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Sounds like an accessibility setting. Windows may have something built in, but unless you're doing it for a blind person you can get a keyboard that shows common hotkeys.

You missed the part again where I explicitly said copying cartridges, not emulation itself. And license owners distributing their own licensed products is not in question. How are you supposed to make a legal copy? Do they expect everyone to buy a $60 blu-ray drive? Or maybe hack their PS3? Neither of which I'm frankly want to do. In this particular case the PS3 is my brother's but I don't think he cares if he ever gets it back.

That didn't address what I said at all. And Wikipedia is not a good source for legal information. That being a said, a quick search isn't providing the information I need in favor of a bunch of crap about people asking if emulators are legal. Huh. I feel like I tried the PS3 controller, but the one I have I think is also completely dead now. Thought I read the PS3 controller still wouldn't use the analog face buttons. Might have to see if I can borrow a buddy's controller then, it'd be ace to play MGS3 on PC... though I guess the MGS collection pack I have on PS3 also has higher res textures and full camera control... I've never actually played it on PS2. Xbox came out a year later than PS2 and according to retrorgb.com only around 20 games aren't in progressive scan. Which is funny because the default cables don't support progressive apparently, and neither do they support Xbox's other major feature which was surround sound. Didn't know the rest of that about the GameCube though. Still, for only a year between launches, almost every PS2 game is interlaced only and the ones that can do progressive have to be enabled every time you start it. And at least GT keeps the menu in interlaced so it stays nice and illegible. According to a Wiki, the GameCube only needed to be set up for progressive scan once and then it would save that in the system memory. No idea if that transfers over to the emulator, but it doesn't seem to matter since it defaults to progressive anyway. What the hell was this thread about again?

I only know it to do some hacks and widescreen/progressive patches. A lot of games require different settings in the video plugins and some need different audio settings. How did you play MGS3? Is there a plugin that does analog buttons? I've tried looking for one and only saw posts saying lily pad doesn't support it. Other games like GT I use my steering wheel for. Burnout I think technically has analog throttle but it really doesn't matter. For whatever reason Burnout 3 is really intensive, and you have to start the first race in software render otherwise the skybox doesn't load. The audio can also get laggy and glitchy. MC3 has issues rendering the headlights and is also kind of intensive, but with certain settings it's lessened and I've completed it. I'd still say Dolphin is better overall. Has less fiddling, most games are progressive scan by default (Having to hold triangle on Burnout 3's boot or going into GT4's menu every time is very annoying) the games seem to run better, and I feel like I've done a texture mod which was pretty easy. And it has it's own built in library function PCSX2 doesn't really have, again why I use Spectabis. Interpolated 480i video signal sent over analog cables vs. (depending on the game and support) 16:9 1080p digital video signal with no degradation. I think actually that is technically illegal. Pretty sure I remember reading a court case that happened over making roms of cartridges and it was found illegal. Don't remember why. At the time cartridges were still the primary game distribution method so it doesn't mention CD's or DVD's, just specifically cartridges for hardware reasons.

Not really. You'd have to rip the disc to an iso and then transfer that iso to another disc. May as well just use the iso. When? How? I'm using Spectabis to manage them and it 100% does not do that on it's own. Every game I have needs it's own settings and hacks, not to mention some games I have a custom controller mapping because in Burnout I don't like to hold a face button for throttle. Please explain to me how I can have PCSX2 automatically switch between these settings, because I've never seen it do it. If you didn't have to go in and mess with settings per game no one would say that and there wouldn't be entire forum threads about how to get certain features in certain games to actually render and how to get the best performance out of them. Meanwhile the few times I've used Dolphin it's been entirely plug and play. Literally every game I've tried on PCSX2 needs it's own settings so it renders correctly and runs at a decent framerate. Not to mention even just resolution scaling which you can alter per game depending on performance. Burnout 3 and Midnight Club 3 are more intensive and have to be run at a lower res. Not once has PCSX2 automatically switched anything. I didn't mention PSX because I didn't mention it and it has no relevance to what I said.

The thing to me is the OG Xbox did have some really good exclusives, but more importantly it was also way more powerful than the PS2 and GC, so aside from higher progressive scan resolution and digital video output, a bunch of games were otherwise graphically superior on the Xbox.

Well I can rip PS2 games too, but it's cool to be able to just pop it in, and then it doesn't take hard drive space. Isn't that kind of pointless? PCSX2 is nowhere near as good as Dolphin. I've never had to fuck around with settings I don't understand and forget what do in Dolphin, just load it up and start the game. Every game in PCSX2 needs it's own settings and hacks.

The main theme is SNAAAKE EEEEAATTEEERRRRRRR! sssnaake eeeeatterrrrrrrrrr.

