I personally can't fathom booting up a golden age of gaming title on a fake PS2, chinkshit 3rd party controllers infront of a laptop/desk monitor screen and expect it to take me back to the good old days.
Looks better, runs better.
>and expect it to take me back to the good old daysThere's your problem.
>golden age of gaming>ps2
Online play.
>>12565639>Looks betterYou were not meant to see the the poorly rendered and low quality assets in high resolutions>runs better.You don't need more than 60hz
>>12565645>You were not meant to see the the poorly rendered and low quality assets in high resolutionsDon't care. Looks better, simple as.>You don't need more than 60hzMost console games can't even keep up a steady 60fps on original hardware.
Anything 3D looks like utter garbage in low resolutions. The 5th and 6th gens were torturous after the glory of the 4th gen.
No one thinks you're rich for buying video games.When you see a BMW SUV on the road do you think "woooah they're soooo rich, I wish I could be like them! Why am I poor, reee!" I literally gave most of my childhood collection away. I have my SNES from childhood with 40-50 carts, and I still emulate the games I physically own because it's just easier to pop up an emulator on my PC.Nothing will ensure you go broke like spending $100-300 each for used video games that you can play for free.
>>12565650>Don't care. Looks betterI assume you love AI upscaled movies>can't even keep up a steady 60fps on original hardware.If you've experienced original hardware you'd never say this.
>>12565639fpbp/thread
>>12565636>other than being broke?I bought a PS2 as a 14 year old with no job 20 years ago, is this what we consider wealthy now? Literally every human on earth can afford a PS2
>>12565636The serious answer is that I'm no longer young, and I don't have a lot of spare time in my life. Emulation is an incredibly convenient way to experience the 8, 16 and 32 bit titles I missed out on as a youth. No, I'm not experiencing quite the same experience of these games as I would if I played them on original hardware using a CRT. In some ways emulation is better. No fucking cables; no load times, can play both PC and console titles on a single device, on a handheld, etc. Hell there are some games I know I'll never play, so I'll just get the highlights off a YouTube video.
>>12565726Most honest poster on this board, and we'd be a lot better off if at least 30% of the posters were similarly as honest.
>>12565636The abundance that comes with emulation cheapens games and reduces the joy>>12565643>Online playI'll agree to this. Share the joy with people who live far away.
>>12565671>If you've experienced original hardware you'd never say thisBait used to be believable
>>12565636If the ps2 is your favorite console, go for the real thing6th gen was meant for CRT TVs. Idk want kind of sorcery goes behind CRT imagery output, but it's required to experience ps2 games its peak.Let's not forget the pristine responsive gameplay due to the lowest input lag.
>experiencingnigga it's playing a video game. I used to play video games with the console plugged into a CRT when it was all new. I am very familiar with the "experience." After a few decades I pulled these things out of storage and got to reproduce that old experience recently - it was pretty cozy for a few nights. Then I remembered I don't live in 2001 and while revisiting some old memories was cool for a second it's not like you can reproduce the many other factors that made those times an "experience." Since I realized this was just a larp basically I sold off the systems/games I had in storage and thinking about it now that cash easily paid for my pc that I use now. I have any game I could ever want on emulators and a nice wireless controller (8bit do pro?) that is good as the wavebird I had on my Gamecube back in the day.Click F11 and it is full screen, and sometimes I even have the hdmi cable connect to my big tv. It's all the same, except using Dolphin I can greatly improve the graphics of the Gamecube games which is awesome and something we would kill for back in the day.tl;dr: This is a fun novelty but you can't live like that you have to live in the present. It is the only thing that exists. It's pretty comfy, too, if you let it be.
>>12565636Nothing will take you back to the good days because they are gone. You are larpingEmulating PS1 and PS2 with a dual shock 3 saved me a lot of money + space because I realised how overrated the idea was in my mind to play most of these gamesand also don't have to have the Reddit upvote gizmos on display
>>12565642real shit 6th gen might be technically "retro" but it'll never be "true retro"
>>12565748>The abundance that comes with emulation cheapens games and reduces the joyWhat paypigs tell themselves to copeLet me guess you pay for all your music and movies too?
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>>12565636Who fucking gives a shit. People can experience the medium however they prefer and these threads are a waste of time. Report all low quality posts and replies, including this one.
>>125657976th gen is retro because it was the last time games were stylized instead of aping reality and cgi
>>12565636People emulate when they just want to play a game. Buyfags are attempting to recapture their childhood experience, which is a different motivation.
>>12565636I'm playing some ps1 and N64 games daily while I'm taking a shit. You lose.
>>12565681>"i" bought a ps2 when my parents gave me the money without job.It would have been better if you picked them from trash bins for free.
