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Thanks for the input. My 3DS has been having issues with games corrupting, so I figured it was time for me to take the plunge and it seems like the Thor is the best in the biz
I was concerned about the weird bottom screen resolution/aspect ratio, but it’s surprisingly barely a problem, especially if you get a black system where the bars blend in near-perfectly thanks to OLED.

For 3DS, there’s actually a homebrew app that attempts to fix cartridge corruption caused by years of disuse, with verification that it’s correct. I had several corrupted games from my collection of ~30 and it fixed all but one of them.
 
Preservetube archive since this guy is DFE-happy
The founder, ex-director and ex-lead art designer of iiSU has returned with the first big response™ video of 2026 and it's as wackass and all over the place as you would expect.
1:19 Claims he "Hasn't kept up with most of the drama" because he doesn't use twitter, reddit or bluesky. He just stays on discord with his friends and uses instagram.
2:54 He is bringing his youtube channel back "under new restrictions" and is pausing comments. (Comments on the video claim he is sweeping comments he doesn't like.)
4:31 He is not returning to iiSU.
5:34 He did not expect iiSU to get as massive as it did, despite a popular teaser months before the main video, and that he doesn't "Interact with online crowds enough to manage a community", despite working and managing a team of people for iiSU for months.
5:44 Now reveals that the old friend group was actually his EX'S old friend group.
6:39 He says he left iiSU the DAY AFTER he published the iiSU presentation and had ALWAYS planned to leave the project because working on the video caused "overall damage to his health and was on 1hp". (Please forget that he said 'Rest assured I’ll see this entire vision through to the end.' in the presentation, made a Ko-fi for the project ((that went directly to his bank account, not the project itself)) and that he tried to defend himself right after until finally quitting three days later. He's just a smol wholesome beanboi with a smol wholesome ricewife.)
7:38 His family, his wife (did I mention he has a wife?), his wife's family and even his IRL friends know about the drama.
8:09 He's just "a regular guy who doesn't indulge in drama".
12:48 Says he cannot hate trannies or be a heckin' chud because he grew up with SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
13:17 Says "I just don't care" about pronouns or gender specials and at 13:29 says "I'm not going to pretend to care" for brownie points, but hold your horses before saying BASED, because at 12:55 he says he's just retarded and does not understand social norms because of his quiet lifestyle but also he will respect anyone that treats him nice. (In fact, he doesn't even USE pronouns!)
15:40 Reveals he has multiple Exes who conspire to ruin his life and at 16:18 compares them to the 'League of Evil Exes' from Scott Pilgrim.
19:15 The only person he namedrops in the video uncensored while also saying he doesn't want to "open a can of worms" about Spade.
20:05 Explains the claim that he preyed on a minor is false by showing that the person behind the camera that took the photos is his third(?) brother and friend of the minor, showing that there's no way they would let him groom the minor. (Yet too oblivious to stop their own brother getting in with some bitches that want to ruin his life)
23:08 Name and face doxes Spade with just enough breadcrumbs in a weakass personal army request. (Even though he says that 'H.O' here is a pedophile, he hasn't gone to the police with this information despite the victim being his little seven-year old sister. If I was in this slope's shoes, I'd go Bruce lee and Jet-li on this sex pest.)
24:13 Gets his little sister to testify against Spade. (I guess she was the only one of his family willing to defend him for his response video.)
26:31 Says he won't share any more information on his Exes or on a pedophile because he is better and nicer than them and won't stoop to their level. (But he does show the information censored on-screen so just know he does have the means to do so.)
27:41 Says that this is the really truly madly deeply final time he will talk about this or his past.
28:11 Mentions "dingy forums and chats". Hi, Usagi! (I thought he said he only uses instagram and discord. How would he know about an underground forum and chat talking about him?)
TL;DR Usagi says he's never going back to iiSU, pins the hate campaign on a group made up of six of his exes and a pedophile he knows IRL, and responding to any and all criticism with 'I don't care'. A quick glance at the comment section shows that the trannies are angry that he brushed all of them off, his former fans of the iiSU hype still see this as him being a bitch about things, and casual viewers find the video to be very condescending and pompous since all it is is Usagi glazing himself about how his life is so much better after quitting iiSU. What this stuck-up gook doesn't get is that he was this project's Steve jobs, the product's Billy mays and all he can think about after killing all hype and credibility for iiSU is that he wants to forget it ever happened. If he thinks things will go back normal, he better expect to be known as the guy who has no real opinions or stances on anything and if put in charge, will snuff any hype in a project and will jump ship at the first inconvenience.

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12:48 Says he cannot hate trannies or be a heckin' chud because he grew up with SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
What kind of statement was that?? :story:



Thanks for the summary, he really should have left the internet and not acknowledge anything instead of trying to backpedal and say he was already "planning" on leaving the project. Or at least wait like 6 months for everyone to forget about the drama
 
In retro games to PC port related news, the group Harbour Masters released a new port for Super Mario 64 called "Ghostship". It uses the same workflow as their other ports, meaning all you need is the original US or JPN game file to extract the assets and start playing without needing to compile the game each time like with the other PC ports. Some other features include:
  • 60+ FPS gameplay
  • Modern in-game overlay for configurations
  • Debug menu
  • Level select
  • Texture pack support as well as a conversion tool to import existing packs made for the other PC ports (not packs for emulators)
There also plans to add a built-in randomizer option and custom model support in the future.

