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Re: "We're Not Okay Shipping It" - Hyperkin Explains Why Its Handheld Sega Genesis, The Mega95, Has Been Delayed

PZT

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I could see how an argument could be made for something slightly wider considering the internal resolution of the Genesis, but such a stretched aspect ratio is unacceptable
It needs good input lag response above all else, it needs to feel as instant as possible. And it's not enough for it to not have tearing, it needs to have a refresh rate synced to the screen
The dogshit game-feel of the Retron5 is unacceptable in 2026

Re: You Can Now Grab Two Of The Best Castlevania Games For Less Than $5 On PS4/PS5

PZT

@JJtheTexan fyi: the reason Requiem specifically never came to anything else is that it's the Dracula X Chronicles versions running in Sony's internal PSP emulator
so they'd have to find another method of running them
I'm sure M2 could figure something out, port the 360/mobile version for Symphony and put together a PC-Engine CD emulator for Rondo and idk why they didn't in the first place

Re: ModRetro's FPGA N64 Uses FPGAzumSpass's MiSTer N64 Core

PZT

@Sn0w I disagree with the assertion that simply reporting on it is wrong when TE has done a fine effort of also reporting on people's grievances, but the assertion that he's a warmonger fascist has largely bore out to be correct.
You sound like yet another politically-uneducated person who thinks any attempt to bring nuance and outside context into our hobby is some kind of intolerable intrusion of the Lacanian real, and so you recoil in avoidance, to keep your world feeling small and comfortable.
Those who hold water for the concept that to be nostalgic is to cocoon ourselves in a safe little bubble, who think that keeping the past alive means to escape into it completely, do us all a disservice. Nothing exists in a vacuum.

Re: Three Years Later, And Hyperkin's PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Clone Is Finally Coming Out

PZT

what a dumpsterfire idea, who has TG16 Hucards lying around but wouldn't also put money on a better way of playing them that doesn't have horrendous input lag
the other Retron consoles are exclusively for normies who don't notice the input lag and horrendous lack of features, there is not a single TG16 fan who is a normie
$100 and not at least being FPGA is inexcusable, the only valuable part is the controller having an original connector
WHO IS THIS FOR???

Re: Palmer Luckey's Nintendo 64 Clone Will Cost $199 For Early Adopters

PZT

doing this with the N64 instead of like, the PS2 or Dreamcast or something that his resources would actually make a unique impact that would be hard to get development off the ground with any other way, is such a "normie billionaire trying to appear relatable" move

it's just retreading old ground, we have a MiSTer core, we have an Analogue console, wtf is the point

anybody who genuinely likes games, instead of pretending to like games (when really what he actually likes is the unconditional friendship he experienced as a kid with multiplayer Goldeneye when he had real friends and not just fake friends sucking up to him for money, which is why it's the N64), would definitely spend the money on better, more creative projects

why is money wasted on the most creatively bankrupt people

this is the exact same e-waste performativity as Musk and his flamethrowers and other similar nonsense
cringe vanity projects meant to further his image as an epic bacon redditor who is Just Like You because he too uses old game consoles as reactionary proxies to push a false schema of reality that things were universally better in the Good Old Days, screaming from his step-stool to anyone who will listen "remember what They took from you!!!" while refusing to specify who exactly "They" is
don't fall for it, he is a skinwalker

Re: Fed Up Of Hearing About Switch 2? This New Book Is All About The Legacy Of The NES

PZT

I think a missing piece here people don't often mention is that Nintendo has divebombed the reputation of the NES through shoddy emulation with input lag, bad color representation, and being incredibly stingy with what games they chose to represent the library
It's a problem plaguing all retro games re-releases, but the NES has had it particularly bad, although there was a bit of a renaissance in the early 2010s culminating in 2016 with the Classic, but ever since it's been NSO, and IMO, it does not cut the mustard

Re: Polymega's Light Gun Actually Exists

PZT

other products: "here's a long-term support plan and clear release schedules"
Polymega: "it exists"
Analogue: "what DAC? we made a DAC? ssshhhhhh....puts finger over your mouth"

Re: FromSoftware's Chromehounds Is Back Online After 15 Years

PZT

Oh word? I need to get in on this
How old were you when you realized FromSoft's two Xbox exclusive mech games, "Murakumo: Renegade Mech Pursuit" and "Chromehounds", are actually references to the original two factions in Armored Core on PS1, Chrome and Murakumo
Now you know