/vr/ - Retro Games

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I'm deleting all the pics i've saved from 4chan over the years, but before i delete them, i've decided to share them in the appropriate boards.

Some stuff is only tangentially related to retro games but i'm dumping them anyway. Its mostly fan/alternative art.

Starting with Valkyrie Profile.

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Good choice

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Last one for Valkyrie Profile.

A few Breath of Fire pics now.

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>>2596106
>I'm deleting all the pics i've saved from 4chan over the years
Why?

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>>2596189
I'm not deleting everything, i have some really old stuff here and i'm fond of them. They remind me of different times in 4chan and the internet as a whole.

I'm deleting the pics that i think i have no reason to keep and i only remember they exist when i browse through my 4chan folder anyway. I've way too much stuff here, but then, i've joined this place in early 2007.

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My mistake saying i'm deleting all, i'm not actually deleting all, but i'm keeping so few it doesn't even matter.

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this is a good thread
what kind of other stuff do you have

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>>2596243
It's mostly stuff saved from /a/, /v/, /vr/ and some porn.
I have very few although interesting motivational/life advice stuff too.

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>>2596206
I can't ever fathom doing this. A 4chan folder is your own personal internet time capsule. I have had one since 2005 and it will continue to grow, even if I browse less and less over the years. Stupid mundane shit that nobody cares about is safe with me and me alone. When the protagonist of Pokemon Diamond was revealed to be a young Ocelot and we all collectively made bad jokes, I have that thread. When /v/'s first major get for its millionth post was pong, I have that thread. When Steve Irwin died, I have that thread. When some dude wanted to go to potatos to get his fuking power wrist, I have that thread.

Your folder's your folder, but at least make a copy of everything and just organize everything into folders. Don't delete that shit, though. That's eight years of history for you. Maybe I'm just sentimental.

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>>2596259
I have some relics too, but don't worry i'm keeping them.

I'm only deleting pics like these, which have no meaning other than being something i saved years ago because i liked it.

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That was the last for Breath of Fire, some random stuff now. Mostly Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger.

I guess it's obvious i'm a sucker for jrpgs. But as of now, i'm taking a break and only play some fighting games on Fightcade.

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Speaking of fighters, anybody recognizes this place?

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Funny that i have so many pictures of Samus, i never played any of the Metroid games.

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Solving captcha gets really tiring after a while

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>>2596259
Not OP, but I have tens of gigs of random internet bullshit that I don't need or ever use and I really should delete it one of these days to make room for more important/useful stuff. So I can understand where OP's coming from on this.

[Anonymous No.2596504]

>>2596493
I already deleted hundreds of megabytes of stuff i didn't find even worthy of being shared.

I'm only sharing the stuff i think someone else might enjoy. After i'm done here i'll probably dump some stuff on /a/ or dump some porn on /b/ or whatever, i've not made a single post in /b/ in fucking years.

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So many Samus pics, i must have had a crush on her some years ago and don't remember it.

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Three and a half hours passed already and there's still a good amount of pictures

Guess i'm gonna take a break

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Really cool picture of the KoF bosses

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Taking a break now, it's 6:15am right now and i'm tired as shit

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I'm gonna sleep now and since it's 6:20am i'll probably wake up for lunch then sleep some more or play some vidya, so i'll be back in 9 or 10 hours.

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>>2596206
>>2596259
How was 4chan like over 10 years ago, I came here back in 2012 so I'm complete new and everyone keeps mentioning how amazing it was? pls enlighten me?

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>>2597557

Much smaller community, more original content, less repost, and the notion of "internet memes" was still in diapers.

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>>2597561
Yeah that would probably be why people liked back then just a small fourm like anything before retards came in and destroyed it. got any stories to tell? the only memes I remember were back from mid 00s were youtube poops, newgrounds flash videos??, demotivational posters, weegee. I was beginning to see the other side of the internet back then.

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>>2597572
Not really much to say about it. It was smiller and slower, you could post in a thread on /v/ and it would still be there next morning. There was more OC and somewhat less negative shitposting, and it felt a bit more like an insular community. It was possible to actually pull off funny threads like pic related. Politics were mostly limited to ironic racism on /b/. There were very few stupid threads like "r8 my dick" or "post ending in X decides what I text back". A lot more content was from 2ch and Japanese culture in general, people were less inclined to fuck off to /jp/. Mostly though it's just oldfags preferring oldfag memes (<3 u longcat).

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>>2597572
it wasn't that much better. looking through my old pics, i see a bunch of fucking demotivational posters.

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>>2597614
Oh damn, this is the one I meant to post. Both still great though.

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>>2597615
I remember seeing those on fourms and youtube back then. I remember awesome face too tho idk where it started but middle school me loved it oh yeah the random rick rolls and scatman.
>02597614
kek

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>>2597639
we laughed at the dumbest shit in hindsight. and the gifs were low-res as fuck since bandwidth was an actual concern and posting pngs was frowned upon for good reasons. the mid 00s were a rough time.

not my oldest 4chan pic, just the oldest one on my current pc, rest is on some semi-dead external hdd

[Anonymous No.2597995]

OP here.
Back to dump a few more stuff before i go eat.

