/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8678630
Wow, I have a legit flashcart for all the systems in your picture, except my SD2SNES is for a North American SNES.
I have a working Sega CD and CD-Rom2 with my PC engine, but I prefer playing CD games on my MiSTer over the real thing. I don't know. I'll have to try playing cd rom games on my hardware again, but I remember really liking the flexibility I got with the MiSTer I built.

I still need to get a newer flash cart for GBA. I have one, but it's really old and I'm sure needs a new battery already. The Mega Everdrive I got has needed a new battery ever since I got it.

>>8678630
sounds like a good take. I wonder how long it will take for all the fags to pop in and make a cope to justify paying hundreds dollarydoos to play a classic you could easily play for free via emulation.

ok

You're right, too bad all the good shit is temporarily unavailable right now.

Makes me glad I got my N8 when I did.

>>8678667
oh shit. guess we’ll have to buy games

>>8678667
>>8678684
the fuck? I just checked, literally everything seems to be out of stock and I just got a mega everdrive x7 two weeks ago. what gives?

>>8678707
Check where that Everdrive was made.

>>8678707
read the news lately?

>>8678707
>what gives?
Krikzz was last heard of February 27th. RIP. If he still lives he said no more Everdrives for the rest of the year most likely.

>>8678710
>>8678712
>>8678719
well fuck. and I was planning to buy one for my SNES later this year

>>8678630
It is unfortunate I couldn't afford the expensive Ukrainian flashcarts and went for cheaper Russian-enabling Chinese bootlegs, but I put that squarely on the employers of the US not offering a living wage.

I've got one for my Genesis and love it. Considered getting one for NES/SNES but now I'm just gonna use my Wii to emulate on my CRTS.
If I ever wanted a Nintendo 64 I'd get it for that as well.

>>8678728
There are still plenty of Chinese clones for all his stuff.

>>8678630
Most retro games aren't that expensive.

Buy a game for $10-20 and then spend some time with it. Several hours at least. Don't buy more than a couple of games a month.

Or buy a flash cart. I don't really care.
I emulate.

>>8678719
He does live, got a support email from him today. Likely the starlink shit from Elon.

>>8678753
Same anon here. If you are in the States, KRIKzz confirmed to me that any Everdrives listed on Amazon are already in the US and ready for shipment, that is where I have my Genesis X7 coming from. StoneAgeGamer still has some stock, since I wasn’t getting a reply from KRIKzz regarding his situation I panic bought a X5 from SAG. I’m betting on both ends what you see available is what you get, so now would be a good time to buy.

>>8678746
People want the heavily memed games they see on YouTube, which are the same games everybody else saw on YouTube, and then they see the high prices and give up on owning games completely and adopt a cope mindset.

>>8678649
Original hardware definitely feels better than emulation, but I have to agree that the MiSTer I built feels just as good, and I’m not such a purist I need to use original hardware with each system— I much prefer being able to pick a favourite controller and use it across all systems it makes sense on. In my case, that means:
>Saturn controller for most systems
>RAP.N for arcade games
>DualSense for PS1 and SNES

>>8678630
yes

fami n8
mega everdrive
super everdrive
turbo everdrive
n64 everdrive x5
gbc everdrive
gg everdrive
gba everdrive

also have flash for atari lynx and ds

>>8678730
>employers of the US not offering a living wage
maybe you should have some actual skills

>>8678630
I do, and I have access to pretty much every old Console I want, a mix of Krikzz/TerraOnion/Chinese knockoffs
from Famicom all the way to DC and I agree it is the way to go

One of these fucking days I’m gonna get a Game Boy Advance flash cart, but they’re too expensive for me right now
I say, as I continue to impulse buy games

>>8679541
Time to swallow the chink pill and impulse buy an EZflash.

I am interested in getting the Famicom Everdrive soon. Should I get the regular n8 or the n8 pro? I know there is a 1mb limit on the n8 version, so I'm worried I won't be able to play translated games on it if I get it.

>>8678630
I'm planning on buying an ez flash, I still have my (my dad's) GBA SP and my dad's favorite cartridge

>>8678738
Do they play the special chip games?

>>8679618
The SD2SNES ones probably do.

>>8678630
Wtf is that ram expander cover on the n64. Or do you just not have one?

