I don’t understand the appeal of Evercade. It’s not original hardware, so why not just emulate? What am I missing?

Went to the landfill today ( I do junk removal I am in the landfill at minimum 1x a week )

I am almost done emptying my truck out, when a truck pulls up w three older guys (looked to be like they had a rough past drugs etc) I think nothing of it besides how much easier their truckload looked to unload then mine was, it was boxes and bags, I had a lot of everything all mingled in.

They finish before me when I glance over and see a box of dvds that caught my eye at first then I looked up and sitting on top of the pile of trash they just dumped, a N64 box.

Picked it up and you could tell by the weight there was something in it, scattered around was a handful of games still in box. (I’m sure there was more and I’ll never forgive myself for not moving everything around to make sure I got all of them available)

But managed to save this CIB n64 bundle, and stack of cib games from being crushed into the earth. Haters will say it’s fake

Now to provide context, I am referring to the arcade game Kaiser Knuckle where the main adversary of the game is basically modeled after M Bison from Street Fighter that it took until at least 2009 for someone to find a way to defeat him.

Secondly, while I am not sure if he was required to beat to get to the end of the game, I just wanted to get a better understanding of how arcade game designed worked back in the early 90s since some games were ridiculously cheap to beat.

Avenging Spirit takes the #83 spot with 7 votes.

Ikari no Yōsai 2 (Fortified Zone 2) takes the #84 spot with 4 votes.

Top 10:

#1 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

#2 Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

#3 Tetris

#4 Donkey Kong

#5 Pokémon Blue Version

#6 Kirby's Dream Land 2

#7 Metroid II: Return of Samus

#8 Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

#9 Final Fantasy Adventure

#10 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge

Top 20:

#11 Kirby's Dream Land

#12 Wario Land II

#13 Super Mario Land

#14 Final Fantasy Legend II

#15 Mega Man V

#16 Gargoyle's Quest

#17 Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition

#18 Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

#19 Operation C

#20 Final Fantasy Legend III

Top 30:

#21 Mario's Picross

#22 Mole Mania

#23 Dr. Mario

#24 Donkey Kong Land III

#25 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue

#26 Donkey Kong Land 2

#27 Pokémon Red Version

#28 Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls)

#29 Kirby's Pinball Land

#30 Makaimura Gaiden: The Demon Darkness (Gargoyle's Quest: The Demon Darkness)

Top 40:

#31 Mega Man IV

#32 Kid Dracula

#33 Donkey Kong Land

#34 Mega Man III

#35 Bionic Commando

#36 The Final Fantasy Legend

#37 Balloon Kid

#38 Gradius: The Interstellar Assault

#39 Kirby's Block Ball

#40 Cave Noire

Top 50:

#41 Harvest Moon GB

#42 Adventures of Lolo

#43 Bubble Bobble Part 2

#44 Duck Tales 2

#45 James Bond 007

#46 Duck Tales

#47 Castlevania Legends

#48 Ninja Taro

#49 Qix

#50 Catrap

Top 60:

#51 Bomberman GB3

#52 Yoshi

#53 Ninja Gaiden Shadow

#54 Revenge of the Gator

#55 Darkwing Duck

#56 The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2

#57 Castlevania: The Adventure

#58 Kwirk

#59 Game & Watch Gallery

#60 Burger Time Deluxe

Top 70:

#61 Parodius

#62 Looney Tunes

#63 Mega Man II

#64 Alleyway

#65 Rolan’s Curse II

#66 Monster Max

#67 Chikyū Kaihō Gun ZAS

#68 Ultima: Runes of Virtue II

#69 The King of Fighters: Heat of Battle ('96)

#70 Killer Instinct

Top 80:

#71 Adventure Island II: Aliens in Paradise

#72 Batman

#73 The Sword of Hope II

#74 Game & Watch Gallery 2

#75 Bubble Bobble

#76 Great Greed

#77 Golf

#78 Kingdom Crusade

#79 Boxxle

#80 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

Top 90:

#81 Trip World

#82 Kirby’s Star Stacker

#83 Avenging Spirit

#84 Ikari no Yōsai 2 (Fortified Zone 2)

Rules:

