I thought zoomers were supposed to be the most tech savvy generation ever..
>>527945423They arent, downloading an exe and putting the bios into a folder as well as downloading the iso/rom is too much work.
It is especially stupid given games on an emulator usually run better once the game becomes fully playable since the PC exceeds the specs of what the game was made for in most cases. I am not a giant gamer but PPSSPP looks better than the PSP itself if you manipulate the options a bit especially with AA and resolution
>>527945423I think it depends on what you mean by tech savvy. They likely do on the whole are more reliant on tech. But there is a difference between reliance and being able to figure shit out on your own like Emulators. Z is used to shit just working and having tech be dummy proof. Emulators, most of them were written by Gen-X or youngish Boomers in the 90s and early 00s. Stuff like Mame has been around for a while now. It wasn't written for lazy people who aren't willing to put a little work in something to get it to work.
Why would you think that? Zoomers grew up at the start of the closed garden era of tech we are still going through, none of them know how to do anything but the most basic shit
>>527945423Nobody has any money, hardware has become usuriously expensive, and nobody has a home to put this in or any time or money to learn how. Plus kikes have been ourging snd censoring info for how to emulate and pirate.Stop distracting yourself, with jews you lose, every question you post here can be answered with that
>>527945423Emulators were simpler 15 years ago.
After setting up 3 different retroid pockets for my kids... Yes it's fucking insane amounts of work to get all the shit working on every console
>>527945423Modern games take too long to develop and cost too much to produce, only to end up in an already oversaturated market. They should have stopped at the late PS3 era and just kept making more games on that scale.
>>527945423I was playing simpsons hit and run a few weeks ago retard. Emulation is easy. Is this the part where you old farts act like you're tech gods whilst shitting up the internet and slowing everything down with your jeet tier code. Kek
>>527945844>insane amounts of worknigga it's like an hour tops of file management
>>527945423I've seen multiple zoomies not have the slightest clue as to what a file system is. When asked where something was saved they just open the app because that's all they know.
>>527945423>zoomers were supposed to be the most tech savvy generation ever..Nobody thinks that. Everyone agrees that it peaked with GenX and Millennials
>>527945423I expected that to be the case when I was younger, millennial who grew up with tech but remembers when the whole world wasn't constantly connected to the Internet here - and I truly believed gen Z would both be fucked up (came true) and be even more tech savvy than us (did not). Gen Zs are really good at getting onto social media. But I have worked with numerous gen Z graduates who hold comp sci or comp eng degrees who do not understand how basic functionality works on the computer
>>527945423Gen x is the most tech savvy generation ever.
>>527945423They can't even use word without needing to watch a tutorial on how to change the typeface.
>>527945775This, taught my kids the basics of typing and file systems, email etc. They are leagues ahead of other kids in their grade.
>>527945423Emulators got worse. All you needed to do before was get the emulator and ROM.
>>527945702Tech Reliance vs Tech Savvy is the difference between driving a car and knowing how to change your own oil
>>527945882>the midwit can not understand generalizations and averages and rushes in to interject his anecdotal outlier
>>527945423just installed retroarch on my samsung galaxy so i can play final fantasy iv when im having a shit, anyone know the secret that has to be done in the first hour off the top of your head
Because their brain was rotten from tiktok they can't handel old games or arcade games
>>527945882>i think therefore i am
>>527945423I was emulating at 10 years old because my mom wouldn't buy me Pokemon.
>>527946263>being unnecessarily verbose make me look smartWhatever you say, unc
My father is silent gen and he's more tech savvy than most zoomers
>>527946305pfft, ark at this intelligent zoomer and his ability to do the unthinkable>>527945882
>>527945423I used a pencil to overclock my cpu so i could play q3 with a decent framerate, i think these people are subhumans.
>>527945423Zoomers are fucking retards. If they can't download it from the app store they can't handle it. They literally don't know how file directories work
It's hilarious how you old cunts have just became boomers 2.0. You're so out of touch you don't know how cringey you come across kek>b-back in my day
>>527945423Who believed that?Millennials are the tech savvy ones. We had to run IT on our family computers through the 90s, when software didn't "Just Work".
>>527945666No one is playing psp, you dipshit. People play GOOD games.
>>527946347>basic vocabulary is le smart talk to midwit zoomerlmao
>>527946347Lol, your a retarded faggot, reported to Starmer for being a little bitch
>>527946482you're way too old to use "cringey"
>>527945601What you just said sounds complicated on top of me having to try and find a safe download for multiple emulators. Its just not worth it, the same reason I don't pirate games, I just stopped playing them because I'm a poorfag. I'd rather shitpost about the epstien files.
>>527946550I like chess i m 1,1k in rapid now.
>>527945423I'm GenX and managed to get HoMM running smoothly using WINE on my Debian/XFCE setup. Fair to say that I'm far more computer savvy than my generational counterparts, but with the enternet (and now SI) at one's disposal, one needn't even understand lower-level operations to get things done. >copy error code>paste error code into search dialog>read threads addressing specific hangups>copy provided command to rectify>repeat if necessary
>>527946371Zoomers can't even pirate games, movies and music.Let alone following a simple crack guide to crack games they're like boomers but slightly more intelligent that can navigate apps, create an account or troubleshoot basic things
>>527945775>Closed gardenI'm making sure my kids see smartphones and apps as toys for dumb people.They are already capable of playing whatever roms they want using mame on arch; mostly puzzle bobble.
