Damn, man, too many posts to respond to, so I'll just reply to the most eye catching one.
psj3809 - How about calming down there a bit and thinking before you post? I'm surprised that you are calling all my posts stupid. You seem to have just quickly read my post and then got all fired up and had to write this "attack" on me. How long have you been in the GP32 community? Judging by your member number (I know, not everybody becomes a member immediately when they join the community), I doubt you have been around here for too long. Okay, time to respond to all of your sensless comments (This is going to be soo much fun! How many "roll eyes" smilies can you count?):
Seems to be that there are a lot of good emulators out there but you seem to think instantly theyre crap because you said previously a certain game wouldnt work (bad rom) and on the Megadrive/Genesis all because theres not a sound when you hack someone in Golden Axe you think the emulators half complete ? Like someone else said try some other games, plenty to choose from.
I didn't say that GPengine was crap, this is why I'm saying that you should think about what you are going to post before you post it. :rolleyes: And there was more than one game that I wasn't able to get to work. And it's not just game compatibility, I also mentioned the lack of saving. And many people have still been wanting RF support. I still think it's good, but not good enough for donation because of these points. <--- Not a spoiled brat :rolleyes:
In most games that I have tried, and in mainly the games that I would use a Genesis emulator for, the sound playback is slow. Golden Axe, one of the games where the sound is actually fast, has the problem of ALL the sound being muted EVERY time you kill an enemy, which you do a LOT, so it gets annoying.
CastAway is a brilliant emulator and has some very very good games for it which work very well. Eg Stunt Car Racer and many many more. Somehow you cant figure out how to use it so you just give up , its very easy to use and one of my favourite emulators. Great games can be found on the net for it and theres tons.
Never played the Atari ST, so I don't have much interest in it. And I don't even know much about all of its games, so I don't know what's good and what's not. And I have a really hard time obtaining Atari ST games. I also never have been able to set it up properly and I always have questions/issues with controls. Because of these points, I don't use Castaway, and because I don't use it, I don't feel like I should have to donate money for it. :rolleyes:
DrMD is brilliant, a few bugs here and there but on the whole it works very well. I love Golden Axe but dont really mind if a sound or two is missing.
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In most games that I have tried, and in mainly the games that I would use a Genesis emulator for, the sound playback is slow. Golden Axe, one of the games where the sound is actually normal speed, has the problem of ALL the sound being muted EVERY time you kill an enemy, which you do a LOT, so it gets annoying.
LittleJohn is also very good, HUGE range of NES titles. Not sure why you dont like to use this more , specially all the Mario games etc
I used this a LOT already, a long time ago. I played MANY games on it and beat most of them. But then I started to run out of games to play (Since it's an old console for me, and since it really isn't up to my normal standards, I only enjoy playing games that I played as a child). And I already said that I didn't like the NES enough to warrant a donation. :rolleyes:
sms32 is another one with great games, yet again you arent a big fan of it for some reason. Considering the GP32 is used mostly for emulation i'm stunned you dont like trying any of these old systems.
Again, just like with Castaway, I never played the SMS until I did it on emulation. And, just like with the NES, because it's not up to my normal standards (Normal standards are what would make a console good enough to the point where I would be able to try games on it I never played before and still have fun. For me, this starts with the SNES), there are only so many games that I can play. I was having fun with the few games that I did play, but those soon got dull and uninteresting. There were only 2 games that I really liked playing, Phantasy Star and Shining Force, but both my files ended up getting erased for some reason, so I stopped using it.
I bought the GP32 a long time ago being tricked that it could emulate SNES full speed with sound, along with many other people. I soon discovered that it couldn't do this. SNES is the sole reason why I bought the GP. The remaining systems that I thought that it would be able to emulate perfectly (Full speed with sound at reasonable FS with great compatibility) that I would like were NES, NGPC, PCE, GB/GBC, and Genesis. But this didn't end up being the case...
zxGP32 - Well this just sounds like a joke. You've never tried it and you dont plan to ? WHY ? Are you saying millions in the UK are wrong about this ? In my lifetime i've had a Spectrum/Atari ST/Gameboy/Megadrive and others but those 3 are emulated on the GP32. Thanks to emulation i can now try out the 'hated' C64, some Konami classics on the MSX, some older games on the Atari VCS and 800 and also console classics on the NES and Master System.
How can the spectrum be dull ? Much like the C64 it bought a HUGE generation of people into computer games and i actually like the more 'basic' versions of Bombjack and Commando and other games. Considering the Spectrum had just 48k its amazing some of the games out there.
