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    Switch Possibly hacked

    in Emulation

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    I just decommissioned my wii u yesterday and though I've never done it before, thinking about trying to hack it. Would be awesome, watched vids, it looks easy. My question though is does it have to stay offline if I install the home brew channel? Tangentially related

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    Series of Unfortunate Events; Massive Data Loss Advice

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    Patham, I'm glad my woe has inspired action. It's the right thing to do. Here's why, I started the scan of the drive last night, it said 12 hour deep scan, I just checked a little while ago... the bar moved some but it still says 12 hours. It's going to take days. My point being if it's going to take days either way, and you have to pay either way, might as well count on a backup plan that's going to cover you 100 percent. This is days until I know what if anything is actually recoverable.

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    Series of Unfortunate Events; Massive Data Loss Advice

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    Yeah I think I didn't articulate my concern correctly in terms of the data recovery part. I'm okay with having to replace corrupted files.... as long as it let's me know which ones are corrupted haha. If it doesnt... I may as well restock. No preview on these programs either, so it's sort of a leap of faith.

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    Series of Unfortunate Events; Massive Data Loss Advice

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    It hurts like a lost love for sure haha. But nah, I don't need it to be fast. Just done right. Seems like I may take a three pronged approach. I mean some sets are harder to come by etc, some I even renamed by hand, and I think I'll try to recover those, but start fresh for the easier sets. I'll probably pay more now since I decided to replace the drive (would have to anyway since I can't recover to it) plus recovery software plus new sub to the cloud = paying more than Jason did for 5 years of safety haha. So yeah, lesson learned. But, I love tinkering with this stuff. I'm actually sort of excited by the prospect of starting over. :)

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    Series of Unfortunate Events; Massive Data Loss Advice

    in Monkeys

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    The man himself, and exactly what I needed to know. Thanks Jason! As I knew enough not to write a single thing to it, I'm going to try the data recovery. It's hours into a 12 hour scan haha. More importantly, I read an article about crashplan, with people complaining about how slow it was. Not that that seems a concern at all in my current predicament. Im not streaming from it. Just to know it's recoverable is enough. Thanks again, brother.

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    Series of Unfortunate Events; Massive Data Loss Advice

    in Monkeys

    Posted · Edited by fromlostdays

    Skip to end of rant for questions*

    What happened? The short version is I let windows reformat my 4 gigabye external drive housing all my games. 


    How did it happen? The short version is, I'm an idiot.

    The longer version is, I decided this morning to take apart my entire entertainment center. I mean I got in there with twisty ties on all the wires, dusted and cleaned and organized etc. My main PC (Gaming PC) is attached to the living room tv along with consoles etc. Now after purchasing the Nintendo Switch, (and spending the last week in a zelda haze), I decided to decommission the Wii U for now until I can find a use for it, and also to take the 2 terabyte external I had hooked up to it, and since the only thing on it was Mario Kart, put the drive on my PC for extra space. So I finish cleaning, get all the drives together, plug in and I'm ready to go. I figured windows would need me to reformat the former Wii U external Drive (Western Digital just like all my drives), so I went into Disk Management, and formatted what I THOUGHT was that drive. I thought it was that drive because Disk Manager prompted me to reformat it.* The rest is history. 

    I'm not necessary worried about rebuilding the sets. It'll be a little timely, but I mean its nothing I can't replace (minus some save files). My questions should be evident, and I'd appreciate any advice:

     

    Question 1: I download a trial version of EaseUS Data Recovery and it looks like I can probably retore a lot of the data. I'm concerned though that if I restore in bulk, it may corrupt files which then will just sit in launchbox broken as I'm not going to go about testing every single game. Anyone have any experience with this process? I mean, my drive probably had about 70k games on it. Should I bite the bullet, pay the 70 bucks and try to recover, or just rebuild? Is there any better way?

