I'm playing Binky's Trash Service, Rayman Redemption, Gran Turismo 3, Tres-Bashers, Banjo, Mario Bros, Link's Awakening, Airframe Ultra demo (I'm loving the bouncy physics with jet moto futuristic bikes, and it seems locked at 90fps in handheld), Super Battle Golf (easily locks at 90 once I reduced resolution and settings, super fun!), Bakuretsu Muteki Bangaioh (thanks Time Extension for heads up about English patch!), Megaman in the Mushroon Kingdom, and a bunch of incredible mods for several games. I'm also still blown away by the River Master releases, mostly still listening to Angler's Dream. Enjoying videos of Gamer's Nexus, Macho Nacho Productions (the Zelda game and watch mod is amazing), and Nerrel's new video about art and remakes.
I'm playing Skator Gator, Mewgenics, Quest 64, Rocket League, Super Bomberman Collection (I've been playing all these on Deck for years, but got snagged into buying this and am glad I did. Love the presentation, Bomb Radio, and the strange way they programmed this such that I can set it to 90fps and play faster, or set it to 45fps to slow the game down!), Liminal Dream (a romhack that is now on Mario 64 pc. I'm liking it a lot so far), Banjo Dreamie (romhack on Banjo Recompiled. It's pretty difficult, but fun and of course runs perfectly at 300fps), Urban Trial Freestyle, Universe (great fan game that is a love letter to Gradius, and runs with messed up graphics on Deck, but playable), Super Monkey Ball 2, Gokujou Parodius Da Deluxe Pack, Mario Kart 64 remade, Wipeout, etc! I'm also enjoying Ian McKellan's performance on Colbert where he spoke as Thomas More as written by Shakespeare. Also listening to unique soundtracks made by fans for community made free games. May all of our hearts blossom with compassion!
I'm mainly excited to welcome a new resident in Frame Rate Freedom Village! Space Station Silicon Valley is enjoying new life with a freely choosable frame rate. It's gorgeous and more fun to play than ever. There's a few graphical issues in it's alpha state, but nothing that bothers me. I'm still really enjoying Holy Magic Century. I've even started another playthrough, but this time at 300fps. I've also gotten the old Prima guide book for Quest 64 and also been watching speed runs and other videos about it. I'm also enjoying a romhack from 5 years ago called Super Mario Star Seeker. It is only a demo, and might never get finished, but it's still an awesome merging of Super Mario World and Mario 64. Great music, great open levels (like Mario 64 painting levels brought to 2D), and quality showing all through it. Thanks to huappy spins I'm tremendously enjoying the River Master music. The Angler's Dream album is so damn good! Listening to "tackle box organization" while playing Quest 64 at 90fps is a peak gaming experience! Also enjoying Cy Canterel's sort of video essays. She can really speak eloquently to lots of subjects that matter today! Happy gaming everyone!
Huappy spins is such an awesome channel. I've been reading to wii forcast channel, grinding fun battles in Holy Magic Century to 3DS system music, playing S.F. Rush to water music from many games, discovering awesome music by people like Ichiko Aoba and Ken-Ichiro Isoda! Glad to see others have been enjoying it too.
Wow, I would've never guessed that I'd get into Quest 64, but it's happened. At first I thought (I guess coz some recomps are alpha releases with no support for high fps) it was limited to 60fps, then found out 90 works, then docked my Deck and saw it running at 240fps. Haven't tried 300fps yet, but will soon. Anyways, I enjoy grinding battles to get more powerful spells (and the crucial healing ability from water spell power build up) and am enjoying exploring this small simple RPG (it is like an NES RPG that got put on N64). Also playing Banjo Recompiled (it was a horrible day though, thinking about Alex Pretti while looking at super smooth Banjo...). The romhacks Wiseguy ported are awesome, and happen to be ones I haven't played before — thank you Wiseguy!
I also just played Mega Man 64 recomp. It's early, and interesting to see how it tries to put everything together (dropping from a locked 90fps down to 15fps with white squares popping in and out). I did read that a dev is still working on it, so it should be awesome when they get done.
And for some reason I just now got Chameleon Twist recomp set up and played it. It's incredible once I turn on Lossless Scaling, just locked at 90fps with minimal graphical issues. It's a fun game with great music.
I've also been playing Urban Trial Freestyle. Was kind of shocked at how I didn't like way it looked locked at 60fps on my old LCD deck. Tried it on my old laptop and it runs at 240 to 380fps and looks incredible, super fun! Also playing Rocket League, S.F. Rush, Ghostship (looks perfect but I have some infrequent crashes on deck), and Wipeout phantom edition (I never tire of this game!). I'm also super excited for Waverace 64, which I read is running excellently, they're just ironing out multi-player.
I've been drinking a new Keemun that's pretty good. Also listening to absolutely heartwrenching corridos for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, so beautiful and sad and infuriating! And reading Wendell Berry, he's always awesome.
Take care everyone!
I'm playing Xenosensory, which feels like playing a game on the alien detector device in Aliens (the 1980s movie). I like the simplicity of it, the sound design, and the sort of incremental progression it has. I've just started Tiny Bookshop and think I'll love it. Day Repeat Day seems interesting so far. I like the sound, matching puzzle gameplay, and story (but based on reviews I'm worried it'll be quite depressing). I got MIO, but haven't started it yet, looking forward to seeing how good it might be. Also: Wipeout, Rocket League (getting tired of it though, after well over 2000 hours!), New Super Mario Land (love this romhack, hard to stop playing whenever I start!), Wave Race 64 (it kinda blows my mind that I enjoy this at it's original frame rate even though I'm now used to playing so many games at 300fps with perfect frame pacing), Wipeout 64 (also original fps, unfortunately), San Francisco Rush (yes, at 300fps, or 90 when playing on Deck), Parodius (multiple versions on SFC PC Engine and Famicom), Dr Mario, Pacman, and Bomberman. Listening to Bebel Gilberto these days. And looking forward to a new type of Keemun tea I ordered today. Enjoying more Gamers Nexus videos, as well as videos on how to organize and strengthen communities and neighborhoods to try to keep people from getting kidnapped by our government. Happy gaming everyone!
I remember trying my physical copy of Rocket League on my Switch without internet connection years ago. It didn't work. I guess that was my very early taste of game key cards. I'll never buy a key card, a Brick 2, or anything from Nintendo again(for a long list of reasons, not due to this experience with a Rocket League cart).
Playing a whole bunch of awesome games, mods, etc. Probably biggest new thing for me is blank, which is super fun and I love it, but don't want any corporate lawyers to attack it, so I won't name it. Also enjoying Super Woden Rally Edge, which run at 90fps like Rush Rally Origins, which I'm also playing. Also just discovered the joy of SNO Ultimate Freeriding, a gem from a couple Norwegian devs. Lowering settings and resolution easily allowed me to lock it at 90fps, so beautiful!
Also playing some more Lonely Mountains Snow Riders, which can't fully lock at 90fps like their previous mtn biking game.
Also just started Geometry Arena and Geometry Arena 2, which are both great shooter/survivor games. I like how I can set G.A. 2 to play itself just like Cast and Chill.
Vital Shell is another one I'm enjoying. PS1 kind of survivor shooter with great music.
Oh, also enjoying Big Hops. Great feeling jumping and diving and tongue swinging 3d platformer.
Also enjoying Super Mario Bros 6 Super Mario World 3, and Super Mario World 3: Lost Paths, two great romhacks that have wonderful gameplay and music.
I'm also enjoying Wakoucha Mariko for the first time. This fine black tea (red tea) from Shizuoka has become my fav black tea! Smooth and mild!
Also watching too much painful news. But reading can help. I've dipped back into F. R. Scott, who amazing poetry and was a highly regarded constitutional scholar in Canada. "...quickened with passion and with pain/ We rise to play a greater part..." I'm grateful Renee Good loved her neighbors. I hope we all learn to do that!
Take care and happy gaming everyone!
I'm playing lots of mods at 300fps on my laptop connected to my cheap (but man do I love it!) monitor. Also playing Rocket League, Wipeout phantom edition (but with Wipeout XL tracks), and Utopia Must Fall at 300.
I'm also playing Marble's Marbles, which is a 2026 release that has awesome and weird music to go with it's old school marble rolling gameplay. Xenosensory is another new one I'm playing that seems great so far. It's incremental, has parts where you protect space station people from aliens, and has good sound design.
Another awesome game I'm playing is ASCIILL, which is made of beautiful 90fps ascii art, has interesting gameplay based off of minesweeper (but with an RPG set up, bosses, etc), super cool! Also playing Plague Breaker, which seems good so far (just starting it). It runs locked at 90fps, has Castlevania influence, and I'm liking the gameplay and basic graphics. Drift Survivor is another interesting one I'm playing. It isn't smooth for some reason, but is pretty cool with drifting a car around while shooting enemies. Day of Drift feels like a mobile game, but it's good and I like it. Flippup came out a week ago and is good, but I'll never beat it (it's like Bennet Foddy's getting over it, but with pinball).Infinos Gaiden is a great STG I just got recently, love it! And I'm loving Rainy Day Racer more and more. I just got Strawberry playing my favorite CDs (which I was able to rip at work on an ancient PC), so I can race in Scotland to my favorite tunes. I'm also just discovering the joy of some of the music stuff available through Decky. It's amazing and I've been telling people about it for days.
Take it easy, and happy gaming everyone!
I'm playing cast and chill, sometimes not though, just watching and letting the computer catch stuff so I can spend the money later. Also playing Rainy Day Racer, which is an amazing time trial racing game in the vein of Ridge Racer, but without music, but with one of the Echo and the Bunny men greeting you before and after races. Also the amazingly fun Orbo's Odyssey, a 3d crazy platforming awesome game with wonderful drum n bass. Also Monument Valley (runs 240fps in docked play, very nice!), Insane 2 (super fun older racing game that also run very nicely, kinda makes me think of Motorstorm but with a great frame rate), MX Bikes (so realistic I crash all the time, but I can see why it's so popular), World Racing 2 (incredibly fun and smooth running old racing game, re-released in like 2022), MX vs ATV Reflex (one of the best old motocross games, seems locked to 60 with no difference when changing video settings to 90fps or 240fps, although if I lower the deck's refresh rate it can start to have a slight effect, so weird!), GanaBlade (awesome stg), SuperSpec Rallycross (ultra cute top down racer that I love playing with Lossless Scaling to get perfect smoothness with minimal input lag, looks perfect), First Racer (yet another great racing game I'm enjoying often), and Rocket League (I played some at 144fps on my old laptop's terrible display, but otherwise always play at 300fps on my new cheap monitor, which looks awesome). Take care everyone!
Just started Toree Saturn and was disappointed it seems locked to 60fps with no option to increase, but it's super fun so I just kept playing. Then later playing in handheld I tried using Lossless Scaling / lsfg and it works! So I'm playing Toree Saturn at 90fps and excited to see if my Deck can play it at 240fps on my monitor (60fps base with 4x frame generation should work!). I'll try it tomorrow after work. Also just started Here Comes Niko! Which is a really fun and charming 3D platformer with great controls. It was running at 120 to 150fps docked. Great game!
