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@minx I keep a few gamepads just for those kinda games.

I just really expected a game with tile-based world and object placement AND a grid based menu system would let me use the d-pad for stuff but I guess not?

@sc looks like googling "New Moon XP" brings up more resources. It's all a bit incomprehensible to me at the moment but you might be able to dive through the >20 page thread for what you need.

@sc I hope it works for you!

@sc Looks like someone's already on that!

https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=16241

I haven't read the entire thread but there were some linked binaries.

(Sorry if you found this already and I'm telling you nothing useful :/)

@minx keyboard + mouse.

Stardew Valley has some gamepad support but navigating menus was a paaaaiiiiinnnnn

@minx Do you have Stardew Valley? It's only good on full KB+M but it's pretty good with music

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz I don't disagree.

Like I said, idealism. SteamOS came sorta close? But nobody wants to develop AAA for Linux.

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz think about all the emulator frontends that are out there that make everything easy as hell to navigate once you have it set up. Imagine that but just already set up.

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz I mean like a prebuilt thing with some kinda console-esque frontend with the same ease of use as a console .

Obviously this is rooted entirely in idealism, but I can dream.

@minx what do you have for choices?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz You're right. The plug and play nature is important, but why couldn't someone just make a device with the same specs and pnp nature but just... not closed off to all hell?

oh my god there's a Dave Ryder name bot on here, joining Mastodon was worth it for that alone

@annika suddenly I feel sad for all those thrift store proprietary phone chargers :(

@X with how huge some energy drink cans are now, it isn't even micro anymore it's just ridiculous

@revenant [gas gas gas ten hour mix plays until friends kick me out of the car]

@annika me but with that small bag of pre-USB cables (parallel printer, etc) I have

one day SOME might come in handy for the dream DOS build for Ad-Lib Tracker stuff but really when is that actually going to happen?

@ctrlaltdog@chitter.xyz Honestly? Consoles as they are now don't have a purpose.

I'm not trying to MUH PC BEST PLATFORM but at this point, what does the PS4's weird closed OS do that couldn't be done with an open source one?

@annika You never know when you'll need that ISA coax modem card!!

@annika but hoarding equipment is the only way to do things!

@annika I have one of those too, but oddly enough the small size makes it /harder/ to place? The big FE switch fits under my monitor really nicely.

I'll figure it out.

Thank you for the offer, though! I appreciate it!