"Adam D. Ruppe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 21:03:21 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> Problem is, it also corrodes the connectors. > > Yea. But oh well, it can't be too bad... my old games > all still work! > > Though, nowadays I tend to prefer the emulators.
Oh *definitely*. BTW, Wii homebrew is *fantastic* for that. It literally turns the Wii into a (very good) set-top multi-emulator device. And many of the Wii-hosted homebrew emulators are *very* good now. *FAR* better than the half-assed Virtual Console stuff. > I have > a playstation controller on usb, which works for all > the old games naturally (there's a clear progression > from nes -> super nintendo -> playstation, each is a > superset of the next. It works well for Sega too.) > Yea. This gets into one thing I *love* about China's unwillingless to play by the US rules: Thanks to Hong Kong, I have an inexpensive device that lets me use a PS2 controller on PC *AND* GameCube *AND* XBox1 (And on Wii, for the few games that are actually intelligent nough to allow GC controllers as an alternative to the piece of crap "Classic Controller"). I love this thing. But that would *never* happen under US-style IP law. Playing by US rules, you're not allowed to have the *basic consumer choice* of using whatever the fuck controller you want with whatever the fuck system you want. China *allows* such consumer choice. Yup: China being *more* free than the corporate-owned US. Go figure. > No hardware hassles, doesn't take space under the tv. > I used to have a real mess of crap in my bedroom, the > cords were hideous. Now most of that is on the computer. > Eeewww, I hate playing games on a PC: - Too many other processes to screw up the experience. - I spent sooo many hours every day *working* at the computer desk, I *don't* want to be be glued to it for my entertainment, too. - Even if I didn't use a PC for work, for my entertainment, I'd still much rather use a nice comfortable living room couch/TV/environment than a computer desk anyway. - Plus the non-indie commercial games come with rootkits and the requirement of buying new hardware twice a year. No thanks. > The computer can also crank up the speed, which makes > some of those old games so much more playable! I can't > believe I used to sit there 10 hours a day and just > grind or use the slow moving characters. Some of the Wii-hosted homebrew emulators will do that too :) I doubt I would have ever gotten all the way through Chrono Trigger if it weren't for that feature. >> I *liked* that the N64 used carts > > I have only one game for the N64: Perfect Dark. Bought > the game when I saw it at one of the stores and picked > up the system like a month later. > > Great game, still my favorite of the FPS genre. Yea, this is a pretty good one. Another one of my favs in Conker's Bad Fur Day. You play a cute little furry squirrel, and then you do things like get drunk so you can kill flame-based enemies by staggering around and pissing on them :) Fantastically "wrong" and great gameplay. It's a Rare game from back when Rare was actually still good. Actually paid $80 for that fucking game, but never regretted it.
