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Lycaon 58 points a year ago

The fact N64 games are behind a subscription is what really irks me. I wouldn't mind paying €5 for Harvest Moon 64 - the way you could buy retro games on the wii - but having to pay yearly, for a bunch of games (many of which I might not even be interested in) that you can't play anymore once you stop paying? Fuck that

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samus12345 11 points a year ago

I dislike game subscription services on principle, but at least the other guys have new games on their subscription services, not just ancient ones. Nintendo being the first to charge $80 makes it an extra kick in the balls.

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danc4498 4 points a year ago

Devil’s advocate here, I subscribe to movie services that are much more expensive to watch movies I’ve already seen. If playing these old games is important to me, that doesn’t seem too bad. $80 for Mario kart on the other hand… never.

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MolecularCactus1324 1 point a year ago

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samus12345 35 points a year ago

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The_Picard_Maneuver 15 points a year ago

I'm all 3 here.

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samus12345 6 points a year ago

Soon it will be Gamecube games as well. I guess Pooh will be just a little less old in the third panel.

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arkanoid 5 points a year ago

I love my original GameCube. Still have it hooked up to an old tube TV and there's a lot of nostalgia around putting the little mini-CD in and booting it up. But it's so much easier to fire up dolphin.

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samus12345 5 points a year ago

I got a Steam Deck recently and have been surprised at how well the 6th (GC, PS2, Xbox) and 7th (Wii, PS3, 360) generations can be emulated now compared to a few years ago. I hadn't messed with emulating systems past 5th gen (N64, PS1, Saturn) for many years. It's wild to me that I can smoothly emulate Dragon's Crown, a PS4 game I currently have on my PS5, on the Steam Deck if I want, although I chose the PS3 one for less power needed since they're pretty much identical. Even given it's a less demanding 2D game, emulating a PS4 is impressive.

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Noodle07 1 point a year ago

One day I'll play crystal chronicles in coop on my GameCube with my gameboy advanced so and it will be glorious

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aeronmelon 3 points a year ago

I’m 4.

I also have the Famicom mini.

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samus12345 2 points a year ago

Nah, that qualifies as panel 2. It's emulation.

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ouRKaoS 10 points a year ago

What necromancy must be cast for me to say I still have my woodgrain Atari 2600?

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applemao 3 points a year ago

2600 and 7800 here!

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samus12345 2 points a year ago

No love for the 5200, my first console. No idea what happened to mine, though.

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applemao 2 points a year ago

Always wanted one since the sound chip is so good, but limited games and I don't really need it when I have the 7800

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lime 3 points a year ago

i had an nes emulator on my ericsson phone in 2005. good times.

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termaxima 17 points a year ago

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makeshiftreaper 16 points a year ago

Is it bad if I'm all 3 of these?

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RightHandOfIkaros 26 points a year ago

Well yes, if you are paying Nintendo to rent games you already own physical copies of.

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wheeldawg 2 points a year ago

You would've been more correct to just stop after "paying Nintendo". Giving them money is bad, period.

Let them fade into obsolescence.

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termaxima 6 points a year ago

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samus12345 1 point a year ago

I’ll stay on Switch 1 and steam deck until there is a significant drop.

The Switch never went down in price after 8 years and neither did the games. I don't think that's happening until Nintendo makes a console that can't run Switch 2 games.

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wheeldawg -2 points a year ago

It is a really simple mod to make. Any modder could do it, most likely, using original controllers even- the only thing stopping it is Nintendo themselves and their copyright. Using a 2.4ghz connection would be much better than Bluetooth as well. That's something Nintendo would have to implement into the console most likely, although I can see that being doable.

Plus, their controllers are only really "good" for nostalgia reasons. They've been improved on in every way by others.

IMO they haven't done anything good for the industry at all lately. I'm not saying the other consoles have either, I think they're all shit. Mainly because of exclusives. Fuck that entire concept at it's very core.

Hardware exclusives, OS exclusives, etc are all bad.

Nintendo is going the extra shitty mile with the way they handle copyright in particular, but the entire console industry is corrupt.

If there is a machine with enough computing power to run a piece of software, it should be able to do it, period. That is the technological ideal that should be aimed at. Not the "how much can I charge for the ability to play this game" idea.

