Thread 12029202

What's up with every retro game community? Why do they all do nothing but post title screens on expensive hardware?

>>12029202 (OP)
There's no such thing as an online community.

because the hobby has been taken over, have you been living under a rock?

>>12029202 (OP)
To mock you for being poor and/or a newfag

>>12029202 (OP)
>plays gb/gba games
>4 buttons

what the fuck is the point? why ruin the design with 2 buttons youll never need?

Because they've been discussed to death already, the only thing left is just dick waving "Look what I got!" in poor fags face

>>12029202 (OP)
why are you still CRYING about the analogue pocket all these years later?
its literally a portable mister with an incredible screen
it is the best value for people who ACTUALLY play games
nothing has surpassed it\


keep using your grandmas old laptop to emulate aka (pretend) to play the games hahahahahah

>>12029202 (OP)
Because they don't care about playing games and care about flexing how much they spend on retro gimmiks.
Not even joking about that, was asking to a dev at kai software if they were gonna release a rom of their games but started mentioning piracy and similar shit hence only physical release that works in multi-mega and mega SG, wow how impressive it works on shitty clones but doesn't work on accurate emu wow!! Is just like scumzie games but the sheeps just edit emu code to make game work (without uploading source changes) so you end with 5 versions of shittyarch of 3 GB in total instead of just the games patched to run on any emu, great job (sarcasm).

>>12029202 (OP)
>reverse image search
>reddit
Why not ask them?

>>12029202 (OP)
What's up with you imagining you know anything about every retro game community?

Because setting up your shit for a photoshoot is a different endeavor than playing the games. If you get the itch to show off a new pickup or something interesting in your collection, you do so, you don't feel the need to play through the whole thing before taking a photo.
And yes, of course there are people who buy games they never play and never make it beyond the title screen, but just because somebody takes a photo of a title screen, that doesn't mean that's as far as they've ever played, or will ever play.

>>12029202 (OP)
daily reminder , analogue won. by a LOT.

>>12029202 (OP)
People these days are all about seeking validation from others.
>>12029267
>>12029404
Buy an ad.

>>12029231
I prefer it because these can be mapped to A + B

>>12029404
>glaremaxxing

>>12029401
not to mention the title screen is also a lot more photogenic than most in-game screens

>>12029202 (OP)
Collectors gonna COOOOOLLECT.

>>12029202 (OP)
Why are you doing it right now? Break the mold. Do something new.

>>12029202 (OP)
Hipster adjacent

>>12029404
sexo!

>>12029221
It doesn’t really work it’s an excuse for them to pretend you don’t want to get a job

See he played a video game that one time he doesn’t want to work!

>>12029231
The Pocket supports OpenFPGA and people like to play SNES, Mega Drive and Neo Geo games on it. Being able to map shoulder button actions to the unused face buttons for the GBA games can also be useful for some people. Stop being retarded.

>>12029202 (OP)
Because we take pictures before we play, there's no point in doing it while we're playing because we're playing the fucking game

>>12029231
Turbo. People like turbo. Are you retarded?

>>12029202 (OP)
""Games collectors"" don't play games

>>12030345
There is truth to this, but it isn't always for the reasons that people think (that they're poser, investors, whatever). I would bet that most game collectors eith enviable collections tend to skew older, to the point that they probably have a lot of other obligations which take up their actual time as well as their mental energy, and buying stuff for the collection is fast, and is building up a library of ",hey when I finally do have the time, I can play all these fun games," only to find that said time never comes. I'm at best minimally employed, and all too often when I sit down to play, my mind is overwhelmed with thoughts of "what are you doing; you should be working on [x]," to the point that I lose interest in playing.

>>12029202 (OP)
If they genuinely enjoy the games they brag about online it's okay. Otherwise they're wasting their money for nothing.

>>12029431
THIS holy shit. i fucking despise nintendo's layout so fucking much. every NES/SNES/GBA game i need to remap this shit.

Come home.

What about end screen pictures?

>>12030989
i really want to get one and i don't even like GB games that much

>>12029202 (OP)
Post The End screens on original hardware or emulators. Be the change you want to see.

>>12031418
That would require him to not only play, but beat games.

>>12029202 (OP)
I find most modern "retro gamers" play very uninteresting and casual games, such as the one in your picture, so they have nothing to talk about otherwise. It's the ultimate conclusion of placing aesthetic over gameplay.

>>12031397
Why would you want one if you don't like GB games?

>>12031418
"being the change you want to be" doesn't work when it's just you. What is more likely to happen is that people will get mad at you because they feel they are being shown up or they can't meaningfully contribute.

4chan is actually a great example of this as the catalog is the same cycle of "content" on repeat recycling the same vapid arguments about the most basic games they've all forgotten. Amount of time available isn't much of a factor as these people are 100% unemployed but they still don't play games. The other half are nostalgiatards who post other people's pictures of games or systems and that they liked it (but not how or why) and that's their contribution for the week.

