/vr/ - Retro Games

Are you a child? What is with these threads every damn day.
That's for you to decide not us. You don't need an anonymous image board to tell you what to buy.

Figure it out for yourself.

Name the games you want to play on the N64. Make a list, and we'll tell you.

>>2282541
Yes. Every single flash cart or everdrive is worth the investment.
N64 emulation is totally hit and miss and some games simply don't work on emulator (gauntlet legends from experience, I hear Conkers doesn't work well, and others are buggy).

You get to play on WOW REAL HARDWARE and have access to the entire library for a fraction of teh cost.

I don't own any currently, but I am a large advocate for them if you actually want to -play- the games.

>playing games
>on /vr/
>not just hoarding or shitposting about them

>>2282541

Yes...

>>2282570

Conker's works very well...

>>2282607
Personally, Conker's worked mostly fine emulating for me until the final boss on Pj64 1.6.

>>2282541
if you live in the states, where scumbags charge bullshit priced for old junk, yes

>>2282635
Not just America, the Japanese are doing the same thing with their games now.

What's the best place to get these things from?

>>2282635
>value of thing goes up
>costs more as a result
Scumbags amirite?

>>2282759

>value of thing goes up
>costs more as a result

You realize the "value" of something only goes up if people decide to charge more money, right?

What's the best place to get these things from?
2nded

Do them really run out of simple rom files i.e.
SNES games will run in .sfc etc.?

>>2282635
if it has value to people, which it obviously does, it isn't "junk"

stay mad and poor

>>2282761
how old are you? twelve?
the value of something goes up based on what people think it is worth, and what people are willing to pay for it.

the pain emanating from your anal cavity is unreal

The answer is almost always yes UNLESS you already have a decent amount of vidya from the past and only want to play a few extra games. For instance, I would never buy an everdrive for N64 because there are only a handful of games i want to play that I didn't already obtain when I was younger. It'd be foolish to buy an everdrive just to play... banjo tooie? In that case its just cheaper to pick up the few games you'd like to buy.

That out of the way, if you just picked up a console and you have few/no games for it, an everdrive is the way to go as far as functionality. If I were to buy a SNES, I'd have no games for it. Rather than paying out the ass for all the notable super nintendo games, I'd just spend however much on a flashcart that can play 95% of games.

Just try to think ahead and plan out your goals. Do you care about having a physical collection of cartridges? Do you just want to play all the games? Would you end up buying more than ~100 bucks worth of video games? Get the flashcart. It may seem too steep at first but 10 bucks here and 20 bucks there and next thing you know you've spend a couple hundred on cheap pieces of plastic and silicon

guess I'll ask this here instead of making a new thread and making people like >>2282550 angry
-recommended place for a Canadian to buy flashcarts?
-how about gameboy (especially gba even though that isn't really /vr/)?

>>2282761
You're right, anon.
Everyone should be your bestest buddy and give you deals because, hey, you're just that special.
>this is what you actually think

>>2282958
>recommended place for a Canadian to buy flashcarts?
internet, probably the same places as the Americans go, just check the everdrive website, then maybe whatever that Chinese ebay knock-off was named.
http://krikzz.com/
>how about gameboy (especially gba even though that isn't really /vr/)
are you asking where to buy, or what to get? everdrive is the only answer for GB/C (see above link).
GBA however, the only one I know of, and that I can vouch for, is the thing supercard makes (they also make the best DS flashcart on the market) Note that GBA flashcarts can't play GB/C games to my knowledge. So you'll need one of each.

Now I'll ask my own question, I'm thinking about just getting an INL snes dev board instead of something from krizz. For those who dont know, its $60 for the cart and programmer, and you can also pick up NES boards later on if you want. "Downside" being that it only has 1 game at a time and you have to pad it like a repro, since it is meant to be a homebrew dev board.
Anyone have any experience with these? Are the trade-offs worth the money saved? Should I ask in the repair/mod thread instead of here?

>>2282550
A child? In /vr/?
There are more here than you can imagine.

