[Official] EHW Retro - The EHW Retrogaming club

[pio]

5 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

Enjoy up to 60% off unforgettable classics

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A bunch of classic EA games just got added to Steam. I literally just bought Sim City 3K on GoG...

No thanks.  Can't play a lot of retro games on Windows 10 anyway, and Steam only works on Windows 10 and newer.  I'll stick to GoG copies.  You guys are more than welcome to be guinea pigs though.

Edited March 8 by pioneerisloud

[Slaughtahouse]

9 minutes ago, pioneerisloud said:

No thanks.  Can't play a lot of retro games on Windows 10 anyway, and Steam only works on Windows 10 and newer.  I'll stick to GoG copies.  You guys are more than welcome to be guinea pigs though.

 

If it's being listed on Steam today, it supports Windows 10. I understand the sentiment but there's no guinea pig. Its just a trade off storefront vs. drm free version. 

[neurotix]

Any way old games are made accessible now is a good thing.

[neurotix]

Thought I'd share one of my biggest treasures, Detana!! Twinbee for PC Engine (aka Turbografx 16) it is a vertical shoot em up but aka "cute em up" as it's very lighthearted and cutesy in style. There's a 9 lives code too and my fiancee and I have cleared it on the PC Engine Core Grafx a couple times.

 

 

Still has the plastic covering it came with from the store.

 

 

The back. Unfortunately some scratches on the case.

 

 

The inside.

 

 

Complete with manual, game advertisement pamphlet, registration card, and sticker sheet.

 

 

Close up of sticker sheet.

 

 

Twinbee PC Engine CIB PCE Complete Turbo Duo Grafx US SELLER

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All in pictures

 

There's one like mine. About $115.

Edited March 15 by neurotix

[neurotix]

I ordered a Raspberry Pi composite cable that plugs into the headphone jack, for the purpose of hooking it up to my CRT tv for arcade games (because they look terrible on a 77" OLED).

 

It took some manual editing of config files. note to anyone doing this: use an adapter and plug in your SD card to your PC and edit /boot/config.txt. I'm using retropie, and going to the command line with a keyboard on the actual Pi, even with "sudo su" the boot drive doesn't appear to be mounted. It took a while of banging my head against the wall with the CLI on the pi before editing it in my pc made it work.

 

Anyway, in addition to my consoles we can now do TMNT, X-Men, Windjammers (serious business that game) as well as Cave and Raizing/Eighting games like e.s.p.rade, Dodonpachi Daioujou, Ketsui, Espgaluda, Armed Police Batrider, Battle Garegga and more.

 

Video quality is not the best and kind of blurry, but it works and the cable was only $8.

 

 

Edited March 17 by neurotix

[neurotix]

Hey @UltraMegacan you please post a link for me to the controller thing you have for Smartphone gaming? I'm thinking of getting one for my brother for his birthday.

 

Also, considering I know virtually nothing about emulation on Smartphones, what's the best PSX emu and best SNES emu? Hopefully ones that are free and adless.

 

Thanks buddy.

[axipher]

14 hours ago, neurotix said:

Hey @UltraMegacan you please post a link for me to the controller thing you have for Smartphone gaming? I'm thinking of getting one for my brother for his birthday.

 

Also, considering I know virtually nothing about emulation on Smartphones, what's the best PSX emu and best SNES emu? Hopefully ones that are free and adless.

 

Thanks buddy.

 

Retroarch on Android is a pretty great starting point, it acts as kind of a mini front-end and manages a bunch of "Cores" for each system and has multiple options for each system.

 

 

It has a slightly weird layout and config so definitely might require some guides, but it does a lot of the config, video, controls and all that stuff for you.

 

 

Emulation Station Desktop Edition is also working on an Android Front-end that can interface with Retroarch that I'm playing with right now and has made managing all my games much easier with full controller support.

[UltraMega]

17 hours ago, neurotix said:

Hey @UltraMegacan you please post a link for me to the controller thing you have for Smartphone gaming? I'm thinking of getting one for my brother for his birthday.

 

Also, considering I know virtually nothing about emulation on Smartphones, what's the best PSX emu and best SNES emu? Hopefully ones that are free and adless.

 

Thanks buddy.

Just search for the Razor Kishi. 

[neurotix]

5 hours ago, axipher said:

 

Retroarch on Android is a pretty great starting point, it acts as kind of a mini front-end and manages a bunch of "Cores" for each system and has multiple options for each system.

 

 

It has a slightly weird layout and config so definitely might require some guides, but it does a lot of the config, video, controls and all that stuff for you.

 

 

Emulation Station Desktop Edition is also working on an Android Front-end that can interface with Retroarch that I'm playing with right now and has made managing all my games much easier with full controller support.

