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Kega Fusion

Inviere

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

Kega Fusion

Is it a release aimed at development or something? What does the nfo file say when you open it

The NFO is only greetings and bbs numbers, no technical info. Don't think it's aimed at development. In the pack theres 640 roms from various groups and the vast majority of them are in this format, very puzzling.

CiDeRmAn

Careful now lads, while there's no links this is skating a tad close to rom talk rather than emulator talk, keep the rules in mind

Tom Mann Centuria

Addicted to Banjo Guy Ollie's version of Lemmings level 6. What a tune, what a version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgE9jlTzsxU

Inviere

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Careful now lads, while there's no links this is skating a tad close to rom talk rather than emulator talk, keep the rules in mind

No issue with the rules Cidey, but can you elaborate on where the issue is? https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055036214

rubadub

this was in the lifehacking forum

New Home wrote: »

Doge

Anyone watch Upgrade yet?
Even though it's a similar concept to RoboCop it's pretty unique in its delivery. Slow to start but picks up and interesting ending. Worth a watch.

CiDeRmAn

Inviere wrote: »

No issue with the rules Cidey, but can you elaborate on where the issue is? https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055036214

As I said I my post I am not saying this is a rule beach but it is skirting up close.
That's all.

Jack burton

Doge wrote: »

Anyone watch Upgrade yet?
Even though it's a similar concept to RoboCop it's pretty unique in its delivery. Slow to start but picks up and interesting ending. Worth a watch.

I really enjoyed it. Felt like a cyberpunk take on venom/Eddie Brock from spiderman myself

Ending was really good I thought. Well worth the watch

CiDeRmAn

Sat through an awful made for TV Primer/Coherence wannabe from Australia last night, on Netflix.
Can't even remember the the name!
I mean those better films were made on a zero budget, so this has no excuse.

Mr.Saturn

In a surprise move, SNK's mystery new game turns out to actually be a game. They're reviving Samurai Showdown. Colour me shocked.

There isn’t too much information about the newest title yet, but SNK expects to release it in 2019. Hopefully we’ll get more information at Tokyo Game Show next week, but barring that, expect to hear more about the game next year.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/10/17840860/samurai-shodown-ps4-tokyo-game-show-2018


Now patiently awaiting a Metal Slug 8 announcement.

Neo Geo mini available for pre-order on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H472N6H/?tag=22

£130, absolute lunacy imo.

Inviere

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

absolute lunacy imo.

+1 thats ridiculous

Mr.Saturn

Can't see who's behind the Neo Geo Mini anywhere. Is it Blaze like the Neo Geo X?

CiDeRmAn

At the end of the day it's a licenced emulation device, for games that lived and died in the arcades, played on a CRT.
But for the knockdown price of £125 you get to play it on a device whose case looks like an old grandstand console and a LCD screen.
From what I can see it offers less than you can expect from a PSP Go or a Vita, or any of the other multitude of ways to play NeoGeo games.
At least the Ninty mini consoles are made by them, to their standards.

Steve X2

I see that Neo Geo mini as more of a fancy desktop toy than anything I’d do serious gaming on. That and something I’m looking forward to modding.

LazySamaritan

I'm getting a 4K monitor to use with an AppleTV 4K and an xBox One X. Something like this https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-32UD99

Is there a way to connect a Nintendo 64 to such a monitor?

I've just read about the Retroactive UltraHDMI but I don't want to take the N64 apart. Is there an alternative that gives equally good results?

Retr0gamer

It's not cheap but I just use my xrgb mini.

LazySamaritan

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's not cheap but I just use my xrgb mini.

Very pricey indeed.

What do the games look like with that?

CiDeRmAn

LazySamaritan wrote: »

Very pricey indeed.

What dobthe games look like with that?

I'd guess and say a pile of poop
The N64 anti aliasing really hasn't aged well, it benefits from a CRT, a modern display makes everything worse.
Plus, using a PAL machine just doubles down on the misery.

Hate to say it, but emulation is probably the best way to play, as you can upscale, remove the vaseline from the lens and play at full NTSC speeds.

DinoRex

Haven't used the xRGB mini with the N64 but it works pretty great with most consoles.

I use it mostly for capturing though as I've plenty of CRTs now to run consoles on.

Retr0gamer

I've my n64 rgb modded and it looks as good as it can. There's cheaper solutions but they won't looks a good and worse, add lots of lag.

Might even be worth hanging on for 4k versions of similar hardware.

Inviere

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Hate to say it, but emulation is probably the best way to play, as you can upscale, remove the vaseline from the lens and play at full NTSC speeds.

My thoughts exactly. If you're set on using original hardware, steer well clear of modern tv's if you don't have something like the xrgb mini. If you've no option of using a CRT, definitely investigate Retroarch with the mupen64plus core. You can increase the internal resolution of the games, thus making them look seriously nice on a modern tv (even 4k).

KeRbDoG

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'd guess and say a pile of poop
The N64 anti aliasing really hasn't aged well, it benefits from a CRT, a modern display makes everything worse.
Plus, using a PAL machine just doubles down on the misery.

Hate to say it, but emulation is probably the best way to play, as you can upscale, remove the vaseline from the lens and play at full NTSC speeds.

There is a way to remove the anti-aliasing (per game) if using a Game Shark or flash cart - more info about it here. Not great, but better than nathin'!

CiDeRmAn

Inviere wrote: »

My thoughts exactly. If you're set on using original hardware, steer well clear of modern tv's if you don't have something like the xrgb mini. If you've no option of using a CRT, definitely investigate Retroarch with the mupen64plus core. You can increase the internal resolution of the games, thus making them look seriously nice on a modern tv (even 4k).

Oddly enough, I have played the upscaled and very clean looking N64 Rare catalogue, no Goldeneye for obvious reasons, and I just didn't have half as much fun as I thought I would.
Most of the issues were around control tbh.
Jet Force Gemini for example, I loved the game the first time around, on a PAL N64 of all things, but playing it again the controls are just terrible and totally hamper the game, and the visuals have horribly dated over the past 20 odd years, Body Harvest is another.

Retr0gamer

Blast Corp - still the best thing Rare has ever done.

Burzum

Can anyone point me in the direction of a site that shows Commodore 64 bundle variations such as the Terminator bundle, light fantastic etc.

Los Lobos

Burzum wrote: »

Can anyone point me in the direction of a site that shows Commodore 64 bundle variations such as the Terminator bundle, light fantastic etc.

Probably better off asking on lemon64

Mr.Saturn

Was in Skerries last night, walked into Bob's Casino on the strand to get an ice-cream and may as well have walked back into 1995. They had an upright Outrun running, as well Taito's Superman, Konami's Vendetta, Point Blank and a 2-player Sega Rally rig. Fascinated as to how much play they get, looks like they've not been moved in 20 years.