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Post by anayo on Jan 17, 2018 23:29:13 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. Correct, when I re-burned Soukyuugurentai, the second attempt made the text readable. Specifically it was the kanji at the start of each stage describing your mission. I don't think the ISO was faulty, I think a specific sector containing those kanji got corrupted in the burn. Kind of makes me wonder what would have happened if something else got corrupted, like 3D geometry or texture files.
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Post by Ex on Jan 18, 2018 0:56:47 GMT -5
I'll just throw my "I like emulation" hat into the ring, and say I've beaten quite a few Saturn games using SSF. No the emulation isn't always "perfect", but it's certainly "good enough" 99% of the time. That said, if I had access to an actual Saturn which I could play burned games on, I would prioritize that approach.
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Post by toei on Jan 18, 2018 2:03:12 GMT -5
I'm totally with you on that, Ex. You know I still have a pretty sizable collection; I just like having all those options. I can understand sizing down, though. After all, we can't take it all with us when we die, and there's no possible way I will ever finish everything I'm interested in. Just my Steam library would likely take a lifetime. Of course, many of those probably aren't worth playing, either. Xeo, man, you had an X'Eye? I always wanted one of those. Or a CDX. Or a Nomad. But I'm pretty happy actually owning a Sega CD; one of my better memories was buying one from a classmate of my brother's for $30. I paid a little extra (something like $3 each) for burned copies of the big RPGs. This was back in 1999, so I'm pretty sure I didn't even own a burner at that point. Most of the games I sold or traded, I ended up reobtaining through an eBay splurge before NES prices got ridiculous. So they might not be my childhood copies, but at least I've got 'em. Heck, a few of them are complete, like Rampart or Deja Vu, so that's really cool. I wanted a Nomad so bad as a kid that I ended up buying one in my 20s just to compensate. A weird purchase, because I don't actually like portable gaming. I didn't expect the screen to be so small, that's one thing that definitely improved with portables over the years. I played it for a while, then put it away and haven't taken it out in years. A friend of mine had an X-Eye, too, I think I was the one who told him it even existed. We thought it was the coolest thing in theory, but yeah, there weren't that many Sega CD games around.
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Post by anayo on Jan 18, 2018 8:11:43 GMT -5
I'll just throw my "I like emulation" hat into the ring, and say I've beaten quite a few Saturn games using SSF. No the emulation isn't always "perfect", but it's certainly "good enough" 99% of the time. That said, if I had access to an actual Saturn which I could play burned games on, I would prioritize that approach. If you have a Sega Saturn but no mod chip, rhea, or Phoebe, then pseudo Saturn's not a bad way to go. The method required to flash a Gameshark or Action Replay cartridge is kind of awkward, requiring the disc swap trick, which I could never successfully pull off. If I hadn't already owned a modchipped Saturn I'd have probably just bought an already flashed cartridge from eBay.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 18, 2018 11:34:09 GMT -5
I was always paranoid about doing the swap trick. I did the mod instead. That board finally died on me last year, I think, so I had to get a replacement that wasn't nearly as nice looking, but it also works on any Saturn. Funnily enough, installing that mod was the first soldering I'd ever done. No pressure! (Even more sad is that I'd not gotten around to soldering despite being a computer engineering student. They've corrected that particular oversight in the program now.)
I've been tempted to flash my old Gameshark with Pseudo Saturn. I don't think it's 100%, but it's pretty close. And it seems like the easiest way to jump in on the actual hardware.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2018 12:01:35 GMT -5
The only regret I still have today is selling my original Atari 2600 and games even though I've rebuilt that collection.
I would maybe regret when I sold off my original NES and games but if I hadn't done that I would have never used the money to get into MechWarrior 2 so it was worth it.
As I get older I start edging towards maybe selling things off and going full emulation, but I still enjoy browsing the shelves too much for that (and I'm too lazy to put up with the headaches that come with selling some higher priced items). I know one day push will come to shove and I'll end up doing that though.
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Post by Ex on Jan 20, 2018 12:23:27 GMT -5
I know one day push will come to shove and I'll end up doing that though. The way I am about it, is if I've already beaten some expensive retro game in my library, and there's a good chance I'll never play it again, I'll sell said game without hesitation. I'd rather someone else out in the world have a chance to play it, rather than have said game just languishing on a shelf in my dork cave for eons. Plus I can use the proceeds to buy something new which I haven't experienced yet; that's a double win IMO. I personally feel no impetus to hold on to an expensive classic game merely out of collector-avariciousness, nor nostalgic pining. Then again, I'm no "collector" so my thoughts are going to sway from that mentality by default.
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Post by Xeogred on Jan 20, 2018 20:26:12 GMT -5
No doubt, I'm catching myself a lot lately realizing how silly it is that I'm emulating a bunch of games I already own that I could just as easily hookup again in the other room. Heck, I've even kept around this heavy ass APEX boob tube CRT for some reason over the years, which is never fun to move. Then I get fearful of carts losing saves, or that time I accidentally knocked my low quality Super Mario RPG cart and it erased everything directly after I finished it again several years ago. I tend to wonder if I loaded up some of my favorites, will my old saves still even be there right now?
The pipe dream is to have some "game room" someday in my life down the road with a nice setup of multiple TV's, systems, etc, but... in this day and economy who the heck knows when that will be.
I really do prize my SNES collection though. Was years in the making and is part of my last set of memories where I actually went out to hunt games down in person. Games are the single only "stuff" I value most in my house and tend to hold onto the most. And I don't think I have a problem with space or having too much like others, but yeah. Plus all the reluctance expressed in my main post for this very thread, so I would hate to pile up the regrets haha. Just can't shake feeling silly for emulating games right now that I own. They're like trophies I guess...
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Post by Ex on Jan 20, 2018 20:57:46 GMT -5
Just can't shake feeling silly for emulating games right now that I own. I don't know man, emulation has plenty of positives over the real thing. Yeah, we all know save-states can be abused, but they sure are nice when you're playing an action game that doesn't allow saving, but is over an hour long, and you have stuff to do halfway through. Plus emulators allow you to use any controller you want, in any configuration you want, regardless of the emulated platform. You can have crystal clear clarity from any old system, without needing an expensive FrameMeister. You can disable annoying stuff like sprite flickering, or play old handheld games with no LCD ghosting whatsoever. You can easily back up your save files wherever and however you want. And that's just to name a few positives. The real thing is cool too, not saying it isn't. But I just can't grok emulation being inferior in any way. Unless you're emulating something that's not very well emulated I guess.
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Post by anayo on Jan 20, 2018 22:46:16 GMT -5
I'm not above emulation, but for some reason running old games on the original hardware feels more magical to me. I think the hobby ties into my fascination for machines that aren't in use anymore. Maybe like how some people love vintage cars.
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