Leave it up to Nintendo’s fans to properly fix emulating Nintendo 64 games (or actually, play the game on native hardware), rather than the crappy service that members get on the Switch for $50/year. I won’t re-hash the fact that Zelda: Ocarina of Time got a reverse-engineered port to PC. Chances are you probably already knew that. What you might not have noticed, however, is with Open Ocarina, there is an experimental 60 FPS feature, in addition to widescreen support, support for higher resolutions, gyroscope, and modern controls.

Steam Deck Steam Deck gets keyboard improvements Valve puts up a video that goes over all the things the company has done since the past month as far as Steam Deck improvements EmuDeck isn’t the only solution for emulation on the Deck: there’s also RetroDECK dbrand now has skins for the Deck Deck client received an update for quicker offline mode, dual trackpad updates, and plenty of other additions Steam Deck ships twice a week now during certain weeks Boiling Steam wrote a post on making the Steam Deck a laptop with 3D-printed parts Software Updates New version of GE-Proton is out: 7-14 (updated since 7-12) New version of vanilla Proton: 7.

A few days ago, Valve released Proton 7.0-2rc. This new release brings quite a few new playable games, including One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Metal Slug 2 and 3, Dragon Quest Builders 2, Guilty Gear Isuka, King of Fighters XIII, and a few others. There’s also a ton of bug fixes, ranging from Unity games crashing when certain peripherals were connected to the computer, certain games getting better Steam Deck compatibility, multiplayer in UNO, video playback, crashes, audio missing in cutscenes, launcher fixes, and a whole lot more.

As a kid, I loved the original Toy Story animated movie. Fast forward almost 30 years later, and I find myself reliving that toy-figures-come-to-life nostalgia, albeit in a more mature setting with guns. HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed is a first- and third-person shooter where you’re in control of a toy action figure. That action figure could be a Ryu look-alike, a reptile, a Storm Trooper look-alike, an insect, a standard human, and plenty of other species.

While it was already big news that HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed (first/third-person shooter with toy soldiers) got a Linux port last Thursday, what’s even better is the in-game servers are now cross-platform between the Windows and Linux clients. Previously, the Linux version did not pick up any servers that were hosted on Windows, but after getting in touch with the developers, I can now confirm the servers work between the two operating systems.

A little late on this one, but I thought I’d mention it anyway since a lot of us are still waiting for the Deck to get into our hands. Lawrence Yang from Valve had told IGN back in February that the company would be producing Steam Decks by the hundreds of thousands beginning in April. Looks like they lived up to their promise: instead of emails going out once a week to reservation holders, they’re now going out twice a week during certain weeks, on Mondays and Thursdays.

Ubuntu has a lot of hate. Snaps are part of the reason for the distaste of the distro. Well, if you happen to be using Ubuntu, you no longer have to use them, thanks to unsnap. Unsnap runs a script that not only removes all Snaps from your system, but also installs the Flatpak version of the application if it’s available. Image credit: Popey’s GitHub Repo For the time being the script only works on Ubuntu, and is in pre-alpha stage, but other distros could be supported via contributions.

Project Heartbeat – a rhythm-based game available natively for Linux – recently received an update that, according to the developer, is “the single biggest update in terms of technical stuff we’ve done since the game was released over two years ago in March 26th 2020.” First, a new song was added: “Love Sacrifice”. Next – and what is probably the biggest change – is a brand new audio engine has been incorporated into the game, called the Shinobu audio engine.

GE-Proton7-11 was released yesterday. This now automatically enables GameMode for any game run through this version. A user no longer needs to add gamemoderun %command% to their Steam launch options. The release also comes with the usual updates to dxvk, vkd3d-proton, and dxvk-nvapi; they’re using the latest commits. Proton Experimental (bleeding edge wine build) has also been updated. Build-specific updates have been added from upstream Proton. Not too long after the release, a hotfix was added that allows New World to be run, since the EAC .

The PineTime is a smartwatch powered by open-source firmware. One such popular firmware to run on the PineTime is InfiniTime. This weekend, InfiniTime received a decently-sized update, codenamed “Limeberry”. This update includes a new terminal-themed watchface, the ability to turn Bluetooth on or off with the flip of a switch, improved notifications, improved heartrate measurements, an improved alarm clock, a few bug fixes, and a few other features. In addition, code has been cleaned up and integration with the InfiniSim simulator has been improved.