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RationalTangle posted:I used to like the little Popeye-armed people in FF7. original ff7 barret > remake barret
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Microsoft Copilot posted:i struggled to really enjoy games after the 16-bit era until maybe the ps3. i had a ps1 and then an xbox but apart from kotor nothing really kept my interest. i had a similar experience, just couldn't get into that generation of consoles. another aspect of it was that i was already well familiar with 3d games on pc, and while they didn't look stellar either, they didn't do that warped texture thing that was so prevalent on ps1 and n64, where surfaces would queasily undulate when you moved around. i found the first tony hawk games real hard to enjoy for that reason. fortunately they were fantastic games so i eventually got over it an extra dimension in my particular case is that, despite being a nintendo kid growing up, i totally fell for the segacd hype and convinced my not-at-all-wealthy mom to buy me one. it was such a disappointment, and i felt so guilty about how much it cost, it pretty much put me off consoles for awhile i came back around when ps2 came out tho
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well-read undead posted:an extra dimension in my particular case is that, despite being a nintendo kid growing up, i totally fell for the segacd hype and convinced my not-at-all-wealthy mom to buy me one. it was such a disappointment, and i felt so guilty about how much it cost, it pretty much put me off consoles for awhile far out me too. i still have my megacd and bought up its games and peripherals in guilt and sunk cost fallacy was also the beginning of my total distrust of brands and hype, so it had some positives
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Microsoft Copilot posted:far out me too. i still have my megacd and bought up its games and peripherals in guilt and sunk cost fallacy alright, segacd regret buddies! i still have mine too but it's busted. been meaning to fix it, if for no other reason than to exert mastery over a phantom from my past, but i haven't been able to muster the attention for it
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shackleford posted:didn't they have a story line a few seasons later where one of the developers gets a tesla and they mock the poo poo out of him
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The lovely days of 3d were weird because my game magazine reading friends were all excited and would show me graphics and I felt like I was the only one who thought they looked worse. I did enjoy quake 1 and many early ps1 games. I think resident evil was the first time I was genuinely impressed with anything though and they cheated so hard to pull it off.
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shackleford posted:The Adaptec AHA-2940 family of PCI SCSI host bus adapters I still have a whole drawer of 2940s and their U/W/UW2 whatever variants. When I was little I remember seeing a server that had a 3940 and being in awe Patrick Bateman business card monologue style.
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I keep a 2940 handy, because it works with literally everything. I've never found a computer it didn't work in, or a drive it didn't recognise. OK so you have to use the BIOS menu, or boot an old OS because it's a bitch to get working on Windows 7+, but all i want it for is checking drives work and wiping them
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while we’re on the sega dreamcast appreciation train i just wanted to say it was the first home system i saw that did 60 fps 3D gaming and it blew my tiny PAL mind whoever invented pal60 i will personally carry you to heaven
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Internet Old One posted:The lovely days of 3d were weird because my game magazine reading friends were all excited and would show me graphics and I felt like I was the only one who thought they looked worse. I was in the weird camp where I was excited for 3d PC graphics, but on console I still liked 2d stuff better shout out to the nVidia Riva 128, I rocked that card for far longer than it was relevant and it kept on trucking.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:while we’re on the sega dreamcast appreciation train i just wanted to say it was the first home system i saw that did 60 fps 3D gaming and it blew my tiny PAL mind the majority of dreamcast games supported 480p via the vga adapter as well. 480p support on ps2 and gamecube titles was a tossup, with some supporting it if you held down a button during boot or toggled the even more rare config menu setting. of course, the gamecube needed the component cables to do this, which nintendo only ever sold via mail order through their online store, were quite expensive, and were discontinued after later hardware revisions dropped the port that the cables required. the gamecube component cables are apparently rare enough to sell for $250 now
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smash bros fans will forever make the entire gamecube accessory ecosystem unobtainable except the keyboard controller which is made unobtainable by phantasy star online private server freaks
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the dreamcast network adapter is also really expensive now, because the dreamcast died before most people had broadband, and there were only something like 4 games that ever worked with it, so almost nobody bought it. iirc, you can use it to dump games, but at this point, everything has already been dumped, so that's kind of pointless unless you happen to have a game that was unreleased the gamecube network adapter doesn't seem too expensive, although, it's another one of those things that's kind of pointless to own unless you are a collector or you want to dump your own games
