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The fact N64 games are behind a subscription is what really irks me. I wouldn't mind paying €5 for Harvest Moon 64 - the way you could buy retro games on the wii - but having to pay yearly, for a bunch of games (many of which I might not even be interested in) that you can't play anymore once you stop paying? Fuck that
I dislike game subscription services on principle, but at least the other guys have new games on their subscription services, not just ancient ones. Nintendo being the first to charge $80 makes it an extra kick in the balls.
Devil’s advocate here, I subscribe to movie services that are much more expensive to watch movies I’ve already seen. If playing these old games is important to me, that doesn’t seem too bad. $80 for Mario kart on the other hand… never.
I'm all 3 here.
Soon it will be Gamecube games as well. I guess Pooh will be just a little less old in the third panel.
I love my original GameCube. Still have it hooked up to an old tube TV and there's a lot of nostalgia around putting the little mini-CD in and booting it up. But it's so much easier to fire up dolphin.
I got a Steam Deck recently and have been surprised at how well the 6th (GC, PS2, Xbox) and 7th (Wii, PS3, 360) generations can be emulated now compared to a few years ago. I hadn't messed with emulating systems past 5th gen (N64, PS1, Saturn) for many years. It's wild to me that I can smoothly emulate Dragon's Crown, a PS4 game I currently have on my PS5, on the Steam Deck if I want, although I chose the PS3 one for less power needed since they're pretty much identical. Even given it's a less demanding 2D game, emulating a PS4 is impressive.
What necromancy must be cast for me to say I still have my woodgrain Atari 2600?
i had an nes emulator on my ericsson phone in 2005. good times.
Is it bad if I'm all 3 of these?
Well yes, if you are paying Nintendo to rent games you already own physical copies of.
You would've been more correct to just stop after "paying Nintendo". Giving them money is bad, period.
Let them fade into obsolescence.
Me too. I feel gross giving Nintendo money, but at least I split a family plan with a bunch of friends
FU for old pooh. I still got my nes from 87
i hung on to every single console my family had growing up!
I have an atari 2600 my dad passed down to me. I also have all other playstations, a switch, a wii, a steam deck and a pc.
Nothing makes me smile more than that Atari (except for the zx spectrum, also given to me by dad)
I've got some cartridge from Ukraine with an SD slot in it. You can load the SD card with every ROM and then play them directly off an N64
This is great because for some reason emulators have problems with Dr. Mario but the N64 runs the ROM just fine
Krikizz Everdrive! They are awesome on every system I have them for, snes, gbc, gba, and n64. They can be picky about the sd card you use but work flawlessly once you have the right one.
Can't confirm. Still have a working NES, SNES, and N64 from childhood. Not even 40 yet. My grey hair and wrinkles are still confined to my testicles for the time being.
For anyone who hasn't discovered it yet.....emulation is so great.
I got a little emulation console for £120 (Retroid Pocket 4 pro, see my post history) 2 months ago and haven't touched my Steam Deck or gaming PC since. Highly recommended.
🐻❄️ | Rented N64 from Blockbusters
It was so nice being able to rent games and never having to pay a subscription
On a related note, how did anyone ever learn to get good at Goldeneye? I played it for the first time with a mock N64 controller the other day and holy hell, it was scuffed.
Nobody knew any better at the time, lol
It was so much slower than fps games are now. Dual joysticks would have been overwhelming at the time when people were still getting used to 3D.
I got good at it back in the day. Still found the controls awkward as hell, but that game (and later on its successor Perfect Dark) had hours and hours of gameplay because it was one of the best fps games of its time (that wasn't on PC where wasd and mouse was already a thing right from the Doom days).
Halo was revolutionary. One stick moved, the other rotated, plus grenades were always a button away (in GoldenEye, the rare times you had them, they were selected like any normal weapon, which limited their versatility. Proximity and remote mines were way better.)
Metroid Prime also had a really awkward control scheme on the GameCube.
Panel 3, that's me right there.
Yes, I have several working controllers. Including a couple of spares, unused, still sealed.
Lucky. I have my PS3, and I'm having a horrible time finding decent replacement controllers. You can't use the new DualShocks, and compatible controllers you can buy are built so cheaply they don't work very well.
Buy ~25 games new when they come out for the N64. Amortize that out over the next 25-30 years. Thus spending $50 a year playing N64 games.
Is this how accounting works?
Rude.
I feel bad bc I acquired one a long time ago but my cartridge collection is weak.
My collection isn't huge either. I still have my original from the 90s, but I haven't added much to my library since then.
The prices are insane.
I forget which nintendo console it is, but emulating's actually MORE accurate than the console since some ceramic thing is degrading in it. I think its the NES but don't quote me on it. Was one of the reasons TAS verification was failing on actual hardware when it had previously passed.
SNES. The sound chip slightly degrades, and since the CPU waits to sync with it, the overall timing of the system is affected.
The Analogue 3d will ship soon right? I'm worried I will end up with significantly (more) gray hairs before it does...
I will also take a minute to plug Krikizz and their Everdrives. I have the x6 for the snes, gbc, gba, and x7 for n64. They are an excellent piece of kit once you get a proper sd card. Slava Ukraini!
Yes but HDMI on N64 pls
There are hdmi mods for basically all pre hdmi consoles including n64 but they tend to be fairly pricey
N64 has pixelfx retrogem which has 2 models for 100 and 190 dollars, the more expensive model has 4k and additional scalers, the cheaper model is 720p
N64advanced v2 is open source, 4k output, and pricing depends on the group buy you can get in, 150-250
Highspeedido is on AliExpress, 720p output, and is 40-50
There’s also a few that aren’t sold anymore that you can sometimes find on ebay for $$$
My current solution is checking Switch games out of the library.
Just gonna leave these here
https://ares-emu.net/ https://github.com/command-tab/awesome-n64-development?tab=readme-ov-file#reverse-engineering
Wait I've never been 2 pictures in the same meme of this type before
Hey come on now.
Obligatory: $50