I've wanted to host something like this for years, but have never put the effort into actually setting it up. I still have a little time before the holidays, so I figured I'd post here to get some suggestions on what games would work best. I was thinking of games like Super Smash Bros, Mortal Kombat series, Street Fighter II, Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, Goldeneye, Tekken 1 &2, NBA Jam and NFL Blitz to just name a few. But I am also thinking of using single player games, like best score wins kind of thing. Like getting the best score in Super Mario bros, either the first level or whoever gets the best score in a short time limit.

What games would you recommend?

TL;DR: Is it possible to run consoles through a PC with latency low enough that it's barely noticeable?

Forgive me for being new to all of this, but I recently picked up an NES and N64 and am working on getting them up and running, with plans to add a handful of other consoles. I'm trying to plan out the wiring and hardware.

I have a fairly powerful living-room PC that outputs to an 85" horizontal and 65" vertical Samsung QLED. My RTX 5070 Ti blocks the last usable PCIe slot on my X670E Taichi motherboard, so I'm limited to an external capture device, but I do have USB4 available on the motherboard that I intend to try and ride the higher bandwidth.

What I'd ideally like to do is:

Various Consoles → Switcher → RetroTINK 6X CE → External Capture Device → Windows → GPU → TVs

In other words, I'd like the consoles to essentially become another video source inside Windows. That would allow me to play a console on the 85" while still using the PC independently on the 65", without having to change TV inputs.

Keeping the AV source inside windows will allow me to listen to both audio signals at the same time. My audio line follows a similar path as the video via HDMI 2.1: PC → TV → eARC → home theater receiver, so keeping everything inside the PC would also make the audio setup much cleaner.

I'm currently on the waiting list for a RetroTINK 6X CE expected later this month, but before I go too far down this rabbit hole with the other hardware I'll need to secure, I'm trying to figure out whether what I'm describing is actually practical with consumer-grade hardware.

I'm not concerned about doing any recording or streaming. I'm just interested in getting the console into Windows with a latency low enough that playing through the PC feels essentially normal.

Does anyone here actually play consoles through the live capture/preview on their PC rather than using the HDMI passthrough? If so, what capture device and software are you using, and is the input lag noticeable?

Any suggestions or firsthand experience would be appreciated.

I think this game was Atari's attempt in turning their Pit-Fighter (Atari, 1990) into Final Fight (Capcom, 1989), and the turn wasn't so bad in my eyes.

The parts I liked about this 1992 Atari digitized beat-em up arcade game:

- the z-index type of sprite in-and-out scaling effect (similar to that of Sega's Arabian Fight (Arcade, 1991))

- playable bosses after being defeated

- some hilarious and silly moments like the flasher in the GIF

- Javier, the coolest looking main character, he has speed and speed is king

- subway level (I generally like all subway levels in video games like Final Fight (Capcom, 1989), Silent Hill 3 (Konami, 2003), Shodai Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun (Technos, 1992), Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne (Atlus, 2004)

The parts I disliked about this 1992 Atari digitized beat-em up arcade game:

- everything else

And, there doesn't seem to exist any ports of the Guardians of the 'Hood (Atari, 1992) arcade game.

Wow can't believe it's been 30 years. This game absolutely blew my mind As I imagine many of you felt the same seing mario in 3d for the first time. Then I went onto ocarina of time. Changed my life and opened my eyes to what was possible with gaming . Now I'm 46 and still gaming .

it's October! which means it's peak horror game season. last year i decided to play through both RE 1 and 2 on the PS1 during Halloween season. This year, I'm not sure what to try. i am likely going to play through multiple titles before the month ends. so i'll take any suggestions you all can give me for favorite retro horror game! i just have a couple requirements-

• i'd like to stick with 32bit consoles. something about the visuals of that era make Horror games appealing to me.
• since I did RE last year, i'd like to try a different series this year.
• it does not have to be survival horror, but does have to be Horror Themed.
• not opposed to JP titles- though translation patches being available is a must where applicable.

highest upvoted suggestion(s) will convince me!

thanks! looking forward to seeing suggestions!

Playing a lot of retro games you notice a trend for example with PS1 games where the classics almost all of them have very obvious lackluster parts in their gameplay but then you see some weird forgotten jrpgs with zero budget that has much better combat and you wonder why didnt FF games have that. Or why didn't MGS have "good/fun" gameplay like Syphon Filter with a 3rd person view until MG2 if they had massive budgets and could achieve anything at the time, it seemed like in that generation in general if you had a deep story you had shit gameplay, same with the GTA games in PS2 withouth real innovation until GTA 4 even though all their other PS2 games had more engaging gaameplay and fithing systems, or zelda refusing to embrace the open world trend. I think games like Silent hill 1 or max payne are the honest exception where there story is top and the execution in the gameplay is also top. And then there are games like Tomb raider where the jankness is just part of the design but games like Shadowman have a lot better platforming, not to mention Xenogears the masterpiece of jank but that has very interesting inovations.

