zeppelin03

Everyone has their niche. Though it must be a while between pickups.

These type of releases get me excited for the controllers that come out for other uses. I could really use some sort of arcade stick for MiSTer. This looks perfect for those that love arcade1up. Lots of games too. It is too fighter heavy for me though. I would have liked to see other titles like Bust A Move and Windjammers. Glad to see a riser as well.

I'm playing Wind Waker HD and might be putting it down for a while. I loved the game the first time around but not this time. The ocean travel among other things just feels tedious. Really hope I don't feel this way when I return to it in a couple years.

That brings it down to $9.99 for one month. That's a bit more tempting knowing I would probably drop off after that.

I'm interested in this but can't see me getting $20 worth out of it. Does this seem like a game that will be around a while?

We had an S-Video cable for a CRT, moved to HDRetrovision on a CRT, and finally UltraHDMI on a flat panel. I am very happy with the UltraHDMI on my living room TV. There were enough options for scaling and smoothing to get an effect I am happy with. Scanlines weren't too bad either. No MiSTer quality but good enough. I gladly moved on and stopped using the RGB modded console, CRT, and OSSC. The question is if the cost is worth the smaller quality bump and convenience of HDMI.

Without the internet I wasn't hearing too many peoples experiences with Nintendo products back then. If we had forums and social media I bet we would have heard about a lot more faulty product.

Frame time is important for sure. Consistency will make a game feel much better than stutters and hitches. I'm all for stable 30. Hopefully next gen can do that for 60. Sekiro and some other newer titles are straining the consoles now. Developers will probably push graphics hard though and we will stick with 30.

The smoothness of higher FPS really does make a difference. Games just feel more responsive. I can live with 30 when there is no option but would always accept more. I'm hoping next gen devs keep using checkboard rendering and other tricks to reduce the need for true 4k. Put those savings towards 60fps.

The PC gaming attitude and PCMR memes are quite a bit different in my experience.

Logicalincrements.com is a site I've used for parts lists. They make recommendations at pricepoints every $50 or so. Great resource if you aren't sure what goes together. Sure there are some optimizations that could happen but it's very serviceable. People's interest in these GOG games could probably be covered by the AMD APUs that came out the last year or two. Those are some cheap parts too. The cost of a console to open up the whole of PC gaming isn't a bad proposition. Throw in a graphics card down the road and you can play most anything.

Does your system boot into Big Picture Mode? I've considered trying it so I can set my PC to 4k 100% scale and still be able to read stuff on the couch.

I like my fancy gaming PC. The games look better and tend to run at higher frame rates. I get to mod a number of my favorite titles and get more life out of them. The games I buy follow me along each upgrade instead of being stuck on an old console. The games I buy during sales almost always come out cheaper than their console counterparts. Cheap enough that I don't mind that I cannot resell them. A physical copy of Hotline Miami for $35-40 shipped doesn't make sense to me when I can buy both on sale for $6 total. I just plug the PC into my TV and use an Xbox One controller. Works about as smoothly as a console does. The real downside is cost, but you could build nice PCs for far less than $2000. I like that my consoles just work. If I want pickup and play I go for my Switch. If I want to play the next AAA game and have it look great I go to my PC. My PS4 Pro and Xbox One X are the forgotten consoles. They don't do either end as well as the Switch or PC.

VVVVVV. I played it years ago on 3Ds and rebought it on steam. Definitely worth the $1.50 or so on sale. Cheap and enjoyable platformer with great music.

I do think the impact of piracy gets overstated. Some websites I use for guides on console mods have people who openly mock companies and state they will pirate new release content. I disagree with that choice and also figure that is a very small percentage of people who do that. Most people are more than willing to pick up Animal Crossing on Switch. Sales show it. Many of us early adopters have vulnerable consoles that could be hacked for piracy. We just buy the game for convenience and supporting the dev. Piracy of modern content and often abandoned IP are two very different things like you say.

I'm on the other side of this. So much of gaming history is locked away on old consoles. For the average person to experience a game they would need to buy the console, game, and mods or an old TV. That is an expensive enough proposition. Not to mention that prices continue to increase. Personally I wouldn't expect someone to drop big money just for a bit of nostalgia. If someone owns a Switch get the online service to play SMB. Otherwise use whatever method you need. Use MAME to show your kid Bust a Move instead of restoring an old MVS cab. To me it starts to seem like gatekeeping when people advocate against piracy for old games. Not everyone can drop the cash or prioritize this hobby over other things. I agree on that timeline. Once the original provider of games stops servicing the public other means are fair game. Wii Ware is dead as far as legitimate sales go. Do we ignore its existence or get those games through other means? I say do what you have to do.

We have a set of the US and Japanese Splatoon Joycons. Not willing to let those ones go either. They will get many replacements throughout their lifetime. I plan to stock up on extras sticks while replacement parts are cheap. Good the RMA process is going smoothly so far.

We bought them when they came out for a trip to Japan not long after. I was not happy to have a brand new console already have drift. Thankfully it returned to me under estimate but that was after a number of phonecalls. After that experience I have little confidence in the lite's long term viability. I've considered selling mine on a number of occasions since it just doesn't get used.

They should have resumed the repair service. I'm planning to just buy the replacement sticks and do it myself. When my switch lite was sent in I ended up waiting around a month.

For sure. Most consoles emulate really well. Even the Wii U has some good options. If emulation was going to cut collecting that would have happened long ago. Especially over the last few years with FPGA jailbroken systems and the MiSTer. I never really got calling out systems like the N64 or Wii for shovelware. Maybe it's just me but most system's game quality drops quite a bit after the top 10% of games. I'm including NES/SNES in that.

How are you liking that long term rewatch? As someone who hasn't really followed wrestling since the 90s it sounds like a cool way to go through the history.

Mario's Tennis, Warioland, Nester's Funky Bowling, and Galactic Pinball are some of my favorites. Great games.

Most of the great stuff from last gen has been ported to the current consoles. Wii U isn't the only one facing that fate. I was comfortable selling the PS3 and 360. They just feel like a waste of space when only a few games are stuck back there for me. It is awesome. Best I've played since the original Black Ops.

They had some great games but it was slow going. It felt like the Wii U got games over a year and a half then done. It was a tough sell at it's price point too. If I remember correctly it was $300 when you could get a PS4 on sale for not much more. This wasn't Nintendo purposely squandering years of goodwill with a beta console. Just a series of misteps that cost them a generation of sales. Thankfully the stuff we did get was good and the 3DS had great output too.

Those silver labelled Atari carts really look cool.