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1 | | -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Rahul Rameshbabu</title><link>https://binary-eater.github.io/</link><description>Recent content on Rahul Rameshbabu</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:53:41 -0700</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://binary-eater.github.io/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Career Change: From Linux Kernel Networking to Linux Graphics</title><link>https://binary-eater.github.io/posts/job_change/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:53:41 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://binary-eater.github.io/posts/job_change/</guid><description><div id="outline-container-headline-1" class="outline-2"> |
| 1 | +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Rahul Rameshbabu</title><link>https://binary-eater.github.io/</link><description>Recent content on Rahul Rameshbabu</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:21:09 -0800</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://binary-eater.github.io/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Patching White Album 2 to work with upstream Proton</title><link>https://binary-eater.github.io/posts/white_album_2_proton/</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:21:09 -0800</pubDate><guid>https://binary-eater.github.io/posts/white_album_2_proton/</guid><description><div id="outline-container-headline-1" class="outline-2"> |
| 2 | +<h2 id="headline-1"> |
| 3 | +Playing White Album 2, one of the highest rated visual novels |
| 4 | +</h2> |
| 5 | +<div id="outline-text-headline-1" class="outline-text-2"> |
| 6 | +<p> |
| 7 | +White Album 2 is a famous visual novel that rivals Steins;Gate and Muv-Luv in |
| 8 | +visual novel rankings. Kinoko Nasu&#39;s famous visual novels are surprisingly not |
| 9 | +as high in the rankings as this novel. The title is probably not as well known |
| 10 | +outside of Japan due to lack of an international release and fan translation |
| 11 | +only being recently complete (kudos to everyone who contributed to the |
| 12 | +<code>TodokanaiTL</code> project). I was first introduced to White Album 2 through the form |
| 13 | +of its anime adaptation in late 2013, while I was still in high school. I found |
| 14 | +the story compelling but found it to be incomplete. Then, I searched if the show |
| 15 | +would ever have a second season. This search showed me that the anime came from |
| 16 | +a visual novel, a concept I was not familiar with at the time. This got me into |
| 17 | +other visual novels like Fate Stay/Night when I was in high school. However, I |
| 18 | +could not play White Album 2 at the time due to a lack of English translations |
| 19 | +and difficulty of acquiring the software. White Album 2 Extended Edition is only |
| 20 | +sold in physical copies in Japan from what I can tell. Moving onto college and |
| 21 | +focusing my career around open source Linux programming left my quite busy for |
| 22 | +the next 10 years. During that time, the <code>TodokanaiTL</code> project made significant |
| 23 | +progress and eventually finished translations for the main story and after story |
| 24 | +content. As I tried to follow the project&#39;s documentation for using <code>wine</code> with |
| 25 | +the game, I found the experience to be subpar. Using <code>dxvk</code> with the game would |
| 26 | +lead to crashes whenever a movie asset finished playing. The movie content in |
| 27 | +the game would also not show up correctly. Normal Proton would experience these |
| 28 | +issues with the game and the only working recipe people seemed to have been to |
| 29 | +vendor some ancient version of Proton-GE. My plan is to play this visual novel |
| 30 | +on the Steam Deck, so my goal would be to get the game to play perfectly with at |
| 31 | +least Proton Experimental. With the experience I have gained since high school, |
| 32 | +it is time to see if I can apply it for the challenge.</p></description></item><item><title>Career Change: From Linux Kernel Networking to Linux Graphics</title><link>https://binary-eater.github.io/posts/job_change/</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:53:41 -0700</pubDate><guid>https://binary-eater.github.io/posts/job_change/</guid><description><div id="outline-container-headline-1" class="outline-2"> |
2 | 33 | <h2 id="headline-1"> |
3 | 34 | Changing Jobs |
4 | 35 | </h2> |
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