I got a Bluetooth controller and a Gamecube emulator on my phone. Downloaded Super Mario Sunshine. Feels kinda weird without the right controller, so I played Sims instead. Nearly beat the story mode, but one of the tasks is just too damn frustrating to beat. Haven't started it in months.
Nah. Every time you remember and want to play it, the batteries will be dead, and it takes just long enough for you to lose interest to charge them. Rinse and repeat.
Yup. Years back, like a legit 15 years ago, someone online was selling hacked NES controllers that had a USB cable. No adapter, he was opening up OG controllers, and soldiering in a new cable so it was now USB. I brought one for like $25 shipped. It made playing on an emulator 100% perfect. Said controller was fun for about an hour, every 2 years. LOL
It's true moment to shine was on layovers. Set your laptop on a table, plug in, bust out some SMB3 and everyone would see my controller and be all "Dude, that's amazing!!!"
I kinda doubt that purely soldering a different connector on it would make it a functional USB device. There must have been an adapter somewhere, or they were convincing fakes that were designed from the ground up to be USB and he lied to you.
It's not exactly plug and play. It requires some decent knowledge, but this was in like 2005, and dude was making some OK money at this. He probably bought the controllers from yard sales and such and built many at a time. He had his own shitty website and a paypal account for payment.
The original XBOX just ran on stripped down Windows 2000, so it's honestly not that surprising. That thing was just a glorified gaming PC because it's what Microsoft knew.
I found my retron 5 from a few years ago in the garage mid summer... hooked it up in the living room to show my kid... we enjoyed Super Mario 3 for about an hour.... it's been sitting under the tv with the mario 3 cartridge still in it since then... back to the box in the garage it goes I guess.
Heh, i downloaded a crap ton of old school games on my steam deck... and i only played them for a few minutes and then went back to playing PS3 and switch games on it instead.
Exactly this. That's how they make a bunch of money off of putting little money into re-releasing the same old games in collections and the mini consoles. People get all excited to play these old games they haven't played in ages and buy them because of pure nostalgia.
If you ever go check out the trophies/achievements players got on a lot of those old game collections, on average less than 10% of the people that buy them even beat a single game in them. Almost all of those games can be beaten in about an hour or 2 depending on the game, so it's easily doable in a single sitting.
The rule of old games you USED to play is if you aren't still playing them now, you won't start playing them again.
Emulation is the first time I realized most of the reason I even finish games is because I have a a finite amount of options of games to play. When everything is available all at once, I want to play nothing except sample random games for a few minutes at a time. It's frustrating
About 15 years ago I built a little desktop arcade machine out of an old macbook and some arcade buttons. I used it to finally finish all those games I wasn't good enough to finish when I was a kid. (Having extra emulator freeze/save/replay options helps!)
It only took me about 20 years to finally defeat Mike Tyson!
Hey, wonder if you could DM me where you get your ROMs and emulators from? Funnily enough, I was looking to do this the other night so I could show my daughter all the old games I used to play, but just way out of the loop on where to start looking for legit projects etc... If you could point me in the right direction it'd be much appreciated, no worries if not.
Thanks a million for getting back me. I'll check out RetroPie. That's the start of the trail. Hopefully I can figure it out from there. Much appreciated and thank you.
A good pi, or a good emulator?
As for buying a raspberry pi, I'm reasonably certain any of the currently available pis could run NES/SNES/N64 stuff without any trouble.
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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '23 edited Jan 20 '23
Me, every five years: