007Ace

I don’t see any handheld devices on there. I would argue that this question is about consoles not portables.

I really appreciate your posts. Many of our tastes overlap, but you have gotten very good at capturing the best angle of a game. Half the time I have to wonder; did I play the same game?

They both check the boxes here. First one I got near complete. The second one I’m still working through. Lots to do.

I think what’s happened here is, you are playing the games as shooters, room quake and unreal were not story driven games. It was either get the coloured key to progress, or kill everything between point a and b. All the newer games you listed have great story that drives the gameplay. And halo being the first real controller multiplayer experience brings a lot of nostalgia to people.

However it’s the same reason that I haven’t gotten on the ‘boomer shooter’ trend. They are essentially doing what you bring up. No added function or feature, they just feel like a reskin or mod of quake.

I bought mine straight from Bambu. Could smell burning electronics after 50p hours of use or so. Then it wouldn’t turn on. No interaction whatsoever. Contacted support, had to dismantle and send a few pics. A quick video of me plugging it in and the results. Then they shipped me a new power board. Installed it and carried on. It was very obvious what part had failed. I was frustrated at first but all told, it was a pretty good experience.

Im doing the same on my steam deck. I wish there was a way to make the HUD/UI elements smaller. They do take a lot of real estate on the screen. And Dusk’s bloom is better than the original, but still very powerful!

Overall I am still enjoying! Play on!

It was a struggle to get the right combinations of plugins going for pj64. I never had the console myself so I was happy with whatever I could get. Zelda64 and Majora’s mask were really all I was interested in. The SNES NES and PSX were really where I spent most of my time emulating. PC piracy was another beast. Cdcopyworld and all the DRM cracks or mini-iso files loaded up with daemon tools or alcohol to bypass cd checks. What a time to be alive.

When I started, I was downloading mp3s and recording them on to cassettes. Use what you have. As for console games, there were DOS based SNES NES and geneses emulators for those who didn’t have the hardware.

Pj64 was emulating Nintendo64 titles while the console was still releasing titles.

Napster, limewire bearshare, winmx DC++ were all around before bit torrent was used for downloads.

Hooked up the family computer to the tv using a video card with s video output and impressed the whole family!