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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Anyone here got a gscartsw? It's good Audio squeaks a bit when you turn on/off anything plugged into it, though it's not really a dealbreaker PaletteSwappedNinja posted:A lot of Capcom's SNES games have music that's clearly out of tune or off-key. Megaman X3's probably the absolute worst but Final Fight and their Mickey Mouse games are pretty bad as well Final Fight, though... 
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Ofecks posted:Were there any Saturn games that actually used its crazy FM chip for music? The SCSP was pretty good with samples too, so I don't think there are too many. It was probably much easier to use CD tracks, stream compressed music, or use samples. Nights has dynamic music, so it may be close to what you're looking for.
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Shadow Hog posted:Hi, I have one Thank you! Mine does this too and I thought it was something specific to my set up. I'm glad to hear it's not only mine.
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Djarum posted:Rock n Roll Racing is pretty fantastic in MSU-1, as is the Zeldas. I am quite looking forward to someone getting Final Fantasy 6 working with it. I think the opera scene with actual opera singers would be fantastic. drat, looks like they're out of stock of the NES Everdrive. What do you mean about the label? It looks like the one they have is somehow different than the normal Everdrive label. Is that what you're referring to?
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So Aliexpress is selling replacement GBA-SP backlit screens now, for anyone who wanted to install one in an original GBA (or just fix their old AGS-101): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/For-Nintendo-Game-Boy-Advance-SP-GBA-SP-Screen-LCD-OEM-Backlit-Brighter-Highlight/32622199888.html Anyone know if these are just new old stock that someone found in a warehouse, or if they are newly manufactured screens?
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Macintosh HD posted:drat, looks like they're out of stock of the NES Everdrive. What do you mean about the label? It looks like the one they have is somehow different than the normal Everdrive label. Is that what you're referring to? So evidently of you get the light pipes installed on your cart shell (and you should they look great and are functional as hell) they glue on their cart label and then drill the hole for the light pipe so it looks flawless. Problem is for myself is I have access to a printer that printed original screen printed OEM labels in the 80s and 90s. So I wanted to print a label I designed and put it on. I put on my order to not put it on but in the Black Friday rush he didn't get a chance to talk to me about it. He apologized and I am not THAT upset about it. Getting the glue off of the label and cart shell seems to be harder than I expected. I might just order a replacement shell and craft my own. Again I am the 1% of the 1% so don't take my problem as anything again Stoneage Gamer since they do great work there and have been perfectly happy otherwise.
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So what do we think of this? https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/retroengine-sigma-mini-console-media-player-cool#/ Think this will actually happen?
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Strictly speaking it's a clone, but..yeah if you wanted that just buy a case for a RPi3 and put RetroPie on it. Probably be cheaper anyway.
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So I looked up what Gizmodo said about it, given that was the only place on that list I've heard of. It pretty much was "If you want to emulate a bunch of games and don't care about them being perfect and are too lazy to set something up yourself then maybe you might want this."
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Oh poo poo it was featured on OMG! Ubuntu!? Well, that just changes everything!
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My favourite thing is its not Bluetooth without a dongle, so they're not even using a Pi 3 for it. I seriously can't believe they've gotten nearly $400k for a Raspberry Pi running RetroArch in a cool case.
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I swear you can hear the whistling sound of a whopping cease-and-desist falling from the heavens towards it.
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quote:However, the truth of the matter is that these first games were excellent examples of design simplicity and component minimization because at that time only relatively crude effects were enough to fascinate eager players. Today, jaded players have become bored by the myriad of variations of these first games and increasingly more dramatic game action is required to stimulate the average player That's from 1976, less than four years after Pong hit and a year before Space Invaders really kicks the arcade into high gear. The more things change...
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space invaders was the first genuinely good video game
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Pong is fun as gently caress if you're using paddle controllers. With digital ones it's pretty mediocre
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Djarum posted:So evidently of you get the light pipes installed on your cart shell (and you should they look great and are functional as hell) they glue on their cart label and then drill the hole for the light pipe so it looks flawless. Problem is for myself is I have access to a printer that printed original screen printed OEM labels in the 80s and 90s. So I wanted to print a label I designed and put it on. I put on my order to not put it on but in the Black Friday rush he didn't get a chance to talk to me about it. He apologized and I am not THAT upset about it. Tossing the front cart shell in a ziplock bag with some Goo-Gone for an hour usually takes care of most labels.
