>>740780416use rechargeable batteries or a replacement battery pack with usb chargingthe real anti nostalgia is the lack of a backlight
>>740780416Non backlit screens
>getting your finger nail yanked a bit when trying to slot in or out the batteryIt was like a childhood version of Garand thumb.
How about the clunkyness?
>>740780524>rechargable batteries in the 1870sFuck outta here larpfag
>>740780524>>740780531
>>740780416Oh no, not the easily replaceable batteries! I'd rather buy an aftermarket chinkshit one from aliexpress or some crap!
>>740780416no touchscreen. how do you even use it?
>>740780416Just imagine not battery maxing.
>>740780590oh yeah sorry just the usb charging ones then>>740780601these were shit and drained the battery even more
a had one of theselmao thanks for reminding me
>saving the game is a luxury, not a given
>>740780416>Dad would never give me new batteries because he insisted that all the dead ones I give him still have charge in them>have to randomly swap them around until I could squeeze out another 5 minutes of playtime>>740780603You wouldn't get it
>>740780416i remember my sega genesis overheating and not letting me beat sonic 1..
>>740780601KINOTAKE ME BACK
all handheld prior to PSP were fucking awful and I was so pissed getting GBC as present when I already had PS1. never got any games for it because they cost just as much as PS1 games yet were much worse.
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>>740780730Damn that brings back memories
>>740780845just put them in the freezer, dummy
>>740780601I would remove the front screen for a clearer picture and I had the wall outlet too. Loved playing this thing late at night since it wouldn't completely blind me like a backlit screen does
>>740781126*the oven
>>740780601>Rapes your batteryNothing personnel kid
>>740781153*Crush them slightly with your teeth
>>740780416>no, that uses too many batteriesI had to wait until my cousins would allow me to use theirs, it wasn't until sp that I could get my own handheld that wasn't a brick game.
>>740781094I'm so glad my behemot had them at the sides
>>740781094ooh la la look at this fancy pants and his AV cables
Boomers were total cucks for putting up with this
>>740781368PAL isn't even that bad. i don't get the hate.
>>740781094Why would you move the tv?I always just reached around and felt for it.
>>740780416That is preferably to batteries I can't remove that swell up and explode.
>>740780601Okay, but why is this actually pure sovl and kino?
>>740780601I played these games in the dark at a young age. No wonder I've developed eye problems. Fuck!!
>>740781397Making games incompatible across borders because piracy or something. I don't know if that shit exists anymore.
>>740780416The OG Gameboys 4 AA's and only having 10 hours of playtime.
>>740781397it's 50hz
>shelve my atomic purple gbc for years>check it recently>turns out i forgot to take out the batteries now the compartment looks like a corroded hellscape.can i still save it?
>>740781397>all games ran 16,7% slowerwasn't an issue back then when we didn't know any better but PAL versions are literally unplayable now on anything older than PS2
>>740781675you'll have to suck out the poison
>>740780416This+dogshit backlighting Turned on my gameboy SP to test some games and even that backlight is miserably dim for my old man eyes
>>740780601>you now realize as a kid you played gameboy by candlelight
>>740781675There's parts for every component of a Gameboy color online. People modify them constantly
>>740781643so?>>740781712slow doesn't mean bad though. it's just more cinematic.
>>740780416FFXI on PS2 with AOL dialup in 2002 was some shitthe game actually played alright given this setup but patches took all fucking day to downloadi used to start it in the morning before school and it still wouldn't be done by the time i was back home that afternoon
>>740780691This guy plays a total of 0 games.
>>740781831fuck off, PAL was bad and if we knew that back then we would've not put up with that shit. Nintendo cought massive flak for releasing VCs on the Wii in Europe in 50 Hz thanks to widepsread internet usage and they stopped releasing these cucked versions with the Wii U and now only offer them additionally for extra languages, that's how bad they are
>>740781619>I don't know if that shit exists anymore.To prevent countries with strong currency from buying games from another region for effectively nothing
I miss the SP more than any other console I've owned. There was something about it.
>>740781905Yep
>battery dying in my LTTP cart halfway through the game>ff7 crashing during aeris death fmv and having to trade it back in for another copy>getting pic related in DOTT and my uncle having to replace it with a properly cracked version>PC tower not booting without a good smack to the side>trying to play Shadowman on N64 with some tiny philips CRT we'd had since maybe even the late 80s and it being too dark to make anything out even on max brightness>>740780730Yeah these were quite common, like the equivalent of overly bulky tablet or phone covers
>>740781094>could never slot it correctly as a kid even matching the colors>would always have to ask my dad for help and then it would go out after about an hour or so>eventually reveals that he set up a timer plug on the VCR that would shut it offBastard, I miss him.
>>740781953This shit was diabolical
>>740782007i played mine a year ago to play a Mother 3 english cart i got on etsy for like $6, it was very comfystill my favorite handheld to date, laying on your side with it is perfect
>>740781397>17% lower framerate because FUCK YOU!
>>740781994looks like it is simply intended to annoy consumers
>>740781953Just polish it newb.
>>740780416Game Gear taking 6 AA's and it would only keep it going for half a day. Insane battery drain, you had to literally have it plugged in constantly. Don't even get me started on the TV adapter which was fucking amazing for its time but still more battery drain.
>>740781397Only amerisharts make a big deal about it. We didnt care just played the games
>windows based emulators running like shit on your Cyrix>connectix vgs, an emulator only capable of running in native, tanking like fuck
>>740782246at least they had the foresight to give it an ac adapter, despite defeating the portable purpose
>>740781905>>740782009Worse than that: I am currently playing Fallout 4.
>>740781969you're getting hung up over something you wouldn't even notice if you just played the game. it's like complaining about interlacing when you wouldn't even be able to see the gaps on a high resolution display. PAL was fine.
>>740782279yuros are the ones cut off from playing original JP games
>>740780416This son of a bitch right here. Total cunt to plug in if you couldn't easily go behind your tv.
'member memory cards? Apparently Sony only made 8MB ones and I have a 32MB chink bootleg.
>>740782463Literally no kid had the official one, it was always off-brand. I think we had ONE
>>740781094>one of the connectors deteriorates>have to jiggle around the cable and port to get it to work>sometimes have to wedge legos or blocks in elaborate contraptions to do this
>>740782246This (>>740780691) anon again. I got a Game Gear before a Game Boy, and to play it on-the-go I would use this big-ass battery they made for it. It was so big that they put a belt clip on the back of it. >>740782326>at least they had the foresight to give it an ac adapter, despite defeating the portable purposeIt was pretty common to buy an AC adapter for your handhelds back then to play at home. The original Game Boy could use the NES's adapter, but the Pocket (which I had) had its own fucked up adapter, which they would carry over to the GBC. I think I had an off-brand adapter for my Pocket that was transparent. Strangely I don't think that the original GBA had a port for an AC adapter, but I had this rechargeable battery that would plug into the battery compartment, and it had its own adapter that would plug into it.
>>740781953>tfw washing disks under the water and it somehow works
This thing got loose and fell out and you never found it again.
>>740780897No you dont
>>740781397when you had no idea that games weren't meant to run that slowly, nobody caredhell, as a kid I always thought the 60hz option was the turbo mode like what the DMC3SE onegranted, my TV supported both 50hz and 60hz (prob cuz dad was working in the big economic boom and thus had the cash to splurge on a good TV, which sadly ended up breaking after a while)nowadays, it mostly sucks cuz pre-PS2 consoles (and some early PS2 games like DMC1 PAL) don't have that switch so they'll be 50hz if you get the PAL copy, and trying to increase the speed yourself will just make sound effects and music play faster and pitched up
>>740780416This shit was as endemic as the 360 failure but no one wants to admit it.
>>740781094>making your games look and play better than modern displays is anti nostalgia
This fucker at an odd angle in the tv cabinet
>>740782714>Strangely I don't think that the original GBA had a port for an AC adapter, but I had this rechargeable battery that would plug into the battery compartment, and it had its own adapter that would plug into it.It was something like this. I remember mine came with a matching screen protector/light thing that would clamshell down over the screen. It plugged into the link port.
