Analogue make nice products, but they have delays and stock issues and expensive shipping.
If you can deal with the bad things, the products are nice.
The 3D will probably be a very nice FPGA N64 when it eventually releases.
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Yeah there is that whole tariffs and disruptions to worldwide supply lines.
If you want to play fpga N64 games you can do so right this very second.
I got the SG so that I had a way to play Paprium.
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Ah yeah, I donāt wanna knock it entirely, Iāll just say that the Mister definitely made the whole āso OK a jailbreak firmware will cover all games except these with these chips, but may get updated to cover these, but alsoā panic I had with the Super Nt less of a thing.
If I truly didnāt like Analogue stuff I would have gotten rid of the Nt long ago, but there is something nice about open palm slamming that cart inā¦and right then and there youāre doing the moves alongside Yossy in Yossyās Islandā¦
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Analogueās marketing is pretentious and annoying, but their products are fantastic.
Beats the other way around I guess!
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i think whatās confusing to me about this is that this happens every single time they launch a product. all of them.
i guess the thing is that each of their products appeals to a different demographic (of course some folks, iām sure, get all of them), and now that theyāre tapping the N64, the special-little-boyās best-ever-xmas-present, the intensity is much greater and has more of a presence on the internet.
the main appeal is definitely being able to use cartridges, but for sure, if you want FPGA N64 and donāt have or care about that, it is definitely already available.
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i predict Analogue 3d accuracy is going to be picked apart by speedrunners and homebrew envelope-pushers like kaze emanuar to a much greater degree than MiSTerās core or previous Analogue products have been. remains to be seen how it will fare but Diddy Kong Racing is a brutal sync test - even an EverDrive64 X-7 reliably desyncs from a real cartridge when both are played on the same hardware. SummerCart can only match hardware timing in āDirect Modeā.
hypothetically, it shouldnāt have the specific hardware limitations of the DE-10 nano which keep the MiSTer N64 from being as accurate as it could be, but that doesnāt speak to their implementation.
iām very curious about it. itās the only analogue product outside the pocket that offers an interesting proposition for me, because flawless N64 accuracy is still entirely unobtainable outside real hardware
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I just bought a pair of n64 snax adapters and two refurbished controllers from ebay to go with the two modern 2.4ghz ones I have so Iāll have a full complement of 4 players for the n64, dreamcast, and gamecube once they get here. Couch multiplayer is the best
I also have a ridiculous set of lightguns arriving on Sunday to fill the time crisis shaped hole in my heart now that the barcade close to me shut down
Which led me to hear about teknoparrot and emulators for newer arcade games and I just so happen to have the guts of my old computer laying around and what do you know they should just fine for anything Iād want to play soo I got a case to throw these parts in and install batocera on
Help I canāt stop making increasingly elaborate retro gaming setups
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Which light guns did you get? I also want to get some eventually
Any updates on Takiudonās PSone-looking FPGA console?
Iāve seen a few posts about it, mostly to do with the port locations in the shell & the finish on the logo. nothing substantial
I was looking at sinden lightguns for a while but eventually got more interested in retroshooter rs3 reapers as they seemed to have better recoil, came with pedals, and had better compatibility (though at the cost of having IR emitters on your TV).
While I was looking there I saw the MX24 submachine gun they had and thought ha ha, thatās funny, what would you use those for, you canāt emulate Ghost Squad. Then I found out that you can emulate Ghost Squad and the retroshooters work great with teknoparrot.
Theeeen I was very on the fence because their FAQ says everything ships from China and tariffs and blah blah, but I saw somewhere someone mentioned that theirs shipped from the US. So I joined their (way over-done) discord to ask about that, didnāt get a response for a week, gave up on it, until out of the blue this week they finally replied saying yes, ships from US, no tariff. Well, fuckā¦ at some point the tariffs are going to destroy this business, so itās probably now or never. And thatās how a full set of lightgun pistols and smgs ended up on their way to me right now.
I fucking love light gun games ok at least itās not a silent scope machine which I definitely didnāt look up prices of just now
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What about Crisis Zone!!
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MAME version is bootable but not playable as of a few months ago but it looks like the PS2 version runs fine on pcsx2 and batocera is supposed to have excellent lightgun support sooo come play it before the meetup? Or fuck Iām going to have to bring all this shit with me arenāt I
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This is just my problem but at the price of those fancy IR light guns, I keep wondering if itād just be a better option to get a VR headset and play emulated light gun games there (I know nothing about VR and the state of emulation there though, or how expensive any of it is).
I feel like Iād play VR more than light guns, which is still just like a few times a year for both cases. Maybe itād be more affordable just to bust the Wii out with emulation instead???
Anyway, just wondering out loud. Glad to see thereās multiple light gun options now that are good and fast
If I was playing solo VR might be an option but playing this stuff as a social experience is one of my favorite things so gimme dumbass plastic all day long
I love seeing people FREAK OUT at the very existence of the dreamcast fishing controller then hooting and hollering over sega marine fishing
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I missed someone made an easy boot collection for the Sharp 68000 core. Thatās cool. Iām the minority use case in that I do not want any translated roms. For the rest of you have at it.
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are you sure any of those are translated? many x68000 games were originally in english (or are more or less already english-friendly). there arenāt that many fan translations iām aware of and none of the files in neon68k mention translations
if there are translated games in there, itād only be a small fraction of the games listed under āEnglishā. if youāre really concerned you could also just use the Japanese folder since that will for sure have 0 translations. they are kept separately in the pack
looking more closely at neon68k i believe there are already 0 translated roms in here. none of the (relatively few) games which even have translations seem to be in their translated forms
this is what i expected since translations could cause unforeseen issues outside of the already not-perfect compatibility of the MiSTer X86000 core.
tl;dr @rudie you can download this without worrying about getting any fan translations. it doesnāt have any of those afaict
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I just used the script migrate_sd to make a complete copy of my SD card. I think my reader was extremely slow because it did take 29 hours to transfer 300gigs. The script was as hassle free outside of how long it took. I just plugged in a sd card reader with the target card, launched the script and walked away for a day.
Strongly recommend any heavy Mister users to make use of this to make a backup card or help a friend (hi @boojiboy7 ) fast-forward their new Mister experience.
Iām gonna do this again in a few days with a different SD card reader that is hopefully a little faster.
I should have done before my old card randomly failed on me and I had to jump through all those hoops to save the data and still completely redo all my folders.
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