No n64 was
the controller though
I know, how are you supposed to lower yourself to anything else when you’ve already held perfection.
The controller was perfectly fine. The concept was slightly ridiculous and I don’t think I ever played a game that actually used the left side, but ergonomically it was fine.
Ahead of its time, for the future when man would be blessed by genetic technology to bestow 3 hands upon themselves
n64 was trash tho. literally the only 90s console i never emulate, because nothing on it is worth playing.
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i’m glad we can agree.
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zero of them held my interest back then, and zero of them hold my interest today. it didn’t help that the machine was janky and the controller was a shitshow. just an all around wreck of a console. every single game was ugly as sin and many of them i literally can’t watch without getting sick.
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No ps1 was
I’d argue PS2 is objectively better since it’s also a PS1 too
Technically, PS2 was better. But PS2 was also the beginning of the end for proper single player narrative games like the Final Fantasy Series, Chrono Trigger/Cross, Colony Wars, Wing Commander, etc…
The PS2 kept those going early on, but I feel like later into it’s life cycle it started to move down the “everything has to be multiplayer now” route.
Which is why, for me, my list of emulated games skews FAR heavier to old PS1 classics.
Just my opinion though. Don’t shoot me, please.
No PC Engine was.
animal crossing on the gamecube had a lot of “microtransactions”. part of the functionality of the game was tied to having a gba/gamecube link cable. another part was tied to having an e-reader, along with several series of cards you had to collect in almost a “gacha” like sense.
No it was the 4.77 MHz 8086. It beeped and it hummed, providing much needed warm air to my room - the only insulation of which was nkotb posters.
SNES was best.
Did it have Blast Processing?
I miss ROM-Hacking Luigi’s Mansion. Had some huge drama on some forums and crashed out. I’ve never recovered since.
Man I would love to read about a bunch of luigis mansion romhacking drama
Sometimes the old friend group laughs behind my back at my old code. I wish that was just my anxiety talking.
I need details about this.
If you look up Mario’s Mansion, that is my project. It also has some weird edits in it (like the money being replaced by Luigi’s Mansion beta disks). I hid away once the pressure and shame and anxiety became too much. Got to learn how to use a hex editor though!
Wasn’t the Wii objectively better since it could also play GameCube games?
Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the “just because we can!” breed of design.
The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.
Yeah, the original Wii revision with the ports for GC controllers and memory cards had legit GameCube hardware right on the motherboard, much like the OG “fat” PS2 had built-in PS1 hardware.
In fact, some custom Gamecube builds eschew the GC motherboard altogether in favor of a cut-down Wii motherboard, modified to boot directly into GC mode. It’s pretty cool.
I’m surprised they aren’t just desoldering chips off the Wii at this point. It wouldn’t be any less nerve-wracking.
I see what you’re going for, but for the average console modder, it’s far easier to just trim the “wrong” motherboard than transplant the relevant chips onto a custom substrate.
People cramming a Gamecube into a GBA SP are not average.
Dreamcast.
Gotta give some of its still exclusive games a go, like Napple Tale
Simply put, yes. This reminds me, I have to look into using the GameCube startup animation for booting my computer
I don’t know about objectivity being the best. I do remember a video where the dropped that generation off a stairs and was only one that worked, although the lid had to be held down. Also I remember hearing it was both the most powerful of its gen and wasn’t sold at a loss.
It was definitely my favorite console. Got into the wii but overtime I grew out of concals and moved onto doing all my gaming on pc.
Morgan Webb from X-Play - Console Durability Test
I was going to reference this too!
Back in the web forum days, I joined a gaming one where one bloke had a falling out with his girlfriend and so she picked up his GameCube and hurled it at the wall.
After kicking her the fuck out, he expected to have to buy a new one (GameCube, not girlfriend), only to find very superficial damage to the casing and that it still worked perfectly fine.
Valve is missing out by not putting a handle on the new steam machine.
Gaben is offering us the chance to start up a handle 3d printing business!
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Playstation 2 has all of these benefits and more.
I refused to buy one for two reasons:
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the principle of me not having any money
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it’s not a fucking cube. It’s a cuboid.
2 might seem like pedantry, but it would have cost them almost nothing in terms of plastic to make it a cube without having to redesign the internals, or they had used an honest designer in the first place.
Honestly, it still itches me now. If I had one I’d 3d-print a little extension to fix it.
2, if you have a game boy player installed, it becomes an actual cube. I stumbled into a matching orange set at a thrift shop in Japan years ago and will keep it forever.
It sounds like it should have mostly been point 1, but the GC was wildly affordable when it came out.
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Nintendo64
Came here to make sure someone had added this. Got mine in '99, it’s still hooked up to my main TV today. I have a spare too.
Going to disagree, the N64 was amazing but there was a lot about controllers and 3D game play that was still getting figured out. By the time the Game Cube came around we had figured out a good controller layout and how to interact with 3D environments. Also Mario Cart Double Dash was peek Mario Cart.
Kart*
People love the GC controller but I prefer the N64 even considering joystick failure. I never liked the stiff joysticks and mushy l/r buttons on the GC.
I also feel like the N64 was the last Nintendo console made for kids and adults. GC games seem cutesy and infantalized compared to older Nintendo consoles, and they’ve been like that ever since.
Cartridges are superior to discs for game performance and stack nicely without cases. They are also less prone to damage.
Most importantly, the N64 hit my nostalgia prime time where the GC was too late. My younger relatives love the GC.
also feel like the N64 was the last Nintendo console made for kids and adults. GC games seem cutesy and infantalized compared to older Nintendo consoles, and they’ve been like that ever since.
GameCube had more T to M rated games than any other Nintendo console.
Yeah but the main line games like Mario were way more childish.
I think they were going for Game Cube level “child-friendliness” with the 64 but didn’t have the fidelity for it until the Game Cube. I don’t think Mario Kart 64 or Super Smash Bros was any more or less cutesy than Double Dash or Melee.
Wind Waker was definitely more light-hearted than Ocarina or Majora’s Mask, though.
Mario Sunshine is more childish than Mario 64? 🤨
The only Mario game that has a political message is more childish than the one entirely about getting some pie?
I will give you that Wind Waker got slammed for the graphic style being too childish.
