/vr/ - Retro Games

It’s better off this way. The regular VMU “games” are trash.

>>6229953
>rare VMU variant
There is nothing rare about Dreamcast Sakura Wars stuff (except for console variant).
Before game series revival on PS4 everything was 100-200 yen at junk bin, both games and accessories

>>6229953
It's not really destroyed when you could put the old hardware back in it.

Fuck vmus. Name one good thing about them.

>>6229953
That’s pretty dope, and who tf cares? It’s not like it was a rare game or something. I had no utility otherwise.

>>6230053
proto-DS

>>6230053
The stored your save data.

>>6229953
At least showcase it playing a Sega game or something

>>6229961
They greet you with a screech when you turn on your Dreamcast

any hardware-mods for VMUs to stop them being battery-devouring powersluts?

>>6230053
They doubled as a memory card?

>>6230353
>Visual Memory Unit
Hmnmnmnmnm.

>>6230353
Unless you filled it with any mini games, then its use as a memory card was essentially gone.

Vmu was such a stupid gimmick

>>6230350
Get a screwdriver and remove teh battery, easy mod.

>>6230053
Great idea that was cooked up too soon.
>shit battery life
>tiny little nipple buttons
>lame games

These new pi mods are undeniably cool but they kind of lack what made the VMU such a novel concept in the first place
>easy sharing of stuff data games ect. courtesy of the pokemon phenomenon
>interactive elements that enhance the console counterpart

Nintendo touches a little but on this with some pokemon titles and im sure there exists some android games that interact with larger games. I mean this does exist right? a mini game you can play on a handheld that adds to a larger console port? I would love to add progress to a game that way.

>>6230067
Never needed it for any game
>>6230513
It died because it was just a cope until cheap powerful handhelds existed, and they couldn't hold many saves and a shitty game. Closest thing is probably Pokemon go and the pedometer.

>>6230485
It was kind of silly, but it was cool for games like Resident Evil.

>>6230053
Chao garden in SA2

>>6231353
>>6231353
>Chao garden in SA2
This shit is awesome. I wish mobile games would do stuff like this more often.

>>6230053
Power Stone unlockable minigames
Making Sonic Shuffle playable

>>6231749
>Making Sonic Shuffle playable
Too bad the horrendously long load times and general lack of compelling reasons to play it over literally any Mario Party game make it once again unplayable

>>6229953
>triggered zoomer is triggered

>>6229953
How do you know the VMU wasn't already dead? imo if the thing doesn't work anymore, you're fully free to use the casing for projects.

>>6232365
b-b-but muh "preservation"

>>6229953
turning a VMU into a gameboy emulator to play pokemon on it is pretty rad OP.

it's basically a better tamogachi at that point.

>>6229953
Might as well start posting from my "consoles inside of other consoles" folder

>>6233929

>>6233932

>>6233935
Why would someone do this

>>6230513
>im sure there exists some android games that interact with larger games. I mean this does exist right? a mini game you can play on a handheld that adds to a larger console port?
In general, its been done. For example, the smartphone app for Metal Gear Solid V had a minigame which gave you resources as a reward, which you could use in the main game to pay for things like unlocking new weapons.

>>6233929
>butchered 3 extra pieces of Nintendo hardware to make a DS less useful.
Based.

>>6233932
What the fuck am I even seeing.

>>6233949
Lobotomized.

>>6233946

>>6233946
He consolized a game gear that was getting thrown out.
If you can find the thread, it's an interesting read.

>>6233949
I pray to the heavens the N64 was unrepairable toast.
F

>>6230294
That's how all VMUs are you dumb dumb

>>6233949
How the fuck are you supposed to charge the joycons lmao

>>6230053
Uh portable save units with games on them?

>>6230053
Fun idea. I liked taking it with me. It was fucking tomagotchi or however the fuck you spell it. Except you're taking care of something you actually care about in a game you're playing at home.

>>6229953
You're just mad you don't have $40 for a Sakura Wars VMU

>>6233949
>say my N64 has no games, I dare you

>>6233935
what the fuck? Is that a Master System in a Game Gear body?