I also just started Y2ROLL, a new Monkey Ball/marble blast type game that channels the 1990s with N64 type graphics and great 90s drum n bass. I can't get Lossless Scaling working with it, so seems stuck at 60. Amazing game so far though!
Also loving Dogpile, Word Play, Xenotilt, Starfox 64, Dr Mario 64, SF Rush, Wipeout phantom edition, Ekstase (thank God Lossless Scaling works with this puzzle game - it's locked at 30fps, but easily boosts to 90 or 120 fps), Lumines Arise, Utopia Must Fall, Rocket League, Powerslide (old racing game that I was surprised I could get running at 90fps with controls working fine), Race Condition (fun 2022 racing game that runs smoothly), and lots of mods for various games.
I've also enjoyed Gamers Nexus videos criticizing Nvidia and Palantir. I hope the world goes in a peaceful direction that respects our freedom and privacy.
Happy gaming and happy new year!
I'm continuing to really love Lumines Arise, such a fantastic puzzler. Also playing Super Monkey Ball, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Utopia Must Fall, Wipeout, Rocket League, Pacman collection (mostly arrangement), Blood Refreshed Supply, and more.
Have been tempted by a 520 hz LCD monitor on steep sale, but even though it's an awesome refresh rate for a good price I'm going to wait. Surely these 500hz oled monitors will keep dropping and I'll be able to get one at some point!
I also just installed the play count deck app so I can see how many people are playing various games. It's fun to see that older games I like better than newer sequels have more people playing them vs their newer counterparts. Games like Lonely Mountains Downhill and Kingdom Two Crowns are being played more than the newer snowboarding game or Kingdon Eighties. Megabonk is mega popular! And then lots of games I like have 1 or 2 people playing at any given time, or none.
Happy gaming and happy holidays!
I'm playing Skate Story (90fps handheld and 300 fps on laptop, I just reduce settings and resolution and it looks beautiful and smooth!), Lumines Arise (incredible game, but not smooth enough for me on Deck so I need to switch to laptop!), Soul Searching (interesting indie game), Namco Museum Archives (I like playing an M2 release like this — Pacman Champ demastered is incredible), Rhythm Doctor (the modding support immediately available after launch is increible!), Old School Rally (good game but I can't get the frame rate to change, even when it reports running at 90fps or 240fps it is still only showing 60fps in actual gameplay), wipeout phantom edition (been enjoying this with a new track All I Am by some EDM band), Birdcage (awesome stg!), Blood refreshed supply (awesome high frame rate remaster of the 90s classic!), Retro Endurance 8 bit (amazingly fun retro game collection presented in a charming wrapper), and also tons of mods that I love playing while using Lossless Scaling to get very smooth graphics.
With Old School Rally increasing the refresh rate in the options only degrades the frame pacing, so higher settings actually look worse than leaving it set to 60fps. I hope someday all games can do high frame rates correctly!
I'm mostly playing a bunch of mods at 90, or 120, or 300fps. Can't get enough of that stuff! Also playing Rocket League at the lovely rate of 300. Nuclear Throne now can run at 60, 90, or 120fps, so I'm enjoying that update. I got Super World War, but was disappointed it requires 14 GB, so I haven't played it yet... Take care, and happy gaming!
I've been enjoying Astro Prospector and Sektori thanks to mentions last weekend. Astro Prospector is very good, very addictive, and I love the way it looks at 300fps! I don't really like the coffee theme, maybe it's popular enough to have mods being made for it... Sektori is just such an amazing twin stick shooter, love the music, graphics, everything. I'm also playing Trigonarium, which is the 24 MB, $2, older brother of Sektori. Good game, and it really saves storage space!
Also enjoying Timesplitters Rewind very much. I wish it was locked at 90fps, or maybe they can add a frame rate locker in the menu so Lossless Scaling can do it's beautiful work. Oh, they added lsfg to the Decky store! So now it's easier than ever for people to double, triple, or quadruple their frame rates on Deck/steam OS.
Also playing Birdcage, an awesome new shoot em up that everyone should play!
Oh, and I'm also playing Viewpoint 2064, the new N64 game that got saved from oblivion. Also the 60fps patch for Mario Kart Super Circuit, which is nice.
And also Beyond Words, which is a great word game. Looking forward to it's release next year.
Also playing Lonely Mountains Downhill, SF Rush, Perfect Dark, Wipeout Phantom Edition (so perfect locked at 240fps with my Deck docked to my monitor!), UFO 50, Magical Tetris Challenge, and Retro Endurance 8 Bit (so many games to unlock!)(and the dev keeps adding more).
Happy gaming everyone!
I'm pretty obsessed with The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited. It's not a game, but a visual light synth type of thing. It makes me say Oh My God and cusswords because the colors can flow like smoke or water and change direction in trippy ways. It's kind of amazing because it seems simple and not amazing at first, but start messing with the options and moving your analog sticks slowly, rhythmically, or just holding one down (basically with your back to a wall) and it can just be awesome. I'm also playing R Type Delta. I've had it set up via emulation for years as a non steam game, but now that I've bought it I'm playing it and really enjoying it. It is also incredible at 300fps with Lossless Scaling. Which reminds me to say that I've basically quite using my new gaming laptop for gaming and only use my old one since my old one with Windows 10 can run Lossless Scaling flawlessly. Games are so much more immersive at maximum frame rate. I've started Dungeons of Hinterberg on Deck, but performance kinda sucked, so I turned on lsfg and made it look like a locked 90fps. I'm also playing Dirt Rally with high settings at a good resolution and Lossless Scaling keeps it locked at 300fps — pretty stunning! Also playing an awesome puzzle game called Dissembler, just flip pieces and complete colors - I love it. And Wilmot Works It Out, another great puzzle game. And Jumpgrid, a great action game that's a simple well done design. Oh, and Terraflame is addictive at 300fps with frame generation. Also playing Utopia Must Fall and Lonely Mountains Downhill because I love those games! Take care, relax, and happy gaming!!
I'm just continuing to be fascinated and amazed playing stuff at 300fps. I decided to try out my old laptop with this cheap new 300hz monitor I bought and was amazed that it can run Lossless Scaling perfectly. I've been having endless trouble getting LS to work on my new laptop. I wonder if it's Windows 11 vs 10. I've never allowed the "upgrade" on my old laptop, and now I'm planning to protect it from any updates at all. I don't want to lose this ability to get emulation, videos, and all games up to 300fps with perfect frame pacing!! People talk about diminishing returns on higher frame rates, and they're right, but at the same time I'm amazed and enthralled by higher and higher fps. Playing Utopia Must Fall at 300fps and getting the triple shot for the first time, and realizing I can widen or narrow the triple shot with the triggers, well it just looks like a beyond perfect light show! I've gotten up to 16 days survived and something like 210,000 high score. I Love Utopia Must Fall. I'm also playing Dirt Rally at 300fps. Once I destroy all the settings and lower the resolution to 720p (probably my favorite resolution!) it can run at 300 to 400fps, and it looks gorgeous! Also playing Lonely Mountains Downhill (such an amazing and relaxing game), Pru the Pigeon, wipeout 2097 phantom edition (I'll always want to play this at 300fps!), Retro Endurance 8 bit (so grateful the dev programmed this to run at 300, or whatever you've got!), Rush Rally Origins, Classic Mario World 3 the finale, Super Mario World Redone 40 Years of Mario!, Zelda's Adventure DX, and Rocket League. Oh, and I'm super excited to get a Gabecube, Steam Controller, and Frame! I love that the Gabecube can output very high frame rates via Display Port — I'll be using that feature!! And I've enjoyed all the content online. Linus' love struck face cracks me up! I'm excited for the coming expansion of the "open ecosystem"! I also liked Alana Pearce's reporting on Saudi and Kushner investments in EA and games in general (Nintendo too!). I wish everyone well, and happy gaming!
Aside from working all weekend I'm excitedly trying out many games on my new 300hz monitor. It's my first time seeing 300fps, and it's oh so sweet! I was hoping to connect my Steam Deck to it to play at 300, but it seems like 240 is the max (not sure why there's any maximum). So I've played a lot of stuff at 240 like that, but also played many games at 300fps with my laptop hooked up. Utopia Must Fall, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Kingdom Two Crowns, Tetris Effect, Ball X Pit, Toem, West of Loathing, Rocket League, This Is No Cave, Skate Story demo, TOTK, Mario 64, wipeout phantom edition, SF Rush projectR, and many others all look incredible at 300fps! I find myself saying oh my god, or holy sh*t under my breath as I'm watching things move so smoothly. I can't wait for even faster displays to get cheaper so I can get one in a year or two! These 720hz monitors sound so awesome! And I heard there's a 1,000hz one coming soon. Mario 64 was showing up to 2,600fps in the frame counter in the corner, and I only get to see 300 of those right now! I guess it's safe to say I really like high frame rates.
I'm also playing Slots and Daggers (seems to max out at 180fps for some reason), Once Upon a Katamari(90fps handheld, more docked but something seems off at times with high fps), Megabonk (love playing this around 250fps), n++ (can't get this above 60fps, honestly seems like somethings wrong with the game, it will say 300hz in graphics menu but nothing changes), Shadows Over Loathing (played this at 240fps using my Deck), Retro Endurance 8bit (love this game! And it also runs at 300fps easily), Rush Rally 3 (incredible playing this at 300), etc.
And Silver Bullet, such a fun arcade shooting type game!
I'm also playing Cool Boarders Code Alien, MTX Mototrax, and Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder after watching John's awesome Digital Foundry Tony Hawk video.
Have a great weekend everyone! Happy Gaming!
Severed Steel, more time with the Skate Story demo, Retro Endurance 8 bit, Glyph, Vomitorium, Silver Bullet (amazing!) Slots and Daggers (pretty addicted to this one!), Jojos Bizarre Adventure (barely played this in the past, but it just went one sale and I'm liking it), fan games, 80 mods, etc. I've just discovered Rob Braxman's (or whatever his name is) youtube channel. He's an awesome cool headed advocate for privacy and tech freedom, kind of like Louis Rossman, who I also like. Oh and I really like Alex's video on GTA 4. Amazing to see what dedicated fans and programmers can do. I had a dream where I saw 3 new PC ports, but they announced that the public couldn't play them! Then I woke up and realized after checking online that I couldn't play them cuz they don't exist (or maybe they've made huge progress on 3, but haven't announced it yet, but somehow I dreamt about it! Lol). That reminds me I have been playing Duke Nukem zero hour since that recomp dropped. It looks pretty good if you use a 120hz display to get 60fps(I haven't yet tried a 240hz screen to see it running at 120fps). A nice alpha release that I'm happy to get to try out!
I've just been enjoying Once Upon A Katamari. It runs at 200 to 300fps on my laptop, and with my Deck docked to my monitor I've been getting about 100 to 170fps, but it could be smoother. I need to lock it down so it has perfect frame pacing at a lower frame rate. Looks great though. And sounds great! Soundtrack slaps! Fun levels and power ups, and the usual funny dialog make this maybe the best Katamari game yet!