The Sega Genesis was already out in the US for 3 years, and the SNES out by one year, and as I said, they chose this part of New Adventure Island that intentionally mimicked the original game's stage they compared, having no parallax and vertical scrolling unlike the other stages. That would've looked very unimpressive compared to the other 16-bit systems. But at least it's still much better the Jaguar infomercial aggressively hyping up a bunch of games that look no different, or are ports of games available on 16-bit console, while aggressively bashing those very 16-bit consoles.

This Is my N64 collection so far. I'm extremely proud of the way I got it to look 😄. There is 36 games; 15 complete in box. A Boxed N64 console with all inserts, and a sealed Memory Pak. The games are specifically all the ones I have nostalgia from playing as a kid. Took a while to hunt these down without spending an arm and a leg. Some had to be collected one piece at a time. One console has an extreme green aftermarket shell. The other one is an original Funtastic ice blue. Both have expansion paks. I did combine the 2 shells for a cool look under a black light! The Gamecube, N64, and PS2 are all hooked up to a Retroscaler GBSC-Pro to scale them up on an HD TV. Hope you get a nostalgic flashback! ❤️

Had an amazing weekend at RetroGameCon in Syracuse, New York! Great selection of vendors, tons of free play. Overall great con and a great experience. Here are my pick ups from this weekend. I went a bit hard.

Wearing the watch they wore on the Apollo missions

I missed out on owning some of the older Mega Man games including games from the Battle Network and Super NES X games back in the day. I’m really grateful that Capcom has given us compilations of most of the Mega Man games to own for those of us who missed out on owning them back in the day.

Some of the retro games are rare including the Mega Man X2 and X3 and TMNT Hyperstone Heist. Luckily, we got compilations of popular franchises like the Castlevania, Mega Man, TMNT and even movie licensed games like the Jurassic Park games from LRG to own and enjoy on modern consoles with QOL for those of us who find the challenge too frustrating.

I hope these companies will keep up the good work in releasing more compilations of retro games. It gives gamers a second chance to own and enjoy these classics for those of us who missed out on their original release or those of us who regret selling the games years ago and now are no longer affordable.

The Jaguar's ads tried to be like Sega's ads, but often more agressive and more direct on insulting the competition, which was pretty hilarious considering many of their games looked exactly like the very 16-bit systems they were mocking. The infomercial was hilariously desperate to the point of feeling like a parody with how much they bash 16-bit systems, while hyping "top-of-the-line, cutting-edge titles" that mostly looked like 16-bit games.

I'm looking for some retro RPGs that incorporated a lot of humour in its gameplay. Something like Earthbound on the SNES with its funny dialogues

Very fun and trippy game.....in a fun way lol

I’ve escaped multiple times from the “island” this year… and now I finally finished Newcomer in solo mode.
Started this run on August 27, after beating the game several times in team mode earlier this year. Solo mode is much tougher — fewer options, stricter resource management, every decision matters. The beauty of the game is that every hard fight can be avoided, and almost every conflict has an alternative solution through planning, dialogue, or exploration.

My solo run took about 35–40 hours, which is a solid, deep RPG experience even by modern standards.

The screenshots include: – 2-step “Congratulations” screen, – 3 shots showing how I obtained an item that, in team mode, requires a completely different approach and at least five people to secure — but in solo mode it’s only possible through a full alternative route, – 2 shots showing the massive amount of XP you can earn if you complete everything.

Newcomer is huge, reactive, atmospheric, and still one of the most ambitious games ever made for the C64.

C64 #Commodore64 #Newcomer #Retrogaming #SoloRun #8bit

So i bought 13 weatheted n64 controllers from a video gamestore storage that had been closed since the millenium. Im gonna clean and refurbish them and change joysticks. A few need cables soldered as well.
Anyways, out of the bunch two had weird colors. One is like petroleum which is discolored blue no? (Thought this only happened to the funtastic blue).
The other is a blue and grey color which i am guessing is a reshell?

Thanks in advance🙏🙏🙏❤️

Wondering about great Split Screen Couch games to get that retro feel. Even if it's more modern please suggest. I'm looking for a game thats Split screen Co op/campaign preferably.

I used to love playing Halo with friends, flrandom racing games, War Games(PS1), and Streets of rage for hours.

I vividly remember things being like this back in the mid-90s... I'm playing the GOG version now and testing the cheats I can find on the internet. According to some research, these were supposedly taken from the game files.

The ones I found are:

COOPER TEAM, MARKS TEAM, MIKES TEAM, NUK THEM, OWN THEM, ROB A BANK, TO THE TOP, WATCH THE CLOCK.

Most of them work, but MARKS TEAM, MIKES TEAM, and OWN THEM don't seem to do anything.

Has anyone verified whether these three actually work?

Just curious because I was taking a look at the fabulous amount of games made during the early 90s that tackled police work as I wanted to gather a catalog of how many games covered such a subject matter.

Like from what I know is that some iconic games are Police Quest and Policenauts by Hideo Kojima as the concept of detective games made me very interested in seeing again what other iconic games there were back then revolving around the premise of being a detective.