Gaming 🎮

🎮 Sadly, I was forced to cancel my Analogue 3D order, some unexpected expenses have recently reared their ugly heads:

• Dryer is on it’s last leg
• Car issues (both of them)
• Vet bills
• The outside faucet needs to be fixed

For the time being, I’ll just have to limit myself to software emulation. 😭

Just per-ordered the Analogue 3D! 🎮 …I just couldn’t resist revisiting my childhood. 🤣

I guess I have to eat my words, I just downloaded Delta from the App Store on my lunch break. The on-screen controls aren’t great but I’m sure I have a bluetooth controller around here somewhere. 🎮🎉

🔗 Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store—but with big caveats | Ars Technica

There actually are some security implications to emulation; a malicious ROM can potentially exploit a hosting emulator. Emulation code needs to run very fast, so safety measures like bounds checks often don’t exist. In terms of code safety, emulators are some of the worst programs you can run.

The ability to play my NES / SNES / N64 games on my iPad, to go back to Symphony of the Night or Breath of Fire 3, that would be lovely but given the risks I have to wonder if Apple will really allow it. 🎮

Kinda amazed and dismayed at Nintendo right now: lately, every time I try to sign into their store to buy a game, the login process crashes / fails. Do they not want my money…?! 🎮

Well, the Analogue Pocket color editions are already sold out, so I guess I don’t have to decide if I want to buy one or not… 🤣😢

Made it just a few weeks before the next one come out but I finally beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild! 😂

I might be the only one still playing Animal Crossing but one’s island doesn’t rearrange itself. 😃 Gotta give credit where credit is due, ACNH Travel Guide is a lovely companion app for the game.

All day, I’ve been humming a song and just realized it’s from Kirby’s Adventure. 🤣