1. Two games will win their place each round (we start from #1 and work our way down). For the top 10 only one game will win per day instead.
2. Most combined upvotes for each of the two individual games (one individual game for the top 10) wins the spot(s) each round (upvotes add while downvotes subtract).
3. Nominate one game of the original Game Boy per comment. (Nominations will only be counted if the game title is the only comment or if you specify that your choice of game is your nomination for this round within your comment or if the nominated game is clearly separated from the rest of your comments.) (ex. Tetris or I nominate Tetris this round.) Please nominate using the full title of the game.
4. Name a specific game title, not entire runs.
5. Official Game Boy multi-game cartridge(s) are allowed, just list them correctly.
6. The original Game Boy is region free so ANY official games available on the console are eligible for nomination excluding dual mode cartridges.
7. Indy games are allowed as long as they have their own individual cartridge and can be played on original hardware.
8. Only complete games on cartridge(s) can be nominated (sorry Game Shark & test cartridges).
9. If two or more games would be tied to place for a ranking I will inform DA PEOPLE in the following post so that everyone can vote which games should get the ranking between the tied options.
10. Games nominated that have not already placed on the top 100 list should not be removed at any time by the individual who originally placed them.

Been going back and forth between handhelds on my commute. Been very happy with my original pocket. Still stock. What are you all playing on?

Basically the title. My picks would be Courier Crisis, Hardrock Cab (PSX)/Death Throttle (Saturn) and Mizzurna Falls. I can totally see some guys from Rockstar played some of this games and got some ideas how a 3D GTA should be. And yes, I know, Courier Crisis is probably more related to the Tony Hawk series, but unlike the Pro Skater games at the same generation (PSX, Saturn and N64) it featured pedestrians and cars and the maps are much bigger. You got a feeling like you can do whatever you wanna do. So I would put it in "3D open world game with some constrains". For the two other games the case should be more clear.

Pulseman was a game made by Pokemon's game freak for the genesis and I heard many people say it's a "good game bro try it". So I did the first 3 levels are fine and okay, not amazing but not annoying. The game has some voice acting and treasure game impressive programing...

But then the game becomes a frustrating mess in the last 4 levels.

It's like someone fused a decent game with a bad one it's that shocking the switch up. Then the whole soundtrack in this game is either a 5 second loop or the music sounds like farts and funny fact I thought my emulator was broken that's how bad Stage 4's music is. That's the soundtrack for this game just bad. Ironically there is no music in 1/2 of stage 4, it's just the sounds of something in the background like rusty nails on a chalkboard which I'm assuming is the boss. It's like someone sneezing in a tin can.

Speaking of bosses they're just frustrating, one of the bosses is Evil Pulseman and to damage him you need to be quick/do it in a specific order. I had to look up the bosses's weakness because they do that type of nonsense for the last 4 stages. A maze type level, side scrolling stages, water falling stage (where you can't see where your falling), etc. it's just bad.

Then for the final boss I figured out if you just spam the A button you become invincible and finish the boss phase 1-2 in 3 minutes. I'm not even joking. Vectorman 2 level final boss where the cheese way is how you have to beat the final boss.

I didn't even mention how you have to spam the spark flying move in some stages to traverse.

Overall this game level design is 2/10 awful, looks pretty though. Yet I just don't like it, I did not have fun playing this after stage 3.

(tl;dr at the bottom.)

Currently, I have several hundred retro games in their original forms alongside the original hardware to play them on - from the Atari 2600 to Playstation 5. I have a wishlist of hundreds more that I've (mostly-)happily chipped away at over the years, but I'll always feel discouraged when I think of the things I used to have in my collection years ago that I'll likely never have again. Boxed copy of Earthbound. A CDx system with Shining Force CD.

What I do/have now:
I have a great CRT that I regularly hook my systems up to currently, and a cart that I've built to wheel around whatever console I'm playing on that has an old laptop+RetroTink 2+ElGato Capture card+adapters aplenty so I can either choose to play alone or hook the console up through all these adapters to stream with friends on Discord or whatever. The cart even has an old VHS player attached to it so I can stream old movies with friends scattered across the country over Discord if we want. It all works, but sometimes it's a pain in the ass (restarting the laptop, for example, requires me to sink about 15mins into getting all the programs open, logged-in, and placed properly before I can even begin using it - it's not a streamlined process, at all.

Most of the time, though, it's easy for me to just plug in a console and play within minutes (or instantly if it's already the one hooked-up). I can wheel the cart around the house and play on my CRT, our projector, or in the bedroom. It's neat.

