| 13 AUG 2003 at 12:40pm |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | I played most of them on the corrsponding consoles. But that was quite a while ago. The NES controllers seem strange to me these days.
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| 13 AUG 2003 at 12:51pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Friday the 14th (12 AUG 2003 8:03pm)
There is a HUGE difference (except for Ex-Rael) MM2 is my fav NES game,
The what??
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| 13 AUG 2003 at 4:07pm |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Agustin (13 AUG 2003 12:50pm)
The what??
lol, I'm referring to that console thread.
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| 13 AUG 2003 at 4:20pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Friday the 14th (13 AUG 2003 4:07pm)
lol, I'm referring to that console thread.
Oh yeah, that - get a TV-out card with a nice gamepad Now please, point me the HUGE difference :
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| 14 AUG 2003 at 12:10am |
| Deleted User | *points to the giant non-existent blister/callus on the thumb-side of Augie Doggie's middle finger*
There's the huge difference.
Of course, it means you win the larger argument, but there is a huge difference.
NES made you suffer for your fun.
hehehehehe
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| 14 AUG 2003 at 12:55am |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Agustin (13 AUG 2003 4:19pm)
Oh yeah, that - get a TV-out card with a nice gamepad Now please, point me the HUGE difference :
1. There is currently no, and will never be a perfectly good emulator, most of them has bugs and won't work properly with many games. Try to play Maniac Mansion with the emulator Nesticle and you'll see. I doubt Zapper games will work, and 4-player mode.
2. You'll only get the ultimate retro feeling using a real nintendo gamepad, and afaik there is no USB converter. If there is those should be impossible to get by now.
3. You have the NES cassette, put it in the NES and run it. Thats much easier and more retro than booting your PC, starting the emulator, loading the rom, plugging in some cables and setting up your TV-out (and moving the couch). When I need a break I put on my NES and play some. Right now it's Tennis and Hogan's Alley mostly. I would never do that with an emulator.
4. It feels Nintendo, because it is Nintendo, it's the real game on the real console, you own it and you know it. Some ppl don't get it, there is nothing wrong with them because of that.
..I think roms are great though.. for taking screen shots of NES games.
..and do you prefer to play DVD's on a PC over a DVD player?
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| 14 AUG 2003 at 3:09am |
InlandAZGuild Master
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Status : Offline | 1. There is currently no, and will never be a perfectly good emulator, most of them has bugs and won't work properly with many games. Try to play Maniac Mansion with the emulator Nesticle and you'll see. I doubt Zapper games will work, and 4-player mode.
Which is why I own all the original consoles, and games.
Of course I do manage to find, download an play most of them on the PC - but, you just can't beat the real deal.
FYI - Nester is a much better emulator -
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| 14 AUG 2003 at 9:40am |
Friday the 14thSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By InlandAZ (14 AUG 2003 3:09am)
FYI - Nester is a much better emulator -
I know, and many other emulators too, that wasn't my point. Maniac Mansion is totally unplayable for Nesticle because of graphical bugs.
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| 14 AUG 2003 at 1:13pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Friday the 14th (14 AUG 2003 12:54am)
1. There is currently no, and will never be a perfectly good emulator, most of them has bugs and won't work properly with many games.
That's a pretty bold statement : Most C64 emulators I've tried ran flawlesly as did a Colecovision and Turbo Grafx ones. Now I've never tried MM in Nesticle but others did perfect. I even compared Contra, Mario and some more in my brother's NES and couldn't see any difference.
Guess it's too subjective.
2. You'll only get the ultimate retro feeling using a real nintendo gamepad, and afaik there is no USB converter. If there is those should be impossible to get by now.
OK the pad. Let's leave it there.
3. You have the NES cassette, put it in the NES and run it. Thats much easier and more retro than booting your PC, starting the emulator, loading the rom, plugging in some cables and setting up your TV-out (and moving the couch).
Oh I loved this one I always have my PC turned on, my cables plugged (PC is near the TV) and a couch in front of my TV.
4. It feels Nintendo, because it is Nintendo, it's the real game on the real console, you own it and you know it.
The only old system I'd own for the retro feeling is the Amiga but even then I must admit that it runs better on the PC (less loading times, no disk swapping, etc.)
..and do you prefer to play DVD's on a PC over a DVD player?
There's hardly any difference (really). It's the same to me.
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| 14 AUG 2003 at 2:07pm |
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Status : Online | It is subjective. For me, when I want to watch a DVD, I want to be in the living room on the couch, not a computer, a computer game in sight. All that is in the computer room. In the living room I listen to music, watch movies, read books, entertain friends. I like to keep the PC stuff seperate from the other media. If I were ever to get into consoles, I'd want the old retro gear, the real cassettes, roms, etc. Actually I have an old Sega something or another in basement someone gave me to try but I never did. I wonder which room the consoles would go in? Computer or non-computer.
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