PCSX2 you can actually drop the game disc in your disc drive and play it directly, pretty cool. Wish the other DVD based console emulators let you do that, like Dolphin. Completely false. The emulator sites 100% do not have the BIOS and tell you to get your own. You can pirate them, and in certain cases you can do it to get around region locks on certain games, but none of the emu sites are hosting them. Meanwhile I'm still waiting for OG Xbox emulation. Just want to play older games in progressive rather than interlaced like the PS2.

Okay, but what if it turns out they're after the wrong guy? Like when SWAT busts into the bedroom of an old married couple instead of the drug den across the street? It happens frequently. https://reason.com/2015/08/03/swat-team-liable-for-wrong-house-flash-b/

I've been watching videos in 480 for a few years at this point to save on bandwidth and... no. It's possible if it's only available in 480 it's an older video and just was done poorly to begin with. Taking a clean 480 video feed looks pretty good, and honestly sometimes I'm unsure if it's switched itself to 720 or 1080 sometimes.

The motors are quite large, it's hard to do subtlety with them. I like the trigger rumbles in the Xbox controller and can occasionally provide information. The PS5 controller has transducers so it can be more detailed and subtle... but it's still pretty much the same. He's promised a lot of things and said a lot of stuff that never happened and weren't ever true. The entirety of Tesla and all of his promises made about it are a complete joke. Not necessarily "tech" related, but I've heard a lot of people say that PC games aren't poorly optimized because they have graphics options. To which I'd like to point them towards Saints Row 2, GTA4, Arma 3, Batman Arkham Knight (I don't even care if it was caused by Denuvo) and to an extent Crysis (Since it was designed around dual core and not "multi-core"). Having people telling me a game that looks awful and runs poorly is just as well optimized as something like Destiny 2 which ran shockingly well on my system is infuriating.

On a serious response, the only valid things to do with XP machines is run very old specialty programs that you still need, actively mess around with virus coding, or use it for retro games with a fancy sound card and Creative Alchemy. Outside those 3 things it's pretty much useless. You don't even want to think about connecting it to the internet, and most newer programs don't support 32 bit anymore. That's also assuming it was a higher end XP machine. If it was a lower end one, it's useless. If you don't want to throw it away, then congratulations, you now have something to mount on your wall as an art piece, or perhaps a nice side table.

Samsung makes headphones?

Those are different games. I never got D2 through Steam, only through other methods, but I don't remember any problems getting it to launch. You might have to install GFWL and do a local account since it's no longer active. Hard to remember, earlier this year when I upgraded my PC I managed to screw up the save file and didn't want to restart it so I uninstalled. Worst case you'd have to get it from somewhere else. They would've bought it a long time ago before it was delisted.

I wish I had somewhere nearby where I could try headphones. Never tried open backs, but AKG seems like they overprice their stuff when all of their models are pretty much identical.

The only thing I have is ryzen master. I can try that tomorrow though I guess.

I just can't understand why it won't boost when it's supposed to. I guess for all intents and purposes since I'm still stuck on an old GPU it doesn't matter as much since I'm GPU bound, but it would still be nice if it worked properly.

I couldn't find those in the BIOS, but they're in the Ryzen Master software. PPT is at 1000, TDC is 1000, and EDC is 180. Set them to what you suggested. Running the multicore cinebench, Ryzen Master is now showing 48 watts instead of 61, and slightly cooler temps at 60c, but the clock speed is still 4.2. Similar for single core. Lower temp, 5 watts less power, still at 4.2... except it seems to bounce between cores and they're typically in the 3.5 range.

It's just nice to do the fan setup without having to restart the computer. The AI suite also lets me rename the fans with pictograms so I know which ones they are.

I disabled AI tweaker so it's not starting on boot anymore. I only wanted it for the fan tweaking since speed fan is a pain to set up, but it might be overriding my CPU settings, I'm not sure.

I followed what the guy did in the video, but my max clock stayed the same and the multicore cinebench score went from 11564 to 10717 with the CPU still sitting at 62c. I don't know if that drop is within margin of error, I never used cinebench before. I didn't check what my CPU draw was before, it was ~61 watts now. It doesn't seem like it really did anything at all. I then ran the single core test, and it's running the 2nd fastest core according to Ryzen Master, and it's still capped at 4.2, but primarily sits at ~3.5. I don't know why the boost just flat-out isn't working.

How does it manage that? Does it save settings in the bios? At this point, since everything I've done in the bios didn't seem to make much difference I'm wondering if the AI suite is overriding the bios, but it doesn't have all the functionality.

At what point can you stop downloading things to do basic stuff? I have Afterburner for my GPU, AI suite for fans and maybe CPU, and now that also for CPU?