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Touhou Project Retroarch

Prerequisites

• A console running Retroarch
• Retroarch and the core NPIIKai emulator, already set up with BIOS and configuration file. More information on official guide.
• TH 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5

The settings are also valid when using the NPIIKai standalone emulator.

Method

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Resurrecting NTC C.H.I.P. computers

Introduction

I bought four of the Next Thing Co. (defunct since 2018) C.H.I.P. (CHIP hereafter) computers shortly after their successful Kickstarter campaign of 2015. The CHIP computer is an interesting beast. It was positioned as a competitor the orginal Raspberry Pi and only cost US$8.00 before shipping. The Raspberry Pi cost US$25 at the time. The CHIP had some features that the Pi did not at the time including built-in wi-fi and battery charging. It was also considerably smaller the original Pi.

The CHIP was shipped with Debian 8 (Jessie) and was a capable Linux computer. I had big plans for all of them, but the

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// this function is used by a bad script who obfuscates code --> I made it more readable
var finalString = '';
for(var i=0; i<word['length']; i++) {
  if(i%2) {
    finalString = word['substr'](i, 1) + finalString;
  }
}

return finalString;