#Sony PlayStation

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dawn wind
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Is it weird that I consider Raiden one of the best looking games on PS1? The amount of details and stuff that goes on is so great.

bronze pulsar
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Seibu Kaihatsu shmups are quite good in general

dawn wind
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What else do they make? It seems strange that their art and sound is so on point when all they make are a couple shmup series. Or maybe that’s why it’s so good…

bronze pulsar
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Shmups mostly like you said, though they also made Dynamite Duke, Empire City: 1931 and Dead Angle

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My personal favorite is Viper Phase 1, had a pcb of it years ago

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dawn wind
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I played that once in an arcade and have wanted it ever since…

bronze pulsar
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Raiden DX on PSX actually has a bonus soundtrack, the OST from Viper Phase 1

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Yeah it's awesome

dawn wind
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I saw that - just doesn’t fit Raiden though :/

bronze pulsar
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True

dawn wind
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Of all the games I grabbed at launch, it’s just weird how Raiden Project impressed me so much (and the wow factor didn’t wear off, unlike Toshinden)

bronze pulsar
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Oh man, Toshinden. I had the longbox of that, Ridge Racer.. and Tekken maybe? I was a PSX teenager, none of that silly N64 kids stuff for me!(=P)

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Cant forget this one

sand minnow
forest trench
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I picked up the longbox of wipEout when I bought my PSX; after that it was all rentals, HK silvers, then CDRs for the next 5 years.
Still have that original copy of wipEout for some reason.

sand minnow
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Jumping Flash 1 was a long box game. Good stuff!

pseudo plinth
weary patio
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New core is probably PSP I think 😊

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Finally a Patreon for FOGAzumSpass again ✌️

kindred bane
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is there any major difference between the JAP and USA version of this game? If not i do like being able to understand text, even in a shooter it is usually of minimal importance 😁

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Oh and the one good thing about the cd32 controller is that it in fact had 6 buttons, vs the one or two on a standard stick used on the amiga. Altho one of the things i loved about mister is mapping keyboard stuff (space, shift etc) used in game to my joypad!

bronze pulsar
summer sage
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🙂

wise cargo
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Noticed when loading the game Racingroovy VS that the game hangs on the Sammy logo for about a minute before getting into game. It's not a big deal and the game plays perfectly fine. Just thought I'd mention it

bronze pulsar
wise cargo
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Added

twin walrus
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I accidentally grabbed the Saturn version, ignore my previous post

jovial jay
twin walrus
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I'm not really into prototypes but there is a guy that got me intrigued with it

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the website I found it on is pretty sketchy and if the game works, I'm re-uploading unless someone happens to have a less spooky source.

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and it works 😎

twin walrus
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I don't wanna break any rules by posting links but I got around to uploading the prototype.

twin walrus
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There's an E2 error in Threads of Fate as soon as you get to the menu

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ivory verge
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but game is still works ok ?

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Yes , the game works ok with E2 , so there is nothing to worry about.

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#psx-chat message

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it;s known

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turn off error notifications and that's it

serene nebula
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The bug was you!

ivory verge
twin walrus
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a bug's life

iron nova
twin walrus
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I don't encourage stealing, but I do encourage you to check it out

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Stopped playing when I saw how text heavy it was since i am not in the mood for text heavy games right now.

iron nova
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Ya that’s what I mean. Adding it to my bucket list of to play games

kindred bane
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Sorry for digging this one up. Just wondering if some modified settings are needed (welp i guess they are hence me asking) but i never notice any gfx anomalies with my settings with ps1 games (on crt) but with this game i indeed see some corruption at the bottom of the screen. Any suggestions on what to tweak? Will provide a screenshot if it would help.

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Oh and this is with the JAP version of F1 97 btw

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Lol really? Well i do know from first hand experience the pal to 60hz setting worked very nicely. Will try. Cheers!

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I was lured in by the bizarre creations bit. Not sure if they did the first one as well. Will give that one a go as well. Pretty sure i played it ‘back in The day’ as well on a rented ps1.

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Cool! Big fan of msr and especially pgr3. F1 97 didn’t make a great first impression even taking the gfx issue out of the equation

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Hehe we’d def need ‘the power of the playstation’ for that epic moustache!

ivory verge
kindred bane
weary patio
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This was the reason I started watching F1. Remember I had to choose between this game and a Multi Mega (small Mega CD). I picked the game since I already had a Sony Disc man. Watching F1 was the best part of my teenage years (Michael Schumacher was my childhood hero). Even my son is named Michael. So probably everyone will tell me I made a bad choose not buying the Sega, but I think it was destiny. 😉

weary patio
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Couldn't agree more...

plucky plume
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That man drove a mean F1 car at the height of his career, sometimes not afraid of pushing a rival off the track if push came to shove

bright yacht
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If anyone is interested in testing negcon with rumble on duckstation (windows only).
This breaks compatibility with ridge racer 4.
I might try to port this feature over to the core if I can get it stable enough.
https://github.com/sonik-br/duckstation/releases

bronze pulsar
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I always thought these were kind of interesting. The actual NES games ran on an emulator with ROMs hacked to disable the music, so the disc just either streamed the original 2A03 music or the arranged tracks from XA files.

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So like.. MSU-1 before MSU-1. Or something.

tulip moat
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Are you sure these run on emulation? Because I don't think the PS1 can emulate NES games.

hot marsh
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Is the flight stick compatible via usb? The large twin stick one

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Any recommended ps1/ps2 to usb for it?

hot marsh
bronze pulsar
scenic reef
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I've ran it on my PS1 and on the core a long time ago.

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It's not great, but it works, sorta and only for some games with simpler common mappers.

frail storm
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OMG my ears! That audio emulation sure is smooth criminal XD

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But it's great to see those emulators from the past, wow, how have we evolved

rare gyro
tacit fox
rare gyro
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in retrospect there was input lag, but it still scratched that itch

rare gyro
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That was also how I initially played the translated FF3. Good times

storm barn
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I've played a bunch of games on IMBNes too, including Samurai Pizza Cats.

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Sram games saves and save states could be saved on Memory card.

tacit fox
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It might be NES, right? 🙃

devout nacelle
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I bet NES on PS1 is a great experience..lol

rare gyro
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Hell I'm sure it'll work well on Robert's core. 😄

devout nacelle
rare gyro
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What?? no way! 👀

devout nacelle
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I know I'm a kill joy .lol

ebon tinsel
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I want an FPGA powerful enough for Dreamcast so I can run Bleem.

rare gyro
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and then you can run IMBnes on that! 👀

devout nacelle
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I guess I can't judge.I was running a NES game on SNES earlier

ebon tinsel
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I need to find a 68K NES emulator for Mac so I can do the Amiga -> Mac -> NES round trip on MiSTer just to be 'that guy.'

devout nacelle
ebon tinsel
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Sword of Omens: Give me Emu beyond Reason

rare gyro
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could this work?

ebon tinsel
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Looks like it's PPC only, so no 68K

rare gyro
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oh.. bummer

ebon tinsel
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It would be so stupid and fun to do.

rare gyro
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68020 or better 😄

ebon tinsel
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I'mma try it!

rare gyro
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Sweeeeeet!

weary patio
hot marsh
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So assuming I got a scph-1110 and use it via usb that treats both sticks as analog input, do I set the controller as dual shock with mode pressed?

tropic stratus
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it doesnt work probably, but you can try. if you can map the mode button to the cores switch button you can at least toggle the mode, but if the gsme sets the mode, the LED will not be correct

bright yacht
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Not possible to map it. It's a switch and not a button. Switch changes from digital to analog only.

random gust
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The SCPH-1110 is kind of one of those things that SNAC is for.

manic valley
tacit fox
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@wanton crown got RAM?

wanton crown
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No I'm in Ôsaka right now

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Needed a haircut and the japanese hair salon destroyed me

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What did the guy did not understand in 横はちょっと長くて本の少し切ってくれませんか

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Also the 32mb sd ram I ordered a few months ago is definitely lost

tacit fox
lapis tide
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Hello. How i can install dual sram version of psx core? With update all? Manually?

violet shoal
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#test-builds message

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this is the latest

hot marsh
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If i have the twin sticks and a usb converter that works with it, will it work for descent? Dont want to buy snac

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Like any special settings?

