Oh yeah that changes things I don’t believe emulation across the board is trustworthy enough for rhythm games yet.
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yeah, vita had a lot of Actual Hardware Engineering by 2010s standards that was just sort of forgotten after everyone else had to concede that no one other than nintendo could make ARM hardware generations work
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the Dreamcast and Vita used Hall sensors
and they’re both dead
something to think about
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for me ps2 emulation is not going to be good enough visually until they get that retroarch core going for the crt shaders. and the best shaders need at least a 1200p monitor and you want at least that for integer scaling anyway
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agree with this take – PS2 emulation has been acceptably fussy for a decade but I think that’s a pretty good cutoff for being pickier
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Felix you probably know. I tried to get “the good filters” on pcs2x and it involved downloading multiple files and building a cfg and that just seemed like far too much work but is it worth it for my…either 17 inch laptop or output to my 1080p tv?
now I’m trying to figure out the best way to play dos games that use a keyboard in retroarch cause after I got sierra games running through it there’s no going back
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I haven’t great experiences with the filters supported by pcsx2 (and I’ve put many hours into pcsx2) – imo not worth fussing with until it’s in RA, most ps2 games look ok without CRT effects. depends a lot on the game though
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Can mods please move the emulation discussion out of news and into the emulation thread?
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I remember back in the ancient age of emulation when even numerous big name NES games weren’t totally working right how much easier it would be when in The Future and things progressed to emulating the then new CD based systems because you wouldn’t have to deal with all those special chips and mappers and shit. How naive I was…
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Damn
Damn
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Yeah
I know they haven’t been really hot for a long time but I liked RAM and the Electroma film a fair bit.
Alive 2007 will always be one of my favourite live albums, I wish I’d seen them on that tour. I think @Brooks did?
i did yeah and frankly they shoulda tapped out after discovery
i hope they reboot crydamoure and roule
be cool with all that lucre why don’t you
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daft punk simultaneously redefined electronic music performance and ruined club experiences all around the world (i mean, moreso than they already were) with the Alive tour so they are a very interesting group
like, taking a monolithic object and centering it as the focal point of an electronic music experience is a fantastic idea that doesn’t require everyone to constantly be paying attention to the performers within it and lets everyone have a good time by removing them from that obligation to pay attention for the whole performance
so it’s only fitting that basically everyone completely missed the point and now feels like they have to pay attention to the DJ at all times - wasn’t wearing the robot masks the whole time supposed to depersonalize them??
or maybe that’s just san francisco I dunno
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people have been doing the face-the-booth for a lot longer than that, which is to say it’s always been among the lamer things about clubbing
tru - daft punk inadvertently legitimized it as something that people could do at a huge scale for better or worse
speaking of missing the point though - it’s hilarious looking back at the first pitchfork review of discovery to see that the author quoted the lyrics of “one more time” in its entirety, wrote a few words about how shallow the lyrics were, and gave it a 6.4
the review is still up! it’s amazing!
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again i feel like massive glasto sets by orbital and similar already made that happen in the 90s; daft punk just had way more money to execute that on their own eventually
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yeah, personally I feel like there’s something about daft punk’s specific approach to The Monolith that makes them super interesting but also gives you a specific point of no return as far as electronic music and festivals go? even orbital’s stuff seems more interested in humanizing “robotic” music, and daft punk’s music and approach almost seems like them being surprised at how much they can get away with riding that line, which is why centering your performance around a giant 11 ton pyramid that you can barely see into, meant to be a comeback tour after a maligned album written in two weeks feels somehow different than their peers at the time
I’m probably misjudging a number of things here but it just feels right to me
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