I am very familiar with retroarch as well as EmulationStation as they are both on my custom retropie. Did not know they were available for Android. Thanks.

 

2 hours ago, UltraMega said:

Just search for the Razor Kishi. 

Thanks, will do in October for my brother.

[neurotix]

My brother said he should finally have his room at the house he shares with other people. Currently he's in a small space, a very small room and has no room for his stuff, consoles, or PC which is all in storage.

 

As opposed to the Razer Kishi, he asked for a retropie and I can just write my backup of mine to an SD card for him. He also already has a Rock Candy wired Xbox 360 controller he can use with it. So that's what I am going to do instead.

Edited April 29 by neurotix

[neurotix]

This is kind of old news, but I thought people might find it amusing.

 

 

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Someone ported Flappy Bird to the Dreamcast VMU, he has also made a few other games, see the instagram link.

[Slaughtahouse]

For those following the community efforts to get more N64 ports on PC, there has been a big update to get games running better, with more features, with a fraction of the effort of the decompilation efforts.

 

 

DF initial review of Zelda 64 (Majora’s Mask) Recompiled Version 1.0:

 

[The Pook]

neat. Now they just need to do that for PS1/PS2 games 

 

I never really got hooked on the N64. I got a hand-me-down one after my older cousins got bored with theirs, but by then I had a PS2 and I was starting to get into PCs so I rarely played it. 

 

Banjo Kazooie was dope tho

[bridgypoo]

GoldenEye 007 on 64 is the bees knees

[Slaughtahouse]

4 hours ago, The Pook said:

neat. Now they just need to do that for PS1/PS2 games 

 

I never really got hooked on the N64. I got a hand-me-down one after my older cousins got bored with theirs, but by then I had a PS2 and I was starting to get into PCs so I rarely played it. 

 

Banjo Kazooie was dope tho

 

There are a lot of titles that will be worth checking out on PC as these projects go into high gear. Banjoe Kazooie is dope but so is Tooie

 

Perfect Dark is one my all time favourites and it never made it's way to PC. If they can get that + Goldeneye going with split screen or LAN... that will be a great time. Lots of other games to check out. Mario Party (1-3), Paper Mario... WWF No Mercy XD 

[axipher]

10 hours ago, Slaughtahouse said:

 

There are a lot of titles that will be worth checking out on PC as these projects go into high gear. Banjoe Kazooie is dope but so is Tooie

 

Perfect Dark is one my all time favourites and it never made it's way to PC. If they can get that + Goldeneye going with split screen or LAN... that will be a great time. Lots of other games to check out. Mario Party (1-3), Paper Mario... WWF No Mercy XD 

 

I'm super curious about seeing these Decomp's rebuilt for ARM, not only for the current huge amrket of Android Handhelds, but also the upcoming resurgence of Windows on ARM.

 

In totally unrelated news, I just pre-ordered one of these bad boys... 

 

Odin2 Mini

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[neurotix]

How are they porting N64 games to PC? Did the source code for all the games leak? Nintendo and its lawyers are probably going to have a field day with this.

[Slaughtahouse]

3 hours ago, neurotix said:

How are they porting N64 games to PC? Did the source code for all the games leak? Nintendo and its lawyers are probably going to have a field day with this.

 

Lawyers won’t be able to touch Decompilation. Essentially it’s not the same source code. Not sure how it works with recompilation.

 

There are a few good Ars Technia article on it from a few years back. I believe they mention it’s safe but I haven’t read them recently.

 

Perfect Dark finally gets the full-featured PC port it deserves

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Decompilation project adds mouse-and-keyboard controls, upscaled graphics and more.

 

Ocarina of Time has been fully decompiled into human-readable code

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Unspooled C code could eventually lead to PC ports, new mods, and more.

 

[The Pook]

2 minutes ago, Slaughtahouse said:

Lawyers won’t be able to touch Decompilation. Essentially it’s not the same source code. Not sure how it works with recompilation.

 

not for that, sure, but with Nintendo being Nintendo they could come at it from a difference angle.

 

ie, you're still using their intellectual property (characters, music, storylines...) without permission and it could be (weakly) argued that it cuts into their profits by existing. 

[Slaughtahouse]

2 hours ago, The Pook said:

 

not for that, sure, but with Nintendo being Nintendo they could come at it from a difference angle.

 

ie, you're still using their intellectual property (characters, music, storylines...) without permission and it could be (weakly) argued that it cuts into their profits by existing. 

 

I believe that’s only applicable for the distribution of the ROMs.

 

Per the article:

 

“As with previous N64 decompilation projects like Super Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time, the reverse-engineered PC code doesn’t include any copyrighted image visual or audio files. Players will have to provide their own valid ROM file containing those assets for the port to work.”

 

”Should” be OK