Some older consoles have very negligible size libraries in modern day terms, and who knows what sources of ROMs will be taken down by lawsuits in the next few decades. I feel like there is some sense in making a complete archive of a systems game library, but for my personal use I usually just download / dump / rip what I need specifically.

Whatever file format I use them in is also how I back them up, I backup my entire desktop’s and laptop’s data to an external hard drive and an online service provider. I’m sure a compressed format would be more space efficient but that would take much more time given my use case.

In the case of my laptop it runs Linux and the filesystem I use supports “transparent compression” (almost all contents of the drive are compressed with zstd), so I’m guessing any of the ROMs on there will have already been compressed as nuch as they can (but I’m not knowledgeable enough on the file format specs)

The foundation supports a bunch of other open source projects, after all there is a lot more to devices that run the Linux kernel then just the kernel.

Also, I found it a but funny that the foundation created the PDF using Adobe InDesign 19.4 (Windows), according to the metadata in file posted on their website. (original | archive of the PDF)

It doesn’t add anything unless you have the muscle memory for the dpad movement over joystick for 8 direction input. I just find it awkward, and can’t switch directions as fast. The corner zones also feel a little off compared to the cardinal directions, but this is likely just my muscle memory hampering me and not the game itself.

I feel like my issues with it are definitely nit-picky, and I can definitely see others enjoying the game and not caring whatsoever. I guess I just find it frustrating that a $79.99 CAD remake doesn’t allow for both input methods.

For example I know my partner enjoyed playing with the joystick. And in other games like cuphead that give you the option he still played with the joystick instead of the dpad. Perhaps I’m just a little stubborn :p

About the only rationale I can think of is the joystick being better then the joycons dpad for movement, particularly when inputting two directions at once. I personally use a pro controller so I don’t personally suffer from that in games where I use dpad, but I assume most people just stuck with joycons outside of the more “hardcore” switch owners.