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RightHandOfIkaros 2 points a year ago

I agree with you, but I also recognize that saying that to someone that clearly enjoys Nintendo products would be incredibly mean. So while I also imagine what I said could be seen as mean, it is far less mean IMO than just blanket dropping the entire company.

Like, I used to love Nintendo. But when Iwata died and Fils-Aime left NoA, Nintendo changed for the absolute worst. I could not hate Nintendo more, actually. Still, I try to not be super mean to most people that like Nintendo products.

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wheeldawg 1 point a year ago

Not sure how that's mean.

If I said "you're a stupid idiot to give them money" then sure. Saying it's a bad idea isn't mean.

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samus12345 1 point a year ago

I feel the same way - I absolutely loathe current Nintendo's business practices, but I can't deny they make fantastic games. So if someone can afford their premium prices, more power to them. I'll be interested to see how Nintendo does this gen since they're pricing out the casual market that's made them successful in the past.

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NOT_RICK 3 points a year ago

Me too. I feel gross giving Nintendo money, but at least I split a family plan with a bunch of friends

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caseyweederman 1 point a year ago

And a JPN N64 to play import games without having to drill out the region lock blocks!

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ColeSloth 16 points a year ago

FU for old pooh. I still got my nes from 87

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SidewaysHighways 3 points a year ago

i hung on to every single console my family had growing up!

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vrighter 2 points a year ago

I have an atari 2600 my dad passed down to me. I also have all other playstations, a switch, a wii, a steam deck and a pc.

Nothing makes me smile more than that Atari (except for the zx spectrum, also given to me by dad)

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SidewaysHighways 1 point a year ago

that is excellent! good times with my pap and I playing Double dragon 3 on NES and gradius 3 on super nintendo!

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Blaster_M 11 points a year ago

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samus12345 2 points a year ago

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Windex007 11 points a year ago

I've got some cartridge from Ukraine with an SD slot in it. You can load the SD card with every ROM and then play them directly off an N64

This is great because for some reason emulators have problems with Dr. Mario but the N64 runs the ROM just fine

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Know_not_Scotty_does 10 points a year ago

Krikizz Everdrive! They are awesome on every system I have them for, snes, gbc, gba, and n64. They can be picky about the sd card you use but work flawlessly once you have the right one.

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Windex007 2 points a year ago

Yeah that's the one. Guess I was lucywith my SD card pick (can't remember, maybe got the card with the unit?) but it's been rock solid since I got it.

Nothing beats playing all the games on original hardware imo!

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SirDankbud 10 points a year ago

Can't confirm. Still have a working NES, SNES, and N64 from childhood. Not even 40 yet. My grey hair and wrinkles are still confined to my testicles for the time being.

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cRazi_man 9 points a year ago

For anyone who hasn't discovered it yet.....emulation is so great.

I got a little emulation console for £120 (Retroid Pocket 4 pro, see my post history) 2 months ago and haven't touched my Steam Deck or gaming PC since. Highly recommended.

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WatTyler 9 points a year ago

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The_Picard_Maneuver 4 points a year ago

Nobody knew any better at the time, lol

It was so much slower than fps games are now. Dual joysticks would have been overwhelming at the time when people were still getting used to 3D.

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Ultraviolet 1 point a year ago

Quake predates GoldenEye.

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Buddahriffic 3 points a year ago

I got good at it back in the day. Still found the controls awkward as hell, but that game (and later on its successor Perfect Dark) had hours and hours of gameplay because it was one of the best fps games of its time (that wasn't on PC where wasd and mouse was already a thing right from the Doom days).

Halo was revolutionary. One stick moved, the other rotated, plus grenades were always a button away (in GoldenEye, the rare times you had them, they were selected like any normal weapon, which limited their versatility. Proximity and remote mines were way better.)

Metroid Prime also had a really awkward control scheme on the GameCube.

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samus12345 2 points a year ago

There was no standard for how FPS games were played on a controller at the time. Dual sticks weren't even a thing yet. You learned the controls and it was fine. Nowadays it's awful with the default scheme, but you can actually get pretty modern controls by choosing the 1.2 Solitaire setting in the options and binding the left stick to the C buttons, the right stick to the analog stick, and rebinding the rest to whatever feels comfortable. This is even possible on the Switch using the controller remapping feature.

