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The PS2's ? No goal in particular. One of them is mine from my early 20's. It has a HDD inside complete with the network adaptor. ( Most people don't know PS2 has a network adaptor and a port to insert a hard drive )

My PS2 is also modified. I successfully followed a tutorial on how to run PS2 games off the Hard drive. I had to pick up something called a GameShark ( Basically a Game Genie for PS2 that involves a disc and USB stick, at the time it was difficult to obtain for some reason ) installed software and it uses a specific PS1 disc ( I set it up to work with DOA) so when the console is turned on with that PS1 game inside, it will load a homebrew interface where I can launch whatever game I put in the HDD.

Don't remember all the games I put on the HDD but it has God Hand, Shadow of the Colossus and Odin Sphere on it.

Shadow of the Colossus on PS2 was my prefered version of the game just because it had a motion blur effect when the colossus tried to shake us off, it made the event look more majestic and thrilling. In the newer versions from what I've seen it doesn't do that.  At the time motion blur wasn't something we've seen rendered in gaming and it's probably the only PS2 game to even attempt doing this successfully,

I ran PS2 emulation on my older PC and was able to run PS2 games straight from the game disc itself from the DVD ROM.

I had the PS3 emulator since I wanted to play Ninja Gaiden again after giving away my PS3, then that NvME drive died and I lost everything on it. Then came the Master Collection on Steam so I bought it yet again.

PS4... I don't even know how to turn one on. The only thing I'd like to play on that is the game called Dreams, which is more like a creative software with graphics that can mash any PS5 games.

PS5.... No interest at all. I know a guy who lives pay cheque to pay cheque and always carries on about how bad he wants a PS5.  I tell him it's an illusion, PS5 is already aged and said to be the worst console since it lacks exclusives even all these years later. It's also $1000 dollars right now based on the RAM shortage. He doesn't understand any of that and just wants one. I think I'll help him get one this December cause he's very sharing. I did give him a Radeon card and suggested he build a PC for it, but he's a barbarian, he only knows how to push a button and navigate to whatever he's after.

9 days left. 

This special edition Switch 2, is sold out. It's highly sought after, scalpers scalping it and they are all probably sold.

I never wanted a Switch, my last console was the PS3, but now the NS2 is coming with two titles I'd like to try.

And probably just try too, cause I never finished Metroid Dread or Shinobi. I'm having too much fun being creative with generative Ai plus the output is gradually more profitable as time goes by. 

Since I'm going to do this I want the special unit, as it'll probably have better resale value and the damn thing itself might even appreciate in value the way some of their hardware media games do. 

In a decade going to some old game shop and it's available used. They're selling it for more and it won't be there long. 

I'll take the controller too. 

Oh my god Tekken 6 with rollback code has been peak: 

Turncoat said: 

Oh my god Tekken 6 with rollback code has been peak: 

 That's the world now. 

Ai using decompiling software = PC ports for every game and software ever. 

Come to think of it, I bet the Zelda OOT remake will have a native PC port before NS2 emulation.

PC ports......

Actually new plan. There's another game I always wanted to play but forgot about it. 

The Last Guardian !

What !? I waited over a decade for this, that time it was taking 10 years to make next gen games, then I lost interest and it came out. 

Look at how well this aged, even with the poor quality video. 

I see why I wanted to try this. Never seen something that looks so alive in a game.  This looks more interesting than Zelda now. That animal is giving me goosebumps, the way it behaves and the feathers blowing in the wind, and the lighting. And the way they cross cell shading with something that looks pretty real.

This Saturday. 

The game fusions have been a crazy proof of concept, this shit's insane. 

Feels like a fever dream. 

Turncoat said: 

The game fusions have been a crazy proof of concept, this shit's insane. 

Feels like a fever dream. 

 One day I'll get to play Anthem again, they are making excellent progress. 

As for fusing games together, I don't know what I'd want even if I can do it in a day. Some action game. Not everything can work together. 

Quiver Launcher. This is what's used to run console games natively for PC without the use of an emulator. This being the app catalog section,

In the image I expanded the console tab and scrolled it down. 

