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I know it's not cute kitty pictures, but it's a super cute kitty story. We've got a cathouse at our place and we feed the outdoor cats. After reading this guys story and watching the video from The Dodo, we really have to up our game! 😂
https://www.upworthy.com/guy-builds-stray-cat-village-in-backyard

Empire State Bastard
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The extreme metal band, Empire State Bastard, was formed by Simon Neil (BIffy Clyro) and Mike Vennart (Biffy Clyro). Their debut live performance took place on Sunday, March 26 at the Cathouse in Glasgow, United Kingdom. The entire concert was captured on fan-filmed video, which can be viewed below.
Recently, Empire State Bastard signed with Roadrunner Records and released their debut single, "Harvest," which is now available on all streaming platforms. The track is accompanied by a visualizer, which can be found on the band's YouTube channel.
Joining the band on drums is the legendary Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Testament, Mr. Bungle and more), while Naomi Macleod (Bitch Falcon) completes the live lineup on bass.
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I installed an AV composite out mod on an NES Toploader (NES-101) and the process went well and it mostly works, but the image on the TV is very dark.
There is a video signal which seems to be working, but ... it's just dark. If I increase the brightness on my TV it's mostly visible, and the colors seem correct just too low. I also have pseudo-stereo audio going through the mod PCB and it seems to be working just fine.
I used the CatHouse games AV Composite mod kit from from console5.com
I also replaced the capacitors at the same time, but I tested all of those before installing and they seemed good. I also installed a power LED (with resistor) but even when I temporarily disconnected that it didn't make any difference.
I mostly followed the Cathouse games video and instructions from their site along with information from the Console5 wiki.
I've double and triple checked all the wiring and don't see any mistakes, and I've gone over everything looking for shorts and can't find any. I know the soldering isn't world class, but I think it's ok. I've been looking at it for a couple weeks now so it's possible I'm just looking past something obvious.
Is it possible that one of the components on the mod PCB is bad, and that's pulling down the voltage on the video signal? The video signal on the NES-101 is about 700-775 mV, but I get about 1.18 V from my NES-001.
The resistors on the mod PCB seem correct when I measure them. I haven't removed the capacitors from the PCB to test them because I don't have a hot air station and didn't want to make things worse. I tried tracing the circuit through the PCB andit seems to be a little different from the one in the schematic on the Console5 wiki, with the transistor in a different place within the circuit, etc. I'm sure that was done on purpose, but I don't understand the theory well enough to know how that affects things.
I can order another mod pcb and replace it, but was hoping to have a better idea what is going on before doing that. Does anyone have suggestions of something else to check? I linked to pictures of the things that seemed like they would help, but can take closer pictures of anything.
[Edit] I'm an idiot and had the pin 21 (yellow) and +5 volt (black) wires backwards. I swapped them and it works great.

-The Two Shrewd Dudes are Snolly and Goster.
Snolly: I have two cats. Do you have a cat?
Goster: Yes. I have Siamcheese cats and Purrsian black cats. The Purrsian black cats eat more than the Siamcheese cats. I don't know why unless it's because I have more of the Purrsian black cats.
Snolly: That's prepussterous. A cat tail. You are an advocat of a catastrophic catalyst to duplicat categorizing.
Goster: I had a tie-dye-ger cat. She was a hippie kitty. We gave her marijuana in her cat food and she wore hippie beads. Far out kitty. Cool Cat. Yes, cats are cool espetcially the long-hairs. That's where they got the expussion "long haired hippies." There's the Angory cat, the Munx cat, the Purrmese cat, the American Shithair, the Calicko, the Cheeseshire, the Tubby, Scaredy cat, many many diffurryrent bleeds.
Snolly: It is estimidated that there are 220,450,254.04 domystic cats in the world and 480,678,359.05 stray cats.
Goster: Did you know while the cats away, the mice will play rock 'n roll all day without pay. Ooops, did I let the cat out of the bag? Well, the tunes sounded cool. It was the cat's pajamas! They played all day Caturday and when I came to see them they laughed, "Look what the cat dragged in." I danced like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Snolly: You are cataclysmic.
Goster: Istanbul has lots of stray (feral) cats. The people treat street kitties as evfurrybuddies pets, rather than strays. The country has a do not kill, no catch rule. Tiny cathouses are found around town.
Snolly: Cathouses for whorny male cats?
Goster: No no no, not houses of purrstitution.
Lots of food and water are pawt out for the kitties. An occattional beer or 100 purrf Wild Turkish purrbon too!!
There's a great movie called Kedi about those cool cats in Istanbul. Cat lovers see https://www.kedifilm.com.
Snolly: Here's a photo of my kittie I call Mango. She is getting ready for dinner.
Goster: Cats do thilly sings. Cats and espetcially kittens are playful and enfurrgetic. They zoom from room to room, jump up and down on the furrrrniture and go nutso. They get a buzz from catnip like humans get a buzz from pot and booze.
Snolly: Did you know purriosity killed the cat?
Goster: What cat?
Snolly: The cat that was purrious.
Goster: Which cat was purrious?
Snolly: You numbskull, it's an expression.
Goster: Well, I'd rather not hear any more about it. But I will have an expresso.
Snolly: Tell me about that talking cat you had.
Goster: I had a talking religious cat named Catechism. He was a fast and frisky talking Jewish cat. He spoke skiddish yiddish. We tried every way to shut him up. We pawt him in jail once but he kept howling "Let meow, Let meow. It's hissssss fault." Finally the cat got sick of talking and gave us hissss list of cat sounds/moves and englick meanings he would communicat with:
Short meow - Hey, what up dude?
Lots of meows - Feed me.
Long meeeoooouuuwww - Hurry up you moron.
Low growl - The service here stinks.
Loud meeeeee - Get off my fuckin' foot, man.
Short bark - More food!
Nice long purrrrrr - Now hold me for 2 hours.
Mean hisssss - Watch it or I'll scratch your ass.
Eye blink and squint - I love you.
Tail shaking - I am horny.
Back arched - Caution. Pussible attack.
Ears back - What's that horrible music?
Laying on back - Touch my belly and I'll murder ya.
Snolly: I have a fat cat that sat on my hat and matted it flat. My cat caught a bat, a gnat and a rat and splatted them on the bath mat. He would chat with the bat then spat the gnat in the vat like a brat. How do ya like that?
Goster: I knew an alley cat like that that sailed with some cattle and a bobcat on a catamaran into a cathedral which catapulted him into the catacombs and he ended up with catharsis and became catatonic. He was a troubled tom cat and his name was misunderstood.
Snolly; Well, what was his name?
Goster: Rover
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Lots of updates with this log, so I'm making it its own post in addition to what is in the log thread.
10/21
Hello Everyone. It's been a while since the last log, in that time we've had 2 new Coinopsx builds added to the library on Archive, some tasty new saUCEs created by this awesome community and some flavorful upgrades to some previous saUCEs with improved ingredients, as well as a few new saUCEs I created, a couple fulfilling a member's request. So thank you to all who contributed, and here are the updates!

• On Sunday October 18th CoinopsXXX went live on Archive
  • ***Warning***This CoinopsX build is for Mature Audiences Only. It contains nudity in the background scroll art, videos, and in-game.***Warning***
  • You can find this build here: https://archive.org/details/getsauceywithcoinopsXXX
• Last Wednesday the 14th CoinopsX Living Books Collection was added to Archive
  • Thank you u/moreodd for creating these items with coinopsx art and u/burt_macklin00 for creating the Archive page for them. This completes the set that was began a few weeks ago.
  • You can find this build here: https://archive.org/details/getsauceywithcoinopsX_LivingBooksEdition
• 9 New and 8 updated saUCEs added to the Arcade Archive. Thank you to u/Master_AUTO, u/T3chzombie, Mr. K Patel and Glen B. for their contributions.
  • New titles added
    • Gals Panic S3 (Adult) - Missing from the CoinopsXXX set, this one runs slow with choppy audio. But good as its going to get had to use the new FB-Neo core as other mame don't load
    • Police Trainer (trackball ver)
    • Argus-Prototype - completely different game from the other Argus
    • SD Gundam Sangokushi Rainbow - 3rd and final arcade game in the SD Gundam series. We had 1 and 2 we were missing this 3rd one.
    • Space Gun (Lightgun Ver.) - can find this in the Lightgun folder of Arcade Archive
    • Street Fighter II Rainbow Edition - added by request, this is a hack of SFII that was popular in the 90s and allows you to switch your fighter mid round by pressing start, allows for air special moves and allows for multiple fireballs to be on the screen at once. Lots of changes to special moves, play around with it to see them.
    • Street Fighter II Red Edition - also added by request, this is another hack of SFII that contains many of the same elements as Rainbow Edition, though i'm sure there are differences.
    • Super Street Fighter 2X Turbo - added by request thanks to u/T3chzombie allows automatically increased turbo speed for SSF2
    • 3x3 Puzzle (Uncensored) (Adult)
    • Cannon Ball (Vertical wUS Nudes) (Adult)
  • Updated and Improved versions of previous saUCEs:
    • Cavelon updated with improved box art and fixed sound
    • F-1 Dream updated with correct box art
    • Galaga (Fast Fire) (Save Score) - now saves high scores
    • Ghox - now has working sound thanks to the new FB-Neo core. Thank you walknight for getting this core working in the ALU
    • NBA Jam - now has dipswitch option in adv config to allow user to change cab from 4player to 2player allowing P2 on the ALU to play against team rather than coop
    • Ninja Baseball Batman - slightly improved speed
    • Solar Fox - sound issues fixed
    • Wing Force - updated box art and smallefaster core
• 2 new alternate saUCE versions added to the CoinopsX Arcade V4 build thank you u/belledix. These are in a separate folder on the CoinopsX Arcade V4 Archive page. They are set up to be single stick instead of dual stick, some may find it easier to shoot having a free hand to use the buttons. Version in original build is dual stick. If you want these simply add them to the UCE folder of the build and select yes to replace existing they are already named correctly.
  • Vindicators 1
  • Vindicators 2 - Part II
• Thanks to u/mattski823 we have 2 more console saUCE sports games hacks that can be found in the getsauceywithNintendo Archive page
  • Ken Griffey Baseball 2020 - can be found in the SNES > homebrew folder. Hacked to include 2020 rosters
  • Tecmo Super Bowl Bowl Gold (all time greats) - can be found in the NES > homebrew folder. Hacked as it states to include all time greats of the sport
• 7 New NES saUCEs and 1 new Gameboy saUCE added to the getsauceywithNintendo Archive. You can find these in the NES and Gameboy homebrew folders. Even though not all are homebrew some are simply unlicensed i'm placing them in that folder.
  • Pac-Man Championship Edition - This is a demake of the awesome arcade title. Highly recommended. It was in the Coinopsx Arcade V4 set now we have it for addon/x in the Nintendo archive. Thank you u/VolitarPrime for adding it to the upload folder.
  • Beat em and Eat em (NES) (Adult)
  • Bubble Bath Babes (NES) (Adult)
  • Honey Peach (NES) (Adult)
  • Hot Slots (NES) (Adult)
  • Larry - Long Look for Luscious Lover (Demo) (Adult)
  • Peek-A-Boo Poker (NES) (Adult)
  • Pokemon Cock Version_GB (Adult)
• 4 new C64 saUCEs added to the C64 Archive.
  • Strip Poker - Samantha Fox_C64 (Adult)
  • Strip Poker - Sizzling Game of Chance_C64 (Adult)
  • SexSexSex_C64 (Adult)
  • The Oregon Trail - Thank you u/Master_AUTO for fulfilling this member request
• 15 new Atari 2600 and 1 new Atari Lynx saUCE added to the getsauceywithAtari Archive
  • Bachelor Party (Adult)
  • Beat em and Eat em (Adult)
  • Bachelorette Party (Adult)
  • Burning Desire (Adult)
  • Cathouse Blues (Adult)
  • Custers Revenge (Adult)
  • General Retreat (Adult)
  • Gigolo (Adult)
  • Harem (Adult)
  • Hot Date XXX (Adult)
  • Jungle Fever (Adult)
  • Knight on the Town (Adult)
  • Lady in Wading (Adult)
  • Philly Flasher (Adult)
  • Pick Up (Adult)
  • X-Man (Adult)
  • Bitchy_ALYNX (Adult) - in the Lynx folder
• 1 New PC Engine saUCE added to the NEC Archive in the tgfx16 folder
  • AV Poker_PCE (Adult)
• 5 New Colecovision saUCEs added to the Colecovision Archive
  • Bustin Out V0 (Adult)
  • Bustin Out V1 (Adult)
  • Bustin Out V2 (Adult)
  • Bustin Out V3 (Adult)
  • Strip Poker (Adult)
• 1 New Intellivision saUCE added to the Intellivision Archive
  • Space C*nt (Adult)
• 1 New Genesis saUCE added to the Sega archive, find it in the Genesis Redux folder
  • Divine Sealing (Adult)

