do the Cloud Recovery method and was able to finish the download, but it got stuck on the "Checking..." screen for an hour. Turned the device off and started Googling. Turns out my BIOS was not the latest (v 310 or 315 or 317, can't remember now), and somehow that has problems with Cloud Recovery. The solution: you need to update the BIOS in MyASUS first, and to do that, you need to put the original SSD back in. Lol
Reversed what I did in step 2. Now back on the original SSD, updated all the things in MyASUS under Customer Support > LiveUpdate. I think it updated the BIOS a couple of times, unsure because I just set it aside and let it do it's thing. But it took a while and a number of reboots. Once it was done, shut down the device again, then powered it on while pressing the Volume Down button to get into the BIOS. Confirmed that it was now on v319. Shut down the device again.
Repeated step 2 to put in my new SSD. Did Cloud Recovery, which worked this time. Booted into Windows, which was a bone-stock version without all the drivers the ROG Ally needs, but because of Cloud Recovery was automated to install what it needed. Let it sit and do its thing.
Once done, I was finally able to boot into Windows. Had to do the OOBE initial setup stuff again. Once logged in, went straight to MyASUS and updated all the things again.
Was it worth the time and effort for someone who just wants to jump in? If you're not upgrading the SSD, absolutely, it's only a couple of reboots at best. If you are upgrading and you have little patience for these things, then no. But if you're like me, then these things are fun for you.
I still haven't done a Windows Update but that can be done at a future date. For now I'm busy playing lmao
I didn't even think about the benefit of buying an open-box unit.... that'll net you a serious discount on a pretty new device! Those still come with warranties, right?
Signed up! I've been using a Firefox shortcut on my Android phone for the past couple of days, but an app would make things much easier and more accessible.
I hope your PR gets approved, I was looking for this feature as I like the classic/tree view but it gets difficult to track new top-level comments as you scroll down the page.
Speaking of, pages are another thing I'd like the option to remove. I'd rather just have all the comments laid out in one page instead of having a pagination system, it makes Ctrl + F a lot handier in the future once places like these get even more critical mass.
Something about the extrapolation of events millions of years into the future reminds me greatly of The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (not to mention probably my most favorite Imgur comic about it).
I'm no artist, but I thought Kbin could use a mascot. Shall we all create one together?
What is your best gaming memory growing up?
I just remember playing megaman 1 on NES over and over mostly to listen to the music after you beat the first bosses, i loved the music of that game so much!
Notifications for replies to posts and comments?
Is it possible to get some kind of notification when there are replies to your comments or posts, so that you can more effectively participate in conversation with other users? Maybe there's a setting I'm not seeing?
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit “was never designed to support third-party apps” (www.theverge.com)
Thousands of subreddits are still dark.
Why did you choose your instance?
I'm currently struggling to find my home. I have an account here at lemmy.ml, where most of my posts are, and one at kbin....
Hey guys, this time I really messed up :/
I think you should see something....
OC Who are y'all playing so far?
I'm a brand new Street Fighter player. I've very casually played Mortal Kombat since I was a kid, but I never took any fighting game seriously. I'm having a great time playing ranked SF6, and I can already see improvement. All of these characters are new to me other than Ryu and Ken being in Smash and hearing some of the other...
OC kbin enhancement script: Userscript to collapse comments and add domains to names (greasyfork.org)
Just a quick and dirty userscript to add some features I feel are super important. I'll probably look into creating some real PRs, but I figure the devs are probably in "put out fires" mode right now....
What retro games should everyone play?
Recently purchased a Retroid Pocket 3+ and have the chance to play all the games I didn’t grow up with. Which ones are a must?
For reasons no one can fathom, McDonald’s has released a new Game Boy Color game (arstechnica.com)
Did you get a ROG Ally? Or will you be getting one soon?
I'm very much on the fence....
OC My 3rd party app is coming along! Got it pulling actual data from kbin.social! Huge inspo from Apollo app. (tech.lgbt)
Hoping to have a private beta test within a month or two. For now calling the app Kmoon (K🌛)...
Collapse comment thread?
Is there any way to collapse comments and their children in the interface? Seems like a fairly basic feature but I can't find it.
Timeline of the far future (en.wikipedia.org)
I discovered this Wikipedia entry a week ago. I've been reading it once a day since then. It's extremely fascinating.