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This is exactly what I'm talking about with how asinine this has all become and why I ran the heck away from the CG Discord. You're all LOOKING for problems and faults with things in order to justify the fanaticism. Anything new comes out, be it an emulator, scaler, wireless controller, etc and immediately idiots do some "scientific" lag test and post a bunch of numbers that mean nothing in 99% of cases and hold it up as "see, it's not perfect, we need to wait for the next gadget that we preordered to get here. If that's perfect, then you can play video games again." I don't care at all, I don't feel any lag, it feels indistinguishable from any FPGA device in the same display, it has no impact in my performance in the game, I don't invent problems for the excuse of buying more stuff and to rationalize a lack of interest in actually playing video games. In short, I'm happy with what I have, it works. I know that's no bueno with the CG Discord crowd that demand absolute perfection down to the atoms, but that's a fool's errand. What is perfect? They're all chasing a dragon. FPGAs are symbolic of what classic gaming has become in the last decade. A bunch of people who aren't really interested in playing or talking about video games.

Turning on hard GPU sync in retroarch eliminates input lag entirely on my setup. I can also turn on runahead, but I don't feel a difference with it on or off if I have hard GPU sync enabled. Everything plays just as well as on a mister and I get all extra things like shaders that mister doesn't offer. I'm really starting to feel like FPGAs are the thing that some are fanatical about because it's more exclusive than software emulation. Too many people have PCs, phones, tablets, SBCs and play old games on them now. They need to feel like they know something everyone else doesn't. Don't get me wrong, I like messing around with the mister and it serves the important purpose of being a small box that connects to my big TV and allows me to play old games while sitting on the couch, but for 8/16 bit games it's functionally equivalent to my PC/monitor at my desk and in many ways is lesser.

Does anyone know how far out we are from the X68000 core becoming part of the official release?

Boo Frickity hoo, man. It's a toy, anyone who doesn't have access to whatever features the new NT mini has will be ok. All of the stupid infighting and mudslinging of Analogue vs Mister has only pushed me back to software emulation.

I enjoy Megadrive games just fine without using pixel blending... I wouldn't use it anyway, I don't like an artificially softened image. I don't know why some get so triggered by dithering. It's odd in a world full of flatscreen tv's, upscalers, line doublers, flash carts, ODEs, software emulation, and fpga cores, etc that some still cling to blurry colors like it's critical to the experience.

The Saturn version has another strength in that the Wing Smash lasts as long as you have MP, so you can use it to zip through long hallways and open segments in no time. In the PS1 version, it only travels a short distance. The Saturn version was the first and only version of SotN I played for years. Going to the PS1 version for the first time last year was kind of a shock in a bad way. The toned down visual effects, slowdown, and load times never bothered me because it was my only reference point.

Has anyone here preordered a MODE? I hope TO figured out something better than the donkey cart they used last summer to slowly trickle out the Mega SD preorders. The Andorran customs is extremely slow and they could at best process 14 packages a day. For that reason I'm waiting to see if Stoneage Gamer stocks them in the future.

2x Xbox, FZ-10, PSX, and Heavy Sixer are still available. Everything else is sold.

The PC Engine and Virtual Boy are gone. Everything else is still available.

Hi, I just moved this week and it dawned on me that I have too many consoles. I want to reduce my collection to the essentials and be rid of what I don't need. I'm in the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina and would like to sell these locally. It does not have to be sold in 1 lot, but I would appreciate if you're interested to buy as much of it as you'd like. I can negotiate down the price if you get several items at once. Here's what I've got: 2x Original Xbox - only 1 set of component cables and 1 controller - $100 FZ-10 3DO (had a broken worm gear. I replaced it with a 3D printed gear and it works again. Includes Goldstar controller) $75 PC Engine Coregrafx with Turbo Everdrive (no controller, video cables, or AC adapter included) $120 Dreamcast with USB-GDROM and Pico PSU + 1 controller $150 Virtual Boy with stand, controller, battery pack, PSU pack (uses SNES AC adapter), and 3 games (Red Alarm, Mario Tennis, VB Wario Land) $150 Atari 600XL with 64K ram and yellow/white composite RCA mod (wico joystick and NOS power supply included) $100 Atari 130XE with switchable BIOS, NOS PSU, and AV cables $100 Atari 2600 Heavy Sixer with AC adapter $150 Playstation 1 with new laser, Monster brand S-video cable, and clear Dualshock controller $40 I hope to find these all good homes. Don't be afraid to PM with with offers. Thanks!

I really like Erin Plays. I almost never get to catch her streams live though because I'm asleep 99% of the time she does it, but she uploads them on youtube later. She's entertaining and I admire how she commits to the games she wants to finish. I would never have the patience to beat NES Batman or Castlevania III or 100% Yoshi's Island. I see it as she's doing it so I don't have to.

