What's the biggest scam in retro gaming homebrew?
>>12261026The biggest scam in retro gaming homebrew is paying for retro gaming homebrew in the first place.Emulate, or just don't bother.
>>12261034kys
>>12261034Correct. Consoles are completely pointless to own with only a few exceptions, and the DOSBox/86Box/nGlide/patches combo covers all retro PC games. A MiSTer is a valid purchase if you really must play on a CRT, but other than that software emulation has largely rendered original hardware obsolete. Sorry scalpers, but I'm just not going to pay for your old junk.
>>12261026buying any of this retarded sbc shit just to emulate some old video games. any old piece of shit computer will do, you dont even need another computer, but you retards need to 'have the experience' of buying some specialty product to put on a shelf so you can post photos of it to instagram
paying for roms
>>12261113Well every time I buy a flashcart it always comes preloaded with ROMS
I paid $350 (shipping included) for an Analogue 3D.No regerts
>>12261109Gotta agree. Most of my emulating is done on a crappy old Wii/3DS that I already owned and pc handles the rest.
>>12261120I've been having a blast with mine
>>12261129What are you playing friend?I’ve been enjoying Hydro Thunder/Beetle Adventure Racing/Cruisin’ Exotica, and Quake 2
DM me for a discount on an amazing pair of pro gaming gloves. Don't miss out, sucker.
>>12261103I'm glad I own nothing and eat my bugs instead of storing them in dying plastic.
>>12261183>I spend hundreds of dollars on decaying 30 year old plastic to own da j00z!
>>12261183You never owned anything in the first place. You owned only the idea of ownership.
>>12261183pirated data is actually owned by you, even with physical media you're only buying a license to use the content, piracy is true ownership
>thread full of coping zoomsters and other late-comers who either never got viddy stuff when it was new, heavily discounted/free, or had it taken away from them by parents or their own short-sightednessYou love to see it.
>>12261073uh oh anon upset the shareholders
>>12261135RR64, Episode I Racer, finally giving the RE2 port a shot, played some MK64 with my wife, shit was cash. Forgot how great the racer library is
>>12261243This. Piracy is ownership.
Why is this turning into another anti-hardware seethe thread when it was for seething about shit like pic related.
>>12261034TRVKEfpbp/threadPack it up, boys.
>>12261026Grading video games like they’re trading cards.
>>12261334Thanks for reminding me I need to try my RR64 cart. I also have Wipeout64 but that low draw distance popup is brutal. I didn’t care when I was a teen tho. Loved it. Had it for the PSX also
>>12261380Beat me to it. There's no reason to buy this piece of shite when the Xstation is cheaper, kore readily available, and lets you use it any way you want. It's not like you can install it without soldering
>>12261221>>12261224>>12261243poorbabies. lol.>>12261380Because poorbabies have nothing to do but lay around their parents basement shitposting.
>>12261516It's so weird. I emulate everything before 5th gen but I'm not an elitist faggot about it like the emutards on this board are.
>>12261380>Oh how neat its connected through the I/O>No need to solder and you can jack it into any PS1 with a I/O port>Wait you still need solder on a board to use this thingWhy would I bother with this thing? If you still need to solder stuff. This product is just weird. I wouldn't be surprised if it originally was meant to be solution that didn't require soldering, but half ways into the project they found out that wasn't possible.
Stupid crap like the Analogue 3D, Retron5 etc. What is the point? Feels like all of these products are shilled by YouTube grifters because their channels will otherwise be stagnant.The OG hardware is as real as it can get, its the real deal I get it.If its not the OG hardware save yourself a few bucks and just emulate.
>>12261026In all seriousness per game HDMI settings is a really cool idea but why tf did they put DRM on an offline console mod? Also component is already good enough for most consoles if you need a clear video output.
>>12261516it must be so emasculating to live surrounded by plastic trinkets and toys from 50 years ago
>>12261604do these pieces of shit at least allow translation patches, cheat codes, savestates and all the other things that even the most basic emulator provides?at this point original hardware is inferior, save states in particular are almost essential now, i am not going back to password systems or relying on whatever virgin at square decides where save points go
>>12261756How much do you bench bitch?
>>12261764>save states in particular are almost essential nowSounds like a cheater
>>12261581Poorfagottry is a crippling disease, frequently generational through both nature and nurture. They/them children and literally insane.>>12261756I'm not the one crying like a little bitch, ma'am.
>>12261756Any man with any hobbies is very gay.
>>12261764>am not going back to password systems or relying on whatever virgin at square decides where save points goThat's just ADHD.
>>12261764>translation patches, cheat codesNo, unless you use a flash cart>savestatesEventuallyAlso has HDMI ouput and CRT effects
Modding is cool.
>>12263726Yeah at this point I enjoy modding more than actually playing games.
