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>finished several games at 2 fps with PSEmu Pro on a Pentium 166 computer because Connectix Virtual Game Station needed a Pentium 200 at least and Bleem! was trash

How was your gamer pleb level back in the day?

>> No.1925691

Just a bunch of zsnes

>> No.1925694

>>1925663
>Connectix Virtual Game Station
oh man, i remember this shit. it worked so good. finished Wild Arms and Wild Arms 2 with it

>> No.1925695

I had an old computer that was complete ass and slogged my way through many games at around 10-15fps. Maybe I was just used to it because of the terrible framerate of the N64 games I had.

>> No.1925702

I honestly thought the "whale crying" sound I got from FF6 and Chrono Trigger was the actual BGM of the situations.

>> No.1925781

My first playthrough of Unreal was through a 320x240 window at < 10fps because the advanced graphical options might as well have been written in Chinese to me at the time.
Still became my favourite game, though.

>> No.1927937

Oh yeah, know this feel.

I first completed Mario 64 on an 800 MHz PIII-m Acer POS with 90's integrated graphics, Windows 98:

The *only* way to get it to run at the required 60fps was to Ctrl-Alt-Del *every* process, including explorer.

>> No.1928928

>>1927937
>task manager process deleting to get better performance out of games

ahhh... right in the feels, anon.

>> No.1928930

>>1928928
I still do this

>> No.1928957

>>1927937
>The *only* way to get it to run at the required 60fps was to Ctrl-Alt-Del *every* process, including explorer.

But if you close explorer, it should start up again by itself

>> No.1928996
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1928996

Playing DN3D on 486 at 320*200 with details set to low. Pic related, try this in fullscreen. I couldn't even make out what some things were supposed to be due to how shitty it looked.

Also playing Ocarina Of Time at half the normal framerate on emulator (pj64 I think). I eventually gave up and didn't beat the game.

>> No.1929121

>>1925663
Bleem! may have been trash, but it was high performance trash. I only had a Pentium 133 that struggled with even 16bit emulators, forget MAME; yet Bleem! let me play PS1 games. Frickin' voodoo coding.

>> No.1929131

>>1928928
Another common hack was replacing explorer.exe in the win.ini file with the game exe you wanted. Saved precious resources. These days we have so much power to spare fuck the resource hungry OS and bloatware.

>> No.1929136

>>1928928
I keep an core reserved with Linux isolcpus boot parameter. I can run things on it with taskset and they get the whole core with nothing else running on it. Good for avoiding missed vsync with RetroArch.

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Played most of the old classics (Doom, Doom II, Duke 3D, Blood, SW) at their default resolutions (like 300x200) back in the day despite having a Pentium 200MHz that could have run them at higher res.

Also played through all of Quake and Quake II that way, didn't really use mouse for either except to stop and look around occasionally.

>mfw I discovered the higher resolutions
>mfw running Quake 2 at 1024x768 software render for the first time when I was like 11

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>> No.1929153

>>1929139
*Oh, and I'm a major pleb right now btw.

A PS3 is the most modern system I have. I do all my PC gaming on a laptop I bought in 2009 which can handle everything to about 2006 at 60+fps at decent settings. I hardly even touch my PS3 and just use my laptop most of the time. There's nothing anymore that really makes me want to cough up the cash for a modern gaming PC. I'm happy with CS1.6 and Quake for multiplayer, and modern shooters look terrible to me in general. I also emulate my stuff.

I think I've just reached a satiation point in gaming where nothing is interesting to me anymore except Bloodborne which is looking to be incredible.

But yeah, not retro.

>> No.1929294

>>1928957
Not on Windows 9x!

>> No.1929315

>>1929142
>slippery when wet

>> No.1929334
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1929334

This was my very first time playing both Zelda and Zelda 2.

>> No.1929359

>>1929334
Aw shit Nesticle! Was kind of weird having balls for an icon on my desktop.

>> No.1929408

>>1929142
i so wish I could have worked for these guys back in the day

>> No.1929412

>>1929334
what the hell was wrong with the guy who made nesticle anyhow, some stickdeath shit

>> No.1930435

Used to browse Zophar's Domain a lot and try out every console emulators for Windows because the only one I ever owned before getting a PC was a famicom clone.

>> No.1930483

>>1925663
used to play around with bleem back in the days but nothing serious, had enough PC games and my best stoner buddy had a PSX anyways

>> No.1930494

>emulating at unacceptable frame rates
Yeah, I had a chipped Playstation and I dropped $250 into a CD burner in 1998. Blanks were over $1 each even in spindles and those cheap CDRs (Imation brand) have turned transparent since then and don't work.

>> No.1932951

I had an awesome Pentium 200 MMX with 32 Megs of RAM (it may have been 16 I can't remember) that ran fucking KGen fullspeed. I needed nothing more.

It also ran the Dooms, Quake but I don't remember if 240p or 480p software (I think 480), NFS2 SE 640p, Unreal low res, Age of Empires 1 480p AOE2 480p stuttery, Half Life ... It felt like a glorified PSX. But at the time 3d accelerators were the thing and I couldn't ;_;

>> No.1932969

I remember when I discovered emulation, which was through Kazza. I found ePSXe and I used it (with keyboard) to play things (like Medal of Honor) when the only TV was being used by my mother.
I can't remember what else I played in ePSXe...

eMachines, 466 Hz Celeron, 256 MB of RAM (pretty sure we upgraded that), and a 4 MB ATI Rage card.

>> No.1934058

>>1928996

Corn was fast as fuck.

>> No.1934089

>>1930494

Give us a break, it was almost 20 years ago.

>> No.1934147

>>1925663
Back in 1997 I used a 16 Mhz 386 SX with 8 Mb of RAM to play Mortal Kombat 2, because that 386 Osborne was seriously all I could afford at the time. The frame rate was a "very playable" 2 FPS. Hey, at least inputting the AICULEDSSUL cheat was easy, there was plenty of time to enter it. The enemies with their slow movements were also easy to predict, so it was easy moodo to play, even Kintaro.

I also played Wolf 3D, Alone in the Dark, and Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games on it, they at least worked better, thank God.

>> No.1934363

>>1925702
I will forever have these sounds burned into my soul.

>> No.1934951
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1934951

I had one of these beasts with a Pentium and 32 MB of RAM if I remember correctly. Played some arcade games on MAME with it.

Later I got a desktop with a 366 MHz celeron, 192 MB of ram and a Matrox G200. Played Quake 2 and ps1 games on it.

>> No.1934979

Back in 1999, the only way I was able to play Grand Theft Auto was emulating the GBC ROM on my old-ass Mac from 1995.

>> No.1935074

>>1930494
>chipped Playstation
get a load of this fag, double swap trick masterrace reporting in. I was the king of double swap, I had to teach all my DDRfag friends how to do it cuz chipped/bootdisc gave problems with some burned DDR mixes.