>>740780601These were a meme back then too, I only ever saw magazines joke about them
>>740782854I faced the red screen of death quite a bit using a magic disc to pirate games
>>740780416I prefer that than a non removable one that could swell honestly, always have.
once optical mice became affordable i never looked back
>>740782771And off brand ones scratched your screen
Your dad walks in
>>740782854>endemicYou don't know what that means
>>740783006I'm trying to fix this right now on my old slim ps2, but i think i'll just start playing games connecting an hard drive to it.
retards will complain about the dumbest shit
>>740782546>Literally no kid had the official onei have 4 official ones and 1 bottleg onesounds like skill issue
no hot plug
>>7407824638 fucking mb and a game entirely on a disk (and content complete) what happened?
>>740780416>ITT: anti nostalgiaFortnite 1.0
>>740783268Ironic
We take wireless controllers for granted.
Having to get behind the big crt tv to switch consoles in general.
>>740783210I don't think you can do that mod on the slim but maybe I'm wrong. I sometimes search for modded ps2s they're still cheap and plentiful.
>>740783390The keyboard I'm using right now still uses this. Never had a problem with it.
>>740783491Switches existed
>>740783429fortnite was kino before they turned it into PUBG
Port forwarding.Aka "fuck it, we'll just use Hamachi"
>>740780416
>>740780971I have no idea how Pokemon Blue/Red got so big when there were a hundred better JRPGs on Playstation. Like i played them back then but fuck they were boring and then you add the handheld fuckery of having to beg your parents for batteries and hoping they actually have any. I didn't play any other GBC games for this reason>>740781619No you stupid fuck it was a TV standard, our TVs ran at 50Hz and a slightly higher resolution so they had to either slow the game down by 1/6 or lower the framerate or just skip frames depending on the level of effort they wanted to put inRegion locking is a separate thing. And PAL stopped being relevant with the transition to HD content
>>740783390These were a good thing. We need to go back to this.
>>740783393Higher resolutionNo more CRTsFully voiced games
>>740782546i had an official black and official see-through blue that i still havemy ps1 memory card was a mad catz or something
Adlibsisters... it's just as good right?
>>740783491I feel like you’ve never actually used a CRT
>>740780524The lights inside the car were specifically designed to counter this but sadly it made all our parents freak out for no reason. Probably because it reflected off the rear view mirror and made it a blind spot. I can’t think of any other reason. No, a cop isn’t gonna fucking pull us over, mom, chill out
I remember I had to actually, HAHAHAHAH, PAY, for games. Consoles 100%, PC it was 50/50 either buy the big box original or pay some guy for his janky pirated CDs.We've come a long way.
>>740783474>being madrolleyes.exe
>>740783567Skill issue, anon.
>>740783731>>740783550>if you didn’t have the same experience as me you must be lying
>>740783617>when there were a hundred better JRPGs on Playstationlike what
>>740782835where men were made
>>740780416I liked the smell of a gameboy covered in sweat.
>>740783491>Not a big daisy chain of RF adapters for every console under the sunNot historically accurate.
How do you do fellow import gamers?
>>740780601I sometimes used mine to read books at night.
>>740783491s-video was robbed
>>740783993>>740784148This
>2005>play game made in 1999>fullscreen exclusive, 16 bits colors, and 800*600 at best>dare to alt+tab away>game crash>desktop icons all over the place, colors are fucked tooI don't miss this shit.
>sibling does something like deleting your save data or scratching a disc>get mad>parents tell you off because “it’s just a game”
>>740783210Put some pressure on the top left disc tray to get the disc spinning, clean the laser with ISO alcohol 99% (gently don't scrape it like a jackass) and clean your discs. Modding your ps2 is the better way to go for longevity.
>>740783804My mom's coworker hooked us up with a fat nerd in a shady repair shop who knew how to chip PS1's and sold pirate GameBoy cartridges, memory cards, etc. it was the coolest shit ever, like a hacker movie.
Does anyone remember Tux Paint?
>>740784234You just did the thing I said you’re doing lmao
>>740783768Because if it's bright in the cabin of the car, it makes it harder to see outside the cabin. Probably a combination of things, like your eyes aren't adjusting for the dark since it's bright inside the cabin and also might add glare and reflections of the glass as well. You get the same kind of effect from your house: at night time turn on all the lights in the room and see if you can see as far out the window as you would with all the lights off. It isn't about cops, retard.
>>740780601>>740780601accessories peaked here
>>740783487and the wired 360 con is still king
>>740780416desu a lot of old games didn't age really well.I replayed a bunch of GB, PS1 games recently >Driveryou always start at the exact same location and you spent half the time of every mission on those shitty bridges>Worms (PS1/N64/DC)Ai takes 40seconds to make a move and then shuffles between hitting bullseye or just dropping a grenade in the water>R-typeOHKO>Bombermanhave to get lucky with ai and if you stand too close to a corner an explosion might still hit you>Alundraactually fuck that game. Shitty arbitrary progression triggers>Rayman, Crashuntested level segmentsOther than controls and camera, its understated how much bad ai sucks.
>>740783567still needed if you wanna host games in any capacity
>>740784345>play source game>alt tab out>last played sound repeats over and over and over and over until it finally lets itself get minimized
>>740783567imagine getting filtered by port forwarding
>>740784692
Whenever I'd save up $10 I'd take a trip into town to visit the one store the sold NX cards. I'd buy one, walk home, think about all the cool stuff I'd buy, get home, then gamble on gacha and never win.Now kids can gamble without even leaving their homes.
>>740784353The SA1 opening cutscene made me scared that my city would get flooded.
If any of you find a way to go back, you'll take me with you right?
>>740780416Proprietary batteries in your smart devices is so much better :^)
>>740783617You can't walk around with a Playstation.
>>740780601These broke all the time, I had to turn on the car light which pissed off my parents
>>740782546I had multiple official ones, poorfag.
>>740783062optical mice back then were also quite shit and a good mousepad was pretty much a requirement to use themit's crazy how much the sensors improved since then, i can put my mouse on my hairy ass leg and it will still work normally instead of the cursor having a seizure all over the screen
>>740782673wtf? I've literally never had to do this.
>>740782279>>740782838>>740781831A message to all fellow Americans. You do not hate Europeans enough. You should have them far, far more. Just look at these posts.
>>740781712not really, plenty games adjusted for the pal refresh rate and most games didn't run at native 60fps anyway so the discrepancy was much smaller.
>mid-match in modded smash bros brawl>BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTT (6th time in a row)>>740780691i dont think thats a super nintendo>>740783179rest in peace street fighter x tekken>>740783487i still prefer wired
>>740785286>Turn on card dome light>Father immediately gets arrested and thrown into prison for life after a bus full of nuns is blinded and careens off the side of a bridge>Car explodes, taking with it half the city>The President personally calls to tell me what a fuck up I am
>>740785286>he didn't make incremental progress in Pokémon with each passing street light
>>740785397>europe has a different TV standard>"YOU DON'T HATE THEM ENOUGH REEEE"It literally doesn't even affect you
>>740781402same but each time you had to brace for getting a tiny bit electrocuted
Is this the 30+ year old boomer thread?
>>740785286>These broke all the time, I had to turn on the car light which pissed off my parentsHoly shit me too. WHY THE FUCK did they get so mad at us turning on the lights?
>>740785589thats every thread on this site
>>740780730what even was the obsession with the magnifying glasses. mom bought me one way back when for my gba and i never understood it.
>>740785697it’s just supposed to magnify the screen making it look bigger
>>740784148Dad refused to spend money on "useless cables" and mom did not allow the consoles to be seen while not in use so it was a constant plug-unplug show.
>>740785589Go back to tiktok if you aren't a 30+ boomer
>>740785754i know, but it looked like shit for no actual benefit, yet so many magnifying glass accessories existes for the gb, gbc and gba
>>740785397I'd be wary getting into the consumer rights debate as an amercian.You fucks literally defend the freedom of a corporations right to fuck you over any way they see fit.There's plenty to shit on Euros for, but consumer rights law is not the battlefield you should be choosing
>oh you want to use your console with a PC monitor? that will be $50+tip a cable that has literally no other uses criminal
>>740785759>constant plug-unplug show.giggity
>>740785841Yeah, you had the right to play games 15% slower, lmao.
