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I always thought UHD used a different laser than standard blu-ray, but only just found out it was a trick of h265 encoding and triple layer discs.

Based on the mini-BD format, assuming triple layer, the upper limit would have been around 24GB.

Now you've got me curious what capacity a UMD form factor could achieve with a UHD Blu-ray laser.

Yes/No. Both Sony and Microsoft have quality control processes to ensure that whatever is published is going to play on first entry of the disc.

That said, publishers use A LOT of workarounds. Day 1 patches to "finish" the game. Download code inserts. And as of recent, mandatory online server check-ins. As far as I'm aware, Nintendo is the only one who allows publishing half the product with required download.

I'm curious, did you dig around the BIOS/UEFI to see if there are any ACPI power states that can be disabled?

I had a very similar issue and turning off S3 worked around it. Of course, that meant higher power usage during sleep but it was a compromise over buying new hardware.

not my words. It's the Valve dev who said it.

Funny, I just saw an article saying don't get too excited about Linux gaming boosts because apparently Wine doesn't use ntsync yet, and Valve already worked around ntsync by implementing the faster fsync in SteamOS.

Full replacement. It virtualizes the memory card as an image on the SD card. That lets you create whatever size you want, and cycle through them as well.

IIRC the second version allows you to manage it via WiFi.

if you are looking at previously owned stuff... Don't touch any of the third party memory cards. Look for official Sony 8MB MagicGate cards.

If you're looking for modern solutions, go with a MemCard PRO which should allow you to save your games to SD cards. Then you can backup the SD card wherever you want.

It's right there in the link. It sold more than Witcher 3, even though it did the wrong thing by releasing early and buggy.

...and they followed it with Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch but ultimate success. So I wouldn't hold CDPR as a high standard.

FPGA console gets announced, guy behind the project is kinda weird, multiple demonstration videos are cheaply faked, project scales back, guy is actually really weird, more fake demos, SEGA shuts down the project, people charge back their pre-orders, guy turns to alcohol and does a bunch of drunk interviews/voicemails, and then he doxes his supporters while trying to prove he didn't commit fraud.

I really suggest you watch it though.

The whole video is wild. I had a huge paragraph written, but decided to delete it because whatever I write doesn't do justice to how bizarre the whole interaction is/was.

Count me as one who was skeptical but otherwise onboard with buying a Dreamcast FPGA. Glad I didn't put money down.