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Dont have the stick yet

shut escarp
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it still amazes me how far out of your way you go to make things difficult on yourself lol

random gust
hot marsh
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Aww. Oh well

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If i get a snac with mem slot, will pocket station work?

ivory verge
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yes , pocket works ok

hot marsh
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Is the legend of mana game good on pocket?

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I think that's the only other english game other than ff8's

shut escarp
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i would venture to say that none of the pocketstation games are 'good'

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theres a couple that are novel, for their time.

hot marsh
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Yeah, ff8 was a chore and boring

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It was great for unlocks though

bright yacht
tropic stratus
wise cargo
tropic stratus
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maybe someone with xstation can...i only have psio and i don't use it for anything that could be CD related 😅

wise cargo
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This is why I have a MiSTer, so I don't have to have real hardware 😁

tropic stratus
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i'm interested what is going on there... the game reads no CD sector for like 40 seconds. I have only seen something similar with die hard, which was related to memory card

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ok that's the reason: if the memcard is removed, the game boots fast

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same with using snac+real memcard as controller option, so it's not a timing issue or CD, but rather the emulated memcard

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loading and saving ingame with virtual memcard is also super slow

wise cargo
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That's interesting. So do you suspect this happens on real hardware with a real memory card or is this a byproduct of the virtual memory card?

tropic stratus
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that's the question. anyone with snac + real memcard could try on the core

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i don't have my setup ready for this currently

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when i tried, i only activated SNAC but had no memcard, so it behaves just like removing the virtual memcard

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but that could explain why duckstation and mednafen also have the issue: if it's really related to virtual memcard, maybe the game has some odd non-standard code to access the memcard and no emulated memcard is prepared for that

stable perch
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or maybe it's a bug in the game.... stranger things have happened...

ivory verge
tropic stratus
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thank you

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i will update the github entry with the new infos

tropic stratus
stable perch
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I saw a game bug the other day on PC Engine...it's helpful to have real hardware/software around to verify

tropic stratus
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i should have bought a xstation modded psx last year, but somehow always tried to get through with what i have. If it's for verify and not for debugging, someone here always tested and i had my excuse 😅

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for executing tests, PSIO is much more useful than xstation due to direct USB connection, but unfortunatly not for verifying real games

stable perch
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yeah, for PC Engine, there is no substitute for real hardware and real games... too much variance otherwise

abstract drift
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now PSIO is cracked i think some people are working on making it actually useful for debugging/dev

still palm
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RacingGroovy - I tested with snac turned on for port 1,2.

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with virtual MC it hung on sammy logo for about 50 seconds

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with real MC in port 1, it hung for 50 seconds also

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with no MC it only stays on sammy logo for about 13 seconds

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This probably needs checked on real HW, i suspect it will be the same or close

ivory verge
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Thanks for checking 👍🏻

abstract drift
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is this the US version?

ivory verge
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I think there is only a Japanese version

still palm
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yeah I tested japan version, not sure it's in other regions unless it has a different name

odd glen
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Racinggroovy - real ps1 with xstation and mem card - 47 seconds on Sammy logo

ivory verge
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Wow, nice 👍🏻

odd glen
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Testing now without mem card

ivory verge
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So this game just works like this

odd glen
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10 seconds without mem card

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So seems the same on real hardware

ivory verge
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Great, Thanks!

odd glen
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Np

tropic stratus
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great, thank you

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so can we say, no bug at all?

still palm
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Thanks for testing Splash. yeah i'd say no bug and time differences may just be when we started the stop watch

odd glen
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Or maybe xstation if its faster at reading the disc

tropic stratus
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ok, will close the bug then @wise cargo

wise cargo
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Good deal. Glad to have verifed this is normal behavior 🙂

tropic stratus
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and no worries. i doubt anyone would have thought nearly 1 minute is normal behavior 🙂

abstract drift
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i wonder how the devs didn't notice

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that must of been infuriating for their qa

tropic stratus
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especially since ingame it also takes ages to save and load, not just booting up

abstract drift
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i guess they could of like pulled the card to save a minute booting up then plugged it in later

ivory verge
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Maybe they didn't use memory cards 🤣

tropic stratus
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maybe they played diablo before

abstract drift
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possibly yeah, debug menus

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is it filling the whole card like diablo?

tropic stratus
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i didn't test how much, but booting up only writes one sector like every game that "just reads"

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one write to test if writing works at all

frail storm
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Looking at Guardian Legend, it seems to do a very strange thing when entering the in-game menu, like a corrupt frame or something like that. Has anybody else noticed? Such a bad game, but well, I saw that.

ivory verge
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I can't find this game

lusty knot
ivory verge
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Yes, it's a known issue

lusty knot
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Thanks

frail storm
ivory verge
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Game changes resolution when entering menu

buoyant plinth
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Somewhat common in PSX menus; no problem for the original analogue out, painful for HDMIs

ivory verge
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This game even changes the resolution during dialogues with npc 🙃

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And I agree it is not a good game

frail storm
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@ivory verge Ah, so what I see is an HDMI "artifact", right?

ivory verge
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Yeah

frail storm
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Oh, great, thanks Kuba! 🙂

ivory verge
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No prob!

tropic stratus
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there is an option for inserting a black frame in the OSD. This might be useful in such a case or make it worse, you need to try

bitter lintel
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play with it. it's a playstation.

manic valley
bronze pulsar
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I guess if people want to play it that way, that's fine. I don't really see the point tbh

manic valley
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I have more of an issue with the misinformed dude talking ..

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But yeah to each their own

tulip moat
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I don't trust anyone that wants to erase the texture warble and dithering associated with the PS1.

manic valley
bronze pulsar
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It's all fun and games until someone changes the gif that the hyperlink blockchain is linking to

serene nebula
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plus that’s stuff has been the norm for years. Imagine playing MiSTer without HQ2X, god all the games would look like awful pixel messes.

bronze pulsar
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People are actually playing 3D games on the PSX and Saturn cores? bowserthink

ivory verge
serene nebula
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I do SotN runs everyday, always with widescreen, texture smoothing, and HQ2X. I’m convinced this is what Hideo Kojima would’ve wanted if he made that game today.

empty yacht
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you are using the flight stick, no?

serene nebula
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Two sticks for complete versatility too.

bronze pulsar
bronze pulsar
serene nebula
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No he did Lords of Shadow, shows what you know jabroni

bronze pulsar
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I photoshopped Iga's then beardless face onto cheeseball dracula on the us haunted castle poster, I know who made castle- er akumaj- er.. you know what I mean!

serene nebula
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lol

bronze pulsar
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They actually changed the japanese title to castlevania on one game in the 00s, it didnt go well and they backpedaled

serene nebula
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But why? Were they trying to globalize the brand?

bronze pulsar
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Probably

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Apparently LOS series is also called Castlevania in japan

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Never liked those

manic valley
bronze pulsar
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I bought the first LOS game when it came out, the first level was okay.. then it wanted me to play some shitty horse riding quicktime event game and I turned it off and never played again.

manic valley
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Happy Easter

meager parrot
bronze pulsar
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The 2D ones generally do 😉

gilded trellis
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They have aged better (personal opinion)

bronze pulsar
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I mean I dunno.. some early 3D is fun. I Robot anyone?

abstract drift
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i'm playing dino crisis right now, looks great

ivory verge
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mmm DC chefkiss

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great game

abstract drift
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do you remember where the guy whose fingerprints i need is btw?

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i don't like looking up answers but i'll ask rando internet people 😄

ivory verge
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elevator hall ?

abstract drift
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could be, i think thats still locked for me right now

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i've got a pair of DDK keys that need to go into a door somewhere, its probably that one

ebon tinsel
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MiSTer > Amiga > Mac > NES

dawn wind
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We need to go deeper

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Can you emulate say a calculator in NES?

bronze pulsar
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https://youtu.be/rM-89XIAxSs?t=9

YouTube
Jeremy M.
Windows 98 NES

UPDATE 1/15/12: This ROM can be downloaded at: mediafire(dot)com/?nymyhzwmmwn Enjoy!