>>527945423Have you met a Zoomer? They are functionally retardedIts only going to get worse with each generationI know saying >IDIOCRACY WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE A DOCUMENTARY!!!is reddit shit but it really is becoming reality with each passing day
>>527945806It's simpler now too.You can get individual emulators and you can get into the recomp/decomp scene (basically PC ports of console games, makes Perfect Dark insanely more fun for example), you can make it as complicated as you want.You can however, just take retroarch, launch it, get the cores (Mesen, Snes9x, Genesis Plus GX, Mupen64plus-Next, mGBA), get the goodsets elsewhere, scan them with retroarch and have over 10k games just like that, all working as intended.It's piss easy. The hard part is figuring out which core to use sometimes.And you want the goodsets because retroarch scans them just like that, no fuss. You get nice playlists.>>527946057My experience is a bit of both.Some Zoomers I met couldn't use a computer, whether it's Windows of MacOS, because their parents gave them an iPhone thinking "it can do everything". That was quite embarrassing for them in college.Other Zoomers are decompiling console games and cracking all the protections everywhere, and programming the PS4 interpreter just to play Bloodborne at 60fps.That old prophecy about Zoomers being good at tech rings true, it's just not an absolute truth for all of them.
>>527946552It's just unnecessary and comes across as forced.
>>527946648>can'tWhy would I pirate a movie when I could just find a streaming site. Then I don't have to go through the whole riggamarole of downloading something for 10-15 mins and then deleting it? Music? Lol, just use youtube. Plus it has music you'll never find torrents of.
>1pbtidAll zoomer threads are slide threads
Everything is too hard for people under 30 except wieners!
>>527945423It's because of retroshitarch. This shit is the most useless un-userfriendly garbage ever created and every fucking emulation system uses it regardless. Why are there like 20 different places to apply scanline shaders and only one of them works and the rest crash your game, and when you finally get it to work it resets because you didn't save it to some core setting or whatever, and why does it open to some "random menu" that you have to back out of to get to the "main menu" so you can open the "quick menu" where theres other settings that sometimes work and sometimes don't, this shit is absoltuely unbearbale just give me snes9x or zsnes it's so much easier ffs
The younger half of Gen Y are the first digital natives. If you compare them with Gen Z, their experiences are almost identical. Zoomers could’ve been just as savvy, but their parents let them become attached to smartphones instead of starting them off with desktop computers. If you want to raise a smart kid, give them access to mid ‘90s era computer, then slowly increase their exposure to more advanced desktops, and don’t allow them to own a smartphone until 16/17. The outcome would be someone as adaptive as a Millennial. Gen Alpha will probably have some parents who do things like this. They could end up being the best of Gen Y and Z.
>>527945423The only emulation that is kind of hard would be 86box for emulating old pc hardware. All console emulators are easy as hell, nothing to them.
>>527946225More like needing an uber to get anywhere but not being able to drive let alone change your oil.
Pity thread for people whose best years are behind them to feel better about themselves and they can circlejerk about how much smarter they are and how things were better back in their day. Maybe you old virgins should have spent less time tinkering with gameboys and your countries wouldn't be as brown as they are today kek
>>527946119Yes and its a thin slice of the population.
>>527946719zoomer apathetic blase affectation is what's actually forced, he was just clearly explaining why you sound like a dumbass
>>527946550faggot psp has some of the best version of any games kys console nigger
>>527946755Let me guess you're watching on chrome browser with no ad blocker at least you how find it. Install Brave or Librewolf it's retard proof browser with adblocker
>>527946779lmao used retro arch on my phone and tablet for years and you are right, im too lazy to go huntting around though. only thing i cba to do is setup the playstation emulator to run properly for me,
>>527945423>I thought zoomers were supposed to be the most tech savvy generation ever..They fucking aren't, and as a Millenial it's making me sad.Watching boomers struggle with even dumb shit like connecting a TV recorder or operating a printer made feel dread about my own future, thinking one day I would be like them because surely tech and the necessary tech savyness could only exponentially increase, right?Instead of that, something worse happened: we are the only generation that gave a shit about tech, and when we get senile the knowledge will effectively be semi-lost, with people only building over existing as if it was magic.Turn out being left behind is a lesser dread than behind the last one.
>>527945423They *use* tech the most. Not necessarily the same as tech savvy. Most of their tech experience is low-feature user end Android or iPhone interfaces. Windows they just use for gaming.
>>527945423I've had sex before.
>>527945423Gen Z doesn't even know what a filesystem is.
>>527945423how the fuck is it hard? seriously?its even easier on smartphones than computers which i imagine they would be usingwhy are zoomers retarded
>>527945423I feel bad for anyone who's never used Project64.>>527947549>Pierce Brosnan BondBurger.
>>527945423>I thought zoomers were supposed to be the most tech savvy generation ever..lol, they're actually worse with tech than MillennialBvlls
>>527945423Has to be b8. You can literally buy a gamboy color knock off preloaded with games up to PSX for like 20$, I've been feeding the inner child playing Mario and Lemmings when I need to kill some time while cooking or whatever. Barely have to change any settings even.
>>527947156i was always grateful to my junior school boomer teacher that got me to set up the class printer on the pc in like 1990 or something. i loved the fact that i could work out how to do it on my own aged 8 years old lol. ever since ive been quite good at tech but failed to get a career in it because my shit parents threw me out at 11 and i became a heroin addict. anyway, tech is cool.
