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

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As someone who actually does this (have a rt4x and a high end OLED just for this) you're completely correct. I spent more time fine-tuning my presets for different games + console + CRT feel than actually playing games and never came as close to the CRT as much as I wanted.

HOWEVER

Consider that the average CRT you can get today would still be close to the price of the aforementioned if you wanted something better than a shitbox out of a dumpster. Which would be 15' AT MOST, and would need at this point at least recapping and realignment. That's if you're lucky and the tube isn't delaminating. That's not taking into account the storage, weight and other things people conveniently forget about CRTs.

At the end of the day even though it's not perfect CRT emulation, and it does take time and money, I know I'm right, because I can boot up a PS1 game on my setup, show it off to normies and they'll comment that it looks very good or that they wished they had a setup like that cause it looks fun.

And I get to have a 65' screen instead of a 15' one
Yabut my 15 inch CRT looks great on a desk.

And while I've seen some really nice trashpicked screens, I actually bought all mine brand new for cheap before people caught on to these things so no issues with caps (made in 2008 if you can believe it) or alignment, and I don't feel like the 5 other CRTS I have (that I also got brand new) take up all that much space.

Does anyone here like the Puyo Puyo games? I was just playing Super Puyo Puyo a little while ago.
One of my fav games, I have a near complete collection of Puyo Puyo Tsuu releases, only ones I'm missing are the Macintosh release and the arcade PCB.
 
Consider that the average CRT you can get today would still be close to the price of the aforementioned if you wanted something better than a shitbox out of a dumpster. Which would be 15' AT MOST, and would need at this point at least recapping and realignment. That's if you're lucky and the tube isn't delaminating. That's not taking into account the storage, weight and other things people conveniently forget about CRTs.
I have a CRT. It was a very late model (late 90s) but only has RF input, so I've got it hooked to a chinkshit RF modulator. However, the noise-shaping tech in that modulator makes it sharper than old composite hookups used to be. It's really weird getting crystal clear 720x480i from RF. It's kind of hilarious using NTSC filters on a CRT to get results closer to what I remember from my old shitty CRTs.

This TV spent a dozen years sitting in the back of a cargo van in full Canadian summer-winter cycles, -40 to 30 C. No recaps needed, no nothing.

A lot of talk about "how bad CRTs are" are predicated on 70s and 80s CRTs.
 
Does anyone here like the Puyo Puyo games? I was just playing Super Puyo Puyo a little while ago.
It's my all time #1 favorite puzzle game, but only Tsu, Sun, and Yan. Everything after that is shit, especially if it's anything Fever related. Often times I go back to Mean Bean Machine for nostalgic feels.

For anyone that doesn't know the difference I wrote a long-ish bullet point about the games
 
The Macintosh one was called Qwirks, right?
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AFAIK it's the same as the Win95 / PC98 versions with 640x480 visuals, but I've just never seen it for sale even on Yahoo Auctions Japan.

Apparently I should have been looking this past october:
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I should try running it on one of my classic macs.
It's my all time #1 favorite puzzle game, but only Tsu, Sun, and Yan. Everything after that is shit, especially if it's anything Fever related. Often times I go back to Mean Bean Machine for nostalgic feels.
Yon but yah I agree. I really didn't like Puyo Puyo Tetris, felt like a bad mashup of both games, and I first played it on PS3 in back in 2014.
 
It's my all time #1 favorite puzzle game, but only Tsu, Sun, and Yan. Everything after that is shit, especially if it's anything Fever related. Often times I go back to Mean Bean Machine for nostalgic feels.

For anyone that doesn't know the difference I wrote a long-ish bullet point about the games
The ones I currently have are Puyo Puyo (GB), Pocket Puyo Puyo Tsuu (GB), Super Puyo Puyo (SFC, Rev. B specifically), Puyo Pop Fever (GBA), and Kirby's Avalanche (SNES).
 
But you absolutely should play it. It's fantastic. Very depressing subject matter but you'll like it if you like old school Survival Horror. And you get a dog.
I am going to guess based on these coincidences:
are you familiar with Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, Cool Cool Toon, Cubivore, Eternal Poison, Garfield Caught in the Act and the Lost Levels, Gimmick, Herdy Gerdy, Linda Cubed Again, Megami Tensei Old Testament, moon, Okage, SeGaGaGa, Shadow Hearts Gaiden, and Vagrant Story?

it was exceptional.
...literally 'exceptional' or Kiwi Farms 'exceptional'?

Possibly, i've talked to some boomers who grew up with these systems and they seem to view emulation as impure.
Th is a big point. We, who tend to be more tech-savvy and outside the norm, tend to find going legit imately exceptional, but people on the whole spent decades pushing how piracy is punishable by law. Many people go legit because of that, hence the controversy from the recent releases o FiRed and LeafGreen.

That's amateur hour! Set up a harness and projector rig bolted to the ceiling, strap yourself into the harness, facing downward, and project the image onto your bare floor. That's real gaming, and it's far more thrilling when you can hear and feel the bolts fastened to your harness begin winding their way out of the ceiling.
Remember that dude who go taped to the ceiling in a LAN party?

Does anyone here like the Puyo Puyo games? I was just playing Super Puyo Puyo a little while ago.
I plan on playing th entire serie, starting from the RPGs Madou Monagatari... PC-98 versions, of course. My only problem comes from th entire ARS eries not being fan-translated yet.
 
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That’s only for download play since I assume they couldn’t cram all those graphics and music + the subgames into RAM. Normal multiplayer is… well, normal multiplayer.
That makes sense. I’ve played it once when a friend, and emulated it once by myself, so I’ve never gotten to try multiplayer. I’ve played the SNES version more than the DS version.
 
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