I'm also enjoying the demo for Cairn. It's slow and fun climbing, but the frame rate needs work.
I'm still loving the heck out of Utopia Must Fall. I usually don't pay attention to achievements, but I'm totally into getting them all for this awesome game. I got the vibes one where you don't fire your main weapon all day just relying on automated help you've set up. Quite satisfying!
This Is No Cave is a new favorite, especially since the dev responded to my comments and to me review — they fixed the frame rate of their game within 24 hours of my buying it and commenting on how it wasn't smooth! Others had already commented on it too. Anyways, it's a fun and simple cave exploring game with great level design, great controls, excellent sound design, and is just a sweet little short game (but I can see people getting addicted to speed running it and spending quite a bit of time playing it).
I've been blown away by Skate Story. Such amazing music, fantastic Underworld atmosphere with stoic philosopher talk, incredibly awesome neon-like flames of hell, sidewalks you skate down where if you stop and look you can read the long list of sins that make up the texture of the sidewalk, etc. It's awesome, and I can't wait to play the full game and hear the full soundtrack of awesomeness in 2026!
Also loving Platypus Reclayed. Such a perfect remaster of a shootem up I've never played till now. Runs locked at 90fps on oled deck, has great graphics and music, and many difficulty settings.
Oh, I'm also happy with Retro Endurance 8bit, a game made by a dev of an SNES emulator. It's got like 40 retro games, a funny robot character called M.O.M. who controls your games, buys you new ones, and scolds you when you quit the game. It's really well done, and fun!
Also started Yooka Re-Playlee, and while I could get it up to 220fps, it still has a stutter that's likely due to my computer having some problem (likely just Windows, which sucks for gaming smoothly). I need to install it on Deck and see if I can lock it down then use Lossless Scaling to get it to 90fps with perfect frame pacing.
Also enjoying the totally normal and regular game Tingus Goose. It's a great demo of a normal game that doesn't have body horror or weird animation at all.
I've gotten even more into Utopia Must Fall. Read a guide that a fan posted on steam forums, watched some videos, saw what kind of high scores people were posting, etc. I feel like I've really accomplished something when I get to day 11, but others get to day 30, day 40, and higher. I love the music, sound effects, power ups, anti power ups (nuclear boycott and the hermit path are fun), and the humor of this awesome game. I just got into Gwen the Hen 64 and love it. Reminds me of the Toree 3D games, but some aspects are better. Also sinking further into the pit of Megabonk. Been playing it at 180fps, which is just beautiful and addictive. Also sinking into the pit of ball x pit. Love the music, gameplay, locked 90fps (I haven't remembered to try it when plugged into my cheap 180hz monitor, but it probably will run locked at 180), and just the whole feel of this game. And most surprisingly I really love the demo of Bubsy 4D. Forget double jumps, this game has like a quadruple jump and it's incredibly fun to play mostly just because Bubsy is such a joy to control. Fur ball mode is perfect with great acceleration when you hit the right trigger. The humor is good, it runs easily locked at 90fps (I had a lot of trouble trying to get it to run at 180fps, it kind of did eventually, but I think it prefers 120fps), has good music, and I'm looking forward to it's release next year. Also enjoying USG, a small not too popular shoot em up. It has beautiful purple and blue explosions, intense bullet patterns, and is a good stg for not much $. Also got Omega 6 after seeing the quote from Nintendolife on the game's Steam page. It looks like a good game, but I've barely started it. Also playing Tempest 4000 (180fps!), wipeout phantom edition, GZDoom with Robbit and Golden Souls and everything, Super Spartan Bros (Halo rom hack of Super Mario Bros), and Metal Black. Also going to show my support for my country this weekend at No Kings 2. We need warm hearts and cool heads, more than ever. Happy gaming everyone!
I've been playing favorites like Wipeout Phantom Edition in docked mode at 180fps. There's something funny going on with my laptop and it's dropping frames in basically all games, so my Deck is running stuff better than my much more powerful laptop. Perfect frame pacing at 180fps looks much better than tiny little microstutters at 240fps. I wonder if it's just windows vs linux...(but surely not, wipeout used to run basically locked at 240fps).
I got Yooka Replayee, but it's hard for me to fit a 25 gig game in my storage. Started Clover Pit and it seems good even though not my usual kind of genre. I'm also playing Utopia Must Fall(a huge favorite of mine), VVVVVV (enjoying it at 180fps for the first time!), Rocket League (always at 240fps, the slight stutter can seem like online latency stuff), Giant Mario Bros (2021 romhack with double size Mario and levels that work with that size), a beta release of Tengen Tetris (maybe from 1988 idk), Mole Mania DX (thanks to Time Extention for the heads up), and Classic Kong Complete (fun fan remake from 2012).
Happy gaming!!
A new one I'm enjoying is the demo for Under The Crown. These new chess games that are kinda like Balatro are really fun to me. I also like Passant and another good one whose name I can't remember right now.
Oh, I'm also playing a fangame that I saw on youtube. People were making fun of how bad the person was who played it, but I understood once I started playing myself. Really weird physics. Anyways, it's still interesting and fun to mess with even though it doesn't want to run smoothly at 90fps (or any other frame rate I set it at).
Also enjoying the Jumping Flash mod for GZDoom, wipeout phantom edition, 55 or 60 mods I've gotten working smoothly, and I'm also marveling at how fun and joyful all these character and resource packs are that I'm experimenting with.
Oh, a very cool thing I just found out about is that Utopia Must Fall is getting updated. I switched to the beta channel so I can use the new features, and yeah, it's awesome! They've drastically improved performance, added good controls on Deck, and improved tons of stuff. It's way better now than when I first started playing it a year or so ago (and it was great then!).
And Rocket League, I'm playing too much of it!
Happy gaming, and take care! And don't tempt fate, save your state!
I'm playing Killbug (fun 1st person shooter that I was able to quickly set at 90fps), Brazilian Drug Dealer 3 (interesting old school looking 1st person shooter that I can tell to run at 90, but it doesn't really, not sure why, but it looks pretty smooth), Operation STEEL (nice STG I just got that's pretty fun), Megabonk (super fun and addictive 3D vampire survivors type deal), Gnomes, easy delivery co, Koopa in a Hurry (short and fun romhack where you race through custom levels as a Koopa or Fire Koopa), F zero 55, wipeout phantom edition (but with wipeout 2097 tracks, but not with 2097 weapons sadly), GZDoom (I'm quite addicted to numerous wads and mods, but the absolute best is playing as mechanical space rabbit Robbit fighting Jumping Flash! enemies and in Doom 1 or Golden Souls or Mayhem 17 or....), Cyber-Core (fun STG for PC Engine that I'm enjoying playing through), Crash Bandicoot and the Retro Dimension (amazing romhack with Crash in Super Mario World type of levels), and Super Mario Bros Mini (finally got Yoshi in this cute demake).
I'm also experimenting with using display port between Deck and monitor. I've gotten about 20 games running at 180fps. It's amazing to me that my 3 year old handheld can run so much stuff at 180fps. It's great to play wipEout, Kingdom Two Crowns, Glyph, SF Rush, etc at a good frame rate.
Have fun gaming everyone!
@Serpent-Rider Just got about 20 GZDoom mods running. Mario Mayhem is awesome! I easily found the Castlevania one, it's awesome too, but quite difficult. Also got Brutal Doom, Golden Souls 1 2 and 3, a Megaman type mod, Space Hunter (awesome meteoid mod), a golf game, a flying game, etc etc. But my favorite is the Jumping Flash! mod. Being Robbit in Doom is very joy inducing! I even got Jumping Flash working inside Golden Souls, so I've lived the dream of playing an awesome mash up of Doom, Mario 64, and Jumping Flash! Very smile inducing stuff!
@Serpent-Rider Sounds fun. There will have to be a standalone setup for Mario Mayhem for me. I'm still a total beginner with GZ Doom so stuff has to be pretty simple or I won't be able to get it running correctly.
I've also started Ashes 2063 (and set up and tried the 2 sequels too). It seems absolutely awesome, but I need to tweak the controls to be less sensitive on Deck (I bet it's perfect on mouse and keyboard though).
There's mention of an awesome sounding Castlevania themed GZ Doom game, but it looks like I'd have to dig around to find it...
My big new fun game is Easy Delivery Co. I loved the demo, and even though the full release runs at a lower frame rate for some reason I still love it. Thankfully the community ported Lossless Scaling to Steam OS so I'm using that to keep Easy Deliveries locked at 90fps. It is so smooth and fun. Great music, excellent sound design, interesting and funny Animal Crossing villager like dialog, and fun driving physics make this one of my favorite games this year. I'm entranced by this short gem of a game.
Also just started playing Gnomes, which I can see why it has overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Then, also, thanks to Time Extension (thank you for reporting on Jumping Flash! within GZ Doom!) I tried playing GZ Doom again. This is my first time getting to play it, and oh my god it is Amazing! Everything is locked at 90fps (and would be higher if I bothered to dock my Deck to my 180hz monitor) and there are So Many Games to play based on this awesome engine. I've been playing regular Doom 2 in GZ Doom, and once I figured out how to eliminate visual artifacts (lower the rendering frame rate to 90fps or below, mainly) I couldn't believe how good it looked and how good it feels to play Doom with full smooth movement and camera controls while locked at 90fps. Amazing!! Then I installed Urban Brawl Reloaded, which is like a streets of rage beat em up, but in the awesome GZ Doom engine. So it's an awesome 1st person beat em up that runs locked at 90 on my Deck, so fun! And then I installed The Adventures of Square, another incredible game made to run off GZ Doom. It looks like Microsoft programs from 1992, but turned into a 1st person shooter in a vibrant world with awesome music. So damn good, and locked at 90fps of course! I haven't gotten Jumping Flash pk3 files working yet, but I just need to find someone on discord or find the right video tutorial to get it running. Can't wait!
Oh, and I finally got Doom RPG working. I gave up on it years ago on my Deck, but a few days ago I tried again and this sweet gem of a cellphone game is running at 90fps on my Deck!
Also playing Extra Mario Bros (love the Metroid flourishes!), Super Link Bros Remastered (improved old romhack where you play as Link in Super Mario Bros 1, quite fun!), Yoshi's Island Frozen Paradise demo (difficult romhack, but I like!), Super Mario Kart R (20 year old romhack, really love Night Lane 1 course and music!), etc.
I'm also interested in trying out the newly ported FSR 4. They've got that working with Lossless Scaling on Deck and people are playing Claire Obscure, Cyberpunk, and other heavy games with great visuals at 60 to 90fps.
@TromboneGamer I used to play Rocket League at 144fps with motion blur very similar to the Switch 2 screen. It was nice to have 144fps, but there was blur all over the place all the time. Big mistake to buy that display. Love my 240hz OLED display now.
@TromboneGamer 120fps would help, but probably still not look great. I've owned a 144hz screen that had horrible refresh speed like the Switch 2 screen and I never found a way to make it look good.
Monitors Unboxed has a great video showing the huge problem with the Switch 2 screen. It's a great YouTube video by a guy who reports on monitors and who owns a Switch 2.
