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The second attempt at getting proper replacement analog sticks was successful, and the DualShock 2 is repaired. 🎉

aliexpress.com/item/1005006884 🕹️

These are the ones I got (green). They're Alps branded, like the original, but I'm skeptical. Regardless, they work.

I also got an USB adapter, so that I can play emulated PS1 games with an actual PlayStation controller. Those seem to be hit-and-miss, but this one works fine:

aliexpress.com/item/1005004812 🖥️

I've discovered shaders in RetroArch and now I can't stop. The Royale shader truly makes these games feel like they did when I was a kid!

They do look a bit better if you zoom in, and they look even BETTER if you see them in person, since this shader also replicates that pleasant glow that CRT phosphors gave off when playing these games.

I'm testing a freshly assembled #PiStorm on a real Amiga 500.

I have no prior experience with the PiStorm, so I followed the README to install the system image onto a RaspberryPi 3, compile the emulator from git head and... run it!

The #Amiga started right away and loaded my SysInfo disk image. However, there are text rendering glitches, and the m68k emulator runs even slower than the original hardware running at 7 MHz 😕

Are you sad because some of Popc0rn/Nightfall's #snes trainers don't work under an #emulator ?

I was too, until I discovered that Nightfall's code stored trainer options in console copier SRAM even for ROM-only cartridge images - behavior an emulator would naturally prohibit.

To get your cheat on, patch the cartridge header to enable SRAM (7FD8: 00 -> 01).