A bootlegged NES version of Windows 98.
Complete with Chinese letters and wrongly interpreted versions of real Windows 98 software.
You can't press many/all buttons in many of the "applications" and is generally a novelty item more than anything serious overall...

▶ Play video
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Ill do you one better

ebon tinsel
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Sound is clicking badly, but...

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bronze pulsar
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Excellent, it's running

hot marsh
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Is it possible for the mister to emulate pocketstation just to get the raw save data?

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Like i copy the data and save it to ps2 and transfer it to a real pocketstation?

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Basically me not wanting to get a snac for it

shut escarp
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You have literally every other peripheral under the sun but you don’t want to buy a SNAC adapter? Why?

hot marsh
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  1. Don't want to buy more controllers for psx. Don't want to open that can of worms
  2. Have a pi already connected to serial
  3. Analog twin stick thing works with tge usb dongle i found.
  4. Buying pocket station mostly for nostalgia (washer killed it)
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Probably wont use pocketstation but you know want the option lol

cosmic tulip
serene nebula
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However you can use a SNAC adapter plus a PS1 multi tap and can connect your PocketStation that way

hot marsh
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Oh i guess that could work instead of getting that more expensive snac

serene nebula
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You mean the MisterAddons SNAX? As far as I know only the newest SNAC adapters work with PS1.

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There’s one from AliExpress that I think works just fine, even has a memory card port.

shut escarp
serene nebula
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Ohhhhhh nice!

serene nebula
shut escarp
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Correct

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I got it for my MiSTercade setup specifically so I didn’t have to keep a multi tap inside the cab cluttering things up

serene nebula
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@hot marsh I think the RetroCastle adapter might be perfect for you based on on what Kajoq said. I imagine it’s also way cheaper to get it shipped to you.

manic valley
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For views .. it’s absurd

cosmic tulip
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yeah. It's pretty ridiculous

ebon tinsel
final plaza
manic valley
final plaza
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Asking for opinions by saying "PITCHFORKS AT THE READY FOLKS!"?

Well here's one opinion. He looks like another youtuber covering games/news. He seems to be putting effort into his videos and has an audience sitting at 458K subscribers. More power to him I guess but Will I personally watch his content? Not really.

eternal vapor
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I thought the video was terrible so I disliked it. Ofc you shouldn't attack someone just for making bad videos though. He's probably a decent enough guy

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But also I think the whole "pitchforks at the ready" was understood to be a joke

shut escarp
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It is

iron nova
forest trench
ebon tinsel
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Hah! I don't even see autocorrect mistakes anymore. I'm on a Surface Duo II. The keyboard is 90% wishful thinking.

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Fixed

forest trench
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Just noticed that edits propagate to quotes in replies too, that's handy

ebon tinsel
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This bar is certain death for any word with a last letter on the top row.

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forest trench
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Ha, I can see how that would be annoying

kindred bane
# cosmic tulip I do not like That Youtuber but some games do benefit from duckstation's modific...

I feel the distinction is mostly nostalgia, if you played and loved the games back then it’s fine, if you didn’t making the gfx ‘better’ hmm i guess more up to date with todays standards is less subjective 😅 is an option to help. For me the combo of the og gfx AND early 3d controls is why i am not interested in most ps1 (or sat/n64) 3d games. Still do enjoy wipeout and sega rally, i guess the controls and genre help!

bronze aurora
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I like both. I play PS1 for fun via Mister and a PVM. For streaming I tend to use the settings (via emulator) to disable dithering/texture warping/wobbling/etc because Twitch has a horribly low bitrate limit and not sending an ultra detailed mess to the encoder helps

frail storm
bitter lintel
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why aren't you asking in the amiga channel.... wherever that is

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get outta here amigafan

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this is ridge raaaaceeeer territory

frail storm
bitter lintel
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whoa whoa whoa, i'm not a moderator. you do as you please buddy. lol

bitter lintel
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amiga plebs

ivory verge
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Amiga forever alive 🙂

manic valley
lusty knot
lusty knot
lusty knot
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not following

forest trench
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030/040 on Amiga was a productivity software thing
No games were ever targeted to that level

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(At least the ones released during the Amiga's lifespan)

lusty knot
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i didn't understand your earlier comment.

you wrote that more games can be played when ___ but then said why you're not into those cores

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"When you have increased range in a car, you can travel to places not possible otherwise.

That's why I don't use those cars."

forest trench
# lusty knot certainly LOTS of games play much better. but when you qualify with "targeted"....

There would have been zero incentive for games publishers to create games with those higher end machines in mind
The Amiga market was bifurcated in a very binary way
On one hand you had your European kids/teens in their bedrooms playing games/coding demos on their A500s and 600s
Then you had the American broadcast market rendering Lightwave animations and using the Toaster for video wipes and transitions

lusty knot
forest trench
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THe market for Amiga high end gaming was pretty much non-existant
Compared with the PC, which had much more middle ground between business and gaming users

lusty knot
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that said, nearly every game I enjoy on the Amiga were from the stock 68000 era

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I don't play Doom/Heretic/Hexen type games on the Amiga 🙂

forest trench
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Yeah, I don't even bother with "Doom on the Amiga" type games, because quite frankly they were surpassed by PC at that point

lusty knot
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286/386 era was getting there with some 2D games

forest trench
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The gems are the earlier Amiga stuff like you said, which were a whole other level when compared with Tandy, CGA, PC speaker games

lusty knot
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wasn't until 486 and discrete GPUs came along where PC gaming stood its ground

lusty knot
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mid to late 80's Amiga gaming / computing felt like the future came early

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went from clunky PC titles and low-fi 8bit titles to stereo sound and super fast and big graphics

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like overnight

forest trench
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Yeah, got my 500 in late 87 and was blown away, as were my family and friends

lusty knot
forest trench
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Mind you, I was coming from the 2600 😆

lusty knot
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like Gen2 to Gen4

lusty knot
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hahahaha

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me:

2600

C64

Amiga

PC 😦

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although technically the NES and SMS squeezed their way in too

forest trench
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My cousin had a NES which at least gave me the chance to play Castlevania, SMB3, etc.
But I always thought the palette was so drab and uninspiring even compared with the 2600

lusty knot
forest trench
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Yeah, C64 colours were even worse

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I've warmed up to the NES these days
but still can't really stomach the C64 palette

lusty knot
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although the NES felt like a NeoGeo at the time bc my friends and I would bike to the neighborhood conveneience store to play SMB1 and so when I saw how the NES SMB was near identical, I flipped my shit.

esp it was being sold at K-Mart for $99

I begged for one by parents were like, bitch you already have an atari and computer, why do you need this?!?

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during that era, every home game was comapred to the "arcade". and we ate up shitty ports after shitty ports bc what else are you going to do?

the world order was:

arcade shit was the best

You get what you get at home and like it

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so when the NES came out and the games were like their arcade PCBs... wow

forest trench
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NES came out was I was starting High School and getting big into girls
so games kind of fell by the wayside
But picked up again when I got my Amiga

lusty knot
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while I had an Amiga in the late 80's and early 90's, gaming stopped pretty much after my 1st copule of Amgia years

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i know!

forest trench
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MiSTer is great for catching up on stuff you missed the first time round

lusty knot
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just Marble Madness bc that was an 80's thing

lusty knot
forest trench
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If I could go back in time a few decades and show myself the MiSTer, my mind would be blown...

but NOT because I have every game I ever dreamed of for every system at my fingertips (stored on a tiny card the size of my fingernail and playable with every arcade or console controller)...

