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

Judge Dredd said:
Is there a Goldeneye 007 decompilation/source port? My Google fu is lacking and brings up unfinished projects, totally-not-AI posts about the Half-Life 2 Mod, and people saying to use the wonky mouse injector with Mupen64.
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You're thinking of Goldeneye 25, a Source port that was shut down by MGM. AFAIK, the most "modern" port of Goldeneye is either the unreleased XBLA version that was leaked, or the NSW/Xbox Game Pass versions
 
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Baraka Obama said:
First ~year had Melee, Rogue Leader, Monkey Ball, REmake, RE: Zero, Eternal Darkness, Mario Sunshine, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime, plus good multiplatform games that suited the console with TimeSplitters 2, Nightfire, and Turok: Evolution.
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Wasn't Time Splitters 2 originally being made for Gamecube and ported to PS2 and Xbox during development? Maybe I'm misremembering. Underrated game, either way.

It's crazy that Mario Sunshine came out within the first year. It felt like I was waiting forever for that to come out back in the day.
 
Friendly Primarina said:
You're thinking of Goldeneye 25, a Source port that was shut down by MGM. AFAIK, the most "modern" port of Goldeneye is either the unreleased XBLA version that was leaked, or the NSW/Xbox Game Pass versions
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I was thinking of decompilation ports, like that native PC version of Mario 64, or the native PC version of Perfect Dark, all made by fans.

Goldeneye 25 was a fan remake iirc.

The XBLA version that leaked looks horrible. I would try it, but I don't know how good 360 emulation is.

I know there was a switch version, but it's an inferior port. Textures are messed up, breakables are glitched, and muzzle flashes are reduced.
 
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Tom Nook's Gloryhole said:
One thing I'll always love about emulators is how I can go and download a ROM of a game I wanted to play as a kid, boot it up, and within 5 minutes realise I'd have been crushed to spend money as a kid to play a game that shitty.

It shows just how good we have it nowadays as if a game is completely dogshit I can refund it, whereas good fucking luck taking that PS2 copy of Fight Club to the video game store for a refund as they'll smugly say "Sorry, once the seal is broken you can't return it :) "
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Usually, yes, it goes like that.
Or it goes the other way: the game is better than the current state of the genre, as seen in examples like SMB3 and Super Metroid, etc.
 
Baraka Obama said:
First ~year had Melee, Rogue Leader, Monkey Ball, REmake, RE: Zero, Eternal Darkness, Mario Sunshine, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime, plus good multiplatform games that suited the console with TimeSplitters 2, Nightfire, and Turok: Evolution.

Was that less than the PS2? Sure, but it was honestly a lot more than Xbox offered which rode on Halo hype for a long time.

Market demographics always seemed a much bigger issue (gamecube was for kids), that and the audience they ended up with for N64 of shooter fans and people wanting maximum graphics broke for Xbox.
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The Xbox and PS2 could play DVD's and I think that's what ultimately tilted it for them. That and Nintendo has never been able to escape being considered a kiddy console. And for good reason.
 
BrunoMattei said:
The Xbox and PS2 could play DVD's and I think that's what ultimately tilted it for them. That and Nintendo has never been able to escape being considered a kiddy console. And for good reason.
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The DVD contributed to extra sales no doubt, but the PS2 was also the followup to the most successful home console until that date, the hype was off charts, it was going to be a success with or without the DVD. As for the second part, the SNES and N64 weren't seen as excessively kiddy, in fact I'd say the N64 was a dudebro console. The GameCube's demise was a combination of kiddy hardware look, the loss of Rare (which provided the dudebro factor previously), no GTA 3 and the gimmick format that punished 3rd parties again.
 
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I might as well ask:
I recently played around with the free games Sega gave out on the Android. One of them was Crazy Taxi, and I noticed that one of the songs was missing and the real world brands(Pizza Hut, KFC ect.) are gone. This made me wonder what other differences this port has over other versions, but I can't seem to find any documentation for this version of the game. Does anyone here know what the general changes between different ports are, and how Android fares?
 
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BrunoMattei said:
If anything, the Genesis was "dudebro" due to the popularity of the Madden games.
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The Genesis was marketed in its early days as being more "adult" than the NES was, not in "adult" like T&A (not necessarily, at least) but it was very much "you're older, time to upgrade the type of games you play" with a newer, better-looking console. This type of marketing was only around 1989-1991 before the SNES was released, then after the SNES was released their marketing became more centered around Sonic the Hedgehog and instead of being an improvement on the NES in every way technologically speaking, it only had a slightly higher clock speed than the SNES did, and that was exploited by marketing as having "blast processing" (otherwise, the SNES did everything else better).

The "older games, older kid" did sort of work for a while until the PlayStation came out and basically copied that scheme for an even older audience.

The Nintendo 64 was the "kiddie" console in the late 1990s, partly due to its design, partly due to the specter of censorship Nintendo had, and of course Pokémon, which was extremely successful from a marketing standpoint but it didn't help Nintendo's reputation for being as having video games for a younger set.
 
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