/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7853708
It's great for ultra-rare games and for original versions that have been forgotten, e.g., Shinobi's Andy Warhol's art being excised on the Wii;et al.
A godsend for archiving too.

>>7853718
>A godsend for archiving too.
Yeah, it's basically the only way that any of this shit will be around beyond the next 50-100 years.

>>7853708
Whats there to say that hasn't been said tens of thousands of times literally on this board.
Every one of these threads just turns in to shitposting, and how you play games has zero impact on how someone else does so its fucking pointless anyways.

>>7853751
>Yeah, it's basically the only way that any of this shit will be around beyond the next 50-100 years.
And that's assuming that all or most of those emulator writers are going to be alive to update them or that another generation is going to be able to re-re-translate all those game for even newer computers that will make these look like stale bags of chips.
I think we may be headed for an inevitable extinction of many games well within 50 years.

>>7853770
This is why ideally emulators are open source.

>>7853795
Hope that always does the trick, anon.

>>7853770
predicting the elitists in 20 years who will only emulate with boomer emulators through virtual machines (me)

>>7853814
Based techno priest.

>>7853814
running emulators in emulators in emulators

I wish all 3D system emulators had their Duckstation equivalent. There, I said it.

>>7853770
Snes9x is written in a 50 year old language, so that's a start.

sure

>>7853847
Great point.
I feel dumb now again. :(

>>7853708
>NES Ghosts'n'Goblins is a slow mess
>200% cpu emulation makes the game fun
For that alone I support it all.

Better question is, would it be worthwhile to emulate at all if the consoles were 100% backwards compatible or newer versions were manufactured?

>>7853917
>>NES Ghosts'n'Goblins is a slow mess
>>200% cpu emulation makes the game fun
I gotta try this. I like it as is, but all the same.

>>7853708
Essential if you're poor. Old hardware is dying, decent FPGA machines are insanely expensive (and in short supply), and clone machines are typically not as accurate as the best emulators. If Nintendo reissued SNES consoles, then I'd buy one.

>>7853708
Love it. I don't have to waste my money on FPGA faggotry devices or overpriced console minis being sold by scalpers on eBay. I am content with emulating consoles on my PC.

Rather use the actual console

PC is too buggy now

Mesen S or Snes9x?
I know BSNES is better but is also too slow for some PCs

I've been emulating for the past decade now, being able to play thousands of games, including shit I've wanted to try, all for free was what instantly sold me on it. I'll buy a physical copy of a retro game at a thrift store if it's priced good, but emulation is my main source of retro games these days.
Just recently found out that my new computer is capable of 6th gen emulation, so I've been checking out the big GC and PS2 titles I've heard good things about but never played

>>7854114
>Just recently found out that my new computer
What's its specs? Maybe it can do better than 6th gen.
Also very based.

>>7854071
Whatever you like more, it dosn't matter

>>7853917
if you're emulating, you might as well just play the arcade version

>>7854189
>just play the arcade version
Maybe they want to actually be able to complete the game.

>>7853708
It's great. I used to be one of those people who would say "it just doesn't feel right", but I've come to realize that I care more about the games than collecting hardware.

>>7854189
Why not enjoy both?

Better than chunks of old plastic

>>7853708
One of the best things to ever happen for retro gaming.
Large amount of setups for certain platforms and it basically opened the gates for texture replacement, translation patches, romhacks and bugfixes.

>>7853751
>>7853770
Bullshit by some child on a board for adults with a ridiculously flawed concept of these games and human behaviour and the future and everything really.

First off don't just refer to retro gaming as "this shit" even as a joke. I doubt you refer to your mom as a bitch as a joke. More like your posts are shit and a "stale bag of chips".

>>7854378
^imagine the type of human that thought that up and then submitted it all, never having it occur to them that they've just added more stupidity into the world.

>>7854378
cringe

>>7854378
Please be joking

>>7854202
Same.
When i was a kid i was afraid of downloading ROMs because i thought i would go to jail...
I was so retarded back then.

Good to have around for archiving purposes, as well as for cool shit like romhacks or finding unused content.
Great to have around to not have to spend hundreds of dollars on old carts. I did grow up with Super Mario RPG as a kid and still have my copy and manual but I'll be fucked if I'm gonna pay 600 dollars for just a cart of Earthbound or Chrono Trigger.

