It's happening

The fucking laser active?! The only things worth anything on the system got ports. The rest is just junk. It was gimmicky tech where a video streams in the background and a little sprite can do something. Totally shit games, and for preservation purposes people have made video playthroughs anyways. You are NOT MISSING ANYTHING.

Nerds keep obsessing over the most minute details and miss a lot more worthwhile projects.

>>11876361 (OP)
This guy is fucking nuts.

>>11876817
That's what sucks about the retro game community. It's full of retards.

>>11876456
>and for preservation purposes people have made video playthroughs anyways.
Thats not how preservation works

Quickly Catherine!

>>11876952
Hi Michael.

>>11876998
Hi Faggot.

>>11876817
Eh, regardless of the salute, Elon is legitimately shows fascist tendencies. He frequently follows and shares posts from neo-Nazis and other far right figures. At the very least he has some strong white nationalist and authoritarian leanings. It's fair to hate Elon. Twitter was also ruined by him, which is amazing because the previous owners were already terrible.

He's a lame person in general regardless of his views, so I can't blame anybody for hating him.

>>11876817
Eh, regardless of the salute, Elon does show fascist tendencies. He frequently follows and shares posts from neo-Nazis and other far right figures. At the very least he has some strong white nationalist and authoritarian leanings. It's fair to hate Elon. Twitter was also ruined by him, which is amazing because the previous owners were already terrible.

He's a lame person in general regardless of his views, so I can't blame anybody for hating him.

>>11876952
For a system like Laser Active? Almost no games, almost no interactivity, and an overly complex system that isn't worth reverse engineering? Sure.

It's a fucking shit console. We have the laser-discs backed up and forever will. You could remake the entire Laser-active library in new engines in less time than ti would take to emulate the fucking thing.

It's a complete ass console that failed for a reason.

ANYTHING of ANY value got ported to non-insane consoles like the Sega-CD, PlayStation, etc.

>>11876817
This is the only guy that's been remotely interested in working on the laseractive over all these years and yeah, he's a total schizo. At least he's fucking doing SOMETHING now, trying to follow anything involving this scene is such a headache because all he does is cut off his nose to spite his face with his own autism, like that shit about needing to hunt down five or six copies of each game before he can dump an image because it'll be 'imperfect' otherwise. I wouldn't hold your breath on any of this but whatever.
>>11876456
>video playthroughs
I appreciate that you know fuck all about the topic and you're waving it off but if you actually dig a little beyond surface level, the majority of the video playthroughs online are from like a decade ago and usually missing half the game since they're just one playthrough, hell some don't even make it to an ending. I used to read this one blogger that covered laseractive games and it was immediately obvious how useless the playthroughs were as 'preservation' with how much shit isn't shown.

>>11877015
>>11876817
It's not whether his views have merit, it's that he's bitching about fucking politics in gaming spaces. Imagine hiring a plumber and he starts lecturing you on his political views? Who gives a shit start plumbing you asshole!

>>11877031
Yeah fair point, I didn't know where he was posting that.

>>11877029
Thats still not how preservation works.

>>11877029
>It's a fucking shit console. We have the laser-discs backed up and forever will.
We actually don't have a single one, nobody's even figured out a concrete method to dump one yet, iirc OP's talked about a lossless method that supposedly works but hasn't released a single thing yet to my knowledge, though even if he did there'd be nothing to play it on yet obviously

>>11877040
>>11877035
>>11877034
Who gives a flying fuck about the laser active?

>>11877040
There are several LDF dumps on archive.org

>>11877070
I just care about preservation. Anyone ever archive the app catalogue from the Cybiko? Would be sick.

>>11877070
I do

>>11876456
>where a video streams in the background and a little sprite can do something
Those are fun and i want to play them.

>>11877070
Me. I like that one spook house rpg shooter.

>>11876456
What's it to you, nerd?

>>11876817
>>11877015
Too bad that economical Fascism (AKA Corporatism) actually works unlike Communism.

>>11877015
>It's fair to hate Elon.
>because he's not a commie faggot

Resistance libs are cringe but “apolitical” closeted Trump / Elon chud dickriders are on a whole other level

>>11876817
Nazis got us to the moon.

>>11877756
Operation paperclip got us to the moon, the nazi party was underground by then

>>11877070
I care.

>>11877756
>Nazis got us to the moon.
They didn't.
Oh and good for the guy in OP's op. He isn't hurting anybody. Good for him. So anyway I looked up system (oh THAT ONE) and basically it doesn't have its own games, that are worth mentioning anyway, and is just a trophy item because it looks kewl and plays PC Engine UND SEGA Genesis games in addition to Laserdiscs.
I wonder if that laser pickup even swings around or if it forces the user to flip discs.

>LaserActive
Yawn, wake me up when someone manages to emulate the Halycon.

>>11878448
What does this sexy thing promise to do?

>>11877031
I agree, I hate it when a dev blog or art account or whatever brings up politics there.

Though I looked up the source of that post and it was from a thread on the emulation subreddit where someone else started about recommendations for Twitter and Bluesky emulation dev accounts to follow, had someone else reply that he hates twitter, then someone else asking why Twitter is hated, and it was THAT comment that this dev replied to.

