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If you want classic PC and computer stuff you'll be hard pressed to beat Lazy Game Reviews.
Been subbed to that forever and it is really great stuff. Highly recommended.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeckoYamori
I agree! No Super Nintendo fanboy YouTube reviewer here folks! :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Obviously
Eh, I understand why Joe doesn't bother with PC gaming. There are only so many hours in the day, and after a certain point it helps to eliminate things (even good stuff) from your field of action. I regularly read PC-centric sites like CRPG Addict, and certainly know there are tons of great PC games from my favorite era(s) of gaming, but I personally find it easier and less overwhelming to just focus on the libraries of the consoles I play regularly and the handful of 1980s computers I actually own.
And yeah, I'm a Mac guy and grew up with Macs (though I didn't own one until 1999), so PCs have no real sentimental attachment to me outside a few shareware games and BBS door games.
Joe doesn't like PC gaming? His loss.
For PCs, you just need DOSBox. I can play lots of classic games on my 11+ year old XP computer, with the exception of the advanced 3D games due to the processing power demand (I've only got a Pentium IV at 3 GHz with Hyper Threading). If you've got a more recent dual or quad core PC, you're golden for just about anything DOS related as long as DOSBox can run it. And if it can't, there's always installing Windows 95 or 98 into a partition on your PC to handle those games (along with earlier Windows 95/98-only games).Quote:
Originally Posted by DSwizzy145
For me, shutting out the PC gaming world just isn't going to happen. I missed out on so many classic PC games because I didn't get a PC until the early 2000s. And even then, it was a Windows ME system, which had dodgy DOS support at best thanks to it's DOS shell-only aspect (it didn't have a true DOS environment in it). But now, with a better system and DOSBox, getting to play the original games I missed out on is too good a thing to walk away from. Console ports are nice, but the original games are what I want to get to experience in all their 320x200 glory :)Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenband
There are very few good console ports of DOS games, especially simulators. MechWarrior 2 on the PS1 comes to mind. Simply horrendous.
@TheCoop True, cuz appearently my Windows XP computer could run DOS games very great from time to time though frequently i use my Nintendo Wii for DOS gaming and runs pretty great surprisingly (Why can't Joe use his Nintendo Wii for playing PC games off from that since he caters to consoles so much?) I'll send him my setup if he can't do it himself as mines has a GUI menu that's easy to navigate plus i do have a "FEW" Shoot 'em ups on my library that he'll likely enjoy hopefully.
Though my collection of games consist of Korean & Taiwanese (chinese) games mostly which no one doesn't know of.
Generally, I'd rather buy a flashcart than a repro, though I don't own any of either, yet anyway. At least with a flashcart, you aren't paying someone for something illegal, there isn't uncompensated translations being put on the cart, etc.
The major exception to this would be if a game can't run on a flashcart. I doubt that Star Fox 2 could work on a SNES flashcart since it uses the Super FX 2 chip, for instance... that probably has to be a repro, yes?
And yeah, he's definitely missing a lot by not playing PC games, but oh well...
To each his own but, if anything, having a barely decent background in PC games helps you to have a much wider perspective when talking about console games of the same era.Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenband
And it's not really all that hard anymore to have access to a major share of the good PC stuff from the past.
I have also discovered that some recently produced low-end/mid-end laptops are still fully compatible with Windows XP, which makes it a far less clumsy option for retro PC gaming than a rather old desktop rig or a clusterfuck of VMs in the more recent windows renditions.
I know that Windows XP is not fully compatible with all old Windows 95/98 games but I have found workarounds for most of the ones I wanted to play and without having to suffer with the major performance loss that you'll usually have when using the newer Windows versions.
It's also a great platform for emulators in general; I was playing Model 2 Daytona USA the other day at 1600 x 900, using native 16:9 mode and at solid 60 fps in a laptop with onboard Intel graphics. The said laptop also has VGA output instead of HDMI which makes it perfect for the use of older CRT monitors.
And, after all, it's a laptop so I can carry it to wherever I want to.
Everyone needs some kind of filter though, otherwise every gamer would feel the need to play everything. It's fair enough to not 'like' PC or Atari stuff.
I understand that this goes against my last post, but I'm not too fussed!
Star Fox 2 definitely requires a repro from a donor cart with the necessary Super FX chip.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Black Falcon
Fair points all, and I'll take them under advisement. It'd help if my old Windows XP rig (actually my wife's old computer) hadn't had what I assume is a hard drive crash. :D I tried to get a few older CDROM games to run on the machine, e.g. Torin's Passage, but they were all screwed up in various ways...Quote:
Originally Posted by Barone
Yep, as well as the Powerslide prototype though I think that one's barely playable. There are also a few translations that can only work on repro, like Star Ocean (though that might work on SD2SNES). Star Fox 2 and Star Ocean are the only SNES repros I own, for exactly that reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gentlegamer
I don't know the current status of the Far East of Eden Zero or Daikaijuu Monogatari 2 translations that were in progress, but they both use enhancement chips. Unless the chips are somehow hacked out, you'd probably need a repro to play them on real hardware. (EDIT: Or the SD2SNES, which already supports the S-RTC for DM2, and has FEoEz's SPC7110 as a "to-do".)
Same with Marvelous: Another Treasure Island (Marvelous: Mouhitotsu no Takarajima), which is also in progress and seems active. Since that uses the SA-1, which the SD2SNES will probably never support, it's unlikely to be playable on flash cart anytime soon.
Fortunately, fewer than 40 Japanese exclusives use enhancement chips -- and besides the games I mention above, there's not much that would merit a repro. Take away DSP-1 games (those are supported by SD2SNES and can be soldered onto the Super EverDrive) and shogi games, and you're down to 21.
Weed out obvious shovelware, sports games, and stuff that's playable without Japanese skills like Super Bomberman: Panic Bomber World, and there's really not much left.
That's why I love my SD2SNES, it plays almost everything worth while.
Star Ocean works just fine on my SNES Power Pack. You just have to apply a patch, know as a "ROMaround" first. I believe what the patch does is decompress the data in advance, giving you a larger ROM to load onto the cart. The chip on the cart performed on-the-fly data decompression IIRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by goldenband