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It’s 2005 Again. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/y2k@sopuli.xyz
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A warmly lit desk staged to look like 2005, with a white iMac G4 in the center running The Sims in a window. Four pink sticky notes with handwritten reminders are stuck along the bottom of the screen. On the desk are a white Apple keyboard and mouse, an open computer textbook showing diagrams about disk boot and memory, and an open notebook with handwritten technical notes and a pen resting on it. To the left are a Coca-Cola can, a portable Sony Discman with a small speaker attached, a Sony Ericsson flip phone, a blue floppy disk, a blue calculator, and a black Game Boy Advance SP with a Shrek 2 cartridge beside it. A DVD of Corner Gas season one is also visible. To the right are a Logitech game controller and a green-yellow lava lamp casting a soft glow. The scene looks like someone was supposed to be studying for computer class but got distracted by playing The Sims instead.
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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The only emulators really worth using IMO don't have IAPs or ads or any of that. Delta is Nintendo only (and GBA), you can skin the controllers, and it has Google Drive backup. Like I can uninstall the app and clear the space, re-download it, reconnect it to the cloud, and it'll pull all my games and saves back down again. It's awesome... but it's Nintendo only. I suspect the developer of some kind of shenanigans, like there's some reason it's Nintendo only and not GameCube, but I wouldn't know where to begin with the why. In any case, it works, and it works with external controllers — I like the 8bitdo SN30 Pro. I don't think they make mine anymore. It's a Super NES/Super Famicom controller. You used to get SNES/SFC lookalike controllers, but Nintendo sued and now it looks a bit less like one, but retains the shape. Bonus, it has a second set of triggers, and two analogue sticks. Playing Xbox games with it (it supports Xinput, Switch, and Bluetooth connections) feels illegal, but it works. Oh, and then of course there's RetroArch. Supports almost everything (the iOS version is more limited than the computer one), but it's not very user friendly.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    There is something to be said about using the original hardware. While I have no problem playing, say, a Zelda game to completion, a Mario game is another matter entirely. Even with a Switch with Switch Online membership, the latency that exists whether I'm using the attached controllers wirelessly, the Switch in handheld mode, or a third-party controller wired over USB, or wireless over Bluetooth, the latency is greater than it was on an actual NES. I just can't control Mario as tightly as I could on original hardware. You could chalk it up to my age (let's just say I played the NES when it was brand new), but there is a discernible latency that was not there with the original hardware, and even Nintendo themselves can't get rid of it. And that's if you pay them an annual fee.

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