General gaming discussion

Silksong is evidence that every game is better with a Zelda 2 downward trust attack that bounces off enemies.

First boss got bounced to death.

Considering how sensitive some neck beards are about the slightest spoilers I imagine it's something as benign as the story set up. Like getting upset you find out the trex escapes in Jurassic Park.

Depends on the system you want to emulate. CD base 32bit systems and up aren't that trivial to emulate but 8 and 16 ones are. Basically download the emulator, download your ROM files and you just open the ROM file from the emulator. They all have easy to use windows UI for changing controls and the like but will have a default control scheme for common Xbox or PlayStation controllers.

The best emulators would be:

SNES: SNES9x

Megadrive: Blast Em or Genesis Plus

NES: Mesen or FCEUX

You only need the bare minimum technical skills to run these, of you can use word or excel you are halfway there. Download them, install them, put your roms in a folder. Open the emulator and away you go.

I would recommend mame for all arcade emulation and it's by far the best option but it's slightly more complicated to set up than those emulators listed above. I think it's maybe best dark knight dips their toes in with the ones above before graduating to mame. Some games can be hard to set up and they are constantly updating the requirements for roms so different roms might not work depending on the version of mame. There's also stuff like Street fighter where you need a base from and then a second rom set to play the updated edition like championship edition. And then some arcade systems like the neo geo require a bios file.

However if you do want to emulate more systems and interested in playing arcade games I'd highly recommend mame as your next step.

Mame is fine if you can find a ROM set for the version of mame you have. The lads at mame are doing gods work making very accurate emulation but it sometimes means they go back and make the emulation of certain games better and that requires a new ROM set. Also worth getting bios packs.

I like retroarch but it really has a UI issue. It's way too complicated for what it is and sometimes you have it set up. Nicely and it updates and you lose all those settings. But it is nice to have something that runs pretty much all systems nicely with a CRT filter so they look gorgeous rather than a pixelated mess. But again, not for beginners.

It's ok as long as that superbowser wasnt summoned in the field like nintendo's patent states.