Final Report to Mr. Eggs, Thursday, March 26th, 2020.
Better read it all. It's the last report I'll have a chance to make. The job ended early, and badly. But when I'm hired, I see the job through. I can't get all the salmon, but I'll by God write a report saying why.
Here's your damn code phrase: Early Bird Prosthetic Femur Salesman. Google yourself silly.
There's still salmon on the way to your cutout, Molly and Dale's last shipments. We got a lot, a load of bones, maybe 800-900 steaks, but it cost way too much.
Like you told me, I'm posting anonymously to the internet, and inserting my first reports in this one. Good thing, since it looks like my first two reports got deleted; Google only shows the third. Since this is the last report, I'm not hiding names of the Hotel Non Dormiunt or the towns. It doesn't matter who sees these reports any more.
First Report to Mr. Eggs, Friday, March 6, 2020.
Wed, Mar 4, 2020. Driving through Mount Ida, Arkansas, I found a rock shop selling big chunks of raw glass. I loaded a forty-pound pink lump into my trunk. I also did a little scouting around Lake Ouachita, looking for quiet access points.
At a hardware store in Hot Springs, I bought fifteen feet of 1/16" steel cable. Cash for everything, of course.
Thu, Mar 5, 2020. In Hot Springs, I contacted the amateur historian you named. Frankly, at this point I believed you were getting scammed, this historian was running some weird con. Seriously, a hi-rise hotel that appears and disappears? Complete crock.
The gangster part of it didn't bug me, from you or from him. I'd heard of Yankee gangsters like Capone and Dillinger vacationing in Arkansas. My own grandfather claimed to have seen John Dillinger on Bath House Row when he was a kid.
Sounds crazy today, but in 1931 Bugsy Siegel's Las Vegas was still sixteen years away. Hot Springs was wide-open, gambling and drinking, classy natural-spring bath houses, whores high-toned enough for a Boston cathouse.
I told the guy I'd buy him lunch, a place out near Lake Ouachita. I let him chatter as I drove, about Al Capone's favorite Suite 443 at the Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs. One time it was unavailable, so Capone stayed at another hotel, "newly built" (though nobody'd noticed construction) a block away. "Where the wax museum is now," he said.
The guy tried to describe his research, rambling about how he'd traced the granddaughter of a Depression-era whore. "She remembered all her granny's stories about Capone." Did he bend your ear with all this crap?
Capone had taken two suites and several regular rooms on the sixth floor, the same numbers you told me. After two weeks he went back north. "Last time Capone came to Hot Springs," the guy said. "A month later he was on trial for tax evasion." He shrugged. "Unlucky hotel to visit, at least for him."
He thought I wanted every detail. "The Hotel was only here a few weeks. The granddaughter helped me track it down to San Antonio in 2014, two blocks from the Alamo." I half-listened as he bragged about bribing maids and wheedling the concierge. "I finally saw the registry from 1931. Capone was in Suite 638, registered as Al Gabriel. His brother Ralph had Suite 639 across the hall, and the 'Gabriel party' had 634 to 645."
I didn't tell him you'd already told me the numbers. I also didn't mention the videos you made of the rooms in Seattle. By now we were through Mount Ida, on a back road. He asked where the cafe was, so I smacked the back of his head to shut him up.
I drove to where I'd found a high bluff overlooking Lake Ouachita, tied the glass chunk to him with 1/16" cable, and dropped him into forty feet of water. Like you wanted, nobody else will hear his story. I hope to hell you know what you're doing.
End First Report to Mr. Eggs, Friday, March 6, 2020. Signed and Submitted.
Second Report to Mr. Eggs, Wednesday, March 18, 2020.
Fri, Mar 13, 2020. On the principle that even if your elevator skips floors, you're paying me a metric assload of money, I drove to Eureka Springs to wait for the Hotel Non Dormiunt.
You said it should appear between the 15th and the 25th, so I checked into the Basin Park, a hotel on such a steep hillside that all seven floors have ground-level exits. They say Al Capone's sister stayed here. I paid for a week. Rates not bad, hardly any guests, COVID-19 cutting into people's travel.
For four days I walked downtown, looking for a hotel that appeared overnight. Sometimes I hired a mountain bike to hit the trails. Best paid vacation I've ever had, in spite of rain and now the restaurants shutting down. Thanks, Mr. Eggs.
Wed, Mar 18, 2020. Turning off Main onto Spring Street for the hundredth time, I glanced ahead at my hotel. On the left just before it was Basin Spring Park, empty this chilly afternoon. Behind the park was a steep wooded hillside.
Except today a huge shadow loomed behind the park. Set back from the street, a building way taller than the Basin Park Hotel. Brick and masonry, it rose above the trees. A narrow driveway had appeared beside the park.
I'd been watching for it for days, but I still stopped dead and gaped. Low clouds hid the top, but it stood at least twelve stories, here where a seven-story building was a landmark.
I'm a hard man, Mr. Eggs. But I've got to admit I was pretty damn shaken up.
A rusty little sign by the driveway pointed to "The Hotel Non Dormiunt", just what you claimed. I walked right by. But my knees felt loose.
So it's here. So I'm posting my second report. I wish you'd given me a damn email address. I hope you're searching for "Early Bird Prosthetic Femur Salesman" often enough to see this.
I've told Molly and Dale to get ready. Time for you to make the room reservations. If you can't get the suites, we're dead in the water.
End Second Report to Mr. Eggs, Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Signed and Submitted.
Third Report to Mr. Eggs, Monday, March 23, 2020.
Fri, Mar 20, 2020. The news said the governors of New York and Illinois have ordered all "non-essential" businesses in those states closed. California's already done it. If Governor Hutchinson issues an order for Arkansas, your party ends early.
Sat, Mar 21, 2020. Molly called. We're both using burner phones. They'd checked into 639, the Ralph suite across from Capone's, as newlyweds named Rick and Nadine. So far so good—you actually found my report online, you actually made the reservations. They'd spend two days in the room, newlywed-style, then come out and start sightseeing.
Molly gave me web addresses. They fed video to my phone and laptop from the spy cameras she'd stuck up at either end of the hall.
Mon, Mar 23, 2020. I checked into 626, a double room, reserved in the name of Seward Blake. A sign at the front desk said the dining rooms and lounge were closed until further notice. The clerk assured me that room service would be quick and excellent.
You warned there'd been a fire recently on the sixth floor, but I saw no trace of any repairs. The hall carpet was worn, the flocked wallpaper faded, the blue-painted doors scuffed. Old-fashioned transoms, all closed, topped the doors.
The furnishings in 626 looked like the Hotel hadn't redecorated since Capone's last visit. Brass bedframes you could slide trunks under. Wall lamps converted from gaslight to electricity. Standing wardrobes instead of closets. Wingback armchairs by a heavy blond-oak table.
The bathroom, at least, had a modern tub and shower. A large TV stood on a cheap bureau. But the porcelain sink still had separate hot and cold faucets.
None of the doors had peepholes, so I checked the feeds from Molly's cameras. The hall was empty. No sense waiting: I pulled out the key you gave me and stepped into the hall.
The rooms on this floor all had old-fashioned metal keys on tags instead of electronic locks. Most hotels this size have someone in maintenance or security who can change the locks if necessary.
Question was, if a key went missing, did the Hotel rekey or take its chances? Would the key you stole in Seattle in 2011 still work?
I strode briskly down to 638, slid the key in the lock. For a moment it hung, then turned with a clack. I was in.
As you know, this suite, a parlor and two bedrooms, was even more antiquated than mine. The same converted gaslamps, the same ancient sink fittings, but also tongue-and-groove wainscoting, pressed-tin ceiling panels, cut-glass vases, and crocheted doilies and antimacassars. A sterling-silver ice bucket, several pressed-glass tumblers, and two cut-glass decanters (both empty, sadly) sat on a sideboard. All just like your videos.
I ignored the furniture, except for the doilies and the bedcovers. If it wouldn't fit in a bag, I wasn't interested. I also ignored the digital clocks, the microwave, and the various TVs. You hired me because Al Capone slept in this suite, and Capone never saw a TV in his life.
Molly called. We checked the cameras, then I opened the door and let her dart across from 639.
"So what's the deal?" she asked. "Somebody bringing jewels, or a bag of money? Or is it straight kidnapping?"
They'd worked with me six times before, but never in my peculiar specialty: antiques. "It's a nut job," I said. "Al Capone stayed here in 1931. Mr. Eggs"—I'd told them your alias—"is some kind of nostalgia nut, anything about Capone. He wants to recreate Al Capone's hotel room in his house."
I waved at the parlor. "Everything here that might date back to 1931 is fair game. Anything you can carry. If we can, we're stripping this room till the walls bleed."
Molly was startled. But she's like me, does what she's hired for. "I'll do the demo work," I said. "Strip the ceiling tins, pull the fixtures. You and Dale are transport. 'Rick and Nadine' got two days in bed; now you want to sightsee. You'll run in and out all day, and you'll carry a load from here every time."
"That's why you wanted the big tote bags."
"Yeah. Once a day or so you'll drive over to Springdale and ship boxes from the UPS store." I texted her the cutout address you gave me.
"What if somebody rents this room?"
"Mr. Eggs reserved this room until April. And the rooms to either side of it, so nobody hears me tear stuff out. And the maids have been ordered to leave all these rooms alone."
I didn't admit to Molly that you never explained how you'd get three different reservations, all specially on the sixth floor, without the Hotel thinking they were connected. If Hotel security decided Molly and Dale and I were all related to the mystery guest reserving a block of rooms, this job would end soon. And badly.
It looks like we're the only guests on six. For that matter, I haven't seen any other guests in the whole Hotel. Not many tourists, right now.
I don't like feeling this conspicuous.
End Third Report to Mr. Eggs, Monday, March 23, 2020. Signed and Submitted.
Final Report to Mr. Eggs, Thursday, March 26, 2020.
Continuing Mon, Mar 23, 2020. I started the demo work that evening. First I took the faucets and valves from the sink. I stole the faucet and feet from the ancient clawfoot tub, brass claws clenching real glass balls.
Each bedroom had one real painting above the bed, not just a print. One was a lighthouse at sunset. The other showed three fat old sailing ships in a stormy sea. Neither painting was in your videos, but both looked old. I'd grab them if I had time, if they'd fit in Molly's big carryall.
Floor and table lamps gave enough light that I started tearing out the wall lamps as well. These were definitely antique, converted from gaslight. Wiring snaked right through the gas pipes, gas burner replaced with an electric socket. The valves to control the gas flame were still in place, wide open to pass the wires. The shades looked original, milky-white molded glass.
I puzzled over the tongue-and-groove wainscot. Even Molly's carryall wasn't big enough for four-foot boards, but I wanted to get some.
I ignored the portable stuff, decanters and doilies and such. In ninety years, most of them had likely been replaced. I'd look them over after I took what was nailed down.
Before bed I sent Molly a text that I had a load of "bones" ready. Even on prepaid phones, we used code, same as my reports. "Cannery" for the Hotel. "Salmon" for the merchandise in general. "Bones" for rigid fittings, "steaks" for ceiling tins, and so on.
I told her to pick them up in the morning. Nothing would stay in their room more than a few minutes. My room down the hall would stay absolutely sterile, no salmon at all in it.
Molly asked me to come to their room. They had an announcement, a confession, in fact: She was three months pregnant. I was annoyed as hell.
"When you first called I didn't know," she said. "I didn't tell you after—I was scared you'd cancel the job."
"I would have," I said. They were normally good for this sort of work, young, ordinary-looking, forgettable. Both a little pudgy, a little dim-looking. Good actors, steady and unexcitable. Trustworthy, usually, if they felt well paid.
Ordinarily, I'd have staked my life on Molly keeping her head. In fact, I'd staked my liberty several times already, on her as receiver or distraction. Dale really was a little dim, but Molly thought on her feet, and the whole FBI couldn't rattle her.
But pregnant? She was far from starting to show, only three months along, and round-bellied anyway. And really, is it that unusual for a new bride to be pregnant?
But I wouldn't trust a pregnant Molly to keep her head on the job. For that matter, I wouldn't trust Dale, either. Parenthood screws up your priorities. And this was their first kid.
Too late to replace them. I crossed my fingers and hoped things stayed quiet.
Tue, Mar 24, 2020. I spent the day standing on furniture, gently prying loose the pressed-tin ceiling panels. The ones in the bathroom were corroded from decades of damp, but in the main rooms they were in excellent shape. I'd seen tins this good on eBay for fifty dollars and up. Between the parlor and bedrooms, there had to be around a thousand salvageable tins, all under a foot square.
Molly and Dale ferried out the "bones", then several small loads of "steaks". In the afternoon, they drove to Springdale to box up our first shipment. Molly was cool as anything, carrying thousands of dollars of stolen tin in her big flowery canvas tote. Dale carried more in his day pack. They mixed up their trips, sometimes going together, sometimes not, so the clerks wouldn't expect a pattern.
Each time they left I watched the camera feeds, in case something went wrong and I needed to bail out. Around four, Dale went out to get gas in their truck and stash another load. Molly collected another stack of tins from me and, after a glance at the feeds, headed for the elevators.
Which chose that moment to open. Someone stepped out, an older woman in dark clothes. Molly should have walked right up, stepped on the elevator, and been gone. She'd done that once earlier, meeting one of the strange shaven-headed maids.
But this time she hesitated, then suddenly charged past the older woman, right past the elevators. She walked to the hall's end, and disappeared into a side corridor.
What the hell?
The woman stared after her, then walked down the hall and knocked on a door. I thought she was knocking on 626, my room. Standing on a bed in Capone's suite, I couldn't answer. She knocked again, waited a while, then returned to the elevator.
My phone beeped: Molly. She spoke softly when I answered. "Gonna need some help, here," she said. "I'm kinda stuck."
"How so?"
"I tried to hide in a linen closet. I was pushing back into a corner behind a maid cart, and a shitload of towels and sheets fell on me. Now I'm kinda wedged in this corner; you gotta come dig me out."
"Why the hell did you hide?"
"I panicked. That woman on the elevator, she scared the shit out of me. I don't know why."
"Is anyone there?"
"I don't think so."
"You still got a bag full of steaks?"
"Yeah."
Crap. If she was clean, she could have called the desk to ask for a maid. They had a plan for turning up in odd places: We were playing hide-and-seek, and got carried away. But that wouldn't work if she had a tote full of tin. "Okay, Rick's out somewhere, so I'll come get you."
But I couldn't find her. "Come on," Molly said. "These towels are getting heavy."
I'd seen on camera where she went. Down that side hall there was one linen closet, and she wasn't in it.
Maybe I'd mixed up the camera views. I took every side hall on the sixth floor. There were more than I expected. I opened three linen closets and a maintenance cupboard full of breakers and valves, but I didn't find Molly. All I found was a big black cat, that disappeared into a wall crevice.
"Shit!" Molly exclaimed. "There's a rat or something in here! I can feel it moving!"
One eye on my phone, I went back to 638 and started over. "The towels're settling, or something," she said. "I can't move my arms. They're pinned."
Sweating, I surveyed the entire floor, counting off every door I passed. Guest rooms; linen closets with nothing but crates of cleaning supplies on the floor, towels and sheets all neatly on shelves; two staircases; the service elevator; the maintenance cupboard; the main elevators.
I was back at 638. "Oh, God," Molly moaned. "The sheets are moving. They're wrapping me up."
"Don't panic," I said. "You're just scared." So was I.
"I see them!" she cried. "They're winding round and round me! Getting tighter!"
Where the hell was Molly? "Are you sure you're on the sixth floor?"
On the phone, she was starting to pant. "Please," she wheezed. "I can't breathe."
Breathing hard myself, I pulled up the camera history. Again, I watched her leave 639, walk past the stranger at the elevators, then turn into a side corridor.
I ran to the side hall. It ran straight for only a short distance. Twelve rooms, a stairway, and a linen closet opened off it—nothing else.
I opened the closet a third time. Molly's voice was growing faint. "He'p," she breathed. "Dale…he'p…me…" I shoved the two maid's carts into the hall, but there was nobody behind them, just crates of bathroom cleaner and little soaps and toilet tissue.
Molly's voice stopped. The call stayed open, but I didn't hear her.
I shoved the carts back in and shut the closet. Returning to the central hall, I nearly ran into someone at the corner. A gray-haired woman, nearly as tall as me, in dark clothes. Her eyes were dark and uncomfortably sharp. Heart pounding, I struggled for something to say.
She glanced toward my door beyond the elevators. She knew which room I was in. "D'ja get lost?" she asked dryly.
"Not lost, just confused," I said frankly. "This floor layout doesn't make sense. It seems like there ought to be at least one more hall back here somewhere."
She nodded. "I getcha. All the years I work here, I never have figgered out where all the halls go. S'like they pick up and move sometimes." She walked past me toward the stairs. "If ya figger it out, lemme know."
After she was gone, I stood shaking for a minute or two. Whoever she was, she made me feel guilty. I could almost understand Molly's panic. Almost.