>>527945423Grinding on 5x speed made too much sense to ignore but it took some of the charm away because it reminded me I no longer have nothing but time
>>527947613i dont reckon you do either, so why dont you explain it for the zoomers and prove me wrong…
>>527946779retroarch has a relatively steep learning curve. it took me a few YEARS after saying fuck it and forgetting about it, then invariably coming back to it, before I was able to tweak it and the numerous cores to my liking. Stuff like FBA core are fucking fantastic for SF3 or SFAIII etc. I have that shit running right now on my Odin 2 hooked up to an ultrawidescreen using Pixels to modify the aspect ratio to 21:9 (3440 x 1440) @ 100hz and connect my custom arcade stick using official Sanwa parts. I just keep it on every day, it's like my personal arcade.Zoomzooms will never know the joy of the late 80s / 90s arcades dude. I used to get so much pussy at the mall arcade, beating all the chinks at street fighter II CE. Today's kids are basically retarded.
>>527945423>pop in disc>goes directly to a menu>1 click to start gamemeanwhile pirate niggers>well if i spend 15 minutes searching through files im sure i have the game downloaded. >ends up getting bored and just hops on the interent to talk about the benefits of piracy.
>>527947617>i shot in your sisters muff(fanny, minge, beefburger, dish o fish)is what the image actually means.
>>527947749>pop in discyou forgot a critical step, try again.
>>527945423i work in tech support with a heap of zoomers who dont know how to plug a fucking mouse in to a computer
>>527947617>Burger
>>527945423Millenials are the tech savvy generations, zoomies grew up with apps in walled gardens. I've seen zoomies legit getting filtered by graphical file systems, not even command line/terminal.
>>527945423I have a huge videogame collection.
Gen X > millenials >>>>> zoomers > boomersNobody has ever claimed zoomers are tech literate. They are almost as bad as boomers, the only difference is they know how to use tiktok.
Reminds me of going on a TikTok stream and someone was playing a hack of Zelda and I was like "cool what hack is this?" and a couple people tried to correct me by telling me it's not a hack it's a mod, even though I was hacking ROMs in the late 90s.Zoomers are cooked. It's just a bunch of 70 IQ brown consumerist goyslaves, exactly by design.
>>527947745>beating all the chinks at street fighter II CEYou used the Guile turtling strat didn't you?
>>527948098you can spam light punch dragon fist over and over and fuck up most people
>>527945423Only cringe millennials are obsessed with retro games, because their whole personality is based around consuming a single specific product and they obsess over said product to a point, where they get visibly offended when you question the subject of their vapid consumption. >wow my frickin science, what do you mean you don't know how to run an emulator? I mean seriously my brother in science, I can't even....
>>527948027Gen X are just boomers going the speed limit.
>>527945423It seems that each generation learns how to use things but not how they work. When I was growing up I learned how to drive but I never really learned car mechanics, so the boomers always made fun of me for not being able to fix my own car beyond some simple oil change or something. But I did learn how to build computers and some basic programming, networking, etc. Now it’s the zoomers’ turn; they can use electronics but they can’t build or program them. Thing is, I don’t know if there’s any new skill that they actually did learn, at all.
>>527945423Nah brah
>>527946581>complicatedwhatjust read the words and follow the instructions. that anon just gave you a tutorial
>>527948551maybe it's more than ineptitude, could just be laziness
>>527947671>i was always grateful to my junior school boomer teacher that got me to set up the class printer on the pc in like 1990 or something. i loved the fact that i could work out how to do it on my own aged 8 years old lol. ever since ive been quite good at tech but failed to get a career in it because my shit parents threw me out at 11 and i became a heroin addict. anyway, tech is cool
>>527947615How do you even play those games on a smartphone? That sounds like a really bad experience.
>>527945702Around 99% of youtubers (such as pewdiepie types, notice how he reveals that he's only "learning" how to operate a computer now in Japan, which is also another lie, just more fake brand) and streamers (I need my IT guy to look at it, don't know how to enter the bios or configure it, don't know how to do anything basic, don't know how to maintain their PC running smooth and so forward, even worse with female streamers, both struggle the same) don't know how to use computers despite it being their literal "work". 99% of influencers don't know either despite the same fact. Be it any age, it's not a generation Z thing but a mainstream approach. When it comes to streamers, youtubers and influencers, they're literally plants, and I mean it letter by letter, it's damn obvious. They don't know anything related to their jobs, don't actually know about games, don't actually know about any culture relying entirely on their team and chat and don't know how to use a computer.
>>527948674old torrent (at least relative to this year) and you can check hash of it, is out there and has mame and around 7000 roms packed and ready
>>527946603>copy error code>paste error code into search dialog>read threads addressing specific hangups>copy provided command to rectify>repeat if necessaryyup. exactly this makes me some kind of wizard in my family. i feel like a fraud
>>527948896you can hook up a gamepad in a number of ways
>>527945423I'm in my early 50's and my grown kid's got a 'hard science' degree. When they were like 15-16, they spent the time to get a few emulators going and I was like 'awesome, wow!' but they haven't messed with any of that shit in 10 years and if I bring up anything remotely 'under the hood' about Windows (much less anything to do with *nix), they're all blank stares. They don't even fuck with A.I. Its sad. I'm over here, an old man, vibe coding python utilities on Gemini while my local Z-Turbo install spits out an endless stream of nude Rue McClanahans, Frances Baviers, and Wendie Jo Sperbers. I firmly believe I won the lottery being born in the early 70's. Cue the Jesus Jones....
>>527945775The walled garden has been the worst development in modern computing. I'm horrified to think that most people access the internet by phone primarily.It's just led to a complete and total collapse of the online experience. The internet is basically dead. I have almost exclusively used 4chan since 2012-2013 or so. I cannot stomach anywhere else.
