Clownacy's Corner

Ubuntu Being unhappy with how outdated Debian’s packages were, I switched back to Armbian Ubuntu.

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I bought an Ayn Odin 2 Mini to install Linux on it; it went horribly, but, in the end, I had a pocket-sized Linux PC that was capable of far more than I ever expected!

I recently developed a compression tool for novice ROM-hackers, with the goal of being as simple, portable, and easy-to-use as possible.

Today’s update began with an experimental port to the Libretro API, but then became an onslaught of bugfixes and enhancements!

As I am sure any recent reader of my blog is aware, I have been modding Dead Rising 2 lately.

Today’s update is rather small: I was able to get the splash screen skip working in Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, as well as fix some bugs related to the frame-rate.

In the last update, I mentioned that the survivor display popups had broken layering.

Though ClownDR2Fix improves the resolution of mirrors and the survivor displays, there was one problem which it did not address: they were rendered without any anti-aliasing!

Whilst playing Dead Rising 2 with my fiancée, I noticed that the little character render that appears when a survivor is off-screen was low-resolution.

Increasing the resolution of Dead Rising 2’s shadows was great, but it made another of the game’s limitations stand out: the mirrors displayed very blocky low-resolution reflections!

I wanted to play Dead Rising 2 in co-op with my fiancée, but we were surprised to see just how shoddy the PC port is; controllers refuse to work, there is no windowed mode, and various graphical effects are broken.