DJ Clae
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I had a Duo Pad with non-working run and select buttons. Opened, cleaned with distilled water, and cleaned all the button electrical contacts with Deoxit. Works perfectly now.
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What's worse than switches is buttons. The Neo Geo Pocket has a very unsatisfying rubber button that you have to hold in until the power light comes on.
The PSP. That switch pops and and goes back to its original position. And to power it completely down you have to hold that switch up for a while.
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Due to the console's upscaling and the game's anti-aliasing solution, dynamic resolution can be difficult to spot unless it's an egregious case.
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Yeah, good point. I think the difference in resolution and color depth would be completely unnoticed by most, especially with the fidelity the consoles are actually able to render for most games.
My TV only handles 120Hz at 1080p, so I've only set my Series X to output 1080p to try 120Hz out. I know 120Hz is getting all the hype this generation, but I'm not really able to tell the difference between 60 and 120, so I don't bother with it.
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But we're talking about HDMI bandwidth, and [email protected] is what's going over the cable, so contrary to your post, it is relevant.
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Yeah, you basically don't need any Xbox One console if you own Series X. I just keep mine around for posterity since I'm a hoarder. The One has been in the box on the shelf since I got the One X. And the One X is still out, but I've only used it for some simpler games that don't need any of the extra power.
The biggest reason why the One consoles aren't worth picking up now is the load times. Load times are like night and day between the two generations, making it very hard to go back now.
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On 2/5/2021 at 9:01 AM, youxia said:I don't think bandwith will matter much since [email protected] is not something that I see happening on consoles (nor PCs for any time soon), outside some simpler titles.
Lack of VRR is much more worrying. I do my AAA gaming on a PC these days and can't imagine not being able to use adaptive sync.
[email protected] is exactly what these consoles are already outputting. Of course the games aren't being rendered at native 4K at that refresh, but the consoles are upscaling to 4K. So 4K is what's being sent out over the HDMI cable.
I think the linked article may be causing more confusion. The maximum of 4:2:2 Chroma mentioned is not going to be noticeable for most people.
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Yep, HD CRT's are not good for 240p classic consoles. This is explained in this My Life in Gaming video:
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SSRPG wasn't released on the AES. I'm just saying the NGCD release gives you an idea of what a Neo Geo RPG would have looked like. I suppose you could've played it on Saturn or PS1 as well.
To your point though, I'm not sure if the AES would've been a good substitute for a Genesis or SNES, since the library lacks the variety.
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On 1/20/2021 at 11:42 AM, glazball said:Like most of us in this thread, I was blown away when I first played Magician Lord in the early 90's mall arcade. I remember reading about a home console that cost insane amounts of money, but wanted one so bad. However, I had bought a Genesis at launch and was pretty much in love with it.
I also remember thinking how ridiculous it was that the games that cost SO MUCH money were often poorer quality than Genesis games. Look at Ninja Combat, with it's slightly hokey graphics and terrible translations. For that kind of money, I would expect MASSIVE, earth-shattering games like epic RPGs better than Phantasy Star II, which I paid $75 for in 1990 (a lot for a game, even now). It wasn't until much later that the truly great games for the Neo arrived, but by then I had moved on to PS1, N64 and Dreamcast. It boggles the mind to think what could have been done on the Neo if SNK hadn't put so much focus on fighting games.
Anyways, this poll needs more than 4 choices!
By "boggles the mind" do you mean you can't imagine what SNK was thinking? Or you're just imagining what could've been achieved in other genres? Look at SSRPG if you want an example of what RPG's could've been like. SNK achieved great success by following arcade trends at the time. It was certainly not the reason they went bankrupt.
As silly as Ninja Combat is, it still has arcade quality graphics and performance not possible in the Genesis. Would I rather play a well-made Genesis game? Of course. Was the Neo Geo obviously genuine arcade quality, even when the games were poor? The hardware performance speaks for itself.
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The original Xbox One was the original. That's why people own it, which is why they still sell it. The Series S is an unpopular half step up.
1 hour ago, Serguei2 said:Sooner or later, both s & X will be discontinued one day.
And the sun will die.
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4 hours ago, wongojack said:Unless of course you can't afford it.
More choice is always better for the consumer.
You have the choice to get the bad deal if you can't afford it. Is it better for the consumer if it's discontinued?
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They are locking you in to the inferior experience, restricting you to their online store, and not giving you a big enough SSD to support the games. It looks like savings up front, but it will be worse, even on a 1080p set, especially for games released later in this generation, which will require the extra power.
Rather than creating a 2-tiered system, it's better marketing-wise for everyone to covet the same next gen box, like with the PS5.
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What drew me to the MVS machines whenever I encountered them was the knowledge that it was possible to own the same games at home on that coveted console.
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The less said about Series S, the better. No, I will not refer to the next gen Xbox as "Series S/X."
