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How should the legacy of the NES be handled?


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PJX
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PostPosted: Mar 14 2010 11:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I use a ps2 joypad to play on emulators and the controls have always felt exactly right, because they are, infact even better because i can use analog for shmups and whatnot so i don't know what josh is on about. As for them being boring, that doesn't even make sense.
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The Opponent
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PostPosted: Mar 14 2010 11:26 pm Reply with quote Back to top

You play shmups with analog? What's that like? I play everything with an arcade stick so I guess when I use it with emulation it's almost like using an NES Advantage.


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PJX
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PostPosted: Mar 14 2010 11:28 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The-Excel wrote:
You play shmups with analog? What's that like?

It gives me much better control plus i don't get a sore thumb.
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PostPosted: Mar 14 2010 11:32 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The only shmup I can play with analog is Gradius V. It just doesn't feel the same to me anymore.


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PJX
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PostPosted: Mar 14 2010 11:46 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I've seen someone playing Gradius V and it looked beautiful. I need that game!!
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 12:36 am Reply with quote Back to top

It got me into shmups. I don't know what made me want to try it, but I am grateful that it did.


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Blackout
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 03:22 pm Reply with quote Back to top

For everyone talking about funky controls I suggest this.
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The only thing I don't like about emulators is that I have a hard time playing any game for a significant amount of time, I always end up loading up the next one to see what it is. It seems like on the actual hardware I play a game longer.



 
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Fire Penguin
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 04:01 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I play all my games with the Logitech Dual-Action (Except for anything that benefits more from keyboard/mouse controls, and consoles). It's a cheap and durable gamepad that's great for NES, SNES, PSX, etc.

EDIT: No, "cheap" and "durable" aren't nessecarily opposite.
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PJX
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 04:05 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Blackout wrote:
For everyone talking about funky controls I suggest this.
Image

The only thing I don't like about emulators is that I have a hard time playing any game for a significant amount of time, I always end up loading up the next one to see what it is. It seems like on the actual hardware I play a game longer.

Can you get a double one of those? i've got the same kind of thing only it has two playstation sockets.

I think when you've got so much choice at first it's hard to settle on one thing. With emulators you have a choice of pretty much every game ever made for that console.

Emulation offers many advantages, not just that it's 100% cheaper but i also don't have to deal with ebay douchebags and i can be switching between playing dodonpachi and working and listening to music all on the same unit, with the tv on in the background.
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lavalarva
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 04:23 pm Reply with quote Back to top

GBA emulators are nice because you don't have to look at a small screen. Though you could use a Gameboy Player I guess.

I always play with either the keyboard or a controller shaped like the PS2 controller. Not great for fighting games, but I just suck at those anyway.
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Blackout
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 06:45 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Like I've mentioned before, mapping the A & B buttons to the far right of the keyboard and the D pad to the far left and holding the keyboard like a giant controller is always entertaining. I beat Japanese SMB2 that way.



 
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PJX
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 06:48 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I suppose if you do that with a laptop it'll be like a giant gba sp.
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sidewaydriver
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 07:04 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Blackout wrote:
The only thing I don't like about emulators is that I have a hard time playing any game for a significant amount of time, I always end up loading up the next one to see what it is. It seems like on the actual hardware I play a game longer.

That is true, same thing goes with my iPod. I can't seem to listen to a whole album anymore just because it's too easy to switch albums. I think technology is giving me ADD.


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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 07:28 pm Reply with quote Back to top

My problem is the opposite. I have a lot of something suddenly available to me and I'll spend all of my time on just one. I have actually paid for games that I have yet to play.


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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 07:32 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The-Excel wrote:
I have actually paid for games that I have yet to play.

same here


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PJX
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 07:46 pm Reply with quote Back to top

username wrote:
The-Excel wrote:
I have actually paid for games that I have yet to play.

same here

I third that.
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PostPosted: Mar 15 2010 08:55 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Uncharted II is still sitting on my shelf unopened from when it first came out. I have had the time I just chose to play other things instead. Once FF XIII is done its on to God of War III, then back to FF IV: The after years. Then I may pop it open.


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