/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6463323
Trash with mediocre emulation. Even worse if you're a fag who buys them for decoration because that's just gay.
>but now I feel like it would be nice to own one of more of them as collector's items
Kill yourself

>>6463332
Be nice.

>>6463336
fuck you

>as collector's items
you should be buying videogames to play them, if you just want plastic on your shelf, just buy a broken snes, they are dirty cheap and look much better.

>>6463323
why buy when you can download? the controllers alone aren't worth it

>>6463341
*spreads asshole*

>>6463343
Sorry, I didn't mean to say I wouldn't be playing games on them, but I'm simply enamored by the thought of owning one of them.

>>6463332
>mediocre emulation
Elaborate.

>>6463354
anon i-

They're fine for normies who want a kick of nostalgia and for babby's first emulation machine.

Outside of that, everyone else is too fixated in their own retarded dogma to own one.

They're fine for retards like that one nigger in that other thread floating around because he's an idiot. However, most people who regularly play retro games are better off getting a micro PC and turning it into a plug-and-play emulation station. It's also a good deal for gen alpha kiddies whom are far, far too young to ever remember a time when games didn't load through several boot screens before you could play.

>>6463323
My 16 year old daughter's son loves playing them

The only good Nintendo one is the SNESmini. And even then, the exclusive Star Fox 2 ROM has already been dumped by No-Intro. So the value is still dubious.

>>6463415
Fuck off, Pie-cuck.

>>6463415
Sadly none of those SBCs have RGB out

>>6463323
Worthless unless you mod them, but at that point you may as well buy a Raspberry instead of throwing your money at scalpers.

>>6463441
Raspberry lives rent free in your head.

>>6463485
>rent free
>He screams from a megaphone, as he takes a break from sucking Raspberry cock

>>6463490
seething

>>6463323
I never own'd a snes so i picked one up and it was quite good, I don't know if it was the best emulation or anything but it was a good few hours of fun and is a pretty good plug in and play console. I take it on holiday with me, for hotels or something y'know.

>>6463373
>Elaborate
Nearly all of them suffer from sound delay issues.
NES and SNES Classic have a noisy output that shouldn't exist over HDMI
Genesis mini has shit sound emulation, with over-driven percussion and now low pass filter
Everything on the PS Classic.
Can't say about the Turbo mini other than the Jap games like Snatcher are untranslated.

These pieces of shit are maybe better if you load RA on them, but at that point, get a Pi.
>but I'm simply enamored by the thought of owning one of them.
That's not an excuse to waste money on these.

>>6463615
no low pass filter**

They're great if you've got kids and don't want your personal stuff covered in whatever was for lunch. Giving a slightly modded one to my nephew next month.

>>6463636
I mean yeah that's probably a good way to use them. But on the whole I just don't see why any grown adult would want one outside of the blatant fanboyism and if you're already that much of one you know how to play the games.

I think they're fun to have and a good way of introducing people to old games. The turbografx 16 mini is great for people who never got to play an original. Don't let some miserable fag on /vr/ tell you they're all trash.

>>6463640
Yeah I wouldn't have any of them with my cum trophies. Maybe the Flashback 2 just to try that cartridge mod, but even that would just be for kicks.

>>6463354

>>6463323
I bought one for Christmas a few years back just so I could hack it and play some old vidya with my bro with no hassle. I mean the thing even comes with two pads. I wouldn't use it as a dedicated device to emulate old vidya but the joy it's given me playing MK2, Rampage, Streets of Rage, and so on 2 player with my bro was worth every penny in my book.

>>6463323
>stance
Feet about 1 foot apart, facing console, about 2 feet away, dick out. Same as pissing on anything else.

>>6463323
shitty emu boxes, some of them have stolen code from others emulators like the ps classic

>>6463323
I own multiple ones and add my favorite games on to each one. I also personalize some of them. I still emulate on my PC, but there is nothing wrong with having these mini's. No matter how much poorfags protest, it's never going to stop these mini's from selling.

>>6463323
Hello frens. I have recently bought a raspberry pie. Install was easy even though I'm not a smart man. It plays games. I like it. I like many SNES games. Please don't be mean to me.

They're great for modern TVs unless you're an ANAL CUNT and care far too much about pointless shit.
If you want a better experience, get a Wii and a CRT.