I called to Molly over and over, but only silence answered. I retraced my steps again, starting from 639. Down the hall, past the elevators, around the corner. To the end of the side hall.
Where a large unlabeled door opened into a hall I hadn't seen before. A hall that wasn't there before. Down that hall, room numbers now past 660, to a fourth linen closet beside a third stair door.
I found a pile of towels and sheets, just as Molly'd said. I pulled out the maid's cart and started shifting towels. Molly's face was blue, her eyes half-closed, dry and staring. She had no pulse.
Even if I'd known CPR, it wasn't possible in her position. She'd crouched behind the cart, and the weight of fallen linens had pushed her into a twisted fetal position. I started pulling her out, glancing now and again at the camera feeds.
Then I saw. Her legs were buried loosely, but her upper body was wrapped. Two or three sheets wound around her chest and belly like a shroud. Her right arm was pinned at her hip. Her left was crushed into her ribs, her phone still at her ear.
I tugged at the sheets. They were as taut as guitar strings. They'd wrapped her like the coils of a snake, squeezing until she couldn't draw breath. The sheets had killed her. And the Hotel had hidden this closet, this whole corridor, until it was too late for me to help.
What the hell kind of place did you hire me to rob?
Three months pregnant. I hadn't cried since my mother's funeral in 1992, but I was damn close right then.
My phone showed a maid getting off the service elevator. Hastily, I tugged Molly's carryall loose from the heap of towels. I covered her body and shoved the cart to hide it. Closing the closet, I slipped onto the stairs.
I couldn't be seen carrying Molly's bag out of the Hotel, flowery and bright, not the sort a single man my age would have. I waited on the stairs until the hall was clear, then returned the carryall to 638.
Dale didn't come back to 639 for half an hour. I crossed the hall to tell him. Besides being as pleasant as that much time spent being punched in the gut, telling him was a tactical mistake. I wanted him to play dumb and report her missing. But he fell completely apart on me.
"We have to go get her," he kept saying. "She wouldn't want me to leave her there."
"Would she want you to go to prison?" I grabbed his shoulder and dug in my fingers. "Your truck's full of stolen stuff. She's dead. It was worth the risk when I thought I could maybe save her. But I'm not going to prison for a corpse."
He tried to punch me, so I pinched a nerve in his shoulder. I was getting frustrated, but he and Molly didn't become thieves because they were geniuses. They were greedy, selfish, lazy dropouts. They'd only made two really good choices in life: stay off drugs, and hook up with someone smarter and more experienced.
Now that choice was biting them in the ass. I felt guilty, but sticking with me was still Dale's best option.
I bullied him until he came around. "Besides that," I said, pointing at Molly's bag, "we've still got a pile of steak to move."
"And all the fillets," he said, meaning soft goods.
"And I don't have a big tote bag to carry around, just my suitcases. So getting the fish out is still all on you, except for the very last trip."
I handed him her carryall. "Take another load out. Stop at the desk and ask if anybody's seen Nadine." Normally I wouldn't have reminded him of his wife's alias, but normally he wasn't in shock and normally she wasn't dead.
Back in 638, I made a swift survey. Now that Molly's corpse was about to turn up, we were out of time. All of the wall lights were gone, and nearly all of the pressed tin. The plumbing fittings had already shipped. The wainscot and dado rails were a lost cause. So were the paintings.
Like I said, I'd ignored the portable items as unlikely to be authentic. The table and floor lamps, though Victorian in style, looked fairly new. The bed covers couldn't possibly be ninety years old. The glasses and decanters were probably replacements, even reproductions.
I checked one of the glasses. High-quality pressed glass—Heisey, in fact. Maybe Capone never actually touched them, but they weren't from Walmart, either. I figured we'd take them, as well as the doilies and antimacassars, which looked hand-crocheted.
Back in 626, I ordered a roast-beef sandwich and coffee from room service. Fifteen minutes later, when someone knocked, I answered the door without checking the cameras.
The gray-haired lady stood there. I recoiled before I could stop myself. I'd completely forgotten she'd come here earlier. "Can I come in?" she asked, mildly enough, amused at my reaction.
I waved her into the room and closed the door. Once again I had trouble with words. She unnerved me. "You said you're with the Hotel, right?" I finally said.
"Kinda. I'm Stern. Chief a' security." She wore a dark gray polo over black slacks. She looked lean, even athletic. Despite her iron-gray hair, I couldn't judge her age. If I had to, could I beat her in a fight? I wasn't sure.
She gestured up the hall toward 639. She was left-handed, I noticed. "Ya know the young couple?"
"I've seen them. They go in and out a lot."
"Didn't the first coupla days. Newlyweds. Ya seen the girl today?"
I paused as if to think. "I might have seen her this morning."
Someone else knocked. Stern answered before I could move. A waitress stood there with my sandwich and coffee. Stern took the tray and passed it to me one-handed. I saw an engagement ring on her finger, silver with a red stone.
"She's missin'," Stern went on. "Husband hadn't seen her f'r hours. If ya see her, give the desk a call, wouldja?"
Her cold eyes said something much scarier. "You 'kinda' work here?"
She smiled tightly. "Semi-retired. I fix things now and then, that's all. Like a hobby." Her eyes weren't smiling. "Keeps me chipper." Chipper.
"Well," Stern said, "she'll turn up, I figger. Lots of newlyweds get cold feet. Suddenly you're stuck wit' one guy, forever." She glanced at her ring. "Some gals can't han'le it."
After she left, I sat on the bed and shuddered. Her eyes, her age, her "hobby"—what sort of man was her fiancé? The sandwich tasted like mud. The coffee was too hot; I gulped it down anyway.
I was too scared go back to 638 that night, picturing Stern roaming with a passkey. Hell, I was scared of my own room, after how Molly died.
I brought my report up to date and went to bed early. I slept badly, fully dressed, on top of the covers because I couldn't bear a sheet. Molly's last breathless words haunted me.
Wed, Mar 25, 2020. In the morning, though, I got up early and ordered breakfast. Fueled by strong coffee, I was soon back at it.
I made Dale carry out several loads, pretending to look for his wife around town. He told the Hotel staff he and Nadine had argued, and he was too embarrassed to involve the police. I told him how to act, how often to pester the staff for news, and so on. He could play a role well, but lacked imagination; he needed good directions.
Molly's body hadn't been found—or it had, and Stern wasn't talking. But with only two occupied rooms on the sixth floor, the maid had no reason to enter that distant linen closet. I kept my hopes up.
Before lunch, I sent Dale to make another shipment. The bedroom ceilings were stripped, the tins wired in bundles to keep them from rattling. I had two rows of tins left in the parlor when Dale came back around two.
"We're leaving tonight," I told him, standing on the table. "Whatever we can't carry out stays behind."
"Including Molly," he said bitterly.
"If you know how to carry a body out of a twenty-story hotel, you've got my blessing." I shrugged. "In the meantime, gather up the doilies and antimacassars to wrap up all that glassware." I had to tell him what an antimacassar was. I'm too damn old.
He got a canvas bag from his room. He wrapped the drinking glasses first, packed them into the silver bucket, and slid it into the bag. Then he reached for one of the big decanters. "Ahh!" he hissed.
He was holding his hand up, staring at the palm. "Cut myself," he said.
The edges on cut glass are crisp, but not usually sharp enough to cut. "Probably chipped somewhere," I said. "Don't slide your hand on it."
He picked up an oversized doily and reached for the decanter's neck. I snapped, "Don't get that crochet work bloody!"
You can believe what happened next or not, but I'm telling what I saw. He wrapped the doily around the neck, and picked up the decanter. He started to flip the doily around the decanter's base. Suddenly the decanter was rolling up his forearms. "Ahh!"
He wore short sleeves. Everywhere the glass touched bare skin it left cuts. The decanter passed his elbows and started up toward his neck. He jerked his arms apart, and it thudded to the heavy carpet.
Blood cascaded from his arms. He stood gaping stupidly at the dozens of gashes. Then he began to moan, rising in pitch; the glass must have cut him too fast for real pain to register. He turned toward me, his arms still spread wide. Behind him, the decanter rocked on the carpet, then rolled toward him.
It struck his left shoe and climbed the heel, shredding cloth, then skin. Then the decanter cut his Achilles tendon, and his leg folded. He collapsed hard into the sideboard, tumbling the other decanter. It rolled, falling onto his upturned face.
He screamed in pain and terror. Both decanters attacked—there's no other word. They sliced his clothes and shredded his flesh. When one finally struck his throat, blood only pulsed weakly. He already bled too many other places.
I stood on the table, paralyzed, wondering if anyone could hear his screams. For a mercy, they ended soon. He was an unrecognizable pile of chopped meat by then. The decanters rolled off and lay still. Gore covered them.
Then they moved again. One, then the other, rolled toward the table I stood on. They bumped against one wooden leg. I saw splinters fly off.
On one level I was disbelieving, but I wasn't going to stand here until they chewed a leg off the table. At first I reached for my pry bar. But what if I smashed a decanter, and all the pieces kept moving? Better to keep the enemy numbers small.
My coil of wire lay nearby. I snipped off a length, bent it into a loop. Lying on my belly, reaching down, I slipped the loop around a decanter's neck and yanked it tight like a garrote.
The decanter stopped moving. I wrapped the wire twice more, picked it up. The other decanter continued to chip at the table leg, with little crunching sounds. I hung my captive from the handle of a wardrobe.
The stopper had come out of the other decanter. After several tries and one sliced knuckle, I slid a long screwdriver into the decanter's neck. I picked it up; it spun briefly one way, then the other, then stopped. I stood it upright on the table. It stayed still.
Taking no chances, I clipped more wire and hung it by the other one. Then I stepped down off the table to look at Dale.
I saw a flash of light, and my shoe fell on something small and round. My foot went out from under me. I'd forgotten about the loose stopper.
It rolled toward me, and I kicked it across the room. Bits of rubber scattered from my shoe. Bouncing off an armchair, the stopper raced back. It was faster, more maneuverable than the decanters. I kicked it again, and grabbed the silver ice tongs. It skinned my ankle before I scrambled back onto the table. Reaching down, I grabbed it with the tongs.
Hand shaking, I dropped it into the decanter. Then I ran to the bathroom and threw up, my vomit acid and tasting of coffee.
My shoes and socks were covered with blood, but the rest of me was still fairly clean. I pulled off shoes and socks and rinsed them in the toilet bowl, then blotted them over and over on fresh towels. Then I threw up again.
I bandaged my knuckle and my ankle—my tool kit includes bandages. I sat on the tub to pull my socks and shoes back on. With its feet gone, the tub teetered and grated on the tiles. When I stood my foot slipped where I'd dripped water. I fell hard to one knee, then fell backward.
I came to on the tile, aching behind my right ear, my brain sort of fuzzy. I limped out, my knee stiff. Avoiding the blood drying in the carpet, I left the suite. I staggered down to 626, where I collapsed on the bed. I'm sure I had a concussion, but I was too fuddled to worry.
I don't know what time I woke. But my head was clearer, and it said I should beat it out of the Hotel Non Dormiunt now, before it killed me. Even if it didn't, with two dead bodies, things would get ugly fast. I started packing.
I'd swing by 638 for the bag with the ice bucket and Heisey glasses. The last ceiling tins were a loss, and I wasn't touching those decanters for a truckload of surgical masks. The spy cameras, purchased anonymously, had always been expendable.
Nothing on this floor could identify me. Hand sanitizer, among its other virtues, is great for blurring fingerprints.
A knock at my door. My phone showed a tall, gray-haired woman. I swore. If I hadn't hit my head, I'd have been gone by now.
No choice but to open up. Stern, face bland, glanced inside and saw my bags piled on the bed. "Now, Mr. Blake," she said, "ya wouldn't be after stealin' our toilet paper, would'ja?" Her tone was carefully friendly. Too friendly.
This time I was braced for her. "No, but I boosted a case of bleach from your laundry." I turned back to my packing. "What can I do for you?"
Her random-sounding reply confused me. "Right at the turn of the century, they had a bad fire, here on six. Really bad. Gutted a whole wing, ever'thing from 660 to 695. Killed one poor lady, 'bout crippled her husband. Woulda shut down a lotta houses."
Then she reached her terrifying point. "But a coupla weeks later, s'like it never happent. The sixth floor just sorta fixes itself. So when you mugs moved in to clean out the Capone suite, I figgered the Hotel c'd watch out f'r itself."
I couldn't make a sound.
"I figgered no harm done, rooms'll fix 'emselves back up. They tried redecoratin' in the fifties, ya know, again in the seventies, but the suite still looks pretty much like I saw it when Capone was here." I missed a bit, trying to make sense of that. "—get whatever ya c'n hump out. Then a pregnant lady gets herself killed."
"Pregnant!" I gasped, too stunned to pretend. "Who told you? The cops?" Good Lord, they'd found Molly! How long ago?
"Cops stay outta my Hotel. I did an autopsy, that's all." She pulled a clasp knife from her back pocket, flicked it open and closed, and put it away. "Not t'first."
She had to be screwing with me. "You can't do things like that."
"Can't I just?" Her dark eyes lit with a black fire. "I don't like innocent kids gettin' killed in my Hotel."
For a moment fury overcame fear. "It was your Hotel that killed her! I could've saved her!"
"Yeah," she said. "The Hotel and I don't always see things t'same." She raised her hand, the engagement ring glinting on her finger. "But you brought her. You got her in trouble. You're gonna tell me all about it." She snapped her finger. Pain exploded in the knot behind my ear, and I dropped to my knees.
I don't remember a single question. But she burned through my memories. Her eyes, her glare were physical agony, drilling into my skull.
It lasted forever. Telling her how you hired me, how you made the reservations, how I killed the historian, how I found Molly too late. I relived Dale's gruesome death, my terror when the decanters came for me. I told her your search phrase. I gave her the cutout address where we'd shipped all the salmon.
I said I hadn't known Molly was pregnant. I said the Hotel was evil and murderous, and if she was so damn righteous she should kill it. She replied, "One'a these days I might figger out just how."
Of course I couldn't tell her who you are. That didn't bug her.
When she finally let me go, I lay on the blood-soaked carpet of Suite 638, sobbing like a little boy scared of the circus clowns. I don't remember how I got there. Shreds of Dale's clothes and flesh stuck to me. I'd pissed my pants.
"I'm sorry," I said over and over. I was apologizing that everything I'd stolen was already gone. For not being able to tell Stern who you were. For Molly, and Dale, and Molly's little one. For being a wicked man.
She just said, "C'mon." She led me into the hall, in urine-soaked pants and bloody shirt, snotty nose and flesh-befouled hair. Humiliated at the thought of meeting anyone, but too terrified to disobey.
She led me to the elevator, up to the twentieth floor. We had the ride to ourselves. For all I know, I was the only guest in the Hotel. She unlocked Room 2031 with a key card and led me inside.
It was more modern than anything on the sixth floor. A sliding-glass door led onto a balcony. We stood out in the chill evening breeze, facing a glorious sunset over the hill behind the Hotel. Red light turned her gray hair to smoky flame. Her ruby ring flared like a fiery eye.
"Look down," she said. I looked. There was a tiny patio behind the Hotel, dark in the hill's shadow. "Climb up," she said. I put one foot on the rail, started to cry again. "G'awn up," she said. Her voice was cool, unforgiving.
Standing on the rail, I clung desperately to a protruding bit of trim. I was going to jump, and die. I couldn't see the patio for my tears.
"Look at me." I looked. Her dark eyes, black flames, charred my soul. "You're mine, now," she said. "You unnerstand?"
I couldn't answer. She tilted her head a millimeter. I felt my feet slipping. "Un-der-stand?"
I nodded frantically. "Yeah!" I cried. "Yeah, I understand!"
So now I work for Stern. At least, I will once I finish this report, the last thing you paid me for. Stern wants me to send it, wants you to read it. She let me clean up and change clothes, then set me to writing.
She was amused that you'd told me when the Hotel would appear. "I try to keep track when people follah the Hotel," she said. "They're always on the make."
She didn't explain how she'd find you, any more than you explained how you predicted the Hotel's arrival. But I believe her.
Early Bird Prosthetic Femur Salesman—she likes that code phrase. She says she'll find anyone who reads it. Too bad for you I started with it.
She's already "figgered out" quite a bit. The historian's mention of a prostitute's granddaughter who could track the Hotel? Stern thinks there's something in that, thinks you might be the granddaughter. "Bess was a nice gal, f'r a whore," she said. "But her kids were just pure-D mean. Hate to think what her grandkids're like."
Molly was greedy and lazy and selfish. Dale was all of that, and a bit dense besides. I'm garbage with a knack for planning, an eye for antiques, and a ruthless streak. But Molly's baby was just in the wrong place.
I'm going to pay for that. Stern will make sure.
But Mister Eggs, you're going to pay first.
End Final Report to Mr. Eggs Thursday, March 26, 2020. Signed and submitted.
Floor Directory
DTS

