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Nintendo Gamecube... comments?
Calum:
the SNES was deliberately designed to grab the Megadrive's (Genesis to the yanks) market, that's why it deliberately pinpoints the megadrive's weak points. Not only that, but aren't you forgetting that it took 2 YEARS for nintendo to bring out the SNES after the megadrive first came on the scene? how impressive. In the interim 2 years, what did nintendo have to compete with the megadrive? the nintendo entertainment system. 'Nuff said.
Finally, surely it's about the games? Fair enough, bomberman (one of my favourites) had tons of games released for the various nintendo platforms, including 5 for the super nintendo and only one for the megadrive, but now you can even get bomberman for the playstation. It's moot. Sonic was on the megadrive and so was alex kidd, and a whole other lot of stuff. Even things that came out for both, just seemed to be less twee and sugary on the megadrive.
I don't know, it's up to preference, but in my mind, nintendo were always the catchers up during that era.
and re: emulators in linux, get fucked, there's tons. There's hardly a comprehensive choice for windows either, is there? there's only one emulator for the Atari Lynx, and only one of any consequence for the PCEngine/Turbografx16. There's not even an emulator for the SEGA Saturn yet (1 machine i'm glad i still have), or one that works for the SEGA 32X.
Anyway, Microsoft makes a grand total of NO emulators for consoles in windows so it's totally pointless to say how much better windows is than linux because most of those emulators are hobby projects written in, for example, C or C++ (unix languages originally) and could easily be ported, source code availability permitting.
[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
badkarma:
quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:
Anyways, Why have a bunch of old consoles like the SNES and Genesis sitting around taking up space in your house when you can just use an emulator and roms for those systems on your PC? Oh yeah! Thats right, you don't use Windows....so much for good emulators. LOL
You know, some good ol' classic 16-bit gaming sounds fun right about now. I think I'm gonna go burn some time on Super Metroid. I should have it beat before 8 A.M.
[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]
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And once again zombie shows his complete ignorance about anything not windows....
No good emulators for linux? lol ... how about VGBA, zsnes, snes9x, xmame (just to name a few of the zillions out there)
And nothing beats the feeling of the old clunky nes 8 bit controllers and the clunky nes cartridge system to generally enhance your retro gaming experience .... emulators are cool, but they will never replace the real deal......
oh .... you compare the snes to the genesis, but the genesis (or the mega drive, as they would call it here in europe) was never designed to compete with the snes, it was designed to compete with the nes (and it kicked the nes's ass, no arguing about that, only problem was that the market share of the nes was already so big that it didn't make much of a difference)
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
the SNES was deliberately designed to grab the Megadrive's (Genesis to the yanks) market, that's why it deliberately pinpoints the megadrive's weak points. Not only that, but aren't you forgetting that it took 2 YEARS for nintendo to bring out the SNES after the megadrive first came on the scene? how impressive. In the interim 2 years, what did nintendo have to compete with the megadrive? the nintendo entertainment system. 'Nuff said.
Finally, surely it's about the games? Fair enough, bomberman (one of my favourites) had tons of games released for the various nintendo platforms, including 5 for the super nintendo and only one for the megadrive, but now you can even get bomberman for the playstation. It's moot. Sonic was on the megadrive and so was alex kidd, and a whole other lot of stuff. Even things that came out for both, just seemed to be less twee and sugary on the megadrive.
I don't know, it's up to preference, but in my mind, nintendo were always the catchers up during that era.
and re: emulators in linux, get fucked, there's tons. There's hardly a comprehensive choice for windows either, is there? there's only one emulator for the Atari Lynx, and only one of any consequence for the PCEngine/Turbografx16. There's not even an emulator for the SEGA Saturn yet (1 machine i'm glad i still have), or one that works for the SEGA 32X.
Anyway, Microsoft makes a grand total of NO emulators for consoles in windows so it's totally pointless to say how much better windows is than linux because most of those emulators are hobby projects written in, for example, C or C++ (unix languages originally) and could easily be ported, source code availability permitting.
[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
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I was never impressed with the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. Back in the day I bought a Genesis and got burned out on Sonic quickly..about as fast as the little bastid runs(and there were really no other games on the Genesis I liked back then) so I turned to my NES to play the stuff that I still enjoy to this day...stuff like Zelda, Metroid and the other classic shit on the regular NES. Then came the SNES. I bought it and I was pleased with it because all of my favorite classics were enhanced for the SNES and some of the other not so classic games that were on the SNES were superior to thier Genesis counterparts(Maximum Carnage, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat II, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, etc.).
As for the Emulators. ZSNES is a great SNES emulator and there is a Linux port to it but the Linux port does not run as many games because of a bug in the SFX chip emulation in Linux. Ages v.0.27a emulates the Sega Genesis, 32x and it also emulates the SegaCD(there are no Linux equivalents that I know of). SSF is a good Sega Saturn emulator(for Windows only) that can run almost every Sega Saturn game(there are no Linux equivalents that I know of). Windows has Project64 which runs roughly around 94% of the N64 games out there...the only Linux N64 emulator that I know of is Fake64 and it doesn't run shit. If you are into emulation Linux is definatley the wrong OS to be using.
[ May 01, 2002: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]
leon:
can anybody give me a site where i can get a snes emulator or a playstation emulator
Zombie9920:
quote:Originally posted by leon:
can anybody give me a site where i can get a snes emulator or a playstation emulator
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SNES Emulator - http://www.zsnes.com and http://www.snes9x.com (Go for ZSNES over SNES9x because the sound support in SNES9x sucks).
Sony Playstation Emulator - http://www.epsxe.com/
(requires the Sony Playstation BIOS file which you can get here - http://www.mattj.eurobell.co.uk/scph1000.zip )
These Emulators are ported for both Windows and Linux.
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