As for 4chan in the older times, what i miss the most from 2007-2010 is that you could be ironic, make jokes, satirize stuff or simply genuinely disagree with the general consesus without it being called "bait". "trolling" was simply making inaccurate statements on purpose to make people lose their shit.

Nowadays you can't make a joke, be ironical or disagree with the popular conseus anymore without someone saying it is bait and "trolling" has completely lost it's original meaning, people now genuinely think disagreeing with them or hurting their feelings is trolling.

This contributed massively to the downgrade of the quality of the discussions on 4chan.

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itt everyone makes shit up
I was there at the time and don't remember any of this shit, you fags are fucking pathetic pls sudoku yourself

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Another interesting thing i remember is that people simply ignored and reported retards trying to disrupt conversations with their bullshit.

I still do this.

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>>2596206
>2007

You just missed the glory days. Granted, I was mostly here for /b and /h in the early years.

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>>2598015

I know it was even better before 2007 but i still think pre-2010 was a good time to be here.
From early 2010 onwards it was donwhill.

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I love this gif.

It's old as fuck.

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>>2598039
That's from this thread >>2597614

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>>2597614
Remember when moot took the donation money and went to Mexico?

(lifelike texture ;_;)

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>>2598090
Remember when Moot graduated?

And people actually thought he was MexiMoot?

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>>2598097
GREETINGS FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL!

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I'm surprised at how many Samus pictures i've found in my folders, it's bizarre because i have never played any of the Metroid games.

I'm posting here only a tiny bit, there are many which are too pornographic (and good quality) to be posted here.

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Wow.

All these pics are making me consider actually playing the games.

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>>2597557
Politics weren't everywhere, it was slower (Marked for Deletion: Old), people were less inclined to shitpost

And most surprisingly of all, YOU COULD ACTUALLY TELL when /b/ was raiding /v/.

Our memes were kinda stupid, but I don't care about memes. I care about board quality.

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>>2598178
>Politics weren't everywhere
What do you mean? I mostly browse /vr/ so maybe I'm not too aware of it

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>>2598183
OP here
Nowadays everything is becoming about politics bro, not only in 4chan, everything is turning into a political issue.

Also, this recent culture of people telling you they are offended about something and expecting you to give a fuck, this didn't exist until at least 2010.

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Not really /vr/ but still...

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>>2598189
I see, you're talking about SJWs right?
I dislike them too, unfortunately here you are labeled as one if you don't adhere to hateful ideologies.
I mostly stay in /vr/, is it true when people say the racism in /pol/ used to be ironical?
I went there a few times and it seemed pretty real.

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>>2598195
There didn't use to be a politics board, duder. The racism was almost entirely people calling each other nigger (interchangeable with faggot) on /b/ and reposting that "around blacks, never relax" picture. Occasionally there'd be a gigantic thread about the global Jewish conspiracy, but few people took it seriously. There was none of the insane, constant hissyfits about feminism, lgbt people, and social justice like today. /B/ used to be truly random, a lot of that probably has to do with how many boards there are now for individual interests. I guess because it was smaller it was more chill, people weren't always so quick to get assblasted about minor shit all the time. I miss when we had actual Caturdays (post some fucking cats!) and there was no dumb Anonymous activism Chanology bullshit, when Duckrolling was still around and we'd post our Nanaca Crash scores on /v/, this is the story about how my life got turned flipped upside down.

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>>2598195
I'm not talking only sjws and not only about the internet, politics used to be a topic on it's own, nowadays it's inserted in pretty much everything.

I never went to /pol/ when it was /new/. But dont underestimate /pol/, there is some degree of truth to a lot of things they say, they say a lot of bullshit too but when saying the truth they are very coherent and reasonable.
You also have to understand one thing, a lot of people who say absurd things on /pol/ are people trying to ruin it's reputation for political reasons.
It's one of the very, very few places on the internet where people can anonymously speak their minds about the most controversial topics and share the truth without fear of prosecution, think about this a little.

Google "false-flag" if you don't know what it is. It happens all the time in politics and you have to be wary of it.

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>>2598230
Social Justice faggotry wasn't a thing in 2006, mate.

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Gonna play some videogames now, will dump more later

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>>2598239
No shit, that's literally what I just said, retard.

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>>2598249
That isn't literally what you said, assfaggot.

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>>2598250
I said >>2598230
>There was none of the insane, constant hissyfits about feminism, lgbt people, and social justice like today

I'm sorry I didn't include a wiki citation with a date. Is English your second language or something? Do you want to make out?

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>>2598230
The problem with 4chan is when it became too big, more people started coming in, some of whom took things seriously. I remember back when 4chan trolling used to be bullshit fucking around stuff like pranking tech support, raiding a forum or Habbo Hotel, and trying to get literal camwhores on livejasmine or wherever to put shoe or keyboard on head or whatever. People turning Anonymous into a hacking collective or anti-scientology protest or whatever other "serious business" crap they tried to mix with 4chan culture.

4chan would've been best left as a place outside the knowledge of the "normal mainstream internet user," a place to fuck around, have fun, blow off steam, and discuss shared interests, all while stroking your harbl to porn.

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>>2596451
I'm sad Nintendo doesn't have the balls to experiment with Mario and do elsewords types stories of stuff like this, like more realistic or just Mario in different settings. Everyone's always the same plastic mannequin cartoon looking style and it will never change. Yoshi's Island was nice, but I guess crayons and now yarn and fabrics are the extent they'll push it, but only in spin-off stuff, not main Mario titles.