>>740785592It's dangerous for the drivers visibility. And it makes other retards on the road gawk at you because you are the only car with an inside light on.
>>740782334The only good thing narratively about that game is how good the Nate VA handled those lines. The Nora VA was good too, but he had the perfect amount of unhinged in his sarcastic lines to make it sovlfvll. The fact he's also a war criminal in lore makes it only better too.
>>740785135>proprietary batterieslolwutAll smart device batteries are bog standard that can be sourced by their part no. Are you retarded?
>>740780691>everdrive cuckgo figure
>mom did not allow the consoles to be seen while not in use so it was a constant plug-unplug show.God damn boomers, they even had an entire untouchable room in their house for having guests that never came over
>>740785523The road theme movws on beat with the lights.
>>740780601What if we make a console without a light?WTF Nintendo was on?
>>740780416Two batteries were pretty manageableThe original power hungry nigger was not, Jesus fucking Christ I was glad that I could get a Color as soon as it was out
>>740785950>TV supports 60hz>game asks me whether I want to play in 50hz or 60hz>some games outright just run faster to compensate for the FPS losswow so difficult
This thread is giving me this vibe
>>740786010Seethe.
>uh oh, time to play harmonica with the cartridge for the next half hour
not nostalgia but anyone who used a PS3 controller on PC during 2011-2015 remembers this dogshit
>>740786168Was the GBC that much more power efficient than the fat gb?I had both but I really can't remember which of them had a longer battery life
im sorry but these discs fucking sucked, I recently had to buy new umd cases to replace the old shitty ones and it works but i rather would just digitally download the games
>>740786027People who put bathroom towels just for decoration deserve nothing
>>740786384UMDs look so cool though.
>>740786284i give this a 4/10 sovl rating
>>740786338>want to play virtua tennis 3>automatically assigns controllers to players 1, 2, 3, and so on. you can't choose who uses what controller>what's worse, keyboard is hardcoded for player 1, so you need TWO controllers for multiplayerfuck you sega
>>740786384>tried pulling my copy of Liberty City Stories out of this as a kid on Christmas morning because I was so excited I didn't take a second to see how these things worked I almost broke it
>>740784781>>740783907>>740783567It literally depends on the router.Some didn't save the settings while pretending they did.I think I had one that specifically required you to click the restart button on a specific page.Annoying as fuck when you have people try to help you but don't believe you did what they told you
>>740786604I had a similar thing happen when I got my Virtual Boy. It was not obvious that the little black thing on the bottom needed to be removed.
>>740780524>usb chargingIts called an outlet nigga.I had the shock n rock for my battery needs.
>>740786338It was a chinese spyware program btw
>>740786525
>>740785360>i can put my mouse on my hairy ass legHuh, it actually worked. Thank god, I remember getting clowned on in CS because my mouse would randomly shoot to the sky.
also had to strip the nintendo cable so i could wire it to the black and white tv
>>740780601The gbc screen is super reflective so it would create this bright white spot wherever the light is shining.
>>740786787>someone took the time to reset the game before going to sleepUh huh
>>740780524yeah i had a wacky wall adaptor for both my gbc and gba because my parents were about to lose their shit buying batteriesblindly plugging it in beside my bed and zapping my thumb was almost a nightly ritual
>>740783567Port Forwarding is so easy, literally just type in the port, associate it with your local IP, and done. Somehow it filters so many people.
>>740781619It's the AC frequency difference between countries. US uses 60 Hz utility frequency, EU uses 50 Hz
>>740786732These prices are a fucking ripoff wtf
>>740780601Nintendo didn't make a good handheld until the GBA SP.
>>740786892And tell that box... to go fuck itself.My only experience even seeing that thing is that AVGN video lel
>>740785443>mid-match in modded smash bros brawl>BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTT (6th time in a row)hitting 'random' on my modded copy was roughly a one in three chance of a crash
>>740780416>have to spend a couple seconds swapping the batteriesvs>spend an hour plugged into the wall to get progressively less and less battery lifeOne is clearly the superior option here
>>740780416>don't mind me. just pirating these batteries
>>740786338>>740786783>if the controller cable wasn't up to snuff and sometimes disconnected and connected rapidly, it would just bluescreen your computerwas fun figuring that out after losing 4 hours of progress
>>740785759>hundreds of books>the one that's out and worn is a self-help book
>>740786892hey i have one of these. also have one for my gamecube that's actually hooked up. the picture is so much worse than using the composite cable.
>>740781368OK pal
>>740786519not very practical
>>740783550I had one but it was so shitty that everything looked terrible through it.
>>740780614use the pressbuttons
>>740786027>parents have guest room with waterbed we're not allowed in>guest room becomes computer room because no guests>computer room becomes room mom sleeps in because dad gave her the ick>room mom slept in is a computer room again because mom moved out>computer room becomes stepsister's bedroom because she needs a room>nearly every room becomes a computer room because everyone has their own PC>my bedroom becomes the computer room because i have the PC that's actually well-kept and not utterly ruined by moronsi used secondhand laptops for a full decade after moving out because desktops just gave me anxiety after all that
>aiming rockets with 300 ping>aiming anything before lag compensation was added
>>740787383I am so sorry
>>740785838>for no actual benefitPeople who need glasses but don't realize it (AKA every old person) love these since you can just hold it a few milimeters closer or further to bring it into focus.
The fact that there was actually nothing to play in the past and each decent game by necessity had to be played multiple times over.
>>740786913>not lulling yourself to sleep with the image of mario's stretched out ears and eyes escaping their sockets while a steel drum sounding rendition of the mario theme drones onngmi
>>740787425in any sane server you would get kicked with a 300 ping
>>740787383>parents have guest room with waterbed we're not allowed ini stayed with boomer relatives once and they had a guest room with a waterbed too
>>740783390I have a PS/2 keyboard lying around as it's important to fix certain problems when they come up once every other year.
>>740787515Well I couldn't find an even older screenshot when no one had high speed internet and 300 was a good ping.
>>740781094>>740782673>can't find a RCA to 3.5mm adapter so had to tape together a male RCA cable to my headphones in a super specific way so the connectors don't short.>the slightest tug causes it to come undone
>>740787579>as it's important to fix certain problemsNah
>>740780601sovl. I loved my worm light. beat DKL2 playing late at night with one of these.
>>740785360>all of my electronics work fine>friend comes over>his mouse is acting up on the desk so he has to use a book as a mousepad>his laptop has 25 tabs of god knows what open and his game is lagging, despite every wireless device i have working fine he blames my internet>same shit on his phone, never closes an app and if we play jackbox or some other browser game like that his device is constantly losing connection entirely and he'll wander around the house acting like it's some deadzone in my wi-fi even though EVERYONE ELSE IS HAVING ZERO PROBLEMS>offer to just run my wireless hotspot on my phone (and two other people say "or mine") and have him use that connection but he refuses because his phone's hotspot feature is always having problemsaugh it's unreal how the handful of things that ARE getting better are being slandered by morons that are causing their own problems. this same guy complained about USB-C for ages because he had a charge port FULL of dirt that wasn't working and it was both his first USB-C device AND first time getting a port that dirty so of course he blamed the design of the port itself, saying "it's no better than the one iphones used to use"
I hated loading games from these, especially if they loaded once and then nevee again.
>>740787705Hey, sometimes it's easier to use a HW interrupt to get me access than to go looking around for where I put my boot USB and get access that way.
>>740785443for me it was with monster hunter Tri online. game would freeze about 20 minutes in no matter what which led me to modding and cheating OP weapons that would oneshot everything just so I could get those online exclusive sets
>>740781402>He gives the TV a reach aroundGenerous lover.
>>740787515300?try more like over 100, maybe even lower thresholds
>>740787541One year when I went to visit my dad, his guestroom had a waterbed as well.I think when boomers finally die out the waterbed industry is fucked.
>>740780601Hey, I had one of those. It fucking sucked.
