/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9664297]

What were some things that "nobody" did in the /vr/ era that you did in fact do?

[Anonymous No.9664314]

buy a PS2 just for the DVD player

[Anonymous No.9664316]

Had PS2 hooked up to my PC so that I could play on PC monitor. Very inconvenient thing to do, required some weird hardware, don't even remember what it's called anymore.

[Anonymous No.9664330]

Played games on a Mac.

[Anonymous No.9664341]

Considering the N64, Gamecube and SNES all share the same AV cable, could you in theory use the S-video cable for the SNES and put it on the gamecube to have an S-video displaying Gamecube? Or by using the Component cable for the Cube, could you have a Component SNES? Has anyone done this?

[Anonymous No.9664354]

>>9664341
>use the S-video cable for the SNES and put it on the gamecube to have an S-video displaying Gamecube?
Yes.
>could you have a Component SNES?
No.

[Anonymous No.9664356]

>>9664341
Not quite. The multi-AV out is the same across all three systems, but only some SNES's have RGB outputs, European N64s and Gamecubes don't have S-Video, and the Gamecube component cable is actually a different connector only the Gamecube has.

There are some component cables for SNES's that just convert the RGB output, though.

[Anonymous No.9664384]

Cleaned my NES and SNES carts with rubbing alcohol and never once blew on a cart to make it work. If it didn't work, I broke out the rubbing alcohol and the q-tips. My father taught me to do that since he said blowing on the cart would work, but was "redneck engineering" and I should clean the carts like someone who isn't named Bubba. He worked construction and maintained his own equipment and refused to let other people touch it because they would do retarded shit like blow on connectors to make electronics make a connection. Then they couldn't figure out why their shit kept breaking down but my father's equipment always worked fine. Go figure.

[Anonymous No.9664389]

Used a gameshark to explore the debug rooms in Final Fantasy VII, which let me play on disc 3 with "Earith" in my party.

[Anonymous No.9664392]

>>9664341
Yes to S-video, no to component. If you want component for the SNES you gotta get the HDRetrovision cables or SCART to Component adapter.

[Anonymous No.9664401]

>>9664389
also fought battles against the dudes
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/%C3%8A%C3%BA%C3%B42(%C3%B1)

[Anonymous No.9664412]

>>9664297
Installed Linux on my Xbox, then installed the linux version of M.U.G.E.N. to play custom fighting games on my television. Apparently there was a driver to get the xbox controller working, but I didn't know enough about Linux to get it working. So I played the game with a USB keyboard that I had to splice onto an xbox controller cable. That USB keyboard was from an iMac!
Mostly I just watched the CPU battle itself...

[Anonymous No.9664431]

complain

[Anonymous No.9664502]

>>9664297
I was searching for rule 34 long before it became a common thing. Stumbling onto FFVII porn in 1997 was like discovering a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.

[Anonymous No.9664527]

>>9664502
Using the ancient alt.games.finalfantasy BBS?

[Anonymous No.9664542]

>>9664314
Everybody's dad did that, and forgot that it even played DVDs a week later.

[Anonymous No.9664548]

>>9664392
>>9664356
Question for you fellas, i have a CRT with component but it is not an EDTV so it cannot display in 480p, putting that aside, are there any benefits on using the component display instead of the S video even if it cannot do 480p?

[Anonymous No.9664554]

>>9664412
And that iMac keyboard probably would have been worth more than the rest of the setup combined by now.

[Anonymous No.9664559]

>>9664548
You're still going to get much better picture quality out of component 480i compared to s-video or composite

[Anonymous No.9664578]

>>9664527
There was also a website that hosted a bunch of doujin scans and fan art. I can't remember what it was called but I'd know it if I heard it.

[Anonymous No.9664581]

>>9664297
>What were some things that "nobody" did in the /vr/ era that you did in fact do?
Playing vanilla Doom with a mouse.

[Anonymous No.9664583]

>>9664330
Apple II was THE place to game on a computer during it's time.

[Anonymous No.9664593]

>>9664297
When I was a kid one of my dad's Navy buddies let me play games on his PC when we would visit, and he had an MT-32. It blew me away because our computer just had the internal monophonic speaker. Funny thing is, later we got a SoundBlaster card with the yamaha opl and I thought it was basically the same thing. I wasn't discerning enough at the time to realize the MT-32 was still way more advanced. I forgot the thing even existed until I saw LGR's video about it a few years ago.

[Anonymous No.9664598]

>>9664559
Well, thank you very much

[Anonymous No.9664918]

>>9664559
this

component is comparible to direct rgb at 240p

[Anonymous No.9664928]

>>9664593
looked up some comparisons. MT-32 sounds a lot like CPS1 music.

[Anonymous No.9664932]

>>9664297
When I was like 7 I broke quite a few nes and snes games trying to make the snes games work on my nes because my snes broke. Idk why I thought it would work kek

[Anonymous No.9664992]

>>9664548
Heavily depends on the console. For example, the Genesis benefits greatly from component as its composite output is far from good.

Whilst the SNES has solid composite and better S-Video.

[Anonymous No.9664996]

>>9664316
I still do this for my systems, running them through a capture card. It's been helpful for recording gameplay of console games, but the real reason I bought it was because my TV speakers went out and running the thing through my computer lets me output audio to my computer speakers to bypass that.

[Anonymous No.9664998]

>>9664314
My dad wanted this. I remember the look of disappointment on his face when I told him I wanted the gamecube.

[Anonymous No.9665081]

>>9664316
Forget the model, but i had a mac with composite hookups and used it to play games through some software it had. Found it amusing to play halo multi-player on the smallest minimized screen i could make.

[Anonymous No.9665118]

>>9664316
I remember a game store near me had their Dreamcast hooked up to a PC monitor, presumably with the VGA port.

[Anonymous No.9665151]

>>9664316
The PS2 has a VGA output but it's non-standard with sync-on-green so it doesn't work as is with most displays. The only official cable for it was a part of the Linux kit.

[Anonymous No.9665219]

>>9664297
Idk, daisy chain my Atari to my nes rf switch. Only use rf till about high school since thats what my parents did. Play Virtua cop on an old ass projector TV and kinda ruin it.

[Anonymous No.9665223]

>>9664583
Apple II is not a mac

[Anonymous No.9665234]

>>9664297
Called it the PSX.

[Anonymous No.9665248]

>>9664581
I know someone who didn't his, but he played it by moving the mouse to walk and turn and strafed with < and > iirc.

[Anonymous No.9665253]

>>9665234
We all did that. Only zoomers think otherwise.

[Anonymous No.9665262]

>>9664389
Damn i forgot about that
did the same

[Anonymous No.9665267]

>>9664578
CG Shrines

Too bad they deleted all the porn.

[Anonymous No.9665364]

I built an all-button controller out of some spare arcade buttons I had laying around and a cardboard board box. This was in 2002-2003.

[Anonymous No.9665389]

>>9664330
many kids in the united states played on apple hardware

i remember the greenscreen fondly & naming oregon trail party members after my teachers/classmates while laughing as i killed them on purpose

also the color imac g3/g4 era was comfy educational titles, math blaster, letter blaster, etc

[Anonymous No.9665576]

I played fighting games on "real" Japanese arcade parts. The kicker is I didn't even know it at the time.
I owned one of these controllers: the Actlabs Arcade Rex.

These use the same switches used by Seimitsu during the time period: the Tokai MM9. With a 24mm button plunger. 24mm buttons were used on older Japanese cabinets during the 80s and early 90s and the AES controller.
The lever is a clone of the same lever found in the Neo Geo AES controller, and is a variant of the design used in the LS-33.
The balltop is a 30mm size just like the AES.

