We miss you
from The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 15:16
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from The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 28 Dec 15:16
https://lemmy.world/post/23636377
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Luckily those things aren’t dead, you can still play them!
Those companies do everything they can to make it as hard as legally possible.
Konami and Nintendo? Yeah I agree they’re too litigious. Still, it’s trivially easy to emulate though.
There’s a pretty thriving retro scene… you can buy any of the consoles listed here fairly easily.
You can even get better and new alternative retro consoles. As in consoles with HDMI out and upscalers that will run old games.
Which is better for 8- and 16-bit games, HDMI out with an upscaler, or analog video out with a real CRT?
That is entirely subjective but I would say some still prefer CRT and Analog video, which these retro consoles also provide. There are also some benefits for it like no lag and better graphics due to the natural blurring of the CRT but at the cost of space and screen size. CRTs are bulky.
Off I go doing a crime again
But… anime-girl buried them, so they’re kinda hard to access.
That’s lain you heathen
Why did Lain bury all the Atari 2600 games, tho?
They stole all of her Reese’s Pieces.
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I’m playing through Jade Cocoon right now. These games aren’t dead.
That game was so cool! So many wild combinations of monsters to make, such a neat setting
Shit, I still have a working Genesis.
Same!
I think I have three of the damn things.
They just keep popping up like mushrooms. Same thing with Gamecubes.
I’ve had a hard time finding cheap working GameCubes.
Me too. I like to play Xmen 2: Clone Wars and Bubsy on it. I’ve been thinking of getting an 8bitdo for it so I can play it wireless with my PS4 controllers.
I hear emudeck for the Steam Deck is amazing too, but I never got around to installing it.
The 8bitdo wireless Genesis controller is pretty good and faithful to the original.
Gave me nostalgia whiplash, there.
For me, X-men 2 was harder.
But Bubsy is just memorizing the layout or gambling. The game dares you to go fast like Sonic, but there are pitfalls every 2 seconds or you’ll be going down into an unknown area that could either be fine or it could kill you, and there’s no way of knowing beforehand.
Huh. That perspective could help. I always thought I was just terrible at Bubsy. Which I guess I was. But keeping that in mind might help a lot.
You got classic video games buried in dirt and forgot about Atari? There are more copies of ET in the ground than anything else. Lol
Are there still? Did they leave most of em? I thought a bunch got sold off to patrons of that dig attempt.
Oh shit! You’re right! I never read about that.
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We still talk about how many of your cartridges got buried in a landfill.
“You’re all together on one piece of plastic smaller than a thumb!”
Last year I bought an original 8 bit Nintendo system with Super Mario and Tetris … two games I grew up playing for hours and hours. I hadn’t played them in years and I thought I should buy one just to have on hand because they’ll probably disappear and become unavailable in the next decade or two (assuming I’ll live that long … lol)
I bring it out once in a while just to play it and get frustrated as I try to remember where, when and how to run and jump through level 8
My OG NES is quite possibly my most played out of all my retro consoles. It’s currently loaded with Duck Tales, for meme purposes.
Mine also has an emerald green power light (because I can), the lockout chip is clipped, and I modified the cartridge connector so you don’t have to press the carts down to play them anymore (because that blows people’s minds).
My eight year old self back in the 80s would have seen you as a god among men. I would have been happy to just watch you play on that console.
Here is the current spread. Not everything I have, just what’s hooked up at the moment. Never mind the crap lighting in here.
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The machine in question.
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Wow … what a setup … it’s something I’ve dreamed of building myself but I have far too many other projects on the go and my own collections I have to maintain … my other passion is motorcycles and I have five of them on the go and need constant maintenance, parts, service and repairs … not to mention a bunch of other work I have to do to make a living and work on my own house and garage.
I envy you and wish I could just sit down to have a break with an NES, switch to an Xbox, then a Sega Genesis and on and on … I love all those old units as they remind me of being a kid and being around all my old friends and younger times. I’m taking out my NES tonight just to make myself feel better … lol
Thanks for the images … I’m actually very happy for you … nice one!
…I have seven.
Are you sure you’re not me?
lol … that’s amazing … I store all my old bikes in a cramped little shed and garage with not enough room … I sometimes wonder why I have all these bikes but I love them. I’m sure you feel the same about your stable.
Love that KLR 650 … a friend of mine has one and is really enjoying it. Neat to have that scooter mixed in with those offroads. What’s the Suzuki? Beautiful Yamaha at the start. What are the two cruisers at the end? Nice Yamaha dualsport too! Wow what a collection! I really like the variety and types of bikes you keep. You must really love riding.