>>12032705
You are mistaking /vr/ with /v/

>>12032715
Definitely not. /v/ is the same, but gets new games to have the same unrelated arguments. They are still the same conversational dead fish, except they post more porn.

>>12030989
nintendo could have made a gorillion dollars selling a preloaded gameboy in the vein of the nes and snes minis only for these guys to come along and completely push their shit in

>>12032727
4chan is actually a great example of this as the catalog is the same cycle of "content" on repeat recycling
Sounds like you're getting baited by "Auster"

>>12032740
Case in point, this post is a completely nonsensical reply.

>>12029202 (OP)
>>12031568
>its mainly a narrow milennial hipster niche focused on nintendo crap. I would not be suprised if nintendo marketing is responsible for 50% of the cancer via free access to their product . Cunts pretending they had NES in the 80s or N64s and gamecubes who only first ecountered any of that brand with a 3DS or a Wii. Utter cunts. Pure reddit and soaked in millenial hipster fapping to themselves.
>>12031568
>Youtube is the land of 'viral brand marketing' how many grown adults have you seen proudly displaying fucking plushies with a wall of Nintendo shit? These people were never into retro games to begin with they just want to belong to something anything. They'd have wound up hanging out scientology flyers if Nintendo and reddit had not got to them first.
>>12032347
>What is fucked is the strange millennial nintendo plushie cult and their acquistion of machines that they never owned and that were never part of their childhood or youth as hipster status symbols and is a bit artificial and driven by viral nintendo brand advertising on you tube and reddit hipserism.
>>12032405
>the vast majority never were much into retro games or gaming and aside from hording shit like N64 controllers also lie like rain and disrupt other peoples fun with their hipster pseud plushie bullshit because its not just I like nintendo stuff, It's I must like nintendo stuff and attack everything other than the cult of no real idenity youtube viral marketed nintendo bullshit that people who liked games and systems look at and laugh.

>>12029202 (OP)
>>12032416
>Milenneials reddit hipsterism and their obsession with brand..........anyone who was alive in the 90s knows no one who was into gaming gave a fuck about nintendo for example. They first encoutered the brand with the wii or 3ds. Milennials destroy everything they are involved in mainly die to their fucked up social media habits and lack of identity for themselves which latches onto past generations fashions and syles often in a soulless herd manner and gets it horribly wrong.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

>>12032619
>you want a mario game cube to wear as a reddit status hat on youtube and can't afford it

>>12032715
No /vr/ is exactly the same. 90% of the catalogue could be pruned and nothing of value would be lost.

>>12032747
It's not nonsensical at all
You are seeing repeated content because thats what Auster does, spams the same thing over and over
>>12032754
Then leave?

>>12032759
How many times do I have to "leave" to escape people shitting up every single online community? Like why does this thread exist >>12031716 ? So many dumb bait and rec threads made by underages just trying to get attention.

>>12032763
Judging by your personality
Indefinitely
Either be the change you want to see or fuck off, simple
Stop expecting other people to do what you want

>>12032759
I don't visit your boogeyman threads because they are very obvious and use basic topics as a wide net. Me being the change I want to see doesn't work in this case, because other people can't help themselves. Maybe you feel personally insulted, but it's nonsense to claim it's just 1 guy when everyone else falls for it every single time. It's a userbase problem.

>>12032763
What's wrong with rec threads?

>>12032784
>but it's nonsense to claim it's just 1 guy when everyone else falls for it
You obviously werent here for the master system spam
>Me being the change I want to see doesn't work in this case
So you admit you don't make threads about shit that you want to talk about?
You are your own worst enemy

>>12032778
Why did you avoid my question about why that thread exists? Why does this thread exist? >>12032524
>Either be the change you want to see or fuck off, simple
You don't know what I post. And I feel the more effort I put in, the more panicked shitposting the usual non-players make to divert attention from actual discussion.

>>12032786
The OP isn't providing value, he's requesting value from others. It's a nothing thread, and the replies it generates are naturally similarly lacking in value. At some point you pretty much have people recommending let's plays they watched on YouTube to each other of games they have not and will never play and have nothing to say about.

>>12032791
Anon, I have and do. I also post quite positively, recommend a lot of games (both more common and "obscure") to people who are interested, talk about lesser known systems, post lots of screenshots and accompanying descriptions of games.

Obviously nothing changes and when you complain about it, some guy will try his best to make a strawman to disregard your complaint that he himself agrees with.

>>12032793
>>12032795
>>12032797
I literally told you that there is a dedicated shitposter that makes bait threads and you said it's nonsensical

>>12032797
>I also post quite positively, recommend a lot of games
You're part of the problem then.

