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Delay

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  1. I have only soldered a few times in my life, and that was years ago. I'd try to find some way to practice soldering before touching that cartridge, way too precious to accidentally destroy. And because I don't repair old cartridges for a living, I don't even have the right screwdriver to open the cartridge and no store in my city sells these things, so it will take a while anyways. Gives me plenty of time to learn soldering, too! Luckily non-volatile memory became cheap enough to put on the board instead of extra RAM and battery by the time GBA games rolled out, so if I ever get my hands on third-gen Pokémon or another GBA title I probably won't have to worry about that (unless they also have some sort of clock, but I don't think they do?). _________ Because I was interested, I took the time to make another save, turn off the GB for a few seconds and then back on to find out how long it takes until the save breaks. It becomes corrupted somewhere between 10 and 12 seconds and is completely erased after 13 seconds. I have no idea how the GB works - which is obviously by now - so I don't know why the cartridge still has enough power to keep a save for 10 seconds, but I can say for certain that it takes at least that long for the hardware to "truly" shut down instead of stopping instantly. Does the GB have any sort of capacitor or something else that takes that long to completely discharge? Am I utterly embarrassing myself by asking that question because I have no idea what I'm talking about?
  2. I'm left a little dumbfounded and confused. It seems like Game Boy cartridges and their batteries are used differently to what I expected. Case in point: I have a copy of Pokémon Crystal that, by the looks of it, has a dead battery. Yet the game works fine and is absolutely capable of of saving and loading. Even the clock ticks! However, when I take the game out of the console and plug it back in, the save is gone. My conclusion? It seems like the cartridge happily feeds off of the Game Boy's power while plugged into one and runs on its batteries only if it isn't. I have an Advance SP, so I have no problem because it is rechargeable, but the GBA and GBC are battery-powered themselves and you are bound to lose your save at some point! In short, today I found out Game Boy cartridges are bloodsuckers! Edit: Well, that was short-lived. I decided to test a bit further and the save is only retained for a few seconds, I don't know for exactly how long. It's weird nonetheless that the save is not lost the second the console is turned off. Well, at least I was right with the cartridge using the console power while the Game Boy is turned on, the clock is running, the play time is counted, etc.
  3. It really doesn't like 64k demos, but that's shared across basically all AVs. Compression really obfuscates the purpose of a file and AV vendors really want to be on the safe side.
  4. Well.... I do too, and it doesn't like Principia all that much. Never had problems with Scatterer however and it never removed stuff I already moved out of quarantine the first time. Unless I update the mod of course, since it's a different file Norton will start crying again. All the same it's not annoying, and if it wasn't for Windows' poor security with all these exploits to run programs without permission I wouldn't have a reason to have any AV at all.
  5. That is because the mod only provides an API for other mods to work with. By itself it changes nothing.
  6. I think that's not Scatterer's fault. I haven't taken a close look myself, but the new textures for Kerbin in 1.9 are more saturated by themselves.
  7. Sorry, I might not be the best person to talk to. I will admit that I have not taken a close look at the variables either and only skimmed over them a while ago. Perhaps @blackrack could help you out here, given that he made the syntax?
  8. Looks absolutely right to me. Maybe a little too blue, but that can be tweaked in the configs. What you are seeing here is not a bug, it's the main feature of Scatterer in full effect.
  9. I personally would have no problem with separate Scatterer versions for each renderer. Honestly you should do what is easiest for you to implement. It's your mod after all.
  10. Thank you for the quick fix! I have already played around with the rotations a bit (I might have gotten my hands on a bad copy before it was removed) and it is quite a nice addition indeed!
  11. Absolutely phenomenal work, once again! Can't wait to use this release, since this means that vessels in near circular orbits and told to hold prograde will only drift slightly with timewarp because of their extant rotation! This will make space stations look even better!
  12. And so you can't charge the phone? Or is it just an annoying message that pops up every now and then? ...or is the phone bricked?
  13. They also had a rather... funky(?) S2 camera with a few exposure problems!
  14. No landing burn? I guess the stage is done for.
  15. The "Heute Show", a German satirical program, does these puns all the time. However this one pertaining to this whole corona hoarding panic really got me: I doubt this needs a translation, the picture speaks for itself. Never did I laugh so much because of such a silly pun!
  16. Germany has all sorts of empty shelves in stores. Most common victims of the panic are toilet rolls and... noodles. We're already joking about how all these noodles will be used for salad in this year's grilling season.
  17. Next Monday all schools are cancelled for two weeks, after which I have easter vacation anyways. I have ceased to understand this world.
  18. Well, I flunked that exam. Poetry. There is no logical progression, no argumentation in a poem. It's all just randomly thrown-together sentences that ostensibly create some meaning I cannot decipher. And so, on those 8 pages I had and that everyone else filled continuously from beginning to end of those 95 minutes I barely managed to fill the first before time was up. I don't - can't - see myself at fault.
  19. Given his number of 600% the fps were consistently >10.
  20. Between media and SARS-CoV2, the real epidemic is the media. I've had enough of this topic and I want to open my newspaper without being instantly greeted by at least 2 headlines about how the first positive diagnosis in my district became official. I want explanations, not a mass panic!
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