This really cements why Nintendo wouldn't let anyone review Switch 2. They knew they chose a terrible screen and wanted to slow down the info on it as much as possible. This is almost worse than releasing drift con 2 and drift pro 2 controllers. I guess defeating your customers in court has to have some pay off, and that means continuing to dump poor sticks on customers.
@michellelynn0976 That's fine and good that people haven't complained about it. I can see clearly, even on my phone, what they're talking about in both the DF review and Taki Udon's review from a week or so ago.
I enjoyed watching this review. Wasn't surprised to see DF echo what Taki Udon said about the screen in his also very good review. Taki also mentioned that he knows what screens Nintendo has available to choose from. He said they could've used a nicer LCD screen for very little extra money per screen, and he has no idea why they went with these crappy, blurry screens. Now we know why Nintendo wouldn't let anyone review Switch 2 before launch, just like when a publisher is dumping off a crappy game and they don't send out review copies.
Also, I can't imagine dealing with all the key card and virtual game card crap. Oliver did a good job dragging that whole new system Nintendo's lawyers have cooked up. Watching the review makes me glad I've never updated to firmware 20. I'll just stick with 19 and continue my ban on Nintendo's account.
It's kind of amazing that Nintendo released a system with VRR, 120hz, and a screen with worse motion clarity than the OLED or launch Switch 1.
I'm mostly playing my beloved collection of 15 or 16 mods, but also much else. Just read that The Swapper was updated so I loaded it up and it looks wonderful locked at 90fps. Noita, by one of the same devs, also is super fun, but I can only get it up to 60 (don't see an easy option to increase). Also been playing The New Tetris, Starfox Assault, Starfox 64, StarVaders (great new deck type game!), Kingdom Two Crowns, Baba Is You, Red Blue Cell (great STG I just found out about), SF Rush 2049 (might be the greatest arcade racer ever), wipeout phantom edition (actually the best), Tinyfolks (wonderful and charming RPG type game), mariO (incredibly fun Mashup of Mario Bros and Portal, plus it runs super smooth)(and has tons of mods), A Webbing Journey (cute as hell spider game, but it has a thing like BallisticNG where it doesn't render frames correctly, it will say 90fps, but it looks more like 35 or 50fps), Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists (awesome GBA looking game), Strafe (fun 1st person shooter), and Super Demo World (great romhack).
I've also finally made major progress in UFO 50. Got gold disc on Mooncat, so fun! Then after beating it (at the basic level) I discovered you can run, then discovered you can sort of diagonally dodge down and forward! So many secrets to look for now. I also finally got gold disc for Party House (my favorite, but I still haven't even started about 8 games). Also playing Bushido Ball, Caramel Caramel, and Velgress a lot.
Happy gaming to everyone!
I'm playing UFO 50, Perfect Dark, Voids Vigil, wipeout (I might never tire of 90 to 240fps wipeout with amazing songs added to the soundtrack), Starfox 64, Blazing Lazers, Tamiku, Donut Dodo, Murtop, SF Rush, Majora's Mask (Nerrel's map really is amazing), 1080 Avalanche (relaxing to play 1 or 2 slalom gate runs every now and then), Castlevania ReVamped, Ninja JaJaMaru the great yokai battle + hell, NFL Blitz 2000, Dead Moon, and TOTK (I've got a selection of mods that I absolutely adore playing, perfect for me right now). Also enjoying MVG's video about Lemmings, which I've been playing a bit of recently. I also enjoyed the Chinese video about the internal components of Switch 2 (it the video where they purchased a faulty Switch 2 motherboard and show it off). And I've been listening to old Cure CDs I've had for years. Also been surprised to hear an Orbital remix of a new Cure song (might have to go into the phantom edition soundtrack folder). Happy gaming everyone!
Unless the full game is on the cart, and there is a way to rip it, and I'm in control of the rom of the game I bought, they can keep it. I'll only buy a Seitch 2 if I'm controlling it and there's no risk that Nintendo can brick it.
I'm enjoying a variety of STGs these days.
Battle Marine is a 4MB game that feels like an Atari 2600 game perfected. Once I followed a commenter's suggestion to map the keyboard "C" button to a trigger (for rapidfire) it was a blast to play! I've also been playing that same dev's next game, which is Battle Airforce. It's much bigger to download at 12MB. That larger file size allows more and better music, a variety of scrolling backgrounds during gameplay, and more enemy types. It's a fun, well made shmup! I'm also enjoying Final Exerion. It's got gravity (feels difficult to move your ship around), interesting popup scrolling backgrounds (like the 1980s original), and one of the devs used to work for Cave. It's worth a shot, so to speak.
Billy Bum Bum is another game I'm liking recently. Sort of a Boxxle clone, it has great graphics and gameplay.
I also just got Tengai on steam. It's nice on Deck, after downloading the community profile that allows controls to work.
Shotgun CopMan is also great, and I think it's locked at 90 on my Deck and 240fps on my laptop. Fun, well made game!
But for me the main draw in gaming right now is wipeout 2097 phantom edition. Someone online helped me increase the distance your hovercraft can go away from the track before a drone catches you and places you back on the track. This little change makes Spilskinanke playable(Spilskinanke still requires using the left side pit lane, and hugging the left side of the track in that area, to keep from crashing the game. It's the only track with a mjor problem like that right now)while making all the other tracks more fun. It's fun to use the modified .exe file (greater range allowed from track) with Altima 7 and Terramax. I love using a speed boost is just the right spot and launching way up to fly around above the track! I'm also adding perfect wav(using wav files instead of mp3s eliminates the crackling audio) file tracks like Underworld tin there mix(using a longer mix than what was in wipeout xl) and racing around Phenitia Park, hitting restart after the race so I can enjoy the entire track. It is absolutely awesome to see all these wipeout XL tracks at 90fps or 240fps depending on which device I'm playing on!
Take care, and happy gaming!
I forgot about UFO 50 and Parking Garage Rally Circuit! Some of the modded tracks in PGRC are amazingly fun (and often have great modded music too!).
Definitely not buying any key cards, not any switch 2 games, nor anything from the 50 billion dollar corpo that attacks free open source emulation, youtubers, modders, tournaments, their own customers (I'd love to know how many customers they've banned from downloading their own purchases!), etc etc.
@geshem lol, I upgraded my name. This time to a refresh rate I've never even seen! I do now have a 240hz display and absolutely love it. Can't wait to see 400 or 500fps! Or higher!
@jesse_dylan Yeah, for me the big problem is that I'd feel like I'm giving money to horrible corporate lawyers if I buy anything from Nintendo. I can't bring myself to do it. Which is a bummer because I like the 120hz VRR screen, and other improvements they've made. I also hate online lockdown stuff that corporate lawyers like Nintendo want you to pay for. I wouldn't want NSO if they paid me to take it. I'll control my own games, thank you very much!
@jesse_dylan the "free upgrades with NSO" are horrible. Take your Switch somewhere and then start a game offline and now you can't play certain tracks, or have a certain frame rate, etc. Totally anti-consumer and anti-gamer, lol.
@Andee I don't know about other systems, but I've heard there are mods for the Steam version. Perhaps those clean up the camera movement. Also, this kind of thing doesn't seem like something the Switch 2 would fix. I've tried overclocking my Switch but no dice, still looks juddery and stutters. I think John from Digital Foundry said these games are running locked at 60fps, the problem is something about the way the camera or movement is programmed, so it has to be fixed by software not brute force or a faster proccessor.
Still mostly playing Totk, but also some modded Botw at 60fps, which is fun and relaxing too. Also playing Advance Wars, old stuff on gameboy and NES, on up to the newest one at 60fps (I hope purchasers of Switch 2 can play it at 60 without having to buy an online lock down agreement or hit a paywall to get 60!), several different Parodiuses, Pikmin 2 (also at 60 of course), Rocket League (always at 240fps, of course!), Mario Sunrise (simple short romhack that I like), Megacopter (heli STG kinda game that runs at 90 or 240), Nurikabe World (wonderful puzzle game that also runs perfectly!), wipeout phantom edition (90fps or 240fps depending where I'm playing it), UFO 50 (played 70 hours of this and still haven't touched about 10 of the games included), a Sailor Moon romhack made by some awesome person in Brazil, Tengen Tetris, Overhorizon, Metroid mOTHER, blazing lazers, mariopaint, the princess rescue (awesome romhack from a couple years ago), JUMP 1/2 (really amazing romhack from 2019, the level "home run derby" is one of the best levels I've played in years!), Super bomberman 5, megabomberman, and super famicom wars. I've also enjoyed watching coverage of Switch via youtubers who I've liked for years, and who've been attacked by Nintendo. I hope Nintendo learns how to not attack gaming, stop attacking youtubers, stop stealing from and committing coercion against developers. They could eventually be seen as an ethical company instead of way worse than Denuvo. May the goddess smile upon you!
I've almost forgotten about my 240hz laptop and 90hz Deck because I'm so busy enjoying my modded Switch. I can't believe I didn't jailbreak it sooner since this is exactly the kind of thing I love messing with, setting things up on, and playing. I'm mostly playing my favorite game (major highlight was finding a beautiful light green horse with pink markings and orange and pink hooves, so awesome!). Also super impressed with Super Mario World 2.5, which is a French romhack with incredible music and very fun levels. That's the main thing I'm enjoying, the same thing I love about my Steam Deck, which is setting up my own little museum of my favorite romhacks, translation-hacks, and other unavailable favorites and rarities. I'll just mention one more that's been awesome: Super Mario World Merry Mountain Christmas Adventure. It has very well done music, levels, and info (helpful text boxes and characters that explain things). Absolutely charming! Oh, and I liked wulf den's video about 120hz panels on handheld. Made it sound like he thought high frame rates don't matter, then gushed about much enjoyment he gets out of them. Only thing missing was Lossless Scaling. Lossless Scaling makes every high refresh screen more useful, and the higher the better!
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (21st February)
I'm playing Binky's Trash Service, Rayman Redemption, Gran Turismo 3, Tres-Bashers, Banjo, Mario Bros, Link's Awakening, Airframe Ultra demo (I'm loving the bouncy physics with jet moto futuristic bikes, and it seems locked at 90fps in handheld), Super Battle Golf (easily locks at 90 once I reduced resolution and settings, super fun!), Bakuretsu Muteki Bangaioh (thanks Time Extension for heads up about English patch!), Megaman in the Mushroon Kingdom, and a bunch of incredible mods for several games. I'm also still blown away by the River Master releases, mostly still listening to Angler's Dream.
Enjoying videos of Gamer's Nexus, Macho Nacho Productions (the Zelda game and watch mod is amazing), and Nerrel's new video about art and remakes.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (14th February)
I'm playing Skator Gator, Mewgenics, Quest 64, Rocket League, Super Bomberman Collection (I've been playing all these on Deck for years, but got snagged into buying this and am glad I did. Love the presentation, Bomb Radio, and the strange way they programmed this such that I can set it to 90fps and play faster, or set it to 45fps to slow the game down!), Liminal Dream (a romhack that is now on Mario 64 pc. I'm liking it a lot so far), Banjo Dreamie (romhack on Banjo Recompiled. It's pretty difficult, but fun and of course runs perfectly at 300fps), Urban Trial Freestyle, Universe (great fan game that is a love letter to Gradius, and runs with messed up graphics on Deck, but playable), Super Monkey Ball 2, Gokujou Parodius Da Deluxe Pack, Mario Kart 64 remade, Wipeout, etc!
