General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Sega’s official reason for cancelling their VR helmet was questionable: they claimed that the experience was so realistic and immersive that it posed a high risk of injury from players moving around while using it.

HAHAHA!

Oh Sega, you crack me up sometimes.

o1s1n wrote: »

Sega’s official reason for cancelling their VR helmet was questionable: they claimed that the experience was so realistic and immersive that it posed a high risk of injury from players moving around while using it.

HAHAHA!

Oh Sega, you crack me up sometimes.

Consumer grade lcd tech of the time...can you imagine a VR Headset with x2 GameGear or Nomad level screens in it? Christ...

The actor may/ may not have been wearing a VR headset at home playing the game, I can't remember much more just have a vague memory of it. Its annoying me now!

This music video is pretty cute!

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Say goodbye to any of your disposable income and prepare to obsess over things like the size of scanlines.

Or just get retroarch and emulate.

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

And then obsess about the tweaking of emulation to the nth degree.

Discipline is needed whatever the approach really. It's very very easy to turn retro-gaming/collecting, from something that allows you to enjoy games, into something that takes over all of your time & money WITHOUT actually playing games.

From this/that rgb cable, to external scalers, & from this retroarch core, to how many shader passes, ad nauseum.

The main thing to remember is, less is more....& to make the time to play the games you like!

smurf492 wrote: »

I love reading this thread but im newbie since early 90s..any advice guys please

I play mostly arcade games rather than console ones, so the mame software suits me on PCs, I have retroarch on my PS3. A few old classic games have been revamped with new graphics on a PS3. They can be "jailbroken" these days and you can do a lot with them, cheap enough to pick up second hand.

If you have old consoles you can get special cartridges for some of them and load games onto them via a sd/microsd card, so you are playing them on the original hardware. Some friends or family could well have old consoles they could give or loan you.

I'm putting together a bit of a PC at the moment and was going to nab a 3600X to lash in it, was thinking that the prices would have started coming down by now.

Seems the opposite is happening should have bought one a few months ago when they were a good bit cheaper.

I take it there are supply shortages going on due to Covid and all the rest. Anyone in the know have any advice? (was maybe hoping on a Black Friday deal on amazon)

o1s1n wrote: »

For me anyway, if I were to go emulator only, I probably wouldn't play any games ever.

Conversely, since switching to to emulation I've played more games than I ever did when collecting physically.

I've kept a few nice systems and games physically, but they're all but display pieces these days. The convenience of Launchbox that allows you to pick any game from any system you have set up, with nice intro vids, art, manuals, then the nice shaders in RetroArch....put it all together and it's a very polished, pretty, user friendly thing to use.

I would never say its superior to original hardware on a crt over RGB...but it's dammed close, and infinitely more convenient.

*Insert Mrs. Doyle "maybe I like the misery" pic

This isn't new but first time seeing it. Almost polished enough to be an arcade cabinet (pity there never was). Get it scaled down for crt and it could be a cool project

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah the trick really is the time it takes between going 'oooh I wouldn't mind playing a game' to actually playing it. I'd say you setup is absolutely fantastic for that.

Any fiddling about with things and sure the night is gone before you know it! (that's what she said etc etc :pac:)

The glow of a crt, real scanlines, the sharpness of an RGB image....I think even the most hardened emulation proponent would agree that the real deal is the real deal...and emulation is just that, it tries to emulate that experience. It can only emulate it though. What it can offer as a tradeoff though, is convenience, ease of use (when setup is finished), and if the effort is put in, a really nice 'presentation' of gaming.

Everyone's case is different, but as someone who just wasn't lucky enough to have space for an in-use collection, I found myself buying, buying, buying, and more buying...just to put things in boxes & for the satisfaction of knowing I owned it. It was crap really, and once I realised I was collecting, and not playing, I came to terms with the the spacial limitations I had, and sold off a lot of the fat of my collection.

I'd still love a room with shelves of games & my hardware in active use, with two or three candies there for good measure...but it's likely not going to be ever possible for me. A what I would consider high-end emulation experience has thankfully filled that gap for me now, and I'm back to playing games again

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Been zipping through old games at the moment with the help of retroarch. The trick is to pick a game and stuck with it.

RetroArch is a hill I'll die on. It has transformed emulation for me forever. Though I will say this, I can't stand it as a frontend. It works amazing as a backend, but I'm not sure I could daily drive it as a frontend. That's where LaunchBox comes in.

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

I just suggested emulation cos I don't think there's much point getting into collecting in 2020 unless you're die hard. It's got too expensive.

Consoles & common games are still within acceptable price ranges (seller dependent obviously). Some other less common games though, insanity. The whole "old=€€€" approach has taken a lot of the joy out of collecting.