I have a question for those who like to use #AI.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@NicksWorld @cubic I'm not sure how much PCSX2 lets other processes dig into the memory. You'd have to look into that.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@cubic @NicksWorld Yeah I hadn't looked at the whole thread before replying.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@NicksWorld @cubic I'm like 80% sure.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@pixelate @cubic Considering you 2 are actual programmers and I know fuck all, well... I trust your judgement.

[cubic@vee.seedy.cc]

@NicksWorld @pixelate I know of only 1 extraction tool for PS2 games, PSound. But even that's kinda hit and miss because of sample rates, encryption and other shit, plus that codebase is a million years old.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@cubic @pixelate i didn't know that was a thing. It's just amazing to me how people were able to do things like make MTG accessible or the final fantasy titles work for blind people.

[cubic@vee.seedy.cc]

@NicksWorld @pixelate Those are PC games. Console titles are a whole other can of mutant spiders.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@cubic @pixelate but what about the GTA mod? I mean, the creator used the steam version.

[cubic@vee.seedy.cc]

@NicksWorld @pixelate Again, PC vs console. PC engines are more well known, especially modern ones. This is a Playstation 2 game from 20-some years ago.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@cubic @pixelate I see, just because it runs on PC doesn't meanits a PC game. hmm.

[cubic@vee.seedy.cc]

@NicksWorld @pixelate PC game means ported to and optimised for PC, not running on a PC through a console emulator.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@cubic @pixelate Gotcha. I appreciate you being patient with all this. There's just so much I don't know.

[cubic@vee.seedy.cc]

@NicksWorld @pixelate It's like saying hey, I got Windows 2000 running on an Android tablet! No, you didn't, you got Windows 2000 running in a virtualised environment that borrows some of the physical hardware of an Android tablet.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@cubic @pixelate SO essentially, a virtual machine, except gaming.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@cubic @NicksWorld Oh man, PSound. I loved that back in the day. Put in my disk for MK Armageddon, got it started, and out popped all the announcer dialog and such. It was pretty cool at the time.

[pixelate@tweesecake.social]

@NicksWorld @cubic I ain't no programmer.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@pixelate @cubic oh, I thought you knew code.

[technolass@allovertheplace.ca]

@NicksWorld@mastodon.stickbear.me You can use AI to help with the code, but as someone who has actually created a Yahtzee game completely with the CoPilot from within Visual Studio Code, it worked, but fell flat when I tried to get it on Github. It had all sorts of messed up code. Yet, I can definitely play it locally on my computer. So I think if I had at least basic understanding of code I'd be able to understand better what the AI is doing, and from there, give the AI better instructions to get it to do what I want.

[nicksworld@mastodon.stickbear.me]

@technolass It's cool that you were even able to make a game at all, but you're right about understanding the fundamentals of code, as other people have told me.

[stefanwelebny@mastodon.social]

@NicksWorld Don‘t use it in a way that you don’t know what it’s doing. Start small and use it to teach you programming so diligently that you then can code yourself what you have learned. If you don’t you’re not getting far and probably asking for trouble.