textfiles,
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The calls have been minimal, but "Jason, where is the emulation-in-browser support for the Tiger GAME.COM handheld console" has been answered - every released game for it, and every instruction manual, as well as links to Diskman's absolutely fantastic fan site. Play the worst thing ever today:

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_gamecom

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textfiles,
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"So, wait, do you really have to start every game by booting into a quasi-PDA interface, with calendar and solitaire and calculator, and only by selecting "cartridge" can you play the game?"

Yes. Yes indeedy do.

lunarloony,
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@textfiles I applaud the effort here! I will say, though, that you don't really get a true sense of just how bad the GameCom was until you see it in its original blur-o-vision. The graphics look positively quaint without it!

textfiles,
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@lunarloony I'm mean and petty, not cruel

textfiles,
@textfiles@mastodon.archive.org avatar

Oh.... one last thing. IT WORKS ON MOBILE.

Roundcat,
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@textfiles Play the worst thing ever today”

Wow, even Phillips CDi support!

seeyouinrayman4,

@textfiles LOOKS LIKE SONIC JAM'S BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS

textfiles,
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sterophonick,
@sterophonick@bitbang.social avatar

@textfiles has MAME fixed the sound emulation by chance? i remember it being really bad

textfiles,
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rotopenguin,
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@sterophonick @textfiles the sound is very down-pitch from the hardware I remember. I think my four and a half gigahertz pc is a little too slow to run it correctly.

sterophonick,
@sterophonick@bitbang.social avatar

@rotopenguin @textfiles pitched down but also many samples were flat-out missing

textfiles,
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@sterophonick @rotopenguin For what it's worth, the MAME source code is very explicit that sound is still a major issue, and worth further attention.

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/tiger/gamecom.cpp

When it gets fixed, the emulator we run will reflect it.

SirTapTap,
@SirTapTap@mastodon.social avatar

@textfiles oh shit I'll have to stream these soon, wonderfully terrible stuff

rotopenguin,
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@SirTapTap @textfiles while you're playing, keep in mind that you were never meant to be able to see things on the Game Dot Com's screen. It wasn't smeary like the Game Boy, the moment anything moves on the Game Com's screen it was just gone. The entire time you are playing something like Sonic, the screen is blank plus a little bit of static.

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