Bought a chink N8 from aliexpress for 60 bucks. Was the only one aside from the ED64 that I was missing and wanted. Hoping krikkz makes it out alive and moves to somewhere more stable.
Currently playing Super Metroid on my SD2SNES.

Why do mods allow these constant bait threads?

>>8679727
did you mean to post this another thread? op is right

I use flashcarts with handhelds, because the experience of emulating those games is very different to playing them on original hardware. I don't feel the same way about regular consoles.

>>8679873
>I don't feel the same way about regular consoles
why?
you could always use aa handheld emulator

>>8678630
FXPAK PRO uses FPGA to emulate special SNES chips, so it's unauthentic trace, should be binned. Get the actual cart. on REAL hardware.

>>8679875
I can use the same TV and the same controller while emulating instead of using an original console. To me, I don't experience a difference.
For handhelds, the look and feel is very hard to reproduce by emulation, even on an emulation handheld.

>>8679878
*trash

>>8679879
Not really, I have a 351p I use solely for handhelds with shitty screens so I can actually play them and it looks great

>>8679886
That doesn't look anything like a real GBC. It's just not for me.

>>8679887
It absolutely does, especially when viewed at the actual size that the actual screen is

>>8679891
If it looked the same then it would be an "unplayable shitty screen", since that's you called the GBC.
You can have your preferences, but you already admitted it's not the same.

>>8679893
because it has no backlight and any added backlight screen doesn't display colours correctly
Open that image in a new tab and zoom out til it gets to a small enough size, it also adds the minor blur for all the graphical effects
you can think however you want but I can tell with a hundred percent assurance that it has the intended look of those handhelds

>>8679895
>and any added backlight screen doesn't display colours correctly
I'm glad you understand.

>>8679898
which is why I said this is good, as it does

>>8679904
>my backlit screen is magic and doesn't behave like any other backlit screen!
ok?

>>8679907
no, it's done at the software level, nothing magic about it

>>8679908
Filters and shaders like that tend to only look good when you have an extreme increase of resolution, like on the Analogue Pocket. Otherwise you can't reproduce the smaller details of a low resolution pixel grid.

>>8679916
wrong, because it's such a low resolution already, 2x to be exact, a simple grid is all it needs, native is obviously the best but 2x is still good with a simple grid

>>8679921
If you try to replicate the screen door effect on a 2x display the margins between pixels becomes way too large. It's definitely not how it's supposed to look.
I'm not sure why it matters to you though, since you already said you don't like the look of the original display. I'm starting to think it's not that you simply prefer more modern displays, but that you outright don't know what they're meant to look like.

>>8679930
>the margins between pixels becomes way too large
sure, if you use a large screen
these screens are small

>>8679931
It's proportional to the pixels either way, which is why you need a major increase in resolution, and why premium hardware bothers to include this sort of high resolution display.

>>8679936
Wrong on so many levels but in the end it doesn’t matter because I use both, so I know how accurate it looks

>>8679947
You use both because they're the same except for the fact that they're different so you don't use the bad one. Sure buddy.

>>8678630
>except my SD2SNES is for a North American SNES

>>8679952
No, I stopped using my GBC because I got sick of having to sit at a perfect angle just to see it
You have a very weird stance on something that you couldn’t care less about the consoles, more power to your autism I guess

>>8679727
>mods/jannies
>/vr/

Nah, I prefer MiSTer. It's nice to have the choice between original controls or a decent arcade stick, D-stick, or Saturn pad for every single game.

>>8678660
They are right. Trying to pretend otherwise is foolish. There’s no appreciable difference with a decent emulator setup. It’s good enough and has been for years, perhaps decades.

>>8680151
Geez, mister shills are out in full force today

>>8678630
Ironically, many flash carts leverage the FPGA the same way a MISTer does in order to play Sega CD or SuperFX chip games, for example.

>>8680317
NES and Game Boy flashcarts need an FPGA to fully support memory mappers. Using an FPGA isn't anything unusual.

>>8678710
Oh shit.

>>8680207
F46607

Good thread to ask. The KrzysioCart is possibly one of the only flash carts that can work on a famiclone, but its mapper compatibility is quite limited, more priority was put in to support random multicart mappers than supporting a wide range of games. I know the N8 Pro does not work on famiclones, and I am curious if there are any other flash carts that can work on them while supporting more games.

>>8678667
>>8678719
It's fine, I have other things to tend to, I'll get that stuff later.
Hope the dude is alright.