Too fucking real…

Being the usual suspects:

Front Mission, if you like tactical RPGs (ie. where you move characters on a grid game map during battles).

Are there any region-free 4K blu-ray drives available? I’m asking for a friend.

If you really want to feel old, consider that GTA: Vice City was released in 2002, and set in 1986 - a 16 year gap.

Grand Theft Auto 4, set in a contemporary timeframe was released 17 years ago…

Still going through Prince of Persia: Sands of Time from last week - the combat is quite repetitive, though the platforming is as good as I remember so that more than makes up for it!

I can definitely see how Assassins Creed was eventually born from this series.

Kid’s just fallen sick, so I’ll likely STILL be playing this in next week’s thread too - so don’t judge me too harshly - I promise I still have that gamer cred! 😅

Started on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time this Easter weekend; no particular reason beyond just a nostalgic yearning.

Thankfully, it still holds up!

Out of sheer curiosity, what’re the issues you’re experiencing with NHL99?

I’d have thought a title that old (25+ years) would emulate just fine?

First rule of tech disruption is to ignore patents/laws and get a big enough footprint to be able to fend off the eventual litigation. Given this is China, they can mandate implementing it on mainland devices for the initial wave, and roll out later revisions into adjacent regions over time once it’s taken a foothold.

Portal 1&2, for a change of pace.

Because you have to unplug the camera every time you take the Switch2 out of the dock, instead of just plugging it into the dock via one of its (USB A?) ports?

Dude’s a billionaire, he very likely has a team of people whose sole responsibility is to keep him out of the news and/or media, unless explicitly allowed.

Only Elon Schmuck (and maybe Kanye West) are deranged enough to think they can manage their public presence positively.

For publisher bottom lines, it absolutely would be!

Basically anything not purchased this fiscal quarter may as well be non-existent to them - hence the push towards reoccurring monetisation.

Meanwhile I’m currently (slowly) playing through a massive backlog of games from the 2010s, so I’m good!

My personal use devices are all some variation of Pingu (eg. iPingu, Pingtendo etc.), and my NAS devices are based off Pokémon puns (Storlax and Archivysaur currently).

My wife on the other hand is boring, so her’s are just system default.

I’ve barely played anything Nintendo post-SNES, so my assumptions are largely academic.

But to me at least, the primary advantage of dedicated emulation devices such as this (o er a smartphone + controller), is that you’re somewhat actively invested into the games you’re playing, and not distracted by notifications etc.

For me, having access to every single ROM/ISO means I’m rarely as engaged into any single title than I was as a kid and only had access to maybe 2-3 new games a year. Back then, I played the hell out of every single title because I didn’t have a choice; that was my Birthday/Christmas present, or I saved up all of my pocket money for a while.

But to each their own, I’m quite happy with my Steam Deck - and it does the job of enabling me to play my PS2 collection admirably!

Ah, yes - good point! I completely forgot about all of those arcade cabinets with the sideways mounted screens, loads more titles and a bunch of unlocked memories 🤣

While I’m all for emulation getting all the love it can, is there really much demand for such a screen orientation? Are there any other systems that could take advantage of this kind of layout and not just have giant black bars?

I can only think of the DS, 3DS and maybe WiiU…

Happy to be proven wrong, though!

Fair cop; I guess there’s always risks in renting space in a data centre (physical intrusion), and that response definitely isn’t the best.

Not enough for me to be a deal breaker currently, but will definitely switch when my plan expires.

I’ve not encountered any issues filling up my NAS with torrented Linux ISOs via NordVPN?

My priority for a VPN has just been no logging and the ability to ‘travel’ internationally… so if there the case, no need to rush out and switch then?

Makes me glad that I procrastinated on switching over, I guess I’ll just ride out my current NordVPN subscription and switch over to Mullvad?

Almost makes me afraid to ask the community, what exactly is wrong with Nord? 😅

Haven’t played the GTA3 Dreamcast port yet… it always felt more like tech demo than an actual game to me, especially after playing Vice City.

Will definitely give it a go at some point in the future, though - hopefully?