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I am not convinced by personal anecdotes. I have no doubt that it's possible to bet and lose on this. However, the difficulty redeeming an extended warranty outweighs any potential benefit.
If you are unable to absorb a potential worst case scenario $500 loss on a non-essential appliance after you've already gotten a year of use out of it, you probably have bigger problems with your finances, making that $77 extra cost even more painful on the wallet.
It's a racket. The reason stores push the hell out of these things is because it's one of their most profitable sources of revenue.
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On 1/5/2021 at 11:17 PM, eightbit said:I've been throwing a bunch of 360 games at it (shopped by local Goodwill's this past weekend) and well...everything works so far
I admit I have not scoured any compatibility lists prior to purchasing. Just finding games I would like to play (and are not scratched to hell) and bringing them home and trying them.
My 16 year old came in while I was playing a few of the 360 games and said "Hey wait, this isn't a 360 game, right?". That said, they look really darn good on this. I did not own the 360 for very long and I no longer have it to compare, but games like Halo 4 really don't look like a 360 game on this console at all!
In cases where the 360 game has been enhanced for Xbox One X, then your kid is actually exactly right. You aren't playing a 360 game; you're actually running Xbox One X code. Most of those games run in native 4K. Here's the complete list:
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/xbox-one/xbox-one-x-enhanced-list
Halo 4 is not one of these, because they want you to play the Master Chief Collection instead.
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I finished Miles Morales. It was a nice breezy open world game, that wasn't too long, didn't have too much extra junk to do, and the navigation of the world (like in the first one) was not a chore like it is in say Assassin's Creed.
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On 1/6/2021 at 8:58 AM, Ninjabba said:Some of these modern games feel like they want to take over your life indeed. I'm currently enjoying Cyberpunk2077 quite a lot, but my playtime is about ~2 hours a week and it doesn't feel like I'm getting anywhere.
Yeah, I can relate. 2 hours is a lot to devote to something frivolous like an open world game. Then you have the people online talking about finishing it weeks ago, which just makes it worse.
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On 1/7/2021 at 9:34 PM, eightbit said:I know most people will say "of course" to any additional plan,
No, quite the opposite in fact. I thought it's common wisdom these days that the protection plan is a racket, not worth the money. Most run out before the 3-year mark around the time when a PS3 would have died.
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I was in the anti-Xbox camp originally in 2001. I felt at the time MS had no business in the market (was dismayed about Sega getting out), the box and internal hardware design (PC parts) was ghastly, and as an American product it stood no chance in the Japan-dominated space (I was partly right on that). My roommate had one at launch, and we played 4-player splitscreen Halo a lot.
I got my own Xbox the following year when the holiday Sega bundle came out. It gradually became my go-to console for third party Western games, and I began to warm up to it. Then the 360 came out, which I was a big fan of. Now, between my two brothers and I, I have become the Xbox guy of the three of us, buying each new Xbox at launch, though I still hold some preference for the PlayStation. (Even though I was a Saturn guy during the PS1 days. That's another story.)
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On 1/4/2021 at 2:17 PM, Mockduck said:The PS5 is fine hardware wise, but man the game scene has been crickets since launch. Updated older games is fine, but I'm not dying to play the PS4 games again I've played over the past five to ten years, and there is almost nothing being released that has a PS5-specific sku. Means no one is taking advantage of the rumble, card support, etc., and there's very little next gen to play on it outside of the handful of launch games like Miles Morales and Astro's Playroom.
It's not that bad. Sackboy, Demon's Souls. And the same excellent version of Yakuza Like a Dragon that's on Series X is on the way in March. You can get most of these also on PS4, but these are new games. If you're buying multiplats like Watch Dogs Legion and AC Valhalla, why not get the best versions on consoles?
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I agree, sn8k. Maybe their 'play anywhere' strategy with Game Pass will be successful, but not enough players will be convinced they need a Series X. With the more traditional console strategy of PS5, it's clear to consumers why they need to buy it to get in on Sony's next gen experience.
And it remains to be seen if Series S will pay off. I think it's a misstep that just dilutes the messaging for Series X, and isn't a good value proposition for the consumer. (Should just go all in on Series X, get a bigger hard drive and disc drive, get the full next gen experience, even if you don't have a 4K TV. It just doesn't make sense to sell the half-assed experience, especially since the promised identical lower res experience isn't always being delivered.)
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I haven't tried it yet, but I doubt I would want to play a game like Wonder Boy, Sonic Mania or Mega Man 11 with that clicky D-pad. I don't think it would feel smooth.
Still an improvement over the Xbox One D-pad though as long as it doesn't break easily. Not sure if I want to play a game with it to find out.
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Is RF always a lower quality video output than composite? Not in my world
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No. Composite video isn't what is supposed to be connected using an RCA to F-type adapter. You have to use the console's RF output (also usually an RCA type jack), which includes video and audio. Not composite.