My mind would be blown because I have access to all this stuff, but somehow I'm still playing 2600 games 🙃

lusty knot
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if I thought this stuff wuld be fun later, I wouldn't have sold them. but hey time value of money and all that

forest trench
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Exactly, 40 years of going after the latest and greatest and sticking the old stuff in boxes in the basement
Now all that old stuff is more fun than PS5 for some reason

lusty knot
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but now I can go back and hit up older RPGs

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plus, with the benefit of hindsight, you aren't as likely to play a big dud

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although I did get bitten playing through Earthboound. I get why ppl like it but as a game, it's not very good

forest trench
#

To be fair, I never lost my awe and reverence of arcade games
Even just Donkey Kong or Ms. Pac Man in a mall 20 years later

lusty knot
#

although in 2023, I don't really enjoy some of those big titles any more.

fortunately there are hundreds of popular title (as defined by sales and number of home ports) left to still enjoy

forest trench
#

Yeah, those big 100 hour excursions were amazing when expansive virtual worlds were a new thing
But once you've saved the world dozens of times all that redundant lore doesn't seem so important anymore

lusty knot
forest trench
#

Yeah, dopamine hits still pull me in after all these years

eternal vapor
#

Characters and story were almost nonexistent, and the gameplay was super standard

lusty knot
eternal vapor
#

That kinda makes sense I guess although I felt it was kinda lacking in that department too tbh

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I did find the aesthetic and humor charming enough though

lusty knot
#

it had a nice tone that is diff than other games, i'll give it that

eternal vapor
#

But it didn't blow me away or anything

lusty knot
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yeah

eternal vapor
#

Yeah definitely unique

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It did get much more interesting in the last hour or two though

lusty knot
#

one of the few sunk-cost games that forced me to finish bc by the time I realize the game wasn't gonna ramp up, i had already spent so much time on it

eternal vapor
#

Yeah same here

random gust
#

Perhaps you both might have enjoyed it more had your expectations not been driven up by others?

ivory verge
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#1046941029296779344 message @upper forge it's very fun game! thanks

final salmon
#

Hoping for help describing a bug before I'd add a GitHub report. Can't seem to search the "PSX" thread to check for previous discussions or potential fix.
PAL Analog output can ~~often ~~have a sort of "warble?". Visuals jitter up and down, but not always. Often on the PSX boot menu, but for a game example this is Final Fantasy VIII. (EDIT: Attempts to find in other games failed. Maybe it is only the FF8 intro and the odd boot screen)
PAL, RGB, vga_mode=rgb; composite_sync=1

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Checking my PS2 (no longer have PS1), the visuals do fluctuate in intensity, but the up/down jitter is not present.
The same scene from the intro cutscene looks fine on NTSC. Same INI setings.
NTSC, RGB, FF8 intro again

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Any potential fix or user error I might be missing? On previous play I thought to myself maybe it was always this way. Does get a bit tiring on the eyes though!

lusty knot
final salmon
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Ya. Does the same thing on Composite too via adapter

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Once you skip the cutscene, the "New Game" screen has no obvious image shake then. It seems odd

abstract drift
#

might be all the places you're seeing it are interlaced

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check for it just in the bios thats 480i

final salmon
#

Will do. Didn't record the resolution output. It was only intro cutscene. The "New Game" cutscene seemed fine, FFIX was fine, etc...
I'll check it now

final salmon
# abstract drift might be all the places you're seeing it are interlaced

Might be it.
Boot Screen: 704x576i
PAL FF8 Intro (as in video): 704x576i
PAL FF8 New Game Screen (looks good): 405x288
PAL FF8 New Game Cutscene (fine again): 352x288
I'd foolishly went from intro to new game cutscene thinking they'd be similar. Guess not.
Also....
NTSC FF8 Intro (as in video): 704x480i. Maybe it is PAL "480" (which seems to be 576i in the core)

abstract drift
#

yeah sorry i should of said pal is 576 high

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ntsc is 480, so that all checks out

final salmon
#

Thanks very much. Clarifies the issue nicely! I don't suppose you know any other 480i (or 576i) examples I could use to test before I make the report?

abstract drift
#

menus in silent hill, dino crisis and chrono cross are all interlaced

final salmon
#

Thank you

abstract drift
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check and make sure you have "sync 480i for hdmi" turned off

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under video & audio

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not certain but that might affect it

final salmon
#

Not sure if better or worse. "sync 480i for hdmi" had been On.
When switched to OFF, OSD menu now flickers, and quiet a lot too. The cutscene section I'd noted looks perhaps a little better. I think it is still shaking though... starting to doubt my eyes

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Is this how "sync 480i for hdmi" is intended then?
I saved the setting OFF, then restarted the core. The PS boot icon looked perfect. 576i.

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Though, the Memory Card - CD Player scene immediately after, still 576i, is shaking.
I then loaded FF8 again, no shaking at all in the cutscene. Not sure what to make of that.

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System had been set to AUTO. Noticed on boot it quickly starts around 60Hz before going down to PAL. Setting core to PAL, saving, and resetting the core fixed the boot (Now showing PAL boot, not NTSC menu forced into 49.7Hz).
FF8 still did seem to have a little jitter, though perhaps that's just staring too long at interlaced.

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TLDR: Seemingly a difference in how NTSC and PAL are handled. But is this "sync 480i for hdmi" working as intended then?
Thanks very much Freddo. Got a workable fix at least for sure!

abstract drift
#

even when iits working perfectly you're going to see a little up/down motion on long horizontal edges

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thats just normal interlacing

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it might be more obvious at 50hz since its moving slower

tropic stratus
#

you should never activate "sync 480i for hdmi" when using analog out. As the name says, it's only for HDMI(scaler) to not loose sync on interlaced<->non-interlaced switches. The result is, that it makes interlaced content run with non-interlaced timing

hot marsh
#

Thinking of buying a PS1 controller ports and a generic PS1 snac adapter. Are the memory card PCBs easy to remove and solder to?

cosmic tulip
hot marsh
#

I could but I'm not paying 5x the price for something I could do that doesn't even come with an extension cable

still palm
#

the was MC addon pcb you can use with the "generic" PS1 snac adapter. not sure if anyone sells them though

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maybe @tall rover had some

tall rover
dawn wind
#

But my TV seems to be “special”

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MikeS had to tweak several yc cores because my tv wasn’t handling them right. And it’s a Trinitron which makes it all the odder.

serene nebula
#

I like how it asks the question “Winner?” in the thumbnail fully knowing that no matter which version is “better” we’re all losers for playing it.

devout nacelle
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"Hey look at this comparison and tell us which turd has the best polish on it!"

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Don't get too close they smell the same

serene nebula
#

I think Time Commando was onto a good idea but their execution was terrible. If it had fun action gameplay and was built for the arcades I think it could’ve found an audience.

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LOL @upper forge I was thinking of Perfect Weapon

IMG_2492.jpg
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Damnit, I don’t own Time Commando

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LOL Perfect Weapon is awful. It’s like Time Commando but really shitty.

bronze pulsar
#

So it's recursively shitty?

serene nebula
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I got those two games mixed up. I remember now, Time Commando was cool. I played it on PC.

bronze pulsar
#

Uhm..Im looking at a video of Time Commando on PC

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I feel I've been trolled

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Like I was expecting Daikatana but more competent and got a dude in spandex slap fighting a caveman

serene nebula
#

Yeah, like it’s not great now. But at the time it was novel enough.

bronze pulsar
#

Dat kitty has a big mouf

serene nebula
#

Like @upper forge said, it’s basically like an evolution of Alone in the Dark. It looked really good at the time, especially on PC.

bronze pulsar
#

I mean you can always forego Alone in the Dark, and play Sweet Home instead

serene nebula
#

That game rocks

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I never played the Little Big Adventure games sadly

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Wow, I’m gonna have to play it on MiSTer tonight chefkiss

foggy quiver
#

For fans of games like Time Commando or Alone in the Dark, Fear Effect 1 and 2 are worth trying as well on PS1

serene nebula
#

I still haven’t tried them and I own both for PS1 😅

foggy quiver
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I played quite far on Fear Effect 1 but never finished it

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The attract more demo that runs if you wait a while on the main menu in Time Commando reveals some good hints, for example where to search in the first screen to find a shard to use as weapon, etc.

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Nice game IMO. Colony wars also uses that hi res 640x240 resolution, it is quite unusual but the effect is cool.

hollow compass
# bronze pulsar I mean you can always forego Alone in the Dark, and play Sweet Home instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vlh7JfAtvY
did you manage to sit through that

YouTube
Helgen X
スウィートホーム - Sweet Home (1989) Full Movie (Eng Subs), Highest Quality

日本語とEnglish chat is okay here! Practice English or 日本語　FOR HARDCORE BIOHAZARD/Resident Evil Fans here!

