That… the wild motorcycles… may be a subgroup of the rockabilly group, or another group?

I am not sure lol.

Japan, more specifically, the Harajuku district of Tokyo, has a number of … very aesthetically bold subcultures, which certain people take extremely seriously.

One of which is basically exagerated 1950s American Rockabilly.

https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/01/07/the-tokyo-subculture-of-1950s-rockabilly-gangs/

A good number of these guys are in actual Rockabilly bands.

I dunno if this guy’s PS1 blocky haircut really fits into an existing subculture, or if it is a joke off of this subculture… or if it is totally unrelated to all that…

But there actually are a good number of very dedicated aesthetic subcultures in the Harajuku district, Rockabilly is one… the ‘gothic lolita’ style almost certainly came out of Harajuku… there are many other niche identity/aesthetic/lifestyle cliques.

That is what I was referring to, not just… psycho/rockabilly generally around the world.

Ah, I was using the uh… food industry sense of the term (which is admittedly a fuzzy definition), not the chemistry definition.

Yay for domain dependent meanings!

Couldn’t you… use basically moonshine?

Like, set up a distillery, get your grain mash and sugar… now you have very high proof alcohol.

Now, you could just strap basically a pilot light to … a more seriously designed super soaker… and you’d have to add some kind of … jellying, gelling? agent to the moonshine to get it to act more like a flame thrower than a squirt gun…

This would not be a 100% organicly sourced entire flamethrower, but you could at least make the fuel mostly, if not fully, from organic, non petroleum products.

Some would say his environs had a rather jaw dropping effect on the man.

A kid in my apartment building was walking down the hall, taking his dog out for a walk… just singing ‘What the fox say -ring ding ding ding ding da ding da ding.’

… I actually had to repress the urge to reply with ‘Badger Badger Badger Badger MUSHROOm MUSHROOM’

Damn good skit!

Reminds me of…

https://thenamelessmod.fandom.com/wiki/Foon

Old mod for Deus Ex… you can use ‘foons’ (sporks) as… basically the shittiest throwing knives imaginable.

Limbo is more desirable when your mortal realm strongly resembles Hell.

Not an unreasonable assumption.

That or he’s a die hard fan, really into that subculture.

Great work kitty kat.

Yep.

Yes.

That is the mouse, right in front of you, juuuust out of reach.

Again, great work.

For reference:

May Day, A View to a Kill (1985):

May Day, Goldeneye (N64, 1997):

It might be worth noting that I was running Azahar through Vulkan… which … I think is currently listed as an ‘experimental’ level of support by Azahar’s website.

It recommends OpenGL for better support and stability.

I ran around more in Kokiri Village, no more audio spikes. I think its just due to how certain cutscenes quick load scene transitions.

Also, I completely didn’t expect this to just work, but it does:

The secondary screen, that’s touch sensitive on a 3ds?

Well the Deck’s screen is touch sensitive as well.

Worked just fine to navigate through the map and item menus and what not, just poking the Deck’s screen itself.

So, I have literally never used a 3ds emulator before, ever.

EmuDeck set up Azahar in a few minutes, a few minutes more for me to find an OoT rom, a few minutes more to dl it…

…a few minutes more to figure out that the EmuDeck parser thing either isn’t working at finding 3ds files … or I am a moron and you just install the .cia (what a file extension name) into the Emu, in Desktop mode.

Add the Azahar emulator itself into steam library via EmuDeck which launches Steam Rom Manager…

Back out into game mode, launch Azahar, launch OoT, and yep, it works, also wow I forgot the 3ds has two screens, Azahar’s default render screen sectioning for this is weird, but it works!

Turn on performance overlay, looks like I’m getting a solid 60 fps, rendering the main game screen at double the DS’s native resolution.

Start a new save file, go through the intro sequence, run around in my treehouse room a bit…

All works, save for a few instances of the audio playing… a bit too fast, or too slow, for maybe a split second, in a few parts of the Navi flying really fast intro sequence.

… So… seems to work just fine, basically?

Probably I could tinker with Azahar’s settings a bit to see if I can iron out the mild audio quirks, but I’d say thats pretty good for a total elapsed time of about 30 minutes, and me having literally zero experience with 3ds emus, much less on a Deck.

EmuDeck handled making up the control scheme layout in Game Mode, which worked fine in game, automatically, I just had to deal with some mild awkwardness of double clicking on OoT with the trackpad to launch it.

Yep, this is always a factor, even with PC games.

For example: the Switch 2 uses an ARM CPU.

That is different in significant ways than an x86/64 CPU.

How the system allocates memory is also… a confounding factor.

Sometimes you have just one kind of RAM shared between the CPU and GPU. Sometimes there are different kinds of RAM for the CPU and GPU.

It looks like the Switch 2 is sharing LPPDR5 RAM between the CPU and GPU, as the Deck does… on the Deck, you can use CryoUtils to manually adjust how much is allocated to which.

The Switch 2 will… maybe have a standardized allocation for all games, or allow certain games to adjust the allocation.

And then if course there is port quality, and proton…

It gets pretty complicated to estimate just purely from specs alone.

Hence why the PC centric crowd is so much into empirical testing via benchmarks.

EmuDeck isn’t letting you auto install Yuzu anymore…

But it does install Ryujinx for you.

But it doesn’t provide BIOS or prod/title keys, gotta find those on your own.

There’s also Citron, but EmuDeck just lets you know it exists and won’t auto dl it.

Ryujinx has a flatpak (though its a fork) in the base Discover store on a Deck running SteamOS, so its just on mainline flathub.

Yuzu and Citron appear to no longer be on flathub.

Here’s the OLED Deck specs for comparison:

APU

6 nm AMD APU

APU power: 4-15W

(which contains:)

CPU:

Zen 2 4c/8t, 2.4-3.5GHz

(up to 448 GFlops FP32)

GPU:

8 RDNA 2 CUs, 1.6GHz

(1.6 TFlops FP32)

…

RAM:

16 GB LPDDR5 on-board RAM

(6400 MT/s quad 32-bit channels)

Storage:

Steam Deck 512GB NVMe SSD

Steam Deck 1TB NVMe SSD

Both include high-speed microSD card slot

EDIT: More details

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Steam-Deck-OLED-APU-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs.799065.0.html

So basically, the Deck and Switch 2 are roughly inverted in compartitive hardware power… the Deck has a more powerful CPU, the Switch 2 has a more powerful GPU.

EDIT 2:

also the Deck has 33% more RAM.

It literally is just install a flatpak, then configure the control scheme in the emu, maybe tweak some settings, add it to your steam library, map the steam controls to the emu controls in game mode.

EmuDeck/RetroDeck automate most of this or you can just find the individual emus in the Discover software center.

… They might actually perform better if you compiled the entire thing from source on your Deck, which is possible to do, but is significantly more of a hassle, gotta set up a root pw, turn off read only mode, hope you can actually find all the sources for the dependencies, know how to tune/tweak the compile parameters to optimally use the Deck’s hardware…

Ive gotten Ryujinx working via flatpak… but uh… lets just say I’d have to delve into OCing/PowerToolsing my Deck to get it to actually run many Switch/WiiU games at a playable framerate.

It works, its stable software wise… but the Deck isn’t quite powerful enough.

… Also, it could be that most modern emus are designed to map consoles onto traditional PC architecture, and ironically the Deck uses an APU which is closer to many consoles, so it doesn’t actually perform as well as it could with better support.