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Eliza from Zachtronics is a Visual Novel that's worth your time
26 August 2019 at 8:32 pm UTC

Interesting, whishlisted of course, I think I'll like it! And yeah I never played visuals novels too, so it might be the first.

Strength Of The SWORD ULTIMATE no longer coming to Linux after the successful Kickstarter
26 August 2019 at 8:15 pm UTC

Quoting: TheSHEEEPWhy?
When I give someone money, agreeing to certain conditions, and then it becomes obvious that those conditions will not be met - and it seems increasingly unlikely that further investments would see any return... Well, then I just withdraw and cut my losses.
That's just common sense capitalism, which really could be a bit more common amongst some game developers.

Would you let yourself be screwed over?
This has nothing to do with demanding too much or "faster = better".

Fixed. We can't really argue about that since we only (?) know this model in game industry and we don't know about what their agreement exactly was.
I just hate that model/system, so asking me this question is a nonsense.

Strength Of The SWORD ULTIMATE no longer coming to Linux after the successful Kickstarter
26 August 2019 at 4:07 pm UTC Likes: 2

This is kind of sad. Indeed there are common issues about Kickstarter projects here, mainly financial and technical ones.
But here, there's an human issue too.

QuoteWe started falling so far behind...running out of funds...lost our publisher due to the delays...personal and health issues started...stress mounted up to unbelievable levels...team relationships started deteriorating...depression mounted up...misery all around.

Absolutely nobody wants that sort of situation, but the game is available on Steam, that's sort of a miracle IMO.
I particularly hate the issue about the publisher, like "faster = better"... this has to stop (but yeah it's capitalism isn't it?).

Classic inspired RTS Loria is now available DRM-free on GOG
22 August 2019 at 12:20 am UTC

It looks great!
I tried a bit the GOG demo and the game runs perfectly well and have a multi monitors support, but takes more than 3Go of my RAM.
I didn't play Warcraft II but Warcraft III yes and this game reminds me a lot of it.
I think it has the Warcraft II graphics and the gameplay of the third (heroes and their items, levels...) and be able to chose where to spend some attributes points is really nice.

A multiplayer mode would be really cool for sure!

GOG are celebrating their Community Wishlist feature with a big sale
19 August 2019 at 7:41 pm UTC

Quoting: XpanderRelease the GOG Galaxy client for linux


not gonna buy anything from them before we are getting treated equally to other platforms

I understand your point, and even if I wouldn't use Galaxy, I can't really disagree with you.
But IMO, we would be treated (more) equally if we had all linux releases of games that have it anywhere else.
For me that's the first and more important step. And even if for some cases it's cause of the lack of Galaxy on Linux (we know which ones), but this doesn't concern all games (unfortunately?).

I said again on the last Blood news, about the lack of Linux/macOS release on GOG, even if Galaxy is available on macOS!

So clearly, I don't think Galaxy on Linux would surprisingly resolve this issue, it's not the holy grail...

The situation with Blood: Fresh Supply getting a Linux version is looking a little unclear
19 August 2019 at 7:20 pm UTC Likes: 1

I'm not optimistic... and still no Linux/macOS release of Turok 2 on GOG.com.
Some games get it and some not, it's like randomly.

NBlood is maybe nice but this is completely different...

PS3 emulator RPCS3 can now play Demon's Souls at 60FPS thanks to a patch
15 August 2019 at 4:55 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeSo I forgot an important step in getting the game to the computer. You have to decrypt it, and while it SAYS the ps3-disc-dumper supports Linux, I don't really see how to compile it, or use it at all.

Plus the appimage of RPCS3 uses an outdated version of OpenSSL so a lot of features don't work. It should upgrade to 1.1.0.

And what about this other tool mentioned?
https://notabug.org/necklace/libray

The Dreamcast emulator Flycast has made some amazing progress lately
15 August 2019 at 12:08 am UTC

I never tested a Dreamcast emulator yet...
This is great news indeed but why they did forked it in the first place?

As mentioned on the Github's Reicast page:

QuoteIf you are interested into further porting/adapting/whatever, please do not fork off.
We hate that. Really.

Let's try to keep everything under a single project :)

So it seems among the many DC emulators, Flycast is the best Linux open source solution right now?

PS3 emulator RPCS3 can now play Demon's Souls at 60FPS thanks to a patch
14 August 2019 at 7:31 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedje
Quoting: Cyril
Quoting: slaapliedjeI actually bought one of the listed Blu-ray drives so that I could rip my own PS3 games. It's a long process and I'd only recommend doing it for those PS3 exclusive titles out there. Like I ripped Red Dead Redemption so I could play it on my PC. Then again it was random how it'd load with the version of RPCS3 that I was using, so decided to just fix the laser in my fat PS3 :P

It would be interesting to have your feedback about the process, what softwares did you use, difficulties you encountered etc.
Sadly my Blu-ray drive is apparently not compatible to dumping PS3 discs.

For now I only did one mitigated test with a pirated game but of course I intend to buy a compatible drive and some PS3 discs to dumping them myself in the future.
I'm particularly waiting for this goal/feature "Support booting from original game discs." will be quite useful IMHO.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DWFPDJI/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 is the drive I'm using. I'll rip a game tonight and write up a howto.

Yeah, even if that option of booting from an original is there, you'd still need a drive that can read the disks. But it would certainly save the time and hard disk space if you could run it straight from the drive.

Load times might be slower though.

Not necessarily a howto, simply having your detailed feedback.
But thanks though! :)

A bit off topic but speaking of dumping games, I tried to do it with my PS1 CDs and it failed (the resulting image didn't run on my emulator). I was thinking of retry that... It seems the majority of tools to do it are on Windows.