A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.

A video game was also released for the Nintendo Ente...

▶ Play video
bronze pulsar
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I've seen it yeah, I thought it was pretty decent for its time

hollow compass
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Brutal. I've never gotten through Sweet Home either. Just a poser.

bronze pulsar
#

Better than the movie Ghost Lion NES is based on thats for sure

hollow compass
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If only there was a Cheetamen II movie...

bronze pulsar
#

Kabuki Quantum Fighter's FC version is based on a movie called Zipang! with ninjas dressed in black trash bags though

hollow compass
#

Must... otaku...

bronze pulsar
#

Just let it happen

strong hatch
#

I got to the very end of sweet home but I never finished it, gets a bit tedious with how much you have to travel around for the last few puzzles

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oh wait we're talking about watching the movie lol

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nevermind

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I've had a copy downloaded for years but never watched more than the opening scenes

broken timber
#

It’s a pretty cool movie if you’re into that era of special effects and screenplay. A lot of the effects were done by Dick Smith (he worked on the Exorcist and the godfather etc)

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Furutachi Ichiro (who plays the cameraman in the movie, dressed in all red) is a an announcer that you see quite a lot of on tv these days

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*on Japanese tv, that is

random gust
nova flame
#

Jesus christ @tropic stratus your latest patreon post 😍😍😍

ivory verge
#

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nova flame
#

Kinda feel dirty discussing it in the psx channel 😜

tropic stratus
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I would rather have kept it private for longer, but i guess that doesn't work well together with patreon. It's not fair to stay so long in silence. People should know what they support

ivory verge
#

this is impossible, unrealistic

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I am crushed

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hahah

nova flame
#

Better buy some N64 controllers before they dry up 😁

ivory verge
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I guess I'm still not awake

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great respect to you @tropic stratus

tropic stratus
#

Thank you, was spending many many hours the last days to finally get a game nice looking 😅

runic edge
#

someone post a gif of the n64 kid

sour sierra
#

Have you met Merlin , what is the magic ingredient in this?

dark mountain
#

Mad respect for bringing the N64 on FPGA.

harsh shale
ivory verge
#

it's too late for calm

abstract drift
#

well if anyone can do it Rob can 😄

ivory verge
#

N64 core channel please 😛

abstract drift
#

isn't there n64 cartridges bigger than 128mb?

sour sierra
#

Mbytes or mbits?

nova flame
#

Google says 4 to 64mb

kindred void
#

the Resident Evil 2 ROM is 64 MBytes

tall rover
ivory verge
#

don't spam psx anymore 😛 😛 😛

iron abyss
nova flame
iron abyss
#

Someone edit that pic of the N64 cart plugging into the mister with the red circle.

devout nacelle
#

I been saying for a while I thought it might be N64

weary patio
wise cargo
#

N64 is my favorite console ever! This is so hype!!!

weary patio
iron abyss
hidden prism
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To all the people who insulted me when I asked if there were N64 games that could play with shortcuts and below clock speed, I say: if you can’t be technically specific about why something isn’t possible, maybe don’t say anything discouraging.

tropic stratus
#

actually the shortcut solution was my initial plan: only make the decompile projects (Mario64, OoT, Mario Kart,...) run with a custom CPU and otherwise normal N64 components. But well, if you go so far, you can just also do the CPU. Even if it really requires a hack or two, it's still better than a custom CPU

tacit fox
visual depot
#

Sorry for anyone that took a hit on that, but we all thought it couldn't be done

mystic violet
#

@tropic stratus you lost your mind 😉 n64? 🙂

hidden prism
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I agree. It’s nice to know my instincts weren’t too far of 🙂

visual depot
#

There are many projects where we can't put a finger on if it's possible or not, so most stay silent with hope. But N64 was one of those that most people put their foot down

tropic stratus
#

i said it myself: some years ago i made a very quick prototype of the cpu. non-working, just to check the timing and it came out at 85 Mhz in a empty FPGA. That's why i intially also scraped the idea and did Lynx, Wonderswan and PSX instead. But over time, you learn more things

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i still think we will not reach timing closure for 93mhz, but that doesn't mean it cannot run. PSX turbo improvements showed that there are other ways to improve the performance if it needs to

hidden prism
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I believe I asked “how many games would run fine at 80mhz since they might be blocked on memory or RDP anyway?” 😉

tropic stratus
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the answer is: most. E.g. play a game on ares today. It effectly underclocks the CPU massivly due to wrong cache timing

hidden prism
#

yup. Part of my question was based on my experience with UltraHLE and other early N64 emulators

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(I based my first startup, BugScan, around the ideas I learned about symbolic execution from HLE)

tropic stratus
#

Project 64 is even better. It has a database of games telling if the cpu with that game should run with 93mhz or 50% or 33% speed

hidden prism
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Oh nice, the data already somewhat exists then! 😄

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I assume a better cache Implementation might also alleviate some of the loss in clock speed by eliminating some fetches

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maybe even a “simple” prefetch, depending on if that would help specific games

tacit fox
#

Get a N64 room channel, guys! 😛

rare gyro
#

I guess there's not much you can do about the ram speed

azure reef
#

would be awesome if so

tropic stratus
rare gyro
#

Yeah so you'd be sacrificing quite a bit of authenticity to overcome that hurdle

mystic violet
#

while reading the twitter feed right now 😄

manic valley
#

Im like more excited than when Robert dropped the psx2x core

bronze pulsar
manic valley
#

Don’t you mouth off to me !

bronze pulsar
#

Listen to your elders, you hooligan

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Violent Ken first appearance ~

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Playable first in SVC Chaos

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I love that one, Fatal Fury The Motion Picture too

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Theres an FMV game that does IIRC

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Same mold as Super Adventure Rockman

bronze pulsar
#

Fun fact - Cham Cham is playable on Samsho 4 Special on PSX

keen fiber
#

Is there a master list of all the extra features/options the PSX core has over original hardware?

ivory verge
keen fiber
#

Danke

ivory verge
#

Kein problem 😉

mystic violet
#

@ivory verge are you going to be part of the N64 party? 😄

ivory verge
#

Yes sir !

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My son is already asking when he will play Mario 🤣

mystic violet
#

nice

empty yacht
#

he will play the 5 or so games the console has to the fullest

pseudo veldt
manic valley
#

Psx chat so ded naow that n64 is in the horizon ..

bronze pulsar
#

As an edgy PSX teenager I decry baby's first 3D console and demand Twisted Metal tourneys

manic valley
#

Nah we all about that vigilante 8 since it’s on N64

#

Twisted metal sucks

bronze pulsar
hot marsh
#

So got my psx port replacement for ps1 and it looks like i can just solder directly on the mem card slots of the snac

If i do that, the controller ports would work too right? The snac has the 9 controller ports exposed

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Will probably look for a ribbon cable and connector and use those

still palm
#

all pins are shared on both ports except one, so you'd need to wire 9 wires to one port and wire 1 to the other port

hot marsh
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Ok. Hopefully i can find a ribbon cable and connector

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Like port - board - snac

serene nebula
#

Confession time. I didn’t really like Castlevania until Symphony of the Night

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Incredible game though.

bronze pulsar
#

Chronicles must have disappointed you

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If you were aware of it anyway, it was a weird budget release that kind of flew under the radar at the time

serene nebula
#

Yeah I skipped out on it

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I played the NES games and enjoyed them, and rented Super Castlevania. They were fun games but I was never into the movie monster stuff.

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But damn, the art in SotN was really good

bronze pulsar
#

X68000 is my favorite game in the whole series, but I really like Universal/Hammer horror influenced games a lot so it skews my preferences

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Ayami Kojima is a wonderful artist

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Im fine with Iga's direction of the series SOTN-onward for the most part

#

it only got crappy when Mercury Steam did their games

serene nebula
#

yeah I appreciate that stuff now

#

I really enjoyed the GBA trilogy

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I was probably peak Castlevania fan then

bronze pulsar
#

If you're a lore nerd than Grimoire of Souls has some fun fanservice. Characters from different time periods talking to each other and stuff. The gameplay is worthless but a youtube video of the game where Simon talks to Maria is priceless

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GBA ones are good, I like COTM a lot

hot marsh
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I havent gone far on sotn but have finished gba and ds games

strong hatch
#

this reminds me, I should get back to my punching only playthrough that I started on my MiSTer last year...totally forgot where I stopped, I think I might have gotten to the inverted castle

wanton crown
#

so I come back from Japan and learn about the n64 core ?

