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

MongolianMongoose said:
Original DS rom icons
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Okay, this has been driving me insane for years, and here's me hoping someone has an answer.

When you install a DS game on the 3DS with a forwarded, the icon on the menu is that of the game, but the surrounding box is not a DS cartridge, like you'd see if you inserted an original DS cartridge into the system, but instead a rounded white square.

Is there a way to change the icon to the DS cartridge?

I know it's something very small and petty, but it's been a small irritation I've had for years now.
 
regalterry said:
Okay, this has been driving me insane for years, and here's me hoping someone has an answer.

When you install a DS game on the 3DS with a forwarded, the icon on the menu is that of the game, but the surrounding box is not a DS cartridge, like you'd see if you inserted an original DS cartridge into the system, but instead a rounded white square.

Is there a way to change the icon to the DS cartridge?

I know it's something very small and petty, but it's been a small irritation I've had for years now.
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No idea, but the rounded white square is probably to match the official DSiWare icons.
 
regalterry said:
When you install a DS game on the 3DS with a forwarded, the icon on the menu is that of the game, but the surrounding box is not a DS cartridge,
I know it's something very small and petty, but it's been a small irritation I've had for years now.
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Same. Even more autism aggravation, it has this annoying peg on the back of it.
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Two Dollars said:
No idea, but the rounded white square is probably to match the official DSiWare icons.
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That makes a lot of sense. The forwarders are apparently DSi apps. This also unfortunately means the 3DS will only let you install something like 40 DS icons.
 
The Xbox 360’s Bad Update exploit was recently updated to be a lot more efficient, so stock 360s have an easy and (mostly) quick way to access homebrew. I emulate when possible, but this makes me want to break out my old 360 and mess around with the XBLIG games that still can’t be emulated and probably won’t be any time soon.
MongolianMongoose said:
That makes a lot of sense. The forwarders are apparently DSi apps. This also unfortunately means the 3DS will only let you install something like 40 DS icons.
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Yeah, you have to be selective and use Twilight Menu for the rest.
 
MongolianMongoose said:
This also unfortunately means the 3DS will only let you install something like 40 DS icons.
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Two Dollars said:
Yeah, you have to be selective and use Twilight Menu for the rest.
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There is a forwarded that allows you to blow past that limit.

YANBF allows you to install as many apps as you want, or at the very least as many as the system will allow, but it's still significantly more than 40.
 
Two Dollars said:
The Xbox 360’s Bad Update exploit was recently updated to be a lot more efficient, so stock 360s have an easy and (mostly) quick way to access homebrew. I emulate when possible, but this makes me want to break out my old 360 and mess around with the XBLIG games that still can’t be emulated and probably won’t be any time soon.
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i was looking around jewtube and i got this recommended to me.
which is funny because i do remember zsnews but also using snes9x because of the DSP chip, not DSP himself, so i could play shit like topgear 3000 and it's one of the few games i like from that old era whereas everyone from my generation and older enjoyed the first one more, someone has to be the weird one in the family...
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
Is there a reason why it won’t run native on your Series X? I thought it was added to the backwards compatibility program.
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Ah, mine's a Series S. The game's been delisted digitally for quite a while, so pirating an ISO and running through Xenia on dev mode is the only way I'll be able to ever play the console version. It was honestly not worth the effort though. I think I'll just buy the PC version soon enough.
 
NH-8340 said:
Ah, mine's a Series S. The game's been delisted digitally for quite a while, so pirating an ISO and running through Xenia on dev mode is the only way I'll be able to ever play the console version. It was honestly not worth the effort though. I think I'll just buy the PC version soon enough.
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Ahhh, ok. I did manage to get a copy digitally when i still had my 360. Did not know it was delisted.
 
I'm pleasantly surprised how much simpler the new Xbox 360 BadUpdate "update" is. Not only is it more reliable, it's easier to use because it longer requires having to patch every game/homebrew. Everything just works.
He doesn't mention this in the tutorial but for pirated ISOs use wx360 to extract the game files to their own folder on the USB and add that path in Aurora. For single-file XBLA dumps use wxPirs to extract.
I found out while installing this that my 360's HDD and DVD drive are dead so it's nice this hack can breathe new life into my broken console. My first order of business is "pirating" all my game disks.
 
