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

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O.G. XBOX emulation has to be the most convoluted experience I've ever had in emulation
  • download iso game
  • unpack iso in a folder
  • re-pack folder as xiso
  • download DLC
  • repack DLC folder as xiso
  • load DLC and install
  • load game
It's pretty much tied with PS3 emulation and how you need to download a disc dumper so you can properly play them on rpcs3
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
O.G. XBOX emulation has to be the most convoluted experience I've ever had in emulation
  • download iso game
  • unpack iso in a folder
  • re-pack folder as xiso
  • download DLC
  • repack DLC folder as xiso
  • load DLC and install
  • load game
It's pretty much tied with PS3 emulation and how you need to download a disc dumper so you can properly play them on rpcs3
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Yeah I fucked with it for about 20 minutes on the device I just posted about and that was enough for me to figure out it wasn't worth it.
 
Despite being a zoomer, I have beaten Super Mario Bros. 3 several times over now through the NES Online application.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
O.G. XBOX emulation has to be the most convoluted experience I've ever had in emulation
  • download iso game
  • unpack iso in a folder
  • re-pack folder as xiso
  • download DLC
  • repack DLC folder as xiso
  • load DLC and install
  • load game
It's pretty much tied with PS3 emulation and how you need to download a disc dumper so you can properly play them on rpcs3
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Use Vimm's Liar, they host both the iso and xiso files for original xbox games so you don't have to bother with all the repacking.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
O.G. XBOX emulation has to be the most convoluted experience I've ever had in emulation
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Mac emulation has you beat, friend.

1. Download emulator
2. Download ROM
3. Download Mac OS ISO
4. Create virtual hard disk
5. Install Mac OS
6. Download StuffIt
7. Install StuffIt on virtual Mac OS
8. Download game
9. Navigate to the virtual hard disk in the emulation environment
10. Copy to virtual hard disk
11. Unpack
12. NOW you can play

Obviously, only start at 8 if you want a new game, and various builds can speed you through 1-7, but it's a hardcore experience. Honestly, between various source ports and other fun stuff, the reason why you would want to screw around with this continually shrinks.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Mac emulation has you beat, friend.

1. Download emulator
2. Download ROM
3. Download Mac OS ISO
4. Create virtual hard disk
5. Install Mac OS
6. Download StuffIt
7. Install StuffIt on virtual Mac OS
8. Download game
9. Navigate to the virtual hard disk in the emulation environment
10. Copy to virtual hard disk
11. Unpack
12. NOW you can play

Obviously, only start at 8 if you want a new game, and various builds can speed you through 1-7, but it's a hardcore experience. Honestly, between various source ports and other fun stuff, the reason why you would want to screw around with this continually shrinks.
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Don't worry, you can just buy a vintage iMac G3 and have the simplicity of the interior structural plastic turning into crackers, the slot loading drive eating your discs, the rubber in the built in speakers turning back into oil, and the high quality Lucky Goldstar display technology becoming a fire hazard.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
O.G. XBOX emulation has to be the most convoluted experience I've ever had in emulation
  • download iso game
  • unpack iso in a folder
  • re-pack folder as xiso
  • download DLC
  • repack DLC folder as xiso
  • load DLC and install
  • load game
It's pretty much tied with PS3 emulation and how you need to download a disc dumper so you can properly play them on rpcs3
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It doesn't help that xemu only supports xiso and cxbx only supports folder structure. One of them needs to support the other so i can just use the emulators interchangably.
 
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Anon88 said:
Use Vimm's Liar, they host both the iso and xiso files for original xbox games so you don't have to bother with all the repacking.
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I usually go there, but some Nintendo games were fucked with by the lawsuit happy company. I go to ziperto for 3DS DLC and Switch roms because Vimm doesn't carry those, but I think 3DS games were recently added which is nice to see.
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
It really was a good handheld with a lot of great gems that will probably never see the light of day on another console again.
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it's great and also it's an emulator kind of like psp but without the chance of permanent bricking. you just back up the system files before you go and if you have a "new" 3ds model you just like scan a barcode and it says "PROCEED TO HAX"
 
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Don't really know if this constitutes as "retro" but I wanted to share somewhere that I came into possession of a New 3DS XL and promptly installed CFW and Tomadachi Life. I've also been using that fanmade worldwide Streetpass thing and getting lots of hits. My family was too poor / incompetent to answer my wishes for a 3DS as a child so I feel like I'm living the childhood I was denied.
 
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