>>6233932
this physically angers me

Last gore pic I have saved, does anyone have that image where a bunch of PS1s were turned into dedicated music players?

>>6235618
finally a wii with good n64-support.

>>6230053
iirc if playing one of the football games 2 player you could pick your plays on it so your friend couldn't see what you were picking

>>6232008
rent free

>>6236334
I think the Blitz games had this feature

>>6229953
VMU's were a novel concept at the time, but that was before everyone had cell phones

>>6235616
Honestly a better use for that.

>>6236512

>>6235616
what's a good tool for runing cartridges in this fashion

>>6233929
>>6233932
>>6233935
>>6233949
>>6236512
>why yes I am a modding expert, how could you tell?

>>6236516
Jesus christ, the short circuting.

>>6236512
>>6236516

>>6236512
dope
i want one

>THIS
>FUCKING
>THREAD

>>6235623
>>6233929
SO bad it was posted twice

>>6235616
I mean... do YOU want to play NFL '95. I thought not.

>>6229953

>>6237867
Thankfully it was a PAL model so nothing of value was lost

>>6236512
ambitious, but at the same time, terrible

>>6237875
Guy should've just made holes for the buttons instead of just slapping controller pieces onto it

>>6237881
Why would you take screenshots of animated gifs? This is just as bad as butchering consoles.

Someone post the pikachu n64

>>6237897
Wait, theres an image of this thing in action?

>>6237902
Look at the extreme dithering in the image you posted and tell me

>>6237906
Most likely the result or poor upscaling and compression. Gif formats aren't the only think capable of pulling that off, sometimes they can actually look clean if made properly

>>6237902
Yea

>>6237918
Stop talking out of your ass. You're wrong. No modern video codec compresses to 256 colors.

>>6237923
Sure enough

>>6230053
They're not this post.

>>6233932
lol, holy fuck

I got a few

n64 overclock and heatsink, did it 10 years ago

amiga with an external gotek, who the heck knows where it is now

game gear capaciotor replacement, looks bad but it works now

sega record

burnt me atari, see near the r. Let the solering iron slip

left wires hanging in the amstrad

>>6238039
...What the fuck?

Genesis 2 using a ps one power supply, it works

>>6238064
the pepsi cans really do add to this image

>>6238061
My gamegear wouldn't turn on, learn that its caused by bad capacitors but ordering tantulams would take time and I want to play sonic now so I grab a bunch of cap of approximately the same value or higher and since they won't fit I need to add wires so I can move them in the case, after a couple of caps are replaced it turns on after warming up so I replace the rest.

I've been modding since I learned how to do a 50 / 60 hz mod on my master system, I broke a couple of consoles along the way so it would have been probably better if I left them alone.

Heres me ps1 modded to work with ps-io. I wanted to play with the gun using rgb so I added composite. It works.

I got a couple mod botched mods, remember I started modding when I was a teenager.

>>6238096
>that ps1
Explain why you even did that though, you can just get or make a scart cable with a guncon port if you want RGB and the psio is just a few wires a board inside, why is it raised and mangled like that?

>>6238064
What the fuck is going on in this image

>>6237881
Shut the fuck up. It's integral to the artistic vision of this masterpiece

>>6236516
>Crystal Clear Audio Mod for Sega Mega Drive 2 & Genesis 2, version 1.0
>https://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?7686-Crystal-Clear-Audio-Mod-for-Sega-Mega-Drive-2-amp-Genesis-2-version-1-0&p=439866&viewfull=1#post439866
I'm not even surprised.

I mean, I'm picky about keeping my hardware pristine, but I don't really get why people give so much a shit what people do with their own stuff. At the end of the day it's just stuff. who really cares? You bought it. Do whatever makes you happy.

>>6238889
eat a snickers.

>>6238096
>I started modding when I was a teenager
and you still haven't learned shit evidently

>>6229953

>>6237867
There is something about blacklight that I both think is COOL, but simultaneously causes this song to play in my head

https://youtu.be/-XgNFLo5WOI

>>6240287
But.. why?