>>12032801
Yes, because 1 dedicated shitposter will only be making empty threads. They need a willing audience which clearly makes it a userbase problem if this 1 dedicated shitposter can do this for years and people continue to argue with them. Hence it's nonsensical to say it's all the fault of 1 shitposter.

>>12032802
Only as part of a discussion or otherwise organic thread. Not some "top 5 all timers of all-time?" thread.

>>12032805
>They need a willing audience
This is really naive and they'll keep making threads until they import an audience.

>>12032812
>until
About as naive as you are. Even if he needed to "import" an audience, that ship has dumped its cargo on these shores long ago.

>>12032819
>that ship has dumped its cargo on these shores long ago.
What is this even implying? The catalogue is full of these dumb zero or one reply threads. >>12032815 It would literally take 2 minutes to fix this lol

>>12032825
That thread was made eleven minutes ago, you need to be patient

>>12029214
trvke

>>12032825
>picks a thread made 10 minutes ago on a slow board just so he can continue to argue
Don't see how it relates to your boogeyman either. Are you just one of those guys who wants to pointlessly argue? Because that's another problem group.

>>12032829
Patient for what? Dude makes like 20 threads an hour.

>>12032832
I picked that thread because just word filtering "soul" to vaginal discharge and "kino" to rotting diarrhea would improve the board and likely the entire website phenomenally.

>>12032834
>>The catalogue is full of these dumb zero or one reply threads
>quotes thread that was made twelve minutes ago
this isn't /v/, slow boards allow for higher quality of discussion. if a thread has no legs it'll sort itself out and fall off the board, that's the point of imageboards. make your own threads about shit you think is worth discussing if you're so sore about it

>>12032840
>if a thread has no legs it'll sort itself out and fall off the board
That's not what's happening though, now is it

>>12032840
How can someone make 20 "high quality" threads an hour?

>>12032841
>>12032843
I just spit out whatever I think would be fun to discuss, some fail and some don't. ta-da

>>12032864
So you're the problem then.

>>12032867
You seem humourless, feel better soon.

>>12032878
You are like a snake wearing human flesh.

>>12032864
>I just shit out cancer
Your birthing person must be so proud

>>12032795
What they provide is a topic of discussion. If they're a good OP, they'll provide feedback and build on the recommendations they've been given, which can spark further discussion and help other people find games they may want to try.
I understand though, this is a board that hates the very thing it's supposed to be devoted to, and wants to gatekeep as many people away from the hobby as possible, because it gives the insufferable people who inhabit it an ego boost.
Myself, I actually enjoy discussing retro games, and I don't mind new people joining the hobby so long as they don't try to impede my enjoyment of it. Trying to foster and engage in genuine discussion is my act of rebellion against the people on this board who want to quash discussion.

>>12032705
I don't fall into either of those categories, and I don't believe everyone else does either. I mean, sure a lot do, but there are plenty of people here that do actually play games and better yet beat them. I beat Bonks Adventure 3 two days ago, and am currently playing Shin Maou Golvellius for MSX. If this thread is still around and I remember to, I'll post a screenshot of the 'The End' screen, assuming it has one.
Honestly, I bet if we made threads posting The End screens or high scores, people would contribute, if for nothing other than to spitefully say someone sucks.
Make a Crazy Taxi score thread, I bet we get some replies, and I bet I get made fun of because I've never gotten the number 1 spot in the high scores.

it's kind of funny, in music gear there is the same thing about teenage engineering as there is about analogue in retro hardware. both firms make niche-focused, marked up hardware that does things their specific way but really well, and in both cases you get people who just seethe to no end. i tend to find its mainly tourists who get upset enough to post online about these things. you get these inordinate levels of criticism directed at minor QoL inconveniences, usually with reference to the hardware markup, expecting a better "standard for the price"

my theory they felt that they watched a youtube video to learn how to use a piece of equipment (a retro game console, a CRT television, a vintage drum machine sampler), so they're now entitled to everything related to this piece of equipment. it's a classic "knowledge = power" equation they're making in their minds about the field of interest. they know a little something about it, so they feel they can dominate the thoughts of others about it. but then you have specialty, boutique producers who make expensive, boutique versions of that equipment, so it tends to inspire envy from the tourist who, either from lack of means or inner recognition of the hobbyist nature of the pursuit, cant justify the expense. the aficionado in such spheres, meanwhile, ranges in attitude from respectfully lukewarm to admiration of the technical achievement and even endorsement of the purchase.

>>12033789
>What they provide is a topic of discussion
Anyone can make a thread. I seriously hope you aren't telling yourself this stupid bullshit while spamming the catalogue with awful threads. Once I met a BR through fightcade who posted on 4chan who thought he was a super good poster because he posted bait all the time and made people argue a lot. It reminds me of that.

>>12033917
I'm not the guy posting all the Sega System/DOS-ROM/Oi Me Speccy/etc. threads. He's just straight up shitting up the board. Also makes me wish they brought back the IP counter.

