Updating you all!

Hello everyone! Haven't written for a while so thought I'd check in. Hope you're all doing well and aren't melting too much in the summer heat. It's hot enough in our house for butter to melt onto bread without applying any additional heat, so that's nice. (No it isn't.)

Picked up an Anbernic Win600 device the other day. You can read my detailed impressions over on Rice Digital. So far I'm impressed with it; it seems like a nicely capable device, albeit not really up to anything too modern and/or intensive. I'm both disappointed and relieved that Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate Definitive Edition doesn't run well on it, otherwise I could potentially have a real problem on my hands. It's already bad enough that HoloCure works great on it.

The device is, of course, great for retro gaming, and as suggested by a few people I've installed Batocera (a retro gaming-centric OS) onto a USB stick, allowing me to dual-boot the device into either Windows or Batocera depending on what I want to do. Running Batocera essentially makes it run like a dedicated EmulationStation-based retro gaming handheld, while in Windows it's just a handheld PC.

I did try SteamOS for a bit and was reasonably impressed — particularly with how far WINE has come since I tried it 10+ years ago on Mac — but ultimately determined that, for what I want to use the device for (visual novels, among other things) it was just making work for myself, and sticking with Windows was probably the optimal solution.

I might upgrade the internal storage and/or RAM at some point, but at present I'm rocking the base model and it works absolutely fine for my purposes. I'm looking forward to spending some more time with it in the long term.

A revamp

I think I'm probably going to revamp this Patreon page completely to focus it more on my video work. While I do very much welcome the continued support of MoeGamer — particularly as, even while I'm not writing there much, it still has annual server costs — I do continually feel a little bad about not updating much over there any more.

I mean, I'm pretty certain this is just a "me" thing to worry about, but I also want to be transparent about the specific work people are supporting by signing up to this Patreon.

Yes, Patreon donations do go towards keeping MoeGamer up and running — and even if I'm not actively writing on there thanks to my day job at Rice Digital, I want to keep the site live as a resource that people can refer to at any time — but my primary active "passion project" work right now is on my retro gaming YouTube stuff.

So with that in mind, I think I'm going to rewrite my Patreon page to focus on that side of things. So if you see some major changes on that front in the next few days, that's why!

Obviously I'd prefer everyone who has supported me for a long time to stick around regardless of what I'm doing, but I also completely understand if you feel my focus has changed and it's something different to what you signed up to support. I am grateful for your support up until this point, and hope you'll consider continuing.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know that this is coming. I've been agonising over it for a long time and I think it's probably for the best at this point!

That's all for now. Thanks as always for your support!