Playstation Classic - Philips CD-i - Demonstration! + Hyper Duel Arcade Bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTZni8OLD4
7-23-19
Release link at bottom!
Some of the more technical aspects to this Release will turn up within the context of Video Tutorials throughout this and next week!
Prelude
And here I go again on my own Goin' down the only road I've ever known Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone And I've made up my mind I ain't wasting no more time But here I go again Here I go again Here I go again Ooh baby, ooh yeah
Whitesnake's Here I Go Again has always been one of my favorite retro songs! It was also hella fun to play in Rock Band 3 with Microphone, Drums, Guitar and Bass! Rock Band/Guitar Hero are pretty much DOA at this point. Shame we never got Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd! But, I still have fun playing around with them, as well as Rock Band Blitz...the offshoot game, occasionally!
In any case, welcome to the very next Update! Many fun and new surprises in store, this time around! I, more or less, focused on reality over the last month to get things in check. Never take for granted what matters most in life! And, it certainly is not video games:) Your family and loved ones should always be top priority, first and foremost! And, of course, your own sense of well being and preservation, as well!
Final tidbit before moving onto the Release Notes and such! For those of you who loved Breakin' Bad, and were looking for a fun diversion in a uniquely different context, check out Amazon Prime's Sneaky Pete! It has a great turn by Bryan Cranston, to boot...to start things off with a nice bang! I binge watched right into Season 2, pretty fast and furious:) There have not been a whole lot of shows that have gotten me to want to watch episode after episode after episode. But, the quality shows that do come along and stand out for me have been ones like Breakin' Bad, Game of Thrones, Shield, Dexter, Prison Break, LEXX, Heroes, Lost, Banshee, and so on!
And, like word association, if Breakin' Bad is to Sneaky Pete, then Game of Thrones is to Harlots. Harlots is a fun show on Hulu, which has "cathouses" battling for supremacy in a very similar approach to themes presented in Game of Thrones!
And, as they say, "laugh with them". In that referential context, my Release Notes have been pseudo technical/blog. It is what it is. And, unlike working in a certain company's Warehouses, where everything becomes robotic...this most certainly isn't the case with my Releases! So, here I go again!:)

