I’ve been replaying Full Throttle, one of the classic ’90s point-and-click adventures. The game runs well through ScummVM on Nintendo Switch, but launching it through the Homebrew Menu each time becomes tedious:Album → Homebrew Menu → ScummVM → select game. I wanted a quicker, cleaner workflow — ideally a forwarder that appears directly on the Switch home screen [read more]

Used Nintendo Switch systems often come with a parental-control PIN still enabled. There are homebrew utilities that reveal this PIN, but compatibility varies between firmware versions and older builds don’t always behave as expected. This post documents how I recompiled Reset Parental Controls, why the prebuilt binary didn’t work for me, and how I extended the [read more]

NOTE: This solution “burns the subtitles” into the video, so that every viewer of the video will be forced to see them. Use the libass library (make sure your ffmpeg install has the library in the configuration –enable-libass). First convert the subtitles to .ass format: ffmpeg -i subtitles.srt subtitles.assThen add them using a video filter: [read more]

In case you want to convert a youtube video to a MP3 file, you could use one of the many online solutions. But if you don’t want all the advertising mess and are not afraid of using your terminal with bash, you can use the following solution. If you have not already installed HOMEBREW do [read more]