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

I’m fairly certain. I remember when a ZSNES update that came out on Christmas Day allowed to run Super Mario RPG, was either 1997 or 1998. The 486 I had came with a 14.4k modem, which meant it took some time to download even the 2-4 MB SNES roms and I remember hearing about this amazing software called QuickTime that no way could my 486 actually run. The PC manufacturer was Canon, which was odd they’d make PCs to begin with but it didn’t last very long. I don’t remember ZSNES giving me many issues but that felt like forever ago so it could’ve been giving me more issues than I remember.
ZSNES on a 486 was a nightmare and required a ton of tweaks to make anything run playably, and anything too complex was a mess even with heavy frame skipping.

All I could play on my DX4-100 were JRPGs, and even then it was at N64-level shit framerates!
 
Miyamoto on why Nintendo is focusing more on movies:

I’m fully convinced now that Nintendo believes old games poof out of existence when a new system comes out, and that taking down emulators and rom sites is a righteous crusade to maintain the balance of nature. It would explain everything they’re doing.
I’ve always found Miyamoto’s interviews to be obnoxious. It feels like he feels he has to be this mix of quirky, enigmatic, and visionary to where it ends up being the worst versions of all the above. Everything he says ends up being contradictory to his interviews so it seems like even he himself doesn’t pay attention to his interviews.
 
The online discourse around the Analogue 3D is really weird. All the tech review youtubers who have compared it to an actual N64 have said it's near perfect. I've seen people like this Kaze Emanuar guy claiming that the timing is off by up to 15% vs a real N64, but that seems to be based on his weird N64 homebrew that he's autistically programmed? I've seen other people complain about input lag, while others claim there is none. Some people say Space Station Silicon Valley works, others say it doesn't. Some people are claiming there was never a restock, but Analogue just sold off all the units left over from cancelled orders. Some of the claims are almost comical like one guy I saw on X complaining that Ocarina of Time drops to a single digit frame rate when there's a lot happening while playing on a Analogue 3D, something that also happened on an original N64.

I assume all the Youtube reviewers like Bob of Wulff Den and Russ from Retro Game Corps who have zero issues pointing out device's flaws wouldn't make an exception for the Analogue 3D. Though I don't have one in my position yet, I can also guarantee games are not running 15% slower than they usually do assuming the footage in those videos is from an actual Analogue 3D.

Whats the deal here? Are the units inconsistent in terms of quality control? Is there some console warring going on due to the M64 coming out soon too?
I've been testing it out, however I've only so far been using an everdrive which has been incredibly tricky. For instance I couldn't get the recent dump of Viewpoint to load and I swear I was running into weird issues in Star Fox 64. I wouldn't be surprised if the issues were because its running faster.

I still need to try out a real cart but the 3D has been super weird since I've tried it.
 
No comment on Analogue one way or another, but Kaze is always autistically condescending about N64 stuff. He always whines about how terribly programmed Mario 64 is (ignore how crazy impressive it was by 1996 standards) and back when Mario in the Multiverse released, he was basically the “[coolest thing ever made] fucking sucks actually” meme incarnate. The guy clearly knows his stuff on a technical level, but he’s extremely whiny whenever something is slightly off.
I would probably say Mario 64 has better programming than Windows (since at least XP), which isn't saying much but games that only have bugs when you push the limits of the program aren't really bugs. A great variety of the game's glitches are something you would almost never encounter in a playthrough unless looking for it.
 
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rip looks like he let it get to him
Why do none of these people just come out and say "I don't care, suck my dick, trannies!"? He even acknowledges that it's a vocal minority and since he's the lead dev and there's no financial incentive (i assume) behind this why care what troons on Twitter say? Why let your passion get taken away by the anonymous, joyless online mob? They'll find something else to get upset about in a matter of minutes anyway.
 
I’ve always found Miyamoto’s interviews to be obnoxious. It feels like he feels he has to be this mix of quirky, enigmatic, and visionary to where it ends up being the worst versions of all the above. Everything he says ends up being contradictory to his interviews so it seems like even he himself doesn’t pay attention to his interviews.
Extremely late, but that quote was a mistranslation of an out-of-context quote from an old interview. What he really said was along the lines of “old games are difficult to access compared to new games, but old movies are always easily accessible”. Which is a lot better, except Nintendo are usually the ones responsible for making those old games hard to access in the first place.
 
“old games are difficult to access compared to new games, but old movies are always easily accessible”
WOW.
IF ONLY YOU COULD JUST. PUT AN ENTIRE CATALOG OF GAMES INTO A KART. AND SELL IT.
GOOD THING MOVIES DON'T HAVE DRM TO WATCH THEM, OTHERWISE THEY WOULDN'T BE FOREVER.
UNLIKE GAMES.
 
Really Devs who don't want to deal with internet drama should just learn to keep their mouth shut and ignore these people like they aren't worth shit. It would work wonders for them in the long run.
Unfortunately, that is just not how this often works.

The reason is because there's always one activist. The devs who just want to do shit just default to letting the activist do whatever until it all burns down. It happens all the damned time.
 
*in my possession
You don't understand. My platonic male friend has the Analogue 3D, but he lives in a small room with a single bed, so we have to sit on the bed one in front of the other to fit in the room. I usually sit behind him so, I've been waiting on the wireless controller to come in so I can play from my position. Also the room is really hot so we have to take our clothes off.
 
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I’ve always found Miyamoto’s interviews to be obnoxious. It feels like he feels he has to be this mix of quirky, enigmatic, and visionary to where it ends up being the worst versions of all the above. Everything he says ends up being contradictory to his interviews so it seems like even he himself doesn’t pay attention to his interviews.
He gets his taint tongued no matter what he says, so he spouts a lot of pseudo-philosophical bullshit.

