OatmealDome

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by OatmealDome 2y ago
Dolphin is a GPLv2+ application, and the runtime is under a proprietary license. We currently rely on the "system libraries" exception in the GPL to allow linking with the runtime in the first place. If we ship the runtime with Do
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by OatmealDome 2y ago
It's technically supposed to be a paid service on iPhones too, but Apple recently extended the free trial, so nobody is actually paying for it yet. [0] [0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/11/apple-ext
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by OatmealDome 2y ago
At the time those articles were published, the engineers were analyzing a memory dump received from the spacecraft. The update in this new article is that they have determined that a memory chip has gone bad.
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by OatmealDome 2y ago
Notably, Apple still does not allow non web browsing apps to use JIT recompilers. This precludes emulators for 6th generation and newer consoles (GameCube, etc) from running on the platform even with this guideline change. I submitted a DMA
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by OatmealDome 2y ago
fwiw, I submitted a DMA interoperability request for JIT access on non-browser apps. Apple denied it on the grounds that it doesn't fall under Article 6(7) for "multiple reasons". One such reason they gave is that JIT is only
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
> distributed roms behind a paywall via their patreon Not true. They were only distributing "early access" builds of the emulator there.
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Apple: "Complying with the Digital Markets Act" [pdf](developer.apple.com)
3 points by OatmealDome 3y ago|1 comments
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
Judging by the photos they posted on Twitter, looks like some semi-recent iPhones (definitely not 14 Pros or 15s because of the notch). [1] [1] https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1745246204118925711
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
NEX is still used by many games on the Nintendo Switch, so I don't think it's another GameSpy situation. That being said, Nintendo has started using an in-house replacement system called "NPLN" in some of their more rece
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
Yes, the early 3D Grand Theft Auto games (III, Vice City, and San Andreas) ran on RenderWare. [0] [0] https://gtamods.com/wiki/RenderWare
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Apple: Understanding iPhone 12 and SAR testing in France(support.apple.com)
4 points by OatmealDome 3y ago|0 comments
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
> Sucking at something is the first step to being amazing at something, and it's a step everyone goes through, no exceptions. The thing that gets me about OP's remark is that pannenkoek2012 himself made a YouTube comment in 201
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
A press notation is really only something used within the A Button Challenge, since the point of the challenge is to optimize for lowest A press count. Other categories don't do this, so they have no use for it. That being said, like o
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
Nintendo only bans for cheating in online games or installing pirated software. Nintendo has (so far) not issued any bans for just installing or using custom firmware. There is no circumstance in which Nintendo remotely bricks your console.
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
The Nintendo 3DS was a handheld gaming console released in 2011. Like many other gaming consoles, you can only run software that is approved by the manufacturer on it. To run your own software ("homebrew"), one has to exploit flaw
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
For context, Bannerbomb3 is an exploit for the System Settings app. [0] It's used to launch a tool which installs some custom firmware on the device. [1] [0] https://github.com/zoogie/Bannerbomb3 [1] https:/
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
Judging by the branding and build string, this is actually an early version of Windows XP! "Whistler" was the codename for the Windows XP project.
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by OatmealDome 3y ago
I assume you mean Nintendo using the iNES file format to distribute NES ROM files? All evidence currently points to them simply using the format (possibly because they hired an iNES developer way back in the day), not them selling you pirat
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by OatmealDome 4y ago
It should be noted that the pipes (loot boxes) have recently been replaced with a shop where you directly pay for things using rubies instead of gambling. [1] That being said, the prices in the shop are quite expensive from what I've h
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by OatmealDome 4y ago
CVE-2022-47949 A bunch of first-party Nintendo Switch, Wii U, and 3DS games had a buffer overflow bug in a shared netcode library ("enl") which can be exploited by a remote attacker just by connecting to them in online play. Affec
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by OatmealDome 4y ago
With regards to 1, yes. yuzu is a fork of Citra, a 3DS emulator written in C++ that was initially released in 2014. This was done because the 3DS and the Switch are similar in some ways (for example: the Switch OS, Horizon, is a rewritten v