James Rolfe / James D. Rolfe / Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) / Rex Viper and Cinemassacre / Screenwave - Now with not much grieving about a 41-year old man still making videos on YouTube. We're the balls on the dick.

Which videos do you like the most from Cinemassacre?

  • Angry Video Game Nerd

    Votes: 1,775 63.5%

  • You Know Whats Bullshit

    Votes: 140 5.0%

  • James and Mike Mondays

    Votes: 93 3.3%

  • Board James

    Votes: 429 15.4%

  • Monster Madness

    Votes: 267 9.6%

  • James' movie reviews

    Votes: 90 3.2%
  • Total voters
    2,794
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deeman said:
Can't quote Grub but i believe it's mostly rich spoiled people with giant ass game collections that goes on about how bad emulation is, look at Mike Matei and Pat the NES punk. They hate the notion that anybody can play the same games for free. It haunts them so much that even to this day holds that it's not the same thing, like we still lived in Nesticle 0.2 times.
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The worst thing is that TECHNICALLY they aren't wrong. We only now are starting to get REALLY accurate SNES emulation, and everything from there is a collection of hacks, not actually emulating things down to the metal. PS2 emulation really improved a lot for example but there's still issues with random z-fighting, input lag, font misallignment etc. but these issues are not game-breaking. If you played a game on PCSX2 you still played that PS2 game. And besides there are upsides to emulators that OG hardware can't replicate, like increasing internal resolution.
Sure some games benefit from low-resolutions hiding flaws, but with some it's like wearing glasses for the first time.
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Hardware wasn't fast enough until recently to fully emulate a whole SNES; compare Higan's system requirements with zsnes. I don't know the details so check out byuu's thread(s) here, I'm sure there's one dedicated to emulators specifically.

There are consoles (iirc Saturn) that still don't have good emulators.
 
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demicolon said:
Hardware wasn't fast enough until recently to fully emulate a whole SNES; compare Higan's system requirements with zsnes. I don't know the details so check out byuu's thread(s) here, I'm sure there's one dedicated to emulators specifically.

There are consoles (iirc Saturn) that still don't have good emulators.
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That is bullshit. Higan's a piece of dogshit made by an obsessive autist. ZSNES and SNES9x have had perfectly good emulation for over 10 years now. I play NES (fceux) and SNES (snes9x) on my Wii ffs. The "ultra-super-dooper precision" that byuu was obsessed with is completely unnoticeable to the average gamer. Hell, I used to play NES on MS-DOS back in the day and SNES on a Pentium 4 with onboard video and a half gig of ram.

The only Nintendo system I can think of with iffy emulation still is the N64 and that is because the moon people designed it with some really wonky hardware (most likely on purpose).

Don't listen to me though, use Higan and burn your CPU to the ground faster than a crypto miner...
 
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innocent jogger said:
Don't listen to me though, use Higan and burn your CPU to the ground faster than a crypto miner...
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I don't, I always used zsnes back in my Pentium 3 days when I discovered Internet Cafes and how to download stuff on 3,5 inch floppy disks and lately retroarch for its swiss army knife-toolbox and the scanlines shader. Not anymore thought after I redefined my snes pad for a Genesis core to play Contra Hard Corps and it was all fucked up when I tried to revert it, not even reinstalling retroarch helped lol. Who programmed this garbage?

I was replying to the guy above asking what was wrong with emulation accuracy before.
 
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I don't, I always used zsnes back in my Pentium 3 days when I discovered Internet Cafes and how to download stuff on 3,5 inch floppy disks and lately retroarch for its swiss army knife-toolbox and the scanlines shader. Not anymore thought after I redefined my snes pad for a Genesis core to play Contra Hard Corps and it was all fucked up when I tried to revert it, not even reinstalling retroarch helped lol. Who programmed this garbage?

I was replying to the guy above asking what was wrong with emulation accuracy before.
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I can't stand Retroarch personally. I like the idea of what it is supposed to do, but the UI (as pretty as it is) is fucking terrible. I always get frustrated just trying to load a game and give up.

I use MEDNAFEN with the Mednaffe front-end for multi-system emulation. It's not as pretty as Retroarch but the UI is intuitive enough to set up a controller and start playing in minutes.

I also use OPEN-MSX (plus the Catapult front-end) for playing MSX and ColecoVision games.
 
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innocent jogger said:
I like the idea of what it is supposed to do, but the UI (as pretty as it is) is fucking terrible.
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Lol not even Dwarf Fortress was as obtuse, it's like whoever responsible for it was a Chinaman translating from Chinese to English the UI names that were in turn translated from something else. Half of functionality is either hidden under some subsubsubmenu or called something nobody else does, so you have no idea what it's doing.
 
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This nigga James really thinks people are getting nostalgic about the fucking glitch gremlin. Or that no one else has parodied legacy sequels. Spider-man and guitar guy behind the couch kick the shit out of the glitch gremlin in dumbass side characters
In the past his Behind the Scenes video where you got to see the Barbie review at the end was actually informative.
You can jump to 6:36 to skip James's astroturfed stoned childhood friend
 
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Mike Matei's Penis said:
This nigga James really thinks people are getting nostalgic about the fucking glitch gremlin.
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This is the same guy that kept records of himself from very early age because he wanted to do an autobiography of himself.
The very same guy that did documentaries of himself making his home movies, er... films.

innocent jogger said:
I can't stand Retroarch personally.
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Im using Launchbox and its kind of the same thing, I hate it too but I found it useful for Arcade games and weird stuff like Sega Saturn.

Are people still spending lots of money on weird stuff to make flatscreens act like tube tv's for a more "authentic experience"?
 
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Shieldman said:
Are people still spending lots of money on weird stuff to make flatscreens act like tube tv's for a more "authentic experience"?
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Yep. I think RetroTINK put out a new upscaler for ~700.

I really don't have a problem with emulation, honestly I've spent far more time playing games on emulators then I ever did on the OG hardware at this point, but the people who deny there isn't an appreciable difference playing on the OG hardware with a CRT (Key point OG+CRT) are either blowing smoke up your ass, their own ass, or they're young enough that they've never actually played on a CRT before.

Software solutions for CRT simulation are...shoddy and fiddly at the best of times and hardware solutions are pretty decent and getting better albeit tending towards expensive, but the easiest and best solution tends to be looking for a free/cheap CRT on facebook marketplace and other similar sites.
 
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