>>6235623
>does anyone have that image where a bunch of PS1s were turned into dedicated music players?
That's a good use for them, first generation PS1s have fantastic sound output. They can rival dedicated sound equipment a few thousand dollars more expensive with a little work.

>>6240283
>orange sworl
>sega europe claims it

Wrong.

>looks through thread
thanks, now I feel dead inside

>>6235616
the only thing that surprises me about this is that I haven't seen more of these

>>6240406
there was an accepted fact among audiophile tards that the psx had incredible sound hardware and was an excellent alternative to super-pricy cd players
turns out that was all bullshit/wildly overstated though

>>6235616
I can think of worse ways to waste $1 at the used game shop

>>6240419
The vortex is actually red, you know.

>>6240287
I'll never be able to wrap my head around this shit. How the fuck would would a game console be able to outperform basically any high end CD player?

>>6240639
no idea what's worse, the butchered n64 or the zelda-cart being graffiti'd with "ZELDA".

>>6229953
Game Boy Advance systems are like $20 at a thrift store. A Nintendo DS had to die for this.

>>6241270
To be fair that's less a console mod and more someone's top screen eating shit

>>6236512

>>6240639

>>6236572
My first thought would be a Dremel. Edges look rough in this image for one, though.

>>6241354
Never thought I would see an N64 tower of power.
Not gore, just ingenuity if it works.

>>6241361
You know what stacking is associated with don't ya?

>>6241281
chad
>>6241270
virgin

>>6241281
>>6241270
I have two fat DSes from thrift stores. $6 and $4. Both work flawlessly.

>>6230053
Swapping savegames with friends
Making loud beeps
Secondary display in some games

>>6235290
So a normal gamegear?

>>6240413
It's a meme, the same people unironically shill cd mats, silver power cables and other "audio tuning tools" snake oil for "extra clear audio". All of them are half deaf boomers who are out of touch with modern electronics.
Reality is that a CD ripped with EAC played on any good DAC will sound just as good and won't have all of the issues of real time CD playback.

>>6235290
Game Gears can play Master System games natively. It just needs a cartridge adapter.

>>6241354
What's the green PCB?

>>6237867
I unironically think this looks great

>>6233474
>tamogachi
I hope you die in a house fire.

>>6237881
I'm surprised that there's a nip with hands large enough to hold and play that abomination.

>>6240413
>Why yes, i only listen to music in .flac format
Mongoloid.

>>6233932
This is awful. Cashew cookies? Gross..

This thing is so close to exactly what I want except for the super shitty looking half-inch sticking out of the top because they just had to make the actual pi a removable cartridge

>>6240283
>"oh cool a special one-off Dreamcast variant in 2019"
>it's been gutted and replaced by a Raspberry Pi
Why

>>6229953
That's pretty cool though. It's not like there's a shortage of vmus, I'm sure finding a broken one wouldn't be hard.

>>6230294
Only if the battery is dead. It's just a watch battery. You can replace it.

>>6241593
gamegenie

>>6229953

>>6230053
Health status and ammo count in the RE games.

>>6241795
The catch is that the batteries run flat within a few days

>>6241782
>pi can play rage 2
wat

>>6242954
>Nomad CDx amalgamation and what looks to be a PSOne Screen to boot.

Ok, this one hurts.

>>6237926
why are you such a flaming faggot?

>>6243789
What the fuck is even happening here?

>>6243789
Is this an attempt to consolize a GBA? Why is there a VGA port in the front? And why a genesis? Why not just get a gameboy player?

>>6240413
>>6240287
DIE AUDIOFAGS

Test

>>6229953
based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgyzuFMfJ4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCl6Pi-Uyg

>>6244135
>what's this, a console for ants?

>>6244184
>exposed gdrom drive right above the triggers

I've yet to ever see a 64DD show up in a vidya gore thread

But I know someday it will happen and I'm going to have to hurt a lot of people in response to it

>>6229953
>take something from a dead system
>make it even better
I fail to see the downside. I'd play one of those.

>>6243797
Because I wanted to see the gif, which I got to see. I'm not the one making stuff up and then whining about faggots when I get proven wrong.

>>6244135
What would you actually do to fix this? Put it in some kind of gas chamber maybe?