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>>2598231
>share the truth
lol

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>>2598231
>/pol/ actually matters hurr
/pol/ is inconsequential and it's by no means unique

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>>2598231
>muh chemtrails, muh alex jones, muh roads, muh bitcoins, muh happenings. muh msg, muh pills...
Fuck off, you piece of shit.

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>>2596259
So much this. I've been coming here since the Habbo raid days and my 4chan folders are fascinating to look through now.

Plus they're what? a few hundred megs each? Why delete them? I look forward to looking through them in another 20 or 30 years.

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4chan was really different back then.

Look at /b/, for example. At least 2/3rd of it is SWJ/Gay/Cuck/Furry/Loli now. It used to have maybe 3 topics up at a time in these catagories.

/v/ was different too. It used to be more like /vg/, where they talked about specific games. But now it's a containment board for argument bait threads.

Even /vr/ has changed, even though it's somewhat new. It's still pretty good, but we're getting to a point where people can't talk about retro games without emulator or flashcart pushers popping a squat on any and all discussions.

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>>2598975
>without emulator or flashcart pushers popping a squat on any and all discussions.

That's because that's how many of us play retro games now. I have a closet full of carts that I don't bother to use because emulation is so good and accessible now.

Ultimately it's the games that matter, not what we play them on.

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>Look at /b/, for example. At least 2/3rd of it is SWJ/Gay/Cuck/Furry/Loli now.

I don't know when you got here, but when I started back around the Habbo raid days (just before, but whatever) it was already pretty /Gay/Cuck/Furry/Loli. The difference between then and now is that back then it was almost entirely positive about it. To the point that if you were posting on /b/ it was assumed you were a sexual deviant of some fashion.

Now those threads get made, but there's major backlash to it as well and /b/ on average is quite anti gay/whatever. Back then it wasn't with the SJW spin that a lot of that stuff has now though. That's more recent.

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>>2597647
I remember gifs im surprised Facebook is finally accepted them while the rest of them internet has had them for like over 10 years now remember going to newgrounds or seeing youtube videos of stupid gifs collections or going to random hentai sites back in the day.
>mid 00s were a rough time
why? because more people had internet connection and decided to explore this place?
>>2599026
I feel le anonymoose legion raids back then probably started the downfall of this place if everything you guys say are true.

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>>2599026
>That's because that's how many of us play retro games now. I have a closet full of carts that I don't bother to use because emulation is so good and accessible now.

Unless a poster is asking for details about it, it's safe to assume that everyone here know about emulation and flashcarts. Randomly bringing them up, especially in real cart threads, is blantent shitposting.

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>>2599026
>Not understanding what SJW means

SJW = authoritarian left, as in people who want to censor hate speech, force communism on the nation, what have you. i.e. tumblrisms

To pigeon-hole SJWs in with general liberal parties or gay people is profoundly stupid. Liberalism (libertarianism) is antithetical to authoritarianism. There's a huge difference between someone trying to further civil rights causes because they don't have the same legal rights under the law, and some tumblrite trying to get "manspreading" banned from subways because it triggers their hypersensitivity. If you can't see the distinction, then please relinquish your voter card now.


I'm 31 years old. I've been here since the site was just /a/ /v/ and /b/. 4chan was always left-libertarian, until /pol/ was introduced and Stormfront started flocking to the board like flies to shit. Now most boards just whine about SJW boogeymen and go on librul witch hunts. It's sad to see /vr/ is slowly becoming more of the same.

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>>2599026
I think it has something to do with the /b of old being actually inhabited by perverts and loners and the like. I believe I first discovered 4chan back in 2004 by way of a porn section on Shoujo-ai (if my memory hasn't failed me), or at the very least by looking for porn. As time went on, I guess people started to realize that raiders weren't actually from ebaumsworld and eventually found 4chan. I think that lead to the eventual influx of legitimate idiots who took the tounge in cheek WE ARE ANONYMOUS thing seriously and not just a comradery forming joke. Popularity and the proliferation of Internet jokes probably lead to more people visiting and more people who want to make 4chan into what they want it to be rather than lurking, learning, and enjoying the site for what it was. As with many things, popularity often becomes a detriment. To think that something as deviant as 4chan would ever become more than an obscure porn and joke site or mentioned in any non-Internet media or that it would spawn some bullshit news making vigilante groups would have completely baffled my mid-2000s self. There was a time when moot wasn't widely known, back when he was, well, just look back in this thread.

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>>2599112
>It's sad to see /vr/ is slowly becoming more of the same.
It's creeping into everything everywhere and I don't like it.

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>>2599080
>I feel le anonymoose legion raids back then probably started the downfall of this place

Yeah, that's fairly accurate. I was never one of the legion people, the habbo raids were just the biggest marker of time around when I joined. But yes, every raid brought new people which changed the landscape.

>>2599102
>Randomly bringing them up, especially in real cart threads, is blantent shitposting.
Got any examples of what you mean exactly? I can't see in any way how mentioning flash carts is shitposting. It's all just talking about retro games. But link what you mean by shitposting, maybe they're posts I haven't noticed.

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No time to respond in detail, but generally I agree.