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The_Franz posted:the majority of dreamcast games supported 480p via the vga adapter as well. 480p support on ps2 and gamecube titles was a tossup, with some supporting it if you held down a button during boot or toggled the even more rare config menu setting. of course, the gamecube needed the component cables to do this, which nintendo only ever sold via mail order through their online store, were quite expensive, and were discontinued after later hardware revisions dropped the port that the cables required. the gamecube component cables are apparently rare enough to sell for $250 now that kinda reminds me of the xbox component cable situation, YPbPr was the only way to get HD (up to 1080i, lol) out of the thing other than VGA (which most tvs didn't support, though ours at the time actually did). finding the official component av kit was next to impossible even if you could afford it (at like $60 iirc), and further iirc there was a separate vga cable but i was able to find some no-name component "box" that also happened to do vga for like $20 at like toys r us or something (maybe it was EB games or babbages). maybe 10 years later i got a no-name vga adapter for my dreamcast from dealextreme for like $10 too anyway, back to the xbox: other than getting 480p and 4:4:4 subsampling out of most games, it didn't make much of a difference — they didn't support HD. i pretty much exclusively used it with XBMC or emulators
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The_Franz posted:the dreamcast network adapter is also really expensive now, … iirc, you can use it to dump games, but at this point, everything has already been dumped, so that's kind of pointless unless you happen to have a game that was unreleased you absolutely could use it to dump games (or iirc load them over a network somehow, but i'm less sure about this because i never got my hands on one). i'm certain about the first thing though, it's why i wanted it lol
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component cables are dope af and i still keep one of them huge fuckers in my cable bin even though i know in my heart i’ll never need it again
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i still run the ps2 over component because 1) it looks amazing and b) it’s the last open av port left on my TV
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component cables do rule. at first they were the only way to get HD out of a xbox 360 too for most tvs, they didn't have HDMI of course that also had a vga option though. i used it with my first widescreen monitor, i forget the model but it was some popular iirc 20", 1680x1050 (16:10) dell. i killed that monitor when i was loving around with a pellet gun by firing it at various boxes in my closet (mostly the OG xbox box, lol) and a pellet ricocheted right into it  yeah yeah i regret shooting those boxes for many reasons lol, the least of which is firing it at my virtual boy box
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my big tech destruction regret was the pallet of powermacs we bought from surplus my freshman year of college. probably thirty+ machines, we cobbled together like five working boxes out of the lot, then started destroying the rest by throwing them from great heights. stairwells, parking garages, roofs. at least twenty machines that lacked only hard drives or ram that we senselessly destroyed
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wait, were the boxes still in your closet when you were firing at them?
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powermac thing I remembered: when Microsoft had pallets of G5 powermacs delivered and people got theorising about ppc windows etc and it turned out they were turning them into xbox360 dev kits.
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outhole surfer posted:my big tech destruction regret was the pallet of powermacs we bought from surplus my freshman year of college. that sounds badass actually
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outhole surfer posted:my big tech destruction regret was the pallet of powermacs we bought from surplus my freshman year of college. well, old world or new world?
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armpit_enjoyer posted:i still run the ps2 over component because 1) it looks amazing and b) it’s the last open av port left on my TV i do as well because it looks great and also the xbox is using the retrotink's scart port. also the ps2 won't play dvds properly over scart because the dvd companies all got a massive bug up their rear end over the potential for scart allowing clean copying of dvds to vhs so if you play a dvd over RGB it only shows the green layer.
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shackleford posted:well, old world or new world? all old world, nothing newer than a 604e. one of those 7200/200s ended up on a breadrack at an isp as my personal mail and asterisk server until like 06
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outhole surfer posted:my big tech destruction regret was the pallet of powermacs we bought from surplus my freshman year of college. around 2001 or so i bought a table full of macs, ppc and 68k, at a university auction for $25. all of them worked! one of them was a hotline server for a few years, another was a web server + router. there was also a laserwriter 16/600PS that my parents used until just a few years ago, a bunch of keyboards, and a ][+. anyway in 2005, my dad was doing spring cleaning and brought all of them to ewaste. 