When I owned this stick I didn't appreciate it and wished I had the "real thing" in the form of a MAS stick.

[Anonymous No.9665589]

Be from the USA and played video games in RGB.
So did you, probably.
Arcade and PC games were in RGB.

[Anonymous No.9665652]

Recorded almost all of my gameplay to tapes on SLP. Kept it up till I got a proper capture card and could capture right to PC.

[Anonymous No.9665662]

>>9664316
I did this with an ATI TV Wonder capture card, tried playing Donkey Kong Country and the lag was too much. At that point I had to idea it was even possible for video to lag.

[Anonymous No.9665682]

>>9664316
I just used RCA to VGA box on my consoles. PS2 games didn't look that great, but xbox games were miles better.

[Anonymous No.9665691]

>>9665253
>>9665234
lol, no. Literally no one called it anything until PSOne launched and PS2 was around. Then todays zoomers (or even worse, complete autistics) pretended anyone used the X.

[Anonymous No.9665702]

>>9665691
In spoken word? I really don't remember what I called it, probably just PlayStation. Maybe PSX sometimes? Never said "PS" that's for sure. Written? It was definitely PSX. You can't even argue otherwise.

[Anonymous No.9665727]

>>9664297
Played my N64 on RF

[Anonymous No.9665729]

>>9665691
Go shitpost somewhere else.

[Anonymous No.9665748]

>>9664341
Most models of the SNES have RGB output, but that's not component. You could connect it to something that accepts direct RGB or something like SCART, but you would need a converter (Or cables like these that have an in-line converter) to convert that to component.

If you want to output to a CRT then the Component route is your best bet, assuming you live in the Us where Scart is not common. If your end goal however is to output to a modern TV, then it would be better to just connect it by RGB/Scart to an HDMI upscaler. Even if your modern TV has component inputs, many can't handle the 240p signal the SNES would output through those, or they don't display interlaced frames properly.

[Anonymous No.9666072]

>>9664297
Used the grownup toilet

[Anonymous No.9666082]

>>9665234
>>9665253
>>9665691
>>9665702
>>9665729

[Anonymous No.9666885]

Yeah, when I was a kid I didn't understand the difference between different video signals. I hated RF because it was so finnicky and even if you had the cable JUST RIGHT in the jack you'd still get shitty interference. But I hated s-video because it was harder to plug in than the yellow composite cable, and component just pissed me off when I first saw that because "lmao why would I want to plug in 5 cables rather than 3"

That and of course it's not like I even knew you could get s-video or component cables for most of these consoles, didn't know there were any other options besides the cables that came packed with the systems.

[Anonymous No.9666934]

>>9666082
Yeah we also used to write WILDaRMS and TOTaL NBA back in the day

[Anonymous No.9666946]

>>9665691
This, it was a fad after some retards thought that PSOne and PS2 coming out means you can't refer to the original model as either Playstation or PS1. Also it was the era of XXXXTREEME so everyone shoved X and Z everywhere. During the PS1 era everyone just said Playstation.

[Anonymous No.9666981]

>>9664998
>I wanted the gamecube.
I think he was more disappointed in his son being retarded.

[Anonymous No.9667000]

>>9664542
I tried to convince my dad to buy a PS3 for FIVE NINETY NINE US DOLLARS as a bluray player since he was really into A/V equipment and would spend assloads on that stuff anyway. But no, he was content with his DVD recorders instead.

[Anonymous No.9667005]

>>9666082
eurofags need not apply. You're the same cunts who say nezz and snezz instead of nintendo and super nintendo.
Nobody in freedomland said anything other than playstation, and it was PS1 after PS2 was announced.

[Anonymous No.9667016]

>>9664297
I blew out the dust in my Nintendo cartridges before inserting them into the console.

[Anonymous No.9667032]

>>9664297
I actually turned my "impossibly heavy" CRT television, as a small child, to access the back A/V plugs to swap between my consoles and VHS and LaserDisc players.
My tv only had 1 or 2 plugs, after all.
TVs aren't that heavy

[Anonymous No.9667046]

>>9667032
Depends on the size, a 36” CRT is something like 150lbs. Maybe not much on a barbell but on something that bug and awkward that’s a lot of weight.

[Anonymous No.9667053]

>>9664384
Based dad

[Anonymous No.9667063]

>>9664341
>never seen the differences between Cube component and regular AV out
As others said, no. Nintendo was so shit at marketing 480p for Gamecube they removed the output for it in 2004.

[Anonymous No.9667067]

>>9664502
>I was searching for rule 34 long before it became a common thing. Stumbling onto FFVII porn in 1997
By 1997 that wasn't unique, so sorry you weren't special.

[Anonymous No.9667072]

>>9664502
I remember when I found out there were videos of women dressing up as Tifa and Rinoa and getting fucked and realizing I was living in a blessed world

[Anonymous No.9667075]

>>9666946
See
>>9664873

[Anonymous No.9667076]

>>9665727
>>9667016
Everyone did that.
>>9667032
>"VHS player"
Cool larp, bro.

[Anonymous No.9667092]

>>9664297
If I buy a third party SCART cable for the N64, what are the chances that it's just a composite signal with fake pins for RGB?

[Anonymous No.9667095]

>>9667046
>Playing NES and SNES games on a 36" CRT
>in 1993
No you didn't.

[Anonymous No.9667106]

>>9667076
Larping? Wtf? I'm nearly 40. I have entire collections of VHS. My family had something, like, 3 VHS players in our home when I was growing up.

Are you SO YOUNG you think the mere mention of VHS is even beyond "retro???" Fuck off, kid.

[Anonymous No.9667110]

>>9667092
Considering that the N64 doesn't have RGB output without modification, 100% chance unless it's explicitly listed as an RGB cable.

[Anonymous No.9667116]

>>9667106
You called a VCR a "VHS player". That's the giveaway that you're larping.

[Anonymous No.9667139]

>>9667095
When the fuck did I mention 1993? Or NES or SNES? We got the 36” around 1999

[Anonymous No.9667149]

>>9667139
>1999 is so retro
I forgot I'm posting among children. Never mind, have your thread.

[Anonymous No.9667160]

>>9667139
nintendrones think /vr/ = nes/snes

[Anonymous No.9667171]

>>9667116
I don't know if he's larping, but in the UK we never really called it a VCR, it's more of an American acronym.

[Anonymous No.9667172]

>>9667046
The TV stand would take most of the weight. Turning it was very easy.
When I was in college I used to slide a 300 lb CRT around on my floor and it didn't really take a lot of effort. Could have done it with one hand. Maybe 15-20 lbs of force needed.
NTA

[Anonymous No.9667185]

The /vr/ era includes the lifespan of the PS2, correct?
In that case I
>imported and used Sanwa JLF + buttons
>owned a Sony PVM monitor and connected it to my PC for 240p emulation gaming
>built a MAME cabinet

[Anonymous No.9667187]

>>9667149
I’m thirty four years old

[Anonymous No.9667193]

>>9664297
Used my Dreamcast as a video player.
There was a program you could burn to a disc along with video files and it would play them.
Used it to watch Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex at a guy's house after a lot of trial and error figuring out which video file types it supported (I knew very little about the subject at the time).

[Anonymous No.9667195]

>>9667171
Uh huh.

[Anonymous No.9667197]

>>9667185
According to the board rules, anything released on the PS2 after December 2007 doesn't count as /vr/.

[Anonymous No.9667202]

>>9667197
This was in 2005 so it gets in before the cut-off.

