I don’t really have much server space on my NAS currently, and am holding off on a (TBH much needed) upgrade until HDD prices come down somewhat - but I would love to try and set something up like this for my (complete) library of SNES ROMs at the very least.

I just fear my old QNAP TS-419PII from ~20yrs ago is not up to the task. 😅

My guy, I’m right there with you. I have a boxed copy of Unreal Tournament 2004 on my shelf, that I bought back in uni… more than half a lifetime ago!

You’re probably just too young to remember. Come, stay a while and listen.

In the before times, you would have to check a paper booklet which could tell you the “days”, “times”, and “channels” a tv show or movie would “air”.

If you weren’t at home, or wanted to watch two things playing at the same time on different channels - you would miss out. This was a big deal at the time, because television was a social experience you would talk about with friends at school, or colleagues at work.

Before DVDs became commonplace, many homes had VCRs that were capable of recording these shows or movies onto cassette tapes that you could then watch at your convenience. But once DVDs became the home “standard”, VCRs were getting mothballed and homes needed a new device in order to record said shows.

Along came TiVo and other similar DVRs; capable of recording directly onto spinning discs of rust lovingly called “hard drives”. This would have been in the early 00s, before Netflix was ever a thing - and digital media distribution as we now know it today was limited to piracy, and required expensive broadband internet access.

As a bonus fun fact (unless I’m mistaken), that PSX hybrid was Sony’s first implementation of the much-loved cross-bar interface, later found on both the PSP and PS3.

My new favourite meta game; is it written by AI, or by someone Autistic?

Can confirm, clay tablets can last thousands of years to archive your grievances data.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/complaint-tablet-to-ea-nasir

I’m probably being overly skeptical - but even if the timing was already locked in before the announced cuts at id and elsewhere; you can’t argue that they wouldn’t at least be trying to shift the news cycle across.

Microsoft/id desperately trying to salvage some good will after announcing a tonne of layoffs?

Fuck that noise.

• Immediately started laying off workers after launch.

Which is so fucking braindead - they could have just as easily leveraged that now-experienced team to get a Assassin’s Creed - Rogue remake out in good time, especially as that has more of the same Black Flag ship mechanics, and most players missed out due to the transition from PS3 > PS4.

I am surprised that these tables are able to support the weight of all of the CRT TVs in the thumbnail - I can’t help but think we’re only seconds away from disaster.

You’re probably not wrong; consoles moving to x86-64 likely was a death knell.

It’s too long to post here as a comment, but I believe that the PS3 stumbling early (price, giant enemy crab etc.) resulted in Sony JP losing control of the Computer Entertainment division to Sony US, and it was that shift that signed console farming’s fate all the way back to before the release of the PS4.

The fact that the whole X/O remapping was forced onto Japan is just one example of this relative loss of power.

We’re well past the point where even if a console generation doubles the number of polygons it can process over its predecessor - it will be difficult for us end-users to be able to discern much of a difference.

We will likely get to a point where 4K120Hz may be possible for some titles with AI support in the next generation; but given Sony’s decision to not make discs of future games - they can go fuck themselves.

This is my own personal rule, so therefore I obviously think it’s the most correct definition:

Once a “next-gen” (eg. PS5) console becomes “current gen”, then the previous “current-gen” (eg. PS4) console becomes “last-gen”, and the previous “last-gen” (eg. PS3) console becomes “retro”.

It does, not sure if they will ship to the ol’ ex-convict colony 😅 - but I’ll definitely check it out.

This has been on my eBay Saved Searches for so long - it never had a local release here in Australia, so I’ll need to import from the UK.

Issue is, it’s not exactly cheap, doesn’t come up for listing very often, and often gets bought out pretty quickly.

It’s up there with Suikoden, Suikoden II, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Ghost in the Shell, Bishi Bashi Special, Un Jammer Lammy, and ofcourse Castlevania: Symphony of the Night as high-up on my PS1 collection hunt list.

Fewer guns leaves more room in the safe (& budget) for ammunition.

I’m a little too young for the Commodore 64 - my introduction were a friend’s Amiga 500 and a hand-me-down Amiga 2000 - but these look awesome enough that I would buy it just to display it, if only my hobby budget wasn’t already ridiculously over-stretched this year!

Seconding @SippyCup@lemmy.world here - if you have a smartphone that’s less than 5 years old, long-term I think it makes more sense to use that with a split/mount controller (something like an 8BitDo Ultimate or Razer Kishi V2).

I remember ePSXe had that option, though it’s been a long while since I used it - and I’m not sure if it’s still maintained/recommended as a PS1 emulator.

I know that EmuDeck and RetroDeck include DuckStation as the PS1 emulator - but for obvious reasons (Steam Deck lacks an ODD), I’ve only ever loaded images off it.

RIP Psygnosis; you were the Gods of the PS1 era and were totally done dirty by Sony shortly thereafter.

Love it, a fellow Aussie collector 💚🩷❤️💙

I could tell even before zooming in on the Cashies sticker - we were literally the only PAL market as far as I can tell they switched to the slim CD-style cases mid-generation! 😅