TGM, the first one, is my one time sink, I started to play first on Mame until I got an original Capcom ZN2 PCB.
Right now you can get an official TGM and TGM2:TA port on Sony PS4 (PS5 too?) and Switch for less that 10 dollars each. For TGM3 there's no port in sight, FWIK. In my opinion TGM2:TA is a better game that TGM but before tackling it I want to become GM on the first. According to expert players the second is increasingly more difficult, for example stricter time limits and conditions to meet, faster spawning and the infamous credit roll...
Last year TGM4 was released on Steam, but I don't like at all the new ranking system, also vs play doesn't have items.
Not really relevant to the article, but I wanted to give a shout out to my all time favorite pass time... ^__^;
P.S. Some random modder a few years created a patch for the original TGM arcade ROMs to run on a Playstation. Other than the Qsound, more RAM and some CATs used for protection, the ZN2 was basically a Playstation without an optical reader.
One can buy right now a MISTerFPGA from aliexpress for around €150 and that can emulate both MVS and AES. On this side of the pond, a VGA to SCART cable is all that's required to connect it to a CRT TV.
If instead one want the real HW, a working MVS PCB can be found for less that €100. A JAMMA cabinet would be the perfect place to use it, but with a supergun a CRT TV can give the same results. Cheap superguns can be found or built for around €30, fancy models can cost between €200 to €300 tho.
The carts aren't cheap tho, specially if original. I've only a battered "Puzzle Bobble" cart, it's a really fun game in PvP, but probably not the more iconic NeoGeo title.
Puzzle Bobble, actually, is definitely one of the more iconic Neo Geo title. If you open it, you may have a surprise. The game was such a success that Snk itself had to butcher other, less successful games (essentially Power Spikes II if I remember correctly), to produce conversions/bootlegs and answer to customer's demand. It has one of the best replayability of the system, it's very fun playing versus, plus, girls absolutely love it. There have been many sequels, but none live up to the original despite the additions, and they’re all more or less unnecessary.
Classic ! Try Magical Drop 2 or 3 and Money Idol Exchanger on the same system. There's a good chance she'll love them. They're a little bit more nervous tho, especially Money Idol !
I don't know if it's related, but a few days ago I've read about an update about the mast1c0re exploit that permits to run native code (userland) on latest PS5 FW without a kernel exploit:
According to some hearsay, there is allegedly at least another one unpatched hypervisor exploit in recent firmware. Considering the OP's track record, I'm not surprised he's sitting on a full-chain jailbreak.
Porting the Linux kernel to the PS5 is also an impressive flex, quite funny thinking that ten years ago, in 2016, fail0verflow did the same for the PS4...
On a related note (but with Python), I recently tried uv instead of pip and was impressed by both its speed and dependency resolution. I was attempting to upgrade an internal project from Python 3.9, and pip was frustratingly slow, sometimes it would just get stuck with no output and no errors...
There’s growing consensus that with uv python tooling finally became good enough in terms of both speed and functionality, no need to choose one or the other (like, poetry had functionality but was extra slow).
you won't when the thick walls and all objects are radiating 30C heat at you
Most (not all) old euro cities don't get a good breeze unless they're built on the windward side of a hill because (generalizing here): the streets aren't a grid and everything is built to the same height.
plus the humidity is still there without aircon. 20C humid != 20C dry.
I'd say this ain't an opinion - it's a fact. Where else can you rename a bunch of items in your directory tree, recursively, using all the features of your editor - multiple cursors, keyboard macros, spellchecking, etc.?
There just doesn't exist another piece of software (go ahead, prove me wrong) where you can edit your filesystem like a wiki page.
The details are explained on the Cturt blog mentioned in another post, the original researcher, this one seems a GUI to simplify the process of patching ISO.
About your questions, I would guess transforming PS2 CD title to PS2 DVD first could work.
For PS1 titles, with a different exploit (mechapwn) you could boot them, but read the fine prints as it basically convert a consumer PS2 to a devkit/testkit (DEX?)...
Also from USB, unfortunately it's only USB 1.1 so titles with FMV sequence tend to stutter, so for slim models the network SMB share it's preferred...
About PS1 titles, there is a Sony PS1 emulator for PS2 called POPS that you can use with OPL but from what I read it has not a wide compatibility and it's not officially distributed by Sony, the other option is to use mechapwn to boot PS1 CDs, but it doesn't work on the early PS2 models according to this: https://github.com/MechaResearch/MechaPwn?tab=readme-ov-file...
Unfortunately Mullvad and the majority of VPN providers don't offer port-forwarding anymore, last year when I checked only a couple, maybe three remained...
Having wrote that, another option, under Linux with network namespaces and Wireguard it's possible to have a pretty fail proof VPN...
Right now you can get an official TGM and TGM2:TA port on Sony PS4 (PS5 too?) and Switch for less that 10 dollars each. For TGM3 there's no port in sight, FWIK. In my opinion TGM2:TA is a better game that TGM but before tackling it I want to become GM on the first. According to expert players the second is increasingly more difficult, for example stricter time limits and conditions to meet, faster spawning and the infamous credit roll...
Last year TGM4 was released on Steam, but I don't like at all the new ranking system, also vs play doesn't have items.
Not really relevant to the article, but I wanted to give a shout out to my all time favorite pass time... ^__^;
P.S. Some random modder a few years created a patch for the original TGM arcade ROMs to run on a Playstation. Other than the Qsound, more RAM and some CATs used for protection, the ZN2 was basically a Playstation without an optical reader.