Mine are:
Here is my main ride - 1998 BMW K1200RS - a beast of a machine but I seldom get her going fast because she is 26 years old and although I have faith in her, I don’t have enough faith to test to see how well the parts will hold out. When everything is tuned, she cruises without effort at 120 km/h and I’ve brought her up to over 240 a few times but scared myself so badly that I won’t do that often. The bike is rock solid at speed, it feels like the faster it goes, the more stable it becomes, its amazing … but she’s showing her age and I have to take everything apart to service her again in the spring.
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Damn, you’ve got some fine tastes!
The little Suzuki is an RV200 Vanvan. It has a rear tire on the front and an ATV tire on the rear… actually the same tire sizes as the TW200 and similar displacement and power (a widowmaking ~13 HP) but it’s lower, less dorky looking, and fuel injected rather than carbed.
A while back a friend of mine offered me custodianship of a CB750 Four from the late '70’s, but I declined owing to already having a small mountain of bikes and I was not relishing the thought of owning something with four inline carbs. I un-mothballed the thing for him after it had not run since 1997 so he could sell it, and taking it apart once was enough for me. I got the bastard starting on the first kick, though. I don’t know where it went after he wound up selling it to a local dealership.
At the moment I have:
The Sportster on the end of that lineup is my neighbor’s, he stores it in my garage over the winter.
I knew that Yamaha was familiar. One of my friends who is an old time Yamaha / Honda employee and is retired had one. His son became a great motorcycle mechanic and when he was a teenager in the early 2000s, he used to ride his father’s FZ6 all the time. I’d go visit them and find his name written with melted tire rubber on the pavement on the backroads leading to their house. He did that for a summer before he realized it was easy to pin stuff like that on him if the neighbours started to complain to the police … lol.
I also thought that was a Shadow … when I bought my Vulcan two years ago, the guy I bought it from was also selling a Shadow and it was a toss up for me between the Vulcan and Shadow … only reason I took the Vulcan was that he had tried to customize the Shadow so much that he wanted it to look like a Harley complete with the logo (I’m not a big Harley guy but I do know that other die-hard Harley riders don’t like it when people do that to their bikes)
Really curious about the Orion and Raven … aren’t those Chinese or Asian bikes? … I’m not against them because I think of them as being the same quality as what bikes would have been 20/30 years ago. I also suspect that they are probably just copies of 20/30 year old Honda and Yamaha technology … which means that they are probably pretty good.
Love that Suzuki Vanvan … looks like a classic old bike (which I love) but with those big fat tires, you could take it anywhere. A weird bike for sure because it looks like some sort of weird trials bike
And the Harley Sportster is probably the only Harley I would ever buy. I love the look of Harleys, I would just never buy them. I had an old motorcycle mechanic who owned several Harleys and his first piece of advice was to tell me - never buy a Harley, as they are a mechanics nightmare. They’re good if you can work on them yourself but a pain and expensive if you ask someone else to do the work. The Sportster is one of the least problematic of the Harleys.
Wow … what a line up … thanks for sharing … ride safe and good luck to you out there … the roads are a lot more dangerous now than they were 20 years ago, just from the shear number of vehicles out there the problems are just multiplied, so it puts all us riders in danger everywhere. But whatever happens, as long as you got an engine and two tires under you, you’re doing good.
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Yes.
The Bashan is more or less a Chinese clone of the Honda Bros 125, which is a small displacement light duty dual sport that is sold in developing nations and in this case specifically mostly in South America. It is mechanically identical to the extremely popular “Hawk” 250 bikes and their myriad clones (TBR sells one just like it, X-Pro sells one just like it, etc., etc.) The difference is that the Bashan is EPA certified to be truly 49 state road legal (all but CA) as a roadgoing motorcycle whereas the others are technically “off highway use only” and difficult to plate if you don’t live in a state that will plate dirt bikes at the drop of a hat.
It has the very common Chinese “CG” 229 engine in it, which is a clone of the Honda CG125 pushrod engine, but with the jug and head upscaled to 229cc. The Chinese call it “250” cc because their measurement methodology apparently consistently includes the volume inside the head. Whether or not they do this on purpose to have an excuse to lie about their numbers (you know, from the Country That Fakes Literally Everything) is possibly a topic for debate. From the factory this bike makes an asphalt-peeling 14 horsepower, and we’ve got it riced out to the point that it makes maybe… 16? On a good day, with a following wind. I bought this for my nephew to learn to ride, and he uses it to tag along with me on dual sport camping trips and so on. He loads it up with even more crap that I strap to my KLR and the little thing complete with its noodly suspension and tiny weedy motor handles all of it without complaint – provided you don’t ask it to go faster than about 55, or maintain a brisk pace going up any steep hills.
