What are your favourite games to relive your nostalgia on what emulator? I used to play the hell out of Monkeyball on gamecube so I enjoy using Dolphin for that or Mario Sunshine.
Emulation has given me a wide backlog of great titles to play in the midst of “AAA” sludge.
What’s your impression on emulation? What is your favourite thing about it?
I love emulation. Been using it since NESticle in the late 90s. By far the best thing about it is save states. Being able to stop playing whenever you want and resume your progress was a revelation!
I’ve been playing Drill Dozer (GBA) on my phone via Lemuroid. I looked into it after reading it was made by Game Freak and thinking “Hold on, they make non-Pokemon games?”. Finished the main story line today, will try to 100% it now. A very fun game with some interesting mechanics, good story and art style. Playing it on a phone can be challenging at times, since the game relies heavily on L/R triggers, but a good grip/finger position or laying the phone on a table sometimes helps a lot.
Other than that, I have been playing some old NES games from my childhood, and a few others I’ve missed out. Recently played Bomberman, MegaMan and Mike Tyson’s punch out.
It was never released where I live, but I love using Duckstation (psx/1) to play Vib-Ribbon since I don’t have a modded ps1/2.
I absolutely love emulation. It’s a great way for anyone to play their favorite retro games or titles they’ve never played without shilling out hundreds if not thousands because of resellers that probably live in their mom’s basement and weigh 6000 pounds.
I’ve been replaying Dragon Quest 8 (PS2) on my Steam Deck, and it just fills me with joy. Except for the absolutely bonkers choices they hardcoded for buttons and camera movement. Ah, good times.
I just have all my old consoles, a crt, and an input switcher for composite and hdmi. 7 consoles on my bookshelf and 5 more in my entertainment center. I could probably save a healthy amount of space in my basement with emulation lol
For a while it’s just been a kingdom hearts machine because I hate fucking chibis and so many 3DS games are chibis except kingdom hearts. I’ve started playing Xenoblade now and soon I’m gonna try to get into monster hunter. I already have 4-5 hours into monster hunter 4 but still have 0 idea what I’m doing
I use a Mister FPGA for emulation of pretty much all 5th gen and older consoles, as well as a ton of arcade games. I like to use it with my CRTs - it has direct analog video output, and it’s highly accurate hardware emulation with effectively zero latency by nature of it being FPGA. It was expensive but it turned out to be right at home in my CRT setup, and I couldn’t be happier with it.
I love the mods and graphical upgrades. For example, the “FFT Complete” hack on PSX is still my preferred way to play Final Fantasy Tactics, and I can get a buttery-smooth 60fps on Link’s Awakening (2019).
Lately I’ve also been dabbling into CRT filters with mixed success. Every now and then I’ll get the nostalgia buzz, but a lot of the time I feel like I’m just looking at a game with visible scanlines. I’ve heard it’s better on 4K displays though, and I don’t have regular access to one.
I used to collect various systems and games but nowadays don’t have much left apart from my Dreamcast stuff. Cost, storage space and just the risk of something becoming unplayable mean emulation is my go to now.
PS1 is probably my most played system, I used ePSXe for years but recently switched to Duckstation and so far so good. Some of my all time favourites are GT2, Future Cop LAPD, Devil Dice, Colin McRae Rally 1/2.
If you want something to play on Dolphin then the GameCube version of Skies of Arcadia is excellent.
I've been using emulation pretty much since I started playing games. It's actually one of the main reasons gaming became my passion (and eventually major money drain).
My favorite thing? I don't have to shuffle different devices to play everything I want - it's even more importent now, since I have a Steam Deck and can have all of them on the go again.
Here's a short list of titles I love that don't show up too often in threads like this one:
Tetris DX (GBC / mGBA)
Fantasy Golf Pangya (PSP / PPSSPP)
Persona 3 Portable (PSP / PPSSPP) - just started NG+ with female protagonist
Puzzle Quest - Challenge of the Warlords (PSP / PPSSPP)
Ridge Racer 2 (PSP / PPSSPP)
Parasite EVE (PSX / DuckStation)
Captain Toad Tresure Tracker (Switch / Yuzu)
I'm not going to dump my whole library here but these are fun and rare enough worth mention.
Not sure Persona 3 belongs with the others seeing as it just got another rerelease in the form of Persona 3 Reload. Currently playing it on my Series X and it’s great. Unfortunately no female protagonist though.
Other than that, Parasite Eve is one of my personal favorites.
I'd agree about P3R if not for the fact that despite remaking the game Atlus still couldn't be bothered to make a definitive edition of P3.
Besides that, you could also argue P3P doesn't really belong here due to being available on Steam but the question was about our favorite games played on an emulator and PSP version is what I'm playing right as I'm typing this :P
Parasite Eve is great, isn't it? I wish we got more RPGs like this set in modern times.
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