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Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: Has anyone Broke out their...

Last post by Grindspine - December 29, 2025, 09:54:45 PM

...How many units of Turbo Graphx actually exist in the U.S?

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Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: Has anyone Broke out their...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 06:21:40 PM

@BLUEVOODU this past week I was playing Air Zonk, Blazing Lazers, and Coryoon: Child of Dragon. All Shmups.

NICE!   Air Zonk and Blazing Lazers.... GREAT games!  It's been a long time since I have played those.  How far did you make it on Blazing Lazers?  I am not aware of Coryoon: Child of Dragon.  It looks like a cute em up like @targetrasp mentioned LOL.  How is the game?

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Retro Gaming and Hardware / Re: N64: KarugaKids Review

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 05:59:15 PM

@retro junkie bumping up an very old topic that does not have a reply.  This is another well done review!

I ... somehow remember this title, but everything else about the game slips my mind.  Have you played/revisited this game since you last reviewed it? 

KarugaKids has an interesting art aspect to it.  Ie pre-cursor to some Wario Ware and maybe a Scribblenauts aspect (in a way).

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General Discussion / Re: Post Your Recent Physical ...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 04:51:30 PM

4K UHD discs come with specific DRM and not all discs use the same one. PowerDVD, which was one of the biggest playback software for movies on PC stopped supporting 4K UHD discs somewhat recently. It was able to decrypt the DRM.

That's insane.  We used to use PowerDVD and it was a generally distributed software with our old Dell laptops... so we had the software for the DVD drives (etc) on the laptops and other computers.  That really sucks they stopped supporting 4K UHD disks.  I wonder why they did that... probably cost saving and popularity of product at this point.

Thank you for the advice of MakeMKV... This is just a weird and crazy time in history for certain things.   This is definitely a big change.  We've been watching it happen since the old forums... just sucks to see it happening more now.  I know it doesn't impact others the same and preferences are different.

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General Discussion / Re: Post Your Recent Physical ...

Last post by CreepinDeth - December 29, 2025, 02:49:12 PM

I haven't done a lot of searching on this.  Doesn't that mean that the internal Blu-Ray player has the capability to read those type of discs... you just have to have the 4K codecs on your computer at that point?   

Unfortunately, it's not a codec issue, it's a DRM issue. If I'm remembering correctly, most discs use the usual h.265 codec. Which is no problem at all to play on a computer. 4K UHD discs come with specific DRM and not all discs use the same one. PowerDVD, which was one of the biggest playback software for movies on PC stopped supporting 4K UHD discs somewhat recently. It was able to decrypt the DRM.

This is why I'm ripping my discs for digital playback as soon as I can. The media is dying very fast.

EDIT: Seems like you should still be able to if you install MakeMKV but I don't know if all blu-ray players are compatible.

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General Discussion / Re: Lo-fi 16-bit video game Ch...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 09:04:22 AM

LOL - I liked this one.  Smooth and peaceful.  The Goomba is awesome.  How long is Mario going to adjust that star??  and Link hold up the wall playing his Ocarina?

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General Discussion / Re: Post Your Recent Physical ...

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 29, 2025, 09:02:09 AM

BDXL just means that you can write to 128GB discs for archiving data.

I haven't done a lot of searching on this.  Doesn't that mean that the internal Blu-Ray player has the capability to read those type of discs... you just have to have the 4K codecs on your computer at that point?   I'm asking since you already went down this rabbit hole and looking at what you have found.  It seemed like this was the case on initial search, but it could be wrong.  Almost like we need a whole topic for this... it's pretty interesting.

It's crazy how this landscape has changed... Then again, I haven't looked into it in FOREVER as I just haven't personally used desktops since 2018 outside of Linux and creating work "stuff" (long discussion I think mentioned in one of the Linux topics) for desktops.

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General Discussion / Re: Post Your Recent Physical ...

Last post by CreepinDeth - December 28, 2025, 10:00:42 PM

but I cannot find the old 5.25" drive bay 4K Blu-Ray players.

That's because they don't really exist anymore. I went down this rabbit hole a few years back because I wanted to rip my 4K UHD Blu-rays. I ended up buying an LG model and flashed it with custom firmware so that it could read and rip 4K discs.

There were a few that existed but they required certain Intel CPUs in order for them to work, I believe. Intel has since ripped out the instructions in their CPUs so doesn't appear possible without custom firmware in your drive. There were some Pioneer drives that had specific firmware that worked out of the box but they've since been updated and I'm reading that they can't be downgraded.

BDXL just means that you can write to 128GB discs for archiving data.

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General Discussion / Re: Transformers One

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 28, 2025, 08:37:13 PM

LOL... it was animated.  There was no Megan Fox... and there were explosions-ish explosions in animated form.   However, the movie is well done.  Have you checked it out?

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General Discussion / Re: Merry Christmas 2025!

Last post by BLUEVOODU - December 28, 2025, 08:36:28 PM

Nice post @retro junkie - your spoils never cease to amaze LOL 

@CreepinDeth -- NICE as well - it will be awesome to see the pictures when you have the chance.

@Grindspine - yeah... that was awesome.  It was an awesome dinner and good to see everyone. mmm... sushi... lol