TwistedPear
@TwistedPear@lemmy.world
- Submitted 4 months ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Doom 64 Fan Port Lands on Sega Dreamcast 5 months ago:
I don’t know if it ever stopped. Seems like every other month there’s a port or a homebrew that eventually goes retail.
The Atomiswave arcade ports are great.
Dreamcast Junkyard is the typical forum for all things that are “still thinking”
- Comment on 'SuperSega' FPGA Console Will Play Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, Saturn And Dreamcast Games | Time Extension 5 months ago:
Short answer, absolutely not.
The Virtex Ultrascale+ FPGA boards are $10,000 AND UP.
If you look up why Mister will not move up to more powerful FPGA chips, this is why.
Would it be cool? Yes. Definitely.
- Comment on Games where an emulated console version outclasses the PC port? 5 months ago:
Now imagine that, but on a keyboard. No mouse. That’s pc controls for ZT
- Comment on Games where an emulated console version outclasses the PC port? 5 months ago:
Extreme G 2 on pc loses analog steering from N64, which turns out is a big deal. Throwback Entertainment made a port-of-a-port and introduced a speed hack in the launcher menu where you can slow down the game a bit, which helps, but doesn’t fix the issue.
In some other cases like Hexen, there were alterations on console that I find generally more appealing, like an ost remaster or lighting effects.
The Genesis game Zero Tolerance and Dreamcast version of Expendable are games I prefer on console simply because of the control schemes on pc.
- Comment on Have video games become expensive now? 10 months ago:
Not to pile on, but print ads from the 90’s are wild to look at. Sonic 3 launched at $70. Sonic 3
- Comment on This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV 10 months ago:
Definitely going to try this.
I have DNS adblocking / tracker blocking set up on an Android TV (spoiler: Amazon is very noisy, even if you don’t watch anything on Prime Video), but it doesn’t help against native launcher ads.
When the launcher first started showing ads, you could disable certain services, but it would break playback on other apps.
- Comment on What are your favorite third party controllers? 11 months ago:
To me that looks like RetroArch running Genesis Plus GX.
- Comment on What are your favorite third party controllers? 11 months ago:
Retro-bit, Retro Fighters, and Krikzz are a few more manufacturers I can think of making controllers with original ports.
In particular, Retro-bit’s Saturn Pro pad is…interesting, let’s say. I have also used Retro Fighters Striker Dreamcast pads - they’re quite nice.
In yonder days, a few companies like ASCII and Hori come up a lot for reliable stuff.
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- Comment on Nightdive's Quake 2: Enhanced, out now 1 year ago:
I noticed a few things while playing the N64 campaign.
It’s not 1:1 parity with the console version, and it’s not meant to be (and that’s a good thing, actually).
How it works is they use N64 textures, UI, OST, and maps. Everything else is from the new engine - including the new enemy AI changes and balance adjustments, etc.
A good portion of a game is spent in anti-gravity. You may not have the rocket launcher, or much ammo for it yet, relying on grenades to take down bigger baddies like enforcers or tanks. The trajectory of a grenade on authentic hardware is net positive, so it’s about impossible to aim. On Q2 Enhanced, it just means the grenade fires straight out of the barrel. Little things like that stand out.
The Nintendo 64 campaign on Hard, with deaths, took me about 3 hours.
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