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

Pepe Cortisona said:
How much storage would someone need to archive those dump until the 6th gen? I have some 500+GB HDD laying around that I might repurpose for this task.
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The classic shit (from Atari to SNES/32X) and handhelds up to GBA we're talking MB's of data so you're golden (the Sega Genesis at most is like 1 GB)

It's not until you get to the PS1 era where we're talking GB's of data, including N64 which is roughly 11-12 GB of data for everything
 
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Road Work Ahead said:
Unless something's changed, you do still need to install a modchip to use a PSIO.
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It's true, but that modchip doesn't require me to use CDs.
Although at this point we can probably get Taki Udon's Mister FPGA project, since it seems to be the cheapest of the bunch, unless you already have a PC and aren't one of those people that squeals anytime emulators are mentioned.
 
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Going though Koudelka now and while I find the premise and especially the voice acting to be great, that gameplay is so rough that it's actually making me consider dropping the game. I thought I had a tolerance for older battle systems (hell I played the original DQ1 and DQ2 a month ago and those aged like fine wine), but with how slow and how BS some of these encounters are, I'm not sure if I'm having very much fun playing it. It also doesn't help that encounters are random and weaknesses are seemingly also random and if you hit a spot they aren't weak to they regenerate their full health bar.

I always have Parasite Eve and Shadow Hearts for a spooky horror JRPG if this game doesn't work out.
 
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HexFag said:
Going though Koudelka now and while I find the premise and especially the voice acting to be great, that gameplay is so rough that it's actually making me consider dropping the game. I thought I had a tolerance for older battle systems (hell I played the original DQ1 and DQ2 a month ago and those aged like fine wine), but with how slow and how BS some of these encounters are, I'm not sure if I'm having very much fun playing it. It also doesn't help that encounters are random and weaknesses are seemingly also random and if you hit a spot they aren't weak to they regenerate their full health bar.

I always have Parasite Eve and Shadow Hearts for a spooky horror JRPG if this game doesn't work out.
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That's bad news for me then, I hope I can stomach it when I get around to it. I've had my eye on Koudelka for a long time.

Parasite Eve is one of the best PS1 games, combat is fast and has a fair degree of strategy. It's a perfect fusion of Final Fantasy and Resident Evil.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
That's bad news for me then, I hope I can stomach it when I get around to it. I've had my eye on Koudelka for a long time.

Parasite Eve is one of the best PS1 games, combat is fast and has a fair degree of strategy. It's a perfect fusion of Final Fantasy and Resident Evil.
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It's a very cult game and if the gameplay wasn't so against me, it'd be an excellent experience. I mean it when I say everything else about the game is solid BESIDES the gameplay. The voice acting puts modern voice acting to shame and the mocap is great even with the low poly PS1 models. I might continue it and just speed up the combat encounters and use save-states just to get through it.

I had played a bit of Parasite Eve beforehand before I lost my emulator save but I enjoyed what I played of it. Playing Parasite Eve is weird because I'm so used to seeing Nomura's anime ass designs in Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts or TWEWY but they're in this (relatively) grounded world while still looking like the PS1 models from FF7. I still haven't finished it yet but I definitely enjoy the gameplay from this more than Koudelka.

Shadow Hearts, despite being tangentially related to Koudelka iirc, has a far better gameplay system from the hour or two I played. Unfortunately whenever I think of "hitting the colors on the wheel in the rhythm in order to do damage" I think of YIIK. Fortunately, attacks don't take seven years like in YIIK.
 
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HexFag said:
Shadow Hearts, despite being tangentially related to Koudelka iirc, has a far better gameplay system from the hour or two I played. Unfortunately whenever I think of "hitting the colors on the wheel in the rhythm in order to do damage" I think of YIIK. Fortunately, attacks don't take seven years like in YIIK.
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Ironically when it came out, the reverse comparison was usually done. Likewise, Shadow Hearts is a good example of it being done well.

Damage goes up significantly when you add segments to the wheel, nevermind Nth keys.
 
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HexFag said:
Going though Koudelka now and while I find the premise and especially the voice acting to be great, that gameplay is so rough that it's actually making me consider dropping the game. I thought I had a tolerance for older battle systems (hell I played the original DQ1 and DQ2 a month ago and those aged like fine wine), but with how slow and how BS some of these encounters are, I'm not sure if I'm having very much fun playing it. It also doesn't help that encounters are random and weaknesses are seemingly also random and if you hit a spot they aren't weak to they regenerate their full health bar.