I test ran The Last Guardian but it crashed at some point, I do believe I mixed regions with the game and it's latest patch, I'll redo it later. Saturday just turned into Friday night, or maybe tonight. 

The Last Guardian PC client I have defaults to mouse and keyboard. It can detect the Xbox controller I have but it has no tilt functions nor which is vital for this game. It wants the PS4 controller.

Turned to a housemate and poof, I am now the proud owner of a perfectly working barely ever used PS4 controller. It was really covered in dust so I will disassemble, clean and reassemble the thing for fun and it's health. 

What I did not see in that list is the Switch 2 console, which I understand considering it's a little over a year old, while PS5 is already 6 years old. But still, what's the issue with making Switch 2 games run natively on PC while everything else is happening ?

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There we see a Nintendo Store that opened here, and the lineup to get in goes down the street. Really it's EB Games. Microsoft and Sony really seem to be leaning toward shifting to digital sales only, while Nintendo is sticking to both hardcopy and digital, so video game shops are gonna go hard Nintendo, and from the looks of it's very popular with consumers when they present themselves as some kind of Nintendo world.

- Nintendo is doing it for cheaper

- No Switch 2 games running on PC natively ( This will change )

- They'll keep selling hardcopy games

- The console has enough power for visually demanding games. Without the need to be the most powerful.

- Can pull a Gameboy and go with you.

- Probably has a good 7 more years before its 2nd to Switch 3.

They're going to win the console war. GTA 6 will do well on PS5 first, then Xbox and PC, but the affordability of those platforms are no match for the Switch 2's business scheme in a world of inflation. 

Dude Nintendo's hard copies are fucking expensive though. I don't mind lacking a hard copy, for me it's effectively just landfill, but I also have little against digital preservation strategies such as emulation to keep it going. 

Nice though, looks like Quiver's doing the modern recompiling. This is the only way we'll get games like Bloodborn to run on PCs, and is how games where the companies shut down their servers won't suddenly kill the game. 

I'm all about digital too, but there are upcoming hard times with digital copies, with Sony in particular.

They want to do this thing where we no longer own games, and buying them is more like a rental agreement. Backward compatibility goes out the window with the next generation so if you want to play an older title on your new console you'll have to purchase the game again. 

It's also expected gaming will be ran by large data centers and playtime can run out. I think Amazon is interested in doing that, where gaming will be more of a subscription than ownership. 

Bringing back the Arcade. 

Arcades only look nice, but let me tell you, when Street Fighter II first came out in the arcade we'd spend a fortune on it. $0.25 to $0.50 to play.  It was common for people to ask for a mercy round if they lost the first round and losing the 2nd. Now we see some corporations want to put a meter on gaming. 

The nice thing about hard copies is we can resell the game, this is nothing something we can really do with digital, or we can trade them, or trade for awhile like we used to do back in the day. 

Nintendo does see the masses are having a cow over this, and Nintendo is willing to carry on selling hard media for anyone interested. If you're a gamer with gamer friends, if you and them all bought hard copy games, you'll be able to share and save money. From what I gather the cartridges are a little more expensive, as they do cost money to make so I think it's fair to pay more for them.

Me ? I don't fuck with physical media anymore, just saying it's not an entirely good thing to go all digital cause they will eventually grab the gaming community by the balls and squeeze as hard as they can. 

I also think if the Switch 2 gets emulated Nintendo might consider going all digital.

Take Anthem for example. The game was ran off servers so when they pulled the plug, we're left with no way to run it. Sure I have it installed and I have all the files and shit, but I cannot play it, for now. 

I don't play Call of Duty but I understand they've shut down servers in the past forcing players to buy into a new version of the game, leaving behind all of their DLC. The corporate interest is not to have us too spread out into all these games, they want people to buy the new ones. They know if it weren't for existing games, they'd make way more money. 

Maybe tonight I'll play The Last Guardian, but imaging if we couldn't do this because games are only a limited time. 

Every game should have an offline mode, and if someone wants hard copy let them have it for the sake of us all. 

Many modern games still contain data on the disc, but often require downloads or updates. Some discs mainly serve as license keys. You can also store downloaded games on a USB drive for offline play.