Has anyone played Ys VIII on Vita? How bad does the frame rate get? I can’t seem to get any solid answers other than “it’s not 60” which I know already since it’s capped at 30. I’m playing the Japanese demo now and it seems fine but I can’t imagine the opening areas are representative of how things will be for most of the game.
My usual resource for these kinds of things doesn’t seem to be too helpful regarding this topic but those emulators listed are at least probably a good place to start?
http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Netplay
Cannot imagine setting up netplay in Retroarch being anything but pure pain though so with zero experience doing so would still advice against that particular frontend.
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setting up netplay in retroarch was actually mostly painless but it just didn’t work well, for me anyway.
@VastleCania was using a third party program that worked well for netplay, but I can’t remember what its called. I would recommend whatever it was.
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Think it was Parsec.
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Inexplicably, one of the few PS2 games available for the PS4 is Siren. Should I play it? I love the first 4 Silent Hill games.
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Yeah Siren rules. It is overly goofy because of the British dub*. But it does cool stuff with time-weirdness and non-sequential plot and multi characters and being really tense.
Real good level design too.
*Very odd since the VAs played their digital likenesses.
Now i want to play Siren! And then Blood Curse is like the American Remake of Siren! Then Siren two is also real cool but is a little too long and complicated.
There is one real adventure gamey puzzle in 1 or 2 I can’t remember that is about putting a towel in a freezer in one mission so a different character can take it out and use it as a platform for a trap in another mission.
The most important advice is well…I have said it multiple times over the years but it is a mechancial spoiler and now i don’t want to offer it openly.
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Can recommend Parsec, that was what Tulpa and I were using to play a SNES game (thanks sakurina) and it worked pretty well. Whoever is not hosting will have a tiny bit of lag, but it would only really be a problem in a fighting game or something. I have pretty good bandwidth though, so ymmv. Works for literally any local multiplayer game.
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I’ve been waiting for this to get about 50% cheaper
the last TV I bought was a 720p projector from craigslist in 2010 though so idk
thanks everyone, i might use parsec if i ever get out of the great intel graphics driver update thing vs laptop vendor bloatware update thing battle (parsec requires hardware video encoding), otherwise i’ll try some emulator with netplay with hamachi or whatever
This is beyond my price range by a very extreme margin!
it does look rad though
I think I have one in a friends closet somewhere if need be but
Is original Xbox emulation as unreliable as I’ve heard? I’ve got a small stack to play again soon.
For around $500 US you can get a nice 4K LCD set by TCL. I helped my grandpa pick out one from the “6 Series” and it looks good. The model number was 55R617.
If a projector does appeal, you can also get a 1080p DLP projector for around $500 US from BenQ. I swapped my plasma for an HT1070 and love the screen size and portability, but convenience and daytime viewing suffer a lot. I think the current model equivalent of mine is the HT2050. Watch BenQ’s eBay store for returbs.
Yeah! I was strongly considering some variety of TCL. Unfortunately they are very hard to come by in Canada! Amazon seems to be selling one of them, but afaik they don’t have any kind of formal distribution here.
There is a decent looking Samsung tv on sale here this week, it seems normal? I don’t know every time I look for TV info it is either “this tv is horrible because my tivo doesn’t work and I can’t remember what channel Diners Dive ins and Drives is on 2/5” or “dark shades on this tv are .63% less dark in suboptimal viewing conditions, and the sound quality is outpaced by the LG model by a whopping 1300 gigawatts. If these aren’t an absolute dealbreaker, this would probably make a decent TV for your laundry room or as a second screen for your guest bathroom 5/10” and i just… i don’t know
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I just posted somewhere that it was a big acheivement they got the dashboard to boot.
But you definitely need to pull out the xbox and check the capacitor that is prone to leaking and ruining the motherboard.
the best Xbox emulator is an Xbone
next on the list is an actual Xbox
way down the line, past the video message you probably get for putting a game in a DVD player, is the actual in-development Xbox emulator
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What time signature is this song in? I count 3, uh, measures(?) of 4/4 and then a single 2/4 for a total of 14 beats. I don’t know how you would formally write this though.
I also don’t know music terminology, even though I try to learn it every once in a while. it just slides right out of my head.
For really old games my regular intel integrated graphics does just fine. I haven’t tried PS1/N64, but I imagine they’d still be OK.
Should we play Blood Curse or the original siren?
Both.
It’s hard not to recommend Blood Curse as it plays a lot better, and contains (though transforms) a lot of the original Siren’s plot/essence. Aside from the episode-download format, if that’s what you’d be playing.
Agreed on both though, if possible.
And Siren 1 first, albeit much tougher to dig into. Like Rudie mentioned that British dub…so damn goofy…in something so rural Japan. But that, awkward controls, and sometimes really frustrating objectives don’t entirely hurt but maybe add to it being one of the strangest (and scariest) in genre - arguably much more than “New Translation” which is still a great name for how it…reboots things.
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