• RetroArch Xtreme Updated (Mini S-NESC)
• Philips CD-i Support! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Hyper Duel/Action Hollywood Supported in MAME 2003 Plus! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Cheats Updated! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• PCSX ReArmed NEON Cheats Fixed! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• PSP Cheats! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Artwork added for PC-Engine CD/Philips CD-i
• Other Additions! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• The Videos!
• Final Notes!

RetroArch Xtreme Updated (Mini S-NESC)
Personal thanks to bslenul, per usual, for bringing forth a quick fix for fix for SNES not working on the NESC with Canoe in command line. I also updated the Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets Tethering Command Line Perimeters into the ReadMe, which can be viewed easily while viewing the Core within hakchi.
Philips CD-i Support! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Another one off of the bucket list of Cores we want to get going with the Mini Classics! Philips CD-i, an ill-fated system that completely flopped...was home to some almost unbelievable entries in the vein of Zelda, Mario, and so on! Yes, Nintendo actually allowed some of their hottest properties to be made into craptastic games on this Console! It was meant to be a Multi-Media System! But, like the 3DO, both faltered and were usurped pretty quickly by the far superior Playstation One, and its far better catalog of games and 3rd party support.
You can now run Philips CD-i with MESS! Follow these steps:)

1. Have latest Injector for AutoBleem/BleemSync installed if on PSC; MESS Dependencies and MESS Core HMODs installed if on NESC/SNESC
   
2. Create a cdimono1 folder wherever you plan on running the CD-i games from, if on PSC
   
3. Place cdimono1.zip CD-i BIOS within said folder
   
4. Copy and paste whichever CD-i game you'd like to run, also into cdimono1 folder
   
5. From CDI_blank.zip, copy the _DUMMY file/s you want for any given game. These are what will "load" and point to your hard files. IE: zeldgamu.zip would be selected with MESS Core, in order to load the US version of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon You would need to have the Zelda: Wand of Gamelon bin+cue or chd within cdimono1 directory
   
6. If on NESC/SNESC, things are slightly trickier. You can run things easily from _DUMMY folder method, obviously! But, in order to run from the Main UI, you would need to add, as an example, zeldagamu.zip as a game, as is. Then, navigate to that CLV folder, then create cdimono1 folder, and drag zeldagamu.zip inside of it. Then, copy the cdimono1.zip BIOS and game you'd like to run into the same folder. Example command line when done would be:
   

/bin/mess /vagames/CLV-Z-NNOEA/cdimono1/zeldagamu.zip
You would need to manually change it to be like this (CLV may vary), then close Hakchi, Reopen, then export.
NOTE: MOST of the _DUMMY files are empty, so you will get an unhandled exception error with hakchi when accessing them. To get around this, simply create a text file, using notepad, that matches the name of the DUMMY.zip. For example, burncycl.zip create burncycl.txt and drag it into the burncycl.zip This is also a workaround I devised awhile back to easily bypass Hakchi's checksum check perimeter. This is quite helpful in the cases where checksums match. You can, of course, add these, as is. And, if the unhandled exception error pops up, simply click continue!
If any of you have issues running these, feel free to ask, and I will do my best to help you along!
Hyper Duel/Action Hollywood Supported in MAME 2003 Plus! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Hyper Duel, a fantastic Arcade Game that had been typically played via Sega Saturn in more recent years, is now supported and fully working...great, in fact...via MAME 2003 Plus, along with Action Hollywood, a funny spoof, puzzler game, with an emphasis on Action Movies. In Xtras/Arcade, you can peruse the updates to MAME 2003 Plus via the km_mame2003_plus&_xtreme_compatibility ReadMe!
Some other additions, this time around, are:

• Beathead Fixed
• Tecmo World Cup 96 and Top Players Golf fixed
• Thrash Rally graphical glitches cleaned up
• Small NEO-GEO speed and performance boost
• Wrestling Games: Mat Mania and Exciting Hour graphical glitches fixed
• Ring King/King of Boxer sprite fixes
• Goal92 video fixed up

Refer to the ReadMe! for the rest! Personal thanks to arcadez and arnoldsecret!
Cheats Updated! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
I updated Cheats for all Cores that support them, aside from MAME 2003 Plus/Standard/Xtreme, which do not yet need Updated! Many new entries and fixups...speaking of which!...
PCSX ReArmed NEON Cheats Fixed! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Personal thanks to Retro-Wertz for fixing up the Ram issues with some Cheats properly loading and working! The Updated PCSX ReArmed NEON Core should fare much better with previously stubborn Cheats!
PSP Cheats! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Oft requested, more so, than not! You can now do "manual" PSP Cheats for all 3 Mini Classics, using PPSSPP Xtreme Core! In Xtras/PSP, are the files and ReadMe! you will need to help out!
With PPSSPP Xtreme, you can utilize Cheats! In order to do this, follow these steps...

1. Have latest AutoBleem/BleemSync Injector if on PSC; latest RetroArch Xtreme if on NESC/SNESC
   
2. Play any PSP game, then shut down your system.
   
3. Your saves directory, within PSP/Cheats, should now contain a fresh and new .ini file.
   

Example Save Directories:
PSC: AutoBleem - retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats; BleemSync - bleemsync/opt/retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats NESC/SNESC - hakchi/retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats
Note: PSP/Game can be used for DLC content.

1. You can amend this .ini file with Notepad or similarly minded program, to manually add Cheats.
   
2. The cheat.zip contains a database that you can peruse for exact Cheats that can be added.
   
3. CWCheat Database Editor is convenient to be able to quickly access .ini ID numbers, etc.
   
4. C0 = OFF; C1 = ON, as far as toggling Cheats.
   

Artwork added for PC-Engine CD/Philips CD-i
In Google Drive Link, Xtras/Artwork. Personal thanks to EmuMovies and HyperSpin for the incredible Artwork!
Other Additions! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Nearly 30+ Cores have been updated with various fixes, optimizations, and so on, for the better benefit of all 3 Mini Consoles! I will showcase more of these changes within videos, throughout this and next week!
I have fixed up 50+ other things that will also lend credence to a better overall experience with your Minis!
Shaders have been Updated, Controller Configurations, many many other things, to boot!
The four NES Cores that install, by default, with RetroArch Xtreme...for NESC/SNESC, are also now standalone, for those who want the convenience of being able to Update JUST those, and/or use any other RetroArch Versions! Thanks bslenul for the suggestion!
The Videos:)!
Be sure to check back on my YouTube, as I will showcase more videos when I have free time to! I will be sure to get more drumming videos in, as well!
Playstation Classic - Philips CD-i - Demonstration! + Hyper Duel Arcade Bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTZni8OLD4
Turbografx 16 - PCE Mini - PSC Showcase - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRaR3BsYi0
Let's See How Far We've Come! My first video, NAND only, 2500 Game Set-Up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzl22rYx1vY&t=7s
Final Notes!
Enjoy the Release and have a great week! I will see you all around, as time permits me to get a few more videos recorded and posted...as well as via responding to your various messages and feedback! Anything any of you want to see for the Next Update, feel free to request away! And, due to the complexity of Philips CD-i and PSP Cheats, any of you that have difficulty, be sure to let me know!
There are some other surprises that made it into this Update that I did not yet reveal! And, there is a chance we may have some "NEW" Cores working by Next Update, too! Stay Tuned:)
P.S. Genderbent will Update RetroBoot, accordingly, to account for what I Updated into this Release. I have provided him with the necessary files:)
Sincerely, KMFDManic...
And, of course, the Release!:)
https://github.com/KMFDManic/NESC-SNESC-Modifications/releases

Playstation Classic - Philips CD-i - Demonstration! + Hyper Duel Arcade Bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTZni8OLD4
7-23-19
Release link at bottom!
Some of the more technical aspects to this Release will turn up within the context of Video Tutorials throughout this and next week!
Prelude
And here I go again on my own Goin' down the only road I've ever known Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone And I've made up my mind I ain't wasting no more time But here I go again Here I go again Here I go again Ooh baby, ooh yeah
Whitesnake's Here I Go Again has always been one of my favorite retro songs! It was also hella fun to play in Rock Band 3 with Microphone, Drums, Guitar and Bass! Rock Band/Guitar Hero are pretty much DOA at this point. Shame we never got Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd! But, I still have fun playing around with them, as well as Rock Band Blitz...the offshoot game, occasionally!
In any case, welcome to the very next Update! Many fun and new surprises in store, this time around! I, more or less, focused on reality over the last month to get things in check. Never take for granted what matters most in life! And, it certainly is not video games:) Your family and loved ones should always be top priority, first and foremost! And, of course, your own sense of well being and preservation, as well!
Final tidbit before moving onto the Release Notes and such! For those of you who loved Breakin' Bad, and were looking for a fun diversion in a uniquely different context, check out Amazon Prime's Sneaky Pete! It has a great turn by Bryan Cranston, to boot...to start things off with a nice bang! I binge watched right into Season 2, pretty fast and furious:) There have not been a whole lot of shows that have gotten me to want to watch episode after episode after episode. But, the quality shows that do come along and stand out for me have been ones like Breakin' Bad, Game of Thrones, Shield, Dexter, Prison Break, LEXX, Heroes, Lost, Banshee, and so on!
And, like word association, if Breakin' Bad is to Sneaky Pete, then Game of Thrones is to Harlots. Harlots is a fun show on Hulu, which has "cathouses" battling for supremacy in a very similar approach to themes presented in Game of Thrones!
And, as they say, "laugh with them". In that referential context, my Release Notes have been pseudo technical/blog. It is what it is. And, unlike working in a certain company's Warehouses, where everything becomes robotic...this most certainly isn't the case with my Releases! So, here I go again!:)

• RetroArch Xtreme Updated (Mini S-NESC)
• Philips CD-i Support! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Hyper Duel/Action Hollywood Supported in MAME 2003 Plus! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Cheats Updated! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• PCSX ReArmed NEON Cheats Fixed! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• PSP Cheats! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Artwork added for PC-Engine CD/Philips CD-i
• Other Additions! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• The Videos!
• Final Notes!

