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  1. Triple Jump doesn’t put any in the top 10, although arguably they didn’t rank PCs. Not my ranking, I don’t think I have played enough home PCs other than the Atari 800. If you were to merge all three lists in to a single one, you might get something like my <spoiled> list below. Triple Jump ranked the consoles by size of library, total system sales, price at launch, number of years it was supported, number of games that have 90% or better on MetaCritic. 43# Atari XEGS 41# Atari Jaguar 39# Atari 5200 35# Atari 7800 16# Atari 2600 #14 Sega Dreamcast 11# Genesis/MegaDrive 10# Nintendo Switch 9# NES / Famicom 8# Microsoft XBox 7# Nintendo Wii 6# Sony PS4 5# Nintendo SNES 4# Sony PSX 3# Sony PS3 2# Microsoft XBox360 1# Sony PS2 19# Atari Lynx #5 Sony PSP #4 Nintendo Gameboy #3 Nintendo Switch #2 Nintendo Gameboy Advance #1 Nintendo DS
  2. There is no need to preserve the game roms themselves. Pirates will always exist, and many people will have archives of all but the most obscure of games More importantly is preserving the engineering development documents, the concept art, build machine images and source code, and pre-production builds and other historically significant material.
  3. I am sure FPGAs exist. Here is one, A2601, supposedly for the XA Spartan 3E. XA3S100E is one of the cheaper ones, with 100k gates. It’s a little too expensive to put in a commercial product, since it (runs about $50), making MSRP prices likely to be in the $250 range.
  4. Pretty light on playing again this week. Still working on my pico-8 game, so just the regular phone games and Atari HSC. Android RB College - 76 min. Finished off season 24. Overall my point differential per season have been going down, not even breaking 300 this season. The average OF/DF stars has been relatively the same, so I must just be playing worse. Most likely this is due to my shorter average yardage (15-18yd), mostly to passes near center field, resulting in the clock running out faster. Interceptions we're very high this season (15). I clearly need to throw more passes out of bounds (82% completion) rather than lose possession. Passing YD were amazing 5000, which makes sense with no RB to hand off to (usually pulling in 500 Rushing YDs). Going to try to pull so good numbers this season. Going to really concentrate and attempt to get no interceptions. My QB is almost maxed out, Throw Acc, Arm Str, Speed, Stamina (7,8,4,10), with good stats for my WR and TE TE 8,5,5,7 WR 6,4,9,8 WR 8,3,7,7 Just missing a RB, with no decent incoming freshman to recruit, so going to be down a star player. Atari 2600 (Stella-Keyboard) Jaw Breaker - 28 min River Patrol - 15 min Threshold - 13 min Threshold wasn't nearly as good as the Atari 8-bit version, missing the over-heat gauge and dock sequence. It wasn't bad for what it was though. It would be cool to see a homebrew take on the game.
  5. I would personally take MVG's take on the matter. He has been in the Emulator Development community, and on this video he reached out and verified that software keys exist in the source code. This was 9 mo ago, and Nintendo claims as much in the court filing (5. On page 2( https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24444407-nintendo-sues-yuzu-emulator Emulators aren't illegal. Making backup copies of your own games isn't illegal. Yuzu may be in the wrong with this particular case with Nintendo The courts decision. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24455376/tropic-haze-judgment.pdf
  6. Don't know of a database, but I would guess that Stella uses SQLLite and has a database of the games bankswitching methods and game size. I usually use a list like this one when I want to look it up (but usually I am not that interested in game size) http://kevtris.org/files/sizes.txt
  7. Threshold G3(B/B) - 31,530 Jawbreaker G1(B/B) - 16,820 River Patrol G1(B/B) - 6,140
  8. I guess Frank is an Atari employee (subsidiary.). lots of good talks from him regarding software preservation. Short Blurb from VICE His GDC talk (sequel) to the previous, “It’s Just Emulation” Video Games History Foundation (What they do)
  9. I used to always do this math for Board Game purchases, video games, etc. if I was willing to pay $10 for an 1.5 hours of movie entertainment, and I expected to play a $50 video/board game for 8 hours (minus grinding or setup, Ie the non-entertaining portions of a game), then the game was worth it. Plus I have something physical that could be resold at a later date, so the cost is actually less. Game have gotten considerably cheaper over the years. I remember paying about $70 for SFII: Turbo for SNES. In inflation adjusted dollars that game would be $150. I hardly buy any games these days with all the free ones given away each week on Epic, Amazon Prime, GoG.
  10. I personally take offense to Nintendo's direct lies in its Gameboy manuals, and on their website. https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/55888/~/intellectual-property-%26-piracy-faq Especially, when they appear to be breaking the law according to themselves. 14:20 mins in https://youtu.be/HLWY7fCXUwE?si=WVRZOiOYPWlSSRrD&t=860
  11. March 4-10: Didn't play much of anything this week. I blame Daylight Savings Time. Android: RB College - 80 min
  12. @Living Room Arcade, yes the Atari 800 version is excellent, and complete different from this Atari 2600 version. The VCS version is missing the fuel gauge, and the blaster heat gauge. (Also missing the docking sequence with the mother-ship). I cannot say I am impressed with any of the three games this week.
  13. Sorry, should have been more clear. I just played those in the past, so I downloaded a handful of other free games options and actual played Reign3K. No additional time to log. Might as well include some screenshots from Retro Bowl College, S22. Truly awful results. 3 losses. A QB with only a 76% completion rate, 9 intercepts and 7 sacks.. Average yardage for my WRs was also additional low. I did recruit an OL star player, which is one of the more useless positions.
  14. My times for Feb 27-Mar 3: I meant to include screenshots from my horrible RB College PostSeason figures, but those screenshots are on another phone. I might include them later. I have been tracking stats from season to season since S11 and game to game since about S17, just for fun. Started a new free game from Netflix offered on Android/iOS. I really liked the TMNT Shredders Revenge beat’um up, and the Into the Breach strategy game. Reigns3K gameplay seems a bit random so far. The object is to not have any of your 4 gauges fill up, or your citizens revolt and kill you. So far I haven’t figured out how to predict which of your two answers will likely make a gauge increase. Android RB College - 10 min Reigns3K - 45 min Atari 2600 (Stella) Jaw Breaker - 15 min Robot Tank - 15 min River Patrol - 10 min Threshold - 15 min
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