>>740783179I don't think this qualifies as anti-nostalga, I never had a problem with GfWL until services shut down, but that's a modern problem.
>>740787842>sometimes it's easier to use a HW interruptVery single PS/2 port these days is just connected through an internal USB adapter.So either you're stupid or you are using a 20 year old system.
>>740787731i had one with it's own battery compartment and i used it to read books late at night all the time. only used it for my gameboy when camping or in the car at night
>>740787810Did you ever try calling your friend a fucking retard? That helps me sometimes to get the point across.
>>740787639internet speed has nothing to do with ping you dumbass, i had 7ms ping to CS1.6 servers with my shitty dial up connection
>>740783390Literally HALTS your entire system whenever you press a key. And strangely enough that's better than polling.
>>740787954It's not listed as a subset of the USB controller on my PC so..
>>740783487I leave all my controllers plugged in permanently so they might as well be wired.
>>740782546Third worlder post.
>>740783567You can't port forward these days. You are most likely sharing an IPv4 address with a dozen other subscribers. Unironically nostalgia.
>>7407804162 things I absolutely don't miss areA.) dial-up, mainly because my cheap as fuck parents didn't want to pay for a cable hookup when we moved in 1999 because they didn't think the internet would matter and we didn't get dsl until 2004B.) Building a PC before 2000, its legitimately better having PCI-e for expansion ports and SATA/NVMe for storage devices/cd drives/etc than it was having shit like AGP and ISA and IDE and a bunch of other garbage like master/slave jumpers motherboards.People romanticizing dial up are extreme faggots and there is no legitimate to "retvrn" to that garbage. Sure the dial sounds is nostalgic, but the tech is objectively inferior and we are better off without it. The only thing we need to go back is to is when paid DLC and MTX were shunned and spit on and not even a concept and devs not being corporatized fucks that actually put effort into delivering completed games
>>740787907Waterbeds fell out of favor because they inevitably leak, and rental properties just outright won’t allow them.
>>740786001Are you? You will never get a first party quality battery from anyone. The unlicensed jeet shit never charges right.
>>740786913idiot. they were doing the mario face stretch thing. thats why it doesnt say “press start” in the bottom right.you obviously werent a kid then because everyone I knew spent an inordinate amount of time playing with marios face when that game came out.
>>740785697some of them had build in lights to help with playing at night
>>740787810>augh it's unreal how the handful of things that ARE getting better are being slandered by morons that are causing their own problemsIt's always important to remember that retard thinks he's right.
>>740787986i reserve those moments for when he randomly decides that I'm a retarded social media leftist like he is and he shits on something I stand for.one day he randomly texts me about rightwingers being bootlickers because the big local news at the time was parents don't want the schools keeping secrets. I have two kids and absolutely do not want there to be subterfuge in the already completely fucking retarded canadian education system. I blasted him like crazy about that, like I did everyone else who was opposing me on that issue.Bring up how a kid might bring home an essay or test with their "trans" name on it by mistake, and the parents that had to be kept in the dark are now aware of the tranny shit AND how they were lied to. How does that situation play out? Always with cope bullshit like "that won't happen very often" or "they would have been mad anyways"
>>740786341iirc despite releasing years later, the Color had nearly similar processing power compared to the fat GB but was more energy efficient with that same power.
>>740783567Don't do this on your home network unless you know what you're doing. And definitely don't do this to forward to a Windows machine. It exposes your network to the internet and there are bots from China and Russia that scan literally EVERY IPV4 address in existence and look for common exploits. If you have a Linux machine, you should have a firewall enabled like UFW.If you want to see what I mean, install a program called Fail2Ban, which logs each time someone tries to access your machine. After just 24 hours you should see logs from dozens of bots.
Always hated this shithttps://youtu.be/slwmJLaVrdE?si=IuXiLs5YF2iPXQ2C
emulating ps1 games before duckstation made me want to kill myself>b-b-but mednafenlike I said, it made me wanna kill myself. If an emulator isn't user friendly like Dolphin and Duckstation then they are worthless.
>>740788317oh no chinks are trying to find my tranny porn and blackmail me...take your fucking meds retard
>>740788115i lived on a farm for a long time and dialup was literally the only option even though we would have gladly paid for a cable to be run. Rural internet around here was a fucking shitshow until Starlink. it's unreal how elon got it right first try when one of the worlds most celebrated telecom companies couldn't even get halfway there after decades
>>740786913>>740787502>>740788289There isn't even a cartridge in that N64
multi disc games forcing you to get up got forbid 10 hours into disc 2 you hit a scratch
>>740788316nintendo loves to use old shit if they feel it will workthe NES emulation they used for animal crossing was almost unchanged for decades
>>740788361works fine on my dell
>>740787502>>740788289And then they fell asleep all at the same time while doing that super fun activity...How hard it is to admit it is a setup
>>740788440there are two nintendo 64 consoles and two televisions in that image. Your callous failure to be observant is entirely your problem and your problem alone.
>>740786284Is this Finland? I ask because its the only country I know that half-ass plows their streets like that instead of fully plowing and salting them.
>>740788361must be a skill issue... ePSXe always worked for me, beat like 30 games with almost 0 problems back in the day
>>740780416>Put six AA batteries in my gamegear>play for 40 minutes>I now need to find six new AA batteries What the fuck was Sega thinking? The Gameboy took 4 and it lasted for days.
>>740788432elon didn't do anything, he buys his way into companies when they're already doing good or are popular and then takes all credit for the tech development. See: paypal/spacex/twitter. Anywhere that can get dial up can get dsl, your local isp is lying to you otherwise
>>740788550>everyone fell asleep at the same time doing the same thingway to tell me you have never attended a sleepover, zoomielike, what an immense and definitive self-report
>>740788406Its to use your PC (and any other device on your network once they're in) as part of a botnet.
>dad nukes family pc because he was addicted to porn>blames me for it because, according to him, I played games that "have viruses"
>>740788576I'm from saskatchewan and as recently as 10 years ago that would have been a normal sight all over
>>740788694>still not admitting itlol nostalgiafags are something else
>"What do you mean you forgot the multitap?"
>>740788568>Your callous failure to be observantDo you actually talk like this irl?
>>740788760ok, hope my PC can help the chinks to make the USA even more shit
>>740788689>elon blah blahoh fuck off, funny how he always seems to buy up / infiltrate companies right before they do something wildly successful, isn't it?>Anywhere that can get dial up can get dsl, your local isp is lying to you otherwiseare you talking about RIGHT NOW or 2003, like I was?
>>740787991
Boomers had to pay a scammer five bucks to change the wallpaper and ring tone on their phone.
>>740788896>Twitter is wildly successful
I know people on this board fellate dedicated servers but I really don't miss what a pain it could be to get all your friends on the same team just to have the teams scrambled shortly after.
>>740781754>You will now remember the warmth and smell of burnt dust from the incandescent light bulb under which you played your Game BoyRecently got some 250w incandescent bulbs for my infrared heat therapy device, and the smell instantly transported me back to childhood.
>>740788831not in the slightest, no. That would be wasteful because there isn't an audience of thousands when I'm talking IRL and the wordiness would be completely wasted.
>>740788694This little nigga probably never even slept on a floor with a group of friends and had to use pillows and cushions and shit as a blanket
>>740788963>look here's one example that doesn't fit your generalized statement and now I don't have to approach your overall assertion, ha ha, i win, you lose, conversational loopholes FTWokay
>>740788943>want clip from song as ringtone>find song name on phone>no preview>pay $5 plus tip>listen>it just some random unimportant part of the song
CRT monitors fucked up my eyes and now I need glasses.
>>740788118Well, that and the improvements to memory foam mattresses. I love my hybrid spring and foam mattress. I think boomers liked waterbeds because it was one of the few alternatives to lying on a shitty rock hard spring mattress.
>>740788896>right beforeright after. He has daddys emerald mine money. Relax anon, I'm not criticizing you, just don't jerk him off pointlessly
>>740788317>BE AFRAID OF PORT SCANNERS BECAUSE YOU'RE HOSTING A SERVER ON PORT 80nigga...