I'm also enjoying Ian McKellan's performance on Colbert where he spoke as Thomas More as written by Shakespeare. Also listening to unique soundtracks made by fans for community made free games.
May all of our hearts blossom with compassion!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (7th February)
I'm mainly excited to welcome a new resident in Frame Rate Freedom Village! Space Station Silicon Valley is enjoying new life with a freely choosable frame rate. It's gorgeous and more fun to play than ever. There's a few graphical issues in it's alpha state, but nothing that bothers me.
I'm still really enjoying Holy Magic Century. I've even started another playthrough, but this time at 300fps. I've also gotten the old Prima guide book for Quest 64 and also been watching speed runs and other videos about it.
I'm also enjoying a romhack from 5 years ago called Super Mario Star Seeker. It is only a demo, and might never get finished, but it's still an awesome merging of Super Mario World and Mario 64. Great music, great open levels (like Mario 64 painting levels brought to 2D), and quality showing all through it.
Thanks to huappy spins I'm tremendously enjoying the River Master music. The Angler's Dream album is so damn good! Listening to "tackle box organization" while playing Quest 64 at 90fps is a peak gaming experience!
Also enjoying Cy Canterel's sort of video essays. She can really speak eloquently to lots of subjects that matter today!
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Random: This Fan Is Ripping Nintendo's Finest Tunes From Vinyl, Including The 3DS Menu Theme
Huappy spins is such an awesome channel. I've been reading to wii forcast channel, grinding fun battles in Holy Magic Century to 3DS system music, playing S.F. Rush to water music from many games, discovering awesome music by people like Ichiko Aoba and Ken-Ichiro Isoda! Glad to see others have been enjoying it too.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (31st January)
Wow, I would've never guessed that I'd get into Quest 64, but it's happened. At first I thought (I guess coz some recomps are alpha releases with no support for high fps) it was limited to 60fps, then found out 90 works, then docked my Deck and saw it running at 240fps. Haven't tried 300fps yet, but will soon. Anyways, I enjoy grinding battles to get more powerful spells (and the crucial healing ability from water spell power build up) and am enjoying exploring this small simple RPG (it is like an NES RPG that got put on N64). Also playing Banjo Recompiled (it was a horrible day though, thinking about Alex Pretti while looking at super smooth Banjo...). The romhacks Wiseguy ported are awesome, and happen to be ones I haven't played before — thank you Wiseguy!
I also just played Mega Man 64 recomp. It's early, and interesting to see how it tries to put everything together (dropping from a locked 90fps down to 15fps with white squares popping in and out). I did read that a dev is still working on it, so it should be awesome when they get done.
And for some reason I just now got Chameleon Twist recomp set up and played it. It's incredible once I turn on Lossless Scaling, just locked at 90fps with minimal graphical issues. It's a fun game with great music.
I've also been playing Urban Trial Freestyle. Was kind of shocked at how I didn't like way it looked locked at 60fps on my old LCD deck. Tried it on my old laptop and it runs at 240 to 380fps and looks incredible, super fun! Also playing Rocket League, S.F. Rush, Ghostship (looks perfect but I have some infrequent crashes on deck), and Wipeout phantom edition (I never tire of this game!). I'm also super excited for Waverace 64, which I read is running excellently, they're just ironing out multi-player.
I've been drinking a new Keemun that's pretty good. Also listening to absolutely heartwrenching corridos for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, so beautiful and sad and infuriating! And reading Wendell Berry, he's always awesome.
Take care everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (24th January)
I'm playing Xenosensory, which feels like playing a game on the alien detector device in Aliens (the 1980s movie). I like the simplicity of it, the sound design, and the sort of incremental progression it has.
I've just started Tiny Bookshop and think I'll love it.
Day Repeat Day seems interesting so far. I like the sound, matching puzzle gameplay, and story (but based on reviews I'm worried it'll be quite depressing).
I got MIO, but haven't started it yet, looking forward to seeing how good it might be.
Also: Wipeout, Rocket League (getting tired of it though, after well over 2000 hours!), New Super Mario Land (love this romhack, hard to stop playing whenever I start!), Wave Race 64 (it kinda blows my mind that I enjoy this at it's original frame rate even though I'm now used to playing so many games at 300fps with perfect frame pacing), Wipeout 64 (also original fps, unfortunately), San Francisco Rush (yes, at 300fps, or 90 when playing on Deck), Parodius (multiple versions on SFC PC Engine and Famicom), Dr Mario, Pacman, and Bomberman.
Listening to Bebel Gilberto these days. And looking forward to a new type of Keemun tea I ordered today.
Enjoying more Gamers Nexus videos, as well as videos on how to organize and strengthen communities and neighborhoods to try to keep people from getting kidnapped by our government.
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: PSA: Switch 2 Visual And Performance Improvements Included In New Rocket League Update
I remember trying my physical copy of Rocket League on my Switch without internet connection years ago. It didn't work. I guess that was my very early taste of game key cards. I'll never buy a key card, a Brick 2, or anything from Nintendo again(for a long list of reasons, not due to this experience with a Rocket League cart).
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (17th January)
Playing a whole bunch of awesome games, mods, etc. Probably biggest new thing for me is blank, which is super fun and I love it, but don't want any corporate lawyers to attack it, so I won't name it. Also enjoying Super Woden Rally Edge, which run at 90fps like Rush Rally Origins, which I'm also playing. Also just discovered the joy of SNO Ultimate Freeriding, a gem from a couple Norwegian devs. Lowering settings and resolution easily allowed me to lock it at 90fps, so beautiful!
Also playing some more Lonely Mountains Snow Riders, which can't fully lock at 90fps like their previous mtn biking game.
Also just started Geometry Arena and Geometry Arena 2, which are both great shooter/survivor games. I like how I can set G.A. 2 to play itself just like Cast and Chill.
Vital Shell is another one I'm enjoying. PS1 kind of survivor shooter with great music.
Oh, also enjoying Big Hops. Great feeling jumping and diving and tongue swinging 3d platformer.
Also enjoying Super Mario Bros 6 Super Mario World 3, and Super Mario World 3: Lost Paths, two great romhacks that have wonderful gameplay and music.
I'm also enjoying Wakoucha Mariko for the first time. This fine black tea (red tea) from Shizuoka has become my fav black tea! Smooth and mild!
Also watching too much painful news. But reading can help. I've dipped back into F. R. Scott, who amazing poetry and was a highly regarded constitutional scholar in Canada. "...quickened with passion and with pain/ We rise to play a greater part..." I'm grateful Renee Good loved her neighbors. I hope we all learn to do that!
Take care and happy gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (10th January)
I'm playing lots of mods at 300fps on my laptop connected to my cheap (but man do I love it!) monitor. Also playing Rocket League, Wipeout phantom edition (but with Wipeout XL tracks), and Utopia Must Fall at 300.
I'm also playing Marble's Marbles, which is a 2026 release that has awesome and weird music to go with it's old school marble rolling gameplay. Xenosensory is another new one I'm playing that seems great so far. It's incremental, has parts where you protect space station people from aliens, and has good sound design.
Another awesome game I'm playing is ASCIILL, which is made of beautiful 90fps ascii art, has interesting gameplay based off of minesweeper (but with an RPG set up, bosses, etc), super cool! Also playing Plague Breaker, which seems good so far (just starting it). It runs locked at 90fps, has Castlevania influence, and I'm liking the gameplay and basic graphics. Drift Survivor is another interesting one I'm playing. It isn't smooth for some reason, but is pretty cool with drifting a car around while shooting enemies. Day of Drift feels like a mobile game, but it's good and I like it. Flippup came out a week ago and is good, but I'll never beat it (it's like Bennet Foddy's getting over it, but with pinball).Infinos Gaiden is a great STG I just got recently, love it! And I'm loving Rainy Day Racer more and more. I just got Strawberry playing my favorite CDs (which I was able to rip at work on an ancient PC), so I can race in Scotland to my favorite tunes. I'm also just discovering the joy of some of the music stuff available through Decky. It's amazing and I've been telling people about it for days.
Take it easy, and happy gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (3rd January)
I'm playing cast and chill, sometimes not though, just watching and letting the computer catch stuff so I can spend the money later. Also playing Rainy Day Racer, which is an amazing time trial racing game in the vein of Ridge Racer, but without music, but with one of the Echo and the Bunny men greeting you before and after races. Also the amazingly fun Orbo's Odyssey, a 3d crazy platforming awesome game with wonderful drum n bass. Also Monument Valley (runs 240fps in docked play, very nice!), Insane 2 (super fun older racing game that also run very nicely, kinda makes me think of Motorstorm but with a great frame rate), MX Bikes (so realistic I crash all the time, but I can see why it's so popular), World Racing 2 (incredibly fun and smooth running old racing game, re-released in like 2022), MX vs ATV Reflex (one of the best old motocross games, seems locked to 60 with no difference when changing video settings to 90fps or 240fps, although if I lower the deck's refresh rate it can start to have a slight effect, so weird!), GanaBlade (awesome stg), SuperSpec Rallycross (ultra cute top down racer that I love playing with Lossless Scaling to get perfect smoothness with minimal input lag, looks perfect), First Racer (yet another great racing game I'm enjoying often), and Rocket League (I played some at 144fps on my old laptop's terrible display, but otherwise always play at 300fps on my new cheap monitor, which looks awesome).
Take care everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (27th December)
Just started Toree Saturn and was disappointed it seems locked to 60fps with no option to increase, but it's super fun so I just kept playing. Then later playing in handheld I tried using Lossless Scaling / lsfg and it works! So I'm playing Toree Saturn at 90fps and excited to see if my Deck can play it at 240fps on my monitor (60fps base with 4x frame generation should work!). I'll try it tomorrow after work. Also just started Here Comes Niko! Which is a really fun and charming 3D platformer with great controls. It was running at 120 to 150fps docked. Great game!
I also just started Y2ROLL, a new Monkey Ball/marble blast type game that channels the 1990s with N64 type graphics and great 90s drum n bass. I can't get Lossless Scaling working with it, so seems stuck at 60. Amazing game so far though!
Also loving Dogpile, Word Play, Xenotilt, Starfox 64, Dr Mario 64, SF Rush, Wipeout phantom edition, Ekstase (thank God Lossless Scaling works with this puzzle game - it's locked at 30fps, but easily boosts to 90 or 120 fps), Lumines Arise, Utopia Must Fall, Rocket League, Powerslide (old racing game that I was surprised I could get running at 90fps with controls working fine), Race Condition (fun 2022 racing game that runs smoothly), and lots of mods for various games.
I've also enjoyed Gamers Nexus videos criticizing Nvidia and Palantir. I hope the world goes in a peaceful direction that respects our freedom and privacy.