>>527945601>They arent, downloading an exe and putting the bios into a folder as well as downloading the iso/rom is too much work.Its easy.The one complaint I have: Emus worked so much better before the bios was seperate. Way faster when it was a package deal.Anyone else feel the same way? Or is that just me?
I don't believe for a second that zoomers like retro games. To them every game before 2010 is>dated controls>dated graphics>problematic content>lack of cutscenes>no onlineZoomers choose the Resident Evil 2/3 remakes over the originals. This shows their entire view.
>>527945423>be over the hill millennial loading an emulator and roms into a retro snes while stumbling on this thread.lol zoomers are spending a months pay on a single video game while I hit up marketplace and spent $150 on retro ps1, nes and snes and have hundreds of actual good games I got for free.feels good man.
DD tits
>>527945423Chadlennials have to teach them how to use folders. There's whole channels devoted to how to set up emulators and emulator devices. Zoomers only know how to play Subway Surfers on iPad.
>>527949273>I don't believe for a second that zoomers like retro gamesThey like as long as they can larp about new "waifuS" that they can put in their shitposting collection or if their favorite content creator plays it and have an upcoming sponsorship for a new shit title or shit remake. Again, not only zoomers does this, it's pure widespread cancer feeding each other for a long time now.
Honestly i dont blame the kids. zsnes and visual boy just worked. If my first emulator was pcsx2 i would not have emulated games.
>what a relaxing friday evening feels like when you're GenX
>>527945423using tictoc isnt savvy
>>527945601>downloading an exe>putting the bios into a folder>downloading the iso/romAuch_schon_über_40-FRAGEZEICHEN
>>527945423I was playing emulators on my Pentium II 300 MHz back in 1999 when I was 18. First PC was a 486 in 1994. These zoomer faggots have no excuse...
>>527949635You better be playing that on original hardware or a MISTer. And where the fuck is your CRT friend?
>>527945423>download exe>maybe download a bin if you need to>download rom from wherever you can find them these days>load rom in softwareWhat is there that come close to qualifying as "hard", let alone "too hard"? Finding roms these days can be annoying, but I wouldn't all it hard.
>>527946482the zoomers are the new boomers
>>527950447CRTs are heavy as fuck and I have limited space. My man cave is pretty full atm.>original hardwaresure where's my time machine, can I borrow yours so I can go snag an original system 16A PCB...
>>527945601Do emulators even ask for bios anymore? I can't remember the last time I downloaded one that did.
>>527950399I bought a cheap ass phone specifically to play ps2 games on. It was literally easier than doing it on a PC or Mac. These zoomers are genuinely retarded.
>>527945423>But you merely adopted the ntfs; I was born in it
>>527945882>>527946482this would have been good bait except you're probably being unironic. you're so full of yourself like an unironic low IQ retard. studies have shown that zoomers are low IQ and have poor problem-solving skills. there are anons complaining about how they struggle to solve the new 4chan captchas and there are many issues in general that are turning modern society into a shameless and lawless third world country-style dystopia as zoomers have been entering the work force for about a decade now.
>>527950662they should, there are legal ramifications for providing original bios but i think most now are using a simulated set
>>527945423Plummeting IQs
>>527949883No, I am 30
>>527945601The modern process is:- download a frontend- install the entire console library, cover art, manuals, game guides, promo material, and vhs recorded tv commercials- configure the perfect crt filter- identify the best retro 8bit controller- install high res texture packs for 3d games- watch lets plays beforehand to know what to do- setup livestream with speedrun timers- all of this is happening on an Android phone by the way
>>527949273I couldn't even get my faggot friends to play the 2002 remake of Resident Evil. They were only like 3-5 years younger than me. Poor faggots, they loved horror games but will never know the pantshitting of crimson heads or the true Nemesis.
>>527946779skill issue
>>527945784Rule 88
>>527950998>install high res texture packs for 3d games>watch lets plays beforehand to know what to do
>>527945423Teacher here.I had assumed this too given how my generation were far better with computers than our boomer parents.After a while I realised that kids are shit with computers now. Even a lot of the good ones "organise" their work by having infinity tabs open on a web browser. Saving a file from a PC then finding it to attach to an email is something many of them cannot do until they're shown it by a teacher.Zoomers know what apps are cool and what accounts are cool to follow, that's it.And while they are shit with computers they are simultaneously more dependent on them for everything. A lot of these zoomers' handwriting looks like shit I produced when I was about 6 years old.>NOOO you can't say that, he has a diagnosis and gets extra time>And that one gets someone to read the test questions to themEveryone who ever said it's their expert opinion that a kid should have an adult read test questions to them "to level the playing field" should be thrown in a pit.
>>527945423This can't be real. Nobody is that stupid or lazy today. I was 20 years old, on IRC dal.net in 1996 and only had a windows computer for 3 months at that time and someone gave me a DOS command line SNES emulator and a FF2 rom through a DCC and I figured it out within minutes.inb4 I needed to get laid
zoomies don't have actual opinions on anything, they have no sense of self, they only know how to follow trends and do their own thing. they would rather just pay money for a curated experience than find something unique to them. its the reason record stores and movie theaters are all going out of business. just let me see the top 10 on netflix and spotiy and let me alone
>>527950998crt is overrated. the Sony WEGA televisions, ideally with an HDMI input are the best gaming monitors hands down and CRT / scanlines and all that nostaliga shit dont make the experience any better
>>527945423what they really mean is "it's too much effort for too little payout" since honestly the vast majority of ancient games suck ass compared to modern ones before gaming went to shiteven the good ones are nice but still comparatively suck outside of the nostalgia value that doesn't exist for them"retro" games now are this completely different thing that almost always has way deeper mechanics to make up for the lack of graphics depth than the older games so they're not really all that comparable
>>527950998>Download snes9x>download rom off of CD Romance/RGT/Github rom megathreads/etc>Point emu to directory where rom is>playEssentially that's all you need to do. I have a laptop with 2-3 emulators per system installed (Some for compatibility, some because they connect to Retro Achievements) and it took me less than an hour to transfer my entire collection over to my new laptop.
