Peter Sadlon

Peter Sadlon

@psadlon.bsky.social

Disabled, Introverted, Autistic Mediaphile; Cat Owner; Politically Progressive; Demi-Male Gray-Ace

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Peter Sadlon
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I just "love" the fact the FL GOP assumes that because I am registered a No Party Affiliation, it means they have half a chance in hell appealing to me with open fascism. I'm NPA because even the FL Dems are too conservative for my progressive tastes. I merely settle for them in the general.

Peter Sadlon
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As a progressive living on Florida's space coast, I am voting as close to my beliefs as my options allow, this is translating to no MAGA sycophants (even those covering their rears), no voting for Federalist Society judges, & no voting for amendments which they support.

Peter Sadlon
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Policy over party or faith. If the people that failed up for 30 years offer only culture war BS and no solutions I don't need the or those who do it under another name.

Peter Sadlon
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Getting ready to test Proton under CachyOS with my potato laptop using a modern (2026) Windows only port of a retro (2000) PlayStation game, Breath of Fire IV. Given Slime Rancher for EGS ran under Mint & ProtonDB ranks it as Gold support, I am fairly confident. #linuxgaming #retrogaming

Peter Sadlon
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So far so good though even adjusting it for my built in monitor's resolution, you can tell the game was never particularly optimized for HD as it displayed in 4:3 and was obviously stretched to fit. It did reveal a limitation to the monitor however as 32 bit color was unsupported.

Peter Sadlon
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The play is just as remember the playback of the original game though I was playing it on an actual PS2 rather than the actual PlayStation.

Peter Sadlon
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Apparently sometime in the recent past, according to the app store, 4 days ago, the old ebtEDGE app and site were replaced, you will have to set up a new account btween them to track your EBT card balances. #PSA #EBT #SNAP

Peter Sadlon
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Adding Pokemon Red & Blue to Yellow & Crystal on Retroach (Gambatte) as a test of a storage & save change utility I recently found on Shelly called PkVault that similar to but distinct from an offline variant of Pokemon Home. #linuxgaming #retrogaming #modding

Peter Sadlon
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Which one? Final Fantasy Adventure (Seiken Densetsu/Mana Series) Metroid II: Returns of Samus Pokemon: Yellow Version - Special Pikachu Edition Zoids: Densetsu #retrogaming

Peter Sadlon
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In case you are wondering a potato of laptop with a 9th gen Pentium Silver with integrated Intel HD graphic can plausibly handle at least Nintendo titles up to the Wii & 3DS, Sega titles up to the Dreamcast, and Sony titles up to the PSP & PS2, even using Retroarch. #retrogaming #linux

Peter Sadlon
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The biggest issues I had in testing are the N64 is the laggiest emulation for me, PS2 was only playable under PCEE2, Wii requires a sensor bar, & the 3DS emulators seem to make retroarch hiccup prior to playback.

Peter Sadlon
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Potato Laptop Gaming Progress Cartridge based Nintendo & Sega systems as well a the PCE tested and Save for the N64 there are no appreciable performance issues. The N64 runs a little laggy but not unplayably so. Next is a test of CD add-on systems like the PCECD & SCD. #retrogaming #linux

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Peter Sadlon
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Calling it a night but with everything tested but the GameCube/Wii. Funnily enough the system running the worst so far is the N64, with even the PS2 & DC show less lag than it. I did have to adjust the Window size on them to make them fit however.

Peter Sadlon
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Progress report Gamecube works fine. Window size adjustment required. Wii ROMs show some minimal lag but many require a $10 USB sensor bar I don't yet have. Also had to adjust the Window size.

Peter Sadlon
@psadlon.bsky.social

Potato Laptop Gaming Progress Cartridge based Nintendo & Sega systems as well a the PCE tested and Save for the N64 there are no appreciable performance issues. The N64 runs a little laggy but not unplayably so. Next is a test of CD add-on systems like the PCECD & SCD. #retrogaming #linux

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Peter Sadlon
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Said Potato is a 9th Gen Gemini Lake Pentium Silver with integrated Intel HD Graphics 605. Nice enough for most casual tasks but hardly a traditional gaming setup. Still, I like to play on it and I do appreciate the retro scene, so I would love to see how far I can reasonably & practically push it.

Peter Sadlon
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Thinking early disk based consoles next PS, PSP, & Saturn for starters then maybe PS2, Dreamcast, & GameCube/Wii depending on how those do. Not sure much more is practical for those. DS line seems like a questionable but enlightening experiment as well.

Peter Sadlon
@psadlon.bsky.social

Potato Laptop Gaming Progress Cartridge based Nintendo & Sega systems as well a the PCE tested and Save for the N64 there are no appreciable performance issues. The N64 runs a little laggy but not unplayably so. Next is a test of CD add-on systems like the PCECD & SCD. #retrogaming #linux

Peter Sadlon
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Well after setting up my potato laptop with CachyOS and testing it out with Slime Rancher & Stardew Valley, I'm ready to invest some energy on Retroarch. Starting off with cartridge era Nintendo, Sega, & TurboGraphX games. Thinking 4 for each console. Suggestions? #cachyos #gaming #gamingOnLinux

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