Happy gaming and happy new year!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th December)
I'm continuing to really love Lumines Arise, such a fantastic puzzler. Also playing Super Monkey Ball, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Utopia Must Fall, Wipeout, Rocket League, Pacman collection (mostly arrangement), Blood Refreshed Supply, and more.
Have been tempted by a 520 hz LCD monitor on steep sale, but even though it's an awesome refresh rate for a good price I'm going to wait. Surely these 500hz oled monitors will keep dropping and I'll be able to get one at some point!
I also just installed the play count deck app so I can see how many people are playing various games. It's fun to see that older games I like better than newer sequels have more people playing them vs their newer counterparts. Games like Lonely Mountains Downhill and Kingdom Two Crowns are being played more than the newer snowboarding game or Kingdon Eighties. Megabonk is mega popular! And then lots of games I like have 1 or 2 people playing at any given time, or none.
Happy gaming and happy holidays!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (13th December)
I'm playing Skate Story (90fps handheld and 300 fps on laptop, I just reduce settings and resolution and it looks beautiful and smooth!), Lumines Arise (incredible game, but not smooth enough for me on Deck so I need to switch to laptop!), Soul Searching (interesting indie game), Namco Museum Archives (I like playing an M2 release like this — Pacman Champ demastered is incredible), Rhythm Doctor (the modding support immediately available after launch is increible!), Old School Rally (good game but I can't get the frame rate to change, even when it reports running at 90fps or 240fps it is still only showing 60fps in actual gameplay), wipeout phantom edition (been enjoying this with a new track All I Am by some EDM band), Birdcage (awesome stg!), Blood refreshed supply (awesome high frame rate remaster of the 90s classic!), Retro Endurance 8 bit (amazingly fun retro game collection presented in a charming wrapper), and also tons of mods that I love playing while using Lossless Scaling to get very smooth graphics.
With Old School Rally increasing the refresh rate in the options only degrades the frame pacing, so higher settings actually look worse than leaving it set to 60fps. I hope someday all games can do high frame rates correctly!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (6th December)
I'm mostly playing a bunch of mods at 90, or 120, or 300fps. Can't get enough of that stuff! Also playing Rocket League at the lovely rate of 300.
Nuclear Throne now can run at 60, 90, or 120fps, so I'm enjoying that update.
I got Super World War, but was disappointed it requires 14 GB, so I haven't played it yet...
Take care, and happy gaming!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th November)
I've been enjoying Astro Prospector and Sektori thanks to mentions last weekend. Astro Prospector is very good, very addictive, and I love the way it looks at 300fps! I don't really like the coffee theme, maybe it's popular enough to have mods being made for it... Sektori is just such an amazing twin stick shooter, love the music, graphics, everything. I'm also playing Trigonarium, which is the 24 MB, $2, older brother of Sektori. Good game, and it really saves storage space!
Also enjoying Timesplitters Rewind very much. I wish it was locked at 90fps, or maybe they can add a frame rate locker in the menu so Lossless Scaling can do it's beautiful work. Oh, they added lsfg to the Decky store! So now it's easier than ever for people to double, triple, or quadruple their frame rates on Deck/steam OS.
Also playing Birdcage, an awesome new shoot em up that everyone should play!
Oh, and I'm also playing Viewpoint 2064, the new N64 game that got saved from oblivion. Also the 60fps patch for Mario Kart Super Circuit, which is nice.
And also Beyond Words, which is a great word game. Looking forward to it's release next year.
Also playing Lonely Mountains Downhill, SF Rush, Perfect Dark, Wipeout Phantom Edition (so perfect locked at 240fps with my Deck docked to my monitor!), UFO 50, Magical Tetris Challenge, and Retro Endurance 8 Bit (so many games to unlock!)(and the dev keeps adding more).
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (22nd November)
I'm pretty obsessed with The Catacombs of Solaris Revisited. It's not a game, but a visual light synth type of thing. It makes me say Oh My God and cusswords because the colors can flow like smoke or water and change direction in trippy ways. It's kind of amazing because it seems simple and not amazing at first, but start messing with the options and moving your analog sticks slowly, rhythmically, or just holding one down (basically with your back to a wall) and it can just be awesome. I'm also playing R Type Delta. I've had it set up via emulation for years as a non steam game, but now that I've bought it I'm playing it and really enjoying it. It is also incredible at 300fps with Lossless Scaling. Which reminds me to say that I've basically quite using my new gaming laptop for gaming and only use my old one since my old one with Windows 10 can run Lossless Scaling flawlessly. Games are so much more immersive at maximum frame rate. I've started Dungeons of Hinterberg on Deck, but performance kinda sucked, so I turned on lsfg and made it look like a locked 90fps. I'm also playing Dirt Rally with high settings at a good resolution and Lossless Scaling keeps it locked at 300fps — pretty stunning! Also playing an awesome puzzle game called Dissembler, just flip pieces and complete colors - I love it. And Wilmot Works It Out, another great puzzle game. And Jumpgrid, a great action game that's a simple well done design. Oh, and Terraflame is addictive at 300fps with frame generation. Also playing Utopia Must Fall and Lonely Mountains Downhill because I love those games!
Take care, relax, and happy gaming!!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (15th November)
I'm just continuing to be fascinated and amazed playing stuff at 300fps. I decided to try out my old laptop with this cheap new 300hz monitor I bought and was amazed that it can run Lossless Scaling perfectly. I've been having endless trouble getting LS to work on my new laptop. I wonder if it's Windows 11 vs 10. I've never allowed the "upgrade" on my old laptop, and now I'm planning to protect it from any updates at all. I don't want to lose this ability to get emulation, videos, and all games up to 300fps with perfect frame pacing!! People talk about diminishing returns on higher frame rates, and they're right, but at the same time I'm amazed and enthralled by higher and higher fps. Playing Utopia Must Fall at 300fps and getting the triple shot for the first time, and realizing I can widen or narrow the triple shot with the triggers, well it just looks like a beyond perfect light show! I've gotten up to 16 days survived and something like 210,000 high score. I Love Utopia Must Fall.
I'm also playing Dirt Rally at 300fps. Once I destroy all the settings and lower the resolution to 720p (probably my favorite resolution!) it can run at 300 to 400fps, and it looks gorgeous!
Also playing Lonely Mountains Downhill (such an amazing and relaxing game), Pru the Pigeon, wipeout 2097 phantom edition (I'll always want to play this at 300fps!), Retro Endurance 8 bit (so grateful the dev programmed this to run at 300, or whatever you've got!), Rush Rally Origins, Classic Mario World 3 the finale, Super Mario World Redone 40 Years of Mario!, Zelda's Adventure DX, and Rocket League.
Oh, and I'm super excited to get a Gabecube, Steam Controller, and Frame! I love that the Gabecube can output very high frame rates via Display Port — I'll be using that feature!!
And I've enjoyed all the content online. Linus' love struck face cracks me up! I'm excited for the coming expansion of the "open ecosystem"!
I also liked Alana Pearce's reporting on Saudi and Kushner investments in EA and games in general (Nintendo too!).
I wish everyone well, and happy gaming!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (6th November)
Aside from working all weekend I'm excitedly trying out many games on my new 300hz monitor. It's my first time seeing 300fps, and it's oh so sweet! I was hoping to connect my Steam Deck to it to play at 300, but it seems like 240 is the max (not sure why there's any maximum). So I've played a lot of stuff at 240 like that, but also played many games at 300fps with my laptop hooked up. Utopia Must Fall, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Kingdom Two Crowns, Tetris Effect, Ball X Pit, Toem, West of Loathing, Rocket League, This Is No Cave, Skate Story demo, TOTK, Mario 64, wipeout phantom edition, SF Rush projectR, and many others all look incredible at 300fps! I find myself saying oh my god, or holy sh*t under my breath as I'm watching things move so smoothly. I can't wait for even faster displays to get cheaper so I can get one in a year or two! These 720hz monitors sound so awesome! And I heard there's a 1,000hz one coming soon. Mario 64 was showing up to 2,600fps in the frame counter in the corner, and I only get to see 300 of those right now! I guess it's safe to say I really like high frame rates.
I'm also playing Slots and Daggers (seems to max out at 180fps for some reason), Once Upon a Katamari(90fps handheld, more docked but something seems off at times with high fps), Megabonk (love playing this around 250fps), n++ (can't get this above 60fps, honestly seems like somethings wrong with the game, it will say 300hz in graphics menu but nothing changes), Shadows Over Loathing (played this at 240fps using my Deck), Retro Endurance 8bit (love this game! And it also runs at 300fps easily), Rush Rally 3 (incredible playing this at 300), etc.
And Silver Bullet, such a fun arcade shooting type game!
I'm also playing Cool Boarders Code Alien, MTX Mototrax, and Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder after watching John's awesome Digital Foundry Tony Hawk video.
Have a great weekend everyone! Happy Gaming!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (1st November)
Severed Steel, more time with the Skate Story demo, Retro Endurance 8 bit, Glyph, Vomitorium, Silver Bullet (amazing!) Slots and Daggers (pretty addicted to this one!), Jojos Bizarre Adventure (barely played this in the past, but it just went one sale and I'm liking it), fan games, 80 mods, etc.
I've just discovered Rob Braxman's (or whatever his name is) youtube channel. He's an awesome cool headed advocate for privacy and tech freedom, kind of like Louis Rossman, who I also like.
Oh and I really like Alex's video on GTA 4. Amazing to see what dedicated fans and programmers can do. I had a dream where I saw 3 new PC ports, but they announced that the public couldn't play them! Then I woke up and realized after checking online that I couldn't play them cuz they don't exist (or maybe they've made huge progress on 3, but haven't announced it yet, but somehow I dreamt about it! Lol). That reminds me I have been playing Duke Nukem zero hour since that recomp dropped. It looks pretty good if you use a 120hz display to get 60fps(I haven't yet tried a 240hz screen to see it running at 120fps). A nice alpha release that I'm happy to get to try out!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (25th October)
@aozz101x rethawed is amazing. Super fun to play
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (25th October)
I've just been enjoying Once Upon A Katamari. It runs at 200 to 300fps on my laptop, and with my Deck docked to my monitor I've been getting about 100 to 170fps, but it could be smoother. I need to lock it down so it has perfect frame pacing at a lower frame rate. Looks great though. And sounds great! Soundtrack slaps! Fun levels and power ups, and the usual funny dialog make this maybe the best Katamari game yet!
I'm also enjoying the demo for Cairn. It's slow and fun climbing, but the frame rate needs work.
I'm still loving the heck out of Utopia Must Fall. I usually don't pay attention to achievements, but I'm totally into getting them all for this awesome game. I got the vibes one where you don't fire your main weapon all day just relying on automated help you've set up. Quite satisfying!
This Is No Cave is a new favorite, especially since the dev responded to my comments and to me review — they fixed the frame rate of their game within 24 hours of my buying it and commenting on how it wasn't smooth! Others had already commented on it too. Anyways, it's a fun and simple cave exploring game with great level design, great controls, excellent sound design, and is just a sweet little short game (but I can see people getting addicted to speed running it and spending quite a bit of time playing it).