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>>2599167
When I first came here it was for /h, and I don't think I started becoming a regular site and /b user until late 2004 or during 2005, but I remember the Habbo raids during summer 2006. I still wonder if many Habbo residents discovered 4chan then.

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>>2599112
/new/ was here before /pol/, pal. The problem was, as the image macro you must have seen by now supposed old-fag says, that when you pretend to be retarded, i.e. /new/, actual retards think they've found great company.

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>>2599118
Whoa nice. Searching for hentai in 2004 is exactly how I got here.
Take this as a token of our kinship.

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>>2599215

I took a hiatus from the site around the time /r9k/ popped up. I don't even remember there being a /new/. When I came back in 2014, there was /pol/, and most every board had transformed into a massive circlejerk over how much they hate SJWs. /v/ in particular was at the core of it. You can't go through a single page without numerous 500-post threads whining about "pandering" because a video game happened to have a gay NPC, or something. Then there's utterly pointless shit like GamerGate, which I suspect was the straw that broke the camel's back in the case of moot leaving the site for good.

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>>2599242
That whole unsavory GG business was it, yeah. It's responsible for 4chan's latest transformation and finally turned it into the new safe haven and echo chamber of the internet nouvelle droite, with early to mid-twenties kids telling each other how the world is run. It's annoying.

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>>2599102
Just no. There is absolutely nothing in the rules about flash carts or emulation. We're here to talk about games. Not games only in the specific way you want to talk about them.

Insisting that people shouldn't be allowed to talk about Earthbound if they haven't spent a hundred bucks on a cart is ridiculous. And bitching about it being shitposting if they mention they emulated it is itself trolling. It has nothing to do with the actual game, it's just complaining that someone didn't play it the same way you did.

If you want a "carts talk only" forum, go find one. No one here gives a shit about your autism.

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>>2598230
Okay thanks for answering, it's something I was curious about since sometimes there's discussions about "it was always like this" "no it wasn't" etc.
At least I haven't seen political stuff here.

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>>2599291
the only political stuff that has been here forever was libertarian shilling. always fun.

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Was the hate for liberalism always a thing?

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>>2599263
I think he is more referring to emulation activists who would bash people for owning real cartridges or otherwise shit up threads with snarky pro-emulator posts despite being irrelevant to the conversation. It'd be like someone going into the Genesis/MD flashcart thread and posting "lol look at these poor newfags, I already have a complete cart library." When discussing the contents of a game, I doubt most people care how you played it, but if someone posts asking which game to buy or something, they obviously aren't looking for "emulate it" answers.

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>>2599303
never to this degree. it's always sexier as a teenager to be a hawk and not a dove, but it was mostly just edginess. the toxicity of recent years is something entirely else.

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>>2599154
Don't misinterpret what I'm going to say but to stop that it needs to be clear people dislike political stuff here.
For example, either don't reply, make it a rule, anything similar.
It starts slowly but eventually politics would be everywhere if it's allowed.

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>>2599291
Old 4chan chock full of college-aged liberals ironically using racial/sexist stereotypes because of shock value (like everything else on /b/), so I can see why complete imbeciles who were never in on the joke but looking back at screenshots might think it was "always like this".
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lmao

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I just wish everything wasn't about fucking politics nowadays.

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>>2596259
You've perfectly encapsulated all of my feelings.

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>>2599317
I'm absolutely with you there. I'd hate to see this comfy board go the way most other boards have gone. And when I say that it's creeping in, I mean that this obnoxious /pol/ nonsense is starting to slowly and subtly permeate the discourse. It's the little things that make it unfun, the way some topics get hijacked. I remember making a thread about being a retro gamer as a father and/or husband, and it eventually turned into exchanging bottom of the barrel tier radical stances. Meh.

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Wish you dudes wondering about old 4chan's political leanings could have seen /b/ the day Bush was reelected.

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>>2599306
>bash people for owning real cartridges or otherwise shit up threads

where does that happen? Show me one post of someone bashing a person for playing on a cart.

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>>2599335
I remember that website. Had articles like, "examples of John Kerry's douchebaggery and why it doesn't matter." Good stuff.

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>>2599335
Or even the day Obama was elected for you newfags.

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>>2599335
What happened in both cases?

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>>2599386
I thought it was implicit from the images.

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>>2599386
>>2599397
I could post more but this is pretty far off topic for /vr/

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>>2599409
Understandable, I don't want to derail the thread either.

[Anonymous No.2599440]

40something oldfag from 2chan here, here's what happened. In the beginning it was pretty much this >>2599118, 4chan and /b/ in particular was a haven for otaku losers and perverts. It didn't matter how weird the shit you were into, or the stuff you thought was because the next guy was even weirder.

Calling yourself a b/tard was like a badge, they'd found a host of other people who liked jizzing on anime figures and the comradary was good. Even for a day a week they wouldn't bitch about the guy who only wants to post hil Balto fanfiction.


Of course, it being 4chan there was always a lot of trolling. The design of the board being that you can declare you're a panty thief without being personally shamed also meant you could declare anyone who isn't a panty thief is a raging faggot. So everyone trolled each other, but it was largely good natured. More just venting than actual hate for other weirdos. Being weird was why you were here in the first place.

But then with the comradory came the realization that despite their weirdness, they were a pretty big group. And that's where the real fights started.