>>12261073Idiot
>>12263726>Modding is cool.It can be. Sadly yours is cringe.
>>12261594>I wouldn't be surprised if it originally was meant to be solution that didn't require soldering, but half ways into the project they found out that wasn't possible.It was basically advertised as plug and play for the longest time, I don't think it was revealed to have a soldering requirement until it was pretty much released.Even though the compatibility on it is pretty shit it was still pretty novel as ODEs weren't really a thing at the time. What really makes the PSIO garbage is how utterly petulant the creator is.
>>12261380>Firmware update still not released >Updates hidden behind paywall.>Butt hurt because the Chinese can do it better.Kek.
>>12261380>guy makes cool useful product>decides to protect his IP>chinks across the Internet howl and seethePeople shouldn't go out of their way to make easily-cloned products that the Chinese will just steal. I remember how people seethed when that USB serial interface company started checking to see if the devices were authentic and many chink USB serial adapters died overnight.People don't go into business to do all the work behind a product, then manufacture it, only so the Chinese can literally steal their shit and sell it themselves for half price. That's just stupid. And because there's no effective way to get some infringing product to be stopped at the border (unless you're Chanel or Hermes) people will take technical measures to protect their work.Most of these Chinese products retro fans buy in scads are stolen clones made by some individual person as a hobby and business venture, because they are interested in some system or another. The Chinese don't invent SHIT by themselves, they only steal other people's work. So if you are all angry that you should pay full price for a product, and buy it from them or an officially licensed reseller, you're a Chinese person, or you don't value the long term viability of NEW retro-gaming and computing products.Nobody would care if the Chinese only "stole" open source projects. That's why they're open source. But they will steal anything.
>>12264254I aint reading all thatPSIO isn't useful and the only people he's protecting it from are his customers asking where the fuck the updates are
>>12261034fippy bippy
>>12264254>That's just stupid.
>>12261034Poor boys are back in town.
>>12261026That cheap multi-carts will damage your console. It's FUD from people who want you to spend a lot more money on their product.
>>12261142fucks wrong with that house?
>>12261604>What is the point? Feels like all of these products are shilled by YouTube grifters because their channels will otherwise be stagnant.You just had the answer yourself man.
>>12264340Which customers? Where?You're making shit up lol.>>12264491If there was a Steam shim where anybody could sell games on Steam without paying Gaben he wouldn't just sue them. They'd be dead.And if the community pays the people who don't even do the "work" then new work won't be done. What incentive does any hobbyist have to launch a business venture that will be cloned and sold at half price by the Chinese? You have a very alien brain. I'm guessing you're Chinese yourself.
>>12264536bri'ish
>>12264254So he's mad that his piracy peripheral is being pirated?Is he aware of irony?
>>12261034A lot of homebrew just isn't dumped.
>>12264254>I remember how people seethed when that USB serial interface company started checking to see if the devices were authentic and many chink USB serial adapters died overnight.I remember how that blew up in their face spectacularly and they had to back peddle. Fortunately the damage was already done and most people just said fuckem and switched to legitimate Chinese alternatives. I don't know if there's any accurate data on how much market share FTDI lost but they went from the undisputed leader to an also ran quite quickly.
>>12261026>Time Crisis plug and plug or anything to bring old stuff to LCD's>anything made by hyperkin>those crappy neoflash carts they you had to buy their gba carts to use. I really felt ripped off after the everydrive came out.>generation NEX nes clone, big news at the time but a monthly event these days>the AtGames genesis system, it was licensed by Sega and had their brand on it. I knew it was crap the second I heard any sound from it.>stuff that gives me the creeps but I couldn't say if they are scams>evercade>stuff from retro games LTD, the A1200 console and their other systems they present as more authentic then they actually are. There are things I do and don't like about the 1200.>mister, I feel praise is from coming from people moving from other emulators>rgb 2 hdmi, in a way your looking at output from the pi and not the console. If I take screenshot and put in on a screen what are you actually viewing.>>12261113>>12261116I pay someone like Champ games or NeoFid, I get something cool and they get some money to keep making games. $5 to $20 that people charge is barely anything or just wait for a sale. Yeah it more than a steam game but its way more niche.>>12261296They don't have the concept of paying for music or shows, its just on demand to them. Heey zoomies, want some free music, oh yeah heres ticktock if you want to use it. They paid for it alright but not in the way they expected.>>12261464Because X station was 3 years later and got the idea from PSIO. Before PSIO people said it wasn't possible.>>12264495A lot of retro gamers are such cheaper asses because they got a system and bag of games $10 15 years ago that they still try to offer people $2 a game. It like the boomers with the $50k classic offering you $20 for expensive and rare parts.
>>12261034Either use the original consoles or emulate, everything else is pointless.
>>12262014Video games aren't a hobby.
