Comment on Who buys crazy expensive "new retro" consoles and why?
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
In general playing games on original hardware is going to be a better experience than running it in an emulator.
Especially in the 3DS family of systems, where so much unique hardware stuff is part of the experience. In an emulator you’re going to miss out on the dual screen, 3D effect, and stylus touch screen.
That’s not even getting into emulator issues with things like slow down, sound issues, or inaccuracies in rendering.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Tbh, I think that depends. On the 3DS it does make more sense, you are right, especially if you want the 3D effect. That one is really not replicable.
On a New 2DS XL without the 3D effect, I don’t know… Most games I played don’t really use the touch screen a lot (though that obviously depends on the games) and a phone with a portrait-mode controller can replicate the dual-screen quite well.
But yeah, everyone has their own preferences.
sisyphus@leminal.space 1 day ago
I second this – SNES and Gameboy/GBA games run perfectly on emulators in my experience. Those are the platforms that I play. I’d imagine that Genesis and N64 are similar.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
These old consoles are 100% better on emulators with stuff like fast forward, save states, upscaling and in the case of the mobile ones, decent screens.