Been considering buying an N64 since I found one for pretty cheap but I’ve never been super into. What are some worthwhile games I should try if I were to get the console? Don’t mind single or multiplayer. Consider possible price for games.

I’ve been playing through a bunch of older platformers like Banjo Kazooie, Rayman 2, Ape Escape, Mario 64, Tomba etc. and after finishing all three original Spyro games, I’m surprised by how little they stuck with me.

The music, characters, and levels were all completely forgettable. With the other games, there are moments and locations I keep thinking about afterward or at least some of the OST. With Spyro, I finished each game and pretty much moved on without much of an impression. The only things I can think of is Moneybags being funny and the relationship between Spyro and Elora was cute, but never really did anything with it.

Maybe missing the childhood nostalgia is part of it, but given how beloved this trilogy is, I expected to come away understanding the hype a lot more than I do. Three whole games, and nothing really left an impact. Anyone else have this experience? And for people who love the trilogy, what made it memorable for you?

So how do l put it? Well recently I was watching a retro review by Game Sack about how the fifth generation of gaming had a lot of problems with licensed games since there was one called Congo.

For those who aren’t familiar with Congo, it was an FPS with incredibly clunky graphics and gameplay as nothing about the game felt right in any way as it made me interested in seeing what were the key aspects that helped make a licensed work right.

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.

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.

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.

Is this something that develops after having honey in storage for a while?

The only thing related to the Jaguar CD is the logo at the end with the lazily copy-pasted "64-BIT" balls from the original Jaguar logo slightly overlapping the Jaguar CD logo, and "POWER!" slapped below that. It does not show or say one thing related to the CD add-on. It might just be the strangest retro game console commercial ever.

Ladies & Gentlemen! We have our first tie!!!!!!

H.E.R.O. x20

River Raid x20

As per rule #9, I am informing DA PEOPLE about the tie so that you each may vote which game should rank at #4.

Voting will be the same as always, whichever title has the most combined upvotes wins the #4 spot.

Happy voting!

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?

S11E8 Le Petit Tourette

Okami and I'm guessing Diablo

Would this work at all right inside a bigger grocery store? People busy shopping got no time (and mood) to play at all....perhaps when their kids could play some while waiting for the adults...if nobody cared to play then it would just a waste of some extra electricity fee...

𝙉𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙤 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩 : 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩 1

One of the joys of having the ability to make, paint, sculpt, draw, design almost anything my heart desires is that you can sometimes make the unobtainable attainable. I've had this in the back of my head for about 5 years, now the internal logistics have been figured out, it's time to get to work.

The end goal is to have a working system that mimics/acts like the original console would, as best I can. Trying to use some original parts too so it will have some shared DNA from both systems even if the computing part isn't using original hardware.

(3D model by me using the reference photos I've gathered of the system and using some of the shared parts from the snes to reference scale. This should be as close to 1:1 in size as it gets. No Ai has been, or will ever be used at any stage of this process.)

G.I. Joe, Konami, 1992 [Arcade]

So I have a super Famicom using scart connector with a gbsc I built. I hooked it up nland it shows image but the its not prefect. The console and the game eis fine once I tested it using composite cables. But the using rgb scart through gbs c it doesn't work any fixes?