SuspciousCarrot78

@SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re holding value remarkably well, sadly lol. By all rights they should be $50 or $60…but I decent ones in the $100+ range…which is about where they start to cross over with Switch OG and Switch lites.

  At least the DS lite and DS XL are still reasonably priced. DS lite is an excellent form factor, I think…if only the screen was larger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear you. Oddly enough, I seem to have gone the other way - I have more fun ekeing out the last erg of performance than actually playing sometimes.

  Its a sickness, I admit :).

  The tinkering mentality (roused from the dead thanks to emulation and retro gaming) has now led me into adjacent areas, like self host local LLM, media servers, coding etc. I credit the revival entirely to the delightful Wii (and the gentle introduction to modding provided by all the guides).

  It really is a great system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Second hand market. I saw a bunch yesterday in Akihabara for the $120-150 USD range…but for the life of me couldn’t find a decent 3DS LL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I had no issue making Wii Sports Resort with motion plus. Do you use the wii mote with it inbuilt or the dongle?

  Also (and fwiw) some of the older versions of Dolphin seem to handle motion plus a bit more gracefully. I can’t recall if I played Sport resort with Ishii Dolphin or an older v5 version of mainline but yes, it for sure worked for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Just FYI; you can completely erase the pain point of this by using Playnite as front end (in windows) and configuring your emulators (Dolphin, PCSX2 etc) to start full screen WITH controller support started at run time.

  Its glorious. Arguably better than OG hardware due to shaders, upscaling etc. Dolphin especially is excellent for this

  i.imgur.com/mNQUBIe.jpeg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree! Upgraded from a Wii to a Lenovo M93p tiny ($50 USD) so that I could emulate all my old games and play select PC games I loved from back in the day (Just Cause 2, GTA IV, Fallout 3 etc).

  Then I went to m710q…which I broke by being a little to hasty swapping CPU :(

  (Turned out to be a blessing in disguise… as the next tiny I got - a P330 - got me onto self hosting etc as well as gaming).

  TL;DR: yeah, those “mini-micro-tiny” machines are pretty sweet and cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The OG Wii

  Reasons -

  • Cheap! ($20-$100)
  • Fun, physical ways to interact with games (eg: Wii sports, Wiifit) that make casual gaming accessible
  • Despite being ancient, homebrew still a thing. See - Minecraft and Beatsabre ports.
  • Easy to mod
  • Cross play with select NDS titles (before it was cool)
  • Vast game library; gems and slop
  • Pretty good emulation for such old system (16 and 8bit)
  • Some really novel titles
  • No region lock
  • Built like a tank
  • USBLoader GX (free) + Autoutlet HDMI out ($20) = you won’t believe how good 480p can look when tuned (eg: Xenoblade, SMS etc)
  • Apart from the red one, they’re all basically GameCube compatible (either directly or via Nintendont)
  • Instant on; no DRM shit
  • Tiny, quiet, cute.