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Facebones, do gaming w Someone has to keep the retro spark alive

Literally what happened to me. I have a modded switch but still bought games for it, when they shut down yuzu I packed the switch up and play exclusively on PC now.

_____, do gaming w Wouldn't have it any other way

Your machine serves you, not the other way around.

However there is such a thing as budgeting and spending money wisely.

I have a high end machine and I also have emulated GBA games on it. (I also play modern titles)

I do know someone who has a high end osrs machine, not wise spending.

gamermanh,

I emulate GBA games on my beast of a gaming PC if I’m home because that’s the most comfy setup

If I leave, I used to use my hacked PSP and manually synch the files, then it was my hacked Vita and a program that synched them automatically, and now I use retroafch and my steam deck so my files are synched automatically without even having to think about it

Everyone I know who’s just playing emulators is doing so on their phones these days anyway

_____,

I used to use my hacked PSP as well but now instead I RDP if I’m casually gaming. And if I can’t RDP I just take it as a break from gaming.

ByteOnBikes,

Steam Deck absolutely changed my habits. I played more Elden Ring on it than I have my high end gaming PC. It’s just more convenient to turn on a play. Where lately, my gaming PC distracts me with emails, YouTube, random kinks like it can’t see my controller.

I don’t think Ill ever buy a gaming PC anymore and might fully switch to buying Steam Decks every few years.

SteveFromMySpace, do gaming w Someone has to keep the retro spark alive

I have pretty much the entire N64 library on a cartridge that plays on my N64, an SD card in my Wii, and my computer. Obviously these are all legitimate backups from games I own.

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NocturnalMorning,

Obviously these are all legitimate backups from games I own.

Doing the lords work

PopOfAfrica, (edited )

My rule is that if they don’t sell the game for the original system anymore, then it’s not stealing.

Stealing from who. The used market?

Transporter_Room_3,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Which they and every other gaming company have tried to kill at one point or another, and I fully expect them to try again next Gen. They probably hope that the people who pay attention and care are getting older and won’t make as much of a fuss as we did with the last three generations.

PopOfAfrica,

Thankfully hacking systems has never been easier. I’m literally downloading games on a fan Eshop for my Wii U as we speak.

Serves them right for closing it all down

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not easy having to pay to keep a warehouse with every arcade cabinet, game cartridge, and game disk ever made, but we can’t be violating copyright, now can we? Think of the corporations!

Transporter_Room_3,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

Barring me from getting old games in a modern platform will not stop me from playing old games on a modern platform.

The sooner they realize that and plan accordingly by releasing their old catalogs for appropriate pricing, the sooner they will get what they want and piracy and emulation will plummet.

When people have a cheap and easy way of doing something without wondering if they’re about to get SWATed, they’re way more likely to actually do that.

RightHandOfIkaros, (edited )

I’m sure you meant it as hyperbole, but SWAT will not actually show up to anyone’s home just for pirating video games. At most, a handful of local police or FBI may knock on your door, but SWAT are not called in for something like that. Not unless you have some history with the police of extreme violence or you have given them reason to suspect you are going to put up a fight.

A person is most likely to recieve a letter in the mail or an email from the lawyers of Nintendo before police are invovled.

CodexArcanum, do gaming w Wouldn't have it any other way

His daughter is the SteamDeck, only loaded with indie games and more emulators.

teft,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

I thought his daughter was a sega Jyn-esis?

ininewcrow,
@ininewcrow@lemmy.ca avatar

Does this mean that she’ll end up dying in an atomic explosion?

Aggravationstation,
son_named_bort,

I emulate on the SteamDeck more than I ever have on any PC. It’s such an easy emulation machine.

x4740N, do gaming w Wouldn't have it any other way

I used to play the free online version of that on friv games in primary school

jerkface, do gaming w Someone has to keep the retro spark alive
@jerkface@lemmy.ca avatar

Nintendo ruined the 8-bit computer game culture and I will never forgive them.

cosmack,

How so?

theangryseal,

I second this question.

