Most of these are difficult to mess with, because, like you discovered, there’s some kind of internal database of ROMs. Worse, this doesn’t appear to have a JAMMA harness so the board can only be replaced with a similar one.

I would see if someone from TeamPandory can identify your board for getting a custom firmware on there. I’ve seen a lot of this type of board in which the bottom-of-the-barrel-quality micro SD card suddenly dies, then you lose the encryption key and the board is just garbage.

At the very least, backup the micro SD card to an image. I use GNOME Disk Manager that’s built into Linux Mint. Programs like balenaEtcher can do it on Windows but like Windows, they have telemetry (spy on you).

Edit: As others noted, the “S812” is relevant, the board seems to be based on Allwinner H3 like other “Pandora’s Box” (the name is more appropriate than it should be). You could do something like this or rewire the controls into “zero-delay encoders” to turn them into USB controllers to connect to any Pi or PC.

…which is fine, until the ninjers start calling in death threats on your Garfield phone.

I wasn’t even trying to copy, just trying to connect a DVD player to my RF-cable-jack-only TV.

DVD player -> AV cables -> VCR -> coaxial cable -> TV.

Nope! Not allowed! It’s 2001 and we’re already screaming loud and clear that pirate copies are superior because they just work.

I ended up getting a Voodoo3 3500 TV on clearance sale, and playing movies on the TV through that.

Where I am in the US, for more than 10 years, cashiers have been scanning IDs for age verification of tobacco and alcohol. So even if you pay cash, your identity is tied to those purchases.

I think only Rick Rubin can ever reach 1300kbps in a FLAC from CD; listen to System of a Down self-titled album. It barely compresses!

Well-mastered classical and 1980s albums can average ~700kbps. IIRC, using default FLAC compression level 5.

Windows 11. We installed a printer driver and unchecked “Restart my computer now”. It attempted to restart anyway, with Windows offering to either close all programs and restart, or cancel. I clicked cancel. It restarted anyway. Nothing was lost, but still… 🤦

There are versions of uLaunchElf (maybe the fork wLaunchElf) that have drivers for more controllers like DualShock 3. The drivers are optional because space is tight on a “Memory Card™ (8MB) for PlayStation® 2”.

I care about the beans because you do.

This one may be utterly incapable of caring about the beans.

Lap-top? Oh, you mean the handsy heating pad! =^…^=

_ It works on my end (without leading and trailing spaces) _ -> It works on my end (without leading and trailing spaces)

Knowing Texas, the settlement of the suit will net nothing for end-users. LG will just have to give Texas surveillance gear for their concentration camps.

We cannot let Microsoft have a monopoly… on sabotaging Microsoft.

You can, but you have to add the correct oscillator and associated passive components, or buy the Japan-only Super Game Boy 2 that fixed the issue.

One fun possibility is that if you get it running at the correct clock speed, you can also add the link port back in.

We might need some new tech instead of shrinking existing tech.

The Analogue Pocket “Game Boy” is… an FPGA SNES? Is it just using borrowed assets?

I loved the concept of Super Game Boy but the wrong clock speed in it always annoyed me. Every game just sounded wrong. 😅

She’s reincarnated as a trollface now.

Early PC video cards had a composite video output, and clever programmers have learned to control the artifacts to produce more colors than intended. 8088 MPH by Hornet, CRTC, and DESiRE gets 1024 colors out of a 1981 IBM Color Graphics Adapter… that the 16-color CGA standard was named after. 😂

PAL consoles can often output RGB just because SCART existed, with NTSC versions of the same consoles only having S-video as the best connection without modification.

Edit: S-video has fewer artifacts than composite, but that ruins some effects like turning the “transparency” of water in Sonic the Hedgehog into a checkerboard. The checkerboard was always there, but the blurring of composite made it appear to just be darker shades of the colors behind it (dithering). The illusion of more colors was important for Sega’s 512-color Mega Drive when Nintendo’s SNES had a full 16-bit palette of over 32,000 colors and “real transparency” (selectively replacing pixels with a lighter/darker shade).

…delivered personally by Tim “Gold Bar” Cook

Billions? Fuck, they might need to get bailed out with taxpayers’ money!

One of the gals was Samantha Fox!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Fox_Strip_Poker