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

SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
Orange man bad!
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Two Dollars said:
Is there any chance that Anbernic’s thought process is basically “no one’s gonna buy our products at a 245% markup, so there’s no point in having that price attached to them where people may think we actually want to charge that much and we get a reputation for being overpriced”?
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Hold up, didn't like earlier this week Trump said the tariffs on Chinese electronics were off? Did he change his mind again? If they're being marked up that much, you'd be better off getting a second-hand Gameboy at a pawn shop, used electronics place, thrift store (if you're lucky) or online.
This is probably going to effect like Everdrives and the like too eh?
 
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斯尼 德之王 said:

We can now have a front end for modded Ps2's with hard drives.

It supports game id, both opl and Neutrino, launch ps1 games from the menu, rip cd's directly to the console and more.

@HexFag I think this would make running ps1 games on a modded ps2 less cumbersome.
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PS1 games are still PoPS so the compatibility and experience is still garbage.

PSBBN is neat though, one of my JP PS2s came with it preinstalled, and the interface is preferable to default OPL.
 
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斯尼 德之王 said:

We can now have a front end for modded Ps2's with hard drives.

It supports game id, both opl and Neutrino, launch ps1 games from the menu, rip cd's directly to the console and more.

@HexFag I think this would make running ps1 games on a modded ps2 less cumbersome.
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The only issue is you need one of the official PS2 HDD adapters and I don't have the knowhow or ability to convert the port from whatever old thing it was to SATA.
 
HexFag said:
The only issue is you need one of the official PS2 HDD adapters and I don't have the knowhow or ability to convert the port from whatever old thing it was to SATA.
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You buy a $10 adapter from Amazon and plug it into the network adapter, then the drive into the adapter. Easy.

Alternatively, buy a knockoff adapter that has SATA drive headers on it, but finding one of those with the network parts is tricky.
 
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Two Dollars said:
And get an SSD. I don’t think the performance is any different, but it’s quieter.
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SSDs actually work? Didn't know that. Always though you had to use specific HDDs, even if you got one of those converter cables. At least that's what I've thought for years. It's entirely possible I'm just retarded.
 
PhoBingas said:
SSDs actually work? Didn't know that. Always though you had to use specific HDDs, even if you got one of those converter cables. At least that's what I've thought for years. It's entirely possible I'm just retarded.
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You needed certain specific drives in order to be compatible with official PS2 HDD support, but for homebrew anything goes.

The one reason I would not go with an SSD is it may be too fast to work properly, or require a lot of tinkering to slow down the data access, since some games require that sort of thing to work from a hard drive if they stream data in certain ways, and I would imagine the issues could be more of a pain if you went even faster.
 
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Herman Throwaway said:
You needed certain specific drives in order to be compatible with official PS2 HDD support, but for homebrew anything goes.

The one reason I would not go with an SSD is it may be too fast to work properly, or require a lot of tinkering to slow down the data access, since some games require that sort of thing to work from a hard drive if they stream data in certain ways, and I would imagine the issues could be more of a pain if you went even faster.
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Good to know. There's a couple used electronics places in town that have like 500 GB SATA drives for like $20 or $25 each. If SSD's are that finicky, I'll probably just grab one of them if I can find compatible drives in their stacks of shit.
 
PhoBingas said:
Good to know. There's a couple used electronics places in town that have like 500 GB SATA drives for like $20 or $25 each. If SSD's are that finicky, I'll probably just grab one of them if I can find compatible drives in their stacks of shit.
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If you're planning to use OPL or some other homebrew disc loader, don't worry about what hard drive you get, they will all work.

The latest builds of OPL even support multi-TB hard drives.
 
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Herman Throwaway said:
The one reason I would not go with an SSD is it may be too fast to work properly, or require a lot of tinkering to slow down the data access, since some games require that sort of thing to work from a hard drive if they stream data in certain ways, and I would imagine the issues could be more of a pain if you went even faster.
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PhoBingas said:
Good to know. There's a couple used electronics places in town that have like 500 GB SATA drives for like $20 or $25 each. If SSD's are that finicky, I'll probably just grab one of them if I can find compatible drives in their stacks of shit.
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Use an ssd. This is easily handled with Mode 1 in the game's settings in OPL that limits data rate to approximately the speed of the optical drive.
 
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JustSomeDong said:
Use an ssd. This is easily handled with Mode 1 in the game's settings in OPL that limits data rate to approximately the speed of the optical drive.
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Would I notice a performance impact if I didn't? If things will run better on a solid state drive I might get one, but I'm just playing PS2 games that were running off DVDs back in the day an SSD seems a little overkill.
 
PhoBingas said:
Would I notice a performance impact if I didn't? If things will run better on a solid state drive I might get one, but I'm just playing PS2 games that were running off DVDs back in the day an SSD seems a little overkill.
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YMMV, but I quickly got annoyed by the HDD spinning, especially since my PS2 is already loud enough. An SSD took care of that, and they’re cheap if you only need a few hundred gigs.
 
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PhoBingas said:
Would I notice a performance impact if I didn't? If things will run better on a solid state drive I might get one, but I'm just playing PS2 games that were running off DVDs back in the day an SSD seems a little overkill.
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I have a spinny in my PS2, and the noise isn't excessive. I have a WD Blue in mine, nothing too fancy. The speed is good enough that the screen shatter effect in Final Fantasy X works perfectly with no black screen.
 
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Two Dollars said:
YMMV, but I quickly got annoyed by the HDD spinning, especially since my PS2 is already loud enough. An SSD took care of that, and they’re cheap if you only need a few hundred gigs.
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Herman Throwaway said:
I have a spinny in my PS2, and the noise isn't excessive. I have a WD Blue in mine, nothing too fancy. The speed is good enough that the screen shatter effect in Final Fantasy X works perfectly with no black screen.
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I'll throw a cheapo drive in there, and if it's unbearably loud or starts overheating I'll give the SSD a try.
 
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