I've been blown away by Skate Story. Such amazing music, fantastic Underworld atmosphere with stoic philosopher talk, incredibly awesome neon-like flames of hell, sidewalks you skate down where if you stop and look you can read the long list of sins that make up the texture of the sidewalk, etc. It's awesome, and I can't wait to play the full game and hear the full soundtrack of awesomeness in 2026!
Also loving Platypus Reclayed. Such a perfect remaster of a shootem up I've never played till now. Runs locked at 90fps on oled deck, has great graphics and music, and many difficulty settings.
Oh, I'm also happy with Retro Endurance 8bit, a game made by a dev of an SNES emulator. It's got like 40 retro games, a funny robot character called M.O.M. who controls your games, buys you new ones, and scolds you when you quit the game. It's really well done, and fun!
Also started Yooka Re-Playlee, and while I could get it up to 220fps, it still has a stutter that's likely due to my computer having some problem (likely just Windows, which sucks for gaming smoothly). I need to install it on Deck and see if I can lock it down then use Lossless Scaling to get it to 90fps with perfect frame pacing.
Also enjoying the totally normal and regular game Tingus Goose. It's a great demo of a normal game that doesn't have body horror or weird animation at all.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (18th October)
I've gotten even more into Utopia Must Fall. Read a guide that a fan posted on steam forums, watched some videos, saw what kind of high scores people were posting, etc. I feel like I've really accomplished something when I get to day 11, but others get to day 30, day 40, and higher. I love the music, sound effects, power ups, anti power ups (nuclear boycott and the hermit path are fun), and the humor of this awesome game.
I just got into Gwen the Hen 64 and love it. Reminds me of the Toree 3D games, but some aspects are better.
Also sinking further into the pit of Megabonk. Been playing it at 180fps, which is just beautiful and addictive.
Also sinking into the pit of ball x pit. Love the music, gameplay, locked 90fps (I haven't remembered to try it when plugged into my cheap 180hz monitor, but it probably will run locked at 180), and just the whole feel of this game.
And most surprisingly I really love the demo of Bubsy 4D. Forget double jumps, this game has like a quadruple jump and it's incredibly fun to play mostly just because Bubsy is such a joy to control. Fur ball mode is perfect with great acceleration when you hit the right trigger. The humor is good, it runs easily locked at 90fps (I had a lot of trouble trying to get it to run at 180fps, it kind of did eventually, but I think it prefers 120fps), has good music, and I'm looking forward to it's release next year.
Also enjoying USG, a small not too popular shoot em up. It has beautiful purple and blue explosions, intense bullet patterns, and is a good stg for not much $.
Also got Omega 6 after seeing the quote from Nintendolife on the game's Steam page. It looks like a good game, but I've barely started it.
Also playing Tempest 4000 (180fps!), wipeout phantom edition, GZDoom with Robbit and Golden Souls and everything, Super Spartan Bros (Halo rom hack of Super Mario Bros), and Metal Black.
Also going to show my support for my country this weekend at No Kings 2. We need warm hearts and cool heads, more than ever.
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (11th October)
I've been playing favorites like Wipeout Phantom Edition in docked mode at 180fps. There's something funny going on with my laptop and it's dropping frames in basically all games, so my Deck is running stuff better than my much more powerful laptop. Perfect frame pacing at 180fps looks much better than tiny little microstutters at 240fps. I wonder if it's just windows vs linux...(but surely not, wipeout used to run basically locked at 240fps).
I got Yooka Replayee, but it's hard for me to fit a 25 gig game in my storage. Started Clover Pit and it seems good even though not my usual kind of genre. I'm also playing Utopia Must Fall(a huge favorite of mine), VVVVVV (enjoying it at 180fps for the first time!), Rocket League (always at 240fps, the slight stutter can seem like online latency stuff), Giant Mario Bros (2021 romhack with double size Mario and levels that work with that size), a beta release of Tengen Tetris (maybe from 1988 idk), Mole Mania DX (thanks to Time Extention for the heads up), and Classic Kong Complete (fun fan remake from 2012).
Happy gaming!!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (4th October)
A new one I'm enjoying is the demo for Under The Crown. These new chess games that are kinda like Balatro are really fun to me. I also like Passant and another good one whose name I can't remember right now.
Oh, I'm also playing a fangame that I saw on youtube. People were making fun of how bad the person was who played it, but I understood once I started playing myself. Really weird physics. Anyways, it's still interesting and fun to mess with even though it doesn't want to run smoothly at 90fps (or any other frame rate I set it at).
Also enjoying the Jumping Flash mod for GZDoom, wipeout phantom edition, 55 or 60 mods I've gotten working smoothly, and I'm also marveling at how fun and joyful all these character and resource packs are that I'm experimenting with.
Oh, a very cool thing I just found out about is that Utopia Must Fall is getting updated. I switched to the beta channel so I can use the new features, and yeah, it's awesome! They've drastically improved performance, added good controls on Deck, and improved tons of stuff. It's way better now than when I first started playing it a year or so ago (and it was great then!).
And Rocket League, I'm playing too much of it!
Happy gaming, and take care! And don't tempt fate, save your state!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (27th September)
I'm playing Killbug (fun 1st person shooter that I was able to quickly set at 90fps), Brazilian Drug Dealer 3 (interesting old school looking 1st person shooter that I can tell to run at 90, but it doesn't really, not sure why, but it looks pretty smooth), Operation STEEL (nice STG I just got that's pretty fun), Megabonk (super fun and addictive 3D vampire survivors type deal), Gnomes, easy delivery co, Koopa in a Hurry (short and fun romhack where you race through custom levels as a Koopa or Fire Koopa), F zero 55, wipeout phantom edition (but with wipeout 2097 tracks, but not with 2097 weapons sadly), GZDoom (I'm quite addicted to numerous wads and mods, but the absolute best is playing as mechanical space rabbit Robbit fighting Jumping Flash! enemies and in Doom 1 or Golden Souls or Mayhem 17 or....), Cyber-Core (fun STG for PC Engine that I'm enjoying playing through), Crash Bandicoot and the Retro Dimension (amazing romhack with Crash in Super Mario World type of levels), and Super Mario Bros Mini (finally got Yoshi in this cute demake).
I'm also experimenting with using display port between Deck and monitor. I've gotten about 20 games running at 180fps. It's amazing to me that my 3 year old handheld can run so much stuff at 180fps. It's great to play wipEout, Kingdom Two Crowns, Glyph, SF Rush, etc at a good frame rate.
Have fun gaming everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th September)
@Serpent-Rider Just got about 20 GZDoom mods running. Mario Mayhem is awesome! I easily found the Castlevania one, it's awesome too, but quite difficult. Also got Brutal Doom, Golden Souls 1 2 and 3, a Megaman type mod, Space Hunter (awesome meteoid mod), a golf game, a flying game, etc etc.
But my favorite is the Jumping Flash! mod. Being Robbit in Doom is very joy inducing! I even got Jumping Flash working inside Golden Souls, so I've lived the dream of playing an awesome mash up of Doom, Mario 64, and Jumping Flash! Very smile inducing stuff!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th September)
@Serpent-Rider Sounds fun. There will have to be a standalone setup for Mario Mayhem for me. I'm still a total beginner with GZ Doom so stuff has to be pretty simple or I won't be able to get it running correctly.
I've also started Ashes 2063 (and set up and tried the 2 sequels too). It seems absolutely awesome, but I need to tweak the controls to be less sensitive on Deck (I bet it's perfect on mouse and keyboard though).
There's mention of an awesome sounding Castlevania themed GZ Doom game, but it looks like I'd have to dig around to find it...
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (20th September)
My big new fun game is Easy Delivery Co. I loved the demo, and even though the full release runs at a lower frame rate for some reason I still love it. Thankfully the community ported Lossless Scaling to Steam OS so I'm using that to keep Easy Deliveries locked at 90fps. It is so smooth and fun. Great music, excellent sound design, interesting and funny Animal Crossing villager like dialog, and fun driving physics make this one of my favorite games this year. I'm entranced by this short gem of a game.
Also just started playing Gnomes, which I can see why it has overwhelmingly positive reviews.
Then, also, thanks to Time Extension (thank you for reporting on Jumping Flash! within GZ Doom!) I tried playing GZ Doom again. This is my first time getting to play it, and oh my god it is Amazing! Everything is locked at 90fps (and would be higher if I bothered to dock my Deck to my 180hz monitor) and there are So Many Games to play based on this awesome engine. I've been playing regular Doom 2 in GZ Doom, and once I figured out how to eliminate visual artifacts (lower the rendering frame rate to 90fps or below, mainly) I couldn't believe how good it looked and how good it feels to play Doom with full smooth movement and camera controls while locked at 90fps. Amazing!! Then I installed Urban Brawl Reloaded, which is like a streets of rage beat em up, but in the awesome GZ Doom engine. So it's an awesome 1st person beat em up that runs locked at 90 on my Deck, so fun! And then I installed The Adventures of Square, another incredible game made to run off GZ Doom. It looks like Microsoft programs from 1992, but turned into a 1st person shooter in a vibrant world with awesome music. So damn good, and locked at 90fps of course! I haven't gotten Jumping Flash pk3 files working yet, but I just need to find someone on discord or find the right video tutorial to get it running. Can't wait!
Oh, and I finally got Doom RPG working. I gave up on it years ago on my Deck, but a few days ago I tried again and this sweet gem of a cellphone game is running at 90fps on my Deck!
Also playing Extra Mario Bros (love the Metroid flourishes!), Super Link Bros Remastered (improved old romhack where you play as Link in Super Mario Bros 1, quite fun!), Yoshi's Island Frozen Paradise demo (difficult romhack, but I like!), Super Mario Kart R (20 year old romhack, really love Night Lane 1 course and music!), etc.
I'm also interested in trying out the newly ported FSR 4. They've got that working with Lossless Scaling on Deck and people are playing Claire Obscure, Cyberpunk, and other heavy games with great visuals at 60 to 90fps.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
@TromboneGamer I used to play Rocket League at 144fps with motion blur very similar to the Switch 2 screen. It was nice to have 144fps, but there was blur all over the place all the time. Big mistake to buy that display. Love my 240hz OLED display now.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
@TromboneGamer 120fps would help, but probably still not look great. I've owned a 144hz screen that had horrible refresh speed like the Switch 2 screen and I never found a way to make it look good.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
Monitors Unboxed has a great video showing the huge problem with the Switch 2 screen. It's a great YouTube video by a guy who reports on monitors and who owns a Switch 2.
Re: "One Of The Slowest Modern LCDs I've Ever Seen" - Digital Foundry's John Linneman On Switch 2's Display
This really cements why Nintendo wouldn't let anyone review Switch 2. They knew they chose a terrible screen and wanted to slow down the info on it as much as possible. This is almost worse than releasing drift con 2 and drift pro 2 controllers. I guess defeating your customers in court has to have some pay off, and that means continuing to dump poor sticks on customers.
