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

I owned that back in the day. Loved the concept, but never got around to any of the sequels.

I thought it was dumb that in the UK release, they made the main character blonde because the localiser was a fan of David Beckham and he had dyed hair at the time.
 
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Mr. Duck said:
Because most homebrew developers are lazy and they don't go beyond making an initial port of an emulator/game source-port just to prove that it's possible
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And I don't blame them. It's a giant fucking waste of time and their only mistake is making the port in the first place.

Making an emulator work specifically on a proprietary, locked-down piece of hardware that's going to become obsolete and abandoned defeats every benefit of emulation. If I need to keep an old PS3 around and in good condition for when I want to play Super Nintendo games (or whatever), I might as well have just kept the goddamn Super Nintendo.
 
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rareblacklobster said:
Does anyone know where I can find PlayStation 1 and Saturn CD covers to print on my backup CDs?
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for PlayStation, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable you can use the psxdatacenter;
while for Saturn the 3 websites in the spoiler look like the closest thing (although i'm sure there are other repos with better cover art)
https://www.covercentury.com/index.php?p=segasaturncovers
 
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Getting back into pscx2 after learning that the nightly builds are better. Any recommended settings to pretty up ps2 game? I used to have to fuck with the settings and had little idea on what i was doing.
 
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People think I'm mad when I point out that old CRT computer monitors looked great at any supported resolution. 1024x768, 800x600, and so on, it always looked sharp. Not like now when playing below native res makes the image a smeary mess. TVs were much the same. Playing a SNES on a TV looked good, but playing them on a modern TV looks messy and basically unplayable.

Another peeve of mine is people seem to greatly underestimate their quality. Maybe I'm just nostalgic, but I remember the image on a CRT was slightly more fuzzy than a HD display, but most filters make it seem that the screen had inch thick black bars under every pixel, projected onto a fishbowl, and viewed through a gallon of vaseline.
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The problem with old CRT computer monitors (and really any high-resolution CRT) was that the shadow mask/aperture grille needing to be finer and finer meant that you sacrificed brightness. The actual image quality was fine, but the dimness of the screen really strained my eyes. I was playing WoW back during the era when we switched from CRTs to LCDs and I distinctly remember finding it easier to stare at the screen for long periods during raids after I got my first LCD.

SD TVs are less prone to this and I can see why a lot of enthusiasts stick with them. They're not really my thing but it's not really any more ridiculous than most of the stuff in this hobby.
 
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Duiker said:
Getting back into pscx2 after learning that the nightly builds are better. Any recommended settings to pretty up ps2 game? I used to have to fuck with the settings and had little idea on what i was doing.
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Assuming you have a computer that can handle it.

There are basically two options I set. Software mode for accurasy. Option 2 is to set the renderer to Vulcan/Direct x12, or whatever you like, and bump up the internal resolution.

I don't recommend widescreen hacks or anything like that. They're more hassle than they're worth. One I will recommend is the Gran Turismo Progressive Scan hack. You kind of have to know what you're doing for that though.

More of an dev/art thing. It can be fun to turn off texture filtering in some games if you like chunky pixels. The games weren't intended for this, but it's great to be able to able to see the raw texture files in games like Metal Gear Solid 2.
 
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I want to get a WiiU just for collecting purposes, but most of the listings I have seen have busted or missing control pads.
Have someone found out a way to make it work without the tablet?
 
Pepe Cortisona said:
Have someone found out a way to make it work without the tablet?
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The thing is that a lot of games REQUIRE the tablet to play, so unless someone can also reprogram the games to function without it (I mean, even the WiiU OS home screen needs the tablet), you absolutely can't use the WiiU without it.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
The thing is that a lot of games REQUIRE the tablet to play, so unless someone can also reprogram the games to function without it (I mean, even the WiiU OS home screen needs the tablet), you absolutely can't use the WiiU without it.
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Dumb question: Can't someone made it so the console thinks that it is outputting video to the tablet? I remember Nintendo pushing the feature that you didn't needed the TV to play the console. I was just thinking that if the console supported that feature, then you could "fool" the system into thinking it is outputting video to the tablet but it's doing it to the TV instead.

I won't blame the modder community if they do tried and just forgot when the switch was released. I just find the WiiU interesting as I never got to experience one at the time.
 
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I was just thinking that if the console supported that feature, then you could "fool" the system into thinking it is outputting video to the tablet but it's doing it to the TV instead.
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There were a few games like ZombiU and Star Fox Zero that needed both screens.
 
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HexFag said:
Played an hour of MM with the recompiler and holy shit I'm never going back to N64 emulation ever again. It literally just werks.
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I seem to have hit a snag trying to comple the N64 Recompiler because i want to try other games with it.

cmake is telling me "config.cpp" doesn't exist in the src folder even though it does, so idk what thats about.
 
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Yeah I tried to get it to work myself but I'm not good at this sort of thing. Once it's rolling I really want to give Star Fox 64 a spin, I'm used to its measly 15fps but it can be so much more. The 3DS remake is pretty good but emulating that game is utter dogshit
 
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winterfag said:

n64 emulation is such a mess that someone jumped straight to making a recompiler for N64 games to skip straight to potential PC ports
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I’m not sure what’s more impressive, this absolute marvel of technological wizardry (seriously, holy fucking shit), or the fact that Nerrel managed to go a whole video without passive-aggressively whining about Nintendo.
 
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winterfag said:

n64 emulation is such a mess that someone jumped straight to making a recompiler for N64 games to skip straight to potential PC ports
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Beat me to it you cheeky fucker. Was/is GC emulation gimped in a similar way? Or would Dolphin be superior to something like this? It just has me giddy for TP on PC.
 
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