Guess who has to obsessively read manufacturing codes in ebay seller images again to buy a replacement Saturn because it turns out the olders Saturns are prone to having an oscillator chip that no one manufactures anymore up and die and fuck the entire system board up????

No, really, if you have a Saturn I advise you to check the model code, if you have a VA5 or before your board's equipped with a timebomb from Hitachi that no one's replicated yet, now I have a VA4 dud with a really nice japanese white shell and I have to use Klarna. I just wanted to experience the bad voice acting that Working Designs put on top of Magic Knight Rayearth, man.
 
StacticShock said:
which is funny because i do remember zsnews but also using snes9x because of the DSP chip, not DSP himself, so i could play shit like topgear 3000 and it's one of the few games i like from that old era whereas everyone from my generation and older enjoyed the first one more, someone has to be the weird one in the family...
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I don't know why ZSNES is somehow the one to make it the "popular" one. Snes9x was available on more systems (like Mac), was more compatible, and had a more modern interface. It was older, too, the 9x was from the fact there was a Snes96 and Snes97 (ZSNES came out in 1997).
 
Xarpho's Return said:
I don't know why ZSNES is somehow the one to make it the "popular" one. Snes9x was available on more systems (like Mac), was more compatible, and had a more modern interface. It was older, too, the 9x was from the fact there was a Snes96 and Snes97 (ZSNES came out in 1997).
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Performance. ZSNES ran more acceptably on weaker systems.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
I don't know why ZSNES is somehow the one to make it the "popular" one. Snes9x was available on more systems (like Mac), was more compatible, and had a more modern interface. It was older, too, the 9x was from the fact there was a Snes96 and Snes97 (ZSNES came out in 1997).
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It's the purple snowy background, I'm telling you. Show me an emulator with a more eye-pleasing purple UI and better snow.
 
Xarpho's Return said:
I don't know why ZSNES is somehow the one to make it the "popular" one.
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SNES emulation, even SNES96, 97, and 9x, was very far from "everything works" until ZSNES, which is around when SNES emulators started to get good. There were a bunch of games that worked more correctly in ZSNES than the competition at the time. Secret of Mana was one notable that I remember. Without ZSNES, Snes9x wouldn't have had anywhere near the push to get good. My limited, adolescent evaluation at the time was that ZSNES was better than 9x, though that was filtered by the games I like to play.

And the UI really made it easy to use, which was big, because emulators were largely DOS programs at the time.
 
SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
If I wanted a PS2, what's the best model if you intend to hack it to play games from a USB drive or something?
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The correct answer is to not buy a PS2 and just emulate. By the time you buy a PS2, memory cards, controllers, an internal hard drive adapter and a very specific drive that works with the PS2 (as it's so old it didn't even take SATA drives) you're already in the sunk cost fallacy. Modding an old console is only really effective if you already have the old console and want to tinker.
Enig said:
Guess who has to obsessively read manufacturing codes in ebay seller images again to buy a replacement Saturn because it turns out the olders Saturns are prone to having an oscillator chip that no one manufactures anymore up and die and fuck the entire system board up????
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This is why I cannot stand nostalgia gamers, the Saturn was a dud because it cost too much and had barely any good games and now you're telling me some of the only ones left in existence are dying off because of a slightly similar issue to why OG Xboxes are likely to be dead? Surely at some point you have to realise that maybe it's a good idea to let the dream die and just build a solid emulation box that will last for decades.

Like I really do appreciate people who have such a bond with an old console they need a 100% accurate version of it in their house, but ultimately it will only play as good as the console itself. No room for tweaks, no room for overclocking, no room for bumping up the resolution, no room for playing with a controller that isn't dogshit etc. and a Saturn for example will only be able to play Saturn games while an emulation box with a 4TB hard drive will be able to play every console game in existence up to the 360/PS3 era.
 
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