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njsykora posted:My favourite thing is its not Bluetooth without a dongle, so they're not even using a Pi 3 for it. I seriously can't believe they've gotten nearly $400k for a Raspberry Pi running RetroArch in a cool case. The campaign is actually financially smart. The early birds were all cheaper than a fully featured RetroPi/shell/controller from other sellers. Now that they got the world's attention from literally every tech reviewer they can sell everyone else at full price.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I swear you can hear the whistling sound of a whopping cease-and-desist falling from the heavens towards it. Should of used a Jaguar case, I'm sure the 
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d0s posted:space invaders was the first genuinely good video game https://insertcredit.com/2012/11/14/ten-games-pong-is-better-than/
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jesus this is giving me mid 2000s "new games journalism" flashbacks 
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Monitor Burn posted:Tossing the front cart shell in a ziplock bag with some Goo-Gone for an hour usually takes care of most labels. Tried Goo-Gone on this. It is like they used wood glue or something. It's not like I don't have access to a billion SFC cart shells for next to nothing and I can do the light piping again it is just inconvenient.
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I use a heat gun to get labels off cart shells. Works really well and leaves little to no residue. Just don't go crazy and melt the cart or something.
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I bought Yolo Wizards RECO PCB, thing is super awesome. It's a synced autofire and button remapper board for JAMMA setups and I feel like it's almost essential for anyone messing with arcade stuff, particularly if you're into shooters. You can do something like make two buttons map to the shot button so you can apply autofire to only one of them, great for games like Blazing Star or Strikers 1945 that have charge shots. I actually had both remapping and autofire capability on my supergun sticks but the autofire was "dumb" (not tied to the game's VSYNC) and remapping required messing with a patch bay. With the RECO you do everything with button presses, it's fantastic.  This is actually an older version and has kind of a strange layout with the JAMMA edge on top which is not really ideal for me but I saved some cash so I don't really mind. RGB on shmups forum makes these, you can get em here d0s fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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senrath posted:So I looked up what Gizmodo said about it, given that was the only place on that list I've heard of. It pretty much was "If you want to emulate a bunch of games and don't care about them being perfect and are too lazy to set something up yourself then maybe you might want this." Tom's Guide is legit, but it's also the kind of website that will publish a review based on any project involving Linux. d0s posted:jesus this is giving me mid 2000s "new games journalism" flashbacks The article was written by Tim Rogers so it should.
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I'm selling some loose carts and the like in SA-Mart, mainly Super Famicom and Genesis with a few NES titles and Pomping World for the PC Engine CD: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3802045 Nothing mondo super spectacular, but if you're new to retrogaming, know someone who is, or just want some cheap original "player" copies of games, maybe check it out!
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I'm replaying MD Sparkster and while it's not as awful as I remembered it still sucks for starting with a really awful robot battle setpiece that goes on for way too long and retroactively ruins the robot battles in the other games.
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why would you sell xexyz that game is dank
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d0s posted:why would you sell xexyz that game is dank TO BE HARDCORE MERCILESS. Also, I guess, I got it on the Everdrive so I don't know that I really need a cartridge copy cluttering things up.
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I agree with at least half of these. Also, he mentioned playing connect 4 with a metronome. I need to try that.
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PaletteSwappedNinja posted:I'm replaying MD Sparkster and while it's not as awful as I remembered it still sucks for starting with a really awful robot battle setpiece that goes on for way too long and retroactively ruins the robot battles in the other games. It's a helluva lot better than SNES Sparkster's mech fight, let me tell you. A lot of people say SNES Sparkster is better but playing them back to back I can't agree at all. The Genesis game is rough but it's a solidly designed action platformer while the SNES game is littered with instant death traps and and unseen obstacles. It's the Sonic the Hedgehog problem where the game encourages you to be fast but punishes for it except unlike Sonic there's only one way through the levels.
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All speed-based 2D platformers from that era suffer the same problem: the camera sucks because they can't give you a decent worldview at the resolutions of the day. 2D speedrun platforming requires a dynamic, or at least very SPACIOUS, camera to provide the player with sufficient information to make the gameplay fair. Games like N(+(+)) and Dustforce and Sonic Generations do this right. All the classic Sonics, the Sparksters, and Freedom Planet fail miserably.
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al-azad posted:A lot of people say SNES Sparkster is better those people are insane
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Dustforce is nearly the perfect platformer. Too bad it's so boring and there's still no official controller support.
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DoctorWhat posted:All speed-based 2D platformers from that era suffer the same problem: the camera sucks because they can't give you a decent worldview at the resolutions of the day. In my opinion, this was a solved problem as of GTA(1) so Freedom Planet doesn't really have any excuse.
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DalaranJ posted:In my opinion, this was a solved problem as of GTA(1) so Freedom Planet doesn't really have any excuse. I mean, I agree, very much so. Metal Geir Skogul posted:Dustforce is nearly the perfect platformer. Too bad it's so boring and there's still no official controller support. BORING!? what planet are you from?! DoctorWhat fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Dec 18, 2016 |
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Freedom Planet is good enough that I, one day, want to make a tabletop cabinet with custom graphics etc that is dedicated to it. The story is bad enough that I want to lock out that option in the title screen. Maybe I'd also put some Sanic games on there, too.
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