RetroArch Xtreme Updated (Mini S-NESC)
Personal thanks to bslenul, per usual, for bringing forth a quick fix for fix for SNES not working on the NESC with Canoe in command line. I also updated the Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets Tethering Command Line Perimeters into the ReadMe, which can be viewed easily while viewing the Core within hakchi.
Philips CD-i Support! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Another one off of the bucket list of Cores we want to get going with the Mini Classics! Philips CD-i, an ill-fated system that completely flopped...was home to some almost unbelievable entries in the vein of Zelda, Mario, and so on! Yes, Nintendo actually allowed some of their hottest properties to be made into craptastic games on this Console! It was meant to be a Multi-Media System! But, like the 3DO, both faltered and were usurped pretty quickly by the far superior Playstation One, and its far better catalog of games and 3rd party support.
You can now run Philips CD-i with MESS! Follow these steps:)

1. Have latest Injector for AutoBleem/BleemSync installed if on PSC; MESS Dependencies and MESS Core HMODs installed if on NESC/SNESC
   
2. Create a cdimono1 folder wherever you plan on running the CD-i games from, if on PSC
   
3. Place cdimono1.zip CD-i BIOS within said folder
   
4. Copy and paste whichever CD-i game you'd like to run, also into cdimono1 folder
   
5. From CDI_blank.zip, copy the _DUMMY file/s you want for any given game. These are what will "load" and point to your hard files. IE: zeldgamu.zip would be selected with MESS Core, in order to load the US version of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon You would need to have the Zelda: Wand of Gamelon bin+cue or chd within cdimono1 directory
   
6. If on NESC/SNESC, things are slightly trickier. You can run things easily from _DUMMY folder method, obviously! But, in order to run from the Main UI, you would need to add, as an example, zeldagamu.zip as a game, as is. Then, navigate to that CLV folder, then create cdimono1 folder, and drag zeldagamu.zip inside of it. Then, copy the cdimono1.zip BIOS and game you'd like to run into the same folder. Example command line when done would be:
   

/bin/mess /vagames/CLV-Z-NNOEA/cdimono1/zeldagamu.zip
You would need to manually change it to be like this (CLV may vary), then close Hakchi, Reopen, then export.
NOTE: MOST of the _DUMMY files are empty, so you will get an unhandled exception error with hakchi when accessing them. To get around this, simply create a text file, using notepad, that matches the name of the DUMMY.zip. For example, burncycl.zip create burncycl.txt and drag it into the burncycl.zip This is also a workaround I devised awhile back to easily bypass Hakchi's checksum check perimeter. This is quite helpful in the cases where checksums match. You can, of course, add these, as is. And, if the unhandled exception error pops up, simply click continue!
If any of you have issues running these, feel free to ask, and I will do my best to help you along!
Hyper Duel/Action Hollywood Supported in MAME 2003 Plus! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Hyper Duel, a fantastic Arcade Game that had been typically played via Sega Saturn in more recent years, is now supported and fully working...great, in fact...via MAME 2003 Plus, along with Action Hollywood, a funny spoof, puzzler game, with an emphasis on Action Movies. In Xtras/Arcade, you can peruse the updates to MAME 2003 Plus via the km_mame2003_plus&_xtreme_compatibility ReadMe!
Some other additions, this time around, are:

• Beathead Fixed
• Tecmo World Cup 96 and Top Players Golf fixed
• Thrash Rally graphical glitches cleaned up
• Small NEO-GEO speed and performance boost
• Wrestling Games: Mat Mania and Exciting Hour graphical glitches fixed
• Ring King/King of Boxer sprite fixes
• Goal92 video fixed up

Refer to the ReadMe! for the rest! Personal thanks to arcadez and arnoldsecret!
Cheats Updated! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
I updated Cheats for all Cores that support them, aside from MAME 2003 Plus/Standard/Xtreme, which do not yet need Updated! Many new entries and fixups...speaking of which!...
PCSX ReArmed NEON Cheats Fixed! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Personal thanks to Retro-Wertz for fixing up the Ram issues with some Cheats properly loading and working! The Updated PCSX ReArmed NEON Core should fare much better with previously stubborn Cheats!
PSP Cheats! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Oft requested, more so, than not! You can now do "manual" PSP Cheats for all 3 Mini Classics, using PPSSPP Xtreme Core! In Xtras/PSP, are the files and ReadMe! you will need to help out!
With PPSSPP Xtreme, you can utilize Cheats! In order to do this, follow these steps...

1. Have latest AutoBleem/BleemSync Injector if on PSC; latest RetroArch Xtreme if on NESC/SNESC
   
2. Play any PSP game, then shut down your system.
   
3. Your saves directory, within PSP/Cheats, should now contain a fresh and new .ini file.
   

Example Save Directories:
PSC: AutoBleem - retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats; BleemSync - bleemsync/opt/retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats NESC/SNESC - hakchi/retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats
Note: PSP/Game can be used for DLC content.

1. You can amend this .ini file with Notepad or similarly minded program, to manually add Cheats.
   
2. The cheat.zip contains a database that you can peruse for exact Cheats that can be added.
   
3. CWCheat Database Editor is convenient to be able to quickly access .ini ID numbers, etc.
   
4. C0 = OFF; C1 = ON, as far as toggling Cheats.
   

Artwork added for PC-Engine CD/Philips CD-i
In Google Drive Link, Xtras/Artwork. Personal thanks to EmuMovies and HyperSpin for the incredible Artwork!
Other Additions! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Nearly 30+ Cores have been updated with various fixes, optimizations, and so on, for the better benefit of all 3 Mini Consoles! I will showcase more of these changes within videos, throughout this and next week!
I have fixed up 50+ other things that will also lend credence to a better overall experience with your Minis!
Shaders have been Updated, Controller Configurations, many many other things, to boot!
The four NES Cores that install, by default, with RetroArch Xtreme...for NESC/SNESC, are also now standalone, for those who want the convenience of being able to Update JUST those, and/or use any other RetroArch Versions! Thanks bslenul for the suggestion!
The Videos:)!
Be sure to check back on my YouTube, as I will showcase more videos when I have free time to! I will be sure to get more drumming videos in, as well!
Playstation Classic - Philips CD-i - Demonstration! + Hyper Duel Arcade Bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTZni8OLD4
Turbografx 16 - PCE Mini - PSC Showcase - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRaR3BsYi0
Let's See How Far We've Come! My first video, NAND only, 2500 Game Set-Up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzl22rYx1vY&t=7s
Final Notes!
Enjoy the Release and have a great week! I will see you all around, as time permits me to get a few more videos recorded and posted...as well as via responding to your various messages and feedback! Anything any of you want to see for the Next Update, feel free to request away! And, due to the complexity of Philips CD-i and PSP Cheats, any of you that have difficulty, be sure to let me know!
There are some other surprises that made it into this Update that I did not yet reveal! And, there is a chance we may have some "NEW" Cores working by Next Update, too! Stay Tuned:)
P.S. Genderbent will Update RetroBoot, accordingly, to account for what I Updated into this Release. I have provided him with the necessary files:)
Sincerely, KMFDManic...
And, of course, the Release!:)
https://github.com/KMFDManic/NESC-SNESC-Modifications/releases

Playstation Classic - Philips CD-i - Demonstration! + Hyper Duel Arcade Bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTZni8OLD4
7-23-19
Release link at bottom!
Some of the more technical aspects to this Release will turn up within the context of Video Tutorials throughout this and next week!
Prelude
And here I go again on my own Goin' down the only road I've ever known Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone And I've made up my mind I ain't wasting no more time But here I go again Here I go again Here I go again Ooh baby, ooh yeah
Whitesnake's Here I Go Again has always been one of my favorite retro songs! It was also hella fun to play in Rock Band 3 with Microphone, Drums, Guitar and Bass! Rock Band/Guitar Hero are pretty much DOA at this point. Shame we never got Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd! But, I still have fun playing around with them, as well as Rock Band Blitz...the offshoot game, occasionally!
In any case, welcome to the very next Update! Many fun and new surprises in store, this time around! I, more or less, focused on reality over the last month to get things in check. Never take for granted what matters most in life! And, it certainly is not video games:) Your family and loved ones should always be top priority, first and foremost! And, of course, your own sense of well being and preservation, as well!
Final tidbit before moving onto the Release Notes and such! For those of you who loved Breakin' Bad, and were looking for a fun diversion in a uniquely different context, check out Amazon Prime's Sneaky Pete! It has a great turn by Bryan Cranston, to boot...to start things off with a nice bang! I binge watched right into Season 2, pretty fast and furious:) There have not been a whole lot of shows that have gotten me to want to watch episode after episode after episode. But, the quality shows that do come along and stand out for me have been ones like Breakin' Bad, Game of Thrones, Shield, Dexter, Prison Break, LEXX, Heroes, Lost, Banshee, and so on!
And, like word association, if Breakin' Bad is to Sneaky Pete, then Game of Thrones is to Harlots. Harlots is a fun show on Hulu, which has "cathouses" battling for supremacy in a very similar approach to themes presented in Game of Thrones!
And, as they say, "laugh with them". In that referential context, my Release Notes have been pseudo technical/blog. It is what it is. And, unlike working in a certain company's Warehouses, where everything becomes robotic...this most certainly isn't the case with my Releases! So, here I go again!:)

• RetroArch Xtreme Updated (Mini S-NESC)
• Philips CD-i Support! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Hyper Duel/Action Hollywood Supported in MAME 2003 Plus! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Cheats Updated! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• PCSX ReArmed NEON Cheats Fixed! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• PSP Cheats! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Artwork added for PC-Engine CD/Philips CD-i
• Other Additions! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• The Videos!
• Final Notes!