Some people wanted to take trolling to the next level. As a mass, go out and anonymously fuck something up just for the fun of it and because fuck ebaums world sucks. Others predicted what would happed and raged against it. To no avail, play fighting turned into real fighting and /b/ started to become a cesspool of bickering.

Cont

[Anonymous No.2599446]

>>2599440
None of which stopped the raids, if anything it just encouraged them more. And with each raid, a few of the people who were getting trolled found their way back here. And seeing how easy it is to troll, set up shop. Every raid bumped poster numbers, every time. And the new posters largely weren't like kind of perverted otaku who had originally come here from 2chan and the like.

Since the raids often targeted places /b/ thought were shit like Stormfront, deviantart or something awful, those are the people who got attracted here. Repeat that a few thousand times all over the internet and you have 4chan as it is today.

All that said, I still like it here and the heart of what always made 4chan good still does. Mr homophobe stormfag can scream and yell all he wants about what a cuckold fag I am for licking another man's spunk off my wife's face, but he can't doing anything about it. And the very fact that he comes here to look at that and get mad is hilarious to me. That's just 4chan for ya.

[Anonymous No.2599463]

>>2598975
>Even /vr/ has changed, even though it's somewhat new. It's still pretty good, but we're getting to a point where people can't talk about retro games without emulator or flashcart pushers popping a squat on any and all discussions.

We're on the far side of that now. It doesn't happen much anymore, as you may have noticed. So, you're right, but that damage is done and scarred now.

We used to have regular discussions about 'look at my recent pickup' and 'what games are you buying next'? But that heavy pro-EMU/Flashcart anti-Purchase trolling pretty much shut that all out. We really don't have those threads anymore, and when they do appear, people use terms like 'shill', 'jew' and 'L00K R@RE' when they don't just tell them to emulate or get a flashcart. It's easily the second most trolled topic type after Retron.

>>2599337
>>2599167

You'll have to go to the archives. The lack of existing discussions on these topics should be proof enough of how the community here drowned it out. It's kind of surprising that you're unaware, as it was extremely prevalent up to a month or so ago. You may have (inadvertently) been part of the problem.

[Anonymous No.2599475]

>>2599446
>raids often targeted places /b/ thought were shit like Stormfront
On the topic, one of the earliest big raids was against Hal Turner, who was for all intents and purposes the personification of modern day /pol/ (although he turned out to be an informant).

[Anonymous No.2599487]

>>2599263
You're reading comprehension is very poor, as no one in this thread (including who you responded to) has suggested the things you've said. Flash carts and Emulation are fine tools.

You are, however, proving that there's an animosity towards someone who talks about physical carts in a non-negative light.

[Anonymous No.2599504]

>>2599463
So you're unhappy that vr isn't your personal shopping blog? We want to talk about GAMES, not being a collector. If anything those threads were clogging this place up with endless whining about "why isn't Super Metroid as cheap as it was in 2002?!?" every day.

It's fine if you want to be a colletor, but shitting on people for not caring about what you found at the flea market is stupid. We want to talk about actual video games.

[Anonymous No.2599515]

>>2599504
People owning games and people playing games are not mutually exclusive groups. It's clear that, at this point, you're just trolling.

[Anonymous No.2599519]

>>2599504
Don't take this hateful stance. It's not conducive to the atmosphere on this board to claim what "we" want or don't want. Try to be a nice person.

[Anonymous No.2599529]

>>2599487
>You are, however, proving that there's an animosity towards someone who talks about physical carts in a non-negative light.

Where? I'm calling for that guy to stop complaining about shitposting or point out exactly where it is. Which he hasn't done "go read the archives" isn't a good example. Where has anyone expressed animosity towards playing on a cart? All the animosity is towards someone complaining about non-existent trolling.

[Anonymous No.2599531]

>>2599515
>People owning games and people playing games are not mutually exclusive groups.

Where did I say anything like that? It's fine if you want to collect, but that's not all this board is for. Please stop shitposting about it.

[Anonymous No.2599537]

>>2599167
>>2599337

Look at this thread, which is a few below this thread: >>2598837

[Anonymous No.2599565]

>>2599026
>Ultimately it's the games that matter, not what we play them on.

It's not just video games though. Actually I'm not that much interested in video game consoles. Sure, I'll play some of them now and then, but my primary interest has always been home computers from the 80's. I started coding on them from the very beginning, making artwork, and even crappy music (I always sucked at that part). That experience can't be replicated for me through emulation on these over-complicated modern hardwares. The whole thing just feels ridiculous and wrong. Actually I wouldn't even bother with laptop if I could still browse web on Amiga or similar machine. Now I feel trapped with the modern hardware and OS because it's needed for some critical tihngs, but I want to spend the least time possible with those bad things. I feel no creativity when I sit in front of my laptop, only sadness.

[Anonymous No.2599598]

>>2596270
I still don't get it.

Seems sorting through the pictures, deciding which ones to keep, going to respective boards, uploading the ones you're deleting, and finally deleting them — is a lot more trouble than just keeping them in your HDD until the apocalypse. I would do this kinda thing on computers in the 90s/early-00s when 1000s of <1MB jpgs would take up a significant chunk of the hard drive, but nowadays as memory grows on trees the HDD storage allocation for a 4chan folder is virtually negligible. It seems like you're creating needless work for yourself. Not a criticism really, just saying that your actions baffle me.

