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>> No.6634176

Hey faggot, which one of your 10 good games are ya playing this fine afternoon?

>> No.6634181

>>6634176
Super Mario Bros. 3 why do you ask?

>> No.6634310
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6634310

>>6634168
Agreed, OP
Should've stuck to floppies

>> No.6634318

not euthanizing tendie retards was the biggest insult to gaming

>> No.6634354

>>6634310
I don't know what it is about floppy discs but they just do it for me.

>> No.6634363

>>6634168
Well console profits and CD game profits certainly disagree with your assessment.

>> No.6634379

>>6634318
>/v/ sonygger zoomie taking it personal
Nice.

>> No.6634396

>>6634168
No, non-psychical was. You own nothing and when the servers go down one day or some people decide you said mean words on the internet (who cares) than you can't even play your non-existent shit.

>> No.6634417

>>6634396
I agree, it’s also getting scary to think that the future of gaming will be all digital within the next decade(possibly). PlayStation and Xbox having an all digital edition console is just wow.

>> No.6634425

>>6634310
they were great but a little unreliable, maybe I had a shitty fdd

>> No.6634445
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6634445

Bernieposting is cheeky and soulful. The N64/PSX playground fights are zoomer garbage that belong on >>>/v/

>> No.6634453

>>6634445
It's true then. PS1 and N64 are zoomer shit.

>> No.6634463

>>6634425
>great but a little unreliable
For a storage medium these two don't really mix too well.

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6634520

>>6634168
>no age of multi-layerer 650 Exabyte holodiscs
feels bad man

>> No.6634527

Yes games like Sonic CD and Rondo of Blood would have been substantially better on fucking cartridge.

>> No.6634528
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>>6634168
>no age of multi-layered 650 Exabyte holodiscs
feels bad man

>> No.6634552

>>6634396
As long as piracy exists, it won't matter. Take my games? They're all on my HDD and its 3 backups anyways.

>> No.6634575

>>6634396
>or some people decide you said mean words on the internet (who cares)
someone said the big n word on Gain Online didn't he?

>> No.6634629

>>6634552
Unless everyone switches to always-online or sever-sided activation.

>> No.6634641

>>6634629
True. In which case, I have enough archived that I can be entertained well past my death.

>> No.6634680

>>6634168
The N64 is the single most overrated console ever released.

>> No.6634746

>>6634310
Zip disk and Jaz cart

>> No.6634748

>>6634445
>>6634453
Sega and MS are zoomer shit

>> No.6634759

>>6634310
>>6634168
Cool elf eroge but nope. Seedies were revolutional! 700MB was waaaaay cool! CD Audio for the first time in games were waaaaaaaay cool. FMV games were a mistake. Xenogear and FFVII FMVs were tolerable at least.

>> No.6634761

>>6634680
*PS1

>> No.6634763

>>6634761
*PS2

>> No.6634765

>>6634746
those stuff got corrupted and moldy faster than my 1.44MB floppies.

>> No.6634838

>>6634168
what evidence do you have that other methods would make games better or run better ?

>> No.6634883

>>6634838
Just look at what kind of games you get nowadays

>> No.6634984

>>6634680
>>6634761
>>6634763
Dreamcast. It was so bad it took the company that made it out of the console market but weebs still worship it.

>> No.6635108

>>6634168
CD gaming is superior, problem is most systems didn't have a read cache or API for the game to tell it what assets to cache.

PSP had it though, from the 3001 series onward. It basically makes it as fast as a cartridge for many games. They even released updates to help games use the cache.

>> No.6635110

>>6634984
This. Such a meme console.

>> No.6636026

>>6634984
definately, at least the n64 has a few good games

>> No.6636035

>>6635108
>problem is most systems didn't have a read cache or API for the game to tell it what assets to cache.
games could have opted to use part of the systems' memory as cache at any point in time, the problem was that memory was a premium, it would not have been cost-effective to have a large dedicated cd-rom cache
like, what would be more beneficial, 2M ram and 2M cd-rom cache, or 4M ram, to use at the developers discretion?

>> No.6636036

>>6636026
Dreamcast was around for much less time and still has more good games than N64 kek
Only problem is it doesn't have as many masterpieces

>> No.6636057

>>6634168
I've been staring at this image for like ten minutes
This is making me horribly upset that I wasn't born a few years earlier so the N64 time for gaming would actually stick in my memories. I was just too young at that time to remember what it was like to be there

>> No.6636094

What's with all these retarded threads lately? And why do you fags still reply seriously?

>> No.6636160

>>6636094
You need to go back

>> No.6637065

>>6636160
>i need to go back

>> No.6637171

>>6636160
No you do. /v/ is that way. Take your shitposting elsewhere.

>> No.6637406

>>6634168
They last longer.

>> No.6637413

>>6634528
>>6634310
Those break not easily enough and are more expensive to make so they weren't' (((motivated))) to make such things.

>> No.6638958

>>6634641
Pretty much this, same for movies, books etc. I like new products but I can easily live without them.

>> No.6639214

>>6634310
>"this baby can carry up to 8kb!"

>> No.6639297

>>6634748
>Sega, who stopped making hardware at the turn of the century and who was most popular in the early 90s
>Zoomer shit
I fucking hate you retards.

>> No.6639324

>>6634746
Nobody shipped games on Zip Disk

>> No.6639563

>>6639214
the first commercial, recordable floppy disk stored 175K
even in 1972 an 8K floppy would have been quite pointless, that's not even a large stack of punch cards

>> No.6639613

>>6636057
Banjo-Kazooie ,Golden eye, Thps 1&2, and Glover.

