Why is it so HARD to go back and play PS1 JRPGs? If you try to get an actual PS1 to play the games, about 10% of your playthrough will be spent just waiting for things to load.
Going from one area to another, opening the menu, saving the game, all these little things will waste 5 to 10 seconds of your life, but they add up and make the experience miserable. Even if you play on an emulator and get rid of "disc read speed" and all of that, you're still gonna have to deal with animations and shit that's in the game to mask that the PS1 was still loading some shit, so you're gonna have to use fast-foward all the time, and that just breaks the immersion for me.

I just tried to play Vagrant Story and then Xenogears on the PS3, it's terrible because the PS3 is such a good emulator that it emulates even the fucking load times. I think even the PS2 has faster loading than PS1 emulation on the PS2 because you can activate "fast disc speed" on it's settings.
I don't know why copyright exists at all if a company is willing to sit on a game for almost 30 years and do nothing with it, but will sue people if they try to gather funds to decompile it somehow. I bet that, if people were allowed to ask for money for shit like creating emulators or decompiling games, progress would be made much faster because a team would be able to work on this shit full-time. Shit, just compare how Bleem was able to make the Dreamcast play MGS on the Dreamcast BETTER than the actual PS1, meanwhile PS1 emulation on the Wii took over 20 years to be somewhat ok - it's not even great yet, it's functional and has decent compatibility.
Unfortunately this type of work requires so much effort and commitment that i think people can only make something great like the Bleemcast if they have a financial incentive.

I don't even know what i'm talking about anymore, i'm going to bed.

Yeah I couldn't play Xenogears because of how long every menu takes to open, on top of that the fucking awful platforming sections and enemy encounters every single step. Truly a shame, the plot looked promising enough. But hey, maybe I'm gonna beat it with fast forward some day.

>>716477646 (OP)
the real reason xenogears is unplayable is a really shitty battle system, obnoxious encounter rate and monotonous slog dungeons. and if you push through all that, youre rewarded with a VN disc 2 instead of the game youve been playing up to that point.


vagrant story holds up fine if youre not an ADHD permafried zoomtard however. I played it the first time last year and its one of my favorite games ever. yes you will have to slog through menus constantly, but scanning enemies and finding out the right damage setup, as well as crafting new items, was half the fun for me. finding a new workshop was MAX comfy sovl.

>>716477646 (OP)
Ps1/2 both kinda always sucked, n64 too but the beaner kids of /v/ really glaze snoy’s old consoles

>>716477646 (OP)
>NOOOO I CANT WAIT FIVE SECONDS I NEED CONSTANT STIMULATION NOOOO SAVE ME NIGGERMAN I CANT OCCUPY MYSELF WITH MY OWN THOUGHTS THATS TOO SCARY

thank god I was born before the internet, zooms are a lost cause. maybe you should scroll tiktok while the battles load to keep you occupied.

>>716477646 (OP)
>waah muh time
where are you in a hurry to? sucking cocks?
your time is worthless and so are you

>>716477646 (OP)
Sounds like a (you) problem.

>>716477646 (OP)
This is low class ADD behavior but regardless. Emulators like Duckstation has settings to fast forward loading. You can also assign a fast forward or turbo button. R5 on my Steam Deck toggles it on and off. I cant go without it ever since seeing it used in Chrono Cross, FF7, 8 and 12 ports with them.

>>716478770
playstation consoles have gotten worse with every new iteration. everyone who isnt a complete fucking toddler and/or retard acknowledges this.

>>716478940
>he uses fast forward

why even play the game at that point? just watch a lets play and skip past every battle.

>>716478940
as a simple rule, I never use fastforward on my first playthrough of any game

>>716477646 (OP)
Playing Xenogears for the first time on retroarch without fast forward, 15 hours in and it's not that bad imo, sure it's a bit slow and the combat is very basic but i admit that i tend to overlook gameplay, especially when it comes to a story as ambitious as this one