Last week I ordered a pack of NES controller carbon dot membranes from console5 after being told that they're good quality. Earlier in the year, I got a bunch from a seller on ebay and the d-pad membranes were terrible. I could not get diagonals to register when using them. They felt very nice and clicky, but were unusable in practice. I got the console5 package on Saturday and lo and behold, I got the same result, no diagonals. Has anyone else experienced this? I've cleaned all my controller boards, and the original membranes allow diagonals like normal (I'd like to replace them for the feel, the originals feel weak) so the new membranes must be the issue. I also got a SNES set and those were fine.

My personal favorite is Tepp's Pac Man Arcade homebrew for the A8bit. It looks and sounds the part and is about as great a port as you can expect from the hardware. I prefer ports to arcade emulation for Pac and Ms Pac.

My choice between software emulation or FPGA can depend on a bunch of factors in any given instance 1) What do I want to play (eg 2600, Genesis, Gameboy, Saturn, PS2)? 2) Where am I (computer desk, couch, deck, kitchen counter)? 3) Do I already have a movie or video or music playing on the TV? 4) Do I want to listen to a podcast while I play whatever I play? 5) What kind of controller do I want to use? Although I enjoy my Analogue systems and the MiSTer, I still find myself choosing the convenience and added features of software emulation probably more than 50% of the time. I really dislike the way that the community is starting to thumb its nose at software emulation, as if it's inherently worse than an FPGA implementation and beneath a "real" retro enthusiast. I'm scratching my head at all the excitement about the WIP PS1 FPGA project. There's no way that it'll even approach the performance and added features of Beetle PSX HW in Retroarch.

Does anyone else find the fire buttons on the PC Engine controller to be not that great? I've owned several over the years and they always have this erratic responsiveness to them. Like sometimes they'll engage when I press them down and again when I release them. Other times they don't respond at all or with a delay. I have some NES rubber membranes coming in soon from console5 and I hope to try swapping them with the originals and seeing if that helps.

I can confirm, I have my North American 32X paired with my Japanese Model 1 Mega Drive. Looking through the Everdrive pack, only 3 games are region locked to Japan, Virtua Racing, Stellar Assault, and Romance of the 3 Kingdoms. Every game in the USA folder I've tried boots up fine. And since the 32X breaks the Mega Everdrive's Mega Key feature, I think that means most 32X games don't care about NA/Japan as long as it's NTSC. Which makes sense as I doubt it would have been worth it for developers to spend the time making Japan specific versions of 32X games that nobody in that market was going to buy.

I've noted one bug so far in PC Engine CD. In Gradius 2, the music in the Moai stage stops partway through (I think it's supposed to switch to a different track that plays the same song at a faster tempo) but the music stops altogether. When I reach the boss, it plays the voice clip, then the boss music starts once I reach the 3 big faces. After that it's smooth sailing. This happens every time I play the game.

I think you're referring to the cable that goes from the Blisster to the IO board. Without that the LLAPI (serial/lagless) mode doesn't work. If you don't have it connecting the blisster to the IO board, then everything is still running in USB mode.

Techically, MD+ always existed. I believe it was called Sega CD Mode 0 and allowed a cartridge based game to use an audio CD the Sega CD for music. Nothing ever used it during the system's lifetime. I think Pier Solar was the first time it was ever meaningfully utilized. There are rom hacks out there that add Mode 0 capability to games like Sonic 1. So Sorg doesn't know what he's talking about. But yeah, I avoid all that drama and just run the update script every other week or so and see if anything new pops up. I figure if anything huge gets added, the news will reach me.

I got my Blisster a few days ago. So far, I love it. I can feel a difference with it vs using a USB controller via my hub board. Right now I only have adapter cables for NES and SNES, but I have a DB9 and PC Engine on the way. It has a built in power switch as well, so you don't need to plug/unplug the thing to turn it on or off. Don't pay attention to Sorg or any of the MiSTer cult. He is not a video game person and doesn't understand why people care about input lag and the MiSTer cult treats him like Jesus Christ. The Blisster itself has a firmware that is technically closed source, so it is therefore a sewer rat and needs to be exterminated as such. Again, stay away from the Mister discord and forum and it's much easier to enjoy the thing.

Looking back on it, I can't believe I gave Abrasive $20/month for almost 2 years. I'm glad I was able to get a Rhea and forget about all this Saturn ODE madness. It seems like there should be some kind of rule against using Patreon the way he's using it. He's basically taking money and providing nothing in return. The people who are still supporting him should be pressing hard right now for why he's dragging his feet the way he is. Two new options have dropped this year with very little fanfare leading up to them. Put up or shut up, no more excuses. I would still be interested in the Satiator because my spare Saturn gathers dust right now because it's a USA model and all my physical games are Japanese. My Japanese model 1 has the Rhea inside of it, so I can't use any of my actual Saturn games now.

@Nintendo64 I would recommend Columns on the Genesis. The music has a relaxing vibe and the jewels make pleasant sound effects when you clear them. The colors are pretty too. It's pretty hard to beat as a calming menial task.

Pebble Beach Golf Links - Genesis Doom 64 - PC Streets of Rage Remake v5.1 - PC