>> No.6639617

>>6634765
False.

>> No.6639627

>>6639324
or what if Nintendo 64 use Jaz cartridge ("disk") main media base.

>> No.6640613

>>6634396
Physical media get scratched or lost. I can play Doom1/2, Quake 1/2 from any of my Windows PC's thanks to Steam (and I only had to buy it once)

>> No.6640863

>>6639627
I have an N64 that uses jaz disks. Also one that uses CDs. Awesome for piracy and perfect examples of why the rational of going with carts to avoid that was valid.

>> No.6640901
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>>6640863
>"you can't pirate n64 games cos they're carts"
>bung: "hold my dram"
the fact these exist just show that even using carts can't save a system from copies

>> No.6641765

>>6640901
Nothing is going to eliminate piracy on a system but when you need a $500 add on to play burned discs it will deter it

>> No.6641803

>>6641765
If you pirate ten games it's already paid for itself.

>> No.6642681

>>6641765
Devs used these instead of the official Nintendo kits cause they were cheaper

>> No.6644609

>>6641803
Nah. It didn't come with a free CD burner and free unlimited internet. It also cost an extra $150 if you wanted to play 32MB games. Certainly still a good deal if you pirated a lot of games but if it were such a no brainer great deal every kid would have had one.

>>6642681
Yes, some of us did. That's why I have so many.

>> No.6644667

>>6644609
What game did you work on? Something unreleased?

>> No.6644670

>>6644609
LARPing faggot

>> No.6644689

>>6644609
>It didn't come with a free CD burner
you might be able to use a friends'
>unlimited internet
not an n64-specific thing, playstation and other disc-based games were generally much larger, so piracy on those systems was done by renting the games and copying those discs, you can do the same with n64 games
>It also cost an extra $150 if you wanted to play 32MB games.
there's a lot of games you can play with only 16M, like goldeneye and smash bros., though you will probably want to get the upgrade once banjo kazooie or ocarina of time came out though, since they're 32M
it was the reason they were so expensive though, those weren't small amounts of dram at the time, there was no cheaper way to store games that was both fast enough to emulate a mask rom, and rewritable so you can load new games

>> No.6644861

gaming will be a streaming service within the decade

>> No.6644920

>>6634425
no, you had a floppy disk drive, which were and are the most failure prone drives and media in existence.

>> No.6644934

>>6634765
I mean if you would just take them out of your ass every now and then you wouldn't have those problems.

ZIP and JAZZ drives didn't catch on because
1: lack of backwards compatibility with any other disk format

2: drives were expensive

3: Thumbsticks, media cards for cameras, larger hard drives, CD/DVD burners were becoming more available and cheaper

>> No.6645001

>>6636057
you really didn't miss much with the N64.

Sega Saturn was far too fucking expensive and most of the multi-platform titles ran like dogshit and looked worse.

Playstation 1 finally showed that CD games were viable, had damn good controllers, introduced the idea of rumble without a stupid battery powered cancerous growth on your controller, and was host to a metric FUCKLOAD of games from all genres.

a lot of those games were good.

>> No.6645050

>>6634680
>>6634761
>>6634763
>>6634984
Bunch of contrarian retards trying to fight over which retard opinion is best.

>> No.6645103

>>6645050
The fact that you can't accept that the Dreamcast was a fucking premature ejaculation of a console makes you the biggest retard of all.

N64 had the worst controller in existence but it still had memorable games and was a lot of western people's introduction to multiplayer matches.

PS1 and PS2 were setting the fucking standard in quality of gaming hardware and the PS2 looked like a piece of stereo equipment and was one of the more affordable DVD players when it came out.

Dreamcast couldn't even fucking play Video CDs without a third party addon, its controllers felt like they were going to fall apart if you pressed a button to hard and only had one flimsy analog joystick. The console also had no built in rumble, ran on a proprietary disc system that was easily defeated by CD-R boot discs, and made the most gawd-awful noise if you didn't put a fucking watch battery into all of your connected memory cards.

>> No.6645108

>>6644667
A few released a few that weren't

>>6644670
ZOOMing faggot

>>6644689
You could also buy burnt discs. If you couldn't find them locally you could order them from HK. That was probably the cheapest option. Renting a game was much more expensive.
The N64 didn't need particularly fast memory on the cart. DRAM was just the cheapest option. In the v64 jr they even went with standard SIMMs

>>6644934
SuperDisk was backwards compatible and cheaper than ZIP. They still failed. CDs killed them all.

>> No.6645125

>>6645103
Blah blah blah.

>> No.6646054

>>6634528
minidisc blu-rays would be so cool...

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>>6646054
8cm bluray discs exist

>> No.6647119

>>6634883
yea they are like movies
maybe a cartridge would of gave more freedom to the devs.

>> No.6647161

>>6634883
cd's may have accellerated "cinamatic" games, but cartridges would have caught up eventually anyway
we still have a couple cartridge-based consoles, would you consider any of the switch library to be cd-like?

>> No.6647164

>>6647119
>would of gave
would have given*

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>>6634396

>> No.6647237

>>6640613
>steam will be around forever!
oh boy

no, the only digital releases that will be around forever are the DRM-free ones, like GOG
obviously the servers won't be, but anyone is allowed to put their GOG games onto external media for backup, they don't depend on any services to exist to work

>> No.6647386

>>6645103
>N64 had the worst controller in existence
The lengths people will go to to lie

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6647413

>>6647386
Yeah, I can think of worse without having to dig too far.