it's actually really simple. if we all stop putting ice in our drinks there will be more cold for the atmosphere

oh man you're gonna piss off staplebutter

That looks pretty cool

Well, that was fast. I wonder what this means for the console's future. http://gbatemp.net/threads/first-nintendo-switch-cartridge-dumps-released.477954/

The dumps can't be played yet but it's only a matter of time.

This isn't really all that interesting, but I've been looking at the files of some Switch games, particularly ARMS, and I've found some cool small details. It looks like all pre-rendered videos in games are just MP4 videos that you can play in any program on your computer instead of weird proprietary things like bink video or whatever. Couple other interesting things I found: Nintendo uses Jenkins, and the "Nintendo SDK" has an "NX addon". ARMS was built on April 7, and in ARMS there's a GameConfigSettings.xml that appears to be debug settings. Also, for some reason each different camera movement used in the game is contained in its own file for the camera preset.

I had to find the files online because the tools to dump Switch games aren't public. Then I used this script to extract the RomFS.

ROMs have been dumped and extracted, but it'll probably still be a while until we get a Switch emulator. The console itself still hasn't had userland code execution done, and as far as I know, the hacks that work right now don't work on later versions of the firmware. I'm actually hoping it takes a while to make an emulator because if one came out this year the console would be ded

I haven't followed 3DS emulation recently, are they still struggling to run games faster than half speed? 'Cause from what I remember, people making videos of Citra would just speed it up to 2x speed and reconstruct the audio from samples of the music they found on YouTube.

I made some shitty flash game in Multimedia Fusion and posted it online, that's pretty embarrassing. The Wayback Machine never archived the older version of my personal site, which is a good thing because it means nobody else will have to be subjected to my awful "games" and poorly written blog posts. (The only version they archived was when I was waiting for the domain to expire and replaced everything with a message saying "oh no you found my very secret website".) I still have the game, though, here's what it looks like:


It's called "SaltyDawgz". You have to catch the hot dogs falling from the sky and dodge the explosions. I literally made it in 30 minutes and I honestly don't remember if it was a joke game or actually serious. (I hope it was a joke.) A couple months back I found it on my drive and sent it to my friends, and now it's a huge inside joke between us.

Cool, I'm gonna go try it out

EDIT: Also, is it ok if I record my playthrough of it and upload it to YouTube?

I've been playing this for 45 minutes now and I still can't get past the part in the first level where you have to ride a cloud platform while dodging bullet bills. Am I just really bad at SMG?

I live in the US and seriously fuck this

I really enjoy medicine commercials where they assume that everybody watching the commercial is currently suffering from the same condition and command them all to "ASK YOUR DOCTOR" about their stupidly named medicine like "Prevagen" or "Zantac" or something. And then all they actually show in the commercial is generic footage of some guy walking around and going to his son's baseball game because what else can you show in a medicine commercial?

Also, about that French laundry ad: WTF? Why did they shut the laundry machine with their butt?

I automatically assume any ad that doesn't tell me what the product it's advertising is, is a perfume ad

It's pretty simple. That's how companies work; if there's something you can do to make more money, do it. This kind of crap is why I use a VPN.

Amazing. This is how SM64DS was intended to be played.

Imgur stopped being good when they got tired of being used as a Reddit image host and decided to implement their own comments section to steer people away from Reddit.

GoNintendo is totally the kind of site that would do that, though. Still pretty cool.

Get the Lenovo ^{and then immediately reinstall Windows to get rid of all the bloatware.}

Sprites and models have already been extracted, the file formats are very similar to the Wii U.