[Anonymous No.9667205]

>>9667195
That's marketing blurb you nonce. They didn't market TVs with the term 'Telly' either but it's what we called them.

[Anonymous No.9667216]

>>9667116
I'm gonna half-way larp with you. I owned a home Pong console and a Betamax player because they were being stored in the basement of the house we were living in by our creepy landlord.

[Anonymous No.9667219]

>>9667205
>mfw when americans call telly tape contraptions "VCRs"

[Anonymous No.9667319]

>>9667116
>nobody ever called a VCR a "VHS player"!

[Anonymous No.9667323]

>>9667319
Not him, can’t speak for Europe but I never heard anyone in the US say that until after 2010

[Anonymous No.9667327]

>>9667116
>VHS player? Nobody!
>VCR tapes? Everybody!
this fucking board

[Anonymous No.9667336]

>>9667327
Am I being memed
Even to this day I’ve never heard anyone say “VCR tape”

[Anonymous No.9667340]

>>9667319
Correct.
>>9667327
>VCR tapes
What's that?

[Anonymous No.9667359]

>>9667323
Just because you never heard anyone say it doesn't mean it never happened.
It's a big world out there, anon. Billions of people in it. If some Bong wants to tell me his family used the term VHS player instead of VCR I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

[Anonymous No.9667368]

Reminder that the term "laserdisc player" would have predated "VCR", thus some people who owned both may have conflated terms to result in "VHS player".

Also: "record player", "tape player",

[Anonymous No.9667375]

>>9667336
>little kid in the 2010s hunting through cabinets pulls out a black video tape, "what's this?" he says to grandma
>"that's a vcr tape"
it could happen

[Anonymous No.9667381]

>>9667368
VCRs were invented before laserdisc though.

[Anonymous No.9667385]

>>9667359
Wow its almost as if I took that into account and said exactly that in my post instead of “no one ever said that” you absolute drooling moron

[Anonymous No.9667396]

>>9664297
Wasn't me but I saw it first-hand: used the internet to look up secrets in the early 90s.
In 1993 I saw some college students playing Mortal Kombat II in a cinema arcade with a notebook filled with special moves and fatalities. The game had just been released so there were no official guides or even magazine strategy articles yet. I asked one of them how they already knew how to do all the fatalities and he explained they got them from using a computer to make a telephone call. I don't remember if the word "internet" was actually used but I kind of think it wasn't. They might have considered it to just be "AOL" or something like that. Or maybe they got it from making a long-distance call to a BBS. But in any case they definitely went online to get it.

[Anonymous No.9667403]

>>9667381
U-matic was invented before Laserdisc.
But laserdisc was on the consumer market before the "VCR", which specifically refers to the VHS tape format. I wouldn't consider a Betamax recorder and player to be a "VCR".

[Anonymous No.9667413]

>>9667385
calm down

[Anonymous No.9667414]

What happened, ITT? If I read this right,
>>9667032
>I actually turned my "impossibly heavy" CRT television, as a small child, to access the back A/V plugs to swap between my consoles and VHS and LaserDisc players.
>to swap between my consoles and VHS and LaserDisc players.
>VHS and LaserDisc players
>plural noun assignment to singular object structure
He probably didn't mean to call it his "VCR and LaserDisc players" because while a "LaserDisc player" is accurate, a "VCR player" is stupid?
But seriously people petty towards insult, today.

[Anonymous No.9667424]

>>9667414
Autists will never miss the slightest opportunity to "correct" people. They live for it.

[Anonymous No.9667428]

>>9667032
This anon is right. We kids used to actually access our hardware and mess with cords, having to turn, lift, angle, push, pull, and otherwise move stuff to get things to work. Instead of now when we press download and hope it auto-installs so we can tap play on the Samsung Account game page... and if it doesn't, ask,
>now what do I do?

[Anonymous No.9667436]

>>9667413
Wow nice response how long did it take your 4mb ram brain to cool that one up? Are you okay? You strain anything?

[Anonymous No.9667446]

>>9667428
The Switch is about as cumbersome to use as any 90s console.

[Anonymous No.9667456]

Actually treated my consoles well including taking them and the controllers apart for annual cleaning.

[Anonymous No.9667501]

>>9667446
I'll admit that I don't own a Switch. Or any modern consoles. So I don't know what I'm talking about beyond a phone, just remarking my hatred for phone games and ignorance I see at work when people don't know why their computer monitor isn't working or can't find that document they downloaded from their e-mail. I'm being serious.

[Anonymous No.9667512]

>>9667171
We called VCRs "VCR"s here in Australia. It was 'VHS" that was rarely said, usually just "tapes". We didn't have Betamax here so a video on tape was a VHS by default

[Anonymous No.9667584]

>>9667095
>>9667149
You bitter, autistic bitch.

[Anonymous No.9667661]

>>9667095
It's possible. There were a few direct view CRTs of that size around by 1993.
>inb4 "yeah but the MAJORITY of KIDS didn't do that do so NOBODY ever did it"
look at the topic of the thread.

And of course there were rear projection televisions which were still CRT-based. Those got up to 60". And I suppose a few lucky people got to play on CRT projectors with 120" images.

[Anonymous No.9667690]

>>9667032
Anyone else remember clueless boomers not understanding the yellow/white/red cables? Most kids parents had no clue how to hook up a game system and I always had to show them for some reason.

[Anonymous No.9667694]

>>9667075
>there's a few mentions of PSX here and there
Sure, it was the prototype name and some people are no doubt retarded. Some people spent years calling Kinect Project Natale too. The vast majority just called the console Playstation. Don't really know what's there to prove. It's just obvious isn't it, that's the name of the console. That's what normal people called it.

[Anonymous No.9667709]

>>9667661
I loved the round-tray photo projector my dad used. He took so many pictures in their first decade of marriage, and he loved putting his photos on slides. We'd sit in the living room and let him KACHUNK through vacation spots we visited while Alan Parsons Project played on our speaker system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56hqrlQxMMI

[Anonymous No.9667718]

>>9667690
I think it was just an issue of the tech illiterate boomer not wanting anyone to fuck with their tv (that they barely understand how to set up and use). They know wiring things up by RF works and they don't want to mess it up by doing anything else, which is why you had some poor sods playing their xbox in 2003 via RF on an EDTV because that's how grandpa hooked up dad's Atari.

[Anonymous No.9667726]

>>9667709
>someone's family went on vacations to national parks
>their dad take Canon photographs of them, standing next to a stream just beneath a mountain cliffside
Is this what's it's like to be a white American family?

[Anonymous No.9667728]

>>9667690
They still don't understand it.

[Anonymous No.9667729]

>>9667726
Unironically yes.

[Anonymous No.9667743]

>>9667106
>Trials of Life with David Attenborough
Your pic immediately reminded my of the Lonely Planet theme song and nostalgia swept. We used to watch TV growing up. We LOOKED FORWARD to what was scheduled to air on broadcast television. Wow... I am getting old...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JLNQYEkLtU

[Anonymous No.9667749]

>>9667726
Oh, I'd post THOUSANDS of photographs I have of my family, but that's not fair to them. Here's one more of me, though, vacationing as a small boy with my family, traveling across the U.S.A.
I love my family.

[Anonymous No.9667763]

>>9667726
Say what you like about Americans, but North America has basically every type of landscape somewhere in it, and damn do they try to maintain it and invite you to see it.
Ever seen a moose, before?

[Anonymous No.9667767]

>>9664502
I sometimes forget that I used to regularly interact with the creator of AerisDies and he was a pretty normal guy.
I wonder if that's even around anymore.

[Anonymous No.9667769]

>>9667726
It's also what it's like to be an Asian tourist.