The Orion has a Zongshen manufactured genuinely 249cc overhead cam engine in it that is a complete clone of the Honda CB250F engine. “Orion” is a private label rebranding of this, and these bikes are actually manufactured by Nicot Motorcycle, at least per the origin paperwork that came in the crate. The frame is very KTM inspired, and the suspension at least is compatible with EXC250F parts. This one cranks out around 22 horsepower while managing to weigh very little (about 275 lbs), but has a fuel tank the size of a thimble and the seat is awful.
I keep thinking about selling the Orion and picking up one of the new “Paladin” 300’s, which are total clones of the Kawasaki KLX300 to replace it. I actually bought the Orion during the height of Covid when the KLX was unobtainium.
”RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!”
—Altered Beast (Sega Genesis)
You didn’t need the attribution line. With just your quote we all heard it in our heads.
POWER UP!
AH AH AH AH!
Is that Lain?
I can hear that Ocarina of Time screenshot.
🎹🎶
OWOOOOOOooo
Same — everyone has so many memories of that game. For me, it reminds me of playing games with my brother, he would read the prima strategy guide and help me get through the dungeons. My father bought ocarina of time for us both for Christmas. We got drawn in to the magic of that game for several months after.
Does PS3 count?
Only if you want to make me feel old
These all recently reached the point of having released closer to the PS3 launch than to today:
Rainbow Six Siege, Just Cause 3, Star Wars: Battlefront (2015 version), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Black Ops III, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Broforce, Yoshi’s Wooly World, Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection, Concrete Jungle, Soma, Super Mario Maker, Tearaway (PS4 version), MGSV Phantom Pain, Armello, Goat Simulator (PS4 version).
Just to cherrypick a few.
GTA V released even longer ago than that.
Love MGS1, but Yell Dead Cell is one of the best boss themes of all time.
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Monty on the run, can you hear the screenshot?
My blood pressure goes up just looking at the Space Taxi loading screen. Space Taxi is why I don’t have any patience left to try Dark Souls.
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Yeah nintendo still sues communities trying to port oot to a more modern engine xD.
Amiga I still love you
A surveillance camera?!
A HIND-D?
Mega Drive is still getting good mileage here. Recently played MSG on a ps emulator. I have the discs and a PSX but played it on my odroid go ultra. Got stuck figuring out how to change the discs virtually so that’s how far I got in the game.
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I don’t know what you’re talking about, I play three of these systems regularly.
Many people still play OoT, especially with mods.
I know I can emulate, but there are times when I wish I still had my old Playstation. I left mine behind when I had to make a sudden break from an ex of mine about 20ish years ago. Somehow I ended up with a controller and the mouse, but I have no idea how they got separated from the system itself and ended up in my possession.
Hold up, the playstation had a mouse?
Yes, but not many games used it or supported it. I think mine came with the game Discworld or perhaps I bought it separately for that game, I don’t recall.
Gdamn, had a recent talk about it…my sister remembers! It’s so good when you do have someone to play it with as a child…
Old video game nostalgia can be easily cured by trying to actually play them today. A lot of them have aged…poorly.
There are a few rare gems, but gameplay design has evolved a lot. It’s worse than watching comedies from the 50s.
My first Zelda was BOTW so I decided I would play Ocarina of Time and Majora’s mask. Man, the amount of aimlessly walking around and boring empty fields gets old very fast. Puzzles are either trivially obvious, impossibly obscure or super hard.
I’ve actually found the cure to my old video game nostalgia is watching old lets-plays. Usually I can skip a whole bunch of the creators video and get that nostalgia bug outta my system in a few hours without spending any money.
I started the pixel remaster of ff6 and I’m surprised how well it holds up
I first played FF6 when it was already retro(I was a Sega kid) and it bacame my favorite FF, even higher than 7 which holds huge nostalgic memories to me
This picture is way too sinister, unrelated to this being a meme
Every time i see it i have tears coming
I know, I started seeing it a lot after losing my cat recently, and it stings a bit. =(
I got a Miyoo Mini very recently and have been playing a lot of games since. I can’t put the thing down for long at all!
I still rock my Genesis. 😎 I brought it to Europe with me.
So…go play them? yikes …
So…you go play them too? Yikes …
So… 4 player Mario kart then at my house? Yikes…
We did a run of Secret of Evermore with the 2 player mod this december, was super fun. I love rpg’s from that era.
I keep their memories close by, in several hard drives, and frequently play them over my network…