/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8506562
settle in the middle, invest in some everdrives, i personally don't emulate, original experience, original controllers or bust

>>8506629
yeah this is what I do, sold my original carts for flashcarts. It doesn't make any damn sense to spend over a hundred on a single cart when I can just get the whole library for around the same price.

Of course, there is perhaps some other arguments that can be made here, specifically that you will enjoy having a few games more than having hundreds of them, but for me it works.

>>8506562
What >>8506629 said. Flashcarts/everdrives/ODEs are where you go if you just wanna play the games on their original HW.
You can actually get a Neo Geo AES + flashcart for it for about the price(adjusted for inflation) that the AES costs new in the early 90s. It's still expensive, but it's no more expensive than it was in the good ol days.

>>8506562
Real hardware + roms

An Emulator if you've got no free time and need save states.

There's absolute no reason to waste money and space on physical copies. If you really love the box art, just get yourself a nice high res print of it or something and stick it on your wall. 10x better.

>>8506629
This. I collect the games I care about eg. Majora's Mask, Super Metroid, Doom etc. and if for all else I practice a try-before-you-buy on real hardware using an everdrive or Swiss etc.
I prefer OEM controllers unless it's a high-quality near-vanilla alternative like the Tribute 64. It's autistic but you're on /vr/ what do you expect

>>8506629
>everdrive
>original experience
Poorfag cope is such a beautiful thing to see.

>>8506702
Its closer to how the developers experienced it. Without the parallel cables and uv eeprom erasers.

>>8506707
>And I cope, I cope so far away
>I just cope, I cope all night and day

>>8506702
>>8506719
>8506719
I own two homes, mortgage free, and two cars, titles in hand, as well as plenty of gold, silver, ammunition, a little rhodium, and lots of buttcoin.

You're a retard for wasting money on game carts.

>>8506562
Use flashcarts for most stuff but I still buy games for xbox original, ps2, intellivision, ms dos/win 98 and some arcade stuff. I getting more into appreciating the artwork of the covers now.

>>8506702
I am kind of poor, no big deal.

>>8506748
They do say rich people are extremely cheap

>>8506760
Smart people are cheap. Never pay lots of money for something that's guaranteed to self-destruct. Game carts are guaranteed to self-destruct.

>>8506774
sounds like you don’t pay any money for carts

>>8506816
I'd pay reasonable prices. Same with films. All these old retro games have made all the money they will for their original creators. Making some faggot richer by buying his overpriced shit.
If you can find games for a good price, go for it. But $90-for-Metriod-Fusion-tier prices? Man GTFO of here.
Don't WASTE money.

>>8506562
Emulate.

Gaming is still in the equivalent of cinema 's black and white age. So putting money into modern gaming has much vaster returns. Plus, arguably you can't get better than retroarch for most games anyway.

>>8506562
Then you came to the wrong place champ. The majority of people here emulate exclusively.

>>8506629
>i personally don't emulate
>but you should
>invest in some cartridge emulators

>>8506707
>Its closer to how the developers experienced it if they were as poor as I am
kwab

>>8506893
>So putting money into modern gaming has much vaster returns.
Yeah, can’t wait to put my DLC money into funding development of gaming NFT projects

>>8507416
>emulation fag thinks he's the majority
kek
back to where you came from, you know the place

Physical retro gaming is arduous enough as it is, and being in a PAL region only makes it all the more of a headache, so I just emulate. What's the fucking point of filling your home with plastic trinkets anyway.

reproduction carts lol

>>8507443
Do you own any books?

>>8506719
>Gotta get away.

Seriously, go back.

>>8506861
Space Dandy would of been better if it were about Meow and his friends investigating shit for space twitter views and slowing becoming mature adults by the end, but still being light hearted.

>>8506562
I'm still emulating games to this day and age, but I still prefer the original hardware so long as it's reasonable to buy and I'm interested enough to play them. Neo Geo and other arcade cabinets will always be out of my sphere, but last year I did grab a PC Engine because I loved emulating it enough to warrant dropping $100 on the console and another $235 on the SSDS3 at least I would have, but as soon as I bought the PC-E they stopped making/selling the Super SD System 3. And then the replacement version is barely worth the extra $70 markup they slapped on for HDMI. Fuck.

>>8506562
The majority of this board argues over every single last autistic detail over literally everything and doesn't play actual 15 minutes of games a day in average

>>8506719

>>8506702
>terminally sick in apartment filled with children’s toys
>”Ha…ha…poorfags….I win”
>Diabetes drags anon to hell
>dies alone and a virgin

>>8507437
>/vr/ is the entirety of the retro gaming community

>>8507874
Yes

>>8506562
Collected a little got an everdrive, now I just want to become a hardware buyfag. Will probably sell off my collectibles to fund my hardware buyfag spree.