>>12033924
Thread quality isn't measured in responses and often the best threads are the ones with the least amount of posts.
>what are some video games
Is not a good a thread.

>>12033927
A recommendations thread is still a million times better than the blatant troll shit that keeps getting vomited all over this board. At least it fosters discussion. That's what I've been trying to get at.

>>12033929
Whataboutism is not an argument. A smaller poop is still equally poop.
>At least it fosters discussion
All it "foisters" is petty spam and then you have people posting stupid shit like tier lists instead of actually *discussing* games, what's good about them, what's bad about them, and why they should or shouldn't be played. If you don't know what to play just look at what people are actually playing or just Google it. The internet is so stupid now, it's like people have forgotten the most basic shit.

>>12033941
Do you really come to 4chan expecting intellectual discussions? I come here to shoot the shit with other anons. If I want game recommendations, I'll ask for them. If another anon asks for recommendations, and I can think of something, I'll give them recommendations. Quality schmality.

>>12033947
You don't play any video games and every board that doesn't immediately expel you will become exponentially worse. You're already pulling a 180 and admitting you're here to just farm engagement like some tiktok zoomer.

>>12033941
>>12033947
And before you bring up my earlier statements about shitposting, there is indeed a difference between "low quality" discussions and blatant shitposting. I'd love it if the blatant shitposting here got replaced with "low quality" discussions, because at least they'd be replaced with discussions. Expecting everything to be high quality on an anonymous forum isn't realistic.

>>12033956
Your subversive engagement farming is far worse than obvious shitposting.

>>12033956
>>12033960
Fuck it, believe what you want. I'm not whatshisface, but you seem to think I am, so go ahead and believe that.

>>12033965
Goddamnit, quoted my own post.

>>12032795
>>12033941
>>12033956
>>12033960
You know what? Maybe the spammers are a good thing. Maybe they'll drive insufferable people like you off the board. Meanwhile, I'll just filter them out and pretend their posts don't exist. 4chan-XT is useful as fuck for that.

>>12033983
Your mental breakdown is progressing further and further. You're just copy pasting templates for reddit threads. Just go ask reddit what are some video games and get some updoots

>>12033985
>You're just copy pasting templates for reddit threads.
I'll reiterate; I. Am. Not. The. Anon. You. Think. I. Am.
That said, you have a point; I shouldn't keep wasting my time here, especially since I keep quoting myself.

>>12033996
I can literally look at the catalogue and see the stupid posts you're making in real time. One of the benefits of a slow board.

>>12032882
>>12033732
I made the vr humor thread to kill a frog thread

>>12034000
Take your meds and use this regex:
/\b(Sega System)\b/;op:only;boards:vr
Substitute "Sega System" as necessary for other terms like "DOS-ROM", "app", etc. Add an "i" after the last forward slash to make the filter case-insensitive.
If I were that spammer, would I be giving you tips on how to stop seeing his threads?

>>12034000
Also forgot, you'll need 4chan-X or XT to use this: >>12035351
Add it as a comment filter, since the subject filter only covers subject lines.

>>12034000
Addendum to this: >>12035356
Use subject line filters too. I just saw a "SEGA System" thread on the catalog where they put it in the subject.

>>12030989
Qrd on this thing? Looks pretty kewl

>>12035362
Pretty much an ultimate GBC, but that is all it is
You're not going to get anything else out of this

>>12035328
Unpopular opinion: people who complain about frogposters are infinitely more annoying than frogposters themselves.
>>12035392
Don't these come bundled with a new version of Tetris?

>>12035395
They do, it's a really good version too

>>12029202 (OP)
Hey guys, I found (insert item here) at the local retro game store, did I do good?
(I already know full well I did good, I just want to brag about it)

EDIT: Thanks for the gold, stranger

>>12032795
>The OP isn't providing value, he's requesting value from others.
I don't care what any of you have to say unless it's directly providing share holder value.

>>12035408
Well put.

>>12035392
That's actually dope. A device that's trying to do a specific thing really well instead of trying to be everything at once. Is it a hardware clone or fpga?

>>12035432
FPGA
It's open source still
They're doing an N64 now too

>>12029214
Based. Terminally online OP in shambles.

>>12035395
Popular opinion: Frogposters aren't welcome here

>>12029231
>Analogue Pocket, out of the box,is compatible with the 2,780+ Game Boy, Game Boy Color & Game Boy Advance game cartridge library. Pocket works with cartridge adapters for other handheld systems, too. Like Game Gear. Neo Geo Pocket Color. TurboGrafx-16. Atari Lynx & more.
Durr, why do we need more than 2 buttons

If you want a faithful GB/GBC handheld you should get the Chromatic.

>>12029202 (OP)
>What's up with every retro game community? Why do they all do nothing but post title screens on expensive hardware?
Milennial hipster faux status symbol nintendo reddit/youtube upclickme faggory mainly still though more than any interest or love in retro gaming.

