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Data Graham posted:and it was unplayably terrible
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SCheeseman posted:Excuse me, the replay song is rad. I wasn't talking about Virtua Racer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2oyweqZ7WM
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LifeSunDeath posted:Had a bunch of 32x and sega CD games, and one SegaCD+32x game... I can't imagine what a mess it must've been to build a 32x cd game
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Mar 5, 2020 18:58
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Was the SNES version of Doom the one that didn't have a soundtrack?
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Mar 5, 2020 19:07
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The Jaguar version didn't have a soundtrack during the game. It was otherwise a pretty good port, most other console ports derive from it.
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SCheeseman posted:Excuse me, the replay song is rad. drat, have a copy on my shelf and never hear this. It slaps! azurite has a new favorite as of 19:32 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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Mar 5, 2020 19:20
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Mak0rz posted:I wasn't talking about Virtua Racer It's kind of incredible how much they hosed the music up, there's re-orchestrations that manage to do a much better job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FehpU0sjXrQ
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Bloopsy posted:Was the SNES version of Doom the one that didn't have a soundtrack? The SNES version is notable for having one of least lovely renditions of the soundtrack on console. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb-smObIC_g
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stuffed crust punk posted:I can't imagine what a mess it must've been to build a 32x cd game Yeah, but you'd have a market of, like, 5 persons, because they needed the original console + 2 add-ons. E: Here's all the console Dooms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=784MUbDoLjQ klafbang has a new favorite as of 19:35 on Mar 5, 2020 |
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I still have mine and play it at least once a week. It's interesting trying to get the right combination of NTSC CD games, with CD-BIOS loaded via the flashcart and the 50/60Hz as all my hardware are PAL.
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I bought a dedicated MP3 player because that's what I was raised with and I'm a neanderthal who can't listen to music on his phone. I get really agitated watching the battery go down on it, like I know I could be using the phone for something else.
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Max Coveri posted:I bought a dedicated MP3 player because that's what I was raised with and I'm a neanderthal who can't listen to music on his phone. I get really agitated watching the battery go down on it, like I know I could be using the phone for something else. extremely same  music drains my phone, and my mp3 player goes like 3 days between charges
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32x Virtua Racing was the most complete version right up until the Switch release. It was awesome and completely blew the Genesis version out of the water. It was better in many respects than the Saturn version too. I grew up on 32x doom, which despite its faults was still really fun. So now the PC soundtrack sounds a bit odd to me because the 32x version is so burned in my brain I really do wish the 32x had gotten a better shake. It was more capable than it had time to show. If devs had a chance to learn it and get good with it, it could have been pretty cool. Alas......
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:32x Virtua Racing was the most complete version right up until the Switch release. It was awesome and completely blew the Genesis version out of the water. It was better in many respects than the Saturn version too. Yeah it was awesome, I loved mine too...but then PS1 came out and it was like "welp this is all going in the trash". Actually I gave my whole 32xCD system and games to a friend, not sure if he kept them...I think funcoland had gone defunct at this point or I would have attempted selling it.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:. I remember the Adlib version being a decent version of it, I thought the Adlib and Genesis used the same Yamaha FM chip, so I have no idea why it sounds like crap on the Sega...
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:32x Virtua Racing was the most complete version right up until the Switch release. It was awesome and completely blew the Genesis version out of the water. It was better in many respects than the Saturn version too. Genesis and 32x both still had some life left in them, but SoJ, as part of their "genius" plan, canceled them plus the Sega CD to focus on the Saturn, while Nintendo was still raking in money with the SNES.
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The 32X had too many bottlenecks to be considered "good", it can barely manage outputting 2D graphics at 30fps due to poor fillrate. It had some potential when doing 3D but the Playstation absolutely thrashes it.
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Sega could've made a lock-on peripheral to make it more powerful instead of Saturn 
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The Saturn should have been an add-on to the 32x, thereby increasing the tower of power
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Somebody in the Retro Games thread mentioned wanting to get a Pelican Case with custom laser cut foam for a Genesis/CD/32X setup. So they could reenact the "Doom" scene from The Color of Money. Not going to lie, I priced it out and it wasn't cheap. Even if you went with a Monoprice case.
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They have storm cases with little square foam you just pull out to fit around your poo poo. It wouldn't be form-hugging but it also wont be $400
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The Saturn should have been good, but it was bad.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The Saturn should have been an add-on to the 32x, thereby increasing the tower of power I like where your head is at. More mix and match collectable add-ons. Just one more and you can play Video CDs like the best of em.
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I like to imagine an alternate universe where Sega is still in the console market but they're competing with Xbone, PS4 and Switch with a lumbering golem of Genesis expansion hardware
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azurite posted:I like where your head is at. More mix and match collectable add-ons. Just one more and you can play Video CDs like the best of em. The Saturn had a MPEG cartridge so it could play VCDs.
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Oh, then wait til you hear about my idea for a dial-up modem!
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Randaconda posted:Genesis and 32x both still had some life left in them, but SoJ, as part of their "genius" plan, canceled them plus the Sega CD to focus on the Saturn, while Nintendo was still raking in money with the SNES.
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I think that's true. There were plans for the 32x carts to work with the Saturn, or the Saturn having BC, then they shoved the 3D specs in and didn't have time or money for the interoperability to work.
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Collateral Damage posted:If I remember correctly, the 32X/Saturn debacle was the result of competition between Sega in the US and Sega in Japan. Developed in parallel with neither being aware of the other and both succumbing to managerial/marketing fuckery. Yeah, Sega of Japan got a new boss, and unlike the old one, he wasn't a fan of the Americans doing weird things like "being successful" or "making tons of money", so he stopped that poo poo real quick. He got his wish, Saturn was successful in Japan.
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How hard could it be to make a modern stackable console... Not happy with 30fps gaming? Just bolt four PS4s together for 120fps!
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Console extensions are a pretty terrible idea. It reduces your potential market from "the entire world" to "people who bought the base system." The same considerations from game makers deciding whether to build for the base system or the system with extension. Something similar is true for stacking identical consoles. Game makers already hate multi-processing, so there's no way they'd be taking advantage of a system with even longer latency between components. So, why bother with the increased complexity to target a smaller market? You do not get increased speed unless the game is explicitly made to take advantage of it.
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Plan 9 from Bell Labs console. I'll start the wiki.
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PS6 is gonna be a dongle that you plug into a ps3. Plot twist: it only works on the backwards compatible ones
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Jerry Cotton posted:Plan 9 from Bell Labs console. I'll start the wiki. I think they thought Inferno might fit in that space, actually... RIP
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Bloopsy posted:Was the SNES version of Doom the one that didn't have a soundtrack? Mak0rz posted:I wasn't talking about Virtua Racer the SNES's soundtrack was loving great and better than the PC version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-o1_i6KKvs
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I guess it might be better than the soundtrack as played through an OPL2, but Doom on PC could sound pretty fuckin' great when played using something more advanced.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:the SNES's soundtrack was loving great and better than the PC version Sounds like what the PC version would sound like in a really large room if you were on the other side of the room from the PC
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Meanwhile... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gEkNVq1ct0&t=8s
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:the SNES's soundtrack was loving great and better than the PC version Like It's coming out of a tin can?
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The SNES version sounds pretty good at the time unless you had very good sound card. Here is a pretty good comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9IRWOzs0T0 We have been spoiled by the source port music and remasters.
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