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Post by Ex on Aug 5, 2019 11:57:24 GMT -5
If you buy original hardware when you already have the game you want on a compilation or re-release, does that count as redundancy? I guess it depends on the quality of the emulation. I mean the quality that the compilation provides versus the original hardware. If the compilation emulation quality is 100% spot-on, then I'd consider buying the originals to be redundant. From a gameplay perspective I mean. |
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Post by Xeogred on Aug 5, 2019 12:16:16 GMT -5
Yeah, if the compilation or modern ports are accurately sound then it's questionable why you'd need the originals, but I could still see getting the original carts as like grabbing some trophies if you really care about specific games that much. It is interesting to wonder, if my SNES collection wasn't what it is today, would I collect the same library over again? Honestly I don't think I would, nor could I drop $200+ on Mega Man X3 and some other rare games I own! So my SNES collection is kind of just like a cherished treasure chest for my own amusement but I'd rather emulate all those games nowadays instead with the Buffalo SNES controller. I just mentioned here yesterday that my SNES might be on life support now anyways. I might try to get some more SNES's down the road perhaps. But 8/16bit emulation is practically perfect. |
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Post by Sarge on Aug 5, 2019 14:26:01 GMT -5
Yeah, my collection is full of games that I'd probably never buy again due to them being so expensive. I wouldn't go out of my way to get TMNT: Tournament Fighters on NES, much less complete. Over $400 would be a tough pill to swallow.
But yeah, to some degree, that counts as redundancy, although it might be worthwhile if the original version ends up superior to the compilation version, which often can be the case.
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Post by Ex on Aug 5, 2019 16:02:58 GMT -5
it might be worthwhile if the original version ends up superior to the compilation version, which often can be the case. It what ways do you mean by superior? (Other than if the compilation's emulation quality is lacking I mean.) |
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Post by Sarge on Aug 5, 2019 16:05:06 GMT -5
Emulation quality was definitely what I was alluding to. I was thinking of things like the Mega Man collections that can be inferior to the original cart and whatnot just from iffy emulation or input lag.
Oh, actually, it could also be a bad port or removed content. I just remembered playing through Devil May Cry, and it can be argued that the original version is superior in some ways to the remastered version. You also get cases where, on paper, a version of a game should be better, but misses the point and just doesn't feel right, like Ape Escape. Then you have the myriad Final Fantasy ports, some of which might differ in significant ways from each other. Heck, the original game got releases all over the place, and they all have different content and tweaks that may or may not make one or the other "definitive".
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