[Anonymous No.9667779]

>>9667767
It appears AerisDies is gone. But the internet archive indicates it was around long enough to have a Sticks the Jungle Badger wallpaper you could download.
What a run it was.

[Anonymous No.9667789]

>>9667726
It's over. :(

[Anonymous No.9667796]

>>9667694
>S-sure people called it that, that doesn’t mean anyone called it that
Uh huh

[Anonymous No.9667806]

>>9667789
The opinion of any nonwhite/japanese individual means nothing.

[Anonymous No.9667820]

>>9667789
Hahaha, I also immediately thought about Mount Rushmore. Hysterical. Also, I'm glad you're enjoying your.

[Anonymous No.9667848]

>>9667414
Welcome to /vr/, where bitter autists will trip over themselves in an attempt to prove they're retro-er than thou.

[Anonymous No.9667869]

>>9667661
Not gonna lie, I'd love to see a /vr/ setup with a CRT projector.

[Anonymous No.9667883]

>>9667690
I remember having some trouble figuring out composite inputs as a kid, but that was because I only ever used RF until the N64 era, and when it came time to try that, I also had to figure out how to switch the TV to Aux, as opposed to simply switching to Channel 3 or whatever. Some TVs you could access it simply by going below Channel 2, but on others you needed to press an actual button on the TV or the remote, and I think that's where I got stuck at first.

[Anonymous No.9667910]

>>9667883
The TV/Video button sucked. Always pushing it until you RACED past the Video 3 input you were looking for. PLUS! It reset which channel you were on, back to the scrolling TV Guide channel. Ugh.

[Anonymous No.9667973]

>>9664297
Used a battery charger for all my portable vidya needs, really surprised to know that a bunch of anons just kept buying new single use batteries.

[Anonymous No.9668001]

>>9667973
Hey, I did this, too. My dad used to buy surplus computer/office equipment at auctions, and in one of those we ended up with a rechargeable battery station and later on a bunch of unbranded rechargeable batteries as well for cheap, which I used for a good while until they stopped holding much of a charge. Later on, I found out they often sold new brand-name ones at the local flea market for like half price, so I bought a bunch of those as well.

[Anonymous No.9668136]

I saw a CD-I set up in a store in a playable demo.
I saw the Atari Jaguar and Jaguar CD for sale on the shelf.

[Anonymous No.9668145]

My copy of OoT came from Chips n' Bits.
I played through it with the help of a Tips n' Tricks strategy guide. However, I only used it a couple of times when I got stuck, and yes one of them was the Water Temple.

So if someone tells you
>nobody played through OoT of time with a guide in 1998!
I did.

[Anonymous No.9668153]

>>9666885
>Yeah, when I was a kid I didn't understand the difference between different video signals. I hated RF because it was so finnicky and even if you had the cable JUST RIGHT in the jack you'd still get shitty interference. But I hated s-video because it was harder to plug in than the yellow composite cable, and component just pissed me off when I first saw that because "lmao why would I want to plug in 5 cables rather than 3"

I was the same, I didn't understand that composite was better quality than RF. At least, I THINK I didn't, because I recall daisy-chaining my console's RF adapters because I thought it was cool that I could connect them all through one port at once and basically have a priority queue of which console gets to output based on where it is in the chain. This was during the NES to early N64 era mind you.

I also routed them all through the VCR because that would let me record gameplay anytime I wanted.

The first time I ever even saw S-Video was in the early 00s when I got a GPU upgrade for my PC, but I never had a TV, VCR, or pretty much any device that had S-Video input.

[Anonymous No.9668161]

>>9664502
>tfw anime web turnpike still exists

[Anonymous No.9668167]

>>9667973
To be fair the vast majority of rechargables back in the day were trash and couldn't hold a charge for shit after a few cycles. I definitely remember getting some rechargable energizers back in the day and I definitely remember starting to ask for single use AAs by the time those rechargables took an hour to drain and two to charge.

[Anonymous No.9668190]

>>9667749
>distressing 80s shorts

I am happy some things changed.

[Anonymous No.9668194]

>>9667910
>not staring at this screen for hours because you had insomnia and occasionally calling a phone sex number from an infomercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvmGU8eTtU8

[Anonymous No.9668217]

>>9666885
I used to go VERY hard on the "gAmEplAy is aLL thAt MATtErs" bandwagon against graphics and I HATED any discussion of how the Xbox supported progressive scan on every title but the Gamecube and PS2 did not and magazine editors would moan about this. I didn't even know what progressive scan meant other than it was some fancy video mode that most televisions didn't support.

Looking back it was very much a symptom of immaturity, ignorance, and fanboyism.

[Anonymous No.9668220]

>>9664297
Putting non-working NES cartridges in the freezer to make them work

[Anonymous No.9668226]

>>9664932
I destroyed an SNES game by removing the PCB from the card and trying to insert it in the bottom expansion port of my SNES. Why did I do this? Dumb kid.

[Anonymous No.9668232]

>>9664297
I used a keyboard and mouse on my PS2 for chatting and playing games that supported them as input.

[Anonymous No.9668248]

>>9668136
>I saw the Atari Jaguar and Jaguar CD for sale on the shelf.
Was it in a bathroom equipment store?

[Anonymous No.9668250]

>>9666082
some shithole country did it so everywhere did

[Anonymous No.9668257]

>>9668194
>'Sup?
>Wan' talk some SHIT?
>CALL ME!
>Talk some SHIT, BITCH!

[Anonymous No.9668260]

>>9664341
>>9667063
Why did Nintendo even bother putting the digital out port on the PAL Gamecubes if they didn't give you the option to run games in progressive scan, or even release the component cables over here?
I know that they say "oh we put the digital port on the system because we wanted to try true 3D", but I'm pretty sure they scrapped that a fair while before release - let alone the PAL release date of May 2002. Even if they'd gone through with it, i doubt they would've released it here.

[Anonymous No.9668261]

>>9668190
More like he's wearing dolphin sport shorts but now girls wear those.

>went to Google-search "girl dolphin shorts" to download a pic to attach to my post
>clicked the image tab
>it's LITERAL children girl models in dolphin shorts
HOLY SHIT I DIDN'T MEAN TO SEARCH THAT FBI I PROMISE STOP

[Anonymous No.9668264]

>>9668217
desu I still really can't tell the difference between interlaced and progressive.

I think my HDTV must just have good de-interlacing on its analog inputs or something because 480i and 480p out of my PS2 just look the same.

[Anonymous No.9668267]

>>9664583
No, it wasn't, as no one actually owned an Apple II and mostly just played educational crap on them at school. An Apple II is also a completely different machine from a Macintosh. Calm down with the larping just a little bit.

[Anonymous No.9668271]

>>9668194
>Russ Freeman
>Rippingtons
DUDE.
You and I are automatically friends. Cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jxpnEIHrw

[Anonymous No.9668282]

>>9664314
That was me! Gran turismo 3 was the only game we had

[Anonymous No.9668291]

>>9668260
That's just classic mass production for you, cheaper to leave a regionally-vestigial component in than it would be to manufacture a regional variant of the entire product.

That said though it really fucking sucks that nintendo dropped the digital out port after poor adoption of Component and D-Terminal. In a better timeline we could have had HDMI adapters for Wiis that were forward compatible with the Gamecube.

[Anonymous No.9668294]

I used the SP, LP, and EP settings on my *VCR* to better record programming onto my *VHS TAPES*

[Anonymous No.9668314]

>>9667000
>Managed to convince my parents to buy a launch price PS3 as a Blu Ray player
>We probably watched some early HD crap like 10000BC on the thing once, and then it turned into my nogaems machine

I also distinctly remember convincing my dad to buy the 80GB model they had in store over the 60GB model not realizing that the 80GB model was the one that removed the PS2 hardware compatibility. D'oh.

