Bushido Blade. Not kidding.
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anyone have any tips for emulating panzer dragoon saga? preferably with retroarch
It is doable, I will look up my settings tonight. You want to use the beetle core iirc
Disc switching is a pain, but again, doable.
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thank you!
While I’m out, make sure that the cue files point to the right bin files, that’s usually the first issue I have with disc based games.
Does anyone here own any of the Arcade Archives or ACA (which from what i understand are just the same thing but exclusively Neo-Geo versions?) games by Hamster on Switch?
We have a console here in the workplace break room that occasionally get used for Mario Kart during downtime. How I would ideally want the arcade games to work is so they were just an arcade cabinet that didn’t reset high scores when powered down. Just could be left alone to play their attract modes, push a button to insert a coin (even more perfect if you could restrict the max credits per run), have a go at it and then enter your initials in the board if you qualify at the end which would be kept even if you shut it down.
Do these make something like this possible?
I’ve got Waku Waku 7, you can load the game up and leave it on attract mode, but I think the Switch itself will go into sleep if it is left alone for long enough? Might be able to turn that off in settings somewhere.
As for saving scores after shutting down, I’d have to check, but I think it only allows uploading scores to a leaderboard, although I am pretty sure you can also use a save state to keep the scores.
Didn’t even think about all the fighting games that are also part of this. Kind of strange of all having online leaderboards for their arcade scores of all things.
Sort of what I feared. Having to always keep a very volatile save state going is just going to be a bit too complex. Guessing if anyone just turns it off without save stating the scores will be gone then? Even just saving to online leaderboards would be alright I guess if it saved a few more then just your single top score and allowed you to enter a custom name for every new entry.
just booted up Money Idol Exchanger in one of the normal modes (eg not a caravan mode), it’s definitely saved my scores locally, as I’ve always played the game portably and couldn’t upload to leaderboards
I think you just need to make sure people keep selecting to boot the game up with the same user since it looks like the ACA stuff separates saves on a per user basis
edit: I should clarify this isn’t booting from a save state/interrupt data, this is cold booting the game from the Switch menu and then starting from the ACA menu, which essentially is cold booting a Neo Geo, the emulator is properly supporting saving the score itself
Oh cool, this might be promising then! Is there some way to limit your credit count as well or do you just have to place a hard limit on yourself? If the latter is there some way to actually reset the high scores as well if someone does just credit feeds through?
Also, is saving scores like this possible in any non-official arcade emulators? From what I’ve seen it always seemed like the closest you got was to have it auto-save state on exit and auto-load state on boot.
I don’t know about other games but MIE has options to turn continues off and the ability to reset scores
AFAIK Mame should support NG battery backup stuff like calendar, scores and other nonsense
Sounds perfect then. Thanks you! Guess I just gotta figure out some suitable games any shmuck can have fun with but can save that for if it people like the idea first.
Is there no way to buy the Super Famicom replica SN30s from 8bitdo anymore? I don’t want the weird ones with the analog sticks, and I don’t want the weird ones with the inverted color scheme.
Looking at their site, they only list it on the support page for firmware/manuals under their “Discontinued Products” section, so outside of a third party seller, I doubt it.
They do sell those DIY wireless replacement boards, if you wanted to hack up a Super Famicom controller off of eBay.
(I’ll never understand why they’ve gone for the “buttons on a dark gray smear” scheme with some of their recent controllers. Maybe they needed to be, uh, legally distinct enough from the genuine article?)
Are there any hdmi switches that SB folks like or at least don’t think suck too badly? I tried a cheapo one and it was not good
I have this one that works well. I would expect most monoprice models with good non-sketchy reviews to work fine.
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I got this one and it’s been reliable for me. Very occasionally the battery in the remote gets a little loose and it doesn’t reapond so I just shake the remote up and down once and it’s fine. It gives me a lot of HDMI inputs, a 3.5mm out so I can connect some regular speakers (my monitor didn’t have speakers), and a remote to control it from my chair.
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I use this basic one from Best Buy and it works well enough for me
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can’t personally vouch for any of these but here’s some suggestions
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=63585
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