    Question 2: I have hard drives from a decade ago that still work. I have an external from 2008 that still works. I've never actually had a hard drive crash. So I never really gave much thought to backing data up. In fact, I'm a complete newb about it. Between games and media I'd be looking to backup about 6 terabytes plus, so any suggestions on the best way to do this? (As I'm reading via google, I'm understanding that buying a few more externals and just copying the stuff there and storing it might be the best solution, but I wanted to ask here).

    And lastly, if you read above.... my game drive is like a year old at most, western digital 4 terabytes, but when I opened up disk manager, I was fooled because for some reason windows wasn't recognizing it. Having formatted, it seems to be working just fine, just like a new empty drive (I haven't actually tried to store anything on it yet in case I go the recovery route) but.... I mean is that a signal that drive is failing? I'd really hate to go either the replace all or recover all route only to find the hard drive fails. I have absolutely no idea why windows wasn't seeing it correctly in the first place. I was really careful when I cleaned the area etc. So... thanks for reading haha.

    Any and all advice is appreciated.

     

     

     

     

     

      

     

     

    Save states

    in Noobs

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    Well I should say you configure that in whatever emulator you are using. In RA options menu, I think it's directories to set the path, and note any directory thar says "content" will save to your rom path. This can be a good thing if you have your roms in individual folders.

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    PS One game not working in emu nor retroarch

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    I can almost guarantee its the bios, in terms of RA. It's a mednefen core, remember. Very picky. If I were you, I'd put my energy into getting RA to work. Load the psx core, then go to information, and ra will tell you if the bios files are present. If not, first make sure you haven't messed with the paths. Then try another bios set

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    Left ROMS in ZIP

    in Noobs

    Posted

    I think it was on simply Austin videos... but I don't want to spread heresay. I actually recommend decompressing everything, as like Brad said a while ago, space isn't the same issue it used to be and decompressed roms are a helluva lot easier to work with. But, before you go that route, check into RA supporting zips.

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    Advice switching from hyperspin

    in Noobs

    Posted

    Ok so you're using rocketlauncher, but when you import mame... name it MAME, scrape as Arcade and set up mame as the emulator (you'll change this later). If you import like that, launchbox should give you a list of all kinds of mame games you can choose not to import... region... clones.. etc. The only way I know to thin this lost further is to do it manually by hand or find a 3rd party app that'll do it.. not sure of any good ones. Once imported press control a in launchbox to select all the games, choose edit, and then set the emulator back to rocketlauncher.

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    Matching the database with No-Intro names

    in Contributions

    Posted

    I think these are both really good points. I think LB handles the naming of games in a wonderful way, and I'm always impressed by how well it performs at locating my games considering literally NONE of them are named that way. I also think being able to add "alternate" names to accommodate the set names is a great idea, if the community wants to put in the work. Especially No-Intro, as it's pretty much the go-to sets for many of the most popular systems. So, my personal final ruling: non-urgent goal for the future. 

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    MUGEN INSIDE OF LAUNCHBOX?

    in Emulation

    Posted

    Do you have a bezel for it? I have it launching with fade, but can't get a bezel to work. 

    Thank you. 


    Uhh, for that you should head over to the RL forums. I don't use bezels at all. Secondly, I'm guessing it's a hard system to get that working since you're essentially launching individual programs.

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    MUGEN INSIDE OF LAUNCHBOX?

    in Emulation

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    38 minutes ago, RetroGaming said:

    that's just sick man even for you..

    Hedonist for sure. No regrets. And you don't even know the half of it.

    Incidentally @angelobodetti, I just set up and launched a mugen game through launchbox through rocketlauncher. Just make sure your exe is set to use an emulator in Launchbox, then set it up in RocketLauncher like you would any other PC game / exe using PC Launcher and edting the system module settings to point to the exe. If you need more explicit instructions just let me know. You will have to do this for each individual game, so unless you're really married to the fade and pause features, I'd almost say just let LB launch them. 

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