[Anonymous No.2599605]

>>2599565
>Actually I'm not that much interested in video game consoles. Sure, I'll play some of them now and then, but my primary interest has always been home computers from the 80's.

Then maybe a forum dedicated specifically to retro video games isn't the best place to talk about your hobby. I had computers all through the 80's but the architecture was never what really interested me. I was into games. So now I hang out on a forum dedicated to games of that era.

[Anonymous No.2599614]

>>2599537
Okay I read the thread. So the guy pointing out that he chooses to avoid the insane prices of retro games by pirating was shitposting? That's not shitposting. That's him adding his opinion to the discussion. There is NOTHING wrong with that.

However, you having a shit fit about it and bringing it up out of the blue in threads like this is shitposting.

[Anonymous No.2599619]

>>2596326
One of my favorites...

[Anonymous No.2599620]

>>2596106
Hey I've been doing this!
Not sure I want to purge my retro vidya stuff though, not that there's much of it.

[Anonymous No.2599675]

>>2599605
But I'm far from the only one here who likes to talk about old computers. There's even an eternal general thread or two (even one dedicated to retro japanese computers and their games). On top of that there often threads of interactive fiction, MUDs, graphic adventure games, CRPGs, and other games that are computer-centric.

Even when talking video games, I often prefer those on the computer. I think you're wrong to assume this forum is only about console games. It's about video games and retro hardware in general, even things like pinball machines.

[Anonymous No.2599716]

>>2596462
Ah, I love this art. Anyone know the artist's name? Reverse search yielded nothing, unfortunately.

[Anonymous No.2599725]

>>2599716
Never mind, I've found it. Diolemonde

[Anonymous No.2599752]

I'm doing the oposite, I need more dank memes

[Anonymous No.2599774]

>>2599463
Good. The sooner we sweep out the resellers, the better. Buying games is stupid. Emulation is perfect for most consoles. And when that doesn't work yes flashcarts. Wanting to stick in media to play a game is arcane nostalgia bullshit.

[Anonymous No.2599797]

>>2599337
Here you go:

>>2599774

[Anonymous No.2599812]

>>2599774
>Buying games is stupid. Emulation is perfect for most consoles. And when that doesn't work yes flashcarts. Wanting to stick in media to play a game is arcane nostalgia bullshit.
What about playing games I've had since they came out? Is that also still 'stupid'? So, if I want to play my existing save files on a cart, I need to start over in order to be 'smart'?

[Anonymous No.2599826]

>>2599812
Yes. It is. Sell them, and buy something worthwhile. You're sitting on a pile of money for habit reasons alone. And if you truly love retro games, you'll replay those. Or get a save dumper or whatever.

[Anonymous No.2599843]

>>2599826
>Yes. It is. Sell them, and buy something worthwhile. You're sitting on a pile of money for habit reasons alone.
You must live a boring life if you discard everything that doesn't have an immediate use.

>>2599337
>where does that happen? Show me one post of someone bashing a person for playing on a cart.
See who I'm replying to right now. These kinds of people always show up in threads where someone is discussing using a cart.

[Anonymous No.2599845]

>>2599826
*tips TPB cap*

[Anonymous No.2599862]

>>2599843
lol. Pointing or morons doing stupid things helps this place not hurts it. Go back to your ebay store.

[Anonymous No.2599868]

>>2599675
Sorry, I came off a little harsh. And of course, if you like talking about computer games this place is great. I was also really into computer games, rogue was my childhood obsession. It sounded at the time like you were disappointed that there wasn't enough computer tech talk. Which if you want that, and don't go there already /g/ has some oldfags you may get along with.

>>2599812
Not the guy you're talking to (who is probably just trying to get a rise out of you), but I would say of course it's not stupid to play old carts. And of course it's not stupid to buy old carts if that's what you want to do.

But when people come here and complain about the prices of old games, I think it's good to point out that collecting and playing old games are not necessarily tied together and they don't have to collect if all they want to do is play.

This helps in several ways. First off, it cuts down on the threads about "why is X game so expensive?" because people will learn to expect that if they're buying a collector's item that it's going to have a price attached to it.

Secondly, for the people who genuinely do want to collect games, it takes pressure off the market. In a microcosm, the less people looking to buy Super Metroid, the lower the demand stays and the less quickly the prices will escalate.

Doing that helps everyone, collectors and emulator players alike. The only people it doesn't help are the ones looking to buy games for the purpose of reselling at a higher price. But I think all of us can agree, that those people can go fuck themselves.

[Anonymous No.2599884]

>>2599843
>See who I'm replying to right now.
Okay yes, that guy is trolling. But the best way to deal with him is to ignore him. Trolls live on you getting pissed off, not feeding them is the best way to get them to stop. He's being way over the top and you're giving him exactly what he wants.

The thread you linked earlier though at the time had none of that in it. People endorsing emulation isn't the same at all as what that guy is doing which is pure shitposting.

[Anonymous No.2599893]

>>2599862
As a physical media buyer, I've downloaded ROMs and used to play games on MAME when I was a kid, but I like buying the occasional CIB game or preproduction cartridge because that is one of the few things on which I like to spend money.