[Anonymous No.9668339]

>>9668260
I know someone from PAL who ordered the cable direct from nintendo.

[Anonymous No.9668358]

>>9668339
why

[Anonymous No.9668369]

>>9668294
Gotta be careful 'round these parts with yer nicknames, after all.

[Anonymous No.9668373]

>>9668358
Because Amazon's paywall site was down that afternoon, of course!

[Anonymous No.9668379]

>>9668373
I mean why would you buy GC component cables if you have a PAL gamecube in 2003.

[Anonymous No.9668381]

>>9664297
Anybody ever call one of those video game tip lines?

[Anonymous No.9668392]

>>9668381
yeah

[Anonymous No.9668412]

>>9668264
Are you using proper cables to support it?

The HD Retrovision cables I have for my Genesis make an absolute world of difference between 240i over composite and 240p over component. It's utterly night-and-day. Plenty of videos on YouTube of people who modded an old CRT TV or Monitor to take an RGB signal and the difference is substantial.

[Anonymous No.9668421]

>>9664297
15khz arcade and 31khz PC were quite a bit different though, but true.

[Anonymous No.9668427]

>>9668412
I have a set of official component cables. Not even the PS3 cables everyone thinks of the original PS2 ones.

[Anonymous No.9668435]

>>9664297
Built a living room PC for emulation, media, and DDR on a CRT TV. Completed FF7 on PC and barely touched the PS1 version. Used a Dreamcast VGA adapter.
Emulated in 1997.

[Anonymous No.9668462]

>>9667690
We used RF despite having composite cables for years.

[Anonymous No.9668475]

I wonder.

[Anonymous No.9668512]

Used an RF cable on a Dreamcast because that's the only input my grandma's console TV would take. It was terrible. Sleepovers there were comfy, though. I can never go back there. You are now thinking of childhood places you can't go back to.

[Anonymous No.9668670]

>>9664341
I have my SNES, N64+DD and GC set up through S-video, yes. The GC component uses a different type of connector so without modding your consoles, component is impossible on SNES or N64. S-Video is the highest it'll go natively and honestly, you really don't need more than that for playing on a CRT. Looks real sharp.

[Anonymous No.9668672]

>>9668379
The same reason you would use one on ps2 and xbox

[Anonymous No.9668683]

>>9664316
Did this with my dreamcast

[Anonymous No.9668686]

>>9668672
You're really fucking dumb.

[Anonymous No.9668687]

>>9664502
>I was searching for rule 34
You mean Japanime porn?

[Anonymous No.9668697]

>>9668512
the used DC I bought from blockbuster came with an RF adapter and I always wondered if anyone actually used one

[Anonymous No.9668824]

>>9664297
No one used those

[Anonymous No.9669289]

I've been a part of far too many stupid arguments about whether or not people played their PS3 or 360 on CRTs. Zoomers have this retarded notion that the second a new technology comes out everyone instantly adopts it and discards their old stuff.

[Anonymous No.9669306]

>>9669289
>I've been a part of far too many stupid arguments about whether or not people played their PS3 or 360 on CRTs

Yeah back in 2008 I bought an Xbox 360 to play the first bio shock, then returned it after beating the game. I played on a CRT TV. Plasma and LCD TVs were several thousand dollars still. Those big Sony rear projection TVs were still being sold.

[Anonymous No.9669317]

>>9664412
very epic

[Anonymous No.9669327]

>>9665576
>wished I had the "real thing"

many such cases

[Anonymous No.9669332]

>>9664297
Does "own a Sega Saturn" count? Someone could easily one up me by owning a CDi, 3DO or Jaguar at the time.

[Anonymous No.9669335]

>>9664297
I kept the manuals and boxes. Sold a bunch recently for $130

[Anonymous No.9669408]

>>9669289
That's idiotic, I recall there was a big complaint back then about how the Xbox 360 version of Dead Rising had text so small that it was impossible to read on a CRT connected over composite. There was even rumors that it was intentional since the game came with a sweepstakes pamplet to win a HDTV and a HDTV is also one of the first items you can pick up.

It's why I bought a VGA cable for my 360, so I could connect it to my computer monitor as I didn't have a HDTV and would not for a while.

The xbox 360 didn't even come with component cables unless you bought the more expensive version, and the first models didn't have a HDMI port.

[Anonymous No.9669417]

>>9665234
I just called it the playstation then retroactively called it the ps2 after the ps2 came out

[Anonymous No.9669419]

>>9669417
Retroactively called it the ps1*

[Anonymous No.9669437]

I called Nintendo's customer service line as a kid to ask if I could buy an RF adapter for my N64 and they sent me one in the mail for free.

[Anonymous No.9669448]

>>9669289
Not retro, but I first played Skyrim back in the day on PS3, on a medium-ish sized CRT. Would NOT fucking recommend, the PS3 port is not just buggier than the others, but the ambient occlusion and the tiny text made the experience a constant eyestrain. I'd hate to try to cope with that setup with the eyesight I have now.

Actually, I wouldn't even recommend Skyrim at all, I thought it was ok at the time, but mostly not as good as Morrowind in the parts which really counted. Having played it more later and with some more hindsight, it's kind of mediocre.

>>9667016
I do remember it, but I don't think I found myself doing it that much, all in all. It was mostly Megaman which didn't want to work at times, blowing in it would sometimes work, but often make the problem even worse and the game wouldn't want to work at all, so I gave up and picked another game.
Pretty sure the connector on that cartridge was damaged at some point. I've heard that the blowing can cause corrosion damage to the pins too, but I'm not sure if that's true.

Otherwise, most of my NES games would work almost all of the time. Still have my old NES and its games lying around. I wonder if I also have an old CRT or something I could hook it up with? Maybe I could fix the Megaman cartridge, assuming the pins are just bent out of shape or something.

[Anonymous No.9669457]

>>9669417
>>9669419
Everyone around here said Playstation, and then Playstation 2 or PS2. I do remember seeing PSX used in discussions online and in print back in those days, however.

[Anonymous No.9669461]

>>9669335
I still have vivid childhood memories of taking all of my SNES games out of their boxes, putting the outer boxes, inlays and manuals in a bin bag and taking it downstairs to throw out.
Then looking at my easily accessible collection of carts on the shelf and feeling good about myself. I would have been between the ages of 5 and 7.

[Anonymous No.9669472]

>>9669461
I also ran up a huge phone bill connecting my Dreamcast to the internet. That was the age when Flash was the go-to medium for any site a kid would be interested in. The Dreamcast browser software didn't support Flash so it was a complete shit experience, and for regular HTML pages seemingly slower than what you'd get using dial-up on a PC/laptop. I didn't have the keyboard either.
If you ever see a post about the Dreamcast and how waiting 1-2 years to release it with a DVD drive and broadband adapter as standard, that's me.

[Anonymous No.9670124]

>>9668271
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL7_2HC2u6A

[Anonymous No.9670317]

>>9669437
I got my N64 in the late 90s as a hand-me-down and it came with one of these RF modulators. I didn't even realize it could use composite cables until I got a gamecube in 2003 and realized they had the same plug.

[Anonymous No.9670323]

>>9664314
That was over 90% of kids I knew. My family only didn't since we early adopted DVD

[Anonymous No.9670706]

>>9670323
Same, first DVD was Matthew Broderick Godzilla. I still have the Pioneer DVD player, it's great for audio CDs - very well built with premium parts.