>>6238041
That harmony flashcart looks dope, is that the encore?

>>6246402
uh, what?

>>6244135
Hey, it beats roaches.

>>6241270
It was probably dead already. Plenty of DS have broken hinges and they're more hassle/expensive to properly repair than to do this shit.

>>6241270
There's like a quadrillion ds lites
I think chopping the top half off to get a decent backlit gba aint half bad.
As if there's any shortage of devices to play DS games on- Phat DS, DS Lite, DSI, DSI XL, entire 3DS line

>>6241270
Well made GBA Macros with a flat flashcart like the ezflash omega look kinda cool ngl

>>6247652

>>6230053
>destroy rare items good

>>6248859
>vmus
>rare
Compared to what? To the amount of dreamcasts in circulation? I guess there is a finite stock of them left but they are not a L@@K R@RE item by any stretch of the imagination. Of all the retro things i very much doubt they will retain any value aside from a vague curiosity.

>>6240695
The first model shared components with a very expensive at the time CD player

>>6248859
I can get a sealed VMU for like 10 bucks

>>6247652
Around the time XP was still the latest OS, I remember some website was selling custom build computers with the same concept, probably not that specific one though. I remember wanting one very badly because they looked super sleek and came loaded with XP (still had W98 at the time), but they were crazy expensive. Wish I could find the website in the internet archive or something, but thanks to every fucking retro hipster doing the same thing these days, "Custom NES PC" has become too broad of a search term.

>>6248859
I just bought a sealed green VMU for $9.99.

>>6249210
I was just thinking about how it's amazing that custom boxen once seemed like the coolest shit. Just simply being not-beige was enough, like I remember once drooling over a lan box that a guy had fucking shag carpeted.

Today I couldn't give the slightest fuck.

is mGBA a good emulator for mother 3

>>6250147
I bought four sealed VMUs last year for $5 each.

>>6251210
I was handed a sealed vmu today because the guy wanted to get rid of it

>>6241775
But the Pi being a removable cartridge is what allows the ones in your pic to even exist in the first place. The Retroflag GPI was designed for use with a Pi Zero which does fit flush, and the cartridge design allows people to easily use other SBCs with it like the Pi CM3 used in your picture. Just wait for the inevitable higher specced SBC in a Pi Zero form factor if you want more power but still don't want the SBC cartridge to stick out at all.

>>6251215
>>6251210
There's pallets of them laying around. Probably not as many as Atari extras, but new old stock VMUs are even on Amazon

There are various Raspberry Pi handhelds that don't require you to destroy original hardware. Even those based on Gameboy / Gameboy Pocket can be used with aftermarket shells.

>>6250169
To be fair, back then (like early 00s), mini ITX motherboards were still fairly new, so shoving them into everything was still an amusing concept, but yeah, these days I also think the novelty is long dead.

https://youtu.be/F80qsxgDSY0?t=384

>>6251318
>>6241775
How well does battery monitoring work with setups like these, surely you'd need to install custom software for that? How long is the battery life?

>>6251928
Why would you ever want to play in something so fucking small?

>>6240287
say what you want about audiophiles, but a lot of cases in that pic look better than any case i've ever seen by a retro modder

>>6254587
So you can get the authentic PVM experience on the go.

>>6233932
i made this

>>6240287
what's the purpose of those stacks of cylinders on top of the console?

>>6240536
>>6240406
It's not because of the PSX having amazing audio but because the first japanese batch was made during a part shortage which sony remedied by putting expensive high-end DACs used in top of the line equipment.

>>6255469
Filter capacitors. Switching power supplies create noise so Sony would have put filter caps in various places to mitigate that. Audiophiles can't do any real engineering so they just fit GIANT filter caps instead.
There's a solid chance that those giant caps are actually attenuating the high frequencies and making the audio worse.

>>6233929
But that is brilliant, not gore.

>>6256116
Its gory brilliance.

>>6237923
> The Game Man (game boy evolved)

>>6241270
my little sister broke my DS top screen and i kinda wish i did this. its not uncommon to see busted hinges.

>>6255417
Kek

>>6260864
hot off the press

>>6261242