Just keep in mind that for every ROM you download, for every prototype that gets uploaded (new ones appear online to this day), there is some filthy physical media buyer on the other end who spent his money on something he enjoys and helped you enjoy it for free.

[Anonymous No.2599902]

>>2599884
Posting things you don't agree with isn't trolling. Name one objective tangible gain owning a cart has over emulation and flashcarts. My games have bug fix patches, save states, whatever controller I want to use, no volitile batter, so on.

>>2599893
If I was overflowing with money beyond all other nessessities in life, including a full retirement, I might want to museum games too. But, I'm just a lower middle class guy.

[Anonymous No.2599903]

>>2599884
>The thread you linked earlier though at the time had none of that in it. People endorsing emulation isn't the same at all as what that guy is doing which is pure shitposting.
Looks like that other thread is going a bit down as well. I'll concede that it wasn't the best example to begin with.

[Anonymous No.2599925]

>>2599902
>Posting things you don't agree with isn't trolling.

Of course not. But saying that the way someone chooses to play video games is "bullshit" is very obvious trolling.
>Wanting to stick in media to play a game is arcane nostalgia bullshit.

p.s. I emulate almost exclusively these days. It's just your trolling I don't like. :)

>>2599903
Again reply less, and when you do, don't get all pissed off. That's what they want. If you never replied to him it would have ended there. Just another shitty post from an ignored troll.

[Anonymous No.2600025]

>>2599902
That's the thing, anon. These are games. Beyond whatever argument you can make for exercising coordination, reflexes, memory, critical thinking and so forth, they are meant to be fun. I'm sure many would say that leisure time spent playing games would be better spent on other constructive hobbies that produce things or help the community (disregard if you're someone who makes games for a living and uses gameplaying as study or someone who is a pro gamer or whatever), but you still devote some of your time to games because you enjoy them. You could try to explain why all day to someone who dislikes games, but many still wouldn't get it beyond simply acknowledging that apparently it is fun for some people.

Playing games is fun for me, but so is having actual carts and playing them on real hardware. Can I play games on my computer without the real thing? Of course. Would I still have fun? Sure (as long as it is with an appropriate controller). I like both the game data itself as well as the experience of playing a real cart on real hardware. Because I just do. Much like sex fetishes, I'm sure there's a deep reason why I enjoy it that way and why some are repelled by the thought of buying a game cart, but even knowing precisely why won't change anything. If you like it and it doesn't hurt anyone, then Gofer it.

[Anonymous No.2600179]

>>2599902
>Name one objective tangible gain owning a cart has
I like having them, it gives me pleasure -- that's all the reason I need. Same with owning books and records. Am I a colossal asshole because I don't listen to every record I own every day?

[Anonymous No.2600219]

>>2600179
No, you're a colossal asshole for robbing this kid of his personal self-justification :3

[Anonymous No.2600417]

>>2599440
>>2599446
Shit son thats worse than what normies think of /b/ now a days even tho its probably filled with le edgy teens from facebook and leddit and sometimes 9gag. Shame tho for what was something completely weird have to be dumb down.
>>2599335
Being a child of the Bush Years, it was ok outside the political spectrum.I wish I can go back to the 2000s before the whole economy crashed and all that.

[Anonymous No.2600492]

This thread really made me reflect on 4chan back in 2007-2010, it's not just the nostalgia speaking honestly, this place really has gone to shit.

[Anonymous No.2600494]

What the fuck happened to my thread

[Anonymous No.2600505]

>>2600494
>4chan
>2015

Do you even need to ask?

Pics aren't the only thing I would dump honestly.

[Anonymous No.2600506]

>>2600494
Politics, exactly as predicted.

[Anonymous No.2600997]

>>2599440
I think the biggest cancer for 4chan was and still is people who take shit too seriously.

[Anonymous No.2601006]

>>2597557
I've been on 4chan since 2005.

4chan wasn't great back then, it was just less shitty to the point where you can look back on it fondly now, but It was our shitty website.

[Anonymous No.2601092]

>>2601006
I thought it was great.

[Anonymous No.2601201]

>>2601092
Aww, it's Nevada-tan, I remember her. And Reidick.

[Anonymous No.2601210]

>>2600417
That's the thing though, they didn't ruin anything. 4chan is still here and it's still great. Sure it's not the pervert hugbox that it used to be, but it also doesn't need to be. The joke is still on them.

Go to /gif/ on any given day and there will proably be a thread of people jizzing all over anime figures. There will also be people loudly declaring how disgusting it is. But do you think any of them care about a bunch of normies? They're watching them get their panties in a twist and laughing and fapping and fapping and laughing the whole time. That's comedy gold right there.

[Anonymous No.2601389]

>>2600494
You mean your thread that was just a dump of ecchi shit you're getting ready to delete? What were you expecting out of it? 500 replies of praise for your wonderful collection? You've been here this long and you expected this thread to be anything other than what it is? lol

[Anonymous No.2601909]

>>2601006
>I've been on 4chan since 2005.

Why are you still here?

[Anonymous No.2601919]

>>2601909
Not him, but probably for the same reason he was here in 2005. I've been here longer than that. I stay because I like this place.

