They didn’t port all of them. Mushimime is still inaccessible.
i mean, mine is on 9.3.5 and playing one right now
Got me an OG XBox and of course using the red, white and yellow composite cables looks pretty trashy on an HD TV. Unfortunately, my TV doesn’t have component inputs so now I’m thinking…maybe I’ll get component cables and then plug them into a component -> HDMI converter. Wondering if anyone has experience with this? Also, the list of games that support actual HD (720p or 1080i) is short and doesn’t include any of the games I’m really interested in but component cables will still provide a clearer image for the non-HD titles I think?
if you’re going to hdmi anyway you likely want this instead of component cables:
https://www.amazon.com/Original-Cable-Classic-Console-Models/dp/B087JPQBZW/
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Ooh, I think that’s the ticket. Any experience with Marseille mCables? I’m reading around a bit about their upscaling to HD and if/how much it might improve games that were never developed to be HD to begin with.
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I’ve used the mClassic regularly with the Switch and occasionally with the PS2 through a component to hdmi converter plugged into a 4k cable and I’m not sure if it’s just my imperceptive eyes but I think to me it’s just really gentle antialiasing and it only stuck out to me when working on sprite-based games where you really don’t want that processing going on. There are mixed youtube reviews selling it as jiving nicely with ~720p 360/PS3 (and presumably Switch) stuff but I guess I wanted it to magically blow me away on PS2 and Switch and don’t feel like I saw something justifying the price for my weird use case.
It might be the combination of my TV, cables, etc. I wanted to get an OSSC so I could play 240p stuff on the PS2 that my TV can’t support without swapping between rgb and component (PS1 and a few PS2 titles) and was thinking about how it would improve output with the OSSC connected.
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Interesting. I think I’ll start with the HDMI adapter first and see how that works. I should have known this whole game/console collecting thing was going to snowball into more and more stuff >_<
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I think it can be a satisfying way to play these games and recapture youth/get into a headspace for these particular games but sometime I look around my mess and growing collectors’ prices and say to myself “maybe I should just emulate”
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Yeah, I’m able to justify XBox to myself because emulation (as far as I’ve encountered) sucks for that console but when it comes to like PS2, Gamecube and anything older, I’ve had pretty good experiences with emulation so I probably won’t go hog wild with those ones.
don’t do what i have done, go with emulation when you can. i consistently recommend that anyone using retro hardware Just Mod It/Get An Everdrive/ODE/What-Have-You because my goodness it’s so expensive to get into this stuff and i wish with N64 in particular i had immediately just bought an everdrive instead of buying so many games first
emulation frequently feels off to me now, and if you want runahead you have to configure it and fuss with settings and it just takes me out of it quickly. i don’t regret anything, really, but i have spoiled myself and little annoyances add up such that i find it much harder to enjoy it than i used to. i remember using some old snes emulator on a beige powerpc mac with a sort of stuttery chrono trigger but it was absolutely brilliant anyway
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Yeah, I haven’t broke down and ODE’d every system yet but it will be nice to just have a One And Done purchase and not worry anymore.
one nice thing about the ODEs i’ve used (GCLoader, GDEmu, MODE) is they are reversible if you ever want to put the original drives back in. though, after doing one you really won’t want to, in all likelihood. it underscored for me how much more i care about the experiences than the little cartridges and discs themselves. that said, i can’t say i’m not attached to some of this plastic…
(i think the PSIO which isn’t a true ODE is kind of neat because it retains the optical drive, but the compatibility has some funky issues which turn me off from it)
I really want to get a GCloader at some point because my childhood gamecube’s optical drive broke and I’d love to be able to resurrect it.
okay so i’ve been trying for at least a month now, i figure i might as well ask here. does anyone know why my switch will not connect to my wifi? i’ve tried both connections, reconnecting my modem, chancing network latency. still nothing.
i have no idea, really, but i wonder if it could be connected to something like this. like apparently the Switch won’t connect with certain hotspots or routers or something that is just barely outside my total understanding.
yeah, it’s a relatively cheapo wifi chipset, if you have an incompatibility it’ll be hard to fix without getting a new router
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If your smartphone supports wifi tethering, give that a try. Dunno if your data plan is unlimited enough to download every game with that, but it might tide you over and also help root-cause the problem
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That’s actually what I did tonight before I even read this!
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Is there any way to spoilertext poll answers when creating a poll on this forum?
I’ve tried the normal way but the poll just ignored the spoilertext
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This is in spoilertext
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There might be but I think it would still view an attempt to open the spoiler as a vote. Probably easier to define the options before the poll and label them option a/b
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