Emulation is better than modern gaming

[Moviefan2k4]

Multiple controllers? Might be the USB port going bad.

It might be an update incompatibility as well. My current PC is at least 14 years old, and even though most programs still work (including Windows 10), a few occasionally glitch. I'm planning to buy a new computer soon, but due to my limited finances it will probably be next spring at the earliest.

 

[BillJ]

Does anyone have any experience with RetroFighters controllers? Like build quality and performance. I need a new controller for my original Xbox and I'm curious about them.

 

[Owain Taggart]

It might be an update incompatibility as well. My current PC is at least 14 years old, and even though most programs still work (including Windows 10), a few occasionally glitch. I'm planning to buy a new computer soon, but due to my limited finances it will probably be next spring at the earliest.

You'll be in for a treat when you get your new one. I had an old one as well, which would have gone on 12 years old this year. I know all about the glitching as I've had to deal with it constantly most often caused by the PC being starved by resources. Going to my new one in January was like a night and day difference. The technology is leaps different, going from 2 cores to 6 cores and 12 threads.

FWIW, about your controllers resetting. I think MS might be doing something with each update that resets them to defaults. Reason I say this, is because I've experienced the very same thing with my wireless Logitech F710. After updates, I'd often have to use their utility to re-pair it to the usb dongle. If yours are wireless, maybe look into something that can reset them.

Also, the F710 lack good driver support despite being a product that they still sell on their website. But the workaround I've found is to go into the device manager and point it towards one of Microsoft's drivers for the XBox. The controller will then work flawlessly.

 

[Ragitsu]

Whenever I hear "quality of life", I think "soft gaming". Limited saves/save points - for instance - are what make classic Resident Evil so tense...a real challenge; if you can simply save whenever you want, the difficulty goes away and so do the hard choices which lend teeth to the survival horror genre.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

You'll be in for a treat when you get your new one. I had an old one as well, which would have gone on 12 years old this year. I know all about the glitching as I've had to deal with it constantly most often caused by the PC being starved by resources. Going to my new one in January was like a night and day difference. The technology is leaps different, going from 2 cores to 6 cores and 12 threads.

FWIW, about your controllers resetting. I think MS might be doing something with each update that resets them to defaults. Reason I say this, is because I've experienced the very same thing with my wireless Logitech F710. After updates, I'd often have to use their utility to re-pair it to the usb dongle. If yours are wireless, maybe look into something that can reset them.

Also, the F710 lack good driver support despite being a product that they still sell on their website. But the workaround I've found is to go into the device manager and point it towards one of Microsoft's drivers for the XBox. The controller will then work flawlessly.

I'm really looking forward to Photoshop being more reliable, even though I'm still using CS2. If I have to go the CC route, so be it, but I'm really hoping to avoid that. As for my controllers, they were the wired USB Logitech F310, but I rarely used the analog sticks since most retro games didn't require them.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I was in the same boat as you before my new PC, and using Photoshop on it was definitely tricky. I could only ever run it when everything else was closed down. No issues whatsoever on my new one running it, which is quite nice. Of course, 32GB of Ram certainly helps

Hmm, if your controllers are wired, then I'm not sure what's up then. Maybe the drivers they all use, which they probably share, got corrupted somehow.

 

[BillJ]

Does anyone have any experience with RetroFighters controllers? Like build quality and performance. I need a new controller for my original Xbox and I'm curious about them.

Went ahead and ordered one. Cost a total of $54.99, which is less than a controller for a new system.

 

[BillJ]

Atari 7800+ Console & Gamepad

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[Moviefan2k4]

Atari 7800+ Console & Gamepad

GET YOUR PIXEL FIX LIKE IT'S 1986. The new Atari 7800+ joins the ranks of such timeless design icons as shoulder pads, crop tops, and aviator sunglasses! Inspired by the original ‘80s design, this scaled-down version fits today’s living rooms and connects easily to modern TVs via HDMI. It...

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Take my money!

Wow...talk about "retro". My cousin had an Atari 2600 when I was probably six years old, and I did play some games on it. But my own addiction really began two years later, with the original NES.

 

[137th Gebirg]

For the Atari computer enthusiasts out there, there's this, the Deep Silver THE400 Mini. The Atari 400 w/ 410 tape drive was actually my very first computer going back to 1981, when I first started coding. Been doing it ever since thanks to this little box. It's a very faithful reproduction (at half-size) and it's got Seven Cities of Gold and M.U.L.E. loaded on it!

 

[BillJ]

Wow...talk about "retro". My cousin had an Atari 2600 when I was probably six years old, and I did play some games on it. But my own addiction really began two years later, with the original NES.

I still have a Atari 2600.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

I still have a Atari 2600.

Interestingly enough, the most (in)famous game for that system was probably the 1982 port of Pac-Man. You couldn't ask for a less faithful and more frustrating version of a hit arcade title at the time.

 

[Phoenix219]

so many amazing ROM hacks and homebrews. I have an entirely new collection of brand new Colecovision stuff. Dozens of Metroid games made with the Super Metroid engine. So much cool stuff to play. I will never need modern gaming.

 

[BillJ]

Interestingly enough, the most (in)famous game for that system was probably the 1982 port of Pac-Man. You couldn't ask for a less faithful and more frustrating version of a hit arcade title at the time.

Atari put some weird restrictions on the programmer and gave them two months to make the game. Surprised it worked at all.

Though the most infamous game would be, Custer’s Revenge.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I am curious if Mattel will ever allow a more modernized treatment of the IntelliVision (aside from this one). That platform always kind of fascinated me.

 

[BillJ]

I am curious if Mattel will ever allow a more modernized treatment of the IntelliVision (aside from this one). That platform always kind of fascinated me.

Probably not after the Amico debacle. The plug-in-play’s are just NES on a chip emulation.

 

[Moviefan2k4]

Atari put some weird restrictions on the programmer and gave them two months to make the game. Surprised it worked at all.

Though the most infamous game would be, Custer’s Revenge.

Never played that one, but E.T. was frustrating beyond belief as well. Even as a kid, I remember thinking, "This is pointless; nothing is happening and everything looks the same."

 

[BillJ]

Never played that one, but E.T. was frustrating beyond belief as well. Even as a kid, I remember thinking, "This is pointless; nothing is happening and everything looks the same."

I remember ET. There is a great documentary about them finding the landfill where the excess cartridges were dumped.

Atari: Game Over (2014) ⭐ 6.7 | Documentary

1h 6m | Not Rated

www.imdb.com

 

[137th Gebirg]

I guess I must have been one of the few people that actually kind of liked playing the game. I usually did it with the sound turned down, though. Some of the audio effects in that game were truly annoying, but the "ET phone home! ET phone home!" digital sample recorded from the movie that it played at the end when you completed the communication device fascinated me.

 

[Phoenix219]

Its not a bad game; you just need to read the directinos, understand how to play, and use the right game mode.