technology The Glorious PC master race thread

[TheJLeeTeam 914]

You just answered your own question.

 

You need a pretty beefy machine to emulate anything newer than PS1/N64.

Or you can just get the actual consoles and play whatever exclusives are on them. I just don't like emulation.

[long gone 8,929]

Emulation is better with the actual controller than the keyboard. Thankfully there are USB retro controllers out there.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Or you can just get the actual consoles and play whatever exclusives are on them. I just don't like emulation.

 

That may be a viable option for the PS2, but a good chunk of the the good stuff on the Gamecube carries a price premium if you plan to actually go to a game store or buy them online. 

 

You can also make games look leagues better than they ever would on a console via emulation.

Emulation is better with the actual controller than the keyboard. Thankfully there are USB retro controllers out there.

 

Or you can just use a wired Xbox360 controller.

[long gone 8,929]

 

 

Or you can just use a wired Xbox360 controller.

 That ain't gonna cut it for 2D games.

 

And speaking of making games look leagues better with emulation...

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Thing is, it wont. People are too invested in the industry, it's gonna keep developers funded for the next 30 + years. I also hesitate to say "the industry" is causing this crap. Its a select number of publishers and a few developers who are responsible for the worst of it. All in all, we have plenty of decent developers and publishers still hanging around.

 

True.

 

The industry was pretty small and really considered just a novelty at the time of the crash, where as the current industry is almost as big as the movie and TV industry.  

 That ain't gonna cut it for 2D games.

 

And speaking of making games look leagues better with emulation...

 

 

Does for me, I play everything from MAME, to SNES, to Gamecube with mine.

[TheJLeeTeam 914]

That may be a viable option for the PS2, but a good chunk of the the good stuff on the Gamecube carries a price premium if you plan to actually go to a game store or buy them online. 

 

You can also make games look leagues better than they ever would on a console via emulation.

 

Or you can just use a wired Xbox360 controller.

Yeah Gamecube games are getting expensive but there are ways to use burnt games which isn't very practical but it's there. And cartridge based systems have flash carts available as well. Some games could have problems and glitches in emulation that weren't in the original games. Even though you can make the graphics sharper, emulation isn't very practical for me. 

 

There are some games that work well like Mario 64 and if I wanted to I can play hacks of it because there's a lot of them.

[Mouse 302]

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/MZG3nQ

 

Is this more gamer ultra-y?

No, that graphics card is overkill. The human eye can't see more than 512mb of vram

 

This would be better: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Cloudyy/saved/#view=dFHKHx

[long gone 8,929]

No, that graphics card is overkill. The human eye can't see more than 512mb of vram

 

This would be better: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Cloudyy/saved/#view=dFHKHx

Oh, of course. But isn't 256MB more cinematic? Also, the case isn't red and black, not gaming enough.

[Mouse 302]

It's actually a widely known practice to block off GPU vRAM from use to provide the most cinematic experience. Someone on the IGN forums told me that the Xbox one actually has 8 Titan X's, but they're locking them off until DX12 so that current games run at a more enjoyable 30 FPS. Anything higher than that gives people headaches. It just goes to shows how far behind PCs are huh

Edited May 23, 2015 by Mouse

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

...y'know...

 

This is just depressing.

[Celli 4,337]

No, that graphics card is overkill. The human eye can't see more than 512mb of vram

 

This would be better: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Cloudyy/saved/#view=dFHKHx

7.8/10 Not enough Thermal paste and Case fans.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Yeah Gamecube games are getting expensive but there are ways to use burnt games which isn't very practical but it's there. And cartridge based systems have flash carts available as well. Some games could have problems and glitches in emulation that weren't in the original games. Even though you can make the graphics sharper, emulation isn't very practical for me. 

 

There are some games that work well like Mario 64 and if I wanted to I can play hacks of it because there's a lot of them.

 

Have you actually used emulators lately?

 

Aside from more touchy stuff that takes really powerful hardware, or has a large amount of variation (MAME), emulation is largely flawless. This is even more true of old stuff like NES and Genesis/SNES.