[Anonymous No.9670717]

>>9664314
Totally genius marketing. My parents bought my brother and I a PS2 in the year of release because, well, the house didn't have a DVD player. They were as keen on it as we were.

[Anonymous No.9670725]

>>9664297
>RGB cable
What the hell is that, and what things would you be able to connect that to? I thought S-video was the highest tier of video quality back then.

[Anonymous No.9670835]

>>9670725
It's a SCART connector which was one of the leading standards for most of the "SD era" of television standards in Europe. SCART is generally known for RGB but for maximum compatibility it can support most signal types like Composite or S-Video on the same connector (there's like 20 pins).

A quick TLDR on the history is that France got sick of all the competing connector standards so they came up with SCART as a robust all-in-one connector and then told the rest of the world "if you want to sell a TV in France it needs SCART", and since France is a fairly large market the end result was basically them strongarming the standard into existence around Europe.

[Anonymous No.9670863]

>>9664297
Have nearly every 32-bit generation console in existence. I had a Saturn, PlayStation, N64, 3DO, and a Jaguar. I also had a Socket 7 MMX PC with a Voodoo 2 in it. And I upgraded to a Pentium 3 with a GeForce 256 DDR. All of which I still have in one form or another.

[Anonymous No.9670890]

>>9670863
In addition, I also enjoyed having a modded PlayStation and Xbox in HighSchool. The later of which I soldered the chips in my self.

[Anonymous No.9670927]

>>9670863
I had concurrently by the time I was a senior in high school

>NES
>SNES
>N64
>Gamecube
>Gameboy
>PlayStation
>PlayStation 2
>Sega Nomad
>Saturn
>Dreamcast
>Xbox
>Atari 2600
>Intellivision

I was NOT a richfag. Far from it. My parents just weren't assholes about the subject of video gaming like a lot of them apparently were and weren't strongly opposed to me having a collection. I got some consoles for Christmas, and the rest I got with money I made working during the summer and fall. I bought the Nomad and the Saturn for $30 each used.

I also knew some kids even poorer than me who had assortments of systems they managed to pool together.

[Anonymous No.9670938]

>>9664297
Composite for PS2
S-Video for Saturn
S-Video for Dreamcast
Mod all of them plus the PSX

[Anonymous No.9671093]

>>9669332
Lol kinda.
I never saw a Saturn outside of once at Target with Three Dirty Dwarves and again at Disney World with Sonic R.
No one I knew at school had one either.

[Anonymous No.9671094]

>>9670927
>I was NOT a richfag

[Anonymous No.9671117]

>>9671094
NTA but I had a similar collection growing up and my parents were quite poor.
We just went to a fuckton of rummage sales and Goodwills and I ended up accumulating a lot of my collection that way.

[Anonymous No.9671238]

>>9671117
Oh so you didn't have those machines when they were still being supported.

[Anonymous No.9671248]

>>9664297
I installed Linux and starting programming and hosting websites. Got millions out of it and retired in my early thirties

[Anonymous No.9671254]

>>9666981
He was less retarded than the dad, though.

[Anonymous No.9671303]

I know there was somebody early who asked about the Scart for N64. my question would be is it better to use Scart or go with and HDMI mod?

[Anonymous No.9671310]

>>9671303
N64 doesn't have an RGB output so SCART won't be any different from Composite or S-Video cables. If S-Video quality isn't enough for you you'll have to look into modding.

[Anonymous No.9671318]

>>9671310
if I did manage to mod it, where would I go about finding a reliable Scart cable? or would I just have to settle for a 3rd party one?

[Anonymous No.9671337]

>>9671238
He could have. PlayStations were traded around and pawned by a lot by people.

[Anonymous No.9671351]

>>9671094
Gaming was and remains my #1 interest in life and back then I spent 90% of my money on it.
I didn't have a girlfriend or a social life.
I didn't spend money on music albums, fast food, or clothes.
I wore the same single set of sneakers for years and patched them up with weatherseal adhesive when the soles started coming off.
I didn't have a car until I was 18, and it was a junker I bought for $200.

[Anonymous No.9671359]

>>9671318
https://retro-access.com are the best cables on the market.

[Anonymous No.9671393]

>>9671359
appreciate the help

[Anonymous No.9671402]

>>9671351
Me as well. Dont drink or drug. Outside of bills to survive, i pretty much just used cash on gaymin. Without that id probably just save it.

[Anonymous No.9671430]

I got to play on a legit NWC1990 cart in an actual tournament.

[Anonymous No.9671679]

>>9664297
plugging my consoles to better speakers for better sound.
i only knew one guy who did this too.
back then only hi-fifags and turbonerds bothered

[Anonymous No.9671743]

>>9671679
I never did that myself, but I have an uncle who had a pretty good hi-fi/media center thing going on back in the 90s with his living room TV, and his PS1's audio went through his expensive ass speakers. I remember playing it as a kid and just getting blasted by the PS1 start up sound coming out of these fucking couch-sized speakers.

Always kind of wanted a hi-fi setup.

[Anonymous No.9671804]

>>9671679
I was blown away at how great the audio sounded when I plugged in some Sony studio headphones to my PC around 2002 and tried playing some emulated games. Not long after I got a CRT TV with a headphone jack on the front. Been a headphone gamer ever since.

[Anonymous No.9671873]

>>9670725
>>9670835
As it's a Japanese cable, it's not SCART, but JP-21. They look identically and both have 21 pins, just wired differently. That of course means they're not cross-compatible with each other. Don't mix them up in your setup.

[Anonymous No.9672107]

>>9671873
Were any TVs released in America capable of using that particular cable? Or even any PC monitors?

[Anonymous No.9672119]

Bought (or rather, received) games for old consoles after the newest ones had come out. I know for a fact that I got several N64 games after the launch of the Gamecube. For a while you could find N64 and Playstation One games in the same store as PS2 and Gamecube games.

[Anonymous No.9672139]

>got into a bidding war for auction with 2 S-video cables
>ended up paying $80 out of stubbornness to win
>finally arrive today
>one cable displays picture in black and white
>the other cable doesn't display a picture at all
I wish I had lost the auction now so that someone else could have been screwed over.

[Anonymous No.9672161]

>>9672139
I'm sorry that happened to you bro.

[Anonymous No.9672164]

>>9672139
Check if the connectors are clean (both on your TV and System). Get some contact cleaner ideally but some rubbing alcohol will do too, just squirt it in there and reinsert it a bunch of times.

If they've never been used it's possible enough corrosion has built up on the pins over the years to the point that they stopped working.

[Anonymous No.9672232]

>>9669289
My parents were crt holdouts anyway.
They early adopted shitty lcd monitors for office work because it was easier on the eyes but they new for video crt was still better.
My mom was still using an hd crt until 2019.

[Anonymous No.9672290]

>>9672139
Was it eBay? They are very good about getting your money back from fraud or defective products.

[Anonymous No.9672303]

>>9664316
When I was a kid we had some ATI TV tuner card, then I had some Viewsonic or whatever monitor with s-video input I think. My Xbox 360 used VGA. When live streaming was new pre-Twitch I got an Avermedia C027. Now I have an Avermedia 4K card. Playing console games as a window on your desktop is maximum comfy, you can also use your Nvidia driver to apply its sharpening filter to the video output, or ShaderGlass to apply Retroarch filters over it.

[Anonymous No.9672308]

>>9669289
A lot of zoomer COD videos on YouTube clearly show their Xbox 360 running in SD

[Anonymous No.9672331]

>>9672139
...are you sure you selected s-video channel on your tv?

[Anonymous No.9672413]

>>9672164
From what I can see in the cable itself, it looks like the pins might be damaged. Bent, pushed in, possibly broken.

