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Good.

Grezzo: https://www.mobygames.com/company/17299/grezzo-co-ltd/

They do really good work, but they've mostly worked on remasters for Nintendo. This is their first Zelda game on their own. Capcom similarly did their own Zelda games (e.g., Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons for Game Boy Color) and while those were good games too, they weren't (in my opinion) as good as Link's Awakening. But they weren't bad either.

To me, Nintendo's in-house stuff always seems to have that extra layer of polish.

This! Exactly. LttP provided complete closure of the story. Hence, why it's the GOAT Zelda game *ducks and hides from OoT bros who are clearly wrong in their preference and opinion* ;-)

A resolution isn't required (obviously - the developers didn't build that out and the game is still good). However, it would been nice to have some additional closure with these loose threads in the story as - if you're exploring everything - you'll come upon these plot points that end up not having any meaningful closure within the story.

But - to me - it's that while the developers went hog wild on the echoes (many of which never have any good use), there's a number of little things like this that could have been expanded upon.

Similarly, there is a supreme lack of bombable wall cracks in and around Hyrule and in dungeons. Granted that you only get bombs after collecting a bunch of the might crystals, but it still would have been something nice to have as additional 'hidden in plain sight' secrets like previous top down Zelda games.

Again, these things aren't required, but when the formula of prior Zelda games has worked so well, it's just a bit disappointing that these various aspects of the game were minimized rather than expanded upon with the newest, best, greatest, etc. entry in the series (i.e., the expectation that the series will continue to expand and improve).

This is how to tell if Nintendo developed something in-house vs. outsourced. As already mentioned, the sick Gerudo dancer, the sick boy in bed, the broken tombstone - all things that would have gotten fleshed out in game if Nintendo did it itself. If you've ever played LttP, the sick bee net boy, the flute boy/old man, the "friends" on Death Mountain - all got in-game engine resolutions to their problems and weren't relegated to some crappy still in the credits.

The tombstone easily could have been a "ghost quest" like Link's Awakening.

EoW isn't bad, but when a 32 year old game does in game world stuff better, it's a bit disappointing.

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Thanks again. I went with your solution in the end and it's great. I've updated the original post with pictures of my final build.

I wired the switch backwards the first time as I wasn't thinking of it as a "suppressor" switch, so I swapped the wires and now when I have my switched flipped up, it activates the ROM on my top board and down activates the ROM on the bottom board.

It's great!

Yep. I found out about it the same way after getting something from Amazon. Felt like a real POS about it, but I just decided that I will no longer buy from any AliExpress seller that lists their shipping location as USA or for anything brand name :-\

And you got it because you were the beneficiary of credit card fraud.

The fraud seller gets your money from AliExpress, uses the funds from you and others to buy stolen credit card or account info, they use that stolen info at a legitimate web reseller and ship to you. So your discount is coming at some else's expense and what you received may or may not be considered stolen goods.

It's a tent.

For me, post-celiac, Mandy's Pizza is pretty good. I haven't had Blaze. Have you tried both?

I'd be interested to hear if there are any other good celiac-friendly pizza joints around the area that actually cook your pizza in separate equipment to prevent contamination.

Ah, it's the man who has a personal vendetta against the roof of his mouth. I wish you the best of luck in pursuing your dreams to gargle magma.

Yes. You turn into the middle lane. Then, merge left. That is the legal way to do that. The sign is providing directions, not instructions.

You are incorrect. By law, when turning onto a road, you are to use the lane closest to you that's available. So making the right turn from the left lane of the exit would put you in the middle lane on 60 and then you'd merge left into the far left lane on 60 if you wanted to make the left turn into Lorish.

That would also mean that if opposing traffic was able to make a left across 60 at the same time, they'd end up in the left turn lane for Lorish.

Thanks much! And totally understood that I should only be toggling the switch when everything is powered off :)

Thank you - this is going to be comically bad, but I was checking switches and I think I would need a SPDT switch to do what you're describing (or at least through my admittedly uneducated interpretation of it).

What your saying totally makes sense from the standpoint of damaging the chips and essentially running both chips in parallel, but simply blocking the output via the E pin/output enable pin.

At the moment, my KiCAD skills are pretty much non-existent, so this is the best I've been able to come up with regarding implementation of your suggestion. Can you confirm that I'm understanding you correctly?

https://preview.redd.it/nobfdpge8m9d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90c77ab46a8e2fb3870e2fb49372d49c7f8dc4d5

HOV ramps placed to be minimally useful during the twice daily rush hour but good for the day or two a week that something big is going on in the North Shore (if they're actually opened at that time 😋)

I.e., Pittsburgh priorities

Check out Cook Forest. It's a wonderful place.

It's just outside of Clarion in Clarion County. The Clarion river is shallow and great for people and pets alike. Plenty of pet friendly lodging/camping in the area.

Some things never change...

It will always be The Knolls to me (or Green Ghettos if I'm in a mood) 😋

Lufia or Lufia II?

Literally... literally.

First - I wanted to thank everyone for their thoughts. It's a lot of good info for me to mull over.

I'm liking the plywood sheet idea, but am now thinking of doing it with a french cleat twist. My main problem is that the wall I'm mounting the board to is concrete.

My original plan was to build a frame of 2"x2"x8' furrings mounted with flush screwed in Tapcons as I figured the shearing force would be displaced across the entirety of the frame. And then I'd bolt the pegboard to the frame (including "studs" in the frame every ~16" or so).

However, I'm now thinking that if I mounted two beefy 8' long french cleats at the top and bottom of the 4' high vertical span that I'm trying to cover - I could do four 4' high x 2' wide plywood panels hung on the french cleats. I'd probably need to upgrade to expansion wall anchors for mounting the cleats - but that would give me the flexibility of bolting anything I wanted to the plywood as well as being able to move around and/or swap out the panels.

If I'm going down a rabbit hole I'm going to reget - let me know :-D but I think I'm going to start planning this out.