 

This is coming from someone that's a huge collector with something like 1200 games that range from Atari 2600 to PS3.

No, that graphics card is overkill. The human eye can't see more than 512mb of vram

 

This would be better: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Cloudyy/saved/#view=dFHKHx

 

You guys should all look into this monster of a GPU:

 

Edited May 23, 2015 by Shoboni

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

It kind of amazes me how many people use emulators.

 

Not trolling or anything, it's just that I didn't think they're even half as popular as they seem to be. I used one once or twice but that's it.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

It kind of amazes me how many people use emulators.

 

Not trolling or anything, it's just that I didn't think they're even half as popular as they seem to be. I used one once or twice but that's it.

 

They're pretty huge, actually.

 

There's entire communities dedicated to them and it's really paved the way for rom-hacks and fan-games based on the original code.

[Admiral Regulus 2,769]

I've never heard of them.

 

But, I've never been all that interested in retro gaming... that would probably be why.

[TheJLeeTeam 914]

Have you actually used emulators lately?

 

Aside from more touchy stuff that takes really powerful hardware, or has a large amount of variation (MAME), emulation is largely flawless. This is even more true of old stuff like NES and Genesis/SNES.

 

This is coming from someone that's a huge collector with something like 1200 games that range from Atari 2600 to PS3.

Alright some emulators are really good like 2d systems like NES and SNES. I was actually really big into emulation a couple years ago but I just got tired of them because I just find playing emulators too uncomfortable for me even with controller adapters. I just find it more authentic to play on the original hardware. And I can even get flash carts to play roms and hacks even though they're still not perfect it's more authentic.

 

I would probably only use emulators if I ever wanted to play MAME or something. Don't accuse me, I just don't like emulation very much and if you collect several games over different systems I could also do that if I wanted to.

[long gone 8,929]

Last time I tried emulating Pokémon XD, Barboach was missing some textures. It was just a gray tube thing with a blue mouth and whiskers. Also, some trainers (like female bodybuilders) were missing textures too, and the game lagged during purification scenes. Game is also sensitive to dual-core emulation and will crash if you have it enabled for the game in Dolphin. Gamecube emulation still has a while to go.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

Last time I tried emulating Pokémon XD, Barboach was missing some textures. It was just a gray tube thing with a blue mouth and whiskers. Also, some trainers (like female bodybuilders) were missing textures too, and the game lagged during purification scenes. Game is also sensitive to dual-core emulation and will crash if you have it enabled for the game in Dolphin. Gamecube emulation still has a while to go.

 

I think it's a matter of PS2 and Gamecube stuff still being available enough that no-one cares to much.

 

I imagine people will put in more work as games for those systems become harder to come by.

[long gone 8,929]

I still have a semi-functional Gamecube around here. And by "semi-functional" I mean it boots up and that's about all you can do with it. Won't read games anymore.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I still have a semi-functional Gamecube around here. And by "semi-functional" I mean it boots up and that's about all you can do with it. Won't read games anymore.

 

Mine been in storage since I got a Wii way back.

 

No reason to keep it hooked up when the Wii has perfect backwards comparability right down to taking the old controllers and memory cards.

[Bright Honor 2,654]

was planning to save up for a better pc but my financials are saying otherwise. Too bad i'm not technically inclined to build one :/

[Mouse 302]

was planning to save up for a better pc but my financials are saying otherwise. Too bad i'm not technically inclined to build one :/

If you can make a house out of legos, then you can build a PC.

[long gone 8,929]

If you can make a house out of legos, then you can build a PC.

He already told me on Skype that he wasn't ever good with Legos.

[FoxyCryptid 4,330]

I got lucky, I had fooled around with old junkers (taking them down and putting them back together in working order) enough that I wasn't going in blind and did pretty well once I figured out where all the wires went for the buttons and shit.

[AccountNoLongerUsed 741]

I wonder, if the next evolution of PC gaming power is gonna be improving technology so that eventually we will have portable PC game units (Laptops dont count, i mean something you can fit in your pockets)