>>527951136A lot of pixel art of old games looks like shit on true pixel monitors.But early 3D games n64 and PS look better with high resolution true pixel rendering. IMO
>>527951310lately I prefer ru.tracker
>>527945844>retroid pocketAnon, just use your fucking computer.
>>527951378The people designing these games were obviously aware of the natural blending qualities of CRT televisions, most older video display hardware did not work in terms of standard square pixel resolutions like we have today and was used to give a unique look when squashed into the then standard 4:3 display format.
>>527950998Download Visual Boy AdvanceMAYBE configure which buttons should map to what on the keyboardFile->Open->C:\Users\Nigger\ROMS\PokemonEmerald.gbaPlay
>>527945423And yet zoomies are still retarded by not using flash carts.
>>527951310> directorywhat? Is this like Recent, Download, Camera?
What kind of emulation? Modding a Classic Edition console is easy.
>>527945423Generational d&c is almost as dumb as gender d&cPlease tell me youre getting paid by a think tank and this isnt your own best idea to protect your criminal race (jews)
>>527951840Fancy term for folder. You know, those yellow things on your C drive?
>>527947689The joke is that the previous owner of the store is called Chuck so if you replace "Sneed" with "Chuck" you get "Chuck's Feed & Seed".
>>527946712Would have killed to have something like Launchbox + Retroarch back in the day. All those fancy CRT filters allow you to play those old games the way they were intended to be seen (if you dont have a CRT).
>>527946603
Zoomers are the first generation in the west to be less intelligent than the previous generation.
>>527952318Love the dungeon aesthetic
>gen z does that>gen z doesn't like that>gen z not doing this>1pbtidStop being hard gay
>>527952203What is this?
>>527949211>Its easy.If you understand the basics of how to navigate a filesystem. Which is the problem.
>>527945784>Nobody has any moneyEmulation is free>hardware has become usuriously expensiveUse whatever 5+ year old computer you've already got.>and nobody has a home to put this inMost people aren't homeless. If you're referring to storage space, it takes zero extra storage. You just use whatever hardware you've already got.>or any time or money to learn howIt doesn't take any money. You download an emulator. It's got that same file/edit/view menu bar at the top as most other programs you've used. You spend maybe 2 minutes tops clicking around on the interface to see:1. What buttons map to what on my keyboard2. How do I open a ROMStep 2 should be instinctive because IT'S ALWAYS FUCKING FILE->OPEN. IT WAS THAT WHEN YOU LEARNED HOW TO USE WORD/EXCEL POWER POINT IN SCHOOL, IT'S STILL THAT ON THE FUCKING EMULATOR. HOW IS THIS SOMETHING YOU NEED TO LEARN FROM OTHERS OR DO ANY RESEARCH ON?>Plus kikes have been ourging snd censoring info for how to emulate and pirate.r/piracy is still up if you need someone to baby you on where to find ROMs.
>>527952375the commie block cellar is the best quiet place for gaming desu
>>527951136A CRT physically does not have pixels and so leads to a rounder naturally anti-aliased softer image.
>>527948896i use a ps4 controller, via bluetooth and all the buttons map automatically, picrel is a screenshot from my iphone lol
>>527945666>It is especially stupid given games on an emulator usually run better once the game becomes fully playable since the PC exceeds the specs of what the game was made for in most cases. I am not a giant gamer but PPSSPP looks better than the PSP itself if you manipulate the options a bit especially with AA and resolutionutterly utrue, emulation is secondrate cope, the games were made to be played with the original controllers and stuff like light guns as well, emufags are poor and inclinded to grifting and missed the boat through pathos, we get it but cop on.
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>>527946581Im rich pirate and I also do the same now. I play civ4 on a beast of a computer...rarely.
>>527947613no wonder indians are taking our jobs
emulation is fine if you don't mind high latency
>>527952804>no wonder indians are taking our jobsthere are no more jobs in tech, it is dying as is personal computing. The jeets who scammed their way into IT are fucked.
>>527952203>LaunchboxNevermind, I'm retarded.
>>527946119Millennials 80-00 are the computer generation.