#

my god Robert is literally a god among men

tacit fox
hot marsh
#

Yeah excited about that core but will probably take time to boot a retail game

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Are there any must have controllers?

#

Only have twin stick and og dpad. Dont care about racing

random gust
hot marsh
#

Probably not on those

serene nebula
#

AWWWWW

hot marsh
#

I do have the fishing stick on dc

serene nebula
#

I was so excited to talk about Densha de Go!

hot marsh
#

Well i will check it out

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Like train conducting

#

Is ps1 or dc the best for densha?

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Or god forbid n64

serene nebula
#

LOL

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I’d say PS1 because of the options

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Densha de Go final for the PS2 is “the best” but it’s not on MiSTer so blobshrug

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The PS1 games are all fun though. Don’t play the first one, it’s straight up arcade difficulty and super strict lol.

Play 2 with a regular controller to see if you like it. If you do, great. If you don’t, also great.

hot marsh
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Well ps1 is sold kinda xheap here

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Like $30 with box

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Maybe i will get it for the lols

serene nebula
#

the little indentation in the middle is for a pocket watch

hot marsh
#

I thought it was a dumb idea for a drink lol

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Wow controller can be used on a ps4 and switch successor game

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Via converters

serene nebula
#

Oh nice

hot marsh
#

Any game that can use this well?

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Ultraman game controller

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Thinking for bishi bashi but some games use triggers

#

I also blame robby if I start buying all sorts of PS1 controllers

#

sadly negcon and jogcon are not available

tacit fox
shut escarp
#

Would be good for hand DDR

serene nebula
hot marsh
#

I don't think I'll find that in my country

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we'll see

harsh shale
bronze pulsar
serene nebula
bronze pulsar
#

Two hits from a medusa head into a pit deters most children

serene nebula
#

It was probably the difficulty and lack of bright cartoony graphics.

harsh shale
bronze pulsar
harsh shale
#

Treasure?

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Most people say SOTN some say Rondo

#

I'm in the far minority lol

bronze pulsar
#

Try simping for X68000

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Im in the far far minority

harsh shale
#

That one seems good!

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A little glitchy on mister

bronze pulsar
#

I absolutely love it. The Chronicles PSX port is welcome, but the controls are kind of floaty, and it has some dithering turned on for some reason(easily turned off in PSX core nowadays)

I used to do full 6 loops on my XVI Compact all the time

harsh shale
#

I've never been able to defeat a Castlevania game

vagrant badger
bronze pulsar
harsh shale
#

I get lost lol

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I tried with a walkthrough and lost interest somewhere in the upside down castle

#

I need to go back and finish it

bronze pulsar
#

Go farm dual Crissaegrim and dual Ring of Varda, you can crush anything in the reverse castle with ease except maybe Galamoth

harsh shale
#

For one I tried farming that thing and didn't find any, for two, my issue isn't difficulty

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With that game I either get lost or just don't enjoy it lol

bronze pulsar
#

Im sorry I dont think there is anything I can do for you, Im going to have to pull the plug

dawn wind
#

Fun story. First time I played SOTN was the Japanese import with like no translations yet available. And I got the crissaegram as just a random drop without even trying. Kinda ruined the game with how trivial things suddenly were.

bronze pulsar
#

It is ridiculously OP

dawn wind
#

And I didn’t even know - I just thought it was an normal expected weapon drop n

bronze pulsar
#

You can do crazier stuff with the shield rod but yeah criss is pretty much a game breaker

wanton crown
#

このゲームをしたことがありません。どんなアイテムですか　武器や装備んですか

dawn wind
#

And let me tell you - not knowing what items do sure made the Galamoth fight /interesting/

serene nebula
bronze pulsar
vagrant badger
#

Thanks , I’m curious now ! I’ll check eBay

serene nebula
#

I WISH, Jet de Go 2 lol

dawn wind
#

If gear didn’t make numbers go up I didn’t have the time to try and figure out it old school d&d style

bronze pulsar
#

Where there is a will there is a way

dawn wind
#

And throwing literally every consumable item at him

#

I should play SOTN again

harsh shale
#

How do you learn all this stuff

I wouldn't know any of that just playing it

dawn wind
#

Not from a Jedi

devout nacelle
harsh shale
#

Don't need to be a Jedi I'll take whatever I get

wanton crown
hot marsh
#

Anyone own a v pick?

#

Also surprised there's a tambourine controller

#

Kinda wanna buy it

visual depot
hot marsh
#

Yeah forgot about that although i prolly should finish my gun4ir

manic valley
#

ALL YOUR BASES ARE BELONG TO NONTENDER!

bronze pulsar
manic valley
manic valley
bronze pulsar
manic valley
bronze pulsar
#

Superior.. FOR ME TO POOP ON

manic valley
#

Well that may be so .. but no amount of defecation is gonna change the fact that the n64 is simply a stronger more capable machine

bronze pulsar
#

It's strength lies in it's storage capacity clearly 😉

serene nebula
#

In all seriousness, we should probably exchange some great PS1 games to check out on the core.

bronze pulsar
#

Absolutely.

#

Lets start with some softballs.

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Adventures of Little Ralph is a good place to start.

serene nebula
#

Happy Jogging in Hawaii is weird and had great draw distance for the full “im in a pixelated hellscape” vibe it has going

bronze pulsar
#

PSX has a couple exclusive English translations of Japanese arcade games on namco museum 4 and 5.

dawn wind
#

Hmmm

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I should download that ps1 doom hack that’s supposed to be real good

bronze pulsar
#

Yes, it will tate

dawn wind
bronze pulsar
#

Genji and Heiki Clans is the one on Namco Museum 4, cant a video on it without some youtuber talking over the top of it though

tropic stratus
#

any recommendation for a short game (<5 hours) that is not boring and does not rely on skill? searching something for the evenings. The last one with that style i played was Stuart Little 2. It was ok.

harsh shale
#

Here, have a random PS logo thing that I made in the bot channel lol

tacit fox
#

N64 is so hyped that people is ignoring the creator of the PSX core 😔

#

I’m playing DQVII, 90 hours so far and still on CD 1 🫣

#

No skills needed though 🙃

tropic stratus
#

If i wanted to play that, i must quit working on any FPGA related tasks 😛

manic valley
#

I can’t think of anything that meets the criteria 😦

bronze pulsar
manic valley
tropic stratus
#

not a big fan of 2D platformers...will probably stay with some racing game then and just drive 3-4 courses

dawn wind
#

Ridge Racers always fun

manic valley
#

NFS III or road rash on the psx2x core !

austere otter
dawn wind
#

That ridge racer remaster where they made it 60fps is fun

tropic stratus
#

over the last year i completed GT1+2, Colin 2.0, CTR and MotorToon. Maybe i try RR4 next

austere otter
#

RR4 is a great game for sure

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I would recommend Wipeout 2097 as well, it requires practice/skill though

bronze pulsar
dawn wind
#

Is 2097 also XL?

austere otter
dawn wind
#

I had that and a neGcon and those were the best days of my life

austere otter
#

Firestarter as a soundtrack and Papue New Guinea were lit back then

dawn wind
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Waking up and having to pick between Wipeout XL, SOTN, FFVII and Tekken 3.

bronze pulsar
abstract drift
bronze aurora
serene nebula
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Roll Away (Kula World in EU) is a fun relaxing puzzler

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If you want something spooky then Echo Night is an interesting game. Laid back beyond the subject matter and less than 5 hours.

slate oak
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Does active composite adapters work on the psx core? Right now it looks all greyscale kinda like if you were to connect only the green from a component cable.

dawn wind
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Check the ycconsole cores. You have to enable them in update_all

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It’s one of the few that hasn’t yet had it integrated into the official release

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But it works fine

tropic stratus
hot marsh
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I thought yc was already integrated in later mister updates on around feb 23

dawn wind
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The cores have to be recompiled with the main MiSTer framework to take advantage of it.

