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

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Never Scored said:
Counterpoint: 90% of games from that era across NES, Geneses and SNES use like two action buttons. A and X on the SNES controller were either unused or were used for shit like switching weapons in soooo many games. I think that's why Nintendo didn't bother to include four face buttons on GBA, a system notable for being filled with SNES ports.
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Nintendo apparently did it to limit developers and try to force them to make simpler games.

Then again, with what a bunch of cheap fucks they are, they probably did it to save $1 per unit on PCB traces and buttons.
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
My nigga. I'll play any arcade or console game on a keyboard rather than on a gamepad. I think that analog sticks were a huge mistake. They are inaccurate as all hell. Atrocious for FPS/TPS and pretty bad for anything else that requires quick responses and accuracy. I'd rather use my ancient Commodore 64 joystick that had SWITCHES back in 1992. It's baffling how the d-pad is now used mostly to quick select or use weapons and items rather than for movement.
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Analog sticks are fine for certain things, but I don't play a lot of 3D games anyway. Racing games certainly need them.

Hentai-Semitism said:
By the way, if for some reason you're still using a rubber keayboard and you're prejudiced against mechanical ones, please reconsider. I used to love my cheap Logitech K210, but even the cheapest mechanical keyboard by the same manufacturer, the G512, is SIGNIFICANTLY better than that. Go spend that $100 and be done with it, you'll never look back.
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Oh, but of course I use mechanical keyboards. I am on my second one. I bought a Corsair K65 Plus last year for the portability, and it's been nice. Before that, my K70 Lux lasted 9 years before it started double-firing. I tried replacing the keyswitches, but it looked like it was designed to not be repairable. Even just opening the thing and reassembling it was a project. Here's a Tom's Hardware review that talks about the disassembling process, and how you need to damage it to get to all the screws. But whatever, 9 years with a nice keyboard was money well spent. I bought my new one after verifying that you can indeed replace switches and the battery relatively easily.
 
ForgedBlades said:
After years of saying that I'd rather die than part with it, the time has come to sell off the high end items in my Saturn collection. Pour one out for a nigga (:_(

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Welp. After the crown jewels were gone I decided to say fuck it and started liquidating everything. My entire collection had been sitting in a storage unit for years, and going through boxes I found shit I forgot I even had. That pic ended up being only about half of the Saturn games I owned that were worth more than $100. I ended up selling a CIB copy of Saturn Resident Evil for over $400. Legitimately forgot I had it. Apparently I also owned a boxed copy of Bucky O'Hare for the NES and a boxed copy of Castlevania Legacy of Darkness for the N64 that both sold for over $400.

All of my "bangers" for Saturn, Sega CD, 32x, PS1, NES, SNES, 3DO, and Genesis are gone. Still working on selling my TG-16 collection which should bring in some good money. Grossed a little over $13k since I made that post, and hopefully have another $3k or $4k worth of stuff still left to sell. I think I'm going to pile up everything worth $20 or less, separate it by console, put them up as lots on a 10 day auction and just see what happens. eBay fees suck, but I have to remember that if I took everything to a pawn shop or game store I would have almost certainly netted even less. Facebook Marketplace would have taken years to unload the stuff. It is what it is.

I decided to hang on to all of my Dreamcast collection and my Jaguar/CD collection. I was always the proudest of the latter, owning the complete retail library CIB. I'm also holding on to all of my sixth gen stuff. I don't have a ton but I do have a pretty decent little Xbox collection. I think if I ever decide to get back into the collecting hobby that's where I'll focus my attention.
 
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Myrient is dying next month due to lack of money to keep it going. So basically ROM hunting will become exponentially harder.

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Just another plus to emulation, storage space. The entire (quality) videogame library of history can be kept in one 4x3 XHD you can fit in your pocket. Take it with you across borders, hook it up to a PC, and upload all those games to any place willing to host them, or put them on USBs and sell them for cheap. No need to pay companies like goytendo for subscription rentals that you will never own and go away on a multi-national corporation's fickle and greedy whims.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
Just another plus to emulation, storage space. The entire (quality) videogame library of history can be kept in one 4x3 XHD you can fit in your pocket. Take it with you across borders, hook it up to a PC, and upload all those games to any place willing to host them, or put them on USBs and sell them for cheap. No need to pay companies like goytendo for subscription rentals that you will never own and go away on a multi-national corporation's fickle and greedy whims.
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Myrient kinda proves that wrong when it comes to super large scale rom sites with little means of getting the money to justify staying up like it was trying to do since the guy was blowing $6k a month just to keep the site and servers up. That is a lot of dough for a almost 400TB worth of ROMs and other related stuff like leaks or beta/prototype shit you couldn't get without a lot of searching, and that was before AI priced out RAM and storage made maitenence harder.


I have to remind you, Myrient had a ton of what would be rare finds on the website that can become lost if not mirrored to other ROM sites. This isn't just a middle finger to the man when the goal has been as extensive a game preservation project could get.
 
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We should list the content that is hard to find and back them up. Don't worry about the common games you can expect to be circulating for a long, long time.

Question is. What is considered hard to find in Myrient?
 
Ly Erg said:
We should list the content that is hard to find and back them up. Don't worry about the common games you can expect to be circulating for a long, long time.

Question is. What is considered hard to find in Myrient?
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For a start, theres a ton of gaming devices that could be consitered consoles and arnt from the usual 3 console makers all within the core Redump, No-Intro, and the other romsets, the many, many leaks that has been lost to time otherwise, a bunch of video content that was stuck to random disc formats, including a lot of laserdisc copies of everything that came out for that format, lots of arcade games you probably never heard of, and also several terrabytes worth of DOS games, and oddball software that wasn't ethier Redump or No-Intro.

Just an absolute ton of stuff that has been saved up, and i havent even touched on the DLC, magazine scans, and a lot of other shit that fell into the Myrient umbrella in the name of preservation so it couldn't be lost media.
 
Well, I was already in the process of getting consoles modded with roms from my childhood but guess I need to fasttrack an empty hdd to scrape some more shit off of myrient so I can eventually set up the last couple consoles I wanted. Pouring it out for a real one
 
My teen retro phase was a very important, near and dear time of my life and so much of it was thanks to myrient. So many memories and formative feelings came from it. By now most have had to confront the sad reality that yes many thing will be gone from the internet permanently but this is definitely hammering it down. It's easy to just assume and wistfully think someone will have what your looking for but when these places go down hundreds fall though the cracks, even if hand wave them as stuff no one cared about they're still unique works people spent months on that reflected it's time and culture, to dismiss them is truly regressive and small minded.
I pray some see this, remember what this site has done for them and give them the means to continue. Wishful thinking only gets you so far though so I'm definitely going to fill my extra hard drives and you should to.
 
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