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Re: PS3 Emulator RPCS3 Now Lets You Play Physical Discs Directly From Your PC's Optical Drive

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@Bizzy Sony just got greedy remember when they managed to outshine Sega Saturn by offering a better fairer price and better made games to boot? Or the PS2 being the cheapest DVD player deal? I miss that kind of playstation, Sure PS3 was expensive but aside from a few hardware issues it was a technical full package, Blu ray player, 4 USB slots, all them memory card slots one worked with the psp memory cards I think then ya got PS1 and PS2 disc support, compared to paying for a PS5 it can't even play PS1 game discs.

Re: "Who Are They Kidding?" - System 3 Insists No GenAI Was Used In James Pond Legacy, But Fans Aren't Convinced

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@slider1983 Been replaying it on my Game Gear flash cart recently again it's kinda impressive how close it looks to the 16 bit versions, Game Gear version is the same but with screen crunch so more leaps of faith, thankfully the SMS version is playable on Game Gear, tho both versions have slightly different physics like Robocod can be a little slippy and I think some of the levels are missing compared to the Mega Drive and original Amiga version.

Re: "Who Are They Kidding?" - System 3 Insists No GenAI Was Used In James Pond Legacy, But Fans Aren't Convinced

CookieByte

@slider1983 Tbh it's kinda impressive how it kinda catches the 16 bit look, considering Tiertex handle the port it's pretty good not perfect but a good version for 8 bit way better then the game boy version tho again Amiga or Mega Drive versions are the best versions tho I doubt it but it would be interesting if the cancelled Nes version is included in this just to see if it was any good or not.

Re: Popular Retro Gaming Variety Show, Game Center CX, Lifts Ban On PS3 & Nintendo Wii Games

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They might be retro but the PS3 and Wii still have a very modern look to them, especially with a PS3 being HD, a lot of games still looking great even today, the fat PS3 has such a great futuristic design, while with Wii there's still a lot of great motion games that still look and play better then offerings you get on Switch despite the newer tech, not to mention the Wii being a one stop for all retro games with Virtual Console and other emulators Game Cube too both systems are worth using today "age hasn't slowed them down one bit"

Re: "Who Are They Kidding?" - System 3 Insists No GenAI Was Used In James Pond Legacy, But Fans Aren't Convinced

CookieByte

@slider1983 ? You mean it's lacking cus it didn't include the awful home computer ports of the TMNT games? I played them out of curiosity and there basically all terrible, especially the Amiga version, having bad Sprites and lacking the actual TMNT/Konami music, can't forget how bad the Amiga track cus there's only one track in the whole game was just looping through the whole game, didn't you check out the turtles lair? Love how's it's in 3D and so much stuff about the comics and shows to the new game guides that you can reference from the pause ment very nice touch, especially for TMNT 1 for nes and TMNT 3 for GB to the behind the scenes stuff showing how they made the games and cut content like Metelhead meant to be a boss in TMNT arcade 1 rather then Turtles in time, not forgetting online multiplayer, the only real way to play TMNT/turtles in time, if you really want a collection of emulators and roms with cheap nasty ai art again older re-releases of James Pond had decent art even the recently Switch one, they couldn't pay someone just to do some art for them then I guess this is for you **you** lol tho again aside from the Amiga and maybe Mega Drive versions most of the other James Pond ports are basically ass and believe me I have played them.

Re: "Who Are They Kidding?" - System 3 Insists No GenAI Was Used In James Pond Legacy, But Fans Aren't Convinced

CookieByte

@slider1983 at least Digital Eclipse actually puts enough into their retro collections TMNT and Atari 50 are some of the best yet no Ai here and plenty of history behind the games, Oh I played Robocod, but my autocorrect hasn't heard of it, it's one of the few games I think plays best on Amiga then Mega Drive despite owning both, and the awful PS1, GBA versions that replace the penguins 🐧 with elves and worse level layouts, I even brought the Switch 1 version they brought out a few years ago, I couldn't get into the first James Pond and the 3rd one is just weird, did have a soft spot for the sports spin off, but here's the thing James Pond could do a better collection then this awful Ai fake looking one, I mean what were they thinking? I'm sure the Switch 1 version and the PS1/2 ports had better art that didn't look like random generated art, remember having Robocod on DS too, again best versions were the Amiga ones, like that cool Danger Mouse style animated intro, honestly I would like a proper remake or new James Pond but honestly seeing this is how they handle it I rather they didn't, even Bubsy got better treatment recently then poor James Pond.

Re: This Dying Street Fighter II Cart Is A Sobering Reminder That Physical Doesn't Mean Forever

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@PopetheRev28 Yeah the save batteries do die sadly surprised some of my carts still have a charge, tho it's why I like collecting GBA carts since aside from Pokémon Gba games there save is a bit more permanent memory but as you said they can be changed and most other issues are sorted by simply cleaning the cartridge, found that also applies to discs too as long it's not too scratched.

Re: This Dying Street Fighter II Cart Is A Sobering Reminder That Physical Doesn't Mean Forever

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@PopetheRev28 Kinda funny how there against anything Ai based but now anti physical, I have older cartridges then this like 30/40 years old and they work good as new once cleaned, I suspect this cartridge was damaged, I got a Aliens 3 Mega Drive that stopped working in the early 00s but I do remember something inside was rattling, was only a kid so I had no idea to fix it but that's the only time well twice I had Robocop for Game Boy Colour which also broke/stopped working in the early 00s yet my older Game Boy games including the original GB Robocop works perfectly even now I had a cartridge stop working, even a lot of my stracthed PS1 discs work pretty well even now.

Re: The James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Enough Goes Physical On Switch 2 This October

CookieByte

Gonna pass on this, Robocod was the only decent one, the amount of Ai in the trailer is kinda surprising, did none of the people involved look at this and noticed how cheap and awful it looks? It looks so fake, bad when even Bubsy got a better collection then James Pond. Do ya all self a favour and just don't buy it, there's enough ways to emulated Robocod if you really need to play it.

Re: "One Of The Most Addictive Games I Have Played" - The Original Worms Was So Beloved, People Stayed After Work At Team17 To Play It

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@slider1983 What version are you playing? 🤔 Sure it's the original game and all series have to start somewhere where but really "detailed sprites with definition" I know this got a original Gameboy port but for Amiga and Playstation The original worms looked bad even back then, There's a reason why people still play Worms Armageddon

Re: "One Of The Most Addictive Games I Have Played" - The Original Worms Was So Beloved, People Stayed After Work At Team17 To Play It

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@slider1983 They actually animate them in Worms 2/Armageddon, not sure what you mean detailed sprites when they look like something off the Atari 2600 in the original worms even in this director's cut version, they don't animate, all looking the same, like a bunch of copies stuck in pause mode, While in Armageddon they actually have personalities, they all move, looking alive, properly animated using weapons and gadgets, and the designs give them a nice lively cartoon look, instead of looking like being made out of 20 pixels, "detailed sprites with definition" my foot lol