>>527952041This is too hard anon, i'll just buy it on the play store
>>527952776legend of dragoon can actually be played without a controller since its a turn based jrpg
>>527952883>there are no more jobs in tech, it is dying>>527952804Why Tech Jobs Are Disappearing in 2025The decline in technology jobs is not accidentait is the result of structural industry change. According to Brendon Bernard, Senior Economist at Indeed, the slowdown is driven by:AI and Automation – Many routine and manual coding or testing jobs are being automated. Intelligent tools can now perform tasks that once required large development teams.Remote Work and Cloud Infrastructure shift to cloud-based, scalable, and self-service solutions has reduced the need for traditional IT support roles.Economic Pressure – In uncertain economic conditions, companies are carefully prioritizing revenue-linked and innovation-focused roles, instead of maintaining large, generalized tech teams.This trend doesn’t mean that technology is losing importance. Instead, it shows that skills in automation, AI, data, and security are replacing older, labor-intensive jobs.Tech Jobs on the DeclineAccording to Indeed’s report, several once-popular tech jobs are now shrinking in demand. These include:Front-End Web Developers – With the rise of no-code platforms, drag-and-drop builders, and ready-made templates, companies need fewer front-end coders.Quality Assurance (QA) Testers – AI-powered automated testing tools are drastically reducing reliance on manual testers.IT Support Specialists – Cloud adoption and self-service troubleshooting have lowered the demand for in-house IT support staff.Blockchain Developers – Following the crypto crash and regulations, blockchain- roles have taken a sharp hit.Declines in Tech Job Postings (2022–2025)Indeed’s study highlights the following steep declines in postings:Web Developer: –72%.NET Developer: –68%Java Developer: –68%Front-End Developer: –67%iOS Developer: –62%UX Designer: –61%Programmer Analyst: –58%QA Engineer: –57%Senior Java Developer: –55%Software Test Engineer: –53%
>>527953026Anon, I played Ocarina of Time with a fucking keyboard. Git gud.
>>527953106>Anon, I played Ocarina of Time with a fucking keyboard. Git gud.>>527952771>emulation is secondrate cope, the games were made to be played with the original controllers and stuff like light guns as well, emufags are poor and inclinded to grifting and missed the boat through pathos, we get it but cop on.
>>527952930>Millennials 80-00 are the computer generation.like fuck they are they were 14 when win 3.1, doom and america online were on the go. They had nothing to fucking do with the internet or the webs or personal computings rise, they simply consume and grift on social media.
>>527945423Gen X and Millennials are the tech savvy ones, zoomers are reliant on technology but that's about it, their knowledge regarding said tech is very basic, but what did you expect? Most people are normies who really just want something simple at the touch of a button.
>>527945601Yep. It's not "too hard" as the title pretends but even as a millennial I can admit it's needlessly complicated. Not complaining, it used to be way worse! But I can see why consolefag and phonefag wouldn't bother with something that doesn't "just werks".I replayed the very first Zelda last week and if you don't download and read the manual beforehand you're getting nowhere. Zoomzoom have no idea about this time honored tradition and will shot themselves in the foot before they even start.My younger brother tried to play Ultima without a paper map two Summer ago. I was like wtf? It came with a map for a very good reason. But emulation doesn't tell you that.
>>527946712>You can get individual emulators and you can get into the recomp/decomp scene (basically PC ports of console games, makes Perfect Dark insanely more fun for example), you can make it as complicated as you want.>You can however, just take retroarch, launch it, get the cores (Mesen, Snes9x, Genesis Plus GX, Mupen64plus-Next, mGBA), get the goodsets elsewhere, scan them with retroarch and have over 10k games just like that, all working as intended.>It's piss easy. The hard part is figuring out which core to use sometimes.>And you want the goodsets because retroarch scans them just like that, no fuss. You get nice playlists.Lol not doing any of that. Zsnes just works.
>>527946755You can stream your torrents to.Just right xlick the file you want tp stream and copy linkPaste in media playrer. Watch it streamed.Torrent will download chunks from front to back.Its not how hard it is. Its consurerist brainwashimg only ever seen in the boomers.You get paniced when you dont have a subscription, thats all it is. Like being on a train without a ticket. It consumes you inside.
>>527945423>Emulating is hardI don't know if it's retardation or if Zoomers are just too fucking lazy to do anything right anyway.
>>527953147Anon, I've played these games on real consoles too. I had an N64 growing up. But you know what's a pain? Having to get off your fucking computer to switch to your console. Or dusting out the old N64 only to find it stopped powering on and you don't fucking know why. I live my life on a desktop, so why would I use anything other than a desktop to play video games?
>>527945423Gen Z here, emulated both PS2 and PS3 games, some PS4 games, snes, etc
>>527945423how i did it as a teenager
>>527946304iic you need to let your asshole lips relax and just let it slide out like the penguin is. Fight club
>>52794542340 yr old boomer and I never got into retro gaming or emulation. I always thought it was gay 2bh.
>>527953106>Anon, I played Ocarina of Time with a fucking keyboard. Git gud.why the hell would you do that though
>>527953703It is, because PC games always were better. All those celebrated console classics are just shit.
>>527953789I've always wanted to get into pc gaming but never got around to it. The last pc game I played was the og Rome Total War.
>>527946119no they arent you retarded faggot. Gen xers are nothing but a bunch of latchkey kid burnouts. They are the most useless of the generations.
>>527953067wow. that explains everything and i totally believe all of it.
>>527953289boomers, genx, and millenials could rebuild everything if the internet stopped working. i don't know if gen z could, which is funny to me, because they will be the ones that have to.
>>527945423Emulation is literally retard proof with the sheer number of guides and videos out there for whatever you're looking to do, I figured that shit out when I was a dumbass pothead in high school.
>>527950883They're piss easy, the worst were those one cursive text ones they briefly had a couple of years ago i m o but the new captcha has done fucking nothing to stop bots. /a/ was getting raped the entire board over last week by some spambot.Amusingly I've noticed they made the captcha EASIER than it was when they first introduced the new system.
>>527945423Its literally plug and play.
>>527945423Oldfags acting like emulation is some elite skill when it's literally just clicking links on reddit megathreads and running an installer lmao. My generation grew up with locked-down iPhones and app stores so we don't waste time on malware-riddled rom sites or sketchy .exe files. We pay $5 on Switch eshop or stream it, because time > cope. You spent your youth dodging viruses and organizing 400GB of duped roms to feel superior. We mog you in actual modern computing while you seethe about 'walled gardens'. Skill issue desu.
