What makes the emulation experience did not and WILL NOT get close to the orginal experience

[valosagutas]

There is more than graphic quality in terms of texture quality and "being elitist", it's the "vibe", man. I can't have the same vibe playing SEGA Genesis without CRT screen. These games literally developed for CRT screen, even lots of PS2 games. These games looks so flat and dull on non-CRT screen. This ain't my cup of tea I tell ya lol. I don't care seeing the face of the character I play as in high quality. No one can make me buy a GPU that's so big I have to install it outside of my home just so I can see a tiny sweat in the character's face in 1000x1000 resolution lolol. Graphics are meaningless to me when it has no visual. Realistic graphics are graphics that's dull to me. What's the point of a visual that's dull? That's where the personal preference differs yo.

So things are more than "just playing the game" or "playing it in better way", it's like sitting in your favorite place to chill that you cannot chill by sitting everywhere. Sitting ain't "meaningful" just because you're sitting, it depends on where and how you're sitting. Same logic for how you play a game. Can you dig it? lolol

 

[χKai]

Emulate: To match or surpass, typically by imitation

Emulation literally means playing it better.

 

[fake-kun]

If we're talking about "the original experience", you can only experience it by playing the game when it came out. Otherwise, its context within the larger gaming culture of the time is lost.

 

[valosagutas]

Emulate: To match or surpass, typically by imitation

Emulation literally means playing it better.

I respect your religion. Amen™ lolol.

 

[Segadude113]

Emulate: To match or surpass, typically by imitation

Emulation literally means playing it better.

used to mean the opposite, but it's gotten so much better in the last two decades!

 

[Esmith27]

Ya, but you can't enjoy this experience on an emulator....

 

[χKai]

Ya, but you can't enjoy this experience on an emulator....View attachment 75118

It's okay, that's what I have a boyfriend for

 

[EmuCarnival]

Nothing beats original hardware like decaying CDs with pinholes or disc rot, oxidized pins on carts, lasers dying (looking at you Gamecube, Dreamcast and 3DO), read errors and scratches on our favorite media. Emulators could NEVER emulate having to replace the factory PSU on a Dreamcast or eliminate the Xbox's clock capacitor or come close to having to turn your PS1 upside down so it can read CDs.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Oh yeah... The true experience... Insert that cartridge right now...

 

[valosagutas]

It's okay, that's what I have a boyfriend for

Some may argue that emulated lovers are better because lol:
"Emulate: To match or surpass, typically by imitation

Emulation literally means playing it better."
I think this is why new generation kids having AI lovers to enjoy their digital romance in electric dreams lollol:

Ah man, when I watched this movie I knew how people would think emulated lovers "AI" would be "better" to them one day lolol: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/

 

[χKai]

Some may argue that emulated lovers are better because lol:
"Emulate: To match or surpass, typically by imitation

Emulation literally means playing it better."
I think this is why new generation kids having AI lovers to enjoy their digital romance in electric dreams lollol:

Ah man, when I watched this movie I knew how people would think emulated lovers "AI" would be so popular one day lolol: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/

An interesting point to bring up, I have been learning through mimicry.

Hey, it worked when I made Teriyaki Stir-Fry for the first time. It'll probably work with just about everything else, too.

 

[valosagutas]

Oh yeah... The true experience... Insert that cartridge right now...

Yes it's best to insert yourself into the CRT TV for a better gaming experience lolol.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

One thing's sure, Cooking Simulator will run better on Ryujinx than on a real Switch.

 

[Segadude113]

Nothing beats original hardware like decaying CDs with pinholes or disc rot, oxidized pins on carts, lasers dying (looking at you Gamecube, Dreamcast and 3DO), read errors and scratches on our favorite media. Emulators could NEVER emulate having to replace the factory PSU on a Dreamcast or eliminate the Xbox's clock capacitor or come close to having to turn your PS1 upside down so it can read CDs.

At least with CDs you can burn new ones. I do that to play Saturn stuff. I get them here like Shining Force III. :D

 

[valosagutas]

One thing's sure, Cooking Simulator will run better on Ryujinx than on a real Switch.

IMO it's necessarily better to emulate Nintendo video game consoles because they treat their customers so bad with low quality BS. They didn't learn anything in the console wars™ other than "how to be SEGA wannabe" lolol.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

IMO it's necessarily better to emulate Nintendo video game consoles because they treat their customers so bad with low quality BS. They didn't learn anything in the console wars™ other than "how to be SEGA wannabe" lolol.