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Bubs12 2 points a year ago

My buddy still prefers the golden eye control scheme, now called “legacy”. I remember him emailing a developer because they didn’t offer legacy sticks as an option in their game. They had no idea what he was even talking about lol

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j4k3 9 points a year ago

🐻‍❄️ | Rented N64 from Blockbusters

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ILikeBoobies 6 points a year ago

It was so nice being able to rent games and never having to pay a subscription

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dual_sport_dork 8 points a year ago

Panel 3, that's me right there.

Yes, I have several working controllers. Including a couple of spares, unused, still sealed.

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PaintedSnail 3 points a year ago

Lucky. I have my PS3, and I'm having a horrible time finding decent replacement controllers. You can't use the new DualShocks, and compatible controllers you can buy are built so cheaply they don't work very well.

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paraphrand 6 points a year ago

Buy ~25 games new when they come out for the N64. Amortize that out over the next 25-30 years. Thus spending $50 a year playing N64 games.

Is this how accounting works?

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Goretantath 5 points a year ago

I forget which nintendo console it is, but emulating's actually MORE accurate than the console since some ceramic thing is degrading in it. I think its the NES but don't quote me on it. Was one of the reasons TAS verification was failing on actual hardware when it had previously passed.

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f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4 7 points a year ago

SNES. The sound chip slightly degrades, and since the CPU waits to sync with it, the overall timing of the system is affected.

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tacosanonymous 5 points a year ago

Rude.

I feel bad bc I acquired one a long time ago but my cartridge collection is weak.

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The_Picard_Maneuver 2 points a year ago

My collection isn't huge either. I still have my original from the 90s, but I haven't added much to my library since then.

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tacosanonymous 4 points a year ago

The prices are insane.

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i_dont_want_to 1 point a year ago

You can get a flash cart if you want to play a game you don't have a cartridge for on your console. Not particularly cheap, but far cheaper than buying them individually.

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guyoverthere123 4 points a year ago

what about those who use a flash cart, such as Everdrive?

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samus12345 1 point a year ago

Falls into the 3rd panel since you have the original console.

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Know_not_Scotty_does 4 points a year ago

The Analogue 3d will ship soon right? I'm worried I will end up with significantly (more) gray hairs before it does...

I will also take a minute to plug Krikizz and their Everdrives. I have the x6 for the snes, gbc, gba, and x7 for n64. They are an excellent piece of kit once you get a proper sd card. Slava Ukraini!

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SplashJackson 3 points a year ago

Yes but HDMI on N64 pls

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ragebutt 3 points a year ago

There are hdmi mods for basically all pre hdmi consoles including n64 but they tend to be fairly pricey

N64 has pixelfx retrogem which has 2 models for 100 and 190 dollars, the more expensive model has 4k and additional scalers, the cheaper model is 720p

N64advanced v2 is open source, 4k output, and pricing depends on the group buy you can get in, 150-250

Highspeedido is on AliExpress, 720p output, and is 40-50

There’s also a few that aren’t sold anymore that you can sometimes find on ebay for $$$

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wowwoweowza 3 points a year ago

Obligatory: $50

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Katana314 3 points a year ago

My current solution is checking Switch games out of the library.

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wheeldawg 3 points a year ago

Wait I've never been 2 pictures in the same meme of this type before

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ramenshaman 3 points a year ago

Hey come on now.

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ShinkanTrain 3 points a year ago

Just gonna leave these here

https://ares-emu.net/ https://github.com/...

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qbus 2 points a year ago

https://youtu.be/2ZMwdyuAv7o

If they refuse to sell them we'll just play them anyway

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MolecularCactus1324 2 points a year ago

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Taleya 1 point a year ago

I still play the snes i got for $20 because games world at chaddy were dumping all the stock from their trade-in offers for n64s

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Zink 2 points a year ago

My N64 stuff is laying around my house in random places because my oldest nephew (just became a teenager) absolutely loves retro hardware. So much fun.

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