Two categories:
1)people who get things because they had them and memberberries or to play with them
2)People who want to get things to run to reddit and post them or run to youtube to get views pretend they were into video games back when it was nerdspace and that having bought them given them a higher status and authority in the faux cult of nintendo brandfaggotry that has been such a cancer in the retro scene who don't really give a fuck about retro games but just want to 'belong' and virtue signal to that pile of brandfaggot shit. Same people who buy crap plastic chairs from the 70s and fap themselves off about 'design' which they know fuck all about either. Same pheomonen with applefags who first got a mac book air given to them by a retarded parent when they were packed off to college and want to pretend that they had an Apple IIe for imaginary herd status. All cancer.

>>12035589
Or maybe we just take the picture only before we start because we’re invested in playing the game

>>12030345
>""Games collectors"" don't play games
I have a pretty big collection I gt when it was considered garbage and being sold off for nothing and one of the great joys in life is sitting down and playing a few old PC games or PS1/PS2 or firing up 8 and 16 bits. Yes it's better opening a big box (which were all over charity shops at one point for nothing) and firing it up while looking at the manual or unfolding a poster.But I don't have a youtube channel and don't really understand people who care so much about what other people think. It was considered oddball junk hording but I enjoy what I got in bulk a lot especially browsing throught it and picking something out. People like you don't realise people like me either bought the stuff at the time or in bulk when video rental ended. I doubt that the old lightgun I just got for an old bit computer to play with would interest you much. Not just games either, I finally got two interface ones by sinclair networked and it was fucking awesome seeing it all actually work. I did this when people thought it was stupid and wierd and I'll be doing it after because I enjoy it and I love seeing old stuff coming alive again. I don't get the youtube nintendo brand cancer at all or the rate my collection crap, I don't have a youtube cahnnel or a reddit account or a twitter account or a facebook account and I don't fucking want one,why do you give a fuck about what other people think milennials? You you post your toothbrushes to get feedback on their colour scheme. Fucking loosers and fakes. I get the things that interest me to play with. Why do I have games I have not yet played. Well because I bought bulk when it was being sold off as worthless shit but it's great findinng something that I did not know about randomly on the shelf and getting stuck into it and finding out it's really gud. I don't buy games very much or at all now unless I see one I don't have stuck on a shelf in a charity store when I am looking for books.

>>12035659
Why the fuck are you taking the picture at all if you got it to have a go? What the fuck is wronng with you?

>>12029214
Only if you're completely fucking delusional and rejecting reality.

>>12035675
Because I’m not autistic like you?
Who gets upset at a fucking picture of a game

>>12035774
>Because I’m not autistic like you?
I'm ot autistic but you may be on the arsehole scale. Take a phto of the toilet before you have a shit and let reddit know for approval.Maybe do a youtube channel with one video per shit where you examine the turd 'design' for feedback and views .

>>12035694
projevting hard there.
>>12029214
NTA anon but he's spot on. People you don't know and have never met.

>>12035784
>Is that a photo of a title screen
AAAAHH I'M LOSING MY MIND

>>12029202 (OP)
It's all just an elaborate way to try and flex on people. If you want to actually play games, the emulation issue is a solved issue and can be used on whatever hardware you're using to read this on. Even a phone, if you're actually into gaming and that's all you have, you can just get a controller and a cable and you're good to go. The problem with retro game communities, /vr/ included, is an obsession with chasing an idealized rose tinted nostalgia by buying crap they don't need which promises them "perfection." I have enough money to buy several MiSTers a month, and be fine financially, but why the hell should I when even the old crappy laptop buried in my storage bins form 2013 already emulated the games I wanted to play on it. It'd struggle with PS1 and PS2 emulation, sure, but even my old RX570 and Ryzen 1600 could emulate PCSX2 and Dolphin, and those are two low end mid range parts from 8 years ago.

/vr/ will rage at me for these sentiments, but it's fucking true. If you want to actually play games you'd be playing games and only having issues with whatever you're playing on, if it was impacting the gameplay. Like softlock bugs that weren't on original hardware, or the game running at 80% speed. If you're not into chasing nostalgia and (failing at) flexing on alleged poorfags, then there's not really any practical reason to get an Analog Pocket over whatever chinkheld looks most appealing to you.

>retro "collectors" spending hundreds on a single gameboy and hundreds more on a single game
>ps1 games that were selling for 7€ in 2005 now "fetch" 60 or more especially in actual game stores, probably more from independent sellers
>keep games and systems behind a glass case to protect "their investment"

>meanwhile, me, a chad retro gamer with a single chinkheld have played and beaten to completion Gran Turismo 1 and 2, Firebugs, Ridge Racer Type 4, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy 8, V-Rally 2, Yugioh Forbidden Memories, Mario Golf on Gameboy Color AND Advance Tour on GBA, and those are just the ones I remember this year alone.
>if we add my PS2 I've also beaten Socom 2 and 3, Colin McRae Rally 05, The Getaway Black Monday and am working through the Harry Potter games, plus Valkyrie Profile Sylmeria waiting for me
>none of which cost me much more than 6-8€ or were just straight up put on HDL

I love playing retro games, lads. It's so much fun to pick up that controller and play those games all the way through. It's the cat's meow.