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So there's still some stragglers.

hot marsh
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ah. I tohught it would just be a universal setting. Laughs in digital i/o with digital to analog downscaler

harsh shale
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well it is a universal setting but cores have to update to accept the setting if that makes sense lol

tacit fox
manic valley
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No puff puff ?

mystic violet
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Different girl

tacit fox
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This game amazes me. The other time I was surprised by a NPC who called me a son of a bitch lol

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Wonder what’s the PG rating of DQVII on the PSX? 🤔

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This one lol

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And yeah, 90h of game play and still on CD 1 😔

manic valley
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Was gonna start a playthrough but I don’t wanna die of old age before I complete the game..

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Maybe cd 2 is much shorter ?

tacit fox
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Hopefully CD2 is just a “making of” clips collection 😅

oblique frost
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it could always be like Xenogears where CD2 is just a book because the money ran out

bronze pulsar
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Some extra discs are just omake yeah

serene nebula
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play DQ7 on 3DS instead if you can

hot marsh
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@serene nebula do you own maestromusic controller?

serene nebula
oblique frost
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Well I guess now you will

ivory verge
hot marsh
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Aww, wanted to know if the music sheets are needed

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But review says it only detects up and down movement

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Might as well play wii music

serene nebula
hot marsh
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I mean i did buy the vpick

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so I'll be air guitaring like an idiot soon

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I really wish someone bought the tambourine controller

serene nebula
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I remember being there for the Wii Music announcement at Nintendo’s E3 press conference. I still remember very distinctly thinking Miyamoto jumped the shark and I’m a huge fan.

hot marsh
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If it had actual composing stuff, i would have loved it

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Reminds, i should try out that ps1 composing software from yamaha for ps1

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Remember buying a bootleg with one of the less popular ddrs with it

serene nebula
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@hot marsh did pop n music ever come out for ps1?

hot marsh
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In japan. Saw a controller for $50 here

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This one is $26

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Never got into these games

serene nebula
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Awesome!

hot marsh
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Although i bought a parapara paradise controller

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Spent working hours at home setting up the template

oblique frost
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para para, now that's a deep cut

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next up DanceManiax

hot marsh
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Still looking for the unofficial para for dc

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Or dancing stage

serene nebula
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Never once played Parapara Paradise

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Is it fun?

hot marsh
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You're not missing much

oblique frost
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the arcade is used to go to back in the day had a machine

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it was fine

hot marsh
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It's cute if you know the choreo

oblique frost
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back when bemani was a lot more experimental

hot marsh
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Actually playing is not yhat fun

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Sensors arent great

shut escarp
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Pop n is good

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I use to play a lot of Para para

hot marsh
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Para basically comes with a separate vcd

shut escarp
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If the line was too long on DDR

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I played it in the arcade, I can’t imagine the home port being good enough

hot marsh
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Then you memorize tge dance and repeat it on arcades or game

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It's awful. Para para is closest via kinect

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Through dance evolution

oblique frost
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nowadays there's Dance Rush Stardom

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though it's more about foot work than hand work

hot marsh
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And yes i memorized this choreo

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Yeah dance rush is a step back in terms of tracking and dancing

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But yeah more focus on fun

oblique frost
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Just like DDR, there's never a line for Dance Rush

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everyone plays Mai Mai now

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at the arcade near me I frequent, there's an old dude who shows up and plays DDR songs on the most basic step charts but does his own dance with them

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seems like he's having fun

hot marsh
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Oh yeah that is in my country too

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Too bad steel pads arent common anymore

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Still have my shitty dual ddr pad setup

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But i dont like ddr on ps1, even on mister

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I use dancemania

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It's too strict and my fave songs are all over the place

oblique frost
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tbh DDR was kinda annoying until like Max, I think, when we finally got mods

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imagine playing on 1x all the time, madness

hot marsh
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I dropped out on the ps2 era mostly

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On og ps1, i was too worried about the dance pad moving away

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That like 5 step songs were impossible to get As

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Like you know ddr is dead if mario jumped on it

oblique frost
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DDR is still clinging to life

hot marsh
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Currently spoiled by kinect dance games

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I mean it has its dedicated fans

oblique frost
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the new A series machines and stuff have all new stuff and all old stuff

hot marsh
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Not enough to be in my country though

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Havent seen ddr in 10 years in the local arcade

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They even shifted to dance central at some point

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Via 360

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Anyway got to sleep.

pseudo veldt
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Robert only made the N64 to keep people from asking for fixes on FMV games

tropic stratus
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are there FMV games with issues?

ivory verge
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I didn't notice, but I don't think anyone reported anything

tropic stratus
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i only know of the minor fmv issues (all intros) in github

ivory verge
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Yes, other than what's on github I haven't seen anything

hard laurel
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I am only aware of very minor issues.

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Nothing major.

hard laurel
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Any further thoughts on the PITA that is Virtual Pool 3 and its weird Audio?

bronze pulsar
hot marsh
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Aww, wonder if stolen song or the other one (forgot which one) works since it's an FMV game

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and uses the vpick that I bought

serene nebula
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@hot marsh I just bought a pop’n music controller lol

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Is there a list of PS1 controllers/accessories available? Want to see what cool oddities are available for the system.

oblique frost
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called it

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Robby you need the guitar freaks controller

serene nebula
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I have it! But no strap 😢

oblique frost
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what about the pachinko controller

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so you can make pretend you're a salaryman

hot marsh
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how about tambourine?

bronze pulsar
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Famicom's got you covered

oblique frost
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coconuts

hot marsh
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anyone know if the mat is important for the tambourine

serene nebula
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Don’t think so

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It’s only USD $6! ||but $67 shipping 😭||

hot marsh
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that sneaky shipping price though

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well on the plus side, tax won't get you much

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Like if I were to buy it, it would be like $90 due to shipping from US to my country

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and I'll probably cheap out and ship it by sea

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But I'll probably stop with the controllers I got

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maybe Pop n music at most

serene nebula
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Yeah, excited to give that a shot.

hot marsh
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i mean, if you like it, there's a lot of pop n music games on ps1 and 2

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basically it's the equivalent of me having multiple taiko drums

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because it has like:
12 ps2 games, 5 wii games, 3 wii u games, 3 switch games, 1 ps4 game, 3 ds games (probably more), 1 vita game (i think), 3 3ds games

serene nebula
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So many!

hot marsh
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yeah i didn't initially list the handheld ones

serene nebula
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wow check out this controller

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hot marsh
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yeah that's why it's my guess it's the guitar hero of Japan

serene nebula
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Crazy

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Well thanks for the inspiration! Will have fun with pop’n music for sure.

hot marsh
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thank gawd for kinect

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removing stuff like those sensors

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although Switch has a game like Martial Beat 2

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martial beat isn't prized too crazy

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although I don't think I'd use it to replace any of my cardio stuff

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also wtf, there are only 13 songs

tall rover
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Finally got around to making a listing to the memory card add-ons for the PSX SNAC adapters. I realize I like building them a whole lot more than writing copy for them.
Anyway, if anybody has a SNAC adapter than doesn't have this addon, now you can use memory cards too!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1449955912

PSX SNAC Memory Card Add-on Only - Etsy

This Controller Modifications item is sold by CrankyPizza. Ships from Pittsfield, MA. Listed on Apr 18, 2023

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Also, it works with PocketStation!

harsh shale
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Also there's a 3d printed shell for the whole assembly on my Thingiverse

serene nebula
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I am so excited for the N64 core I’m contemplating playing Space Station Silicon Valley for the PS1.

Any impressions from people here who’ve played it?

devout nacelle
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DMA design the company that made that game is now known as Rockstar North.

serene nebula
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@devout nacelle it’s an awesome game, on the N64

tulip moat
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I heard the PS1 version suffers from a lot of performance issues.

manic valley
devout nacelle
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The video mentioned the N64 version had issues with the expansion pack. You gotta take it out to play it or it freezes at the beginning.

tulip moat
devout nacelle
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There is a hack that fixes that and the 1 trophy you can't pick up.

