Updated https://simpit.dev/ - home of the #Space #PewPew #SimPit inspired by a #VF1 Valkyrie cockpit (#Macross)
That's a glorified #DIY joystick controller with an LCD ('MFD') and plenty of #RGB for my #Linux PC
Newest additions are my #XR sheniagans (and some notes on #Breezy and the usage of #IMU data as #headtracker), the games #AceCombat and #XWVM (#XWing / #TIEFighter) and a bunch of videos were updated.
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Went sightseeing yesterday and checked out this beautiful castle.
Missed the last stream? Catch the (cut) VOD of playing Ace Combat 7 with the Macross VF-1 mod:
Livestream recording: Ace Combat 7 with VF-1 mod
https://makertube.net/videos/watch/a1587f54-70f2-48fe-9e42-7a37ab846e39
Gna gna. Found out why my Ace Combat started to crash. The culprit is dwmapi.dll, which is needed for the UE4SS mod (Cheat Engine), so I can adjust the FOV – because the devs kinda “forgot” to add a gorram FOV slider to the game that I NEED and absolutely REQUIRE.
Turns out something in there results in an Access Violation on Start with Proton Experimental (and 9). It works fine with Proton 8. I do not remember switching that but that was the solution in the end 
This is after I carefully tried lots of stuff like resetting savegame, disable and remove other mods, fiddle with ini files, read miles of debug logs and whatnot.
Ace Combat 7 with FULL SBS on PC? And head tracking? Hell yes :D
So bear with me if I mix something up, this is all news to me and I’m still flabbergasted. I got myself some XR glasses mostly for watching movies and perhaps some gaming on the Steam Deck a while ago.
Now I learned about “SBS” (Side-By-Side) mode like ~3 days ago, that the glasses support. I tried this with the game Elite Dangerous first, since this has an SBS mode built in too, and was mind blown. My current favourite time stink is Ace Combat though so I started digging.
Turns out there is this Reshade tool that would forcefully enable such a mode for basically any game with the right shader. Several exist but the first I found, “SuperDepth3D.fx”, seems to do the trick. Enabling it split the 1920×1024 in half with two slightly different view ports, one for each eye. There are many options to fine tune this and I’m still fiddling with this to find the perfect settings but results look great already.
My glasses to Full SBS though and have a resolution of 3840×1024. I read somewhere that wide-screen is possible with more DLL shenanigans with Ace Combat 7 too but I run the game on a Linux PC anyway, where we utilise a tool named “gamescope”. This allows basically to configure a virtual display for each game and override the game resolution in various ways. It also has a stretch option, which is exactly what I needed to get the “compressed” SBS view from 1920 to 3840, where the aspect ratio would fit again. BTW: This also has FSR built in so any upscaling looks good enough too. I’m not entirely sure but I think there’s a similar tool on Windows called “Virtual Deskop”?
Anyway, I already managed to get my head tracker working by mapping the output to a virtual gamepad on the look-around axes before. I also found a mod that enables a wider FOV. Imagine my stupid grinning when everything fell into place: Full SBS with head tracking, a more sane FOV and yes, I jumped all the hoops to get my HOTAS and rudder pedal of my old ViperPit working (which is a different story because my devices are so old that I had to upgrade em to USB before, which involved some Arduinos, programming and soldering). I guess that makes me a member of multiple niches at once 
And since I’m aware that nobody can “see” what I’m talking about, without having XR glasses or a VR headset (or a DIY VR Box for smart phones) on their own, have also an Anaglyph 3D render. This requires just some old school two coloured (red and cyan) glasses often made of paper, that many people still have around somewhere, to get an idea.
The colour of the sky? It’s perfect. A deep dark blue.
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https://beko.famkos.net/2025/01/21/ace-combat-7-with-full-sbs-on-pc-and-head-tracking-hell-yes-d/
Man… I feel like Alice in Wonderland.
So with #Reshade and a single shader I get basically #SBS (Side-By-Side) in almost any game even if it doesn't support this?
And with #gamescope I can just force it to stretch over my whole FULL SBS #XR glasses even if the game won't allow me anything over 1920x1024?
And with #FSR baked in I don't even notice reduction in quality?
It just works™?
What is this and what did they do with the real #Linux OS?
Friend or foe in Ace Combat 7 - mission 16 Last Hope - with a VF-1 Valkyrie and FOV editor (UE4SS) mod
https://makertube.net/videos/watch/44cae736-8dc8-46ce-9085-8d9c41e4d11d
I’ve been meaning to have another play of this for a while, so here goes! I loved this game a lot at the time so it’ll be nice to revisit it.
This game is serious fighter jet pr0n 
And yes I found the VF-1 model on NexusMods - I am happy
If Disney+ doesn't deliver on Macross I can have my own #Macross. With Blackjack and hookers 
Video is up: https://makertube.net/w/17jm6ojvBc7U2AnymGNukg / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37LUXZpvKjM
Got some help carrying the #ViperPit from the basement into my man cave today and since I got the peripherals operational again already, and got Ace Combat 7 on a sale, which seemed to be a good fit, I decided to play that first:
https://makertube.net/w/wiKFYNPaKhhCmrrz3aGLYb / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPK0lHX_3s
Little did I know what a pain in the neck it would be to get this running. No, Linux wasn’t the problem. That was just Press Play, as usual.
There is however no settings menu for #HOTAS joysticks so any mapping has to be done by manually editing the `Input.ini` of the game in an text editor, which is a guessing game. Head tracking is also a no go. I pulled the old trick to map the head tracker to a virtual XBOX controller but the game comes with an annoying deadzone where the camera snaps to the center.
Ah well, got it all working okay-ish in the end and enjoyed some pew pew in the skies. There seem to be plenty of #Macross mods too so trying that will be next
https://beko.famkos.net/2024/12/26/playing-ace-combat-7-with-viture-pro-xr-glasses-in-my-viperpit/
this might be sacrilage, but it feels like I way pilot better with a mouse in Ace Combat 7... 
I remembered I have a controller and tried it out for a few missions, but...uh...I went back to mouse and it instantly felt way better 
I'm so sorry for what I'm about to do
Another video of clips. This time the clips are from the Arcade Mode of Ace Combat 5, from Stream 14.
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WHAT
NINTENDO SWITCH PORT?????
god, the trailer music made me tear up, I love this game so fucking much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXc3bUw8A6o
#AceCombat #AceCombat7 #NintendoSwitch
This is one of the rare cases where I have stumbled upon an amazing (remix) album of some game soundtrack and then moved on to play the games because of the music. Go check out #AnthemsOfLiberation by #TheTiberianSons featuring music from the #AceCombat series. If "Comona" doesn't get your blood pumping I don't know what does.
https://thetiberiansons.bandcamp.com/track/comona-from-ac4
#Rock #Metal #Gaming #Music
[Radio Tavi] [4]
First Flight [Ace Combat 5 OST]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgNGtGI-XbM
This one so energizing and freeing to hear 
From the percussive highlights in the beginning to the way the brass and strings blend to make the main sound to the way the first violins and high winds can be heard soaring, sometimes almost imperceptibly, over the top, it's one of my favourite pieces to come out of the stacked Ace Combat soundtracks 
It's even better paired with the mission in which it plays, but even the music alone is a joy to hear 
Aaand I just ordered part 4 of the #acecombat series for my little #blog project.
All seven parts stand ready for my #playthrough.
Actually part 7 I already did.
https://exploitsgamergenx.wordpress.com/2023/05/28/ace-combat-7-back-to-the-roots/
Working on part 6.
#shareyourgames