>>740788986guaranteed he never has. The image is a magnet for shitposting loners who would rather "debunk" a picture of kids at a sleepover than admit they missed out by not doing the same. all because a handful of idiots couldn't see the second N64 or TV without being prompted to look for it. Now that the primary reason for debunking the image is gone, we have to invent reasons why nobody would ever play mario 64 at a sleepover
>>740780603Sure grampa, calm down before you shit yourself again
>>740788973Then we are euphoric that you bless us with your intellect.
>>740788317Does that include the Xbox? I did it years ago on an old router just for dark souls. Damn thing wouldn't connect without open NAT type.
>>740788943they didn't 'have to' but you needed to be rather tech savvy to do it yourself.I had a flip phone with the option to turn a 5 second or less video into a ringtone, so a custom one was easy to make but it would cover up the caller ID with the video. wound up taking some vidya music, converting it into a video file my phone used but with no video track, and using that. worked great, since it didn't register any video it would keep the screen clear and show the caller ID.
>>740785536Skill issue.>>740787865KEK
>>740786835>mouse would randomly shoot to the sky.that usually happens with reflective surfaces
>>740789139starlink didn't roll out until after he was in charge, simple as. Elon musk said "I want to give canadian farmers good internet" and he did. I'm just going by personal experience, here.
>>740789240If you think flexing a varied vocabulary is "intellect" the world is fucking lost, man, and you helped lose it. congrats.
>>740784526You're a fucking moron
>>740789457now it does, yes, but old optical mice had a huge issue with small objects raised above the surface you were using. the laser would would roll over hair or a mote of dust and detect it as you whipping the mouse really fast for a moment and then returning to normal speed.Like your car's shadow shooting towards and away from you depending on what you're driving alongside.
>>740780601SOUL
>>740789617he's poorly explaining a common occurrence to fucking morons, actually
>>740780416Why were parents so angry and retarded when it came to video games?
Not to sound too Reddit, but I’m literally coming in here to say if you haven’t acquired a modchipped console or something with a flashcart or an equivalent, you need to, for yourself. It’s a great project that makes for a good personal journey. Bonus points for retro refurbishing your childhood pieces.
>>740781643There's a few cases were 50hz > 60hz, like Alex Kidd in Miracle Worldhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2FIqHKs_qU&https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ybHXUCVaZU&
>>740789530I agree. The world is truly lost without your vocabulary flexing
>>740782717toothpaste and dish soap
>>740789832i modded my wii almost 20 years ago now. It wasn't the personal journey you seem to be claiming. It was a brand new way to be made fun of for having passions that the people around me do not share. A whole new avenue to prove that my ambitions and interests are "wrong" and I should never share them with anyone, ever.
>>740780601Gameboy sp felt like black magic
>>740790038>making discourse impossibleagain, congrats on winning the race to the bottom
>>740784692Fucking hate EA but everything online went free to play so used games don't matter much anymore.
>>740788448>mom's friend moves away>gives my mom her son's copy of FF8 because he doesn't want it, so she gjves it to me>it's missing disc 2 and the other discs are all scratched upyeah no shit he didn't want it anymore
>>740780601>>740784538>>740786315>>740782463>>740782771>>740788448As an adult, I recognize the inconvenience of needing to buy and keep track of all those accessories, memory cards, game cartilages for a portal system (I guess that's still a "problem" with the Switch and Switch 2), and swapping out discs. But I don't know, man....I kind miss it.How someone accessorized their GameBoy Color or organized their memory cards gave you a glimpse into their soul. Everything had a sense of personality to it. And there was a great sense of progress when you hit the "insert disc 2" message.Just some small things we've lost to time that seemingly go unnoticed.
>>740788972>light bulb'member when those not only spent light, but also warmth?Fuck, I'm getting old. I almost feel sorry for the children of today - then I remember, they are on average fucking retarded and mentally ill.
>NOOO IT'S NOT A SETUP >YYyyou never did something as common as sleeping outlol, nostalgiafags, funny how even on an antinostalgia thread they come and try to dump their frustration for growing up and claiming others didn't do such great things as having a sleepover
>>740790190>Discourse is impossible if anyone finds my vocabulary flexing amusing.
>>740790313there was also a much greater feeling of being able to figure out what the problem is. nowadays, consoles are basically just magic boxes you put license discs in, and if it doesn't work you're kinda fucked
>>740790302>that [electronic] doesn't work, throw it out*TRANSLATING TO MOM LANGUAGE*>I personally do not need this particular electronic, please pass it on to the first worthy individual who crosses your path
>>740786154Those consoles didn't have batteries built-in.Using power for light would reduce the life of the single-use batteries employed massively.You used external light sources at the time.
>>740786219>game logic tied to framerate>forced to limit when emulating or else everything is in fast forwardI hate this so much. People took consoles being weak pieces of shit for granted and gamers as always paid the price.
>>740788448I know it's objectively worse, but I really liked the feeling of the game telling you it's time to put in the next disc.Like, oh shit, things are about to get real it's time for disc 2.
>>740780416Replaceable Batteries are better than internal batteries long term.
>*is total shit*That AVGN video hit so close to home. My GBC supercartridge was full of such ungodly shit I've never encountered most of those games again. They're not part of any console's licensed library that's for sure. Many looked like they may have been 4-bit, like really old and shitty NES games.
>>740790458>buy a GoG game>it's using default DOSbox settings and is running at like 8x speed>have to manually throttle DOSbox yourselfit's a tiny issue you only fix once per install but avoiding that shit is exactly why people paid them for old games
>>740788317>If you have a Linux machine...run "ss -tulnp" and stop anything you don't want to have running.
>>740786284I grew up in New England and have been living in the shitty south for the last three years. It feels like I've been here a decade. I miss the snow and autumn colors so much.
>>740790564absolutely correct. but your phrasing is suspect, as is the post you chose to direct this at."replaceable" batteries include rechargeable modern batteries, not just your historical disposable alkaline battery. A battery becoming "replaceable" has nothing to do with the battery itself (with a handful of very specific exceptions) and is entirely dependent on the device it's connected to and how. "internal" batteries can be replaceable if you can access the internals without much trouble.
>>740782029I had to brute force my day of the tentacle game i think.Miss that game
>insert disc 1>type in the CD Key>install directx 9.0c (again)>install GameSpy>begin installation >insert disc 2>install shield wizard is done>insert disc 1>open The All-Seeing Eye.exe to find servers>play gameThose... Those were the times.
>>740787136RF cables are almost unusable these days due to EM interference. RF operates on the same frequencies as modern cell data and wifi signals, so if you live in a populated area RF looks like absolute dogshit. RF did objectively look better in the past. Not as good as composite, but almost.
>>740790858Yeah. Technically many batteries are indeed replaceable but easily replaceable batteries are much better than having to open a controller and deal with micro connectors or worse soldering cables.
>>740790579I can't find it on Google, a friend of mine had a multicart for the original game boy that was kinda awesome. I think it was 72 in 1, it was a tall cartridge, like double the size of the normal cartridge. I remember it having castlevania, elevator action and Solomons key.
>friend gets new computer online because he wants to play BFME2 and his current PC can't handle it>when he gets the game and i first see this PC like 2 weeks into them getting it, it takes a solid 10-15 mins of fucking around to boot it up>literally a half dozen different antivirus programs he has to close out of while windows spins up>immediately I'm feeling bad for him and questioning if we're playing BFME2 today at all>like 4 discs>75% into the install it halts on a big file and won't move past it>one of the antiviruses is blocking the install from using that file>he says that can't be the problem because antivirus gooooood>game fails to install on the same file every time, and it takes 20+ mins of waiting to get to that point>after a few hours of this, bid him adieu>he sends the game back and gets another copy>same problem>ask to try it on my PC at home and it installs fine but runs like shit and I don't really have the drive space for it, but it proved his PC was the issue>back to mostly playing PS2 at his place, don't even go back to BFME1 because his new PC is such a sack of shityeeesh
>>740790948I mean, technically it’s just composite with extra noise
>>740790729I'm from New England. Best place in the country imho desu
>>740780416>>>anti nostalgiagot a GBC last years and actually loved how much the AA batteries lasted, really, my ds/3ds/switch/psp all those niggas die in 6-8 hours at best, annoying as fuck.and i was using those rechargeable ones, it goes over 20+ hours easily.
