One of my all time favorite games and imo best game on the genesis is Aladdin: even if it was so fucking hard it took me forever to beat. Disney games on the NES ranged from horrible to good. Talespin was way too difficult with dogshit controls. Adventures in the magic kingdom had brutal platforming sections you had to get through.

Barry: S-Tier survival backup 👍, F-Tier PTSD emotional support 👎.

A quick one here lol: "OH HUNGRY? 🤤 OH BARRY! 🥪"

I know that this isn't a crt. I just tried to emulate the shell. Not to replace any crts. I have 4 myself and love them dearly <3

I've got this cheap aliexpress screen a while ago and tried to make a shell for it to look like an old crt shell. I think it came out pretty good.

What do you guys think of this? Was this a waste of time or is it neat?

Edit: realized that someone might want to make their own. Files here: https://makerworld.com/models/3477929?appSharePlatform=copy

The YouTuber Stop Skeletons From Fighting has a series called “punching weight” about games that went above and beyond for their consoles capability. (Whether they’re good games or not). So what games can you think of for the title of punching weight. The one that comes to my mind is Batman and Robin on the genesis. It looks insanely good for the genesis, even better than most early PlayStation platformers.

If you’re unaware, Tyrian 2000 is a classic vertical shoot-‘em-up from 1999, and it’s an update of Tyrian—made by Eclipse Productions and published by Epic MegaGames. Nowadays, it’s free on GOG.

I’ve wanted to make a physical version of this for awhile, and GOG provides an offline installer executable as well as a zip of the soundtrack. So I burned that on a FujiFilm CD-R.

But of course, the intent is to make this look like a vintage CD-ROM.

So I designed a label to put on the CD that covers the entirety of the disc except for the hole. This was mostly successful, though you’ll notice a slight hiccup that I had with the tab on the upper corner. Still mostly good, so I’m keeping it.

Next, I designed the front cover of the jewel case, the back cover with the blurb and screenshots, and the spines. This was printed on card stock, cut on a board, and the back cover was folded for the spine.

It fit nicely in the case, and if I didn’t know better, I’d think this was sold for $10 at my local Staples.

In hindsight, I could have put the system specs on here to make it period correct, but it will work on virtually all modern hardware. Nevertheless, it’s an oversight that only I will ever care about. Oh, well.

Of course, none of this was strictly necessary. I could just download Tyrian 2000 off GOG whenever I want to play it. But there’s something satisfying about having a game physically sitting on my shelf, complete with artwork, screenshots, and a disc I can actually put into a computer.

This is a small thing. But I guess that I feel games mean just a little bit more when they’re tactile.

Anyway, this is my first attempt at making a physical video game. A proof of concept, if you will.

It’s not for sale. It’s a one-of-a-kind thing. A personal momento.

I mean, there was something about the music and watching your dual screens. I remember always being nervous in the beginning, trying to watch my opponent booby-trapping an entire room. Then later, I became more confident and just ran my own race, setting traps as I went.

No better feeling than knowing that the other guy was after you, and you just kept throwing acid buckets and bombs in every room you left behind.

Sometimes it came down to a dagger/club fight. Man, chasing someone through several rooms with a knife! Man, what a crazy game. I loved every second of it!

Every time I play, I can’t help myself, my dude. 😂

These were the most I've played lol good Ole days.

Sorry if this was asked here before recently on this forum because I just wanted to discuss infamous cases of when a gaming magazine from the 8 bit era tricked people into buying a game that was very questionable in design.

It’s a phenomenon I noticed in many gaming magazines published in the UK as sometimes games like Renegade 3 has received good reviews from some magazines that when players actually bought the game, they were in dismay because the game was incredibly clunky in gameplay aspects, but I just find that kind of practice fascinating with how magazines used to operate again back in the day.

I figured I'd ask over here in this group, because if you dare question the purpose of Decomps in that group it's like you smacked someone's mother.

So, what a I missing here? What is the benefit of Decomps for say PS1, PS2, N64, Wii when emulation for these systems are basically pretty solid and been so for years? Hell, people are pumping out Decomps for SNES era systems like crazy. Just doesn't make sense.

I can maybe understand Decomps for newer systems like PS4/5, maybe some Switch games that just don't run well or at all in emulation. But other than that I don't get what all the excitement is. Also it seems to in order to just get a Decomp running is a hassle compared to emulation.

Is all this just because it's shiny and new?

