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Seeing he put the cartridge on the NES and power it on, I have to confess something: My first console was a top loading NES clone, since at the time Nintendo didn't have representation in Brazil. The first time I interacted with a NES was when I purchased one in later 2000's for my Nintendo console collection. So here I am, all happy for finally owning one and I set it up for testing, inserting a cartridge*, closing the lid and powering it on. Nothing happened. I check things, the power supply, connections, other cartridges, nothing worked.

I start to clean the cartridge the correct way (not blowing it like in the video), try to put the cartridge slightly inserted, slightly sideways, still nothing, nada. I start to look in the internet about the NES cartridge slot problems, and to my horror it is very common. So I was thinking the seller sold me a defective unit and I became very upset.

While looking at the slot, I notice that it was moving a little. So I insert a cartridge again and start to check the movement. I move it down, down, down and the thing finally clicks. Never being so ashamed in my gamer life...

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I don't want to bash the guy, since he is one of the most important names on Linux gaming, after all he has done (witch I am very grateful BTW), but I remember Ryan before Steam landed on Linux, and the guy have a certain fame of... not finishing projects he started.

So I would suggest 3 things:

1- Something with finished development, no more patches on sight;
2- Something small, since he will be doing it on his free time and I did not see him wanting to digging up a mountain like a GTA V or Skyrim;
3- Something from a company friendly towards Linux.

The name is Alien Swarm. 1- It is long finished; 2- It is a small game from a familiar engine; 3- It is a fine game from a Linux friendly company, that somehow did not get a port while Valve was porting their entire catalog for Linux.

Knowing Ryan skills, it probably will be a quick port, something he can do with no pressure and that will fulfill that itch for porting he is having.

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When the Rift project begin, the target price was 300 US dollars. I made plans to buy it as soon as possible. Then it was 350, witch cool me down but still wanted to buy it. And then the thing jumped to 600 and I give it up.

Since I live in Brazil, to import the thing I have to pay 60 % (!!!) in taxes over its price and shipping. Yeah, it is that expensive to import things over 100 US dollars here in Brazil.

So, unless those things start to be priced around 300, I'm not buying anything. I still want it badly, but I cannot justify paying that high just to play my simulators.

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I do not Tweet or other crap social crap, but I post here. So if Feral is listening, I will buy it full price.

Enough strategy crap, give us some action.

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Quoting: Darkdisorder78

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Cyba.CowboyDid I miss something?

I've been using a DUALSHOCK4 with Steam (and GOG.com!) for years (since not too long after the Sony PlayStation 4 came out)... And it works perfectly with most games (even the force-feedback/vibration)(I could count on one hand the games which don't work or don't work properly)!

I don't even need to do anything special - just pair it with my computers (I've used it on different computers over the years) via bluetooth.

What exactly is it with DUALSHOCK4 game pads that supposedly doesn't work?

My memory is a little hazy on it, but I believe in recent Kernels the way DS4 were handled was changed, causing breakages.

You must be using Windows because force feedback doesn't work on Steam OS. I doesn't work with the steam controller, so how can it work with the DUALSHOCK 4?

I don't know about SteamOS, but on Ubuntu it does work, with all my gamepads (DS4,Both Xbox, F710). The Steam Controller on the other hand, is by emulation and only work with Valve games, at last in my experience.

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Liam, I think Valve games, like L4D2, open up the Steam configuration from the game menu.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyDid I miss something?

I've been using a DUALSHOCK4 with Steam (and GOG.com!) for years (since not too long after the Sony PlayStation 4 came out)... And it works perfectly with most games (even the force-feedback/vibration)(I could count on one hand the games which don't work or don't work properly)!

I don't even need to do anything special - just pair it with my computers (I've used it on different computers over the years) via bluetooth.

What exactly is it with DUALSHOCK4 game pads that supposedly doesn't work?

I tested a DS4 last year, and everything was fine. Last month a bought one for my gamepad collection and things do not look good. The axis and buttons configuration are all over the place. Some kernel update messed things up badly. A believe a couple weeks ago some kernel (I'm using 4.12) and/or some system update on Ubuntu 17.04 got things strait again, but last time I tried, 16.04 is still broken.

I also have to say that some games do not like the Steam gamepad configurator, instead they try to connect to the gamepad directly and if you have the Steam thingy activated on your non-Steam Controller, the game will register two inputs, like you and a ghost are using the controller at the same time. So multiplayer games will always show a second player using the same inputs as you. Over the top of my head, Assault Android Cactus and Rocket League have this problem.

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The results in Phoronix are totally encouraging on the Linux side. Vega performance compared to Nvidia is better than on Windows. I'm probably getting one Vega 56 in a couple of months, once the third party coolers are available. It will be THE card to get considering price, power consumption and performance on Linux.

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I hope they keep this behavior for SteamOS, because I believe it can cause problems on a conventional distro were users are costumed in changing video drivers all the time.

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