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Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by hauxir »

petra wrote: post #13

Thanks. This looks cool. A question: when trying to play SNES games, it requires an .sfc file. This is for japanese games for the SNES. Is is possible to make it run .smc files ? those are american versions, much easier to find, with english text by default.

smc files work too :)

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by jchw »

petra wrote: post #13

Thanks. This looks cool. A question: when trying to play SNES games, it requires an .sfc file. This is for japanese games for the SNES. Is is possible to make it run .smc files ? those are american versions, much easier to find, with english text by default.

SFC and SMC files are usually identical. It’s just a different choice in file extension.

“SMC” comes from Super MagiCom, a floppy-based cart copying device for backup/piracy. The original .smc files produced by the device contained a 512 byte header. Since it’s pretty easy to detect and ignore most emulators do. If not, it’s easily removed.

Because .smc is in reference to effectively a piracy device, the new preferred file extension is .sfc and has been for a while now.

(In case it is not obvious, the file format is nominally just a raw dump of the ROM on the cartridge with no added headers.)

(Note 2: if you are looking for a way to run homebrew/patches/etc on a real SNES/SFC nowadays, sd2snes is probably the absolute best option.)

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by aspaceman »

petra wrote: post #13

Thanks. This looks cool. A question: when trying to play SNES games, it requires an .sfc file. This is for japanese games for the SNES. Is is possible to make it run .smc files ? those are american versions, much easier to find, with english text by default.

You can open up the two files in a Hex editor. If there's any differences it'll only be in the header which is a quick fix.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by o_____________o »

Nice work! How are things working so far on iPads?

- "Create a room" should be actionable on the sidebar

- Don't know how niche this is these days, but I would love to see Freeze Tag supported in Arena: https://openarena.fandom.com/wiki/ModCompat/Ultra_Freeze

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by doorbellguy »

hauxir wrote: post #2

Been developing this platform for over a year. It allows you to create virtual rooms where you can chat with room members using webcam and microphone and run realtime apps that include: - Screensharing(useful for e.g. Netflix) - Cowatching video player - SNES and NES Emulators - Virtual cardtable - Poker with Playmoney - Quake 3 in-browser! - Synced YouTube player and many more coming.

I think that's a really nice concept, and quite possibly a good time to bring this to our notice whenever most of us are home bound. Do you plan on adding more features in the features?

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by arendtio »

hauxir wrote: post #2

Been developing this platform for over a year. It allows you to create virtual rooms where you can chat with room members using webcam and microphone and run realtime apps that include: - Screensharing(useful for e.g. Netflix) - Cowatching video player - SNES and NES Emulators - Virtual cardtable - Poker with Playmoney - Quake 3 in-browser! - Synced YouTube player and many more coming.

I like that I don't need to register first.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by lucb1e »

hauxir wrote: post #2

Been developing this platform for over a year. It allows you to create virtual rooms where you can chat with room members using webcam and microphone and run realtime apps that include: - Screensharing(useful for e.g. Netflix) - Cowatching video player - SNES and NES Emulators - Virtual cardtable - Poker with Playmoney - Quake 3 in-browser! - Synced YouTube player and many more coming.

OpenArena! Edit: NES games also don't work for me, I keep seeing "Load a ROM file to play a NES game!" but others in the room are playing. Firefox on Linux, this is. Can I register a ticket somewhere or are there debugging tips I could try myself?
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