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GTA needs a good game hack..

manic valley
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Try it on the psx2x core

devout nacelle
manic valley
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Maybe even more

manic valley
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Well at least it’ll keep a steady 30

devout nacelle
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Not easy finding a disk image of space station silicon valley for ps1

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Knowing used a different name on PS1 would have helped..lol

pseudo plinth
pseudo plinth
devout nacelle
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Yeah I figured that out

serene nebula
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I don’t know why or how

fallow turtle
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somehow i've completely missed the fact space station sillicon valley got released on PS1.. always thought it was an n64 exclusive lol

serene nebula
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PAL-only which might be why you didn’t know

fallow turtle
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👀 PAL here. maybe it's just a bit of an obscure sleeper release

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called Evo's Space Adventures funnily enough

serene nebula
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Shame on me for assuming, my bad

fallow turtle
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hehe

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i have played a tiny bit of the 64 one but never got too deep. early part of the game was fairly standard but can imagine it picking up later on

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kinda fun seeing some shared ideas from early GTA games but in a completely different context

serene nebula
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They do a good job of varying up the scenarios and puzzles, really clever

fallow turtle
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the whole thing of going in and out of animals like they're cars on the street almost LOL

serene nebula
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It’s funny that both Space Station Silicon Valley and Body Harvest were foundational games for Grand Theft Auto 3

fallow turtle
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oh yeah Body Harvest is one i wanna have another look at one day.. and Blast Corps lol

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im pretty sure i completely forgot Body Harvest even exist and just conflated it with Blast Corps

dawn wind
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I remember enjoying Blast Corps back in the day?

kind ravine
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Apparently the first release of Silicon Valley doesn’t work with the expansion pack but they patched it out in a cart revision

fallow turtle
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blast corps seems decent yeah

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that'll explain it :D

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when i got the everdrive 64 and had the entire library to casually browse thru.. the one game that really stood out to me (that i missed as a kid... ) Pilotwings 64 is really good!!!

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any time i feel like booting into a fun casual game pilotwings is super decent

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i loved the SNES pilotwings and i think sort of snubbed the n64 version because i thought it looked kinda ugly or something lol

light cloud
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What’s the controller trigger to turn light gun mode on? Since the core seems to periodically set the menu button to be light gun mode toggle on the dualsense after toggling between analog and digital mode by pressing the touch pad

tropic stratus
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sorry i don't get that. Can you describe exactly what i have to do to reproduce?

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i'm not even sure what lightgun mode is...crosshair overlay? controller selection in OSD?

light cloud
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I’m not even sure what it’s trying to do. Maybe simulate a light gun? But totally disables menu button combo (have to access osd through io board)

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I’ll try and figure out exact steps to replicate though

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Replicate on dualsense:
Start up ridge racer R4
Pad 1 is in DualShock mode
Press touch pad twice to toggle analog, back to digital
Press button set as home button (I’ve tried both mute and ps button), menu button will now toggle light gun mode (light gun mode is on -off)

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Doesn’t have to be R4, I was just playing that earlier and seemed to be pretty consistent for changing home button behavior

hot marsh
tropic stratus
abstract drift
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i've had this too, but super randomly

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i think it can happen in any lightgun capable core

light cloud
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I meant “button mapped to home” as button which is set to bring up osd from main. And I have the main controller buttons mapped, but not savestate, fastforward, pause or toggle DualShock

abstract drift
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are you using the playstation button as home?

light cloud
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Yes, I was previously using mute

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And it’s always been a bit sporadic

abstract drift
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did mute do it too?

light cloud
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Yeah, both were doing it periodically. Just remapped a few times and a bit less consistent now

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Double checked and dual sense is fully up to date (ps5 firmware checker)

abstract drift
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see it you can get it to happen on snes core?

light cloud
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Snes core I usually can’t replicate. But I’ll try to do that tomorrow

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Is there a short cut for light gun mode?

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Kind of like rapid fire that’s accidentally getting triggered 🤔

abstract drift
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thats the weird thing, i'm not even sure what lightgun mode its referring to there tbh

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there's a lightgun calibration menu you can open with f10

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oh, maybe its a mouse thing, when you touch the touchpad it can act like a mouse

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thats probably whats getting set to lightgun mode

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@tropic stratus nice racer recommendation if you've not seen it, Rally De Africa/Rally De Europe

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JPN only but most of the menu text etc in english

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plays a lot like sega rally

tropic stratus
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i will try it 🙂

abstract drift
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possibly you can more reliably reproduce that bug if you like, make sure you actually swipe the touchpad a bit

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dont just push it

fallow turtle
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maybe if there's a way for a toggle to be implemented similar to the autofire toggle that recently-ish got added?

abstract drift
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thing is i think its harmless?

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as soon as you press a controller button it'll go back to controller mode and stop doing it?

fallow turtle
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ahh i see

ivory verge
tropic stratus
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when a bug entry makes you happy 🙂

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"Okay, looks like the flickering is normal on a real PSOne, it even changes the level of flickering when I plug in a 2nd controller, so the MiSTer PSX core is mimicking the behavior with incredible accuracy, so false alarm."

ivory verge
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yes , such bugs are cool 😄

tropic stratus
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i mean, it could easily have been a real bug, who knows that. But now it payed off that even the emulated pad timing was adjusted to be relativly close to the original

eternal vapor
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About the light gun mode thing: this happens to me whenever I press menu while having my finger on the TouchPad. At first I was confused too but now I just make sure to keep my finger off the TouchPad when pressing home.

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I thought it was intentional haha

eternal vapor
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Is there an advantage to keeping separate memory card files for each game?

serene nebula
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Also that’s the default option so that’s one less thing to configure

eternal vapor
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Ah that makes sense, thanks 🙂

I had the auto mount off for a specific purpose and I was just wondering if I should bother setting it back on

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But I can see it becoming a mess juggling them around with it off

serene nebula
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If you like having one memory card there’s nothing wrong with it. Feels more authentic too.

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Just don’t save a game in Diablo lol

lilac scaffold
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There a few games that look for saves from other games (eg mantis in mgs commenting on other Konami games), otherwise auto mount is just easier 🙂

eternal vapor
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Gotcha, makes sense. Thanks guys!

serene nebula
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If anyone was curious, there’s the full lineup

shut escarp
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Yeah I definitely recommend keeping auto mount on, and if you do run across a game that has one of these features you just load both cards in the bios and copy the relevant save over

oblique frost
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Imma nitpick, this isn't quite full

shut escarp
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It’s missing all the rhythm games

oblique frost
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if you are for some reason playing SMT If..., there's a whole list of games you can gain certain boosts from if you have their save data

serene nebula
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Rhythm games aren’t games, they’re torture devices

oblique frost
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rhythm games are the pinnacle of gaming, distilled to its essence

tall rover
oblique frost
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beat my mania

serene nebula
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I didn’t know about the rhythm games, that’s cool. Is there a list handy?

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Maybe that image was just for US released games?

oblique frost
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IIRC there's some beatmania with append discs

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and save data goes between

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I'd have to go look

serene nebula
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Oh that’s cool

serene nebula
oblique frost
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so that list is sorta for US games. "US" doesn't account for some of the games MGS will read (some of those only J/A versions will only read J saves and have some specific region'd games) and also only one of the Persona 2s got localized

serene nebula
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Ohhhhh

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Thanks for explaining it!

oblique frost
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I'm sure there's more I don't know about, but somehow I guess I've gone an encountered some of the weirder ones

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SMT If... had me booting up games I hadn't heard of just to get save data for the boost in SMT If...

serene nebula
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Weird

oblique frost
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gotta play 峠ＭＡＸ 最速ドリフトマスター just for that Ag +5

hot marsh
abstract drift
shut escarp
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beat saber is great

oblique frost
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nowadays no VR, but good access to MaiMai and Chunithm so I think I made out okay

abstract drift
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yeah really looking forward to beatsaber coming to psvr2

meager parrot
manic valley
serene nebula
manic valley
serene nebula
manic valley
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Put em on the map so to speak