>>740790325Yeah, and turns out the warmth is actually good for your mitochondria.
>>740782835I always thought it were just memes, but these fucking minigames really do kill your palm with original N64 controllers.
>>740783768>I've never driven a vehicle at night
>>740791490Yeah anonBecause there’s no backlight
>>740791702If you can drive with a car behind you you can drive with the interior lights on. It's not optimal but it's a part of driving at night.
>>740791532The real Mario Party pros flipped the controller upside down so the stick was on the carpet, then just moving the whole controller in a circle with both hands or palm down on the back of it.It was even more powerful than the palm method and kept your hand pain free. It was fucking awful for the controller though, and the 64 sticks already had a limited life span.
>>740780601zoomers will never know the pleasure-pain of playing pokemon on the ride home and having to use street lights to navigate
>>740791829i can survive the no backlight, the real villain is the screen being reflective as fuck.
fucking shit fuckOn the other hand we now have retards all over (pc) vidya, so maybe this shit actually had a purpose.
>>740791848I’m going to assume you live in a place where you can’t see the stars
>>740780524Rechargeables were absolute trash in the 90’s, practically a scam.
>>740790453Lost a looooooot of money rebuying retro games mommy threw out, I told her that one of those games cost like $200 and I could see the regret, love her
>Lend game to friend>Go over to their house>See your disc in a loose pile on the floor
Bros.. I turned 30 this year...
>>740786315How are the gameboy micro?Are they comfy and good to use?My hands are big so I need the XL version of the (3)DS.
>>740792025I got myself a ChromaticHonestly the best way to play GBC imo, been playing through some mole mania DX
>>740792181Happy birthday young man
>>740792135the only friend I still have from childhood is the one who is just as autistic as I am about preserving the condition of their stuff
>>740792121>Grown-ass man calling his mother mommy I bet you dad fucked your asshole as kid too faggot.
>>740792181What’s wrong with that?
>>740792058>that one special snowflake game that refused to work with any memory manager except the one bundled with it so you had to make a special DOS boot floppy to get it to launch
>>740791283Some prebuilt PCs at the time were almost literally scams. Super under powered for the OS they were serving (early pre-built Vista machines were ESPECIALLY bad for this) and crammed with licensed shovelware.
>>740792181stop caring and embrace it.
>>740792181A stronger man than I.I can't stomach the thought, so I'm killing myself the day before.
>>740781397>>74078136850hz and the real sin is having those godawful fucking disgusting black text white background spines for the PS2.
>>740790579Sega games used to be compatible with Nintendo consoles somehow
>>740782838a fuckton of PAL PS2 games don't run at 60hz. PS1 and PS2 were the worst in regards to this.
>>740782337You can literally fucking hear the soundtrack is too slow in a ton of games. And knowing that the already low framerate is even lower is infuriating. FUCK old PA games.
>>740780416>ANON GET OFF THE INTERNET I'M EXPECTING A CALL!>56k warning! Dial-up users get lost!>Hey retard! You're lagging our game. Come back when you upgrade to DSL or something better *kicked* *banned*
I half agree with the physical media meme. I like collecting movies and using a player for it rather than streaming and seeing my big movie collection. Same with my books and manga. But holy FUCK do I not care when it comes to video games. Like movies you buy once and shit works no matter what player you put it in, video games do not however so no, I will not be buying physical. This is also why I just stick to PC because PC games generally always work or have some sort of work around or community patch for it.
>>740792419Sorry you don't love your parents enough and sorry your dad was absent such that you developed latent homosexual fantasies involving father figures.
>>740792913Quit being such a bitch, game boxes are cool.
>>740783179I pirated Fallout 3 and never understood what that GFWL shit was about kek
>>740792614i feel the opposite about the spines. I like the pal ones better because they look like the videotape archive in the back of a TV studio
>>740792614Oh, I love those spines. Very uniform. Way better than what USA got.
>>740792614What does ntsc spine looks like?
>>740793246Custom for each game
>>740793134>>740793163I'm from Europe and to me it always sounds like either cope or just nostalgia. It objectively looks like low effort garbage (because it is), it looks fucking soulless on the shelf. NTSC spines are gorgeous and they make the games stand out. And we get fucked in regards to PAL spines to this day. What a goddamn ripoff.>>740793246They use the title font usually and have custom artwork. What PAL got is a travesty. At least GC and Xbox gave us the proper spines usually.
>global release of the game is so unbelievably difficult it got special mention>because the niggers who localized it made it so every enemy literally did 5x damage>even if you use the Easy Mode cheat, they still did like 2.5x damage compared to the JP version's Normal modeFuck you, Jaleco.
>>740792303>How are the gameboy micro?Overrated, to be honest. The plates don't keep dust out properly, and the mechanism that holds the plates in are overly fragile. It's also really hard to find decent quality replacement plates these days, and the Micro itself is too expensive to be used in the way that it was intended (something cheap you can easily just chuck into your pocket and not worry about). It's also the least comfortable GBA.
>>740783179Never had that big of an issue with GFWL, it was kind of pointless though. I miss it solely for seething fanmail when I played dark souls 1. Some of the shit you got was soooo fucking funny
>>740789142That's why I said>unless you know what you're doingSome retards expose SMB to the entire internet then wonder why their mouse is moving on its own
>>740793457sounds more like them enabling DMZ because some brazillian's guide on how to play Monster Hunter on PPSSPP told them to do so instead of port forwardingtypically, forwarding a port doesn't do much because the port will automatically refuse any normal connections (like 99% port scanners) by default
>>740793246at best, a soulful array of character (ps2)at worst, a barely legible pile of nonsense (ps1)
>>740786338>>740787089>they didn't use DS3kek
>>740793664BetterDS3 didn't exist until a few years after the fact
>>740786384>>740786604I fucking love UMDs. Pure SOVL. A goddamn disc reader in a portable system, it was indeed a playstation portable.
>>740793630While they're not the best I enjoy PS1 NTSC spines regardless. They're kinda classy with that black background.
>>740793809I just wish the text was more consistently sized
I sure do love throwing away ma handhelds after 10 years because the lithuium battery died and all replacements are cheap chinkshit that burn down my house if charged unattended
>>740789827it was something a lot of them could not understand or, worse, enjoy themselves. So since many of them were selfish retards, they would act out and pretend video games were the great satan.Not all were like this of course. smarter ones from the 70's that had played shit like pac-man understood it was harmless fun and would let kids enjoy it.
>>740789827Because boomers either didn't grow up playing them, couldn't afford them, or viewed them as a fad (which they technically were when the US crash happened).The games they had looked like ass compared to everything 3rd gen and later.
>>740793958everything is cheap chinkshit when you look hard enougheven the "premium" stuff was made in china, the only difference is that the quality control was highergotta do something like "best PSP battery reddit" in google just to figure out where the fuck people are buying all their batteries because SEO abusers want to sell you their marked up dropshipped garbagethat's how I found out about the XboxHDMI adapter from Electron Shephard, that thing is incredible, makes the pound cables look like composite by comparison
>>740780691why do you need all those batteries?
>>740793958Charge your batteries inside a fireplace problem solved
>>740786787Scary that people really used to live like this. Basically no better than jeets.
>>740792181Barely not a zoomer, congrats!You've dodged a bullet there.
>>740782418>>740782915What? You didn't enjoy giving your tv a 2min+ reacharound every time you had to connect a new device?
after stealing many a battery from the tv remote i eventually realized the game boy color power adapter cable was fairly generic and just started trying cables i found in boxes in the basement until something worked
>>740794084>googleEh, what time are you from?Have you just woken up from a coma?
>>740792913If you don't keep your old systems you're just low IQ.>>740793009Yup, super fucking cool in fact.
>>740788361Somewhat late, but i'll do you one bettter
>>740790579These and bootleg virtual pets were the parts of a vacation I looked forward to the most as a kid.