What we really need to do is teach zoomer and millennial morons what the word "experience" actually means.
For me it'sLaptop + PCSX2 + Xbox 360 controllerJust the way god intended.
>>12565636Space and convenience.I could have a dozen consoles, jerry rig things up to have enough power and connections, along with all the space for controllers, memory cards, and games.Or I could just hook up a pc to my tv.
>>12566417It sounds so sad, like you're ashamed of your hobby.
>>12566469What sounds sad is people like OP who call people "poor" for not buying video games.They're free.I've had more physical copies at one point than any of you. It didn't do a goddamn thing for me.What if I said "I bought an ounce of chronic on a whim?" You wouldn't be impressed. The wild thing is, you can download video games, you can't download flowers.
>>12566490>What if I said "I bought an ounce of chronic on a whim?"It would explain where all the video games went.
>>12566492I gave them away when I had to move a lot in college. College was 1000 miles from my family, and my internship was 700+ from both.I do like weed, but college was 20 years ago. The point was: you're not impressed when I say that I have alot, much as no one is impressed when you have physical video games.
>>12566496If you did have a physical collection it would actually impress, far more than roms in a folder.
>>12566504Just what I could get in my room alone. I told you, I gave most of my shit away. I had game gear, cd-i. Doesn't mean a damn thing when I can just play on my PC.
>>12566469My dude, I'm a man who owns dolls and have them on display. Shame has nothing to do with it.I still have some of my old consoles - notably my SNES and Dreamcast - and I intend to keep those, but I see no real solid benefit to having 12+ consoles.>>12566504Why would I try to impress anyone with my collection? I play games to have fun playing them, not to show off like some basement peacock.
>>12565639>looks better>runs better>all your games playable on the same hardware>save states/rewind if you're a pleb>romhacks>undubs to right the wrongs of localizations past>translations for games that never got localizedThe list goes on. Anyone who doesn't embrace emulation is factually retarded. I'm an oldfag, I grew up with these systems, and I'm never fucking with real hardware ever again.
>>12566523Oh and also your consoles, cd's, and cartridges are going to because landfill fodder as the years drone on. My ROMs and saves are eternal.
>>12566515Yeah that bin is infinitely more fun and interesting to dig through than any windows directory or drop down menu in an emulator. The green game boy leaves a genuine impression that the same redump rips everyone has does not.>>12566520>but I see no real solid benefit to having 12+ consoles.I can't tell if someone is a gamer if they have a rainbow PC and 6 monitors tied to it, but if someone has a nintendo and ps2 under a tv it tells me heaps more about them than their desktop battle rig.>Why would I try to impress anyone with my collectionImpressing isn't just about making an excited face and saying wow gooo goo ga ga.
>>12566546>I can't tell if someone is a gamerI don't invite randos into my home who need to deduce things about me from the environment. My friends all know I'm a gamer.>Impressing isn't just about making an excited face and saying wow gooo goo ga ga.Keep telling yourself that, basement peacock.
>>12566552I think your friends would be more excited to see a Dreamcast and a couple of controllers than your rainbow keyboard.
>>12566553I don't care? It's my house, not theirs. If they aren't psyched to play Mario Kart 64 because it's played through the PC rather than an N64, then they can leave. I don't need friends who are so hung up on the form that they can't have fun.
>>12566560>I don't care?Yeah and I think that's a little sad. You have this awesome hobby with decades of history, gadgets, toys and experiences and you're basically confining yourself to the most sterile interpretation of it.Just how I see it. Like you're actively choosing not to engage with all the coolest things ever because you found a homogenized alternative.
>>12566546>Yeah that bin is infinitely more fun and interesting to dig throughTrue, but nobody else will ever see this shit IRL til the day I die.I'd rather just focus on the games themselves, completely removed from what console they're on. This shit is sentimental to me, but it's because it's what I grew up with (parents gave away my first console, NES, to goodwill in the '90s). I have my original starfox cart, when these threads came out this week, I'm the guy who played it and posted screenshots and I ran it on my PC on a 4k screen. But, again I have my original cart and snes.
