Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

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rareblacklobster said:
I bought a copy of Super Mario World off eBay, replaced the save battery, and when I booted it up, the previous saves were still there. How?
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Are you 100% sure it's authentic? I have some knock off GBA and N64 games that have a battery for show, but it doesn't actually do anything and the game is saved to flash memory.
 
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Never Scored said:
Are you 100% sure it's authentic? I have some knock off GBA and N64 games that have a battery for show, but it doesn't actually do anything and the game is saved to flash memory.
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Looks normal to me.
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rareblacklobster said:
I bought a copy of Super Mario World off eBay, replaced the save battery, and when I booted it up, the previous saves were still there. How?
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Happened with a couple games I replaced the batteries in. My guess is a capacitor was keeping enough juice into the RAM chips while the battery was being swapped out.

And I am 100% certain they are legit, these were my wife's friend's childhood copies.
 
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Nintendo Sues Emulator Gamer Who Streamed Pirated Games Before Release (archive)
Nintendo has filed a devastating lawsuit against a gamer who not only live-streamed games before their commercial release, but used emulators and pirated ROMs to do so. Jesse Keighin, aka EveryGameGuru, faces claims of unauthorized public performance and reproduction, contributory infringement and inducement for sharing links to emulators and pirated ROMs, plus violations of the anti-circumvention and circumvention device trafficking components of the DMCA.
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Has anyone ITT purchased a Miyoo Mini or Mini+? If so, what did you think of it?
 
Dean Pentel said:
Has anyone ITT purchased a Miyoo Mini or Mini+? If so, what did you think of it?
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I have a Miyoo Mini +. It's pretty good. Really nice screen. Definitely worth the money, but controls are a little cramped. I end up playing my GBA more when on the road, but my wife plays hers a lot.
 
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Any one looking to get the Retroid Pocket 5? Screen looks nice and big and can do everything up to non 3d Switch games.
 
rareblacklobster said:
I bought a copy of Super Mario World off eBay, replaced the save battery, and when I booted it up, the previous saves were still there. How?
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These games save their data on an SRAM chip, NOT the battery. In your case the BR6116-100 (top right chip), as labeled. You mentioned there being previous saves. That means the old battery was still semi-functional (probably 3.0v or 2.9v). Meaning it was probably still powering the capacitors. If you're fast enough, it's more than possible to replace the battery and restore flow of power before the capacitor discharges entirely. For gameboy games you usually have like, a minute in normal temperature ranges. SNES games are around the same, a little harder to manage but not impossible. I've heard tell of some carts with two capacitors (ff2/4)
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lasting well in excess of an hour after battery removal and holding their saves, while some with 1, like ff3/6
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or super metroid don't last more than a few minutes. I wouldn't recommend you ever swap a battery EXPECTING to keep saves though, just a happy little bonus when they are.
Back me up! said:
Any one looking to get the Retroid Pocket 5? Screen looks nice and big and can do everything up to non 3d Switch games.
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I have a retroid flip, a 2S, and a 4, if you don't mind the android jank, they're fine. Personally I'm still a staunch believer in "just use your fuckin phone bro", but I know a lot of people don't jive with the idea of carrying around a controller or whatever. So, the retroid line is probably the best 'premium' stuff there is in the chinkheld lineup. If you want a standard frontend, you can use daijisho or ES-DE. Daijisho has a nice little app tray and tons of themes for it, so that's my recommendation.
Also pretty much all of them can "run up to non-3D switch games". The question becomes can you run games at full speed? If so, is it full speed NTSC or full speed PAL? Cause that was a huge cope people used for the retroid pocket 3+ and flip, it had huge compatibility with ps2/GC, but couldn't run anything full speed unless you looked at PAL titles. 4 fixes a lot of that, but a big portion of PS2 improvements on the mobile side has been the aethersx2 dev finally giving up and their replacement setting up NetherSX2 instead.

Blathering aside, yes, the 5 will probably be the most worthwhile pocket, they finally got an adreno GPU, that alone is going to see some ginormous gains in emulation performance on the higher end. I would not be surprised to see some custom turnip drivers for it, and 3D switch games or other more demanding titles playable in no time (well, 'playable').
 
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Yo does anybody know if Sudachi is better than Ryujinx
 
I hacked my Vita, it looks like it needs a new battery. I won't charge pass 93% and that's no good. The only time it got heavy use was about 8 to 10 years ago.
 
Is a jailbroken ps3 hooked up to a CRT a good way to play games up to PS1? Or should I get a raspberry pi with RetroPi for 240p output?
 
TrinityReformed said:
I think the ps3 just emulates the ps1, not sure about the ps2. I believe only the very first models had ps2 hardware in it.
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After the late fats, all PS3s do PS1 emulation, PS2 emulation is done via software but it's not recommended. For playing PS1 games, a PS3 is not the optimal way to do so, a raspberry pi and even a softmoded PS2 are better options due to compatibility and power consumption in my humble opinion
 
Pepe Cortisona said:
After the late fats, all PS3s do PS1 emulation, PS2 emulation is done via software but it's not recommended. For playing PS1 games, a PS3 is not the optimal way to do so, a raspberry pi and even a softmoded PS2 are better options due to compatibility and power consumption in my humble opinion
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Wouldn't a fat ps2 do a good job playing ps1 games? It has ps1 hardware in it if I remember correctly.
 
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