>>6463918
>stolen code
Sony completely complied with the GPL, anon.
They even released the source code with their modifications.
https://doc.dl.playstation.net/doc/psclassic-oss/PCSX_ReARMed.html

>>6463323
play anywhere else. I hate to be that guy but anyone who posts here should be smart enough to look at these things and realize they appeal to the bottom of the barrel consumer. play on real hardware, emulate on PC, pi, hell even a phone with a controller attached. paying for the weakest possible emulator box option because its in a nostalgia mini case says a lot about a person. it's crazy that those people even come to this board. It's to the point that many think its a /v/ regular trying to rile /vr/ up in general, hence the reactions you're getting

>>6464016
as another said the Wii is a good option since there's so many millions of them laying around. also, thread hidden

>>6464016
Actually, they're very well-made and there are attentions to detail you wouldn't see if they were just cash-grab bottom-barrel trash, especially on the Genesis mini. It has cosmetic features on it that they didn't need to implement at all, but did so for thought's sake.

>>6464025
Seems like they're really expensive now though. Corona has made everything batshit insane.

>>6463937
>poorfags
that's some cope. those things are dirt cheap. it's mostly real hardware owners that get defensive over the use

>>6463323
>>6463323
Why do you even care about what this shit-heads say? They obviously are going to say it's shit, they are going to cry about it for the most minimal things.

If you own the real one, play that one with a flashcart. If you only have an hdmi tv get an emulator. If you like how this thing looks and feel get mini consoles.
OR watch a youtube video about it, in here you are only going to listen to retarded etilism.

when will the turbografx mini drop in price

i only get retro consoles when they go cheap I use my PS classic for multiplayer emulation when I go to peoples houses and I got a neo geo mini because I wanted to waste 30 dollars

>>6464050
>when will the turbografx mini drop in price
it was literally just released so give it at least a year

Got both. Hacked ‘em. Love ‘em. The emulation is great, I don’t know what these negative anons are on about but they clearly don’t actually play on these. As someone who gets regular use on them l say go for it, it really is the best of both worlds for feeling authentic and novel and being able to emulate a large list of games

>>6464031
It's not cope, it's fact. Poorfags often complain about the pricing of these minis and understandably so. For example, if you want the SNES mini, be prepared to pay scalper prices on eBay. Luckily for me I bought all my minis at the mall and didn't have to pay scalper prices.

>>6464050
I got my PS Mini for $20 at Best Buy. I hacked it and I even included a Nude Raider mod for Tomb Raider 2 (yes it's possible).

Okay, /vr/ recommend me a good (preferably cheap) controller for retro games, one that's good for 16 bit games mainly. Which one do you use? Also, këkpill me on PC Engine emulation please. At least the games that don't require ISOs must be easy to emulate, or is it hard or unstable like N64 and PSX were? I read some weird shit about the best emulator costing money and I am not having that either.

Please help a tech illiterate idiot not give any money to Konami.

>>6465231
>Okay, /vr/ recommend me a good (preferably cheap) controller for retro games, one that's good for 16 bit games mainly
There are a bunch of cheap USB and wireless Saturn controllers available.

>>6465231
For a controller I use a Logitech F310. Lasted me a long time and it's great for retro games, though I think a lot of anons will say to just use an Xbox or PS4 controller if you have one lying around.
Also when it comes to PC Engine emulation, Mednafen has a very accurate and fast core that runs every game flawlessly. It also runs PCE-CD games as well if you just dump a BIOS file in the needed folder.

>>6465231
I'm still trying to find a PC Engine Mini for cheap. These scalper prices aren't worth paying.

>>6465269
Never used one of those, or a controller with six buttons on the front but that looks cool. Might be good for fighting games, I could learn to use MAME again and get some CPS2 fighters in there. Neat, thanks for bringing it to my attention, anon.

>>6465261
>I think a lot of anons will say to just use an Xbox or PS4 controller if you have one lying around
lol nope, I am aware they can be used on PC but I have none of those. The one you recommended looks good, just like a PS2 one. I'll look up prices, thanks.

>mednafen
I remember the one time I used that emulator (for Virtual Boy Wario) it was a fucking nightmare to set up for me. So many weird hoops to go through. I ended up having to drag myself here begging for help lmao. That was just the VB emulation, right? For other systems it works just like Snex9x, FCEultra, Gens, or whatever, just load the rom and play.

Right?

>>6465291
Just the scalpers? I mean if they were like, 40 bucks, had two controllers, and were not distributed by Konami I might have gotten one but 100 is a fucking ludicrous sum to engorge their Pachinko and cheap port fund.

>>6465309
I don't mind paying $100 to Konami, Kojima can suck a dick. The scalpers are the only ones I refuse to pay money to.

>>6465309
>Never used one of those, or a controller with six buttons on the front but that looks cool
The pic doesn't make it obvious but the pad also has 2 shoulder buttons.

