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07-07-2016 , 03:03 PM

#7476

whatthejish

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Yeah I've been wanting a 1080 too, but no place seems to have any. Hopefully will calm down in a few months

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07-07-2016 , 03:48 PM

#7477

MinusEV

Giftastic!

Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 12,328

I picked up a 1070 (MSI Gaming X) a few days ago.

I was planning on waiting a few months to see what happened with other 1070 and how 1080 would pan out both price wise and result-wise, but my 780TI started crashing my machine so it got kinda more urgent to replace it.

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07-07-2016 , 06:38 PM

#7478

whatthejish

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So Pokemon GO is awesome

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07-07-2016 , 10:51 PM

#7479

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/2...five_years.php

Guy making 100 games in his 5 years at USCs master's program of game design

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07-14-2016 , 08:32 AM

#7480

El Kabong

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Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 10,049

For those that don't check the Wii U thread.

Game list and other info - https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Misc-/Nin...t=announcement

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07-14-2016 , 08:50 AM

#7481

bazooka87

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If it actually gets released here, has some kind of Virtual Console capability, and I can get Duck Hunt with zapper? Take all my money

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07-14-2016 , 08:56 AM

#7482

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

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*Note that an AC adapter for the USB cable is required to play the system but is not included in the packaging.

huh?

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07-14-2016 , 08:56 AM

#7483

El Kabong

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Where do you live? It's been announced for US, Europe, Australia and NZ so far.

You can't play any light gun games unless you have a CRT TV and since this has HDMI only that's not going to happen. Duck Hunt on the Wii U supports the Wii remote though.

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

huh?

USB powered so basically you can plug it into anything that powers USB like a laptop or the end of an iphone charger.

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07-14-2016 , 08:59 AM

#7484

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

also, this is going to have to be incredibly competitively priced to outdo a raspberry pi running retro pi. anything more than $15-$20 is a ripoff

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07-14-2016 , 09:09 AM

#7485

El Kabong

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It's $60 and it's a gimmick. You can't play cartridges and afaik you can't add any more games so it's basically just a very limited but really cool looking emulator machine. It won't even come close to retro pi for actual gaming. The controllers are great though. They're only $10 and can plug into Wii remotes so supported by Wii and Wii U. I've got every NES game on my Wii so I'll at least grab a couple of those.

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07-14-2016 , 12:52 PM

#7486

bazooka87

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Originally Posted by El Kabong

Where do you live? It's been announced for US, Europe, Australia and NZ so far.

Sweet, I'm in Australia - only saw stories about it in US/Europe so good news.

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07-14-2016 , 01:34 PM

#7487

goofyballer

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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib

also, this is going to have to be incredibly competitively priced to outdo a raspberry pi running retro pi. anything more than $15-$20 is a ripoff

A ripoff that will sell like hotcakes because no normal person wants to **** with a raspberry pi.

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07-14-2016 , 02:02 PM

#7488

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

I pray that we discover the board running that is a pi or similar. Would be too funny.

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07-14-2016 , 03:55 PM

#7489

Jeremy517

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I wonder how many times they can get people to pay for the same games.

Take SMB for example: The original release, Super Mario All-Stars, SMB Deluxe (GBC), Classic NES Series (GBA), 3DS Virtual Console, Wii/Wii U Virtual Console, etc, and now this device.

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07-14-2016 , 04:28 PM

#7490

Jiggymike

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Worth $60 just to keep that little guy on your shelf and look cool imo. I still have stacks of NES, Genesis, and SNES games but only a working NES - might get one of those machines that can play all three but the reviews always suck.

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07-14-2016 , 07:43 PM

#7491

Cry Me A River

Orange is the new Green

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 23,784

Yeah, the market was flooded with these kind of things like 10 years ago. Mostly Genesis-in-a-joystick. And also the Flashback consoles.

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07-15-2016 , 02:17 PM

#7492

thethethe

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Release of Mario Kart Go! for Satnav ‘hopefully won’t cause too many accidents’

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07-16-2016 , 12:20 AM

#7493

schu_22

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There are like zero human american consumers who want to do anything with a raspberry pi, and like 4 who actually know what a raspberry pi is.

This will be a great product and will sell like crazy. I'll buy it.

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07-16-2016 , 12:25 AM

#7494

weevil

veteran

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 2,162

Why didn't they just stick every single NES ROM on it? That's like a few hundred MB.

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07-16-2016 , 12:47 AM

#7495

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

licensing issues. the legality behind ownership of old games is a freaking nightmare

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07-16-2016 , 12:51 AM

#7496

that_pope

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It's not about the cost of storage...

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07-16-2016 , 12:52 AM

#7497

master3004

Revisionist Historian

Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 56,462

Music licenses and stuff run out as well, which I think is a big problem.

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07-16-2016 , 12:55 AM

#7498

Loki

binary duo

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 12,772

if I recall, gog had a piece about how they once had to track down the license for a game and it was just a piece of paper in the bottom of some filing cabinet.

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07-16-2016 , 02:42 AM

#7499

_dave_

_Pooh_Bah_

Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,146

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Originally Posted by bazooka87

I can get Duck Hunt with zapper?

Can't run a zapper without a CRT

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07-16-2016 , 07:49 AM

#7500

Cry Me A River

Orange is the new Green

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 23,784

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Originally Posted by _dave_

Can't run a zapper without a CRT

It's not because of the CRT, it's probably because of input lag which can't be compensated for properly on a console not designed to do so:

(Jump to 7:15 if you don't want to watch the whole thing)

As a counter example, while the Vectrex has a CRT it's not a raster display and can use a light gun (virtually the same technique as the NES) just fine:

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