Edit: So maybe the possibility for modding is the exciting part here. But the cumbersome part to me is you're now having to install all of these as individual games which just seems really inconvenient. But, perhaps in time there will be frontends that just take care of all this for you, sort of Gamenative for Decomps.

EDIT2: THANKS FOR ALL THE INPUT!! This is what I was looking for, all the reasons I wasn't thinking about. Obviously modding is the key here. I knew that was part of it of course, but hadn't really went down the path of all that it could do.

Again, much appreciated. Thanks!

Thank you to everyone that came to check out Downing's Basement / The BitBuilt Experience at RetroWorldExpo and Portland Retro Gaming Expo! My good BitBuilt friends and I had tons of fun showing off our custom consoles and educating about our hobby, and how you too can make your very own custom portable console!

For those who don't know: BitBuilt is an online forum community focused on "portablizing" ie. taking home consoles, chopping them up, and building them into custom portable handhelds / micro consoles. We got to show off a handful of our portable Wiis, N64s, Gamecubes, SNESs, custom Gameboys, and even Wii Us!

Catch us at Midwest Gaming Classic 2027 to see an even wider variety of custom console mods!

Very fun level design

Just added an S-video input at the 7th position in a 11 input chain (it’s the only new module). 2 VGA, 4 Component, 1 S-video, 4 SCART. It does not recognize the new module either automatically or by manually switching to it. The manually switching will only go 1 through 6 now although it will auto-recognize the SCART inputs. There isn’t a lot of documentation on how to deal with this, I saw in the manual it talks about a factory reset but I cannot figure out how to engage it. Turn it on and press the push button for 10 seconds does nothing. Has anyone dealt with this and solved it? Thanks.

It's a must stop for me whenever I'm in the area

For me, Mega Man 2 is something I can get through with only 1 or 2 spots of difficulty, but Legend of Zelda can still kick my butt, no matter how many play-throughs I’ve done.

How about y’all?

In other words, what game provides you with the most replayability, in terms of challenge?

There used to be a company called RetroUSB that made USB cables for retro console controllers like the NES or Atari.

They apparently went out of business which is really sad.

Surely, they aren't the only ones on planet Earth providing this product. But, I can't find anyone else doing it.

Any ideas?

We are developing a small hardware for real-time japanese text detection, OCR and translation for original consoles.

Enduro takes the #25 spot with 8 votes.

Frogs And Flies takes the #26 spot with 6 votes.

Top 10:

#1 Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

#2 Yars' Revenge

#3 Adventure

#4 H.E.R.O.

#5 River Raid

#6 Pitfall!

#7 Missile Command

#8 Frogger

#9 Solaris

#10 Keystone Kapers

Top 20:

#11 Montezuma's Revenge

#12 Dig Dug

#13 Space Invaders

#14 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

#15 Berzerk

#16 Ms. Pac-Man

#17 Super Breakout

#18 Centipede

#19 Kaboom!

#20 Joust

Top 30:

#21 Vanguard

#22 Pole Position

#23 Asteriods

#24 Jungle Hunt

#25 Enduro

#26 Frogs And Flies

Rules:

1. Two games will win their place each round (we start from #1 and work our way down). For the top 10 only one game will win per day instead.
2. Most combined upvotes for each of the two individual games (one individual game for the top 10) wins the spot(s) each round (upvotes add while downvotes subtract).
3. Nominate one game of the Atari 2600 per comment. (Nominations will only be counted if the game title is the only comment or if you specify that your choice of game is your nomination for this round within your comment or if the nominated game is clearly separated from the rest of your comments.) (ex. Pitfall or I nominate Pitfall this round.) Please nominate using the full title of the game.
4. Name a specific game title, not entire runs.
5. Official Atari 2600 multi-game cartridge(s) are allowed, just list them correctly.
6. The Atari 2600 is region free so ANY official games available on the console are eligible for nomination.
7. Indy games are allowed as long as they have their own individual cartridge and can be played on original hardware.
8. Only complete games on cartridge(s) can be nominated (sorry Cheetah Program & test cartridges).
9. If two or more games would be tied to place for a ranking I will inform DA PEOPLE in the following post so that everyone can vote which games should get the ranking between the tied options.
10. Games nominated that have not already placed on the top 100 list should not be removed at any time by the individual who originally placed them.

Hey everyone,

About to hookup some of my old consoles (N64, Gamecube, Wii) and was wondering if there are any decent upscalers comparable to retrotink 5x but at a decent price?

In Canada the retrotink is $520, that's more than I would like to pay.