|
kirbysuperstar posted:No, ABXY. If I remember right it was.. I had a brain fart and forgot there exists a shift and ctrl on the right side
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 04:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 30, 2024 03:54 |
|
|
fishmech posted:Depends on your battery type really. Alkalines last a lot longer in it than cheap zinc-carbon/zinc-chloride batteries (often sold as "heavy duty" but they're only heavy duty in comparison to batteries from like 1910). Not just to the amount you'd expect because alkalines naturally hold more charge, but also because the power draw level on the device is really too high for those cheap batteries to handle well. I can't remember what video it was from, but "Ah, Heavy Duty batteries: the lightest of duty battery on the market."
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 05:00
|
|
|
 Updated my Everdrive 64 V2 cart with the latest pack after not having done so for two years. poo poo's changed. Wise Fwom Yo Gwave fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Dec 13, 2016 |
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 05:02
|
|
|
Replaced the crappy Qanba stick with a Sanwa JLF 4-way My goal is to get to the donkey kong kill screen in 2017.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 05:14
|
|
|
man why does MAME still come with bilinear filtering on by default
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 05:19
|
|
|
Ranter posted:Replaced the crappy Qanba stick with a Sanwa JLF 4-way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfGphfksi3I
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 05:27
|
|
|
Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 05:38
|
|
|
d0s posted:man why does MAME still come with bilinear filtering on by default Why in the gently caress does everything do this by default, it looks hideous Retroarch, Broglia's android emulators...
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 05:46
|
|
|
d0s posted:man why does MAME still come with bilinear filtering on by default I fixed it. It's very pretty now.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 06:25
|
|
|
Ranter posted:I fixed it. It's very pretty now. The filtering on FPSE for Android is kinda useful because otherwise text looks weird. Might be because its a wee phone I spent 30 bucks on. But its still less of a dirty smear of vaseline than the N64 had. On the upside when I turn frame limiter off I get 150-160 FPS on PS1 games. It looks nice unless you are a MUST HAVE ALL TEH PIXELS type. But you can have pixels but then text looks funny. Unless I am doing something wrong. (Well besides Retrogaming in specific and gaming in general mind you but I don't want to much think that path. My Zoloft aint strong enough.) I'll take a well done basic filtering to have proper looking text than some of those 2SaiEagle type interpolation thingamajobbers. They make poo poo look bad. Except for pure 3d/vector games which they can sometimes be good. Unless they have text on the screen and then it stops being good in small ways. Also I don't get the whole scanlines thing some people insist on. Especially emulated ones. Most of us never really were that aware of scanlines on our TVs honestly. RF interference? Yeah that was a right pain and ungodly bad if you had a TV/Game switch and VHF screws and even worse a non cable ready TV and that goddamned ohm converter thing. Scanlines? Not really. Course back then I even thought the Game Gear's screen was a marvel so time and technology makes things we were once cool with annoying now.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 07:45
|
|
|
univbee posted:If all he wants is to smoke a Tecmo Bowl, go to your nearest closet and pull out the OG Wii stuffed in there, and get component cables for it online if needed. Pick up Tecmo Bowl for 500 Wii Points because those are still a thing, or softmod it. As a bonus, if he really wants a true NES controller you can just get one of the ones intended for the NES Classic once they stopped being scalped for triple digits and it'll work there. This is in all likelihood your least expensive solution, not to mention dead simple (and difficult to break in exotic ways), and gives you wireless controllers which work very reliably. NB: Tecmo Bowl on VC cuts out the player names due to not wanting to renew the NFLPA license. But as long as you remember Bo Jackson's number you should be good.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 08:06
|
|
|
I won't play a WonderSwan emulator unless it has a filter that just makes it look like absolute blurry vomit trash.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 08:09
|
|
|
What's with the 3ds virtual console release of game gear columns? It's so blurry! Are all the GG games like that on the VC?
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 08:28
|
|
|
Speaking of Tecmo Bowl, it makes me happy inside to see those Kia commercials during football games now which reference it, and the unstoppability of Bo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYT0vS4Z2d4
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 08:43
|
|
|
RZA Encryption posted:What's with the 3ds virtual console release of game gear columns? It's so blurry! Are all the GG games like that on the VC? There's a blur setting that's on by default.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 09:05
|
|
|
kirbysuperstar posted:I won't play a WonderSwan emulator unless it has a filter that just makes it look like absolute blurry vomit trash. I use a WonderSwan Crystal what is this blurry vomit trash you speak of? 