Yeah but then you're missing the Nintendo experience. Some people are into that, I wont judge, no kink shaming.

 

[valosagutas]

Yeah but then you're missing the Nintendo experience. Some people are into that, I wont judge, no kink shaming.

Yes yes. Mario doesn't have the real taste without 50 Shades of Nintendo lolol.

 

[JayK78]

way better on emulation than real hardware, miles away, faster, easier, better, better performance, mods, hacks and fixes some of the bugs the game had, so is by far playing games on emulator than in real hardware, i love consoles, i have 23 consoles, but honestly is easier, faster and more convenient have all the systems in one place, just turn on, select the system u want to play some games and choose the game an ready to go, if u want to play that sega saturn, ps1, ps2, dreamcast, gamecube, 3DO, Amiga CD 32, Sega CD, TurboDuo, Atari Jaguar CD, and many, many more games game with better shaders and better performance and the best of all, no loading times, emulators is the best way to play those retro videogames, and with my rog ally x with retrobat on it, uuuuff, can play any of the available games anywhere.

 

[EmuCarnival]

Nah bro, that's just a fake copy. It NEEDS to be original otherwise it will deter from the EXPERIENCE. Why bother trying to get good Taiyo Yuden blank CD-Rs or settle with lesser quality Maxwell CD-Rs, getting a CD burner (who even uses those anymore, amirite!?) then trying to burn them at 4x write speed? With an original copy I can just go on eBay, pay $350 for Shining Force III, get a broken Sega Saturn game case shattered in pieces in the mail, pop it in the console and play it on the Saturn. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is the TRUE GAMER EXPERIENCE. @Segadude113

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

It is literally the same game when you play it on an emulator or a physical console.

Not quite. Don't misunderstand me. Any way you can enjoy a game is a valid way to enjoy it, but real hardware and emulators have different advantages. Real hardware is more authentic and you never have to worry about inaccuracies and emulation bugs. Emulation is more convenient, often cheaper, and has features like fast forward, built in Gameshark/Action Replay/Game Genie cheats, and save states to make games easier to finish for busy adults and students with limited time to enjoy a game.

 

[Segadude113]

Yes yes. Mario doesn't have the real taste without 50 Shades of Nintendo lolol.

Peach was looking for a plumber to clean her pipes. For Mario's services, she repays him with cake.

 

[taigaisak4]

of course emulation will be better in terms of graphics, but there's a thing about certain consoles that's difficult to explain...

for me the only consoles that doesn't benefit too much with emulation are the portable ones, like psp, ds/3ds and so, because the smaller screen makes the experience better, some games you need custom texture packs to be able to read some text. old consoles from 8-bit and 16-bit era can get better by using CRT filters and smth

but game's game and i believe that emulation is the best way of getting access to new games, franchises, etc... because the market of used games and consoles is so inflated that I 100% understand the one's who complain about playing or not on original hardware. even if you buy a console just to hack it, the price often is much higher than it should be.

so play as you like, and when you got the money, you can buy the hardware to pay some respects to that piece of history :D

 

[Segadude113]

Not quite. Don't misunderstand me. Any way you can enjoy a game is a valid way to enjoy it, but real hardware and emulators have different advantages. Real hardware is more authentic and you never have to worry about inaccuracies and emulation bugs. Emulation is more convenient, often cheaper, and has features like fast forward, built in Gameshark/Action Replay/Game Genie cheats, and save states to make games easier to finish for busy adults and students with limited time to enjoy a game.

Back in my day, i used a "Monster Brain" which let me mess with Pokemon Gold and Silver. It was like a GameShark with no codes required, but it only worked with Pokemon Gold and Silver. You could use it to get Celebi. HOWEVER you could use preset color options for Game Boy games and even make your own mix of palette swaps for them and save them. You could also use it to play the games at double speed. This worked with almost every single Game Boy game i tried on it. You can even use it to store save data. Also had a "Mega Memory Card" for the Game Boy which let me have like a hundred saves, good for trading in Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow. I got them when they were cheap and used the heck out of them!

 

[secreto7]

It's okay, that's what I have a boyfriend for

Why not both?

 

[χKai]

Why not both?

Having my boyfriend and a Nintendo would be like some sort of fairy tale come true.