>>12566565>Like you're actively choosing not to engage with all the coolest things ever because you found a homogenized alternative.The coolest things ever are the games. The consoles, the controllers, the memory cards, ect, those are all adjacent sometimes cool things. I'm happier to not ever touch an N64 controller ever again, because I didn't even like them when it came out.You're focusing on the form of the thing rather than the content. Is the form important? Yeah, sometimes. But 99% of the time, it's not. No one cared about Final Fantasy Vii because of the Playstation, specifically, and playing it on the PC doesn't give an especially different experience(unless you're one of those psychos who plays with a keyboard). The Dreamcast has some stuff with the VMU, and there are things like Game Boy addons(if you're really into the Game Boy Camera/Printer, more power to you I guess), but consoles are largely just specialized computers and games don't deliver an especially different experience by being on different hardware for the most part. And the times that it doesn't make a difference isn't necessarily a positive. Handhelds? Yeah, fun, but I don't play on the go anymore, and I'd rather set that shit up on a big screen and save my neck.I've had nearly every major console from the NES through to the PS4, so it's not like I'm missing out or something. I've been there, and I would rather PLAY the games than fuck around with a bunch of hardware that doesn't make the games better, and just takes of a whole bunch of space I could use for other things.
>>12566586>The coolest things ever are the gamesOf course, on a fundamental and base level the games are rules we interpret and how we interact with them through a series of limited mechanics. Mechanics being another way to describe the mechanism in which we engage, the physical act of engagement and what it translates to. The origins of which come from electro-mechanical games like pinball and tons of other amusement style contraptions which have a massive array of devices to allow the player to interact.>m happier to not ever touch an N64 controller ever againSee I understand it's a flawed controller but one of the earliest things I discovered in my short lived emulation stint is you can't ever fully replace the original controllers. You will inevitably bump into a game that relies on the mechanical interaction of controller and game to communicate with the player and inform how they understand game space. N64's lack of a digital deadzone being a great example, it registers those incredibly small adjustments and because the way the stick is designed feeds back into how the player experiences it.>You're focusing on the form of the thing rather than the contentThey're genuinely inseparable. Especially in the retro space where there's observable generational evolution in how these devices function and how it was expanded over time.>I would rather PLAY the games than fuck around with a bunch of hardware that doesn't make the games betterYou can play DDR with a d-pad instead of a dance mat but that defeats the purpose of playing a game meant to mechanically involve your feet, doesn't it? You're routing around the intended experience to translate the mechanics to a part of your body not limited by the intentions of the designer and getting an inferior experience as a result.
>>12566596>You will inevitably bump into a game that relies on the mechanical interaction of controller and game to communicate with the player and inform how they understand game space.I've never had this happen in any meaningful way>You can play DDR with a d-pad instead of a dance matNice extreme example that doesn't apply to 99.9999999% of cases. Now you're arguing in bad faith.Who are you trying to convince? Because it's not me.
>>12566601>Nice extreme example that doesn't apply to 99.9999999% of casesAnon there's like 200 DDR games, surely you can admit you'd rather play them with a dance pad. As you would light gun games with their light gun. Once you start to see how even different versions of games like Tony Hawk are built perfectly for the diamond layout and how the play experience falls apart on the odd gamecube controller layout it becomes apparent there's an intended feel for games down to the controller. Once you start to notice it, it becomes so apparent in so many other games, especially exclusives.
>>12566546>that bin is infinitely more fun and interesting to dig through than any windows directory or drop down menu in an emulator.Truth be told I gave 95% of my collection (20+consoles + games) to a crackhead about a decade ago when I tried to an hero. I'm still here... -_-Just 4channer stuff.
>>12566586>>12566560people like you are gaslit into preferring condomed sex, truly sad to see.
>>12565643you can still play online on real hardware, there are custom servers
>>12567248You can play Crash Nitro Kart and Crash Team Racing online on a real PS2?
>>12567256if someone puts a server for it, why not?
>>12567265It was a rhetorical question. You can't play either of those online on a PS2, but on an emulator you can use netplay features to simulate local over the internet.
>>12567271i assumed you could since people play Bomberman online on real Sega Saturn hardware
>>12567302Some PS2 games do have built-in online modes, like some Ratchet & Clank games, but there are also many that do not, such as every Crash game for it, which is local-only.
>>12567308if it's via linked consoles it shouldn't be too hard to reproduce online but if it's split screen only then yeah good luck with that.
>>12566789>first it's "poor">then it's "embarassment">then it's "not showing off your hobby">now it's "you're having fun wrong!"Keep moving those goalposts.
>>12567384those are all true and you're coping otherwise
>>12565636I AIN'T GONNA BUY NO ARCADE PEE CEE BEES, YA DUMMY
>>12565636This is an extremely Reddit post, OP.
>>12567256>u-u-u can?>>12567271>It was a retarded copestion.Why are children like this?
>>12567946>can't recognise an obvious rhetorical question>suspects others of being retards while thinking that someone would genuinely think that a fucking PS1 game has built-in onlineWhy are children like this?
>>12565636I have a lot of old consoles but I would always use emulation because savestates and fast forward are a must have, even for games I have sitting on my desk
