TwistedPear

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[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know if it ever stopped. Seems like every other month there's a port or a homebrew that eventually goes retail.

The Atomiswave arcade ports are great.

Dreamcast Junkyard is the typical forum for all things that are "still thinking"

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Short answer, absolutely not.

The Virtex Ultrascale+ FPGA boards are $10,000 AND UP.

If you look up why Mister will not move up to more powerful FPGA chips, this is why.

Would it be cool? Yes. Definitely.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now imagine that, but on a keyboard. No mouse. That's pc controls for ZT

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Extreme G 2 on pc loses the analog steering from N64, which turns out is a big deal. Throwback Entertainment made a port-of-a-port and introduced a speed hack in the launcher menu where you can slow down the game a bit, which helps, but doesn't fix the issue.

In some other cases like Hexen, there were alterations on console that I find generally more appealing, like an ost remaster or lighting effects.

The Genesis game Zero Tolerance and Dreamcast version of Expendable are games I prefer on console simply because of the control schemes on pc.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Not to pile on, but print ads from the 90's are wild to look at. Sonic 3 launched at $70. You know, games that require a couple of hours to complete casually. Stuff got replayed a LOT.

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[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Definitely going to try this.

I have DNS adblocking / tracker blocking set up on an Android TV (spoiler: Amazon is very noisy, even if you don't watch anything on Prime Video), but it doesn't help against native launcher ads.

When the launcher first started showing ads, you could disable certain services, but it would break playback on other apps.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To me that looks like RetroArch running Genesis Plus GX.

[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Retro-bit, Retro Fighters, and Krikzz are a few more manufacturers I can think of making controllers with original ports.

In particular, Retro-bit's Saturn Pro pad is...interesting, let's say. I have also used Retro Fighters Striker Dreamcast pads - they're quite nice.

In yonder days, a few companies like ASCII and Hori come up a lot for reliable stuff.

 
[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

In this instance, the CPU fans are pulling rather than pushing, and yeah it's because of memory clearance.

Surprisingly, temps of the parts aren't that bad. Under load the CPU tops out at about 70c, and the gpu only goes up to 65c while ray tracing and the whole bit.

Still, if money were no object, I'd like to have the Silverstone Sugo 17 shoebox style case when it becomes available.

 
[–] TwistedPear@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

For just a few hours, the XFX Merc310 AMD 7900 XTX was $800 US, sold by Amazon (not a seller on Amazon, but Amazon themselves).

Hopefully, more price drops will be more common in the coming weeks.

 

I'm on a quest to finish the game at difficulty 16 (Maximum) without taking a hit. During my first marathon of the journey, I got a new high score.

The run is visible on Twitch / YouTube if one is keen to that sort of thing.

https://piped.video/watch?v=t4k0A5zNf1c

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by TwistedPear@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
 

After silence for a good while, I thought they were done with this project, but apparently not. Additional effects, a lot of optimizations, and the bosses were added back in.

There is so much grunt behind it now, that in the right configuration it uses the combined might of the Genesis, 32X, and Sega CD processing power all together.

Catching anyone up who orignally didn't know about this: Doom 32X Resurrection is an attempt to bring the Sega 32X version of Doom to its full potential. The game now supports a laundry list of features it didn't before: local coop / deathmatch, link cable multiplayer, all the maps, sprites from all angles (they all used to face forward, even rockets), positional sound effects, CD music support, new FM ost by SpoonyBard, improved resolution, improved framerate, additional 6-button configs, and more.

The romhack itself can be found at romhacking.net

 

Just like Quake 1, if you already own Quake 2, the enhanced version is available as a free update. Although unlike Quake 1, Quake 2: Enhanced is also available on GOG day 1.

In addition to visual updates, there's a new episode "Call of the Machine", Quake 2 N64, a pass to the enemy AI which changes a few behaviors and attacks, removes machine gun recoil, a new infinite use item that shows the player where to go next, and a number of other qol and accessibility options.

Anecdotally, I find the addition of Q2 N64 very appealing. It's a mish-mash of pared-down maps from vanilla Q2 and the expansions in a strictly linear fashion - no backtracking. Of course, there's also changes to the lighting and a new OST by Aubrey Hodges. Being able to control the game from keyboard / mouse is a godsend. I played the game in emulator with a modern gamepad and it was barely, barely doable, even when I could manually set deadzones and sensitivities and the like. It was awful.

 

I used to have a 32x back in the day, but you know, Sega did what they did, and it didn't really pan out. I thought the mushroom system was cool tech, but lamented how little value it added to the Genesis. I essentially gave it away.

The library was small, and even the top tier A-list games barely even graze competency, let alone "good". Most of them play well enough in emulation (there are exceptions, of course), and even Mister has a core for it now.

Still, I unironically enjoy Cosmic Carnage; Doom on 32x was sadly rushed but the result is hilarious for so many reasons (my favorite is the end of the game dumps you into a fake DOS prompt); and I still remember being legit excited to play Mortal Kombat II on the system, and it got a lot of mileage. So it wasn't all bad.

It may not make a lot of sense to buy it again now for the nostalgia, especially with all the benefits of hindsight I have. Did it anyway.