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njsykora posted:i do as well because it looks great and also the xbox is using the retrotink's scart port. also the ps2 won't play dvds properly over scart because the dvd companies all got a massive bug up their rear end over the potential for scart allowing clean copying of dvds to vhs so if you play a dvd over RGB it only shows the green layer. I had an xrgb-2 in school to hook up consoles to my monitor, and it had what looked like a scart port on the front, but not quite, because japan, having a severe case of nih syndrome, took the euro scart connector, went "this is good, but let's change the pin assignments around for no goddamn reason", and called it jp21 there was no way to tell a euro or jp scart connector apart just by looking at it, because they were identical aside from the internal wiring e: i sold it after my first year, because after that we had an actual apartment with a living room and tv, and I think I sold it for a more than I initially paid for it The_Franz fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Mar 21, 2025 |
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tech destruction: when you really need a 60-2 trigger wheel and are fresh outta aluminum stock, and all you have is a dual g5 mac  it's in a suzuki samurai somewhere (which runs quieter than the powermac, lol)
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outhole surfer posted:my big tech destruction regret was the pallet of powermacs we bought from surplus my freshman year of college. We found a bowling ball and went bowling for a whole classrooms worth of Apple][e making a huge toxic mess in the warehouse where me and my friends collected various ewastes. Also my dipshit friend smashed our only working and addressable 5250 terminal with a sledgehammer making all our accumulated IBM ewaste totally useless to even us.
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outhole surfer posted:wait, were the boxes still in your closet when you were firing at them? yeah of course. and there were things in them lol it was just a pos spring-loaded thing so i don't think i actually damaged anything inside of them, they just have a ton of little holes in them now. i stupidly thought "eh theres no reason to keep the box in decent shape" but of course after killing the monitor i stopped doing that. the virtual boy box only got a couple because it was on the top, i shot the gently caress out of the xbox box that was closer to the floor though. the weirdest part is, it held up and i still have it lol, they put a shitload of foam in it
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the dreamcast box was of course in a separate bin with all of the accessories and escaped unscathed, as did the n64. it's just that the only thing bigger than the xbox was its loving box
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seriously the dreamcast box has gotta be a quarter of the size, and since i got mine near-launch and my brother got one of the black sega sports ones when they were on clearance i know they didn't change it. so if you have a dreamcast box you know what size i'm talking although that xbox was near-launch too. they may have made the box smaller at some point, if only at the behest of retailers
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i've seen later model xboxbox's and they didn't get much smaller because they kinda couldn't. no matter what you need to get the behemoth itself in there, pack it to keep the hard drive from nuking itself in shipping and get the controller in there and the controller s was still the biggest controller of its generation. meanwhile the ps2 box got smaller than just the xbox console by itself. i'm still very fond of this photo i took when i got a japanese ps2 last year with my ps5 box. 
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njsykora posted:i've seen later model xboxbox's and they didn't get much smaller because they kinda couldn't. no matter what you need to get the behemoth itself in there, pack it to keep the hard drive from nuking itself in shipping and get the controller in there and the controller s was still the biggest controller of its generation. i imagine sega would have eventually made a smaller, more efficient dreamcast that came in a smaller box because they (or licensors) made what, approximately 90 billion genesis models? there are still versions of a "sega genesis" (or mega drive, if you will) being manufactured today even but nooo we can't have nice things  . i thought the xbox comparison was funny anyway because they were fairly contemporaneous and could both use directx, despite the name xbox coming from "DirectX Box"
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probably wouldn't have been much smaller, maybe they could've made it shorter by building the modem into the system and making the power supply external but it's honestly not much bigger than a cd in width. and sega weren't miniaturisation gods like sony where they could've made the smaller version about 20% the size of the original.
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njsykora posted:probably wouldn't have been much smaller, maybe they could've made it shorter by building the modem into the system and making the power supply external but it's honestly not much bigger than a cd in width. and sega weren't miniaturisation gods like sony where they could've made the smaller version about 20% the size of the original. that's true, the dreamcast is pretty drat small as it is, and yeah i also think the modem takes up a larger amount of space than it probably could've, even in 1999. idk, it's been a while since i opened mine up but there are probably a few optimizations they could've made, though again i agree the mainboard was already pretty drat small. honestly a quieter GD-ROM drive probably would've been a higher priority idk, when it was focused (as it was with the dreamcast) sega seemed to do hardware development and production pretty well. i don't think it's just sony, nintendo isn't too bad at miniaturization either. the gamecube is basically an OG imac and came out only a few years afterwards, and granted IBM and motorola did a lot of miniaturization work already for apple, but it was still small and efficient. see also the game boy pocket, advance sp, micro, ds lite, 3ds lite, new 3ds, oled switch... i suppose they did it at least as much as sony lol e: though crucially not as much with their home consoles i guess, although they did make the wii mini briefly and the retro consoles (but they're emulators and don't count imo). oh yeah, there was the "new NES" and "new SNES" too Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Mar 22, 2025 |
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