>>2282749
> Some reseller scum on reseller sites are "The Japanese"
>I am an eBayby

>>2282541
Yes, especially with retarded prices on Nintendo games. The thing pays for itself in 4-5 games.

>>2283204
The EZ Flash IV is the best flashcart for GBA. It can play gb/c games through the goomba emulator, which was recently updated after years with no activity.

Even though the edn8 is almost twice the price, to me it's worth it for the convenience. Plus save states are neat to use on original hardware.

>>2283241
>The thing pays for itself in 4-5 games.
This.
/everyeverdrivethread

I heard the EverDrive didn't work with certain N64 games, though? Something about lack of expansion chip support....

>>2283241
>>2283257
>4-5 games
Try fucking 1 if you're after
>Earthbound
>EVO: Search for Eden
>Hagane
>Wild Guns
>Megaman 7
>Dracula X
>Metal Warriors
Even shit like Megaman X2 and X3 or Harvest fucking Moon is getting insane.

>>2283272

Why did you quote me?

>>2282864
> Would you end up buying more than ~100 bucks worth of video games?
>>2283241
>>2283249

>The thing pays for itself in 4-5 games.


>http://store.krikzz.com/products/everdrive-64-v30
$182

Seriously,why are they so fucking expensive? $182 seems like an arbitrary price. I don't mind paying a two bills for a whole game collection if it could play everything, but as far as I remember these didn't even support everything?

>nearly $200
>might as well buy the fucking games

>>2283365
Not our fault if your crappy American minimum wage can't pay for luxury goods.

>>2283257
You might be thinking of the sd2snes or super everdrive,the everdrive 64 has 100% compatibility

>>2283365
Its pretty funny because it seems a shitload of people on /vr/ are poorfags, and also fairly uneducated.

The flashcarts have near 100% compatibility. A lot of things that won't work on certain emulators (Actraiser 2, Mario RPG) work flawlessly on flash carts.

>200 dollars
>A whole game collection
Enjoy your 4-5 games. Or 10-20 shovelware games that are dogshit.

Seriously you people need to sit the fuck down and re-evaluate your lives if you'd rather buy 5 games for 200 bucks then a flashcart which gives you access to an entire library.

>>2283365
>http://store.krikzz.com/products/everdrive-64-v30

Thats v3 you only need v2 ,i got v2 and it does everything perfectly.

>>2283368

I actually looked it up. It SEEMS (from my admittedly limited research) that it does suffer from technical incompatibilities. Donkey Kong 64, for example, appears to have some particularly nefarious anti-piracy code that activates when played on the Everdrive.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge can spread a little light on my murky findings?

>>2283375
>DK64
Its cool cause you'd get fed up with it a quarter of the way through anyways.

>>2283212
Have you looked at prices on Japanese sites or YAJ lately, dipshit?

>>2283375
Hmm never heard about DK64 but its probably been fixed now,there is a problem with banjo tooie but you can patch the rom for it to work.

about 3 games have issues

>>2283380

Patching the fucking ROM is not acceptable at a $182 price tag.

All I should have to do is plop a known good dump of whatever ROM and go.

>>2283386
>Patching the fucking ROM is not acceptable at a $182 price tag.
v3, which is the pricey US$182 autopatches the games for you
>All I should have to do is plop a known good dump of whatever ROM and go.
that's what you do

how about you take 2 seconds and do a fucking google search next time.

i have a v2 ED64 and have 100% compatibility.
you can still buy v2.5 for less than the brand new v3

it's a no brainer for n64, unless you already have a giant collection of games. which, in that case, you should sell them all and get an ed64 and end up with extra cash in your pocket.

>>2283428

>i have a v2 ED64 and have 100% compatibility.

What about DK64?

>>2283431
worked fine, after patching, but i haven't completed the game so i can't say for sure even though, on krikzz' forums, people say they've completed it with no problem

>>2282761
Wait, you mean the value of a thing that is no longer manufactured is going up as time passes?

Who'da thought?

Bought one, and I don't regret it. Will probably end up selling my N64 carts and just use the ED64 instead.