[Anonymous No.9672458]

>>9665253
I thought it was silly and unnecessary so I used "PS" in defiance

[Anonymous No.9673640]

>>9664297
I too used RGB cables in the JP21 format back then, which is pretty uncommon since everything is SCART now. Since I didn't have a TV, and relied on hand-me-downs, I relied on using a computer monitor and used the XRGB2 to play my console games for entertainment. The XRGB2 and bulky CRT monitors stayed with me for many moves until last year when I finally was able to afford a 720P TV from Costco. The JP21 cables were the heroes, but no one uses them that I feel lucky to have one of the small batch JP21 edition gSCARTsw and I don't foresee anyone else using that due to the unpopular format.

[Anonymous No.9673652]

>>9664314
this is such an "everybody did this" that its one of the most commonly cited reasons for PS2 being a juggernaut

[Anonymous No.9673752]

>>9672107
SCART basically didn't exist in America, no. At absolute most there are some fringe cases where a TV/Monitor that was also sold in Europe might support a drop-in SCART connector mod, but that's about it.

That said, SCART is a connector not a signal type and more often than not it's just used for RGB these days. If you have an RGB SCART cable you can always just convert it to another connector for RGB like VGA or just (pretty much) losslessly transcode it into component, which most EDTVs in America have as well as some of the ass-end SD CRTs.

[Anonymous No.9673767]

>>9668294
I never used anything other than ELP. you could fit quite a lot of stuff on them with ELP, and at least at the time I couldn't tell the difference in terms of quality.

[Anonymous No.9673861]

>>9673767
With a 240p video game there shouldn't be too much loss of quality. Color loss mostly.

[Anonymous No.9673863]

>>9673640
which years are "back then" ?

[Anonymous No.9673864]

>>9664297
Subscribed to several video game magazines even though I was a poor kid.
Many times I have read on /vr/ that video game magazines were only for rich kids. That's BS.

[Anonymous No.9673875]

>>9672139
>after getting screwed on 2 Super Famicom S-video cables
>decide to check on the auction I won for Sega Saturn S-video cable
>double check the images just to be sure the pins aren't fucked up
>see pic related
You're fucking kidding me. I've seriously got to check these images next time I try getting one of these instead of just assuming the seller knows what they're doing.

[Anonymous No.9674262]

>>9669289
yeah i remember playing dead rising on the 360 on my crt the text was unreadable

[Anonymous No.9674510]

>>9665234
I still don't know what the fuck the X stands for

[Anonymous No.9674513]

>>9669289
the original base model 360 didn't even come with HDMI out.

[Anonymous No.9674519]

>>9674510
Xtra gay

[Anonymous No.9674703]

>>9674262
I remember that being a slight controversy back in the day because capcom made that game designed only for HD displays and everyone was complaining that it was unplayable in standard def. Indicates that it was still commonly used at the time.

Shit, the early 360 models didn't even have HDMI.

[Anonymous No.9674861]

>>9673875
If the auction was mistitled you can probably get your money back

[Anonymous No.9674881]

>>9673863
It was mid-90s to relatively recently. This was around 2005/2006 but it was my setup that I used for SNES/SFC/PCE/Saturn/Dreamcast play. The XRGB2 was the key device for connecting the consoles to the monitor which was 31kHz opposed to the 15kHz the consoles output, and the device was able to accept JP21 cables.

[Anonymous No.9674902]

>>9667323
yeah i'm sure you were keeping track from your cave you autistic drone jesus christ

[Anonymous No.9674992]

>>9674881
Maximum comfiness. I strive to one day have a setup like this. Thank you for sharing.

[Anonymous No.9675067]

>>9669289
I played 360 on a crt from launch until when gta IV came out.
In Halo 3 we used to try to guess who was using an LCD screen and who wasn't. On composite my gamertag looked like it had "dix" in it so people would call me _dicks all the time

[Anonymous No.9675080]

Being obsessed with finding unused stuff in games.
Browsing for text in N64 games with the GameShark memory viewer (pic rel) and both finding stuff and dicking around with values to find items/characters/levels/etc. Even just finding normal text strings used in-game were neat to me, but finding unused stuff and developer shit (like the occasional filename) was fun too. Would have shit if I saw the dev rant in The New Tetris back then.
PS1 games being on CD excited me as a kid because that meant I could put it in my computer and look at the files. I grabbed a bunch of extraction tools (usually off of Zophar's Domain) and would spend all night plundering.
>>9664389
Absolutely loved Squaresoft's PS1-era debug stuff and I got excited when it turned out that pretty much every Square game I had on the PS1 had a debug room or at least a menu. First one I played around in was VIII's.

[Anonymous No.9675089]

>>9674881
I have that same kind of electronic spellchecker sitting in a table drawer beside my recliner. It was my dad's and it's been floating around every house I've lived in since before I was born. There's a bunch of old obsolete tech like that around here, and every time my zoomer niece brings friends over they're always drawn to it and interact with it in some way. Nice conversational pieces for my niece and them.

[Anonymous No.9675117]

>>9675089
Seeing this made me want one for a split second. Then I realized if you spell something wrong it probably can't even tell what word you meant. Basically, autocorrect does it better.

[Anonymous No.9675123]

>>9669289
The 360 didnt even

[Anonymous No.9675125]

>>9669289
The 360 didnt even have an HDMI port when it launched lmfao

In fact, so few people had an HDTV that Dead Rising's biggest complaint was that the text wasn't legible in standard definition

[Anonymous No.9675307]

>>9665081
TV tuner software has been around for a long time, I have seen it on PC-98 hardware in japan too.

[Anonymous No.9675324]

>going for official cables when you can get a third party one that does the same thing, for the same quality at a FAR lower price

[Anonymous No.9675334]

>>9671679
I hooked my games up to a stereo/speakers for the first time after San Andreas came out. Hearing the intro and menu sfx with bass was a memorable experience.
Now I run everything through hifi.

[Anonymous No.9675338]

>>9667743
I remember those days too, as well as rushing back from the toilet at commercials to make sure I didn't miss the good parts. It's pretty nice to have whatever you want at your disposal now, but sadly we've gone backward in the preservation front. You can't beg companies to give you a home copy of anything anymore. Such a pain.

[Anonymous No.9675380]

>>9668381
I did, but I was too cheap to spend on it, so they wouldn't tell me anything

[Anonymous No.9675410]

>>9669306
we had one of those rear projections because it was HD we could afford and was big enough to bother watching.

>>9669289
>playing cock of duty
fucking dudebros

>>9671238
shit man, I remember being in K-Mart in 1997 and seeing SNES jrs and Genesis consoles for 30 and 20 USD respectively, brand-new of course. They couldn't give that stuff away by then.

[Anonymous No.9675414]

>>9671679
it's a great way to do things if you can get a good set. I'm blessed to have had a family friend give their set to me when they retired and moved into a little apartment in sunnier weather. I run everything through these things and they sound fantastic.

[Anonymous No.9675416]

>>9674881
good feelings. That left-hand controller looks familiar, what is it?

[Anonymous No.9675419]

>>9675125
this and their not including wifi always rubbed me the wrong way. I mean shit, DS had a wifi antenna. What was the 360's excuse making it a 100 dollar add-on? Greedy fucks.

[Anonymous No.9675460]

>>9665234
My family literally just called it "the sony"
I don't know anyone else who did this

[Anonymous No.9675462]

>>9669289
Can confirm my first experiences with the 360 were on a large CRT tv with component cables. Dead Rising text was fucking unreadable, and Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts had a similar problem but they patched it eventually. Eventually I got a tiny HDTV in my room and got a later HDMI model of the 360 because my old one RROD'd. The leap to 720p was mind blowing. I wish I still had a good 720p monitor just for PS3/360 stuff.