>>12035480
>>12035792
I get it, you're agreeing with him because this is /vr/ and everyone has to be a contrarian here. Fuck, I hate this board.
>>12035856
Good take. I've had to unlearn that pursuit of perfection and allow myself to just play games and enjoy them. I'm a poorfag and I hate dealing with people beating me over the head with expensive gear I know I'll never be able to own. Real hardware isn't the affordable hobby it used to be.

>>12035856
you either get it or you dont, sorry

>>12035856
I dunno, having all my old consoles with flash carts hooked up to a big CRT works great
Is spending a little money on a hobby such an abhorrent thought to you?

>>12029202 (OP)
>image search goes to.a Reddit thread.

So which community are you talking about? Did you just come here from Reddit to whine? Why not take a picture of what you're playing and post it?

I know you won't. And we both know why.

Die in a fire.

>>12029231
the triggers

>>12032795
>The OP isn't providing value, he's requesting value from others.
that would be a good way to frame it if the logical alternative wasn't ragebait ops you probably complain about as well

>>12035869
Your post almost feel like those Jeet bot generated "YEP ITS GAYMEEN TIME" posts that show up from time to time, god I hate those, and I said all of that because, why does it have to be a chinkheld?

I can understand a. MEMEster FPGA or a RetroPie de fresa, even a shitty Nintendo Wii, and trust me, that one is the bottom of the barrel low.

>>12036971
But the logical alternative isn't rage bait, it's just threads about games we're playing and having fun with. That is ostensibly the purpose of the board.

>>12029202 (OP)
Genuinely gay design, and awful ergonomics not even worth the price tag.

Ayaneo shit is gay and expensive but at least it fits the part.

All of these retarded things still miss the point and are too scared to do actual clones in fear of Nintendo. Only interesting one was the Anbernic GBA clone but even then, they fucking ruined the Glacier color --> it's fucking light blue tinged not fucking grey you Chinese mongs

>>12029202 (OP)
To flaunt wealth. People do it with a lot of stuff, like they'll buy sneakers that cost $500+ just to show that they can afford it.

>>12029214
Absolutely based response.

The only reason to seek communities like this is to find local ones that do events. From there, make friends with the people who attend and then just make your own events without the group itself.

This is the only way to leech people from hiding since most adults into the same hobbies as you are too trained to just keep to themselves.

t. have done this with my local retro PC group and have had better results stealing people from other groups and setting up my own things since most people online will agree to do shit but never commit.

>>12037261
Is there some Analog equivalent that has link cable and infrared support? That's the main things that make me want to get one, so I can trade pokemon and mystery gift with my brother along with other link cable games and relive some nostalgia.

>>12029297
Brown hands wrote this

>>12030285
Justifying gay habits only makes you more of a faggot

>>12030928
Yeah but if you're too retarded to make lists of shit you might wanna play then you've already lost.

Even with the adult voice in your head suggesting other things to do, the more based idea is that everything, absolutely everything, is a waste of time so have fun if you want to and don't feel bad about it.

I used to get hung up over skill building for jobs and realized most people in tech are absolutely winging it and don't know what they're doing.

Just my own observation, your mileage may vary. All I know is life is too short to making yourself feel bad about what you like to do.

I rotate hobbies throughout the year and am happy to finally acknowledge that a year or two ago, since I felt bad for not truly excelling in one or the other (art or music etc). You realize you gain momentum and build even bigger peaks of interest, fun, and gains if you come back to things from time to time instead of making it some kind of repetitive chore.

>>12030989
I fucking hate that stripe. Ruins the whole fucking thing.

>>12031418
I respect this. I used to take pictures of ending screens too. Kind of fun in a way

>>12032732
Nah, Nintendo being the terrible company they are nowadays would have built in obselecence, mixed with forced subscription that only have maybe 10% of what people actually want.

Oh yeah like the fucking Switch Online subscription. Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit, Anon. Nintendo peaked with the Wii tops, and haven't been the same.

Don't even get me started on the actual design documents for mainline Mario games that force devs to not have any original enemies or bosses that aren't generic as fuck.

>>12030928
I'm older and have a pretty good retro collection worth $10k plus that I will never play that I amassed from literally just being old and saving my collection from childhood. I'd like to get rid of it/sell it but I feel like I'll get scammed from some buyer on ebay and I don't want to sell my complete boxed earthbound for like $500 to the local vintage store. I'd rather keep it and never play it than sell it for pennies on the dollar. I'd sell it for a good/cheaper price though just to be rid of it

>>12033854
Any faggot that justified actual music hardware but hasn't even had the balls to release shit on their own or through streaming / distribution sites like Bandcamp or *gasp Soundcloud should immediately give up.