RetroArch Xtreme Updated (Mini S-NESC)
Personal thanks to bslenul, per usual, for bringing forth a quick fix for fix for SNES not working on the NESC with Canoe in command line. I also updated the Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets Tethering Command Line Perimeters into the ReadMe, which can be viewed easily while viewing the Core within hakchi.
Philips CD-i Support! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Another one off of the bucket list of Cores we want to get going with the Mini Classics! Philips CD-i, an ill-fated system that completely flopped...was home to some almost unbelievable entries in the vein of Zelda, Mario, and so on! Yes, Nintendo actually allowed some of their hottest properties to be made into craptastic games on this Console! It was meant to be a Multi-Media System! But, like the 3DO, both faltered and were usurped pretty quickly by the far superior Playstation One, and its far better catalog of games and 3rd party support.
You can now run Philips CD-i with MESS! Follow these steps:)

1. Have latest Injector for AutoBleem/BleemSync installed if on PSC; MESS Dependencies and MESS Core HMODs installed if on NESC/SNESC
   
2. Create a cdimono1 folder wherever you plan on running the CD-i games from, if on PSC
   
3. Place cdimono1.zip CD-i BIOS within said folder
   
4. Copy and paste whichever CD-i game you'd like to run, also into cdimono1 folder
   
5. From CDI_blank.zip, copy the _DUMMY file/s you want for any given game. These are what will "load" and point to your hard files. IE: zeldgamu.zip would be selected with MESS Core, in order to load the US version of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon You would need to have the Zelda: Wand of Gamelon bin+cue or chd within cdimono1 directory
   
6. If on NESC/SNESC, things are slightly trickier. You can run things easily from _DUMMY folder method, obviously! But, in order to run from the Main UI, you would need to add, as an example, zeldagamu.zip as a game, as is. Then, navigate to that CLV folder, then create cdimono1 folder, and drag zeldagamu.zip inside of it. Then, copy the cdimono1.zip BIOS and game you'd like to run into the same folder. Example command line when done would be:
   

/bin/mess /vagames/CLV-Z-NNOEA/cdimono1/zeldagamu.zip
You would need to manually change it to be like this (CLV may vary), then close Hakchi, Reopen, then export.
NOTE: MOST of the _DUMMY files are empty, so you will get an unhandled exception error with hakchi when accessing them. To get around this, simply create a text file, using notepad, that matches the name of the DUMMY.zip. For example, burncycl.zip create burncycl.txt and drag it into the burncycl.zip This is also a workaround I devised awhile back to easily bypass Hakchi's checksum check perimeter. This is quite helpful in the cases where checksums match. You can, of course, add these, as is. And, if the unhandled exception error pops up, simply click continue!
If any of you have issues running these, feel free to ask, and I will do my best to help you along!
Hyper Duel/Action Hollywood Supported in MAME 2003 Plus! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Hyper Duel, a fantastic Arcade Game that had been typically played via Sega Saturn in more recent years, is now supported and fully working...great, in fact...via MAME 2003 Plus, along with Action Hollywood, a funny spoof, puzzler game, with an emphasis on Action Movies. In Xtras/Arcade, you can peruse the updates to MAME 2003 Plus via the km_mame2003_plus&_xtreme_compatibility ReadMe!
Some other additions, this time around, are:

• Beathead Fixed
• Tecmo World Cup 96 and Top Players Golf fixed
• Thrash Rally graphical glitches cleaned up
• Small NEO-GEO speed and performance boost
• Wrestling Games: Mat Mania and Exciting Hour graphical glitches fixed
• Ring King/King of Boxer sprite fixes
• Goal92 video fixed up

Refer to the ReadMe! for the rest! Personal thanks to arcadez and arnoldsecret!
Cheats Updated! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
I updated Cheats for all Cores that support them, aside from MAME 2003 Plus/Standard/Xtreme, which do not yet need Updated! Many new entries and fixups...speaking of which!...
PCSX ReArmed NEON Cheats Fixed! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Personal thanks to Retro-Wertz for fixing up the Ram issues with some Cheats properly loading and working! The Updated PCSX ReArmed NEON Core should fare much better with previously stubborn Cheats!
PSP Cheats! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Oft requested, more so, than not! You can now do "manual" PSP Cheats for all 3 Mini Classics, using PPSSPP Xtreme Core! In Xtras/PSP, are the files and ReadMe! you will need to help out!
With PPSSPP Xtreme, you can utilize Cheats! In order to do this, follow these steps...

1. Have latest AutoBleem/BleemSync Injector if on PSC; latest RetroArch Xtreme if on NESC/SNESC
   
2. Play any PSP game, then shut down your system.
   
3. Your saves directory, within PSP/Cheats, should now contain a fresh and new .ini file.
   

Example Save Directories:
PSC: AutoBleem - retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats; BleemSync - bleemsync/opt/retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats NESC/SNESC - hakchi/retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats
Note: PSP/Game can be used for DLC content.

1. You can amend this .ini file with Notepad or similarly minded program, to manually add Cheats.
   
2. The cheat.zip contains a database that you can peruse for exact Cheats that can be added.
   
3. CWCheat Database Editor is convenient to be able to quickly access .ini ID numbers, etc.
   
4. C0 = OFF; C1 = ON, as far as toggling Cheats.
   

Artwork added for PC-Engine CD/Philips CD-i
In Google Drive Link, Xtras/Artwork. Personal thanks to EmuMovies and HyperSpin for the incredible Artwork!
Other Additions! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Nearly 30+ Cores have been updated with various fixes, optimizations, and so on, for the better benefit of all 3 Mini Consoles! I will showcase more of these changes within videos, throughout this and next week!
I have fixed up 50+ other things that will also lend credence to a better overall experience with your Minis!
Shaders have been Updated, Controller Configurations, many many other things, to boot!
The four NES Cores that install, by default, with RetroArch Xtreme...for NESC/SNESC, are also now standalone, for those who want the convenience of being able to Update JUST those, and/or use any other RetroArch Versions! Thanks bslenul for the suggestion!
The Videos:)!
Be sure to check back on my YouTube, as I will showcase more videos when I have free time to! I will be sure to get more drumming videos in, as well!
Playstation Classic - Philips CD-i - Demonstration! + Hyper Duel Arcade Bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTZni8OLD4
Turbografx 16 - PCE Mini - PSC Showcase - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRaR3BsYi0
Let's See How Far We've Come! My first video, NAND only, 2500 Game Set-Up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzl22rYx1vY&t=7s
Final Notes!
Enjoy the Release and have a great week! I will see you all around, as time permits me to get a few more videos recorded and posted...as well as via responding to your various messages and feedback! Anything any of you want to see for the Next Update, feel free to request away! And, due to the complexity of Philips CD-i and PSP Cheats, any of you that have difficulty, be sure to let me know!
There are some other surprises that made it into this Update that I did not yet reveal! And, there is a chance we may have some "NEW" Cores working by Next Update, too! Stay Tuned:)
P.S. Genderbent will Update RetroBoot, accordingly, to account for what I Updated into this Release. I have provided him with the necessary files:)
Sincerely, KMFDManic...
And, of course, the Release!:)
https://github.com/KMFDManic/NESC-SNESC-Modifications/releases

Playstation Classic - Philips CD-i - Demonstration! + Hyper Duel Arcade Bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTZni8OLD4
7-23-19
Release link at bottom!
Some of the more technical aspects to this Release will turn up within the context of Video Tutorials throughout this and next week!
Prelude
And here I go again on my own Goin' down the only road I've ever known Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone And I've made up my mind I ain't wasting no more time But here I go again Here I go again Here I go again Ooh baby, ooh yeah
Whitesnake's Here I Go Again has always been one of my favorite retro songs! It was also hella fun to play in Rock Band 3 with Microphone, Drums, Guitar and Bass! Rock Band/Guitar Hero are pretty much DOA at this point. Shame we never got Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd! But, I still have fun playing around with them, as well as Rock Band Blitz...the offshoot game, occasionally!
In any case, welcome to the very next Update! Many fun and new surprises in store, this time around! I, more or less, focused on reality over the last month to get things in check. Never take for granted what matters most in life! And, it certainly is not video games:) Your family and loved ones should always be top priority, first and foremost! And, of course, your own sense of well being and preservation, as well!
Final tidbit before moving onto the Release Notes and such! For those of you who loved Breakin' Bad, and were looking for a fun diversion in a uniquely different context, check out Amazon Prime's Sneaky Pete! It has a great turn by Bryan Cranston, to boot...to start things off with a nice bang! I binge watched right into Season 2, pretty fast and furious:) There have not been a whole lot of shows that have gotten me to want to watch episode after episode after episode. But, the quality shows that do come along and stand out for me have been ones like Breakin' Bad, Game of Thrones, Shield, Dexter, Prison Break, LEXX, Heroes, Lost, Banshee, and so on!
And, like word association, if Breakin' Bad is to Sneaky Pete, then Game of Thrones is to Harlots. Harlots is a fun show on Hulu, which has "cathouses" battling for supremacy in a very similar approach to themes presented in Game of Thrones!
And, as they say, "laugh with them". In that referential context, my Release Notes have been pseudo technical/blog. It is what it is. And, unlike working in a certain company's Warehouses, where everything becomes robotic...this most certainly isn't the case with my Releases! So, here I go again!:)

• RetroArch Xtreme Updated (Mini S-NESC)
• Philips CD-i Support! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Hyper Duel/Action Hollywood Supported in MAME 2003 Plus! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Cheats Updated! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• PCSX ReArmed NEON Cheats Fixed! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• PSP Cheats! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• Artwork added for PC-Engine CD/Philips CD-i
• Other Additions! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
• The Videos!
• Final Notes!

RetroArch Xtreme Updated (Mini S-NESC)
Personal thanks to bslenul, per usual, for bringing forth a quick fix for fix for SNES not working on the NESC with Canoe in command line. I also updated the Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets Tethering Command Line Perimeters into the ReadMe, which can be viewed easily while viewing the Core within hakchi.
Philips CD-i Support! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Another one off of the bucket list of Cores we want to get going with the Mini Classics! Philips CD-i, an ill-fated system that completely flopped...was home to some almost unbelievable entries in the vein of Zelda, Mario, and so on! Yes, Nintendo actually allowed some of their hottest properties to be made into craptastic games on this Console! It was meant to be a Multi-Media System! But, like the 3DO, both faltered and were usurped pretty quickly by the far superior Playstation One, and its far better catalog of games and 3rd party support.
You can now run Philips CD-i with MESS! Follow these steps:)

1. Have latest Injector for AutoBleem/BleemSync installed if on PSC; MESS Dependencies and MESS Core HMODs installed if on NESC/SNESC
   
2. Create a cdimono1 folder wherever you plan on running the CD-i games from, if on PSC
   
3. Place cdimono1.zip CD-i BIOS within said folder
   
4. Copy and paste whichever CD-i game you'd like to run, also into cdimono1 folder
   
5. From CDI_blank.zip, copy the _DUMMY file/s you want for any given game. These are what will "load" and point to your hard files. IE: zeldgamu.zip would be selected with MESS Core, in order to load the US version of Zelda: Wand of Gamelon You would need to have the Zelda: Wand of Gamelon bin+cue or chd within cdimono1 directory
   
6. If on NESC/SNESC, things are slightly trickier. You can run things easily from _DUMMY folder method, obviously! But, in order to run from the Main UI, you would need to add, as an example, zeldagamu.zip as a game, as is. Then, navigate to that CLV folder, then create cdimono1 folder, and drag zeldagamu.zip inside of it. Then, copy the cdimono1.zip BIOS and game you'd like to run into the same folder. Example command line when done would be:
   

/bin/mess /vagames/CLV-Z-NNOEA/cdimono1/zeldagamu.zip
You would need to manually change it to be like this (CLV may vary), then close Hakchi, Reopen, then export.
NOTE: MOST of the _DUMMY files are empty, so you will get an unhandled exception error with hakchi when accessing them. To get around this, simply create a text file, using notepad, that matches the name of the DUMMY.zip. For example, burncycl.zip create burncycl.txt and drag it into the burncycl.zip This is also a workaround I devised awhile back to easily bypass Hakchi's checksum check perimeter. This is quite helpful in the cases where checksums match. You can, of course, add these, as is. And, if the unhandled exception error pops up, simply click continue!
If any of you have issues running these, feel free to ask, and I will do my best to help you along!
Hyper Duel/Action Hollywood Supported in MAME 2003 Plus! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Hyper Duel, a fantastic Arcade Game that had been typically played via Sega Saturn in more recent years, is now supported and fully working...great, in fact...via MAME 2003 Plus, along with Action Hollywood, a funny spoof, puzzler game, with an emphasis on Action Movies. In Xtras/Arcade, you can peruse the updates to MAME 2003 Plus via the km_mame2003_plus&_xtreme_compatibility ReadMe!
Some other additions, this time around, are:

• Beathead Fixed
• Tecmo World Cup 96 and Top Players Golf fixed
• Thrash Rally graphical glitches cleaned up
• Small NEO-GEO speed and performance boost
• Wrestling Games: Mat Mania and Exciting Hour graphical glitches fixed
• Ring King/King of Boxer sprite fixes
• Goal92 video fixed up

Refer to the ReadMe! for the rest! Personal thanks to arcadez and arnoldsecret!
Cheats Updated! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
I updated Cheats for all Cores that support them, aside from MAME 2003 Plus/Standard/Xtreme, which do not yet need Updated! Many new entries and fixups...speaking of which!...
PCSX ReArmed NEON Cheats Fixed! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Personal thanks to Retro-Wertz for fixing up the Ram issues with some Cheats properly loading and working! The Updated PCSX ReArmed NEON Core should fare much better with previously stubborn Cheats!
PSP Cheats! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Oft requested, more so, than not! You can now do "manual" PSP Cheats for all 3 Mini Classics, using PPSSPP Xtreme Core! In Xtras/PSP, are the files and ReadMe! you will need to help out!
With PPSSPP Xtreme, you can utilize Cheats! In order to do this, follow these steps...