I always have Parasite Eve and Shadow Hearts for a spooky horror JRPG if this game doesn't work out.
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Koudelka is pretty jank, though I thought The combat was fine. The game is also pretty short at around 10-12 hours, so stick it out if you can. The final boss is really annoying and was a pretty large step up in difficulty. If you want, you can just lose on purpose, which is the canon ending anyways.
 
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Tomboy Tuti said:
I dont like Torrents for Roms to be honest, unless its a huge file. I dont have the time, patience, drive space or bandwidth to download collections of files at once.
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Modern clients (like qBittorrent) allow you to pick and choose which files of a torrent to download. So you should be able to grab a specific game from a massive list if you want.
 
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Back me up! said:
Modern clients (like qBittorrent) allow you to pick and choose which files of a torrent to download. So you should be able to grab a specific game from a massive list if you want.
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This has been true of every torrent client I've used for 15 years. Even my feature light Synology Download Station lets you do that.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
That's bad news for me then, I hope I can stomach it when I get around to it. I've had my eye on Koudelka for a long time.

Parasite Eve is one of the best PS1 games, combat is fast and has a fair degree of strategy. It's a perfect fusion of Final Fantasy and Resident Evil.
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Only issue is that Aya needed a higher running speed, but I remember it fondly.

Ever since the emudeck client decided to remove yuzu for my own good I've avoided updating anything in my steamdeck setup when it comes to emulation.

Guess I also need to take steps to get everything that is worth it for each system... anybody aware of curated lists per system? I downloaded all of the genesis catalog and at around K I gave up deleting everything that was shit/shovelware and had a SNES one with multiple versions and hacked versions of a game without any clear definition to know which is the "best". Managed to find one for MAME and Neo Geo but would definitely appreciate one for other systems, once I have that in lock I can focus on getting the really obscure gems as well as the fan translations.
 
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ShitLurker said:
Only issue is that Aya needed a higher running speed, but I remember it fondly.

Ever since the emudeck client decided to remove yuzu for my own good I've avoided updating anything in my steamdeck setup when it comes to emulation.

Guess I also need to take steps to get everything that is worth it for each system... anybody aware of curated lists per system? I downloaded all of the genesis catalog and at around K I gave up deleting everything that was shit/shovelware and had a SNES one with multiple versions and hacked versions of a game without any clear definition to know which is the "best". Managed to find one for MAME and Neo Geo but would definitely appreciate one for other systems, once I have that in lock I can focus on getting the really obscure gems as well as the fan translations.
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Just download fullsets for cartridge systems (they’re tiny), keep them in a separate folder, and curate from there. “No Intro” sets are the ones you want since they have clean dumps of every official game without hacked versions or bad dumps, aside from the occasional Chinese bootleg. Also, Redump is the same as No Intro but for disc-based systems.
 
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babanguide_64 said:
I would a set of CRT TV/monitor and mini PC with RetroArch installed
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I tought of doing that when the raspberry pi had an rca output out of the box, sadly is very underpowered nowadays to do ps1 emulation and onwards without performance issues.

The i5 4th gen mini PC's like the Lenovo tiny line line can do ps2 emulation without too much trouble, and they are really cheap if you want to go that route.
 
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Pepe Cortisona said:
How much storage would someone need to archive those dump until the 6th gen? I have some 500+GB HDD laying around that I might repurpose for this task.
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A full dump of any given region for PS1 is around 900gb. Realistically you're gonna need 20+tb solely devoted to retro games if you want absolutely everything up to 6th gen.

It'll take a lot of time, but I personally recommend a liberally curated collection. Just download anything that looks remotely interesting or familiar. That's what I've been doing since Emuparadise got slapped by Nintendo and I'm up to 1.30tb (and 900gb of that is 6th gen).
 
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garbedor3000 said:
A full dump of any given region for PS1 is around 900gb. Realistically you're gonna need 20+tb solely devoted to retro games if you want absolutely everything up to 6th gen.

It'll take a lot of time, but I personally recommend a liberally curated collection. Just download anything that looks remotely interesting or familiar. That's what I've been doing since Emuparadise got slapped by Nintendo and I'm up to 1.30tb (and 900gb of that is 6th gen).
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Noted. I've around 8tb laying around in 5 spare hard drives doing nothing. Might as well secure the ones I'm interested the most first.
 
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