Who else is into retro gaming?
Who else is into retro gaming?
I really started getting into retro gaming when I first saw emulators appearing in the late 90s. I thought it was really cool that there were emulators that allowed playing NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, and other console games on my PC. Some emulators also had some fairly interesting features, such as allowing multi-player gaming with other people over the internet.
Nightfox wrote to All <=-
Although I've been emulating old consoles for a while, sometimes I've missed having a real console. A long time ago, I had an original NES,
a Nintendo 64, and a TurboGrafX-16. For a while, a SNES as well. I
just bought a SNES on eBay.. I'm not sure what all I'll do with it,
since I can play the games with emulators, but it might be fun.
I once took one of my old favourite SNES games (NHL '94) and started tinkering with it to make it more
difficult. I could have never dreamed of doing something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consol
(cartridges!!) was far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.
In recent years, there's also the Classic Mini systems that the popular game companies have released; there was the NES Classic Mini & SNES Classic Mini from Nintendo, and then Sega, Sony, and TurboGrafX made their own versions for their respective systems. Those are generally moddable too, so you can add additional games.
I once took one of my old favourite SNES games (NHL '94) and started tinkering with it to make it more difficult. I could have never dreamed of doing something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consoles (cartridges!!) was far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.
I don't know that I'm "into" retro gaming so much as my taste in games just never advanced beyond a certain era. In 1995, I was playing games released in 1995. In 2005, I was playing games released in 1995. In 2015, I was playing games released in 1995.
I grew up with PC games, so all the games I play are PC games usually, but I did get into console emulators about 10 or 15 years ago. When I was a kid, the consoles really were black boxes, much moreso than PCs, so they held a bit of mystery for me. Now in the emulator we can see precisely how everything was specced out, and it's kind of cool to peer inside the box a little.
I once took one of my old favourite SNES games (NHL '94) and started tinkering with it to make it more difficult. I could have never dreamed of doing something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consoles (cartridges!!) was far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.
It would be worth hooking the SNES up to an original CRT TV. There is an experience you get with the old TVs that modern PC screens struggle to emulate. RetroRGB is a pretty good site looking at how to get the best signal from consoles if you want to look into stuff like that - enjoy!
Yes to some degree I am as well, although I must admit its more about the retro computers than the consoles for me.
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Re: Retro gaming
By: Nightfox to All on Tue
Sep 14 2021 09:14:45
Who else is into retro gaming?
I really started getting into retro gaming when I first saw emulators appearing in the late 90s. I thought it was really cool that there were emulators that allowed playing NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, and other console games on my PC. Some emulators also had some fairly interesting features, such as allowing multi-player gaming with other people over the internet.
I don't know that I'm "into" retro gaming so much as my taste in games just never advanced beyond a certain era. In 1995, I was playing games released in 1995. In 2005, I was playing games released in 1995. In
2015, I was playing games released in 1995.
I don't have time these days to play games (kids, you know), but when I do, I'm sure it'll be the same old games.
I grew up with PC games, so all the games I play are PC games usually,
but I did get into console emulators about 10 or 15 years ago. When I
was a kid, the consoles really were black boxes, much moreso than PCs,
so they held a bit of mystery for me. Now in the emulator we can see precisely how everything was specced out, and it's kind of cool to peer inside the box a little.
I once took one of my old favourite SNES games (NHL '94) and started tinkering with it to make it more difficult. I could have never dreamed
of doing something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consoles (cartridges!!) was far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.
That's cool :)
That sounds similar to the Game Genie, though the Game Genie helped make games easier.. :P
I enjoyed console games back in the day, but I can't really think of anythin miss about playing the games on a CRT vs. newer screens. I might give it a again some time.
Nightfox
I enjoyed console games back in the day, but I can't really think of
anythin miss about playing the games on a CRT vs. newer screens. I
might give it a again some time.
I did some testing with friends some years ago. There is certainly a big difference when playing a Nintendo 64. The image looks more jerky on a modern display than on a traditional one. It is definetively noticeable and not something only a graphicsfag will complain about.
I have heard there is an actual, knwon reason, but I don't recall which it was.
I used to have a Nintendo 64 in the 90s. I've since played some N64 games o emulators. I remember N64 looking fairly nice on a CRT, but I didn't feel l it really looked worse on a modern screen.
Nightfox
I just set up retro pi with my son the other day and got him a C64 Mini for his birthday. Next step is he wants to write some
stuff in his emulator and then transfer it to the C64 mini. Not sure how far we will get in that effort, but we've been having
fun.
There are some Great IDE's around for writing stuff on Windows then transfering it to Emu/Real Machine.
ie CBM Prg Studio etc.
Nightfox wrote to Geo <=-
I like retro computer stuff as well. For a while now, I've been
watching Clint Basinger's LGR videos on YouTube - His LGR videos are
all about retro computers and the hardware and software from the 80s
and 90s. It takes me back to those days.. He has some cool retro computer setups. I feel like I don't really want to invest too much
time and money collecting retro stuff, but I enjoy watching his videos.
His enthusiasm for retro computers is pretty much what I felt for computer technology growing up in the 80s and 90s.
Nightfox wrote to Mr Ned <=-
It would be worth hooking the SNES up to an original CRT TV. There is an experience you get with the old TVs that modern PC screens struggle to emulate. RetroRGB is a pretty good site looking at how to get the best signal from consoles if you want to look into stuff like that - enjoy!
