JonthanD said:JLsoft said:JonthanD, you've read posts/nicks wrong, and are talking about 2 different people
I'm aware of StellaDS...long ago I posted a couple builds patched to use DLDI (instead of relying on Slot2 storage) before the author finally updated it...but it's still not close to full speed or anything. I was interested in the emulation used in this ROM since it's got nice speed/sound/scaling.
I am wondering what 2600 games are not running full speed? I am using the last build and thats like 3 years old now and have played almost every ROM in the set, Before anyone laughs at me, the whole set is a little over 3MB's so it takes up less space then the average MP3 file.
Honestly amazing what they did with a few kilobytes of space.
Also sorry if I got you confused with some one who was responding apparently for you, how odd....
Edit: And yes I do know what the original hardware played like, I owned a woody 2600, the remade smaller one (wish I had kept that one it was cool) and a 7800.
Kit_ said:I am so happy I was a nintendo kid growing up. These games are just awful. The only redeeming quality of this collection of games is now I appreciate those old nes games even more.
ShadowSoldier said:Kit_ said:I am so happy I was a nintendo kid growing up. These games are just awful. The only redeeming quality of this collection of games is now I appreciate those old nes games even more.
Lol Atari is amazing. Shit, I wasn't even around during the Atari years and when I've played them a few years ago, it was fun as hell. Clearly you don't like games that don't end and the point of them is to get a high score.
Kit_ said:I am so happy I was a nintendo kid growing up. These games are just awful. The only redeeming quality of this collection of games is now I appreciate those old nes games even more.
Yeah, in fact most original games were ports of arcade games (or played like arcade games) because they were originally sold as a way for parents to let their kids play videogames without having to send them off alone with money into a dark smelly arcade with strangers, whoooooo! *ghost sound effects here*GeekyGuy said:being able to finally have some semblance of an arcade experience at home in the 70s was balls-out amazing.
NamoNakamura said:This is almost the perfect collection. Throw in Major Havoc from the arcades and this would have been golden. I would have actually bought this.
Although I guess it would have been hard to emulate, but it looks like it could be easily reprogrammed or ported.
Rayder said:Has anyone ever found a list of what games are supposed to be in Volume 2?
regnad said:The amazing thing about these games is that the programmers had to use all kinds of tricks to fit the whole thing into unbelievably miniscule ROM sizes. These things are tiny tiny tiny tiny.
As stanleyopar2000 says, there's no reason they couldn't fit every single damn 2600 game that was ever made onto one DS cart. That there are so few in this collection is hard to understand, especially at the price other people are paying for it.
To Kit: GeekyGuy has it right. You had to be there. There was nothing to compare it to at the time. That was a looong time ago, the very dawn of video games, and I assume either before you were born or during your infancy.
But Adventure, which is in this collection, was revolutionary. Sure, it compares horribly with Link to the Past, but it blazed that trail well in advance. And Adventure on the level 3 setting (random object placement) is still fun for me.
JLsoft said:Hrmpf, single large 'archive_bin' file for resources...so much for my hopes of being able to inject 2600 ROMs if this is using emulation for them :/
You thought what you did was ancient thread resurrection? Watch this.Ancient thread resurrection, but:
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A tedious process is involved, but it seems to work.