Also despite some stuff not working, for 3D games I find emulation outright superior. Running the games in widescreen with quintuple resolution and anti-aliasing and any number of other improvements usually makes them look amazing, especially the Sony systems and Gamecube/Wii

>>7853917
>newer versions
usually these are cucked and shitty
see: any version of Ocarina with no blood or Muslim elements

>>7853708
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2uyDqbA-Q

>>7854850
I'm glad I'm not the only one who still hears this.

>>7854732
In what way have I "added more stupidity to the world" spastic?

>>7855865
It answered back. lol

>>7853708
great for keeping old games alive
great for developing games
great for the convenience

>widescreen 'hacks'
disgusting, post that garbage anywhere else

>>7856067
Fuck off

>>7856067
Atari literally informs its customers in printed notes inside their product packaging. For the Flashback they spell out exactly that with an SD card, you can go online and download it all for free.

tl;dr you should buy games that are new, same with old if they're for sale, but a ton of it no one cares about anymore, b.

>>7853708
Blessing to people who want to play /vr/ games. It makes the games and enjoyment much more accessible.
You see a lot of hate from /vr/ about it though since many people don't actually care about enjoying the games but just elitism about collections and hardware.

>>7856202
Based realist.

Serious question. Why this is wrong?

>>7856245
Not every game in every series is going to be good, anon.

>>7856245
It makes everything look like melted crayons.

>>7856356
That's actually my thoughts on Yoshi's Island graphics.

>>7854323
Game?

>>7856608
asura blade

>>7856245
It isn't. I don't care about how you play the games.

>>7856020
Damn, stop using crt-royale unless you output at 4k resolution because it looks trash at 1080p.

>>7856992
Not the same anon.
Can you post 4k screenshots for comparison? I'm on 1080p, but I keep the aspect ratio with integer scaling on.

>>7854281
Go back to your containment thread, MiSTer.

>>7853708
Why not?

>for zoomers
Make sure you play on real hardware at some point just to 'see what it was like' but for the most part just emulate. DO NOT buy games, use a flash cart. It's a totally different experience but you'll need a time machine to truly "get it". If I were 22 years old today I would not give two shits about Final Fantasy 7 or any of the "classics" up to a point. You have so many options now, it doesn't make sense to be expected to like FF3/6. It's about as dry as reading hamlet in comparison.

Otherwise emulate. If you can get a game for a cup of coffee I say collecting is good too. Spending your entire pay on obscure shit you never liked or even lived on the same continent as it was released on as a kid doesn't make any sense to me especially if it can be played with ODE. I've been rebuilding a sentimental collection and some odds and ends from the wii era I never got around to. $10 is the limit for most items (picked up demon souls for $15 the other day tho just because I like the game).

>>7853708
It's pirating and stealing but also I don't care about the morals of that so it's all good to me. Plus it allows super easy modding so that's good.

>>7857554
Counterpoint: I played FF7 for the first time via emulator during the PS3 era and it holds up extremely well and became my favorite FF,
The whole
>games are only good in the context of their time!!!
bs is almost always wrong.

>>7857569
>almost always wrong
I'm not a zoomer so I wouldn't know. I made the assumption based on how good the derived works are. It seems only logical to think that Mortal Kombat 1 on the Sega Genesis wouldn't be as mind blowing to a Zoomer today as Guilty Gear or Blaze Blue. If you can enjoy it for what it is that's fine, but there is no replication of context for some games plan and simple. I rented Resident Evil 1 on PlayStation the weekend it came out. You cannot replicate that what so ever. You have no idea what it was like to experience that dog jumping out of the fucking window and talking about it with all your friends at school.

>>7857596
>I rented Resident Evil 1 on PlayStation the weekend it came out. You cannot replicate that what so ever
WRONG because I also played that for the first time a decade later and liked it quite a bit. Granted the school yard part is true.

Also I'm not a zoomer. I just didn't have a PS1 growing up and didn't go back and play those games until years later.

>>7857564
>pirating and stealing
Is no longer relevant when retro video games are priced ridiculously high on eBay.