>>6465309
If you mean that you couldn't get the 3D scaling and color working properly, you can easily set it up with either the frontend Mednaffe or use the Retroarch version of it to easily change the color to black and white with no anaglyph 3D nonsense.
But yeah especially for the PC Engine core you just drag that rom onto Mednafen and it'll start up. For PCE-CD you drag the cue file.

>>6463373
Its cheaper to buy a pi and get an NES Mini Case for it. Thats what I did. Plus it can play everything else. Even then the novelty of having one of those wears off very quickly. Trust me, its better to just buy the original hardware and getting an everdrive if you have all these roms.

>>6463323
I picked up the Turbografx mini a month or so ago. I don't regret getting it, and playing the old shmups brings back a lot of memories.
The controller was super stiff, and felt a little cheap but has loosened up.
Honestly, it has like 50+ games on it so I am super happy with it.

>>6465323
As cool as retroarch is it can be a BITCH to set up. Especially if you change controllers for certain consoles like I do.

>>6465354
Just go with the Mednaffe option then.
Makes using Mednafen overall much easier as it basically gives it a GUI with a game list and easily changeable settings without messing with a config file.

>>6465318
Kojima, modern Konami and retro scalpers can all go have their jaws obliterated by all the dicks in the world for all I care lmao. Even 1 cent is too much money for any of them as far as I'm concerned.

>>6465320
Yeah, I looked the controller up, I saw it, looking like a very likely candidate, with the prices I'm seeing too. Thanks for the heads up anyways.

>>6465323
I did get those things working, but I think it was thanks to people here explaining it to me lmao, before that, I flat out had problems and weird glitches, iirc. Still, thanks for the info, I'll start giving it a try today, I only have my laptop's keyboard to play but it'll do for tryouts until I pick a controller.

Thanks a lot for the help fags, have a nice day.

>>6465359
I've stopped using retroarch and started using my softmodded wii for emulation with my CRT. The Wii is one of the best emulator machines I've found, since with most Emulators they give you the option of using the double strike mode. Only thing I dont like is that emulation for the n64 outside of VC sucks. I plan on getting the original console and an everdrive for that. (And yes Im gonna get all the controller paks and expansion pak because god fucking damn some games cant run right without em)

Have a co-worker that bought one for himself during Black Friday (he was lucky to find one). He said he loved going back to Ghost and Goblins and Tecmo Bowl. To him it plays perfectly.

It's literally for people with 0 knowledge of emulation. Who doesn't understand it and think it's too complicated. The mother who needs to ask their child basic computer questions. It's not even to play the games honestly. At least for a while. It's really there to play for a day or two to get a nice bit of nostalgia hit and after a few weeks just have it on the shelf for fond memories.

It's shit but because there's cheaper better ways to play those games and have a larger collection on games that just on the system. But as I said it's not really made for that it's made for the 40+ year old who dropped gaming when 3D became a thing (yes that happened) and saw a small cute NES/SNES and wanted a hit of nostalgia and that's really it.

>>6465337
This, RA even has menu modes to make it look like the menus from the (S)NES mini, so why not at that point?

>>6463323
If you find yourself wanting more than one you'd be better served by some other emulation solution.

>>6463323
got gifted one, it amused me for a few weeks. saved arsing around with old cables

>>6463323
>What's /vr/'s stance on retro mini consoles?
Its emulation. And as such fake and gay.

>>6463323
i could try to defend them, but it honestly just comes down to pic related

if you want to easily emulate the best games for the SNES on an official system it is perfect.

modding it is also super easy, so you could easily play 21 great games + ~30 gamea of your choosing which you can swap out on occasion

is it better to get the original hardware? Idk, probably but its much more time consuming

is it better to use your PC to emulate?
Idk, probably but you lose the portability

is it better to build your own with a rasberry pi?
idk, probably but it is much more time consuming and never as nice looking and feeling as official hardware

with all that said, spending over $100 for it is not worth it

>>6463323
Fun to goof with using mod programs, but there's better emulation options for the hardcore enthusiast.

>>6463615
>Nearly all of them suffer from sound delay issues.
I can confirm for the NES and Genesis Minis, though the SNES Mini didn't have noticeable sound lag to me.

>>6463323
There is quite a bit of input lag on the ones I’ve played:
>SNES
>Genesis
but then I’m used to playing on og hardware on CRT, so maybe someone who is used to emulation on a modern display won’t notice, but I sure do notice

for me they are just neat display knickknacks

>>6463332

>>6463332
I thought the SNES one had pretty decent emulation ?

>>6463323
They're pretty cute but not great emulators. You could do better with a Pi and there are retro case options out there for them.

>>6463332
/vr/ janny is on a tear recently.