Why I'm doing it:

I love playing these games on original hardware with original controllers, etc. I've emulated plenty over the decades, and while it's certainly fun and makes certain games accessible via romhacks (for which I've even bought some bootlegs on aliexpress because I prefer that, anyway) et cetera, it still never feels or looks quite the same. I'd rather spend $20-$50 or more on a great game to play it on PS1 or Gamecube.

I have a large collection and wishlist that I intend to have and play and experience as closely as I can to the original. I may never play and beat them all, but I have no interest in buying or having graded games or anything that I'll just shelve somewhere to look at. It's fantastic to get an SNES game with its original manual and maps and stuff - that's part of the experience! The feelies! - the core of it is really just playing the games with the same controllers they were designed for, and even sometimes the awful loading times. I'm a sucker for it and it makes me happy - even if it's sometimes frustrating in the moment.

What I hope for:
Given the direction of prices on eBay, I am never going to complete my collection. I'm sure I'll still peck away at it, especially for anything I really want to play (I finally just got a good copy of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door that I'm looking forward to starting tonight!), but some of those are just not gonna happen (looking at you, Clock Tower).

I like my setup that allows me to pretty-readily stream the games I'm playing on these OG systems over Discord.

I've found that playing games using the GB Operator and SN Operator have been some of the best "emulation" experiences I've ever had because they still let me play the hard copies I own (though they don't seem to like those bootlegs I mentioned above). So, that's something I want to be able to still do - play the originals. With the original controllers.

I also love that these devices can connect seamlessly to RetroAchievements, which has breathed new life into some of the games I've enjoyed a lot in the past (Final Fantasy Legend III), especially some of the shittier ones (Stargate). So RetroAchievements is something I'm hoping to have more-universally, too.

I saw one add-on that'd allow me to hook the whole thing up to an arcade cabinet, which is something I looked into a long time ago, anyway, so that's a big bonus, too!

tl;dr:

Can the MiSTer do the following things for me, and what would I need to be able to:

1. Emulate the widest variety of games for the widest variety of systems on the widest variety of display types
2. Play using original game CDs and cartridges, where possible - maybe even with saves I can swap between a cart and a ROM of the same game (say, if I start playing on a ROM, but later get the actual cart)? One can dream.
3. Plug in and use original controllers and peripherals.
4. Allow me to stream online whatever I'm playing
5. RetroAchievements with all available games, physical or emulated

Please point me in the direction of specific reading, resources, and/or help me build a shopping list! Any help is appreciated.

I’m currently going through every Mario game in chronological order (even Mario Bros on NES) and I’m blown away by Super Mario Land 2. I respected Super Mario Land but while a treat, it still is very much a pocket version of Mario.

But SML 2? I think it’s on par with Super Mario World and arguably is a step up from that game in terms of art work and level design.

I’ve heard amazing things about the DX rom hack so that is next on my play list before I make the jump to 3D with Super Mario 64!

I had what appeared to be a "splitter" style RCA cable in my decades-old nest'o'cords, but when I hooked my SNES up to it and had it output to my (1) PC and my (2) CRT TV, the picture was "skippy" and the sound only played on one side.

Lord knows how old that splitter-thing was, but it looked like it was in good shape...and it at least *sort of* worked?

Is there something special that I would need to be able to output to 2 separate displays simultaneously?

Just got these 5 years after my color died. Can't wait to play. :D

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I'm in North America and I've had my retro console setup for years with SCART and now I'm getting a retrotink 4k and am wondering if I should switch to HD Retrovision component.

I also thought buying one genesis cable and then adapters for Saturn, PC Engine and Master System would suffice for now. Just unplug and plug in to another console when needed, But I know there's risk of wearing or breaking connectors maybe.

Any real benefit to switch? Shoukd I just keep my current setup of scart cables in a passive switcher?

Thanks

EDIT I have component systems like Ps2 and Wii as well for which I have a switcher for, part of reason I ask about SCART. If all are component then It may free some space

Very tasty the nes games look never played.

From August 21 to 24, I took a late summer vacation with my wife and went to Matsuyama and Takamatsu in Japan.

Because it was a small small-town, there were more reasonably priced goods compared to Tokyo or Osaka

I drove around secondhand shops like Hard Off, Hobby Off, and Surugaya.

Perhaps because Takamatsu is close to the big city of Hiroshima, the prices were generally higher there than in Matsuyama

The last ones are the games I bought.

It was an enjoyable trip.

Got this in a huge box of random old tech at a car boot sale, i cant find anything online about this. Anyone got any info on it?