I always forget how the Dreamcast shared games with both the PS1 and PS2.

I started with the PlayStation so both the SNES and MD are a bit before my time. I have delved into the SNES catalogue since there's lots of well-known and still talked about games and series for an easy jumping-off point. Streets of Rage isn't actually a bad recommendation at all, it'd probably fit my handheld use case very well. Do you have any favored Mega Drive/Genesis emulator on Android? I assume there's a RetroArch core (or three) for that

Yeah, you can play the game upscaled to any resolution you want and in widescreen, and it looks very nice (apart from the widescreen patch occasionally displaying stuff that was not intended to be seen):

The reason for the fan server only working with the Japanese versions of the games is because the JPN region servers were what the team behind the fan server managed to reverse engineer. The US and European server were killed in 2007 while Capcom kept the Japanese servers going on for 4 more years. There's actually a video about the creation of the fan server on Youtube.

I, uhh... kinda like Kevin since he's a very simple, noob-friendly character with his potshot ability, strong starting pistol, kick and good speed & health stats . Is Jim the one he dislikes? I know the two of them have a funny special ending in the final scenario in File 1

I never really got into the game that much because it felt lacking as an offline experience. 20 years later I'm finally enjoying it in co-op, and I encourage you to give the Resurrection server a shot if you still want that itch scratched. You could probably have both File 1 and 2 running in less than an hour. The hardest part would be finding people to play with, though I think you can look for people on the Outbreak Resurrection forums and Discord. Maybe there's enough RE fans on Hexbear to get a game going

I had never really played Outbreak too much back in the day since it just didn't appeal to me as a single player experience even though I loved all the other Resident Evil games. As soon as I heard about the fan server I knew I had to try it out with some friends.

From what I understand the fans reverse-engineered the server by analyzing the packets the PS2 was sending out to the official game servers, not that I really know what that means It was just unbelievably cool to get to experience the PS2 online experience 20 years later and I have nothing but respect for the sorts of people who make things like emulation and fan servers possible

Yes, both Ryujinx and Yuzu can do multiplayer by emulating the Switch's wireless functionality, though Yuzu's servers have been shut off for obvious reasons. You can still play online on Yuzu through Hamachi or similar though.

Other emulators also have multiplayer, several PS2 multiplayer games are playable on PCSX2 with community servers and there's an entire Xbox Live replacement service for the original Xbox.

Might be fun to mess with some multiplayer Switch emulation with Ryujinx 🤔

I was about to say that it's not that bulky actually, but looking them up apparently the backbone part retracts completely on the Kishi v1. I assume there were probably issues with the cable in there breaking since that seems to be a problem with all of these collapsible controllers.

When I bought the BSP-D8 I also got a cheap Nintendo Switch case/bag for 3 bucks that just about fits the phone and controller. The old phone I use as an emulator handheld is pretty old, with a 5 inch display. If I used anything bigger I'd have to take the phone out of the controller and keep them separate in the case. Maybe there are other sorts of knockoff cases on AliExpress

Kishi is a usb connect not a bluetooth though, so it can't really substitute for a PC controller.

I mean, with a long enough USB cable it's definitely usable on PC that way. In fact, when I used the BSP-D8 on PC I just used a cable since I didn't want to bother with Windows' bluetooth pairing process.

While I didn't use them a lot myself, beginner-friendly alternate loadout guns like the Sawed-Off and Retro Lancer gave some of my friends who don't usually gel with Gears' multiplayer a confidence boost that kept them playing Gears 3 so I appreciated them for that reason

Thanks! I'll give it a go, hopefully there's still life in it

I don't have a voltmeter on hand, but the battery is not puffed out at all. The positive and negative terminals did have some blue gunk form on them for the first few days I had it drying out though, like I said.

It's also clunky as hell. Unfortunately I have to use it for a bunch of systems because the phone I use for emulation is so old and underpowered. For example, as much as I love the standalone Snes9x some games just crackle and stutter on my phone so I have to resort to the Snes9x 2010 RetroArch core.

I also use it for GameBoy/Color/Advance because mGBA doesn't have an Android port.