How can you find it 'uninteresting' if you've hardly tried it ? Its like an american moaning about the rest of the world when they havent even got a passport to leave the country. (no offence to americans). Its like me saying 'i dont like chinese food' yet i havent tried it or i've tried one dish and then think the rest is all crap as well.
Can you try looking at things from different points of view? Or would that be too hard for you?
I grew up in the late NES/early SNES era, so I would obviously consider anything before that to not be too interesting because they would probably not be up to par gameplay wise. Graphics are an important aspect to me (VERY IMPORTANT. They even have a psychological effect that I don't want to go into), and the minimum amount of graphics that I accept would be at the NES level, since that's what I grew up with.
As for MAME i'm currently playing Breakthru, Star Force, Bombjack, Jailbreak and MANY other great games. Straight away you seem to write it off as its only going to play 'VERY old games that belong in the category as 'some old crap' you might as well have said as thats the way you make it sound. MANY people here much prefer the earlier great games of the arcade machines than the current ones. Plus the GP32 can obviously only do the earlier games as its not powerful enough to play the latest ones. Again what do you want ? The latest arcade games all emulated ??? Come on.
Never heard of those games. It seems MAME emulation on the GP is pointless because it seems like all the games that we'll be able to run at full speed with sound will be games that you could just use other emulators for, like NES, MSX, and what not. Many people may prefer to play the earlier games than the current ones, but does that mean that I can't prefer to play the more current ones? Is there something wrong about myself having a different opinion? I already know that MAME won't be able to emulate the latest arcade games, so I just ignore that aspect. What I see is that it'll only be able to emulate the earlier games, the games that I'm not interested in, which is why I'm not too fond of MAME. I DON'T WANT ANTHING FROM MAME. :rolleyes:
I do find your replies really pretty stupid.
Maybe if you used that thing in your head called a brain to think about my posts and think about the post you are about to make, then you would realize that I'm not being a spoiled brat. :rolleyes:
You moan about youre fed up of the GP32 etc yet you wont try half of the emulators as you instantly think theyre no good, you arent keen on the Megadrive emulator because 'a few sounds on Golden Axe wont play' and all because you cant figure out a simple emulator like Castaway you instantly give up on that.
Half of those emulators are things like Colecovision and what not. I've seen pictures/videos of the types of games that are on these VERY old systems, I'm NOT INTERESTED. What I'm interested in is coder's completing their emulators so that we have perfect (Full speed with sound at good FS, Great compatibility) GB/GBC, SMS, NGPC, and PC Engine emulation, instead these incomplete works that are trying to support the scene. It seems that the whole scene is concentrated on adding to the whole tower instead of going back down and fixing up and making the base stronger.:rolleyes:
Yes graphics and sounds are a lot more simpler on the Speccy/NES and Master System and others, eg Atari VCS but so what ? The thing about games is PLAYABILITY. Yes you could have souped up graphics and sound on a Playstation II game but for many many of us here we prefer the retro style of games as gameplay was #1 back then not whizzy 3d graphics and some amazing soundtrack.
I don't care what you say, graphics are still an important aspect, and if it doesn't have at least NES graphics, then it better have amazing gameplay/music. Of course gameplay is what makes a game, but that doesn't mean that graphics can't make it worse.:rolleyes:
Most of us here were bought up on old computers/consoles and we love playing the games still. I really dont get your comments as theyre pretty poor generally. Its like a spoilt kid throwing their toys out of the pram. Yes the emulators arent perfect, yes they havent all got a 300 page readme.txt to help out 'certain people' and yes you might have to try more than 5 games on a particular emulator to enjoy some of them but jesus what do you want ?
I wasn't brought up on old computers/consoles like the Colecovision, I was brought up on the NES/SNES. Is it my fault that I'm only 15? I'm sorry, but I can't help but be only 15 years old. By perfect I mean full speed with sound at reasonable FS with great compatibility with saves (I might have forgotten this saves aspect in this post of mine, but I don't have the time to go back and add it to all the parts where I mention what I consider to be perfect). What I want is for these faults to be fixed, so that we have a much better foundation on which we can add to with things like DrMD.:rolleyes:
I'm not surprised you seem to be fed up with the GP32 as i cant believe any single programmer of any emulator out there could please you enough !!!!
If you just thought for a second before you posted, then you could have realized that I'm not being spoiled and that I'm not asking for true perfection. Dumbass :rolleyes:
You sound like a spoilt brat
I literally laughed out loud at this :lol:
You talked about some other shit, but I think might post should suffice in answering the rest of your post since its based on your horrible misinterpretation of my post.
Trust me, I'm not a spoiled child. All that happend was that you greatly misinterpreted my post. So, if you could actually think for a moment about what you are going to post and what you are reply to before to launch this misinformed attack on me, I would greatly appreciate it.
