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I've played A LOT of Mario World. While I notice the compressed sound while playing the GBA version, I'm convinced most people wouldn't notice the difference in the colors if they weren't put side by side.
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Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster
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You'd notice but anybody playing for the first time wouldn't be bothered, looks adequate. The real problem is screen crunch, it makes action games ported unplayable imo.
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If we were still talking about the Game Gear, then sure.
But you can just press "L" to pan the camera. I used it to see what was directly in front of me and never had an issue with these games playing them in high school.
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There's workarounds in certain games but it's not perfect.
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All I know is Mega Man & Bass probably got its reputation for difficulty from the GBA version because it's not that hard on SNES, and yet I suck at it on GBA.
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how i can setupo the steam version of retroarch? in the ps3 was dowload some pkg and press install
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The Super Mario World port for GBA was released when I was 10, and I didn't notice how fucked the colors were but it was on an original, non-backlit GBA. You can make a case on the diminished mental capacity of Nintendo fans and normies in general, but I don't think you could extrapolate that to "most people wouldn't notice".
I used lego yoda death on loop to get my dog out from under the couch. It was effective. YEEEORGGOOH
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Using the search feature, I found that no one talked about a pretty old, and niche game called colosseum road to freedom, you played as a slave who gets bought, and forced to fight in gladiator games, with the whole game being earning around 2 millionish in cash to buy your freedom.
It was pretty fun, and intuitive for an old PS2 game, it had a functional limb system, and the armor pieces you wore would actually block all damage from attacks, but if someone hit you hard enough, it could break off the armor altogether, and send it flying in the arena.
It also had a crowd mechanic, the longer the fight dragged on, or the more exciting/fast paced the fight was, the more the crowd would get excited and start throwing cash at you.
Unfortunately, it was a Japanese studio who created it, and last I checked, they went defunct in I think 2015, Though the game is still on vimms lair, and multiple emulation sites, can't really copyright claim the game if the studios don't exist anymore.
It was pretty fun, and intuitive for an old PS2 game, it had a functional limb system, and the armor pieces you wore would actually block all damage from attacks, but if someone hit you hard enough, it could break off the armor altogether, and send it flying in the arena.
It also had a crowd mechanic, the longer the fight dragged on, or the more exciting/fast paced the fight was, the more the crowd would get excited and start throwing cash at you.
Unfortunately, it was a Japanese studio who created it, and last I checked, they went defunct in I think 2015, Though the game is still on vimms lair, and multiple emulation sites, can't really copyright claim the game if the studios don't exist anymore.
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If it came out when you were 10, you're probably too young to realize most people played the original with a coaxial rf hookup on a tube TV with fucked up colors anyway.
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You need a wood paneled TV to really experience how old games look.
Look at how smooth and clean it is plus you can pretend you're playing Mario on a microwave.
Look at how smooth and clean it is plus you can pretend you're playing Mario on a microwave.
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Oh, I played Super Mario World on Snes9x (with relatively crispness)...and it was at the dental office, too (on real CRTs with real burn-in)...just those were a few years behind and when you're a kid "three years ago" was a world away.
"Authentic" retro consoles on real CRTs neither looked like perfectly colored, crisp graphics on televisions, nor distorted, dark, blurry blobs. That all depended on your television (a big issue with what consoles were in that era, whether the SNES/Genesis was hooked up to an older TV in the den or the finest in 1990s models in the family room) and the average truth was probably closer to the middle. Zoomers tend to pick either/or on a lot of these issues--PSX was the common accepted abbreviation for the PlayStation (don't try to be cute and bring up the Japanese DVR/PlayStation 2 hybrid released in Japan in 2003) but no one called it a "Pee Ess Ex", either.
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At worst it looked way better than that.
We had a Sonyboy in the living room and I had grandma's old TV in my bedroom. I never felt like I needed to see how much better it would look in the living room. More commonly bedrooms would have 13inch TVs which often couldn't resolve as much, at 240p it didn't matter much maybe for the latest episode of whatever TV show.
Reading it in your head yes. Talking on a playground no.
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Compare the chroma resolution in the "DUCK HUNT" letters on the wood panel TV. My model is very close to what we observe there. Enjoy your haterade.
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Interesting. Kinda like how GCN because the abbreviation for Gamecube for whatever reason, but no one called it a “Gamecube Nintendo”.
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I heard of two explanations as to why Nintendo went with GCN over NGC: 1. that NGC would be confused with NGPC (Neo Geo Pocket Color) 2. NGC is trademarked by the National Geographic Channel in the US despite it being in a entirely different industry, which could be chalked up to jap corpo autism