[Anonymous No.9675646]

>>9669289
Most people didn’t get that gen of consoles until they got a new TV
I never played my 360 on anything but a Plasma, but I’m using it on a CRT now, it runs games better at lower res at least but I mostly use it to play video files and dvd’s

[Anonymous No.9675891]

>>9665234
I only called it that after I got into emulators everyone called it "the playstation"

[Anonymous No.9676868]

>>9674992
Yeah, I miss the 19" Viewsonic a lot. I still regret needing to toss it when the landlady decided she was going to renovate the place for rents higher than I could afford. Moving dual FW900s and the Viewsonic was too much space and weight than my next studio could hold.

>>9675089
Yeah, I still have the Franklin Language Master. It was invaluable for me to learn definitions, spelling, and synonyms (but being an older version, no antonyms). The strangest thing about it: it runs on 4 AA batteries, I have not opened it since the late 80s and it still powers up and functions to this day on those same batteries probably fused to its insides by now.

>>9675416
That is a Belkin Nostromo. They sold the design to Razer for the modern descendant: Razer Tartarus Pro. For me, it has a very ergonomic feel and was useful for a lot of macros/hotkeys I liked using in conjunction with a mouse freeing me from the keyboard.

[Anonymous No.9676942]

>>9676868
ok so maybe you can answer my question what is gonna be the best option OSSC, Retrotink 5X, or what you have in pic related? Cause ive seen those but with mutiple Scart plugins and VGA/HDMI/DVI etc

[Anonymous No.9677069]

>>9676942
I would say whatever fits your situation best. There are all sorts of factors, such as budget, space, availability, resources, skills/technique, location, goals, etc.

[Anonymous No.9677146]

Had a Gamecube Intec screen to play in the car, but I'd use a composite to 3.5mm and power inverter to play other shit on it

[Anonymous No.9677154]

>>9677069
Keeping this line of discussion brief, but how does that 4K upscaler dongle work in execution? Does it just do some kind of smoothing, or does it double the resolution from 1080p? Also I'm willing to bet that HDR tag is bullshit but who knows
Also man I kinda want a RetroTINK 5X but I'd only need one over my OSSC for PS2/Saturn res switching. Wondering if I should just get a GBS-C instead

[Anonymous No.9677637]

>>9677146
same, you could also do this with a PSone LCD. I used to play animal crossing in bed, which worked fine until one day I thought I should do so under the sheets and I forced the GC to turn off from overheating. It was fine, but I did learn a valuable lesson about systems with cooling fans.

[Anonymous No.9677842]

>>9677069
>MiSTer
What a waste of money. Emulation on PC is much better.

[Anonymous No.9678304]

>>9675460
My dad did this. I think he felt ridiculous saying PlayStation.

[Anonymous No.9678331]

>>9675460
ohh my whole country did that
sony 1
sony 2

[Anonymous No.9678560]

>>9675460
levels of boomer redneck previously thought impossible

[Anonymous No.9678564]

>>9664297
Have a giant RF modulator from Radio Shack that I used up until the early 00s. I still have it in a box somewhere.

[Anonymous No.9678850]

Not quite "nobody", but I remember using a capture card in 2005 which was still pretty magical back then. The Dazzle DVC, which came with a complete shit video software called Pinnacle or something. I also used CRTs on my 360. Nothing like Gears of War on a 9-inch display.

[Anonymous No.9678861]

>>9678564
>giant
how big are we talking here?

[Anonymous No.9678943]

>>9678861
Like... 3" wide by 1 1/2" tall. . It seemed bigger when I was a kid. It's also all metal and not cheap plastic like modern ones.

[Anonymous No.9678959]

>>9671679
I did this, plugged the red and white cables into my sterio.

[Anonymous No.9679936]

>>9677154
>Wondering if I should just get a GBS-C instead
The GBS is quite good, especially for a fraction of the price of RT5X. I like the motion adaptive deinterlacing, it's great for PS2.
The biggest pain in the ass with it is finding/making a sturdy and good looking case for it that would fit with the other devices in your setup. But that's a problem with all DIY electronics projects if you want something better than the basic shit top-and-bottom cover with the bare PCB visible from the sides.

[Anonymous No.9679939]

>>9679936
>I like the motion adaptive deinterlacing, it's great for PS2.
Wait, what the fuck? I wanna get this now.
Also yeah I know about the case troubles, but I'd get a good deal out of it. Honestly I may just buy a prebuilt if I'm feeling particularly lazy, already gonna be selling the OBS anyhow

[Anonymous No.9679946]

>>9678850
I had that same one, maybe it was just my P4 computer but the lag was like two or three full seconds

[Anonymous No.9680143]

>>9679939
Also mind that you have to route audio separately to the VGA-HDMI converter. That's not a problem when using only one of the inputs, but when you switch between RGB and component, it can be bothersome.
Personally, I made my own SCART adapter with audio breakout and a switch between SCART and separate RCA inputs for component using relays, but that requires a bit of fiddling with the software. The microcontroller could use a few more IO pins, too.

[Anonymous No.9680191]

>>9679936
Chink pre-built GBS-C's are probably at their peak in quality right now before other chinks decide to make clones of clones and it turns to shit like the OSSC did.

[Anonymous No.9681270]

>>9677154
That is for the Switch, and I believe it doubles 1080P then adds a (1-3 passes) sharpening filter. I think it just passes through HDR content and not do anything with the colour range. The OSSC is probably the best for most people since it is open source, they can tailor it to their liking, but as I said before it depends on the use case situation of the individual.

>>9677842
I remember it as the MIST PC project. The main board is subsidized for its cost and it is great for hobbyist engineers to tinker. It can output analog signals to CRTs and is great for persons like myself that is unable to solder to experience some odd devices I do not have.

[Anonymous No.9681316]

>>9679936
I really wish these devices like GBSC/OSSC/Retrotink/framemeister came in larger form factors. When its a dinky lightweight device like that, it never fits well into an AV setup, in the same way that AV equipment normally has a somewhat standardized and consistent form factor. Not to mention being so small means these things often get lifted off the surface just from cables pulling them.

Maybe one day I'll take an aliexpress auto-switcher and a GBS-C and frankenstein them together into the metal chassis of an old stereo receiver or something

[Anonymous No.9681362]

I watched a longplay for the first time in 1998, long before having internet.

Somebody taped the whole Resident Evil 2 (Second run with Leon) shortly after launch and all the ones who could not afford the game or the console would queue to bring the tape home.

[Anonymous No.9681619]

>>9681362
I did this from the other side. I recorded myself beating several fighting games on tape and then lent this tape to a friend who did not own a Dreamcast who still wanted to see what the games looked like in action.

[Anonymous No.9682410]

>>9664297
Used our house phone as a proto-VOIP channel for gaming.

Our wireless phone had a Hold feature to call a second person. Hitting Hold again after that actually merged the two calls (for what reason I have no idea).

Then I would grab my dad's phone headset that he used for work and - *presto* - three person VOIP chat.

The downside to this was that all incoming calls would go straight to a Busy signal. My friends and crippled our house phone lines this way playing C&C Generals for hours.

My parents eventually caught wind of what we were doing and we had to stop. Good times.

[Anonymous No.9682623]

>>9681362
>>9681619
That's awesome. It was probably very novel at the time.

[Anonymous No.9682631]

>>9668167
>>9667973
I'd use rechargeable batteries at home and normal ones for trips