JagDoomEX on real hardware: Built the latest release ( dosemu2 on Ubuntu on WSL 2 on Windows 11 ◔_◔ ) and it's neat! Pro Controller support is nice, but performance with music isn't great yet. JagDoomEvolved, however, feels... Incremental? Unnecessary? More like a personal mod than an upgrade? Like, at least Rafael Silva's Dracula X Saturn patch actually fixes some stuff in Meduza Team's work; JagDoomEvolved isn't clear on any actual fixes and just seems to change option conventions based on personal preferences. I'm curious to hear a demonstration of the "audio filtering" differences, as well as empirical evidence of performance increases from the static HUD; the 'changelog' is so poorly-written that it's tricky to discern what's actually new and what's carried-over from EX... I also tried it on real hardware, and nothing really stood-out to me. That all did get me using my Skunkboard again; turned-out I hadn't updated the BIOS in forever. Also helped me diagnose the video issue with my 3DO - it was the input on the TV; even routing audio through the controller and using a different TV, however, still resulted in the system just kinda suddenly dying after a while.
Was on Holiday recently, and ended-up playing some games on NSO:
- Banjo Kazooie - Never been my kind of collect-a-thon, but did finally get into it and I understand it now - I was too old for a babysitter in 1998. Impressive scope, but a janky camera and frustrating controls waste so much time. Tooie immediately feels better, but I wanna wrap-up the first one first.
- Shining Force - Never did finish it back in the '90s; gets kinda cheap toward the end and grinding is pretty awful, but there's a lot of character and plenty of ways to play. Like Banjo, looking forward to the sequel.
- Super Mario 64 - 103 stars; skipped 14 of the 100-coin stars, and all three of the red-coin stars on the Bowser levels.
MOTU micro express (original parallel) for $6 - never needed more than one MIDI input, but for that price? Why not.
So Switch 2 got that price increase a while back, and it's still cheaper than everything but the 512GB Series S. It got new Donkey Kong, Hyrule Warriors, Kirby Air Riders, Mario Kart, Mario Tennis, Pokopia, Splatoon, Star Fox, and Yoshi; plus enhanced ports of a bunch of great Switch games, portable ports of a bunch of great PS4 games, and backwards-compatibility that improves upon a staggeringly vast Switch library; plus exclusive NSO features like GameCube emulation. There's a bump in resolution and refresh rates over the previous generation, plus VRR and HDR - it's just too bad that the current VRR implementation in portable mode is reportedly pretty inconsistent between various titles, VRR in docked mode is currently Japan-only (and only works with Switch 2 Welcome Tour), and HDR in portable mode isn't really true HDR (420 nits). So I'm still waiting to see if they do any kind of display upgrade before taking the plunge myself.
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