1. Have latest AutoBleem/BleemSync Injector if on PSC; latest RetroArch Xtreme if on NESC/SNESC
   
2. Play any PSP game, then shut down your system.
   
3. Your saves directory, within PSP/Cheats, should now contain a fresh and new .ini file.
   

Example Save Directories:
PSC: AutoBleem - retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats; BleemSync - bleemsync/opt/retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats NESC/SNESC - hakchi/retroarch/saves/PSP/Cheats
Note: PSP/Game can be used for DLC content.

1. You can amend this .ini file with Notepad or similarly minded program, to manually add Cheats.
   
2. The cheat.zip contains a database that you can peruse for exact Cheats that can be added.
   
3. CWCheat Database Editor is convenient to be able to quickly access .ini ID numbers, etc.
   
4. C0 = OFF; C1 = ON, as far as toggling Cheats.
   

Artwork added for PC-Engine CD/Philips CD-i
In Google Drive Link, Xtras/Artwork. Personal thanks to EmuMovies and HyperSpin for the incredible Artwork!
Other Additions! (Mini S-NESC-PSC)
Nearly 30+ Cores have been updated with various fixes, optimizations, and so on, for the better benefit of all 3 Mini Consoles! I will showcase more of these changes within videos, throughout this and next week!
I have fixed up 50+ other things that will also lend credence to a better overall experience with your Minis!
Shaders have been Updated, Controller Configurations, many many other things, to boot!
The four NES Cores that install, by default, with RetroArch Xtreme...for NESC/SNESC, are also now standalone, for those who want the convenience of being able to Update JUST those, and/or use any other RetroArch Versions! Thanks bslenul for the suggestion!
The Videos:)!
Be sure to check back on my YouTube, as I will showcase more videos when I have free time to! I will be sure to get more drumming videos in, as well!
Playstation Classic - Philips CD-i - Demonstration! + Hyper Duel Arcade Bonus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DTZni8OLD4
Turbografx 16 - PCE Mini - PSC Showcase - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QRaR3BsYi0
Let's See How Far We've Come! My first video, NAND only, 2500 Game Set-Up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzl22rYx1vY&t=7s
Final Notes!
Enjoy the Release and have a great week! I will see you all around, as time permits me to get a few more videos recorded and posted...as well as via responding to your various messages and feedback! Anything any of you want to see for the Next Update, feel free to request away! And, due to the complexity of Philips CD-i and PSP Cheats, any of you that have difficulty, be sure to let me know!
There are some other surprises that made it into this Update that I did not yet reveal! And, there is a chance we may have some "NEW" Cores working by Next Update, too! Stay Tuned:)
P.S. Genderbent will Update RetroBoot, accordingly, to account for what I Updated into this Release. I have provided him with the necessary files:)
Sincerely, KMFDManic...
And, of course, the Release!:)
https://github.com/KMFDManic/NESC-SNESC-Modifications/releases

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On this day in 1968, Jim Clark, the Scottish Formula One motor racing driver was killed while racing at the Hockenhaeim circuit, West Germany. Although born in Fife, Clark is most commonly associated with the Borders, where he grew up. Clark won 25 of his 72 Grand Prix, and would undoubtedly have won more had he driven more reliable cars.
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On this day in 1320, the Declaration of Arbroath was drawn up by the monks of Arbroath Abbey. The declaration was a letter, in Latin, from the Scottish nobles to Pope John XXII, affirming their determination to maintain Scotland's independence. The document is also seen as the first example of a contractual monarchy, with the nobility asserting the right to dethrone King Robert I should he submit to England. The Declaration of Arbroath is widely regarded as being the inspiration behind the American Declaration of Independence in 1776.
On 6 April 1773 James Mill, the Scottish philosopher and historian was born. Mill was the chief associate of Jeremy Bentham, the founder of Utilitarianism, a school of radical philosophy. He was also author of 'Elements of Political Economy', thought to be the first English book on economics and father of the philosopher, John Stuart Mill.
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On April 4, 1406 King Robert III died, he once described himself as, the worst of kings and the most miserable of men. The eldest son of King Robert II and grand-son of Robert the Bruce, he was crippled following a riding accident in 1388. Robert succeeded his father to the throne in 1390, but was not really suited to being monarch, with his ambitious brother, the Duke of Albany, in reality running the kingdom. Robert's eldest son, the Duke of Rothesay, was imprisoned at Falkland by Albany, where he starved to death. Robert sent his younger son, who would become King James I, to safety in France, but the news that James had been captured by the English killed Robert. Robert is buried in Paisley Abbey where, in the 19th century, Queen Victoria paid for the construction of a memorial to him.
Today in 1617 John Napier, the mathematician, died. Napier was educated at St Andrews University, entering in 1563 at the tender age of 13, although the likelihood is that he completed a degree somewhere in Europe, probably at the University of Paris. Napier was a fervent Protestant in a time of religious trouble, and he considered his most important work a religious tract entitled The Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John, which he wrote in 1593. Napier regarded mathematics only as a hobby to be fitted in between his theological works. He is best known today for his invention of logarithms, but he also made further advences in the field of mathematics, including the introduction of decimal notation for fractions.
On 4th April 1661 Alexander Leslie, the Earl of Leven, died. Leslie commanded the Scottish forces which fought against Charles I in the English Civil War. The King surrendered to Leslie at Newark in May 1646, but when Cromwell executed Charles he changed sides to support the new king, Charles II. Leslie later defended Scotland against the invasion of Oliver Cromwell.
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On this day in 1904 J M Barrie's play "Peter Pan" premiered at the Duke of York Theatre, London. Barrie was born in Kirriemuir. Though he first gained recognition as a writer of novels set in rural Scotland, it is as a playwright that he has become a household name with his timeless creation, Peter Pan. There has been a century of speculation about the motives of the man who created an imaginary world where children never grew up, and who perhaps never truly grew up himself, yet there is no doubt about the imaginitive force of this story which has delighted generations of children and adults alike.
On this day in 1647 King Charles I, imprisoned at Carisbrooke Castle, reached an agreement with the Scots. In exchange for military allegiance in the English Civil War, he promised to establish Presbyterianism in England - but only for three years.
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On this day Mary, Queen of Scots, was born at Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian in 1542. The only surviving child of James V and Mary of Guise, Mary ascended to the Scottish throne following her father's death when she was only six days old. Mary was next in line to the English throne, following Henry VIII's children, as the great-granddaughter of Henry VII of England. The infant Mary was betrothed to the six-year-old Edward in 1543, but within a year, the vacillating Scots parliament had reneged on the agreement and taken the young Mary to Stirling Castle. The Scots wanted to return to the traditional alliance with France. Hence began the series of savage attacks on Scotland known as 'The Rough Wooing', which saw the Borders being ravaged and the Abbey of Holyroodhouse being set fire to.The Scots whisked Mary off to France in 1548, after arranging her betrothal to the French Dauphin.
On this day in 1174, William I 'the Lion' was released under the terms of the Treaty of Falaise, following a five-month imprisonment after invading Northumberland. William was forced to surrender Stirling and Edinburgh Castles to Henry II, whom he agreed to accept as his feudal overlord as part of the treaty's terms. William is credited with adopting the Lion Rampant as the Royal Emblem of Scotland, hence his nickname.
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trees line our railway and at this point of the year 72% of the leaves are now on the ground. This is much higher than previous years and is mainly due to Ex-Hurricane Ophelia hitting the country blowing more leaves on to the tracks. Due to the slippery layer on the tracks this
means trains find it harder to move and need to accelerate and brake gently
slowing down our trains, causing congestion in areas and disrupting your journey.
Our specialist controllers have been managing the leaf fall. These staff continue to analyse forecasts, mobilise our response teams and our special high pressured water cannon leaf busting trains to combat affected areas.Click below
to find out more on leaf fall and how we handle this;https://www.scotrail.co.uk/blog/autumn-leaves
Last Updated :02/11/2017 16:44
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slowing down our trains, causing congestion in areas and disrupting your journey.
Our specialist controllers have been managing the leaf fall. These staff continue to analyse forecasts, mobilise our response teams and our special high pressured water cannon leaf busting trains to combat affected areas.Click below
to find out more on leaf fall and how we handle this;https://www.scotrail.co.uk/blog/autumn-leaves
Last Updated :02/11/2017 16:44
What's On Today
Nathan Carter at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Japanese Breakfast at Nice'n'Sleazy
Japanese Breakfast at The Hug and Pint
Picture This at The Garage
Bad Boy Pub Quiz at Hall
Dying Fetus at The Cathouse
Hot Club of Cowtown at St Andrews in the Square
The Magic Band at Mono
Bugzy Malone at O2 ABC
Bugzy Malone at O2 Academy Glasgow
Caves and Clouds at The Old Hairdressers
Live Piano Sessions at Browns Bar & Brasserie
Nordic Giants at Stereo
Open Mic Sunday at The Aragon Bar
Out Lines at Òran Mór
Today in Scottish History
Nothing, apparently!
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Megabus ticket from London Victoria to Glasgow - Sunday November 12th
Tune of the day
Flo Rida "Low" Official Music Video - Step Up 2 The Streets (2008 Movie) (suggested by Me_Mo_AA)
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Weather (Powered by Dark Sky)
Mostly cloudy throughout the day.
Around 12 to 20 degrees.
Travel
No line problems reported.
What's On Today
Coors Light Ice Cave at Riverside Museum
Live at the Longlist at O2 ABC
Imelda May at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Nova Scotia Folk Club at Fort Theatre
Picture This at Òran Mór
Astroid Boys at The Cathouse
The Besnard Lakes at The Hug and Pint
Clydeside Live 2017 at Broadcast
Today in Scottish History
On 24th May 1972, Glasgow Rangers became the first Scottish side to win the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, when they defeated Dynamo Moscow in Barcelona. The goalscorers were Colin Stein and Willie Johnston with a brace. However, the victory was marred as jubilant Rangers fans invaded the pitch, leading to violent clashes with the Spanish police.
On this day in 1926 Stanley Baxter, the comedy actor and impersonator, was born. Baxter began his showbusiness career in the forces, entertaining troops in Malaya, along with the likes of Kenneth Williams and director John Schlesinger. On his return to Scotland he worked at the Citizen's Theatre before moving on to a hugely successful career in television. Perhaps Baxter's crowning moment was his series of sketches parodying the Glasgow dialect, Parliamo Glasgow. Baxter was also well known for his impersonations and was the first to impersonate the Queen on air.
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Amazon vouchers selling at discounted rates
[Want] Xbox 360 Guitar Hero guitar(s)
TRNSMT festival tickets
Tune of the day
Four Tet - Pyramid (Video) (suggested by Dog-Plops)
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