November 2023 Update (Patreon)

Hey everyone, time for another update report.

November has been a pretty slow month.  You may have notice with the amount of videos being released, but work, family, and other things (cough, CRT... cough cough cough!) takes priority...  And it's getting dark waaayy too early!

I don't really open up too much, I went with the family to Osaka for three days.  Two of those were spent at Universal Studio Japan. 

Strategically, we chose a Tuesday and Wednesday, taking time off work and school to hopefully have a more peaceful time...  Well.. It was good, but PACKED.  Long story short, if you intend to go, DEFINITELY get an express-pass.

For the last day, the wife and kids went to Kidzania, and I had a look around some arcades...

I saw the strangest thing ever... Pong.

Was going to keep it quiet, but before we went on the trip, I managed to bag the last 29" Wei-ya CRT from their factory / shop.

Hoping to make a full video about it, but getting it running isn't straight forward.  There's also the question of going the extra mile to do everything, or being happy with how things are.

Adjusting the pots to balance the colours then setting up super resolution could end up taking days to sort out...  And this is in addition to the week or two in getting an image up and running.

You might hate me for saying this, but CRT arcade monitors = Time sink!

Pulling back to progress, we updated PandoryMax.  Fixing around 30-40 control schemes for games already on the arcade box, which includes King of Fighters, Marvel games, and a few Street Fighter games.  We'll be updating this again soon to include a better way of adding your own control schemes, and a little extra :-)

More info here: https://github.com/TeamPandory/PandoryMax/releases/tag/1.0.1 

On the YouTube front, we made a video that covers DXVK.

https://youtu.be/8YmRTsWWVT0 

We've heard "Use DXVK, you'll get loads more FPS!", over and over again in the comments.  But how true is this?

Well if you're thinking it's a magic bullet that can sort all your problems linked to having a computer with a low spec, sorry, it's not exactly that simple.

DXVK is pretty much a way of translating Direct X 9/10/11 to Vulkan.  Gains are mostly seen on DX9 games, but some graphical issues can be fixed for DX11.

Either way, quite interesting tech and it's definitely something to be aware of, especially if you use Linux.

We also checked out a few more systems for game performance:

10 MORE Games on the Ryzen 7735HS: https://youtu.be/2xsEacw-TjM 

10 Games on the Ryzen 6800H https://youtu.be/4PDnlIY2dSA 

10 Games tested on J4125: https://youtu.be/MI3-ExLKgsc 

ANOTHER 10 Games on N100: https://youtu.be/-kXTwvkfWc0 

Emulation Showcase on the N100: https://youtu.be/0mwgH9xY6WE 

Anyways, hope you're all keeping warm...  It's almost Christmas!

All the best,

EmuChicken & dajoho

Team Pandory