In case you don't remember, Harbour Masters were the ones who made the PC port of Ocarina of Time back in 2022. So while they've been doing other similar ports of decompiled N64 games like Starfox 64, Mario Kart 64, and Majora's Mask, some users pointed out that all these are still lacking the amount of support and features that the Ocarina of Time port currently has.

Really the only advantage this port has at the moment is it's easier to install and potential mod support in the future.
 
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In retro games to PC port related news, the group Harbour Masters released a new port for Super Mario 64 called "Ghostship". It uses the same workflow as their other ports, meaning all you need is the original US or JPN game file to extract the assets and start playing without needed to compile the game each time like with the other PC ports. Some other features include:
  • 60+ FPS gameplay
  • Modern in-game overlay for configurations
  • Debug menu
  • Level select
  • Texture pack support as well as a conversion tool to import existing packs made for the other PC ports (not packs for emulators)
There also plans to add a built-in randomizer option and custom model support in the future.

In case you don't remember, Harbour Masters were the ones who made the PC port of Ocarina of Time back in 2022. So while they've been doing other similar ports of decompiled N64 games like Starfox 64, Mario Kart 64, and Majora's Mask, some users pointed out that all these are still lacking the amount of support and features that the Ocarina of Time port currently has.

Really the only advantage this port has at the moment is it's easier to install and potential mod support in the future.
I tried it, and it’s functional but extremely basic. Just stick with SM64 Plus or Co-op Deluxe for now unless you can’t stand the thought of playing at only 60 FPS.
 
The founder, ex-director and ex-lead art designer of iiSU has returned with the first big response™ video of 2026 and it's as wackass and all over the place as you would expect.
I thought iiSU looked like shit and this guy is a FAGGOT!
 
Really the only advantage this port has at the moment is it's easier to install and potential mod support in the future.
This undersells it. I already prefer Ghostship to the other ports because the Ultraship project gives it a half-decent UI. The other SM64 games either use shitty hacks of, eg, the pause menu, or they export the configuration step to before launching the game. Ultraship ports all have the nice, slick Dear Imgui UI, which keeps the "OG game" and UI logic separate but real-time. Like, case in point, Ghostship offers an obvious switch for disabling the Level of Detail feature so the game always uses high-poly instances of everything. Has this been surfaced elsewhere? None of the various sm64-port forks I've run have offered this. But it's really hard to say, because each of the -port forks does things differently, and none of them are even consistent with themselves about their interface to underlying features.
 
Like, case in point, Ghostship offers an obvious switch for disabling the Level of Detail feature so the game always uses high-poly instances of everything. Has this been surfaced elsewhere? None of the various sm64-port forks I've run have offered this.
Most of the versions I’ve played have always done that. Co-op, Plus, I’m pretty sure EX and Alo. Ghostship’s approach to changing options is nice, but it needs to have options to change, otherwise I guess it’s more convenient to people who want to change the star exit setting mid-game for… some reason.
 
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I would've thought that Microsoft would've released a Steam port by this time. But no matter! This looks better.
 
The new HarbourMasters Mario 64 is pretty bare bones compared to the ones out there, but the biggest dealbreaker for me is how it crashes constantly, especially at the star select screen.

Also it seems to run slightly fast like emulators do, in a bad way--making things like the Princess Secret Slide harder than they need to be.
 
1. What even is iiSU?

2. What's the current best Switch emulator? Feels like every 6 months there's a huge shakeup and one gets shut down and replaced or they splinter or something.
 
1. What even is iiSU?
It’s a frontend will heavy customization, way more work put into the visuals, and some optional social media components.
2. What's the current best Switch emulator? Feels like every 6 months there's a huge shakeup and one gets shut down and replaced or they splinter or something.
Generally speaking, the dust has settled now and Eden is the best. Or Citron I guess, but there was some controversy a while ago about them trying to block users if it (somehow) detects that their games are pirated.
 
It’s a frontend will heavy customization, way more work put into the visuals, and some optional social media components.
It feels like it's made for people who really, really liked the 3DS/Wii aesthetics rather than the standards created by LaunchBox and Steam. I'm quite happy with Playnite.
 
It’s not privated, but he unlisted the video. I guess he got tired of deleting all the comments calling him out?
In the last minute of the video he says he will unlist the video "soon" and "those who care" would have to search for it. I bet the dogpile in the comments and making his channel bleed subs made him unlist the video much sooner than later. It was barely a week later, has this guy ever heard of the streisand effect? Don't be so surprised when he just flat out deletes the video. Even Pyrocynical still has his response video up.
 
I've been fucking around with Lossless Scaling, the frame generation/upscale app on steam to get around games that are locked at 30 fps/emulated games that are nightmares to get to 60fps. It isn't perfect, but it's pretty awesome.


My play through of MGS1 was a blast with this and MGS4 is getting constant 60fps but i only dicked around in the virtual range

Going to try gears 2 using this guide:

 
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