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 15:43
|
|
|
RZA Encryption posted:What's with the 3ds virtual console release of game gear columns? It's so blurry! Are all the GG games like that on the VC? It's emulating the original screen, and probably pretty accurately.  Also speaking of terrible filters, GG games don't look right without the vertical scanlines.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 16:19
|
|
|
Edit: Of course, I was looking past the obvious watermark.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 16:21
|
|
|
Captain Rufus posted:My Zoloft aint strong enough.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 18:07
|
|
|
Charles Get-Out posted:2 hours sounds really low, I had a Game Gear as a kid and it would last entire 4+ hour car rides no problem. It is really funny to think you're paying over a dollar an hour to play Game Gear.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 18:11
|
|
|
The rechargeable battery pack got me pretty far back in the day.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 18:22
|
|
|
Got my SCART cables from retrogamingcables yesterday. Plugged them into my PVM, turned on Super Metroid, tears of nostalgic joy. Which is funny because there's no way in hell it looked this good when I played it as a kid, but it feels so faithful to that experience and what I remember it looking like.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 18:46
|
|
|
BrownClown posted:Got my SCART cables from retrogamingcables yesterday. Plugged them into my PVM, turned on Super Metroid, tears of nostalgic joy. Because as a kid it looked perfect  You just didn't notice things like dot crawl back then. So now that you do, them not being there is just like when you were a kid
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 19:15
|
|
|
PaletteSwappedNinja posted:There's a blur setting that's on by default. Neat that you can turn it off. Looks awful. Elliotw2 posted:It's emulating the original screen, and probably pretty accurately. I haven't had a working Game Gear in decades. I didn't remember it looking bad, in fact, I remember being amazed with it, probably because of vvvv Uncle at Nintendo posted:Because as a kid it looked perfect And yeah, that thing ate batteries like mad. Once my parents found out my Genesis 2's power adapter worked with it, my portable became a lot less portable.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 19:20
|
|
|
RZA Encryption posted:And yeah, that thing ate batteries like mad. Once my parents found out my Genesis 2's power adapter worked with it, my portable became a lot less portable. I was lucky and had a car adapter for my Nomad, so I could at least play it in the car. Don't recall using batteries more than a handful of times because of how fast that sucker burned through them.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 19:23
|
|
|
Uncle at Nintendo posted:Because as a kid it looked perfect Yup, I think you're right. Having nothing to compare it against (like HD consoles and TVs) at the time, would have meant a lot of those imperfections just went unseen to me.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 19:35
|
|
|
Uncle at Nintendo posted:It is really funny to think you're paying over a dollar an hour to play Game Gear. What was really funny was trying to get my parents to buy me new batteries all the time. When my rich friend gave me his old brick Gameboy and his rechargeable external battery-pill-thing was the day I went Nintendo and never looked back. At least until I bought a Saturn cause the Saturn owns. edit: BrownClown posted:Got my SCART cables from retrogamingcables yesterday. Plugged them into my PVM, turned on Super Metroid, tears of nostalgic joy. I got my cables in yesterday too and my favorite results were with my 32-bit systems. My 8-bit stuff looks almost too perfect so it's throwing me off a little bit. Nancy fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Dec 13, 2016 |
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 19:54
|
|
|
Captain Rufus posted:stuff Why did you quote me then write all that?
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 20:26
|
|
|
Why does the Game Gear have vertical scanlines, anyway?
