So the ps3 is running an emulator? I thought console backwards compatibility usually came from having the original console’s CPU available (as a sound processor or similar)

Ooo didn’t know the ps3 could run ps1 games

…can I have my custom ROM now?

Don’t worry, it seems like it’s just scaremongering: this is for managed work phones which you should only have been using for work stuff anyway

Haha it’s nowhere near as bad as it was playing the original Mario Party on the N64

Excellent news!

Same thing happened to my 3DS analogue thingy (it’s not really a stick), I just use the jaggy plastic bit and stop playing when it hurts my thumb too much!

The 360 era was the only time I remember xbox being ahead. I knew nobody who bought a ps3, but spent plenty of time playing halo on various friends’ machines.

Why no link to the actual game?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1191550/Fifos_Night/

I’ve been hurt by every TimeSplitters announcement I’ve seen for the last 20 years, do I dare to believe that it’s once again time to split‽

This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).

Did we really need an article saying “I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot”? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that’s the one to go for? Or perhaps it’s the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?

This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it’s usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking “how did this ever work!?”

I recently played the original via Primehack, a fork of Dolphin Emulator which (among other things) modernises the controls

Good news! I’ll often pick up random indies from itch.io and nothing kills my enthusiasm like on-screen buttons being the only controls. It was fine when I was emulating pokémon over a decade ago, but for anything where you need passable reactions it’s just not a good experience. Touchscreen controls are for when you want to be looking at what you’re clicking, if you’re looking elsewhere then you need physical buttons so you can feel where you’re clicking.

Because we, the techies, are a tiny minority. There are billions of comparatively clueless users who can apparently easily be scammed into installing malware. Governments and banks will be exerting significant pressure on Google to make their phones “secure”, and they can actually threaten them. I don’t see this as some grand conspiracy to destroy the hobbyist scene, Google just doesn’t care about the individual.

“Community Info”, I think

It was the first android tablet that was actually decent

Not something I noticed from several years of use. Every touchscreen I’ve used has behaved the same since they moved from resistive to capacitive!

Has there ever been a good one?

The original nexus 7 was pretty good (for the first few years of its life)