>>740783768If your eyes are adjusted for the brightness inside of the car, you get less contrast and a slower reaction time when looking outside the car. It's not a complete disaster, but it's not ideal. It's not a habit your parents would want you to form. Plus, you were draining the car's battery and wasting the lifetime of the little incandescent bulb in the dome light.
>>740794154Paranoid about power outages, even though in the three years I've owned this house I've only had one power outage and it only lasted three hours (it was during that crazy hurricane that moved inland a few years ago). Grew up in a very rural area where lengthy power outages were relatively common in the winter. I recently found out something about my house that leads me to believe that I am unlikely to ever be without power for any significant amount of time, because apparently a very important set of traffic lights piggyback off of my transformer, so if I'm without power they are going to get that fixed ASAP.
>>740792181Congratz grandpa
>>740786338https://github.com/nefarius/DsHidMini/releases
I do not miss needing to buy batteries.I do not miss saves being tied to a CMOS battery and being too retarded as a kid to know how to open a cartridge and change it.I do not miss the bulky ass peripherals of the N64 like the transfer pak, or how you could only use 1 peripheral at a time.I do not miss the days where shit was cryptic as fuck and you were basically required to buy a guide or hope that some autist on GameFAQs made a guide for you.I do not miss the days of being a poorfag niglet who could only get 3-4 new games a yearI do not miss my only other means of being able to try out new vidya was via 3-5 day rentals and hoping that I didn't waste what little money I had.I do not miss the days of dial-up internet, and it taking an eternity just to load a single page.I do not miss how fucking awful the N64 and DC controllers were, especially the latter when it came to fightan games.But I do miss the days of playing vidya with my brother and relatives. ;_;
>>740782835Crying? Never. Lost a huge chunk of skin in the middle of my palm, as the hard, sharp joystick grip carved it off, but I never cried, and I WON! And I continued to win, even as I had to rotate the stick with my fingertips instead of my palm, for a while.>>740784051HARRUMPH!
>>740795005Yeah, we have that shit NOW.SCP Driver was 2011 on PCSX2 forums, Motioninjoy was around for maybe a couple years longer than that at that point. BetterDS3 didn't come about until 2015.
>>740784538Is that mario land 2? Kinda hard to make out.
>>740780601these things were completely useless, either too dim or they created a massive glare on the screen
>>740786168The original had some REALLY powerful speakers, though.
>>740780730Had something similar for the GBA, useless. SP was fucking space age shit because of the fact you didn't need these dumb lights.
>>740789294Yeah this. I fucking hate CDs. I still had them. Shittiest physical media out there. I was ready to own nothing and be happy after I stopped needing to deal with these pissy fuckers.
>>740795719i was honestly grateful for flash media at the time, even if cartridges weren't that big compared to optical mediathey were just so much more resilient, especially if you took good care to not have the pins be exposed to high humidity
>>740783209Use a flat bladed screwdriver, dum dum
>>740786921oh yeah smart ass want to see you do port forwarding with ipv6 on a chinese modem
>>740788078Yeah, it's quite annoying. Some ISPs will give a real public address if you ask explicitly, but a lot of them charge for it additionally or just won't do it unless it's a business connection and they probably won't sell you one unless you actually run a company either.Can't run a dedicated server from my home. There are workarounds without using hamachi-like vpn tools but they are pain in the ass.Unfortunately almost all normal user applications like games and shit don't actually work over IPv6 which would solve the issue.
>game manual is hidden>50% chances of breaking the case every time you try to access it
>>740795809Yep. All my game carts from my GBC are fine save for the internal battery
>>740795898>slips off and drives your hand into a sharp corner of a RAM stick
>>740788943How did that even work
>>740784353They were right
>>740793917At least they have standardized backgrounds. You have a few companies smart enough to use a large, bold, high-contrast font. Using the stylized logo shrunk down is asinine. It's even worse with audio CDs, the designer treats it as part of the canvas. For one reason or another, sometimes you don't get any text on the spine
>>740780416i dont miss owning just 2 games and having no memory card, replaying them over and over.... but i was happy
>>740795687The SP was 2 step forwards and 3 steps back>FUCKING FINALLY, AN INTERNAL BATTERY AND BACKLIT SCREENBut then:>it is an absolute pain in the ass to play GB cartridges because the cartridge slot is on the front instead of the back>fucking corners hurt my hands because of its small size>no fucking AUX port
>>740786732wormlights were dogshot compared to the magnifying light things
>>740795719How are you too retarded to use a disc correctly?
>>740796128>no fucking AUX port
>>7407962403.5mm port you pedantic faggot.
>>7407963131/8 in port you queer.
>>740780524>rechargeable batteriesZoomer detected. Nickel metal hydride batteries were the "best" kind of rechargeable in the 90s as Lithium Ion wasn't really a thing outside of laboratories yet. AA profile NiMH batteries were absolute garbage tier and often couldn't hold a charge for more than 20-30 minutes. You were better off getting an AC adapter and, if you were going on vacation, getting an 8 pack of AAs.
>>740796417Jack port you basterd.
>>740794246>children at a sleepoverStop projecting
>>740796550That's fair.
>>740783390The Playstation 2 Port.
PlayStation used to come with a CD full of demos. Boomers were so desperate they would replay those short demos over and over again. There were also PC demos that got distributed in computer magazines and such. Same thing. Try to imagine the state of desperation and boredom these people must have been in to play a shitty 5 minute demo for its own sake. These were not happy and fulfilled people.
>back in 98 or 99>strip cables on a multi-function charger>set it to 3V like 2 batteries>pin naked copper wires to gameboy with batteries>play for weeks without having to buy new batteries>suddenly screen is wobbly and distorted>turn gameboy off in panic>lost 2 hours of progress in pokemon blue>turns out batteries were so dead it was causing the screen to glitch under low power or somethingIt worked fine when I got new batteries
>>740782337>you wouldn't even noticekysssssssssGenuinely die retard. You won't rewrite history
>shared computer with older siblings>usually got the blame for my games causing the pc to be slow>years pass>just now realizing that my older siblings used limewire all the timeFUCK
>>740796479NiMH batteries are solid. You're thinking of ni-cad, which is understandable, because you're also a zoomer
>>740796780>sour grapes
>>740786338Fuckkk this made me so madSome days it would suddenly not work
>>740782463I had one of these bad boys
>>740783768Growing up is realizing it's easier to tell your child that you'll get arrested for leaving the lights on while driving instead of describing to them how it makes it difficult to see.
>>74079696199% of Vib-Ribbon "fans" are secondaries who only played the first level and think that gives them street cred. No one owned that game.
>>740788576That is preferable though. I hate that fucking salt crust everything gets in the winter, and pavement ices over way worse than if you leave a half-inch of snow. Whenever I shovel I always leave a compressed layer of snow on the bottom rather than go all the way to the concrete to avoid slips when shit gets icy again. And it always works.
>>740783390
>>740788317a buddy of mine wrote a program that searches the Internet for open Minecraft servers and he'd drop in and dick around while the hosts tried to figure out if he was a friend of a friend or what.
>>740796826i'm just stating a fact. people playing videogames and not being autistic said nothing about PAL. the recent hate is just regurgitated from video essays.
>>740796780We have near infinite access to games today. Why am I not happy?
>>740796780i did this with the switch 2 yesterday despite having 14 vidya consoles. sometimes you just wanna see the new stuff ya dont got yet
>>740780416Not much of an issue. One time I even got a jumbo pack of batteries and was set.
>>740796858i got limewire pro off of limewire. i found that to be funny.
>>740785523Ahh the good old days.
The intense amount of shovelware and barely playable licensed games. Actually trying to figure out what was good was trying to find a needle in a haystack and I would probably end up with some bullshit like a nicktoons game instead of something actually good. >inb4 anon skill issue you were supposed to use the nascent internet to see what was good or notWell I didn't and even if I wanted to my parents wouldn't let me use the internet browser until I was halfway through middle school.
>>740783179I hate it
This is my go to dose of nostalgia right here https://youtu.be/2XjouKSkSeM
>>740783487>He didn't buy an extender cableYou didn't make it.
>this entire thread
>>740784692Ontological evil
>>740786384Works on my machine
>>740789294Put your disks away properly like a civilized person.
