Fecal Fossa

OpenBSD or FreeBSD?

I haven't tried and I believe changes start to cause a mess, the whole interface barely holds all its shit together to begin with, you can sense it when opening a folder, it screams "it just works!"

Reality is that they shoaed something descent for something downright ugly. From there I can only guess what the choices for what's going on under the hood look like. Ugly.

Mednafen (I believe it's available on BSD https://mednafen.github.io/releases/ Mednafen has been successfully compiled on: FreeBSD Linux NetBSD OpenBSD Windows... Yeah) supports playstation1/psx emulation, there are quite a lot of good titles, starting with classics such as tekken3 for instance, or the syphon filter series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcxX4GO2NO4 fuck yeah

https://www.freeroms.com/roms/psx/tekken_3.htm

https://www.freeroms.com/roms/psx/syphon_filter_v1_1.htm

https://www.freeroms.com/roms/psx/einhander.htm

https://www.freeroms.com/roms/psx/tenchu_2_-_birth_of_the_stealth_assassins.htm

https://www.freeroms.com/roms/psx/pandemonium!_v1_0.htm

https://www.freeroms.com/roms/psx/oddworld_-_abes_oddysee_v1_1.htm

I've made a setup recently for desktop, the command line goes as follow:

>mednafen /path/to/tekken_3.m3u -fs 1 -sound 1 -video.frameskip 0 -sound.driver sdl -video.driver opengl -psx.videoip 0 -psx.stretch aspect -video.deinterlacer bob_offset -psx.tblur 1

.m3u are playlist files you get or create yourself to launch a playstation bin with mednafen, since mednafen can't launch psx "bin" files directly

Your typical .m3u file is named after your game, like for tekken_3.bin you create a .m3u file called tekken_3.m3u and save it in the tekken_3.bin's folder, and in the .m3u file you paste this

>tekken_3.cue

And then, of course you need to create the tekken_3.cue file and save it in the same folder as the .bin and .m3u. And in it you paste that:

FILE "tekken_3.bin" Binary TRACK 01 MODE2/2352 INDEX 01 00:00:00

....

And it's the same for all games, pretty much

For multiple discs you go as follow:

In the .m3u file:

thousand_arms_(disc_1).cue thousand_arms_(disc_2).cue

And in the respective .cue files:

FILE "thousand_arms_(disc_1).bin" Binary TRACK 01 MODE2/2352 INDEX 01 00:00:00

FILE "thousand_arms_(disc_2).bin" Binary TRACK 01 MODE2/2352 INDEX 01 00:00:00

Now to switch disc during game https://mednafen.github.io/documentation/#Section_multicd_games

>To play a game that consists of more than one CD, you will need to create an M3U file(plain-text, ".m3u" extension), and enter the filenames of the CUE/TOC/CCD files, one per line. Load the M3U file with Mednafen instead of the CUE/TOC/CCD files, and use the F6 and F8 keys to switch among the various discs available.

Now if you never configured joysticks or keyboard intputs for mednafen I can help, but I'll stop there pretending you already went through that weird ass shit...

This is just motivating me to build my own ubuntu distro tbh, starting on a stripped down LTS, probably bionic beaver btw. This is something I'm pondering since a while now, and it's not too much of a pain in the ass with cubic, it takes a bit of time

Now idk what I would put on it as default DE, probably just i3 and that's it, I'm very tempted to do just that to begin with, and remove all the garbage programs shipped with it, like the lame ass video player and audio player and put vlc instead

I should probably also add the option of going for a more, let's say conventional actual DE, something similar to slitaz 4 https://pic8.co/sh/oooszw.jpeg <- look, not only it's lightweight and fast, it's actually NOT ugly as fuck like the fecal thing unbuntu team managed to come up with, and what else do you really need beyond that? Nothing, it's just good enough

It "looks good"?

...

You forgot the sarc tag

It looks like utter shit, you would have to pay me to not even install it, but to just run this shameful pile of utter shit on ANY machine, virtual ones included