taizou @lion@computerfairi.es

I bought one and the PC doesn't fucking boot with it installed 🙃​🙃​🙃​​🙃​💥​​

@vikxin I mean what do you think I was using for gblinkdx already

@mothcompute i guess there are 2 parts to it, the gba multiboot protocol to actually send the rom which i'm sure is documented... and then the 2-way communication with the communicator which yeah maybe i could reverse engineer.... reimplementing all that would be a lot of work however you slice it though

was looking into the same being possible with my GBA multiboot dumping setup...........lol

that one depends on abandoned closed-source program Xboo Communicator to act as the PC client & that doesn't allow you to configure the port so fuck me i guess. i'm already stuck using linux for it because theres no way to get raw port access on 64bit windows without a library which i have no way to make it use

well i just updated my pc-gameboy linking program to support custom port mappings meaning you can use it with a parallel port on an expansion card rather than needing a 20 year old computer and/or rare modern motherboard with legacy ports on it
https://github.com/tzlion/gblinkdx/releases/tag/v0.3

@mavica_again seen this in the emulator handheld world too, people buy these budget devices with bad screens & then wonder if they could upgrade it to a nice iPS one & the cheapest source of a matching IPS panel is always just a slightly more expensive handheld

What gaming consoles (or computers) did you play on as a kid? — Amiga 1200 was my first but I probably spent more time with creative software like Deluxe Paint than any games. I did enjoy some of the (simpler) puzzle/strategy… https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/112983663644421990

Are there any clone consoles that you’re desperate to own but haven’t yet been able to find? — In terms of hardware clones not really. But I would quite like to get hold of any Sunplus-hardware plug n play consoles with Nice... https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/112979196899539971

What's your lionsona origin story? — Back when I was vaguely "into furry" but didn't have a proper fursona I'd got into the habit of saying "rawr" a lot and a friend picked up on it and started calling me lion and I just... https://retrospring.net/@taizou/a/112978955311807261

Apparently retrospring is closing down next year so I guess I cursed it by joining....
Anyway if you want to ask me a question in the meantime please do https://retrospring.net/@taizou