Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

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Captain Quazar said:
Was playing some GoldenEye 007 earlier. It really is a wonderful experience. It doesn't even control that badly with the N64 controller either.
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There's actually a neat little feature in the control settings called "Solitaire" that lets you use two controllers at once to control Bond. The first (left) controller stick controls the movement and the left (second) controller stick controls the camera. It's a bit odd and unwieldy, but it's functionally a twin-stick control setup. Rare carried the feature over to Perfect Dark as well.
 
Croaking Spider said:
There's actually a neat little feature in the control settings called "Solitaire" that lets you use two controllers at once to control Bond. The first (left) controller stick controls the movement and the left (second) controller stick controls the camera. It's a bit odd and unwieldy, but it's functionally a twin-stick control setup. Rare carried the feature over to Perfect Dark as well.
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Star Wars Episode I Racer also has a twin-controller setup on N64, letting you operate the pod using the analog sticks as throttles, like they did in the movie.
 
Samuel Fuller said:
What substances are you using?

Must be some great stuff to make that choppy, sluggish garbage and atrocity of a controller seem good.
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I'm serious. I honestly thought that it would control much worse than I had anticipated. It admittedly is a bit awkward at times, but it didn't feel that bad to me personally.
Croaking Spider said:
There's actually a neat little feature in the control settings called "Solitaire" that lets you use two controllers at once to control Bond. The first (left) controller stick controls the movement and the left (second) controller stick controls the camera. It's a bit odd and unwieldy, but it's functionally a twin-stick control setup. Rare carried the feature over to Perfect Dark as well.
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That's actually really neat. Pretty impressive that they even attempted such a setup on the N64.
 
Croaking Spider said:
There's actually a neat little feature in the control settings called "Solitaire" that lets you use two controllers at once to control Bond. The first (left) controller stick controls the movement and the left (second) controller stick controls the camera. It's a bit odd and unwieldy, but it's functionally a twin-stick control setup. Rare carried the feature over to Perfect Dark as well.
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Captain Quazar said:
That's actually really neat. Pretty impressive that they even attempted such a setup on the N64.
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Bear in mind that if you do this you lose Bond's bugged diagonal movement speed i.e. he always moves at normal speed. Many cheat times in the game were designed with the bugged speed in mind.
 
Samuel Fuller said:
Star Wars Episode I Racer also has a twin-controller setup on N64, letting you operate the pod using the analog sticks as throttles, like they did in the movie.
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I wish I had known that as a kid, as that was my one gripe I had between the console ports and the arcade version. The arcade cabinets had two bar throttles that would control engine power for each side and I thought that was cool as hell as a kid. Fast forward a couple decades and I'm getting my first zero-turn lawnmower. Imagine my amusement to find they control essentially the same way. When my old lady asked if I was figuring out how to operate it, she looked at me like a monkey doing a math problem when I autistically replied "It's like Pod Racer".

Yes, I know it's old man shit to be approaching a stage in your life where you look forward to and enjoy your lawn care routine. Let me cling to just a shred of childlike whimsy.

Captain Quazar said:
Speaking of, how are the default controls in that game? About the same as GoldenEye, or were they improved a bit?
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About the same, for better or for worse. The controls might be slightly more responsive and the free-aim doesn't require as much wrangling.
 
One thing where I think Goldeneye out performs Perfect Dark is that the game seems well tailored to the controls. Perfect Dark expects more from you which makes it future proof but still. I'm kind of surprised that there wasnt hardly any Goldeneye clones too
 
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