Once I went to a children’s birthday party and the place had this Arcade machine running emulators, I thought it was awesome. Then I went online and found HyperSpin and started building my own game wheels and stuff. I just wanted the controller and to plug the PC on a big TV and play, but all controllers I found to buy at the time had at best 10 buttons per player and it wasn’t nearly enough to properly emulate a lot of games - not to mention only one Joystick wouldn’t be enough to play a lot of games from Gen 6 and above (stuff that requires dual analog I’d rather play with a mouse on the computer than with a controller anyway), so I built that monstrosity.
So i had a dreamcast 20 some years ago, it was awesome but got destroyed in a flood. I would buy another one but I have way too mamy consoles already. I was messing with emulating and I tried looking everywhere for any dreamcast style controllers for use with pc, or adapters, and really didnt find anything, except maybe the blissbox? I like to at least have the right controller vs just playing everytbing with a ps2 controller..
I dont know all of them, but for example the earlier ones like Kirbys dream land 2; were they supposed to be ridiculously easy games? Like I do enjoy them just as a chill game to play. But im wondering what their purpose was. I maybe do recall reading they were made for younger kids. I just have always thought of Kirby as WAY overpowered and as such the games almost become blah.
A lot of retrocomputer enthusiasts have a favourite system, to the point of keeping up 40 year old flame wars over which system was “best”. In spite of the serious, boring nature of the PC/AT and its descendants, those early IBMs have a certain style that Compaq and the Clones never quite matched. Somehow, we live in a world where there are people nostalgic for Big Blue. That’s why [AnneBarela] built a miniature IBM PC using an Adafruit Fruit Jam board.
Video game library manager with support for wide range of 3rd party libraries and game emulation support, providing one unified interface for your games. - Release 10.48 · JosefNemec/Playnite
A game about building emulators! Implement your own NEEES core in JavaScript, get instant feedback with unit/video tests, build the graphics unit in real time, learn 6502 assembly, debug test ROMs, and have fun with the included homebrew games!
What retro consoles still have the most active game development? The most games still being released physically? The best and most popular time-tested consoles?
Remember all the personal sites in HTML people used to have on places like geocities or neocities? There’s a bit of an online movement to go back to that kind of site instead of everything being on some big centrally-owned website.
I’m planning on finally retiring my Logitech T-BB18 trackball. I’m getting a white M585, and putting a T-BB18 ball in it to make it look more like the T-BB13 I had in my teens. I’ve already tested this, it works. What would really set it off (other than seeing if I can dye the scroll wheel red) would be to get a nice little vinyl sticker of the old Logitech logo. But I can’t seem to find anything.
[Ronan] likes 35mm film photography, but the world, of course, has gone digital. He picked up an Epson FilmScan 200 for about €10. This wonder device from 1997 promised to convert 35mm film to digital at 1200 DPI resolution. But there was a catch: it connects via SCSI. Worse, the drivers were forever locked to Windows 95/98 and Mac System 7/8.
Last week’s post about early 2000s video game websites reminded me of this one. It has a few hallmarks of that era of gaming websites, like an image background and images for borders around the content. The markup is pretty retro, too: it uses a
Just got my first everdrive, figure ill never need these carts and at the outrageous prices they are going for, would you sell or hold onto them? I only have like 10 and only a couple are rarer ones.
This patch fixes a couple of issues with the update checker, a rare crash involving the rewind buffer, and comes with the usual set of graphics bug squashing. It also includes improvements from a new contributor, @mmkzer0, and a significant change to VDP1 rendering that fixes a long-standing issue with threaded rendering.
Flycast is a multiplatform Sega Dreamcast, Naomi, Naomi 2 and Atomiswave emulator - Release v2.6: Per pixel with OpenGL ES, Battle cable server · flyinghead/flycast
Most DAB radios I find¹ have text-only displays. Some even have no display at all and you must tune in blindly with arrow buttons. Apparently color graphical LCDs increase the cost of the radio enough to omit them from the design.
I found a neat Wikipedia page with a lot of old C64 box art, so I figured I’d post my favorites over here. I tried to find a variety of different styles. Sorry for the low resolution, I’m not sure where to find better versions.
Last year, researchers at the University of Utah found a copy of Unix lying around on a 9-track magnetic tape. It’s special because that version of Unix was lost until it was recovered from that magnetic tape 52 years later. The researchers managed to successfully reconstruct it, and then they made the copy public. Anyone can download it and run it inside a virtual machine. So I did just that, and it made me so giddy to use it.
Hello, let’s share your best indy games for these consoles
I don’t know which ones are the best to me but I’ve bought The shapeshifter recently and will soon have a look at a demake of Disco Elysium and the year after
I recently got the itch to play the Fable series again. So I dug out my 360 and got it running again. Since I originally had Fable 2 and 3 through Game Fly I picked up some used copies. When I tried to load Fable 2 it said the save was from a newer version of the game, despite buying the version that came with the DLC.
The Wii U console and gamepad communicate via 5 GHz 802.11n WiFi, but in order to deter other parties from simply hopping onto the access point, Nintendo slightly obfuscated this WiFi standard. Specifically the WPA authentication was modified by a byte swap in the PTK, rendering every existing WiFi stack incompatible with the Wii U.
I finally replaced my old SONY projector TV which had perfect connections for all my old and new consoles. HDMI, component and composite. Since no new TV’s come with composite connections, we are all left to either buy a converter, mod our consoles for HDMI, or buy an older TV. Most of these options aren’t cheap or easy.
Found out why my n64 was making weird buzzing/grinding sounds when it has no fan. Turns out the psu was about to go bad! I was also having random game freezes that were caused by this after long play times.
I have a cart of Star Control that refuses to read. Ive cleaned multiple times. It does sound like something small is loose inside the cart which I find weird. Going to take it apart to see.
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