Celebrating 30 years of high-speed anti-gravity racing and combat with our Wipeout series podcast.

Popular in the UK and Brazil, I never knew anyone who had one here in Greece. What are some of your favorite games and memories from it? It could be any iteration of the console.

Could I literally just take the SD card out of the Memcard Pro and copy the save over or would I need some other tool to convert it first, does anyone have any insight?

Just thought I could get a discussion thread going. What is everyone playing lately?

I just finished playing Metal Gear Solid Delta, it was great! I decided to play through the series finally after years of watching video essays on the game, and I'm glad I did! I played Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Subsistence through emulation (4k HD for the win!) It was a great experience and I can see why the series is so highly venerated. It holds up remarkably well, and the long cut scenes were really enjoyable. I thought it would be annoying, but I actually found myself looking forward to them. Delta was like jumping forward in time 30 years, but still extremely fun. I'm glad they stayed so close to the source material so I could just play the new release instead of booting up Snake Eater through emulation.

Now if I could just play IV without a PS3, that would be awesome. I might have to try emulation on that, but from what I read, the experience isn't great.

Regardless, now I'm replaying Max Payne 3. This game IS SO FREAKING GOOD. I had forgotten how good it is. The noir narration is just amazing. The gameplay is tight as a snare drum. The art style and visuals are still amazing even when compared to modern games. Rockstar really knocked this game out of the park. I still haven't played Max Payne 1 or 2, and maybe I should. Also, I found out that one of the bands I've recently discovered and have been listening to like crazy, Health, did the score for Max Payne 3. The music is fantastic. If you haven't played it, I highly recommend giving it a go.

Other than those games, I plan to play through The Last of Us 1 for the first time soon. Not sure how "retro" it is, but I think it is borderline given the original release date and hardware. Looking forward to trying it for the first time. I've never had Sony consoles, so I've missed out on a ton of first-party Sony games over the years. Trying to make up for that by playing modern PC releases and through emulation.

So yeah, what do ya'll have going on right now? What do you recommend playing and why?

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/66094

It all started with a sarcastic comment right here on Hackaday.com: ” How many phones do you know that sport a 5 and 1/4 inch diskette drive?” — and [Paul Sanjay] took that personally, or at least thought “Challenge accepted” because he immediately hooked an old Commodore floppy drive to his somewhat-less-old smartphone.

The argument started over UNIX file directories, in a post about Redox OS on smartphones— which was a [Paul Sanja] hack as well. [Paul] had everything he needed to pick up the gauntlet, and evidently did so promptly. The drive is a classic Commodore 1541, which means you’ll want to watch the demo video at 2x speed or better. (If you thought loading times felt slow in the old days, they’re positively glacial by modern standards.) The old floppy drive is plugged into a Google Pixel 3 running Postmarket OS. Sure, you could do this on Android, but a fully open Linux system is obviously the hacker’s choice. As a bonus, it makes the whole endeavor almost trivial.

Between the seven-year-old phone and the forty-year-old disk drive is an Arduino Pro Micro, configured with the XUM1541 firmware by [OpenBCM] to act as a translator. On the phone, the VICE emulator pretends to be a C64, and successfully loads Impossible Mission from an original disk. Arguably, the phone doesn’t “sport” the disk drive–if anything, it’s the other way around, given the size difference–but we think [Paul Sanja] has proven the point regardless. Bravo, [Paul].

Thanks to [Joseph Eoff], who accidentally issued the challenge and submitted the tip. If you’ve vexed someone into hacking (or been so vexed yourself), don’t hesitate to drop us a line!

We wish more people would try hacking their way through disagreements. It really, really beats a flame war.

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I'm wanting to buy a Retroud Flip 2. Specifically the gamecube one.

Now on Retroids website, it's $229 + $25 shipping.

On Amazons website, it's $269 + shipping. However the amazon shipping is within the USA. (I think).

Is it going to be worth it to order straight from Retroid? Or are there going to be tarrifs? How much are the tarrifs?

VGHF offers a magazine subscription where they'll send out a random vintage issue each month to offload their collection of dupes. Thought it was a cool way to relive the past while supporting video game archival work.

The creator of Pac-Man, Toru Iwatani, once created another arcade game called Libble Rabble. It's a cult hit now, but at the time, it didn't go over well when it first released in Japanese arcades. In this video, we take a look at an overshadowed game in the legendary creator's catalog. Or, is it one of this games? That's an important question to answer. One that we kind of answer in this video. We also visit some Tokyo nightclubs, so that's neat.

Ghostbusters on NES (I think a very similar game came out on other contemporary systems). While the Mega Drive ghostbusters game was hard but it was worth playing, I don't understand what they were thinking with this one. (What were they thinking?) For people who have played it, back then or now, do you think it has any redeeming qualities? The only thing I can think of is the AVGN episode that came out of it.

via https://mastodon.art/@jmechner/115265698849268318

So I posted about this two weeks ago, that the Game Bub looked like a killer handheld FPGA for playing GBA games from a cart.

It wasn't funded at the time, but it looks like it has blown past its goal and is now funded.

For larger, readable images of said docs, check this other link - https://rebell.at/artikel/maniac-mansion-fruehes-design-document-aufgetaucht

Bruce Lee is one of the most beloved 8-bit games of all time — a perfect mix of action, platforming, and pure nostalgia. But how do all the different versions stack up?

In this video I compare all 9 official releases of Bruce Lee, from the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit originals through to the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, NEC PC-88, Apple II, IBM PC, and the BBC Micro. Ranked from worst to best, we’ll see which systems nailed it and which ones… didn’t.

Expect pink Bruce, missing Ninjas, neon overload, smooth classics, and of course the mighty C64.

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I saw a post about someone in my neighborhood looking for a windows 98 machine to play some old games and DOS games.

I messaged them (because I'm always up for helping people enjoy old games) and said I have a spare PC, that can run emulation and will likely be better for them to play their old games on (and a lot cheaper than the scalper prices on old machines now).

I planned to use either Mint/PopOS, and set it up so the computer will start DOSbox-x right away, to make it easy as possible for this person (I think they are not super computer literate but probably know how to navigate DOS and basic point and click instructions)

My question is, should I set it up with dosbox, or a virtual machine running Win98?

Any other tips welcome :)

Also, most of the games they want to play are FPS, like Doom, Duke Nukem, Redneck rampage, blood, and also some games like NFL challenge (DOS)