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Post by Xeogred on Jan 16, 2018 23:31:14 GMT -5
I also just remembered I owned Ehrgeiz at some point and have no idea what happened to that one. This one I really miss, because I remember both the fighting game and the weird dungeon crawler thing being completely bizarre. Wish I could give it another look now. Seems the "disc only" goes for $30+, ugh!
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Post by Ex on Jan 16, 2018 23:36:35 GMT -5
Wish I could give it another look now. Seems the "disc only" goes for $30+, ugh! Since you adamantly refuse emulation, maybe I should sell you my old modded PS1.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 16, 2018 23:43:15 GMT -5
I can't explain it man. It's mainly just post 16bit/carts era emulation that I'm allergic too. Every retro thing I've beaten this year has been via emulation though haha, but yeah I don't think I've once ever played anything to completion that's 32bit and up via emulation.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 16, 2018 23:52:12 GMT -5
Actually, I get it. There's something that feels a little off to me about PSX/Saturn emulation at times. I never emulated much for PSX anyway because I have almost all the discs I care about. Never could get burning working all that well, though. I have emulated Saturn a bit, even did a full playthrough of Panzer Dragoon Saga in SSF. That emulator is nearly perfect, but one of the bugs in the later versions has the game lock up right at the end of that game. Instruments are also off in Shining Force III. I definitely recommend a real system for that stuff.
That being said, PSX emulation these days does nearly hit perfection. Definitely give it a go again if you've had a rough go of it in the past.
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Post by Ex on Jan 16, 2018 23:54:49 GMT -5
That being said, PSX emulation these days does nearly hit perfection. Definitely give it a go again if you've had a rough go of it in the past. You guys can rip my smartphone + Android ePSXe from my cold dead hands.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 17, 2018 0:10:55 GMT -5
Sarge gets it. It's subjective and silly but yeah, something about emulating disc based systems to me just feels wrong. I have messed with PSX/PS2 emulation in the last year or two though and they definitely seem pretty good now. Not sure about Saturn emulation. That was a mess, I ended up getting two modded Saturns but by this point I'm trying to be more realistic about it... I just don't know if I'll ever dip much into the Saturn library or have much interest in it now. I burned a bunch of games, but even the burning process was pretty damn complicated. Had to make sure I had the right discs that would work, patch in every game to the Japanese region to work on one of my specific Saturn's that could do burned J games, then use specific ancient software to burn data to a disc at very slow speeds for it to work... took forever and I'd have to relearn the process if I do it again. lol An interesting thought though, with how easily the DualShock 4 works with PC's thesedays... do the PSX/PS2 emulators recognize that controller semi-natively or for easy customization? That would be pretty nice. Though I have an old adapter for PS2 controllers.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 17, 2018 1:11:32 GMT -5
Huh, I have no issues with Saturn burning. I can even use junk discs at 4x and it works fine. I also have the expansion cart / Action Replay, so no region issues either. The Duo has given me more fits.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 17, 2018 18:25:44 GMT -5
Could be my Saturn being picky, haha.
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Post by anayo on Jan 17, 2018 19:18:08 GMT -5
I ran into some weeeeiiiird stuff while burning Saturn games onto CDR's. I don't mean like corrupt images that refused to boot, I mean an otherwise playable game with ONE specific graphic element glitched to death. One burn of Soukyuugurentai displayed all the in game text as a flashing neon bar, like a broken LCD TV. Another burn of Virtual On did something similar with all the heads-up display elements. It leads me to believe there's a residual chance of copying errors, and sometimes specific in-game assets just get corrupted in the process of writing it onto a fresh disc.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 17, 2018 23:20:52 GMT -5
You mean burning again with the same image produced something that worked? Huh. Maybe that's what is wrong with my burned copy of Bulk Slash. I always just assumed I'd gotten a bad rip. Other than that, though, I've never had issues, so maybe I'm lucky with my system.
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