>>7857656
I mean if you ignore that anything semi-popular likely has easily buyable and functional ports I guess.
Like I said, I don't care about the morals but don't lie to yourself lol

>>7853814
Soon computers will get so fast you can be behind 7 virtual machines playing emulators with only lags on some games because the emulator is 100% accuracy.

>>7857569
PC version has mods that take it from the worst version to the best.

>>7857564
it isn't

>>7856992
Royale is fine at 1080p. His screenshot looks particularly bad because of the jpg compression artifacts.

>>7853708
it really fucking sucks sometimes, me right now

>>7853708
I buy old console for dirt cheap, and then soft mid them. Free McBoot, Tonyhax, Burn CDs, ever drives....and so on. I can’t afford a decent CPU now.

>>7853708
Using a Dual Shock controller to play Mega Drive games is not my idea of a good time.

imagine pirating lmao

>>7854378
millenials and zoomers think talking like a black person from the hood merits authenticity to their words. it's incredibly cringe, just ignore them.

>>7853708
What's there to say? It's based as fuck and the reason I will never own a console again.

>>7853708
Its like people buying a mountain bike and sawing bits off to make it look like a BMX. Then posting on message boards pretending to know all about BMX bikes.

>>7853708
for 8 and 16bit systems its damn near indecipherable from regular hardware, so long as you know what you are doing in setting it up, and have something decent to output to

and thats a good thing, click here to find out

>>7854196
thats what the genesis port is for then

>>7856067
id pirate your mom and then fuck her face down into the dirt, cum in her hair then drag my NESticles across her face while shes crying and tell her to stfu and that her son is a faggot

Good for games I've lost and/or I don't feel like shelling money out for.

>>7853708
Ultimately what the future will need to use when the original consoles die. It has its place for that reason, its come a long way and while ill keep playing hardware, i'd rather someone play the game in an emulator than not play it at all.

>>7856016

use crt filter you fucking retard, that is nothing like the game originally looks

>>7858003
>he bought AMD
Unironically try Linux

On the topic of emulation, why do people emulate the shitty ports of arcade games instead of the originals?

>>7858525
purely for nostalgia

>>7858537
Fair enough.

>>7858525
The arcade originals are inferior

>>7858539
90% of the time they are not.

>>7858525
Effort. For most people it's way easier to download a rom from any number of sites and play it on their already-configured emulator than to deal with mame's autism of trying to match the correct emu version with the correct rom. Doesn't help that mame devs don't care about performance so if you're on a toaster you'll first have to research which version has eliminated most of the bugs but is still playable at full speed. I personally just use FBNeo because I'm a lazy bum and it has all the games I care about, but I recon a lot of people just haven't heard about it.

>>7858521
That's Intel + Nvidia

>>7858834
Then I don't know what to tell you, Black runs just fine for me.

>>7858539
Not true. Final Fight is way better on Arcade than SNES. Same with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time.

>>7853708
It's a convenient way to play all sorts of fun games. Sure it isn't "authentic," but unless you have a time machine, playing on the original hardware isn't either.

>>7856016
>>7856020
love you guys
>>7857181
best I can do

>>7858348
>>7856992
Love you guys
>>7857181

Bet you never knew Software Creations (1985-bought out by Accliam in 2002) made Solstice, Pictionary, Silver Surfer, Plok, and not that either game is great but this is Solstice 2.

grrreusome!

>>7853825
>>7853814
The future is now. In VR.
https://youtu.be/YehG_q8X0uY?t=266

>>7853814
>"Why yes I have ZSNES installed on my AJ^6 cyborg construct, I'm not some pleb casual"

>>7857995
Ignore it, is the same fag who kept shitting on reshade and other emulator and even dosbox supporting glsl like snes9x at /vr/ emulation threads because it isnt memearch.

>>7859150
>>7859158
>>7859161
>>7859291
>>7859416
These widescreen shenanigans looks like shit and games werent made for that

>>7857554
>If I were 22 years old today I would not give two shits about Final Fantasy 7 or any of the "classics" up to a point.
That's the exact age when I played FF7 for the first time a couple years ago and I fucking loved it. Your usage of -oomer memewords should've clued me in but you're a gigantic pleb and a half.

>>7853708
flash carts are the way to go

>>7853963
old hardware is not dying this meme needs to die

>>7859812
>old hardware is not dying

>>7859812
>n-n-no its not dying
yeah sure