like it was only a few years ago that this felt really state of the art and interesting? Multibowl - Wikipedia
and whoosh
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something i considered re: a kind of general aversion to software emulation i notice online is that the overwhelming majority of retro Content Creator types are all in on collecting old hardware, mister and that ridiculous fucking ÂŁ700 scaler
coincidentally things that are expensive and inaccessible for most people 
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all the major innovations I remember in this department are from 2016-2018 
it just feels like everythingâs gone in the opposite direction in the past few years, everyone is being so precious about all these boutique ways of using original hardware or else getting as obnoxiously and expensively close to it as possible between the mister and the scalers and the new kinds of flashcart, or buying and litigating switch ports of extremely questionable quality that are almost always a straight downgrade on emulation (with the exception of the sega ages stuff, which is also five years old now)
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Everyone still loves software emulation provided itâs packaged in dedicated hardware shaped like a tiny SNES
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Nintendo really missed the boat by not just reselling roms through those mini consoles. Or through the apps on Switch. Is it just the licensing thatâs the issue to keep them releasing more games? They seem incredibly stingy with what they have released.
I must misunderstand what software emulation is. My. Only context is with emulating SMT3 Nocturne in PCSX2 five years ago and it was good game presented in a tiny blurry image. Is that what everyone is talking about with enthusiasm here?
I mean I already suspected that younger people find certain kinds of configuration menus just like, hard to look at and internalize in a particular way so that tracks, but⌠seriously?
did it not occur to you that there must be a way to increase the resolution
I know that emulators historically havenât had great UX but⌠what is driving people to assume that they are bad or somehow unimproveable with their long history of improving
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We could have converted anyone to emulation had they been in the theater at the SB meetup.
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lol i was also about to post an nesticle screenshot. ux doesnât get much better than a bloodied severed hand cursor
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Must have been 24 years ago but the first time I showed my mom nesticle I was running a Super Mario Bros. rom that had been edited to show Mario and Luigi sporting big erections. She was not amused once I pointed out the difference to her and when I pulled up the menu to load another rom and started moving the mouse, represented by the severed hand with the pointing finger, she got alarmed and gasped out âIs that a penis?!â
I still think about that.
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nocturne looks p good in pcsx2!
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nesticle is so disgusting i never got into NES games
i think i played silent hill 2 off of a retail disc in PCSX2 at 2x resolution ~2012 and it felt impressive
fwiw you can just pick 2x/3x/etc scaling in the graphics menu but it defaults to native
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FPGA had a very effective marketing campaign consisting of telling people that now that the emulation program can be put on a chip, itâs automatically perfect, and anything not on this chip they want to sell you is worthless garbage.
I mean I had an old friend I hadnât seen in years who was a producer at Bungie call me long distance out of the blue to tell me how amazing his MiStEr was.
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I am so unbelievably annoyed about this, I donât understand what fallacy is even driving it
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are people still super weird about analog synths? this seems like the same thing
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The knock on emulation was always that it wasnât 100% accurate.
And the problem from a commercial point of view was that there wasnât really any money in it unless maybe you were Nintendo.
But then you could put the emulation on a chip, and sell people the chip by telling them that emulation was perfect now so everything was all solved as long as they bought your chip.
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god, Roland did a reproduction TB 303 using some kind of circuit emulation, but Berigner just ripped off the xoxbox and some other open source work to reproduce the sound with transistors. IDK if people are super weird about that per-se. I ended up getting the Roland produced unit because it had better build quality, which is weird considering the original hardware was plastic junk to begin with.
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oddly the only reason I want to use a real gameboy now is because LSDJ has a sync mode you can use if you hack together a gameboy link cable and a midi cable.
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displays/controllers imo. people donât usually hook PCs up to TVs and SBCs werenât fast enough for flawless software emulation until recently
vs a mister or analogue duo which are TV-first and come in the form factor of a console, maybe with repro controllers. the pocketâs value is in the display and controls, not the emulation quality
this also explains why the same market for misters seems to have bought official mini consoles too
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