>>527945423millennials are digital nativeszoomers are phone app users at bestthere, i cleared it up for you
>>527945423Good. Keep them out and don't share or make tutorials for them, especially any females.How many time before you fucks finally learn to gatekeep.
Emulation is based. Have thousands of games in one tiny hard drive instead of having a bunch of of material bullshit you have to plug in individually and take up all your space
>>527945423My pc has a turbo button...
>>527955632genxers are the ones who designed and built the computers everyone uses today
>>527955463Zoomcuck cope is probably the most impressive form of mental gymnastics I've ever seen.
>>527945423Im a retro fan and Im fuming about this
>>527955463I am at a loss for words to describe how much of a retarded gorilla nigger you are
>>527955790>genxers are the ones who designed and built the computers everyone uses todayThat was boomers. Genz just got the coffee.https://youtu.be/YyoyDm5bFJ0?
>>527949635All that consooming. Why? It's pointless.
>>527952564Fucking normaloid.
>>527945423They know how to press screens, they're the only generation dumber than their parents.
>>527945601>Get raspberry pi>Download 100gb Retro-pi with roms>Write to mem card>Spend three days dealing with no sound through hdmi issue>??????>Profit!
>>527945601zoomers dont even have computers anymorethey dont know what an iso is.or a folderor heck, downloading
>>527945844>>527945423You can play snes in browser
>>527955337Next captcha needs to be a semi-simple PEMDAS equation with a slightly scrambled answer selection.
Emulation is as gay as dick in a man's anus, perhaps gayer.Play the game on a console on a CRT or fuck off.
Indeed. If its not a download and play situation on iPhone it simply does not exist.
>>527945423Well beaners hate Nintendo, they probably don’t want to emulate the old stuff anyway. Every single beaner I’ve met, and I live in SoCal so it’s a lot, they exclusively play sports games on the most recent PlayStation model they can afford
>>527945423Kids are only as dumb as their parents are allowing them to be. If you complain about zoomers then don't complain about the boomers, and that's coming from a 40yo dad.
>>527945601MAKE AN APP UNC ONG SO SICK OF YA BULLSHIT GRAMPS
>>527947631millenials are utter shit at techthe only properly tech generation are us later Xersbecause we've known tech at a time we needed to understand what we were doing and how it worked to make it workyou don't think it be like it is, but you're a millenial retard, so there's that
>>527957410You’re a delusional retard.
>>527957484>y-y-y-y-youalways the most pathetic answer, millenial niggerwitsyou're just neoboomers, just poor and even more stupid (which will be your only achievement, lol)kvetch moar faggot
>>527946482> be jenzy> are not allowed to do anything except stupid dances and looks on tiktok because - yes - else would be cringey
>>527945601>downloading an exe they don't even know how to use bt. they don't even know what it is. even the ones that are tech savvy. they just use 'streaming sites'. the idea you can download, and keep an entire tv series blows their mind.
>>527958038Phone storage is limited
>>527945423Look up "Reverse Flynn Effect". It's been confirmed that zoomers are retarded
>>527945423Zoomers are bred from birth to be helpless consumersAnything else is an afterthought at best
>>527957573Millenials are literally the most intelligent generation to exist, you smooth brained faggot. I get why youre bitter, but maybe go off and kill yourself so we dont have to deal with you anymore.
>>527958288>millenials are literally the most intelligent generation to exist
>>527958374Every generation has gotten smarter than their predecessors, except Gen Z. Millenials are the peak. Go be stupid somewhere else. Low IQ old man lololol
>>527946556>your
>>527945423I guess Gen Z has bought into the consumer drone economy, like enshittified amazon & apple. Like the rong security cam that didnt keep recording of the abductor…play to play every day. Send money bezos! Send money to nintendo! Meanwhile you get nothing. Society will keep shoving your money to privatize everything, private security, prisons, and ICE (private army), and you will be screwed with owning nothing and knowing nothing.Then elon and thiel, and those gays will colonize and bully places like Iceland or Ukraine. (You got no cards, you gotta sign the deal!!!! SIGN THE DEAL NEGRO AND YOU DONT GET WHIPPED THIS TIME)There is no goodwill here anymore. It took over two decades for those companies to realize people like old 2d platformers and old liscenses, and instead of making a new good game, they release the same thing (in an emulator with code they stole).
>>527958527>I'z be so cleva I'z believe the retarded crap vomited by the streetshitting jewrnalist cheetah singhKekmillenials, everyone
Zoomers banned me from their forum knockout.punch for "abelism". I was trying to contact a C++ programmer who was there that knew the Souce Gold BSP format.I will not forgive them for this.
>>527945423This explains why retro hardware prices are increasing now a days
>>527958681Seethe more you retarded low IQ faggot. Shall I continue with the hundreds of other articles? Not like you have any actual counter argument or data anyways. Thanks for showing everyone how stupid you are lol
>>527945423I agree.
>>527945423>I thought zoomers were supposed to be the most tech savvy generation ever..Literally no one has ever claimed that. Most don't even know how files work on a PC.
>>527952610LED/LCD looks better if I squint my eyes like a Fingolian.
>>527954705AI will replace us oldfags. The future is fucked.
>>527947844Wtf is that AI recreation of golden eye?
>>527959308Also when I take off my glasses. t blind fingolian
>>527955980Why eat food anon? You're just gonna shit it out anyways.
>>527945423they are the first generation in human history to be dumber than the previous generation.
>>527959627I blame Steve Jobs, who hated gaming btw.
>>527952797lol hier auch!