He didn't just randomly bring up politics out of nowhere like that cropped screenshot makes it appear.

>>11878451
>What does this sexy thing promise to do?
Say your name

https://youtu.be/QeI5zKeGELA?t=157

>>11878482
lol and it cost a fortune I'm sure.

>>11877030
>needing to hunt down five or six copies of each game before he can dump an image because it'll be 'imperfect' otherwise
What utter nonsense. I have a cartridge dumper and my dumps all match every hash of the ones available online. The dumper even performs a CRC check against a database for some of it's supported systems to make sure it dumped it right. I have even used those dumps for romhacks and they all pass the CRC check for the patch formats/programs that support doing that.

>>11878503
I'm sure it would have had it ever gotten released instead just existing as a handful of prototypes like the SNES CD before getting cancelled.

>>11878514
Hopefully it didn't cost them too much to develop.
>SNES CD
I tell you if that came out, that generation would have been extended for several years. Almost no one had a Turbo CD , and not many more had a SEGA CD, but if Nintendo had offered an all-in-one experience at a reasonable price point, I think it would have been the Game Boy of consoles.

>>11878510
Is it not the analog nature of the laserdiscs that's the problem? Sure, cart dumpers can dump each cart bit for bit identical every time and verify it's correct, but for laserdiscs there is no "correct." There's no digital CRC encoded on the disc that can tell you if you're getting a good rip, and there's no telling if the disc you are ripping does not have a manufacturing flaw.
Given that if you want to avoid the 1TB GoodLaserActive.rar you torrent to faithfully preserve images with dropouts and line errors, the best you can do is rip it several times with several copies and check any regions that aren't sufficiently similar to the "baseline" rip.

>>11878526
>I tell you if that came out, that generation would have been extended for several years.
I doubt it. I used to think that way because I assumed it was like the SegaCD, but then I learned otherwise. It was basically just a CD-ROM in place of a cartridge, that's it, absolutely no additional hardware or features whatsoever. This would have killed it off pretty quickly like the FDS was, and the FDS actually added extra audio channels to the Famicom. The SNES absolutely thrived on expansion chips, it used them more than any other console by a mile. While yes some of them were used for graphics compression that you can just brute-force with the space of a CD, most of them were co-processors adding additional features or processing power that the SNES could never do on it's own, and just simply having a CD drive bolted in place of the cart would not have helped with either.

>>11878574
>Is it not the analog nature of the laserdiscs that's the problem? Sure, cart dumpers can dump each cart bit for bit identical every time and verify it's correct, but for laserdiscs there is no "correct."
I thought that anon was talking about dumping Genesis carts. I guess it makes a bit more sense ifi t's from an analog source like a Laserdisk, though still a bit excessive considering how many LaserActive disks there were and how likely rare and expensive they are nowadays. As for ripping the data, the Domesday Duplicator can do a near-perfect job with a compatible Laserdisk player, at least for the analog data, not sure if it can read any digital data/code off the disk or if they even contained any code.

>>11877031
Both sides do this shit to some extent but I find lefties are so much worse in general about it because to most conservative people politics is just a preference and not a lifestyle.

Most republicans aren't rabidly political, just pragmatic. Their thinking is that if somebody has to be president, it might as well be the guy who's going to lower your taxes. For the most part they will go about their business without having to engage or interrogate people about their politics because they typically define themsevles by their profession, not their politics.

But fucking leftists have to shout it from the rooftops because it's a fucking crusade and they're not content to merely make a choice for themselves. They have to convert people. They have to harass people. They have to wear their ideology like a fucking merit badge and bring up politics out of the blue no matter what the context. Their entire lives revolve around the ideology and they can't just shut the fuck up and work with someone who has a different opinion, even if the other person isn't antagonizing them. And if they're not sure what your opinion is they go out of their way to ask because they can't just leave it alone.

I've had liberal relatives get assblasted with me not because I voted for Trump (I didn't vote at all) but just because I didn't immediately agree 1000% with every talking point they had which they brought up out of the blue when we were just trying to have lunch or something.

>>11878574
>Is it not the analog nature of the laserdiscs that's the problem?
Nta, but yes.
With Lasers you just can't make a perfect digital copy because except for the soundtrack (and not in all cases) there is no digital to get that "copy" as you well know.
Imagine the fun I had learning this 15 years ago when trying to make a copy of the Japanese Phantom Menace Laserdiscs. Turned out badly. Then you can read into numerous threads on the Disney film Fantasia and due to a need to use some Laserdisc sound elements, it would go out of sync, this driving restorers mad, but they finally settled on an ingenious workaround involved a PAL encoded source that they then either sped up or down.

>>11877747
>le commies!
I hope you are extremely old because if youre not, you're sad pathetic and embarrassing.