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 20:33
|
|
|
How necessary are things like heatsinks for the Raspberry Pi 3 when using it for retropie? I'd like to try it for 16-bit emulation but I'd like to keep the price of entry low in case I end up having problems with it like I have every other time I've tried to rig any kind of TV emulation box that wasn't just an old PC. On the other hand, I don't want to skip extra hardware for it if that's what makes it usable for this purpose. Most of the all-in-one kits that have a case, heatsinks, SD card, power supply, etc. are up there in the $70 to $80 range which is a lot of money I could put toward something else.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 21:00
|
|
|
I have nothing but the base Pi 3 for my Retropie and have never had an issue. You would probably need a heatsink if you wanted to overclock it for N64 or later stuff but anything from PS1 down works fine without any of that stuff.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 21:03
|
|
|
DoctorWhat posted:Why does the Game Gear have vertical scanlines, anyway? Most low res color LCDs work that way, they're not really scanlines. You're just seeing the relatively large sub-pixels for each of red, green and blue, and the relatively large space between them to cover the screen area. The Game Gear and Game Boy Color have the same 160x144 resolution, but the Game Gear LCD is physically 3.2 inches diagonally versus 2.3 inches. So you'd see sort of the same thing if you zoomed in on a GBC, though not as much because the Game Gear's backlight helps to highlight the effect. RichterIX posted:How necessary are things like heatsinks for the Raspberry Pi 3 when using it for retropie? I'd like to try it for 16-bit emulation but I'd like to keep the price of entry low in case I end up having problems with it like I have every other time I've tried to rig any kind of TV emulation box that wasn't just an old PC. On the other hand, I don't want to skip extra hardware for it if that's what makes it usable for this purpose. You don't really need heatsinks, but since you can get packets of them for like $5 it doesn't hurt to do it. As a reminder though, a used laptop from like 2011 would work even better for emulation (a lot better really) and would barely cost more than a rapberry pi with cases and all that poo poo.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 21:11
|
|
|
Uncle at Nintendo posted:You just didn't notice things like dot crawl back then. I did, just didn't know it was a thing. In some caves in DQ2, due to the dot crawl it would sometimes give the illusion that the floor is scrolling along with you at high speed. Or the weird jagged edges on parts of the text boxes. I rented Darius Twin SNES and was pretty miffed that I couldn't read the score in the first stage (red text on a blue background, this doesn't work well using RF or composite). I'm the weird idiot that insists on using bilinear since I scale using non-integers to fill my desktop (still constrained to 4:3 of course, I'm not that retarded  ) and I can't stand the resulting non-uniform objects that would otherwise be displayed. Like so: CRTs didn't have perfectly square pixels, anyway, that's probably why MAME has it on by default. You can also reduce the blur by bumping up the prescale setting. At least on BizHawk, using 2x is quite an improvement. No prescale:  2x prescale: 
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 22:42
|
|
|
Stop doing non-integer scaling and play in a goddamn window/with borders like an adult.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 22:55
|
|
|
Thanks for the retropie advice. Maybe I will just hunt the pawn shops for a cheap old i3 laptop or something. The tiny-ness of the Pi is appealing but I've been burned on other little media boxes that ended up not working well before.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 22:59
|
|
|
DoctorWhat posted:Stop doing non-integer scaling and play on a goddamn PVM like a king. Fixed this for you. RichterIX posted:Thanks for the retropie advice. Maybe I will just hunt the pawn shops for a cheap old i3 laptop or something. The tiny-ness of the Pi is appealing but I've been burned on other little media boxes that ended up not working well before. Pi are really only good for retrogaming if you want to work it into a little project or portable unit. If that's what your after it will work really well for stuff up to about PS1, but might have trouble running more complicated PS1 games.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 23:15
|
|
|
Charles Get-Out posted:Fixed this for you. I mean, yeah, but non-integer scaling is exactly as bad as stretching to the wrong aspect ratio and so many people don't GET that.
|
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 23:30
|
|
|
Non integer scaling + scanlines gives me a really nice look on my TV - juuuuuuust soft enough to feel like I'm playing on an old TV over S-Video or something. Don't care if it perfectly accurate, I'm playing to enjoy the game, not create a exact replica of my childhood. EDIT: Also you're pants-on-head crazy if you think non-integer upscaling is as bad as wrong aspect ratio. Crackbone fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Dec 13, 2016 |
|
#
?
Dec 13, 2016 23:52
|
|
|
I don't know what to do with some of y'all. Therefore I will distract myself.   Bonus : zallard1, me and SRK Funkdoc streaming from Twitch during ASX. Stupid audio delay. 
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2016 00:06
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 30, 2024 03:54 |
|
|
Code Jockey posted:Speaking of Tecmo Bowl, it makes me happy inside to see those Kia commercials during football games now which reference it, and the unstoppability of Bo. This is amazing. Just like the others in the comments section, I'm trading in my car for a Kia thanks to this commercial.
|
|
#
?
Dec 14, 2016 00:30
|
|