It should never be a dick measuring contest for how much gear you have but more of a show of how much people you convinced or won over to see you live.

Can't do that? Then give up since music has always been meant to be shared.

There are so many VSTs that do the same fucking thing and can be mixed to sound amazing in a song, and can be easily pirated.

Anyway fuck Teenage Engineering, fuck Analogue, and fuck bitches.

>>12037352
Nintendo peaked right when I grew out of Nintendo games, same with Disney

>>12029202 (OP)
>Why do they all do nothing but post title screens on expensive hardware?
Because playing the games don't give them the rush of collecting their nostalgia. I got caught up in a bit back in 2018 for a minute. That is, until I realized I wasn't playing games. I was just buying them and that was the high, the rush. Playing games didn't appeal to me. I just needed more games. That's when I thought I'd give up gaming as it wasn't the same. But, I didn't give up and found a new joy in games. I actually enjoy games like I did when I was 12 again, well mostly. It mostly came from randomly played my arcade games on mame. Firetrap, bonk, donkey Kong, Congo bongo, asteroids, me. Pacman, joust, etc... they opened up a new door for me. Now I enjoy all types of games that I never would've thought to play like dodonpachi and parodious. Was never into shmups much. Anyways, by becoming the thing I hated, I found and grew into a better gaming version of myself.

>>12037269
Brother, I am the original Anon who you replied to. There are emulators with link cable emulation these days. Fuck, even those chink ass handhelds can be tethered together with basic RetroArch multiplayer easily to do link cable matches:
https://youtu.be/YrUac9TIrWo?si=zxuP3Uk_mgxri_AS

https://youtu.be/QxrfblFXLTY?si=C8WH5VziyBj825nk

I am not sure about mystery gift so I will give you that. I do too have a nostalgia boner for that weird shit since it was mega cool to do

Edit: did some searching, don't care if you faggots hate me for the reference as I am trying to help this lazy shithead:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PKMNCrystalClear/comments/112uf30/comment/j8rdmwj

>>12037387
I respect this. I do it slightly better and like to research a bit based on what a few communities say are top games for some consoles, make some lists, play some and gauge my own opinion.

I have been disappointed a ton of times but there have been some really amazing times when I am genuinely impressed. The more times I have done this, I have realized there is nothing new under the sun, and really have grown to appreciate old software of all kinds.

>>12029202 (OP)
There's a reason people got rid of console games the first time around. There isn't a lot of game to them. Silksong is better than anything on SNES

>>12035570
>Like Game Gear. Neo Geo Pocket Color. TurboGrafx-16. Atari Lynx.

To be fair, all those also only had 2 action buttons.

>>12037397
GBE+ is shit, stop listening to plebbitors

>>12037424
banworthy post

>>12037335
I don't really care what you think

>>12037840
Seethe more bitch

>>12037856
>Seethe more
I'm not the one bitching about a photo

>>12029231
Turbo is the common option. Also it's not entirely related, but I've got a 406H and I map the Y+B buttons for A and B when playing n64 because that's the orientation they're in on the real console.

>>12029202 (OP)
Hey, you noticed the quick way I find shills.
New game releases do the same thing, you'll get a fuckload of people talking about how great the game is and how they can't stop playing it, but 100% of their pictures/screenshots are at the title screen. Same goes for videos, I still remember a particularly NASTY example where there was suddenly this trend during Baldur's Gate 3's release where damn near half of social media was loaded with the same exact video made by 9999999999 different people all where the boyfriend/girlfriend is mad that their girlfriend/boyfriend is too busy playing BG3 to [insert relationship thing here, usually dating], and the whole video is of the other person at the title screen or making a character.

As for chinkhelds in particular, my biggest "title screen shilling" pet peeve is when it's one of the micro keychain handhelds that die in 30 minutes playing a GBC game because they'll ALWAYS brag about how they take it everywhere and play it on the bus or while resting during a hiking trip, and I'm always like "no the fuck you aint".

>>12030994
Based. I just 100%'d Gadget Racers (U) on GBA yesterday on my 28xx, took me forever to realize just how short the game really is and how late you get all the Angel stuff. I swear the game was longer back when I last replayed it like ten years ago.
>unlock the best weapon in the game
>you're already 99.99999% of the way through the game
>you're so fast now that you don't even use guns anymore even if you DO go back to previous races because you'll be so far ahead that you can't even shoot anything

>>12032786
nothing, that guys just a retard that would rather be stuck in a board where nobody actually plays or discusses retrogames

>>12037372
get sniped, poornigger. i wrote that post for (You)

>>12037409
I have hyuuuge backlogs for each system, but I just find the random usually wets my appetite. It’s definitely a hit or miss scenario, but when it hits, you’re right, it’s like magic.