Kolanaki, do gaming w Wouldn't have it any other way
!deleted6508 avatar

I want a way for my shitty, old computer to emulate a new, kick-ass computer.

“Never upgrade your PC again with this one weird trick!”

swab148,
@swab148@lemm.ee avatar

Streaming maybe?

variants,

cloud is the future, I got steam-headless on my server and stream games on my phone during lunch breaks. With things like that xbox subscription being more common I think thats how it will go. you just pay a subscription and stream everything

sus,

the future of 50-100 extra milliseconds of input lag

Lepsea,

You should try downloading RAM and SSD, after that you will have enough space for the VGA. My brazilian friend sent me this russian link to where i can download it

model_tar_gz,

Then download a NVIDIA 4090Ti and a 4K x 144Hz screen.

newegg hates this one simple trick.

Tixanou,

Look just hear me out. All you have to do is compress all your RAM into a .zip file, which is inside your RAM. After that, you can fit more stuff in your RAM. Then you can compress that again and again and again…

And you now have infinite RAM!

grrgyle,

Pretend you’re in the 90s?

taiyang, do gaming w Wouldn't have it any other way

My guilty pleasure: 4k TV, 4080 gpu, and I’m playing mother fuckin’ Super Smash Bros Melee.

pivot_root,

Time to add some raytracing?

tigeruppercut,

Did someone say ray tracing?

youtu.be/U4vrlTG-b_A

grrgyle,

Please! I can only replay doom so many times in one year!

jjjalljs, do gaming w Someone has to keep the retro spark alive

If they sold emulators on steam or gog I would probably pay a reasonable amount for them. But they don’t, so I pay nothing.

Lifter,

Nintendo Switch has a bunch of emulators. You need a premium subscription though.

Lifter,

And a Switch, of course…

jjjalljs,

I don’t want to play on a switch though. If I play on my computer, that’s a platform that’s going to be around for ages. And had no subscription fees.

RightHandOfIkaros,

IMO, a subscription service is almost worse than not selling them at all.

Either I buy them individually for a reasonable one time fee, or I don’t and get them for free.

mihnt, do gaming w Someone has to keep the retro spark alive

Yeah, I’m kinda pissed about this stuff. I watched Noodle’s video about the motorstorm series and come to find out I have to spend a bunch to get the original hardware or just not play it because I can’t find any ROMs online anywhere.

wizardbeard,

What? Search nointro on archive.org for collections of cartridge games. Search redump there for disc based.

Anything not on archive (usually newer releases, or disc based games from PS2 or later), try some of the resources from the wiki/megathread on db0.lemmy.com’s piracy community.

mihnt,

“no results found” when searching for motorstorm.

The 2 lists I pulled up didn’t even have PS2/3 on there.

I’ve given up searching for it anyways.

samus12345, do gaming w Someone has to keep the retro spark alive
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

This is what I did, although I went a step further than emulating. I’d always been planning on hacking my Switch once the next one came out, but when Nintendo went after Yuzu, I said fuck 'em and hacked it then and there. They won’t be getting any more sales from me this gen.

RayOfSunlight, do gaming w Someone has to keep the retro spark alive

I will emulate even their wives

(I’m kidding with the last part)

Pirky, do gaming w Someone has to keep the retro spark alive
@Pirky@lemmy.world avatar

I recently jailbroke my Wii and ripped all my current games, so this is surprisingly relatable to me right now.
I also got a low firmware PS4 to jailbreak so I can rip those in preparation for ShadPS4, an up and coming PS4 emulator. Bloodborne is running on it now, though it’s still far from playable.

cosmicrookie, do games w New Starfield free update added a ground vehicle
@cosmicrookie@lemmy.world avatar

Is this a meme or are people still playing starfield?

ICastFist,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Right now, it’s sitting at on steam charts. It’s still averaging some 6-7k players with peaks of 10k, so yes, people are playing. Less than half of what Skyrim is pulling and roughly half of what FO4 was pulling before the show premiered.

overload, do games w Day 37 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Jedi Fallen Order)

I don’t have anything particular to add but I just wanted to say that I like this content.

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