Flit's Nest

this isn't getting done, sadly, which will probably shock very few people and disappoint the rest. still, i want to go over the reasons why i made this decision.

...some of it will feel like virtue signaling a little bit, but i'm not too concerned about it tbh

not enough people care
this is ...

nvidia has dropped support for the pascal series of GPUs and older, including the 10 series (eg. 1050 Ti which is what i use).

the driver versions that drop this support have arrived in Fedora 44, so if you have the proprietary nvidia drivers installed from rpmfusion, and have one of these GPUs ...

i got a Crowd Supply newsletter email today that included the MiciMike Home Mini, a drop-in replacement PCB for the Google Home Mini (Gen 1) - the puck-shaped smart speaker that uses a Micro-USB port for power. the board converts the smart speaker into an ESPHome device for use with Home Assistant ...

capping off this thread by recapping what we know now (this is still developing but most of what we know is sorted now):


the rom was recompiled to make minor changes, rather than using the 3ds vc approach of patches on runtime. it has a build date of December 19, 2025.
the Switch's bad word ...

YOU GET THE TICKETS FROM OAK AFTER BEATING THE ELITE FOUR

looks like the game was recompiled for the switch


the ROM header version is 0x0a
there's also a second build date with a git commit(?) hash
2025 12 19 15:38 22afedd9
there's also some kind of emulator hypercalls


my knowledge on poking around in this stuff is not amazing so i'm probably going ...

Hmm it does not crash in Bizhawk.

Also, if you want to dump saves, use Checkpoint. JKSV crashes for some reason

Oh, saving is way faster than vanilla. I wouldn't be surprised if they changed the save structure too...

FRLG just released on Switch.

The ROM is modified, for LeafGreen at least; its checksum doesn't appear on No-Intro and it crashes immediately in mGBA. I'm not sure what they could have done to cause it to crash. The copyright notice startup screen was at least modified to remove the white flash ...

makeo has unveiled the USB Dolphin: https://store.makstech.io/products/usb-dolphin

there are two variants: the SP1, which resembles the original Broadband Adapter and connects to Serial Port 1 at the bottom of the system; and the Slot A/B, which resembles a memory card and plugs into a memory card ...