>>11878613
If you don't think there aren't a shitload of rightoids that also act like that you're just deluding yourself. I have seen so many conservatives try to bring it up every opportunity they can while wrapping themselves up in clothing advertising Trump and watching Fox News 24/7 like it was their religion. There are people who literally can't have a single conversation without finding some way to lean it towards something they heard on some conservative news station or website, and if they can't find a way to shift whatever non-political is being talked about towards that they will just bring it up out of nowhere when they have a break in the conversation. I have tons of relatives who are exactly like that.

*involving
>>11878609
>I doubt it. I used to think that way because I assumed it was like the SegaCD, but then I learned otherwise. It was basically just a CD-ROM in place of a cartridge, that's it, absolutely no additional hardware or features whatsoever.

That's lame, no wonder Nintendo passed. Or was it Sony?

>>11878632
>That's lame, no wonder Nintendo passed. Or was it Sony?
Depends who you ask. Nintendo fanboys claim that Sony wanted 100% of the royalties, Sony fanboys say that Nintendo was the one demanding an unfair cut. Either way, I don't think it makes Nintendo look good that they gave Sony the middle finger by announcing that they were going to go with Philips instead at a trade show without informing Sony before hand right before Sony was about to make their announcement that they would be making a CD add-on for the SNES on that same trade show.

Makes me think that body of them were being assholes but that Nintendo likely was the bigger one, considering how much of an asshole they were to devs and publishers in the 3rd and 4th gen I would not be surprised if it was mostly their fault.

>>11878639
*the both of them

>>11878613
>I've had liberal relatives get assblasted with me not because I voted for Trump (I didn't vote at all) but just because I didn't immediately agree 1000% with every talking point they had which they brought up out of the blue when we were just trying to have lunch or something.
I agree it's more common on average with lefties, but it happens with the right too. Particularly the far right or conspiracy obsessed right types. Those relatives do the same thing where they go nuts at you if you don't agree 1000%. It's hard too, because they expect you to 1000% agree with batshit insane conspiracies. Like if I'd even say something mild like "that sounds kinda far-fetched" about Biden being a clone or 9/11 being CGI holograms, he'd start getting pissed and louder.

>>11878642
One of the times a correction was needed because I was going "hmmmmmmm"...heh.
I'm with you on it being more Nintendo's fault probably too. I will admit to being a former Nintendo apologist, but those days are over.

I mean, Nintendo has made some great games, but they did "borrow" King Kong and got away with it. They're hypocrites.

>>11878609
No, additional hardware was planned, and it was going to have multimedia features like audio CD playback

>>11877747
how to spot an americunt:
he only knows two sides, only black and white. His worldview is binary

The prototypes that got produced had no additional hardware though, and it did not need some add-on cart to make the CD drive work. Adding something like that is not something you can just tack on to a release concept prototype.

>>11878660
The prototypes that got produced had no additional hardware though, and it did not need some add-on cart to make the CD drive work. Adding something like that is not something you can just tack on to a release concept prototype.

>>11876361 (OP)
What is

>>11878479
>He didn't just randomly bring up politics out of nowhere
He did, though. It's a fucking emulation subreddit.

>>11879436
He replied to comment asking why Twitter is hated, in a thread someone started asking which Twitter and Bluesky emulation accounts to follow. That's not "randomly bring it up". You can argue that the person above the one he replied to randomly brought up Twitter hate, or that the person who started the topic randomly brought up Twitter and Bluesky, but he himself didn't randomly bring it up, he was just replying to a comment that had already brought it up in a thread that had already brought it up.

That's like arguing if someone responds here to a comment someone made about politics that the person responding randomly brought up politics rather than the person who first made the original comment.

>>11877015
Nobody is falling for the “Elon is a Nazi that’s on my side!” ruse. He’s a Zionist that wants to put microchips in people’s brains who took ownership of the USA’s primary social conditioning tool. The “right wing” people Elon reposts also claim the earth is flat because the intention is to devalue criticism of Jews.

>>11876990
The disc drive! It's gone!

>>11877040
>nobody's even figured out a concrete method to dump one yet
the video portion of a laserdisc is analog and yes, it and the digital portion can be backed up

>>11877756
And yet they still lost to soviet farmers in war and in the space race. The moon was a cope. The US and Germany lost every single relevant milestone in the space race.

>>11882780
>soviet farmers
Anon...

>>11882791
It's some poltard mass-spamming this shit in several threads
For example:
>>11882817
>>11882827
Notice that thread was dead and suddenly got several posts all of a similar nature all posted about a minute after the other.

>>11881795
I never knew about laser active till that Macaw45 guy talked about it along with IWill supposedly a point and click game

>>11877015
>Twitter was also ruined by him
are you seriously saying that twitter was ever good? people like this post here?

>>11876817
OH NO HE HAS AN OPINION ABOUT SOMETHING

STOP HIM

STOP HIM

>>11882838
hi jewtard

>>11882856
>which is amazing because the previous owners were already terrible.
The post wasn't praising Twitter (which has always been a shit site). Twitter always sucked, but Elon made it even worse.

>>11884176
are you dumb? to ruin something implies the thing wasn't in ruins already. twitter was and always has been a cesspit, you can't ruin a cesspit.

>>11876456
>>11877029
>>11877070
Why are you so mad about someone taking their time to emulate a console for free?