The most telling thing about how much he’s out of touch was an interview with the director of Splatoon where it was more or less confirmed that Miyamoto has no clue about modern gaming concepts and has vetoed a lot of ideas that would have made money, or has insinuated himself in the creative process and made games less creative and less enjoyable by insisting on his out of touch ideas replacing innovative concepts from younger developers.
 
The internet really is in such a sad state right now where people can't even create anything without some kind of backlash. And if it's not some retard tranny going after them then it's some kind of bullshit censorship from advertisers or a DMCA/C&D from some company or copyright troll.
Anyone even remotely connected to the emulation scene needs to be anonymous (pseudonyms can be used and discarded as needed), or enjoy walking on eggshells for the rest of their lives. I've said that mostly because of the litigation threat. Nintendont could always become more litigious and create bad new precedents for other companies. Frontends that download emulators for you or use copyrighted images or trademarks could be targeted.

The Discord server cock-up was an unfortunate error and perhaps easy to overlook. Nobody should use Discord at all for many reasons, but it will take forever for the word to get out on that one. Too late for Usagi. Hopefully, someone out there will learn the right lessons, e.g. never apologize, don't be easily identifiable, don't use Discord, or don't get involved with emulation/open source in the first place.
 
Nobody should use Discord at all for many reasons, but it will take forever for the word to get out on that one
Yea, when a newer alternative that gets shilled to high-holy heaven like Discord did when people were blasting that shit all over image boards.

You can tell people Discord gives your computer a virus and will give you cancer-aids and make your dick fall off from excess usage and they will STILL go "yea, but how long would that take? My computer is buggy anyway so it wouldn't matter!". That's how retarded people are these days and how bad the brain-rot has become with always needing to be online and part of a """community""".

Or you'll wind up having what is currently happening with X and BlueSky, where now you have different companies/people shilling for one or the other, trying to co-exist for popularity. Radio show hosts on SiriusXM have been talking about BlueSky more frequently and telling people to go there instead of X.
 
Or you'll wind up having what is currently happening with X and BlueSky, where now you have different companies/people shilling for one or the other, trying to co-exist for popularity. Radio show hosts on SiriusXM have been talking about BlueSky more frequently and telling people to go there instead of X.
Agree on all points, but I think we've seen Bluesky peak and decline (which is considered worse for a smaller social media site because of the network effect). I'm not sure that outside influencers will be able to prop it up. Waffles.

Bluesky Reaches 38M Users, Though Post Volume Is Declining (archive)
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Bluesky Statistics: How Many People Use Bluesky? (archive)
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The internet really is in such a sad state right now where people can't even create anything without some kind of backlash. And if it's not some retard tranny going after them then it's some kind of bullshit censorship from advertisers or a DMCA/C&D from some company or copyright troll.

The guy just wanted to do a passion project and felt he had the skills and experience that other people in the emulation community didn't have to do it. Sure it seemed ambitious, but I didn't think it was a complete scam.

BTW the actual lead dev posted a public build earlier today. Normally Patreon members get early access builds but they probably wanted to at least show people that this is a real project and not a scam so they don't abandon ship too quickly.
If you're a creator of any kind. Especially in the emulation community, the best thing to do is make it as hard as possible for your community to interact with you.
 
Anybody dabble in Switch emulators? I don't want to give goytendo any more shekels and Prime 4 is essentially the last thing I might have wanted but it's looking iffy as of the last couple trailers. So I expect the Switch 1 version to be broken fairly soon. Are any of the Switch 1 emulators good quality and easy to install?
 
Anybody dabble in Switch emulators? I don't want to give goytendo any more shekels and Prime 4 is essentially the last thing I might have wanted but it's looking iffy as of the last couple trailers. So I expect the Switch 1 version to be broken fairly soon. Are any of the Switch 1 emulators good quality and easy to install?
Every Switch 1 game can be emulated day 1 (Actually earlier than day 1 for most games). It's as easy as downloading the emulators and googling the files the emulator asks you for because they're trying to pretend you got those files from your own system that you dumped yourself.

Dragon Ball Sparking Zero and Pokémon Legends Z-A are some of the recent releases I tried emulating on the Ayn Thor and they ran well. Some games still have graphical issues though like Skyward Sword HD where everyone has creepy broken eyes and DQ HD remakes where the lighting breaks sometimes.

But also where's your modded Switch? That's the best way to play Switch 1 games if you really don't want to pay money. Every Switch model can be modded now but post 2017 ones just need some soldering.
 
Dragon Ball Sparking Zero and Pokémon Legends Z-A are some of the recent releases I tried emulating on the Ayn Thor and they ran well.
That reminds me. Have there been any not!3ds emulation machines that have a 3D slider or equivalent? I want to play games that normally need the 3D, like Super Mario 3D World… and the other 3DS games I’m sure use 3D.
 
That reminds me. Have there been any not!3ds emulation machines that have a 3D slider or equivalent? I want to play games that normally need the 3D, like Super Mario 3D World… and the other 3DS games I’m sure use 3D.
3D Land is the 3DS game. 3D World is the Wii U game.

Azahar supports it either via side by side mode so you can use it with any VR goggles or with some niche device that can do 3D.

But if 3D mode is really that important to you just get a 3DS and mod it yourself. I've tried out Azahar on the Thor and even on a device powerful enough to emulate Switch and some PC games, 3DS still isn't perfect. There's a lot of shader compilation stutters and / or minor graphical issues on a lot of games. The only improvement over actual hardware is upscaling.
 
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