/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5034617
I was on your same boat, OP, for a lot of time.
At first I exclusively emulated games on my PC playing with a keyboard but lately the combination of using save-states, rewind, fast-forward and the fact that games lost their magic in vein of being a simply selectable file from a drop down menu made me feel the experience wasn't as authentic as I wished it would be.

Then came my "real hardware only" phase. Started collecting. "I will buy every fucking game I ever emulated", I said. "This is the way the goddamn game was meant to be played, no cheats, no anything!". After realizing that it would cost me thousands of bucks that I will never have just to play a fucking easily emulatable game, I desisted from it. I still wanted to experience the authenticity of real hardware, so I managed a compromise.

Enter the Wii U and 3DS. I only play Nintendo games or games released into Nintendo consoles, you see. Lately, the hacking scene has made it such as you could inject most Virtual Console games into stand alone "channels" that make me feel I actually own the game instead of loading a ROM file. Save States are present, but are obnoxious to use and therefore I only use them for saving the game instead of spamming F1 everytime I get hit. I install NES, SNES, N64, GCN, Wii and Wii U games on my Wii U, and GB, GBC, GBA and DS games on my 3DS (the DS games sadly can't be installed as their own executables in the main 3DS menu but instead you have to launch a sub-menu that has the games in an R4-like screen).

It is the most authentic-like compromise of playing in a real console and emulating. I'm fairly content with the result.