General Arcade & Retro Chat' Special Championship Edition

Truly bizarre that the PS5 doesn't support 1440p and VRR....I can only hope support can be added down the line via firmware.

As @johnny_ultimate says, the new gen machines bring console parity much closer than its ever been before. Returnal looks jaw dropping. We absolutely need to move away from 30fps being acceptable though, it's embarrassing at this point. Resolution needs to come second to performance. Also, DLSS from Nvidia is pure witchcraft, far more appealing currently than Ray tracing.

Ray tracing is very nice, it's definitely the future, but as @Retr0gamer says, we're not quite there yet for the performance hit to be truly worth it. I'd say in 5-10 years time, things will be very different.

Mad they think that when 1440p Gsync displays aren’t insanely common.

I guess they just want their consoles under TVs, not tucked away beside a PC!

Sorry for the horrible screenshots dump but saw this on Facebook.

36 years worth of gaming right there. According to the seller he's priced fairly but I personally can not see that bundle being worth almost €9000.

There's a few nice titles in there and that mega drive bundle is lovely but are prices really gone this nuts? When's the bubble going to burst?

Just going back to this briefly....I've only learned about MechaPwn the other day....they've brute forced the MechaCon chip which controls the PS2's dvd drive. You essentially flash the MechaCon with DEX (developer console flags). This means for PAL region consoles, a slim PS2 with model SCPH-7500X can be made to boot any region PS1 and PS2 games natively. Backups need to be patched as 'masterdiscs', and they'll boot natively too. Shame it's only for slims, but I suppose the Phats can load all these natively from HDD so this is more for collectors who want to use original discs without having to import various region PS2's. Some Phat's can be done, but perhaps not PAL ones? Not overly sure. Anyway - https://github.com/MechaResearch/MechaPwn

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@Doge ah no dude you hang onto it, you never know what it could come in handy for...but thanks very much for the offer. Hopefully that kiwi place comes through, I'll update here if it does!

He really should part out a few of the big titles like that boxed MUSHA and sell the rest as individual console bundles.

Lady Sia would be one for me. It's a decent action-platformer on the GBA from around launch-window with a unique aesthetic, especially for the GBA. I've seen it on a total of one 'GBA Hidden Gems' list in all of my years following GBA stuff and have heard exactly no one ever talk about it.

PS1 Kensei Sacred fist on the PS1

I mostly remember it because I rented it for a weekend and it was utter shite

Anyone selling stuff to the UK these days thru EBay ? How is the customs duty handled , eBay is light on information…

I've had issues as a buyer from the UK with eBay in that they charge VAT, and instruct the seller on how to mark packages as VAT paid, but they don't and I get charged VAT again by customs via An Post.

This leads me to have to upload proof of VAT paid to eBay who then refund me a load of bitty amounts. But it's easier than trying to get it back from Revenue directly.

So, I'd imagine they charge VAT and you need to be mindful of what you put on your package as a seller too.

I sell a lot of stuff using ebay.ie going into Europe and UK. I recently sold a Neo Geo into the UK, and no VAT was taken by eBay at the point of sale. The buyer requested I put a much lower value on the shipping label though.

I may be incorrect about the buying from UK aspect as I haven't bought anything from the UK via eBay without using a proxy service in a long time.

Sales tax is collected for US sales, so they have some things in hand. Perhaps it's something they will catch up with in time.

The gold standard on so many levels - the strive for continuing accuracy, hardware and software documentation/preservation, open source contributions, standing up for what's right in the 'scene', the list goes on. A really amazing piece of software, and team behind it.

Mame has really set sights on many platforms these days, I use it for Apple II, cd-I, and a few others. I love reading the release info for new improvements to micros and consoles as well as arcade hardware.

For model 1, mame is excellent. Supports link play over the network.

For model 2, mame is actually great for some games and they run at their native medium resolution with groovymame. There are 3D maths emulation errors though so you get bizarre bugs like flying cars in sega rally. For model 2 stick with the m2 emulator.

For Model 3 well there really is only one option - supermodel. Model 3 games are now playable in mame if you have a new i9 12900k cpu but even then it drops to 60% framerate in scudrace driving by areas with intensive background animations.

After that it was naomi and these are all playable in demul (also mostly playable in mame but you need a beast cpu).

Cxbx-reloaded plays some sega chihiro games.

After that is was all pc based hardware and teknoparrot runs the majority as sort of hack/port to Windows.

Basically skip everything above and load up outrun2 SP SDX on teknoparrot multiplayer and play that forever.

Has anyone had experience with Teknoparrot? I'd be interested in trying it, but it flags as malicious by malware bytes. Similarly the games themselves all have their own exe's and many of them flag as malicious too.

Same, and like you, I'm just not taking the chance. I run a global backup on my server and emulation drives every month or so, so everything is safe, but the time/energy to restore it all is a headache ill try avoid wherever possible. Pita because Teknoparrot uses vmware, so it can't even be ran virtually. Only way would be to use a second offline pc for it, but I much prefer the all in one approach.