>>12029202 (OP)
/vr/ is a retro game community.
/vr/ doesn't do that very much.

>>12029202 (OP)
>What's up with every retro game community?
Milennial tendies are post switch cancer.

>>12035983
>I get it, you're agreeing with him because this is /vr/ and everyone has to be a contrarian here.
NO, I'm agreeing with him because the heart of this site is pseudo anonmity where there is no namefagging and upvoting or likes or any of that damaged ego crap or even much of a need to 'belong' aside from characterless 2016 newfags. The whole propensity to seek imaginnary peer validation in oversolicalces herd normie millenial culture and selfie themselves farting and making garrage youtube videos about stuff theyw ere never even alive for is turbo cringe as is their need to 'belong' buy buying overpriced nintendo garbage as status hats in the cult of tendie while trying to distort the entire history of gaming in the 80s and 90s while waving a mario plushie on you tube....nothing wrong with buying what you think is cool and playing with it but for fuck sake you don't need to take a selfie with it and post in reddit for validation. It's fucking pathetic.

>>12038630
>/vr/ is a retro game community.

>>12038504
>guys just a retard that would rather be stuck in a board where nobody actually plays or discusses retrogames
I do.

>>12035856
based furfag

>>12037949
>keychain handhelds
the really tiny ones hurt my hands, idk how people can use them. the 3.5" ones are the minimum useable size imo. got a rg40xxv recently and its the perfect size/thickness

>>12035856
You can't emulate a star wars yoke, a quickshot joystick or emulate the phsical keyboards and keyboard overlays but by all means do your thing but also accept it's extreme limitations, how the fuck are you goting to connect an 8 bit light gun to an emulator with no interface for it because it only existed on the original machine or no CRT? I'm glad you enjoy fucking around with config files and enjoy playing old games but some of us bought this shit back in the day and enjoy using it still inculding the stuff that came in the box. I like the pig fat eject button and the startup sound on the PS1 and I like blowing the shit out of everything in Die hard on a PS1 with a CRT and a light gun. Hell I even like tape loading screens. I like the old wheels and peripherals and looking at the back of the box when I pick something out. I like walking into my own private game store, it fucking rules. You do your thing but don;t shit on others doing there's because both have pros and cons and I emulate as well for some 8 and 16 bits that are difficult to find and yes, have even coded to create them.

>>12038828
People genuinely loved tamagotchis especially women.

>>12038504
Seems like it.
>>12038709
It's a terrible community, but it's still a community.
>>12038708
I had to expand this comment to read it. Should've left it collapsed.

>>12035694
posting things you bought for validation from people you don't know is the delusion here. (even worse when it's not even your picture)
You're an attention crack-whore who just needs her fix, much like this thread i imagine, you're revelling in this muck aren't ya bitch?

>>12035694
no one will check your vintage console insta for your personality, fuckface

>>12038991
>posting things you bought for validation from people you don't know is the delusion here
I don't do that shit.
>>12039226
>insta
I don't even use that shit.

>>12029202 (OP)
>expensive hardware
Aren't these like 50 bucks? You neetfags are not in good shape these days, huh?

>>12039256
The Analogue Pocket is 220$.

>>12029202 (OP)
>What's up with every retro game community?
social media
millenial hipster wanna be uber tendies

>>12035774
>Because I’m not autistic like you?
yes
insufferable inferior normie vomit instagram twatter puketube facefuck selfie updot plebbit puke remeber to exercise bike and suicide

>>12039245>>12039226

based

>>12029401
poorfags have to latch on to something
>"w-well at least I PLAY my games, unlike you, fake gamer plastic hoarder! You took that picture and then just put it on a shelf to rot!!"
>the collector not only plays the games, but pirates and uses emulators and modded consoles on the side

>>12029401
>Because setting up your shit for a photoshoot is a different endeavor than playing the games.
do you have an onlyfans where you shove a unopened gameboy up your ass or something?

>>12038694
>>12039648
>>12039659
Please seek help
Or just go back to /v/

>>12036973
Hello saar

Is chinkheld because when I'm on the PC I'm working/shitposting, and because I like using the retro handheld I bought to play videogames. You know, the thing it was designed to do. It's much more convenient for me to pick it up and play the many games for the many consoles it plays rather than plugging/unplugging my mini consoles on my TV in the attic, not to mention it's perfectly sized to play GBA games. Also don't dis the Wii. It's a great machine. What games did YOU play today, anon?

Sorry zooms, but I can't give credit. Come back when you're a little mmmm, richer! (And I still won't sell you my games, fr)

>>12039948
To respond to OP, it's a lack of authentic respect for each other while hiding behind post irony

>>12040503
Uh huh, don't you have some Fortnite skins to unlock