>>8507896
Not in very deep. Have wario ware twisted, super metroid, castlevania IV, Links awakening dx.

>>8507437
>newfag zoomie projects and outs himself
kek
Don't go back where you came from. I'm having too much fun watching you make an ass of yourself.

>>8507923
Been here since 2011. Never been on le alien site. I use real consoles with flashcarts. Acquired all my consoles around 2013 from local classifieds.

>>8506562
Buy, but only when reasonable. I’ll buy those $6 gba repo carts from China if I have to. As long as I can play on the actual hardware

>>8507416
>cartridge emulators

The games run the exact fucking same as they would standalone. It's still the original hardware, executing the original code. Why is there a mindset here that flash carts are somehow emulators?

>>8506719
>>And I cope, I cope so far away
>>I just cope, I cope all night and day

>>8506702
>Its closer to how the developers experienced it. Without the parallel cables and uv eeprom erasers.
you're right. but people can't relate to that. the only thing they can relate to is consuming. some people are so dumb they don't know how any of this software was created and they don't care. you watch any interview on youtube of japanese game developers and you will hear nothing about how they developed their games. nothing about the computers they used, process involved in debugging etc.etc. all this is being lost to time because of dumb fucks that don't care about this process, they only care about the consuming, story etc.

>>8508286
because /vr/ is full of low iq retards.

>>8506774
>Guaranteed self destruction
Lol

>>8506562
I'm somewhere in the middle. I go thrifting clothes for resell everyday and if I happen to find cheap vidya I acquire it. Back in the early 2010s I thrifted and also bought rare games from other resellers. For the past 7 years I've chilled to my own luck.

I either play console with physical media, burn CDs or load roms to a hacked SNES mini I also thrifted. Have 3 CRTs and a PVM. Life is good

>>8507457
Not him, but I use a Kobo

>>8507796
I love how PC is not represented, because collecting for PC in modern times is impossible. I hope you love renting games from Steam!

>>8507949
>i'm a bandwagoner
>i use cartridge emulators
>i'm a very confused emulation fag

>>8508286
>Why is there a mindset here that flash carts are somehow emulators?
Because that's exactly what they are. Just because a fact makes your mangina feel uncomfortable doesn't make it any less of a fact.

>>8506629
paying money to emulate is fucking gay

>>8506702
>can you imagine if we could afford all these games when we were 12?
>even better, we got them for 10 times the retail price when we're 40

>>8506562
I play on Analogue cosnsoles (NT/Super NT, Mega SG) when possible. Everything else I play on my Wii U, Series X, or my PS3.

>>8509135
>>8509694
>>8509816
>downloading retroarch and full romsets from the first result on Google makes me a genius

>>8508906
>Renting on steam
I pirate and you can't stop me

I'm one of those apparently weird fuckers who has always preferred sharp ass pixels on the cleanest display possible so once emulation of a specific console is good enough I've never looked back

>>8506562
I use to be like >>8506629 and had an HDTV Trinitron not even 5 years ago. But I decided to go full emulation once I had a OLED and a better computer a few years ago. Have not looked back since. Also I will say either Everdrive, Full Emulation is far greater than paying overpriced for a single cart to collect dust on a shelf.

>>8506562
I do both, but mostly emulate now because of the costs.

>>8506702
>software can be copied 1:1
>hurr durr not original experience if it's not in a case with a sticker
Are you retarded?

>>8509846
>lacking reading comprehension skills makes me a genius

I do all 3. I'm buyfagging back my SNES collection I had when I was 11 though. Probably a mid life crisis thing. Only game that's a price issue is Sunset Riders.

>>8508906
Good luck playing anything without the patch on modern consoles in 10 years time (at least for the few games that have the full version on the disc). Better start ripping your hard drives and burning the patched versions to M-Disc blu-ray jackass.

>>8506562
I lean much more to the emulation side. I own a physical ps2 because its the best option currently. Everything else gets emulated, even gamecube, switch, and og xbox

>>8510775
I find modern emulators play so fast and loose with the timings that it bugs me. Dolphin, redream, flycast and ppsspp all just pay lip service to timings such that audio gets out of sync with cutscenes all the time. It shouldn't matter that the intro to Ridge Racers PSP gets cut off but it's just so much a part of the experience that it sours me on playing the game in an emulator like that.

>>8506562
buyfag
but i absolutely endorse flashcarts/multicarts/etc
how are you supposed to know what to buy?
the rental stores are gone
the cheap vidya is gone
the mom&pop? gone
objective reviews?
G O N E

if you want to try out systems before buying the MiSTer project is my #1.