>>740786284god I fucking hate warm lights so bad
>>740788361I don't remember it being that bad, PCSX2 on the other hand...
>>740798328>"Popular Movie: The Game">Gameplay and story have absolutely nothing to do with the the movie aside from featuring the same characters>It's still very fun in its own right
>>740795935Why couldn't they just standardize a good design.
>download custom skins for an hour to join server>*crashes*
>>740799115They mog nuLEDslop
>only got a few games a year >dad was an overtime obsessed miner who made a fuckton of money I think most parents assumed vidya had infinite replay value and considered buying more a waste.
>>740785759God that filing cabinet is so white trash. I can't imagine the amount of shit on top of your fridge. Is your dining room table just a giant pile of mail?
>>740799179That game was good fun.
>>740797187>.t
>>740799179my parents bought me The DaVinci Code game and I never played it
>>740799365>you need to buy a $5000 customized filing cabinet to put your papers inAre you autistic?
>>740784538>that glare
>>740799365What do you have against filing cabinets?
>>740790552Yeah, I also love when the disc ends with a cliffhanger. Like Metal gear Solid.
>>740795935I have a bunch of double albums and compilations on CD and I swear every one has a different esoteric mutant jewel case design.Never understood why that cheap shit was the standard for CDs instead of gatefolds. Maybe the brittle clear plastic felt "futuristic" when they were new and no one ever really questioned it.
>>740798525upvoted
>>740799535>>740799582Milk crates and translucent Sterilite containers arent furniture either Cletus
>>740780524Rechargeables were pretty bad at the time because they actually had a lower max volage, at least the main tech I remember, which some devices tolerated fine, others not so much.
>>740795935>hiddendo you consider your dick also hidden anon?
Just look at this monstrosity.
>>740780416Oh man, where to begin.Broken or scratched discs, lost CD keys, not being able to find the game to buy in the first place. All of those things I've dealt with and were devastated by. I'd still take that over digital only though. It made gaming that much more special because of its adversity, now you just download the slop, play 20 minutes, and move on to next slop.
>>740780416for using... modern batteries when it's impossible to use old ones...? what?
>>740799694Jewel cases could be stacked or put into slots and you'd be able to discern what each one was by the side cover. They also worked great as coasters for your drink.
>>740799973>was like that way because the manufacturer for the controller board had their multi-PCB designs exclusive to Sony consolesit was insane that it came out that way kek
>>740780416i'm an absolute degenerate, i mix two different batteries, and not even the good battery brands.
>>740781094>>740781296both you niggers had it easyi had to deal with these bullshit prongs
>>740799973Only low test numales hate the Duke.
>>740780590Before lithium batteries we had Nickel Hydride and Cadmium batteries that recharge, zoomzoom.
imagine having to buy third party peripherals JUST to cheat back the in the day.thank god for the internet.
>>740800092My NES had a fucked up cartridge connector so I had to take a folded up piece of paper and jam it below the cartridges just so it would read.Sovlful but I hated it because it could take half an hour messing around with it before it worked.
>>740792181Workout while you still have energy. I'm 36 and I'm worn out after doing half the exercises I did when I was 30.
i have Pokemon red, blue, yellow, gold, silver, and crystalAll their batteries are deadIf I want to replace them I need to learn how to fucking solder...
>>740780416I complained about those so much my mum bought me a bunch of rechargeable batteries and a wall plug to use at home.
Games used to have loading screens so long that you'd have to legit sit and think whether you want to wait through the entire loading sequence before visiting another level or just stay in current one. Pic rel was absolutely horrible in this regard.>>740786284This shit was comfy as fuck. No niggers on the streets, just you and absolutely nothing fucking else. Miss that. Nowadays I have loud as fuck delivery scooters 24/7.
>>740796861I was going to call you a nigger but I guess you're right.
>>740797147You could have just told the truth. When you make up a bullshit story it leads to misunderstanding your intents and makes you look retarded. What else have you been lying to me about mom?
>>740800630t. guy who hasn't played console games since 2008You're lucky.
>having to download 31 .rar files from rapidshare at 50kbps just to pirate a gameThere was a very shitty period between kazaa/ares/emule's downfall and the torrent boom when this was the main method of piracy.
A friend of mine would have his PC screen set to some nigger-tier refresh rate like 45Hz where you could legit see it go black for a second and then he'd complain about headaches but he refused to let me go into graphics settings and change the refresh rate to 60Hz.
>>740800472THIS. It is crazy the difference between 30 and 40. At 30 I could run six days a week and lift every day, rotating muscle groups. At 40 I get five runs a week and lift at most three, usually two. I'm thankfully not getting weaker or slower yet, but I'm so tired just trying to maintain what I have.
>>740787383>>740787541>>740787907So was it a wife swapping/pervert thing? I think I slept on one one time and it was actually really comfortable.
>>740780691I still have 10 year old eneloop batteries and they are still good. Those are the greatest rechargeable batteries in the world.
>>740799130It's fucking crazy how far PCSX2 has come in recent years.
Why was this such a good thread?
>>740801289Did it? I haven't used it in a while
>>740780416I still put AA batteries in my mouseI have about 100 of them in a drawerat this point I would genuinely rather just reload them than wait for something to recharge
>no H-gamesI'm never going back
>>740799973I like the duke, it's just too big for kid hands.
>>740800975Another very weird transition period was when computers came with CD/DVD readers but not recorders, so you had to go to a physical copyshop to burn discs. Like a small cyber cafe that only had Alcohol120%.
I don't think you niggers remember what a game-changer XInput was. Before XInput shit usually looked like this:>game supports gamepad, yay>cannot use stick because reasons>another game supports gamepad>cannot bind "stick up" and "stick down" to separate actions like "forward" and "backward">another game supports gamepad>stick effectively works like a button, doesn't get recognized as analogue input>another game supports gamepad>chimps out because it thinks that stick is at 128 while it is in neutral position>spend ten hours and download thirty programs to fix your gamepad>game finally works>"press BUTTON 37 to jump" like what the fuck is BUTTON 37>game supports my cheap chinese racing wheel>half of buttons are just doubles of other buttons>cannot press "gas" and "brake" at the same timeMeanwhile after XInput:>press big center button on the controller>controller works, just like on consoleAnd don't even get me started on trying to configure multiple controllers, which would usually ruin your single-controller configuration.
>>740780601Boomers, really? This will explain why all soilenials ended up using glasses.
>>740801520We had h-games back then.Fuck you talking about?
>>740801520Reminder that according to the CIA Osama Bin Laden had Bible Black in his computer
>>740801897like what?
>>740801418People have rechargeable mice? First time I'm hearing about this.
>>740802069ass hunter that one where you put dildos into and milk a tied up schoolgirl in a bathroom stall
>>740798268Always worried about that, but it never happened to me.
>>740800363I was a dirty little cheater. I could not play a video game unless I had a Game Genie. Though I had no choice if I didn't have the codes for it. It sorta changed with the Game Shark. I remember most of the time I would use it for Mario 64 to make the graphics all fucked up.
>>740802076I assume so, my friends make fun of me when I have to go swap my batteries
>>740801618Reminds me that 360 piracy was such a pain needing expensive DVD9 discs that would fail burns often because they needed to be perfect. It did let me play GTA V a day before release. The OG Xbox was so comfy just copying games to a giant 80GB HDD. I think later on there was a modchip that allowed it but the 360 was already near the end of its run by then.
>>740801764real gamers use mkb little zoomzoom
>>740802191I am unfamiliar with any before ~2000 but apparently you're right, here's one from 1982
>>740801520WTF are you talking about?
>>740783210>an hard drive
>>740802595I bought the big HDD xbox360 under the false impression that you could install games there like a PC and not need the disc anymore. I thought for sure I'd fill it up. Big regrets.
>>740796780Now imagine life before videogames.
>>740802605Japan always gave no fucks
>>740802604You need to be a special kind of zero-watt bulb to play racers and fighters on a keyboard.
>>740782897kys CRTranny
>>740803742skill issue, mkb is superior for those
>>740789294This can still be fixed tho.
