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  • I want to highlight a few mods (because this question will come up eventually :-) ):

    Sonic_

    • Sonic the Hedgehog 1 @ SAGE 2010: A competitive focused challenge with scoring and time attack in mind. Play each Act individually and record highscores for each.
    • An Ordinary Sonic ROM Hack (SHC 2013): A creepypasta style game, where a creepy Sonic variant is hunting you.
    • Jesters Challenge: A huge single level maze, that plays unlike a normal Sonic game.
    • Character Pak: Adds 4 playable characters, Classic Sonic, Modern Sonic, Link and Luigi. into the normal Sonic 1 game. Each with their own movesets and playstyle.

    Sonic 3 Knuckles_

    • Sonic 3 Complete: Improves the game and adds options and features, without altering the original game. Basically the ultimate version how it should have been in the first place.

    Streets of Rage 2_

    • TMNT Shredders Re-Revenge - New Music: Changes the entire game, including all characters, enemies and bosses to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme. Even gameplay is adjusted, such as jumping further and 6 button support. This version with New Music just adds TMNT style music to the already excellent mod.
    • SF2 (Dhalsim Ryu Guile Ken): Set of multiple mods different set of playable characters from the Street Fighter 2 series. (note their description file is empty)
    • River City Girls of Rage: Extensive mod, with playable characters from River City Girls. Has ton of gameplay tweaks and features as well, and a uniqe set of moves.

    Ghostbusters_

    • Special Edition: Adds Winston as a playable character and into the story sequences. Plus lots of new features and fixes.

    Addams Family_

    • Afterlife MD (White Suit) + Improved Controls: Adds quality of life improvements such SRAM save functionality and new mechanics. Combined with another hack for better controls.

    Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3_

    • Arcade Hack + Recolour (Play v0.71): Brings it closer to the Arcade version, with lots of improvements for audio and visual quality, adds ton of features, restores levels and more. The additional recolour patch makes this the ultimate MK3 experience on Genesis / Mega Drive.

    Road Rash 2_

    • Improvement: Optimizes the framerate for more fluid gameplay and other improvements, adds 6-button control support, fixes lots of bugs, changes some coloring.

















  • I quickly wrote a script that uses kdialog from KDE to input text in a box, then writes both files to a temporary file, compares with diff and outputs the difference in a text box again. At the end it deletes the temporary files (if they are not deleted, they will be removed automatically with next system boot anyway). It’s a quick and dirty script.

    I call it diffuse, for diff + use.

    #!/usr/bin/env bash
    
    title="Diff - Compare 2 Texts"
    output_size="720x720"
    
    file1="$(mktemp)"
    file2="$(mktemp)"
    file3="$(mktemp)"
    
    kdialog --title "${title} (input)" --textinputbox "Input Text 1" >> "${file1}"
    kdialog --title "${title} (input)" --textinputbox "Input Text 2" >> "${file2}"
    diff -- "${file1}" "${file2}" >> "${file3}"
    kdialog --title "${title} (diff)" --geometry "${output_size}" --textbox "${file3}"
    
    rm -- "${file1}"
    rm -- "${file2}"
    rm -- "${file3}"
    

    Edit: Forgot to mention the name of the script. Edit2: Totally wrong shebang line corrected.



  • For Manjaro, it remains to be seen how the restructure will workout. They will become a non profit organization. The previous leadership (phil) was one of the reasons why I stopped using Manjaro a while ago, maybe 2 years by now. Just looked into the link a bit and… it’s worse than I thought.

    Ubuntu has its own problems, but I think if the core infrastructure and leadership cannot be trusted, then no other decision on the project matters. So my personal vote would go for Ubuntu and against Manjaro, if I were to decide which of them to use.