I use a mix, but mostly the Xbox Series X controller, and the 8BitDo Ultimate.
tomkatt
joined 2 years ago
Nah, handhelds/portables are fine. Awesome way to play old games.
Don’t discount Ian Bell. He’s up there for sure.
What year is this? I’m getting a weird sense of deja view.
PC-Engine CD version, R-Type Complete.
IMO it’s better than the original arcade version. That soundtrack is amazing.
Cool shit, I had no idea there were all these ports of the original R-Type.
IMO R-Type Complete for PC-Engine CD is the absolute best version of this game available. Better than the arcade version even.
If you’re willing to take the time to copy everything off the card, reformat it, and copy back, you can reformat it to use 64k blocks and it should boot faster.
That made a big difference on my 128GB card and also fixed an odd bug I was having with GBA VC injects (top few lines of pixels were transposed to the bottom of the screen).
128 GB… and it’s mostly full, I think I’m using between 105 and 110 GB.
True, and it’s why I’m on the fence about GameCube. It’s kinda retro but kinda not. The weird controller and small disc sizes make it feel retro, but it has modern-ish dual stage triggers, and a PowerPC architecture with a modern GPU design, double precision floats, OOE compute.
Meanwhile the PS2 was still weird, included the PS1 chip, and mostly just had a massive fill rate to make up for its shortcomings.
Does Simcity 4 count as retro? It’s ridiculously good.
Also Doom, of course.
For me I’d say retro is Gen 6 and below, but specifically including the Dreamcast and PS2, but probably excluding the Xbox, and maybe GameCube.
The Xbox was the first console with internal storage built in and both the Xbox and GameCube used shader pipelining aka modern GPU architecture. Basically, I feel if shader compilation is a requirement for emulating it, I don’t consider it retro.
Isn't it a matter of player preference and spending power though?
I personally buy some 90% of my games on deep discounts (between 33% and 80% off) on sales in bulk, as I already have such a huge backlog it could be months before I get around to playing a game, I don't see the point in paying full price, but I'm also never in a rush to buy the latest, newest thing.