Ah yeah, no shortage of actual portables playing GB carts I suppose. I should have specified I was looking for one with high quality video out, and I suppose the ability to play with a controller.
It keeps making me think of how the GB Player seemed like the greatest thing at first at the time but then the blurriness of it really got me down. ; )
you can use Game Boy Interface - GC-Forever Wiki to get a much better picture and lower latency out of the GBP if you have a way to access homebrew on your gamecube
Thereâs the Hyperkin Retron 5⌠itâs about $180
The developers behind the RetroArch project claimed âthe RetroN 5 violates several licensesâ. This was because the console used the Genesis Plus GX and SNES9x Next emulators to launch some games. Both of the emulators are filed under a non-commercial license, thus meaning they cannot be used in commercial products, such as the RetroN 5
Retron 5 is either cursed to hell or alright, probably very cursed, I think these just dump the rom to some interface and then it runs an emulator on top of it.
Thereâs also a âGBA Consolizerâ which is a fancy kit where you take a GBA, and add FPGA Hardware so you get a proper scaler and HDMI out. These run like $150 but you basically get the original GB hardware plus HDMI out
Holy jeez. Thatâs probably pretty cool. Anyway I got rid of all my GameCube and GB stuff along with a bunch of my other systemsâsome of which I have since repurchased er but not thoseâwhen I moved four years ago. I definitely would not have had any specialized homebrew access for it.
Interesting. I knew about the Retron 5 a littleâit appears to only go to 720p, and of course the emulation seems sketchier. And itâs almost as pricey as a Super Nt anyway.
Donât think Iâd heard of the GBA Consolizer before but the kits I googled up only seemed to support output up to 1080i, bizarrely. I wouldnât be super-confident in my ability to put together one of the kitsâI have not looked up what it involves though; anyway those arenât much cheaper than a Super Nt, and the pre-assembled kits are 50% more expensive than a Super Nt. (And donât do Super Nintendo, which I do kind of want.)
And all the kits I googled up were out of stock.
I mean basically I donât know of anyone out there making something in this vein that seems to be working at as high a quality level and dedication to maximum fidelity as Analogue (caveat: this is based only on reviews Iâve read by people who seem to know their stuff, and videos people have recorded off the Analogue consoles; I have not seen any of their devices in person). Which is too bad and I would certainly love for them to have some serious competition in this hyper niche. But the stuff for those other solutions I just googled up is kind of making Analogueâs stuff look like more of a bargain than Iâd thought it was. The real problem of course is Analogueâs probably at least somewhat intentional scarcity, which does suck.
Although given that theyâve announced these are the last runs for the Super and Mega Nts or whatever theyâre called, maybe there turned out to be less demand for those than theyâd hopedâunless theyâve got upgraded solutions in the wings, but if so theyâve been awfully mum about them. I suspect that mostly everyone just wants the Pocket as an all-in-one ROM player, and thatâs the market thatâs going to be sustaining them.
(Which would suggest their Analogue Duo or whatever itâs called isnât going to go huge either, as itâs gotta be way way waaay more niche than either the Super or Mega. And given that itâs got a moving part in itâthe CD driveâitâs sorta less attractive anyway as a perpetual console replacement. At least, thatâs what Iâm trying to tell myself. : P)
through googling I discovered that Hyperkin also makes a Retron SQ, which only does GB and GBC. GBA is supported buuut it runs at half speed because presumably they got their own emulator rather thanâŚripping off someone elseâs. It also is kinda blurry and the GB color palates canât be customized (?)
Shoot, this is silly. Just realized I donât want another console. I want a cart reader.
Hm and Analogue has marked the Super and Mega Nt pre-orders as sold out now. Well, Iâll try this Sanni Cart Reader, I guess I wonât cancel my Nt pre-order until I actually get the cart reader to work.
I keep being tempted by the SQ by how stupid it looks.
if theyâd made it multiformat like their other consoles and added a game gear slot, itâd definitely be on my wishlist
valves stable of voice actors from the tf2 era are from a seattle area sherlock holmes radio drama
since finishing Metal Gear Solid I keep imagining Biden getting briefed on the Shadow Moses incident.
iâm begging you play mgs2 lol
When an auction for a game on eBay says âTestedâ but DOESNâT also say âWorkingâ or some equivalent. >_>
The Fatal Frame director created Maiden In Black Water because he believed America was too hot for ghosts to exist
Does this man think fog is ghosts?
ps1 shaders function as an âinstant art filterâ in a lot of respects rn, but maybe thatâs their appeal i guess? that you could make basically anything at all but as long as you make it pixelated and wobble a bit suddenly it has all this inherited affect. prob analogous to aesthetics like vapourwave in ethos (stuff sounds better when slowed with reverb mentality etc), the layer of gauze in front is the main attraction. feel like the eternal worry is work being outpaced by the efforts to evaluate it, my suspicion over this stuff is maybe that it is far too easy to articulate why these things have any draw at all, the work itself just being too slow and plodding to even approach the speed of tweeting why an empty mall space with echoey music playing feels âelegiacâ. i guess i think about this a lot just from seeing it so much online persistently for years at this point, like gamedev has finally been solved and now we just live in this two party system of crusty ps1 fetishism and sokobans or something haha
I see it less as âinstant art filterâ and moreso a return to abstraction over representation - just via a familiar, nostalgia-tinged lens. That being said, your comparison to vaporwave-style âbabbling corpseâ retro tech chic speaks to a very real (albeit well-trodden) artistic set of principles that remain popular on the web - so whoâs to say why all these budding young gamedevs are aping this style: modernist rejection of representation as spear-headed by AAA development, post-modernist appropriation techniques informed by seapunk/vaporwave, or simply trendy low-hanging fruit?
No idea. I think Bryce Bucher is doing cool stuff though.
the part i like the most about it is definitely it bringing abstraction back into more visible spaces in games (maybe we just need more variety in abstraction?) in a snapshot i think itâs even an interesting âmovementâ, just have fatigue with it in the same way i think post-internet art has overstayed itâs welcome in the art world. this feeling of formal conservatism masquerading as the avant garde etc. if we just feed ourselves off the discarded excesses of past tech and advertising at some point it just becomes this like societal narcissism time loop. itâs tricky cause maybe the temptation then is to retreat into puristic art based on like the sanctity of truth and pure emotion/ reactionary portraiture or whatever but that just feels like closing ur eyes and pretending you werenât saddled with any of this stuff years ago anyway.