I enjoyed console games back in the day, but I can't really think of anything I miss about playing the games on a CRT vs. newer screens. I might give it a try again some time.
Thanks! I ran across this and was freaking floored. Especially because even though it's been 25 years since I've programmed in
Pascal I miss it. So I think we are going to have some fun - https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-but-begin/
In any case there's plenty of quality games on SNES which hold up today, more than the Genesis/Mega Drive I think.
I once took one of my old favourite SNES games (NHL '94) and started tinkering with it to make it more
difficult. I could have never dreamed of doing something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consol
(cartridges!!) was far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.
What tools are you using to edit the games? Hacking propietay games is very popular but I have never
taken the time to check how people is doing it in the wild.
I once took one of my old favourite SNES games (NHL '94) and started tinkering with it to make it more difficult. I could have never dreamed of doing something like that in 1995 when the tooling for consoles (cartridges!!) was far beyond what mere peasants could tinker with.
Have you seen this? NHL '94 is still pretty popular and they are constantly modding it with new rosters, graphics, etc - https://www.nhl94.com/
What tools are you using to edit the games? Hacking propietay games is ve popular but I have never
taken the time to check how people is doing it in the wild.
I never got so far as changing the code, just changing memory (variables). Whatever emulator I was using allowed you to change values directly in memor
Nightfox wrote to Mr Ned <=-
One thing I think was interesting about cartridge-based consoles was
that cartridges allowed game developers to include additional processor chips inside their game cartridges if they wanted. I heard Starfox had
a processor chip in its cartridge that was some sort of graphics processor, which helped with the 3D graphics in the game. I think I
heard F-Zero used it too.
Yeah there was loads of that going on with the SNES, especially in the later years of the scene where Nintendo was a little behind Sony and
Sega in having a next generation console available for purchase. Yoshi's Island is a good example. It didn't happen so much with the Genesis but Sega was pushing its 32X addon which didn't work out for them.
Re: Re: Retro gaming
By: Mr Ned to Nightfox on Fri Sep 17 2021 11:48 am
Yeah there was loads of that going on with the SNES, especially in the later years of the scene where Nintendo was a little behind Sony and Sega in having a next generation console available for purchase. Yoshi' Island is a good example. It didn't happen so much with the Genesis but Sega was pushing its 32X addon which didn't work out for them.
Nintendo, behind? In the 90s, I thought their Nintendo 64 was really good. thought the N64's graphics were better than the Playstation (I always though Playstation's graphics looked blocky), and the Playstation seemed to suffer from slow load times due to using CD-ROM games rather than cartridge games. The N64 also had a 64-bit processor whereas the others were using a 32-bit processor, I believe - though maybe that didn't really offer much..
Nightfox
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Nintendo, behind? In the 90s, I thought their Nintendo 64 was really good. I thought the N64's graphics were better than the Playstation (I always thought Playstation's graphics looked blocky), and the
Playstation seemed to suffer from slow load times due to using CD-ROM games rather than cartridge games. The N64 also had a 64-bit processor whereas the others were using a 32-bit processor, I believe - though
maybe that didn't really offer much..
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Nintendo's games excelled at being built around original concepts or interesting designs, more than on superior technical capabilities. Even
if you compare the blatant Playstation copies of Nintendo 64 titles
(say, Mario Kart vs Crash Team Racing, or F-Zero vs Wip3out) the
blatant copies don't fall behind at all.*
* I just learned there is a Wipeout port to the Nintendo 64.
Interesting find.
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Who else is into retro gaming?
missed having a real console. A long time ago, I had an original NES,
a Nintendo 64, and a TurboGrafX-16. For a while, a SNES as well. I
just bought a SNES on eBay.. I'm not sure what all I'll do with it,
since I can play the games with emulators, but it might be fun.
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Re: Re: Retro gaming
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to NIGHTFOX
on Mon Sep 20 2021 22:37:00
As far as I'm concerned, There is not much that is more retro than a
good ole BBS Door Game! :)
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Ksource wrote to The Lizard Master <=-
Have you seen this? NHL '94 is still pretty popular and they are constantly modding it with new rosters, graphics, etc - https://www.nhl94.com/
That is so cool! I hadn't heard of it before. I'm not surprised,
though. NHL 94 was definitely the best game in the NHL series, at least going into the 2000s, and I know I'm not alone in thinking that.
The greatest thing (to me) to happen in gaming was for ID Software to open source the DOOM engine and allow third-party levels. I'm still playing a game I started playing almost 30 years ago, and it's bigger and better than when I started.
Maybe it's because it's the first thing I played, but I think some of the levels on DOOM are some of the best I'd played. Then again, I played a *lot* of it back then.
LUPINE FURMEN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-
As far as I'm concerned, There is not much that is more retro than a
good ole BBS Door Game! :)
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Yeah - I miss the days of several people playing LoRD, Global War, etc.
Yeah - I miss the days of several people playing LoRD, Global War,I did register Global War and Global Backgammon, but i dont see anyone interested.
Yeah - I miss the days of several people playing LoRD, Global War,I did register Global War and Global Backgammon, but i dont see anyone interested.
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Yeah - I miss the days of several people playing LoRD, Global War,
I did register Global War and Global Backgammon, but i dont see anyone interested.
I did register Global War and Global Backgammon, but i dont see anyone interested.
just fyi, I'm playing Global War and Global Backgammon quite regularly on BBSlink :)
Regards,
Anna
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