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Nintendo 64 is returning in 2025 with a 4k version for $249.99 🎮 pic.twitter.com/FVa75rJBFX
— My Mixtapez (@mymixtapez) November 11, 2024
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I hate this shit that requires cartridges. Why? Who tf still has those things?
Just get a steamdeck and download the entire n64 library in 10 minutes and play them all portable or on the tv, now with achievement support and save states
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I assumed it was for legal reasons hiding behind the "it's real hardware" draw. Having ROM dumps of old Nintendo games is legally grey even if you own it according to them
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Real hardware actually runs better a good amount of the time compared to emulation when it comes to early 3d consoles, since they used wacky tricks for graphics effects and game logic that modern tech has a hard time emulating.
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yes, but this won't be real hardware it'll be an emulator that nintendo downloaded from some romhack site and shoved in a raspberry pi
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This is 3rd party, not a Nintendo thing, and they claim that it recreates the original logic and isn't an emulator.
The obvious downside is that it isn't "4k" as in 4k render res, but 4k output. It'll render at original res and upscale internally, to stop TV from doing the upscaling.
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I know, I was just responding to why people still prefer original cartridges over emulation even if its more of a hassle
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Latency, which is important for speedrunners (
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rule of soul. floppy disks are still cooler than USBs
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Only for n64 which is abysmal dog shit and has 0 games. Duckstation runs psx games perfectly with enhancements and saturn emu is good now !g*mers
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Gran Turismo 1 is soooo good with the resolution pumped up. Get the Japanese version for the better soundtrack.
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Every Single PSX game looks incredible on Duckstation they clean up so well to the point PSX games now look better then n64 ones since all the jaggy are gone and the textures look nice and crisp. Unlike n64 where every texture was bi-linear filtered making it look like someone rubbed vaseline over the game. !g*mers may have to do an effort post about how Nintendo did everything wrong with the N64.
N64
PSX with resolution enhancements taken off my Deck
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What psx game doe
Also yeah 64 is meant to be low res or it looks shit
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Jumping Flash. A very underrated pre-Mario 64 platformer by Exact who are like the Argonaut Studios of Japan.
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Jumping flash solved several issues with both first person and 3d platforming which were all forgotten before crash bandicoot came out.
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Ironically the camera panning down in Bubsy 3D and the tank controls seem to be based on jumping flash but make way less sense in the context of how bubsy moves and the level design works.
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this has literally NOTHING to do with cartridges lmao
nintendo could make it without the cartridges but they know r-slurs (read: nintendo's customers) will pay extra for them, even though they're antiquated and in zero way necessary to get games running properly.
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This is a 3d party emulator in a case not made by Nintendo?
Carp complained about cartridges so I made a defense about why some people still prefer original hardward with the original cartridge over emulators, it has nothing to do with this cheap chinese fake n64 lmao
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But this isn't original hardware? Or am I misunderstanding the project, and each one is actually a real (old) N64 that they shucked out of its plastic casing and stuffed into this new thing with some circuits built around it to handle I/O?
Shit even if it's the latter, if they're handling the I/O, they can service cartridge reads to a non-catridge storage system (like a small NVMe SSD).
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Maybe, I didn't actually read what the product is, seems like a waste of money when you could just get the og hardware and n64 upscaling hdmi cable for like $40 like the rest of us neurodivergent lol
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It's an FPGA which is basically hardware emulation. With software emulation it's just a program running that tries to recreate what the console's logic is doing. With FPGA/hardware emulation they're recreating the actual circuits themselves that run the code. i.e. it has the capability to be far more accurate and even 100% accurate
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That hasn't been true in years, and it was only true for the N64 for a long long time.
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Older cartridge games commonly have stuff calculated to the games native fps, so making it higher on modern tech can cause desyces and droped inputs, and at worse game logic not running properly.
Modern emulators also still have trouble with older rendering methods (especially the textures with glossy effects that have certain calling orders for what channels they use).
Yeah you can use modern emulation to run it at a higher and more consistent frame rate and lower load times, but certain effects and gameplay still get scuffed and need fixes on a game to game basis, and that only if it's popular enough to have it.
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I wouldn't really agree though. Not because you're wrong but most people don't give a single shit. There's a reason that EPSXE was so ubiquitous before being replaced by things like Duckstation.
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bro nintendo actually has the source code and therefore can fix that shit for modern cpus
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They don't bother though, Majoras Mask and Pikmin ports for the switch had many of their cutscenes desycned, alongside broken effects
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Like every other Analogue FPGA console, it'll get firmware that allows playing from SD card after launch. Analogue just can't provide it themselves.
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Play Eternal Darkness you twink.
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got a 'eck oled for my parents since they wanted to have a switch without paying for gaymes
they didn't touch it since (almost a year)
I'll just get a switch from aliexpress and swap them
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The deck is amazing if you want an emulation machine, hands down the best piece of hardware in existence
Probably fine for AAA too but if you want it for emulation I can shill it hard at you
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Get fricked Zoomer.
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subhuman zoomerbrain
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do you think save states are new
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do you think a program feature has to be new for a dependence on that feature to be zoomerbrain material
GPS is old as dirt but the inability to navigate a small hometown without it is still subhuman zoomerbrain
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yes
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emulators have had save states since the 90s
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