[Anonymous No.2601923]

>>2601006
I've been here since 03, and it feels like things have changed sometimes. But then I find something that reminds me of 4chan back then.
The only difference now is how fast things move, it's harder to appreciate the memes because of the speed.
I can't say I don't miss the Desu Days... the internet as a whole has changed. You can get arrested for sneezing now

[Anonymous No.2601935]

>>2601909
Because full-/vr/ is too slow.

[Anonymous No.2601953]

>>2601909
As opposed to what

[Anonymous No.2601956]

>>2601201
zoomj fuck DONATE TO 4CHAN

[Anonymous No.2602098]

>>2601909
>implying there's a time limit

Not him either but I came around 2006. Watch, you'll still be here in 2024 just like the rest of us.

[Anonymous No.2602162]

>>2599463
I've honestly seen more of the collectors shitting on emulation and starting stupid threads like "if you beat a game and it's not on the original hardware, does it really count?"

Not that I doubt there are annoying comments coming from both "sides" here, vocal pirates are extremely arrogant and look down on everyone spending money on anything they could be stealing instead.

I was very active talking about video games when this board when it first was created, but the constant aggression against people not playing on real hardware and general increasing toxicity all-around made me stop coming. I think this is my first post in half a year or so, and things are looking worse around here than every honestly. Sad to see how quickly the ship sank, guess the inheritance from /v/ drowned us out in the end.

[Anonymous No.2602169]

>>2602162
>"if you beat a game and it's not on the original hardware, does it really count?"

I just saw that shit on a youtube comment like an hour ago. It's not some shitty /vr/ meme, people actually exist that think it. Actually this guy was more adamant and straight out said it didn't count. Like if it's a fuckin RPG who cares if the timing is 0.2 ms off? It doesn't affect anything.

[Anonymous No.2602196]

>>2602169
It anything input lag makes it harder, so I can't see how that would be a good argument against it counting.

[Anonymous No.2602197]

Well, dump's over i guess.

I kept forgetting it anyway.

[Anonymous No.2602201]

>>2596259
Sentimentality is one of the best features of the human experience, you and I think alike. I unfortunately lost some of my earliest, decade+ folders due to laptop failures.

[Anonymous No.2602239]

>>2602201
I don't think I ever actively maintained a 4chan folder of much significance, probably mostly porn and whatnot. I wish I had. It'd be nice to have 4chan-related things from back when I felt more of an attachment to the site and better be able to pin down timings of things.

[Anonymous No.2602254]

I've got this old Win XP Tower that i still hold on to this day because its full to the brim with my history of the internet. Part of me can't throw it away, has so much classic material from the early-mid 2000's that it'd be a shame to destroy what i spend most of my young life compiling

[Anonymous No.2602259]

>>2602197
No one actually cared, but thanks for the effort.

[Anonymous No.2602263]

>>2602201
>all that low res late 90s porn is gone forever

[Anonymous No.2602310]

>>2602259
I cared. I saved some pics. I'll lurk if there'll be more.

[Anonymous No.2602317]

>>2602254
Just take out the HDD and give the tower to Goodwill.

[Anonymous No.2602328]

>>2599118
>
I remember when the raiding mantra wasn't WE ARE LEGION, but rather DON'T MENTION 4CHAN.

Also, I have a similar beginning. I found Shoujo-ai around the same time at 15, eventually joined the Funchat board's IRC channel, found 4chan through an image link probably. We may have posted in a thread together over a decade ago, pretty neat to think about.

[Anonymous No.2602395]

>>2602328
I kinda enjoyed when 4chan got all sentimental sometimes.

[Anonymous No.2602454]

>>2601210
so you're saying that the remnants of the Old 4chan are still left in /gif/?
>>2602328
>DON'T MENTION 4CHAN
pretty sure some people still think of this as some sort of special super secret club and didn't you guys used to blame ebum, funnyjunk, and le 9gag too back then?
thanks anons for giving me an idea of what old 4chan was like.

[Anonymous No.2602504]

>>2602328
Haha, damn, that is quite the coincidence. Kinda unfortunate that it appears the ShoujoAi forum is now defunct. I don't remember how exactly I found 4chan for the first time, but I am pretty sure it was likely through a mention on either the Yuri or the hidden-behind-registration Hentai board. I really wish I had a better memory of all that.

>>2602454
ebaumsworld. Nowadays I'm of the impression that 4chan isn't exactly obscure.

[Anonymous No.2602506]

>>2602504
Well it really isn't due ever since le anonymoose vs religion wars of 08 when the mainstream media got attention of this place.

[Anonymous No.2602507]

>>2602506
*ever since

[Anonymous No.2603808]

>>2602454
No, /gif/ was just an example. The remnants of the old 4chan are everywhere.

[Anonymous No.2605830]

>>2596259
13400 items (on base folder no less)

i hope you have that in a container to open as virtual disk so you dont have 50k extra entries on your file table

anyways, as a fellow digital hoarder, what file explorer is that, and why right-to-left order for column


BTW, you're saving these images aren't you? yeah me too

>>2602263
>>2602201
i hope you guys kept your HDDs

very very 99% most likely they just failed electrically, and can have the circuit board replaced by another from the same model, the popularity of this technique means people keep their old 80GBs hdds that still function but aren't worth the sata/ide slot to plug, only to list and sell

you can have ppl switch the board for you for $20-50 and the disks themselves sell for that much as well, its almost a per disk value really, so a 10gb hdd = 80gb hdd