>>2283428
>how about you take 2 seconds and do a fucking google search next time
You're asking way too much of this board. You better brace yourself beause everyone's gonna start calling you "mean and "elitist"

>>2283365
v3 has slightly higher compatibility.
v2 is half the price but frankly can run everything save for a few games like Banjo Tooie (and even then I think that got patched)

>>2282541
sorry for the sort-of-offtopic, but im curious:
is there something similar (flashcart) for ps1, ps2 and xbox? like some alternative that isnt "burn discs"?

>>2284212
For the ps1 there is a device called PSIO which is pretty much a flash cart ,a lot of people say its snake oil but they keep posting updates and its close to complete.

Ps2 you want a memory card with something called freemcboot on it,once you insert this your ps2 will play backup ps2 games and if you have the network adapter and a HDD you can rip games to the HDD.

Xbox you can either softmod it or install a modchip and rip games to the HDD

>>2283386
Again the $182 price is for the v3 cart which is unnecessary ,the v2 cart is like $120 and plays everything except 2 obscure games i think,and you only have to patch about 2 games which you could be doing while you are waiting for the roms to transfer over to the SD card.

If thats too much work for you then just buy the carts and shut up.

>>2284217
thanks for a fast reply.

so, does this mean that there are flashcarts (or similar) for every console since gen3?

Is there much of a difference between the sd2snes and Super Everdrive? I know the sd2snes has firmware that can be easily updated for better compatibility, but I'm not sure what else differentiates it from the other outside of price.

>>2283461

The funny thing is that I DID do a google search and numerous problems are the first result.

Hence why I asked for more info. So, while I don't think you're "mean and elitist", I do think you're dangerously close to sounding like an asshole. That what you meant?

>>2284231
For you and anyone else wanting to know the difference between flash carts go to retrogate.com and compare them.

I would strongly recommend shelling out for the SD2SNES though

>>2284236
Thanks, m8.
I was already considering the SD2SNES since that's what my friend has and what I know, but I figured I'd ask. The near automatic flash saving and better chip support seems like a better purchase. My friend told me that there's also apparently plans for more chip support?

>>2283379
Yes. Yes, I have. Prices average about 10x what I pay. It's almost turned into a joke when we go shopping for vidya. Check the price online. If that's not 10x what the shop is asking we're being ripped off.
Just because you get ripped off on a auction site that happens to be Japanese doesn't mean you're not an eBayby

>>2284226
There are flashcarts or similar for every well known system ever made.

>>2284226
More or less, and I would actually push that back to the 2nd gen. Atari, Intellivision, and the Colecovision all had some kind of piracy option even when they were new (usually used cassette tapes) and I know that the 2600 and maybe 7800 has an SD based flashcart sold over at atariage (though I dont know how often they're in stock, or if they're still produced).

Almost all cartridge based systems either have a multicart (Vectrex for example) or some kind of SD/USB type device. The Neo Geo and Atari Jaguar dont have anything to my knowledge, but a google search could prove me wrong.

Disk systems is where you start to have the issues finding piracy/backup/import/whatever options. Obviously there's nothing for the LaserActive, and some consoles have a copy protection on them (PS1 and Saturn come to mind). However if they do have that, then there's always some kind of "swaptrick" you can do if you dont want to mod your hardware. But even so, its possible to play burned disks in all of them.
The only systems that are actually complicated to mod are 7th gen and above. and thats mainly because if you screw up then you've just wasted $100+, not because the actual process is hard. PS2 requires a flash drive, a memory card, and one of like 16 specific (mostly cheap shovelware) games. Whereas xbox requires either a really old flashdrive and an xbox>usb cable, or a usb>xbox cable and a memory card. Gamecube is a pain in the ass and not worth bothering with when Wii's are often the same price and far easier to softmod.

>>2284323
Good for you.

Nothing is worth going to hell for eternity anon.

>>2282610
The final boss was only a pain if you actually used a keyboard to beat it.

>>2282541
Yeah n64 emulation sucks so its worth it. I wouldnt buy one for snes or something that can easily be emulated on any wii/pc/psp/android.