Re: Digital Foundry Is "Happy" With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is "Problematic"
@michellelynn0976 That's fine and good that people haven't complained about it. I can see clearly, even on my phone, what they're talking about in both the DF review and Taki Udon's review from a week or so ago.
Re: Digital Foundry Is "Happy" With Switch 2 But Feels The Screen Is "Problematic"
I enjoyed watching this review. Wasn't surprised to see DF echo what Taki Udon said about the screen in his also very good review. Taki also mentioned that he knows what screens Nintendo has available to choose from. He said they could've used a nicer LCD screen for very little extra money per screen, and he has no idea why they went with these crappy, blurry screens. Now we know why Nintendo wouldn't let anyone review Switch 2 before launch, just like when a publisher is dumping off a crappy game and they don't send out review copies.
Also, I can't imagine dealing with all the key card and virtual game card crap. Oliver did a good job dragging that whole new system Nintendo's lawyers have cooked up. Watching the review makes me glad I've never updated to firmware 20. I'll just stick with 19 and continue my ban on Nintendo's account.
It's kind of amazing that Nintendo released a system with VRR, 120hz, and a screen with worse motion clarity than the OLED or launch Switch 1.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (31st May)
I'm mostly playing my beloved collection of 15 or 16 mods, but also much else. Just read that The Swapper was updated so I loaded it up and it looks wonderful locked at 90fps. Noita, by one of the same devs, also is super fun, but I can only get it up to 60 (don't see an easy option to increase). Also been playing The New Tetris, Starfox Assault, Starfox 64, StarVaders (great new deck type game!), Kingdom Two Crowns, Baba Is You, Red Blue Cell (great STG I just found out about), SF Rush 2049 (might be the greatest arcade racer ever), wipeout phantom edition (actually the best), Tinyfolks (wonderful and charming RPG type game), mariO (incredibly fun Mashup of Mario Bros and Portal, plus it runs super smooth)(and has tons of mods), A Webbing Journey (cute as hell spider game, but it has a thing like BallisticNG where it doesn't render frames correctly, it will say 90fps, but it looks more like 35 or 50fps), Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists (awesome GBA looking game), Strafe (fun 1st person shooter), and Super Demo World (great romhack).
I've also finally made major progress in UFO 50. Got gold disc on Mooncat, so fun! Then after beating it (at the basic level) I discovered you can run, then discovered you can sort of diagonally dodge down and forward! So many secrets to look for now. I also finally got gold disc for Party House (my favorite, but I still haven't even started about 8 games). Also playing Bushido Ball, Caramel Caramel, and Velgress a lot.
Happy gaming to everyone!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (17th May)
I'm playing UFO 50, Perfect Dark, Voids Vigil, wipeout (I might never tire of 90 to 240fps wipeout with amazing songs added to the soundtrack), Starfox 64, Blazing Lazers, Tamiku, Donut Dodo, Murtop, SF Rush, Majora's Mask (Nerrel's map really is amazing), 1080 Avalanche (relaxing to play 1 or 2 slalom gate runs every now and then), Castlevania ReVamped, Ninja JaJaMaru the great yokai battle + hell, NFL Blitz 2000, Dead Moon, and TOTK (I've got a selection of mods that I absolutely adore playing, perfect for me right now).
Also enjoying MVG's video about Lemmings, which I've been playing a bit of recently. I also enjoyed the Chinese video about the internal components of Switch 2 (it the video where they purchased a faulty Switch 2 motherboard and show it off).
And I've been listening to old Cure CDs I've had for years. Also been surprised to hear an Orbital remix of a new Cure song (might have to go into the phantom edition soundtrack folder).
Happy gaming everyone!
Re: Rumour: New Leak May Explain Why So Many Switch 2 Physicals Are Game Key Cards
Unless the full game is on the cart, and there is a way to rip it, and I'm in control of the rom of the game I bought, they can keep it. I'll only buy a Seitch 2 if I'm controlling it and there's no risk that Nintendo can brick it.
Re: Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (3rd May)
I'm enjoying a variety of STGs these days.
Battle Marine is a 4MB game that feels like an Atari 2600 game perfected. Once I followed a commenter's suggestion to map the keyboard "C" button to a trigger (for rapidfire) it was a blast to play! I've also been playing that same dev's next game, which is Battle Airforce. It's much bigger to download at 12MB. That larger file size allows more and better music, a variety of scrolling backgrounds during gameplay, and more enemy types. It's a fun, well made shmup! I'm also enjoying Final Exerion. It's got gravity (feels difficult to move your ship around), interesting popup scrolling backgrounds (like the 1980s original), and one of the devs used to work for Cave. It's worth a shot, so to speak.
Billy Bum Bum is another game I'm liking recently. Sort of a Boxxle clone, it has great graphics and gameplay.
I also just got Tengai on steam. It's nice on Deck, after downloading the community profile that allows controls to work.
Shotgun CopMan is also great, and I think it's locked at 90 on my Deck and 240fps on my laptop. Fun, well made game!
But for me the main draw in gaming right now is wipeout 2097 phantom edition. Someone online helped me increase the distance your hovercraft can go away from the track before a drone catches you and places you back on the track. This little change makes Spilskinanke playable(Spilskinanke still requires using the left side pit lane, and hugging the left side of the track in that area, to keep from crashing the game. It's the only track with a mjor problem like that right now)while making all the other tracks more fun. It's fun to use the modified .exe file (greater range allowed from track) with Altima 7 and Terramax. I love using a speed boost is just the right spot and launching way up to fly around above the track! I'm also adding perfect wav(using wav files instead of mp3s eliminates the crackling audio) file tracks like Underworld tin there mix(using a longer mix than what was in wipeout xl) and racing around Phenitia Park, hitting restart after the race so I can enjoy the entire track. It is absolutely awesome to see all these wipeout XL tracks at 90fps or 240fps depending on which device I'm playing on!
Take care, and happy gaming!
I forgot about UFO 50 and Parking Garage Rally Circuit! Some of the modded tracks in PGRC are amazingly fun (and often have great modded music too!).
Re: Talking Point: Will You Be Buying Any Game-Key Card Switch 2 Games?
Definitely not buying any key cards, not any switch 2 games, nor anything from the 50 billion dollar corpo that attacks free open source emulation, youtubers, modders, tournaments, their own customers (I'd love to know how many customers they've banned from downloading their own purchases!), etc etc.
Re: Opinion: It's Time To Get Rid Of Fall Damage
@Doomcrow it is amazing how much better the games are without flimsy weapons, fragile shields, and ultra weak bows!
Re: Mario Kart World Is Reportedly The Smoothest Entry Yet
@geshem No problem, thanks for the feedback. I guess I'm happier?! I'm happier when I don't read the news, that's for sure! Take care!
Re: Mario Kart World Is Reportedly The Smoothest Entry Yet
@geshem lol, I upgraded my name. This time to a refresh rate I've never even seen! I do now have a 240hz display and absolutely love it. Can't wait to see 400 or 500fps! Or higher!
Re: Mario Kart World Is Reportedly The Smoothest Entry Yet
Would be nice to see a Kart racer like this running at 120. Sounds very pretty!
Re: Digital Foundry Says Switch 2 Running Switch Games At 4K Is "Quite The Thing" In Performance Breakdown
@jesse_dylan Yeah, for me the big problem is that I'd feel like I'm giving money to horrible corporate lawyers if I buy anything from Nintendo. I can't bring myself to do it. Which is a bummer because I like the 120hz VRR screen, and other improvements they've made. I also hate online lockdown stuff that corporate lawyers like Nintendo want you to pay for. I wouldn't want NSO if they paid me to take it. I'll control my own games, thank you very much!
Re: Digital Foundry Says Switch 2 Running Switch Games At 4K Is "Quite The Thing" In Performance Breakdown
@jesse_dylan the "free upgrades with NSO" are horrible. Take your Switch somewhere and then start a game offline and now you can't play certain tracks, or have a certain frame rate, etc. Totally anti-consumer and anti-gamer, lol.
Re: Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters Land New Update As Series Passes 200 Million Sales
@Andee I don't know about other systems, but I've heard there are mods for the Steam version. Perhaps those clean up the camera movement. Also, this kind of thing doesn't seem like something the Switch 2 would fix. I've tried overclocking my Switch but no dice, still looks juddery and stutters. I think John from Digital Foundry said these games are running locked at 60fps, the problem is something about the way the camera or movement is programmed, so it has to be fixed by software not brute force or a faster proccessor.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (5th April)
Still mostly playing Totk, but also some modded Botw at 60fps, which is fun and relaxing too. Also playing Advance Wars, old stuff on gameboy and NES, on up to the newest one at 60fps (I hope purchasers of Switch 2 can play it at 60 without having to buy an online lock down agreement or hit a paywall to get 60!), several different Parodiuses, Pikmin 2 (also at 60 of course), Rocket League (always at 240fps, of course!), Mario Sunrise (simple short romhack that I like), Megacopter (heli STG kinda game that runs at 90 or 240), Nurikabe World (wonderful puzzle game that also runs perfectly!), wipeout phantom edition (90fps or 240fps depending where I'm playing it), UFO 50 (played 70 hours of this and still haven't touched about 10 of the games included), a Sailor Moon romhack made by some awesome person in Brazil, Tengen Tetris, Overhorizon, Metroid mOTHER, blazing lazers, mariopaint, the princess rescue (awesome romhack from a couple years ago), JUMP 1/2 (really amazing romhack from 2019, the level "home run derby" is one of the best levels I've played in years!), Super bomberman 5, megabomberman, and super famicom wars.
I've also enjoyed watching coverage of Switch via youtubers who I've liked for years, and who've been attacked by Nintendo. I hope Nintendo learns how to not attack gaming, stop attacking youtubers, stop stealing from and committing coercion against developers. They could eventually be seen as an ethical company instead of way worse than Denuvo.
May the goddess smile upon you!
Re: Digital Foundry Says Switch 2 Running Switch Games At 4K Is "Quite The Thing" In Performance Breakdown
@PolitiClank Yeah, Oliver was kind of laughing as he pointed out what they were saying a few days or a week ago. The 120hz screen is kind of shocking!
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (29th March)
I've almost forgotten about my 240hz laptop and 90hz Deck because I'm so busy enjoying my modded Switch. I can't believe I didn't jailbreak it sooner since this is exactly the kind of thing I love messing with, setting things up on, and playing. I'm mostly playing my favorite game (major highlight was finding a beautiful light green horse with pink markings and orange and pink hooves, so awesome!). Also super impressed with Super Mario World 2.5, which is a French romhack with incredible music and very fun levels. That's the main thing I'm enjoying, the same thing I love about my Steam Deck, which is setting up my own little museum of my favorite romhacks, translation-hacks, and other unavailable favorites and rarities. I'll just mention one more that's been awesome: Super Mario World Merry Mountain Christmas Adventure. It has very well done music, levels, and info (helpful text boxes and characters that explain things). Absolutely charming!
Oh, and I liked wulf den's video about 120hz panels on handheld. Made it sound like he thought high frame rates don't matter, then gushed about much enjoyment he gets out of them. Only thing missing was Lossless Scaling. Lossless Scaling makes every high refresh screen more useful, and the higher the better!