nkarafo
Member
Homebrew emulators and Roms/ISOS was the very reason i got into PCs ever since 1998. Despite this, i'm still interested in supporting services like VC.
When i first heard of VC in Wii, i was very excited. Despite having so much stuff in my hard drives, i bought the console anyway, just for this service. My expectations were high.
-I was expecting a huge library of games to choose from. Instead, i got only a handful of games for each console.
-I was expecting low prices, but the games were more expensive than they should.
-I was expecting the best versions of each game. Instead i got 50hz versions.... Seriously, 50hz PAL roms are considered JUNK in the emulation community. We only use them if for any reason the NTSC/US rom is not working at all. So, in other words, Nintendo were asking me to pay for junk versions. Today, you also get stuff like Yoshi's Island on GBA instead of SNES.
-I was expecting perfect emulation. Instead i got some textures missing in some F-Zero X tracks (i haven't played more games for more than a few minutes).
So, after wasting money to buy all that junk that i usually delete from my hard drive (i didn't know i was buying pal versions, i had to see it for myself while playing) i realized that neither Nintendo or Sony are trying enough to make money from this. Emulation on PCs exists since forever and they know it. They know that so many people love retro games and have easy access on them for free. They know that they lose money from people like me who download everything. They know that they can't make every server that hosts roms to disappear, they tried this already.
So they decided to get some of that pie themselves but instead of being competitive, they do the worst they can, as if they are actually trying to push you away. I wanted this to be good but it isn't.
PC/Homebrew emulators have gone a long way. There are some very interesting things going on lately. There are frontends, like Hyperspin, that look amazing. You get a video preview of every game with a box art/cart art and other details as you select it. With nice looking backgrounds and stuff. You also get all these nice screen filters that either improve the image in various ways or makes it look like its running on a CRT, with scanlines, bloom effects, curvature, color bleeding and other things, all optional. And look at all these amazing GBA/GBC/Classic GB screen filters in Retro Arch.
And what do you get in VC? Expensive PAL versions of a handful of games.
Am i the only one who thinks Nintendo's and Sony's efforts in this department are laughable at best?
When i first heard of VC in Wii, i was very excited. Despite having so much stuff in my hard drives, i bought the console anyway, just for this service. My expectations were high.
-I was expecting a huge library of games to choose from. Instead, i got only a handful of games for each console.
-I was expecting low prices, but the games were more expensive than they should.
-I was expecting the best versions of each game. Instead i got 50hz versions.... Seriously, 50hz PAL roms are considered JUNK in the emulation community. We only use them if for any reason the NTSC/US rom is not working at all. So, in other words, Nintendo were asking me to pay for junk versions. Today, you also get stuff like Yoshi's Island on GBA instead of SNES.
-I was expecting perfect emulation. Instead i got some textures missing in some F-Zero X tracks (i haven't played more games for more than a few minutes).
So, after wasting money to buy all that junk that i usually delete from my hard drive (i didn't know i was buying pal versions, i had to see it for myself while playing) i realized that neither Nintendo or Sony are trying enough to make money from this. Emulation on PCs exists since forever and they know it. They know that so many people love retro games and have easy access on them for free. They know that they lose money from people like me who download everything. They know that they can't make every server that hosts roms to disappear, they tried this already.
So they decided to get some of that pie themselves but instead of being competitive, they do the worst they can, as if they are actually trying to push you away. I wanted this to be good but it isn't.
PC/Homebrew emulators have gone a long way. There are some very interesting things going on lately. There are frontends, like Hyperspin, that look amazing. You get a video preview of every game with a box art/cart art and other details as you select it. With nice looking backgrounds and stuff. You also get all these nice screen filters that either improve the image in various ways or makes it look like its running on a CRT, with scanlines, bloom effects, curvature, color bleeding and other things, all optional. And look at all these amazing GBA/GBC/Classic GB screen filters in Retro Arch.
And what do you get in VC? Expensive PAL versions of a handful of games.
Am i the only one who thinks Nintendo's and Sony's efforts in this department are laughable at best?