>>527945423>emulator is le hard>download the emulator>download the game>load the game>playholy shit. then again, that was easy to figure it out, most newfags zoomzoom are down right NPC's.
Gen x and millenials were always the tech savy because they learned how to combine tech and use computers that didn't hold your hand.Everyone that grew up with smart phones was worse because you are blocked from most of the real file system or important parts of an unrooted phone. You don't have to learn anything to install and run apps, and only a minority had a rooted phone to even look at the parts that show you how things work. Even then the hardware on a phone requires software that is not common or you must write yourself to interact in a non obfusicated way since approved store apps adhere to rules that don't allow full control and manipulation of hardware like a computer allows.Basically phones do not teach the user in an intuitive manner while PCs did. So pre smart phone generations learned more without education in that field.There is tech savy zoomers but usually because they got formal education in that field. And now that coding employment has collapsed, and companies import foriegners for all those jobs far fewer will be getting education in tech fields.
>>527945423?I have a low end android smartphone and I can play everything up to PS1 and PSP no problem. Those retards are probably getting stuck at the "create a rom folder" part lol, let alond finding the roms.
>>527945423Most zoomers, even stem grads can't think to right-click to find shit.I know this from experience working with them.
>>527958177gen Z is just non white
>>527945423>entire thread has anons bitching about marketing termstop kek, well done comrades, really well done.
>>527945601OH GOD MY HANDS THEY HURT MOVING THE MOUSE TO THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN!
>>527946581>find a safe download
>>527946119>be millennial with gen X parents in early 2000s>family computer keeps getting fucked by viruses>dad blames me and deletes all my emulators and massive rom collection>even claimed that Firefox was a virus (lol)>found out a year or 2 later that it was actually because of him browsing sketchy porn sites>tfw still mad to this day
>>527960377Zoomers took the term "fuck around and find out" as a warning and never figured anything out.
>>527946119most of the 80's "Tech" was just basically Fads. Cool for a moment and then fucked off when the next Fad came.
>>527959189millenials aren't zoomers' parents: it's Xers, who aremillenials are essentially boomers' childrenand since boomers are completely niggerwitted, being even more niggerwitted than them (which will be your sole "achievement", lmao) doesn't change much>b-b-b-b-but muh (soft) "science" editor, though: greta told you gotta believe the (soft, lol) "science"lmao, retarded faggot
>>527945423Most of my zoomer peers have never owned or used a desktop pc in their life
zoomers are buying video games maybe thats a good thing it will help the industry
>>527946346>I was emulating at 10 years oldYeah ok, SBF.>Fuck you Mom, I'm on your E-trade account too!
>>527946581its not that hard, the older the easier. open program open rom simple as
>>527961466>xcuck getting called out and throwing a screeching tantrumBusiness as usualMillennial site by the way, but glad you're enjoying our scraps like the irrelevant shitstain you are.
>>527961775>getting called outI'm sure it was "real" in your "mind", neoboomer>Millennial site by the waymeanwhile, in reality, I'll always be a 2005 /b/tardand epstein is a boomer, fwiw
>>527961466no he's right zoomers are retarded iPad babiesmillennials at least had a normal childhood
>>527945423Zoomers know different tech to us older people. They don't know computers, but are quite capable at getting things done on a phone. As the world becomes more phone-centric, we elders are being left behind.
>>527961394To be fair there was alot of advancement in physical media. Betax/vhs, 8track/audio cassettes. The mive from floppy disks to cds in the 90s was huge too.https://youtube.com/watch?v=e-cEIp0AcfM&
>>527945423it's pretty important to make a clear distinction between early gen Z and late gen Z here, its basically a day-and-night differenceall of this more or less only applies to zoomies born after 1999
>>527945666This is retarded and untrue. Games were designed to work with the hardware of the console. Emulation has to mimic that and the way PCs work vs something like a Sega Saturn is very different. Emulation has gotten very good, but not great. I’m gay and trans btw.
It depends. The older zoomers know how computers work but the younger test ones only know app stores and iCloud.
>>527961881>zoomers are retarded iPad babiesI haven't said the oppositethe discussion was about zoomers being the first to be more retarded than their parentsand this is laughable, because millenials are even more retarded than boomersand of course, boomers are far, far more retarded than the silent generation>millennials at least had a normal childhoodif you can call being "raised" by niggerwitted whores for jews and the talmudvision a normal childhood...still better than what zoomlets got, granted, but still
>>527945423How?Emulation is easier than ever, Duckstation for PS1 pretty much has it all setup to go, with Xinput premaps etc ready to goEpSXe was a ballache at times, especially with widescreen mods etc
>>527961890>we elders are being left behind.Except that early millenials have the highest IQ in all of human history.We are not getting left behind. Boomers and zoomers are getting left behind.
>>527961278have you ever confronted your dad on this?
>>527962114>highest IQ in all of human history>proceed to pedospace and post estronaut memesKek
>>527945423People born in the 80s or 90s are the most tech savvy generation that will ever exist. From now on humans will just be asking AI to do things they don't understand.
>>527962114Boomer tier take.
>>527962282Grok, is this true?
>>527962114> highest IQ in all of human historyIQ is a nonsense measure since they keep renormalizing it to 100. In reality, people have been getting dumber for centuries. If you plucked a random peasant out of a field 1000 years ago, he would be more intelligent than anyone currently alive.
Yikes. This entire thread gives me the ick.
>>527961890No we are programming the phones from the PCs, we know to use. You can’t keep going forward and reinventing it all.
I mean do you niggas know how program computers using punch cards? Things change gramps.
