Retro Gaming

**jbran23** · 11-29-2010, 05:22 PM

Have any of you guys bought any old school NES systems off of Amazon or E Bay? I want to buy my girl one for Christmas but Im not sure how reliable the systems and the games are being so old. Anyone have any experiences or have some advice?

Also, awhile back I went to my buddies house he had a Sega Dreamcast. The system itself lasted what seemed like a week before Sega did away with it due to poor games and sales but he had a burned disc that had just about every NES game that was ever made on it that he could play on the Dreamcast. That was the coolest shit I have ever seen.

**Nicotine** · 11-29-2010, 06:57 PM

emulators ftwwwwwwwwwwwww.

i have a HUGE romset collection..... like 30+ systems with verified full romsets... it's somewhere around 6tb of roms!

as for classic systems, there are a few classic resellers on ebay. just check feedback and look for a NES system with a new 78 pin header installed.... those are usually the only things bad on those.

**jbran23** · 11-30-2010, 04:36 PM

I have seen that quite a few times but what is an emulator? Im not all that computer savvy so your entire 2nd sentence is greek to me. lol

**jbran23** · 12-01-2010, 01:48 PM

Bump

**HitIt** · 12-01-2010, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by jbran23

I have seen that quite a few times but what is an emulator? Im not all that computer savvy so your entire 2nd sentence is greek to me. lol

old ROM chips from old arcade machines, PC's and gaming systems like atari and NES and dumped (the code/software from the ROM chips) onto mordern computer systems like your pc or mac and the emulator software makes the code/software from these old machines "think" that it is running on its own old hardware and in its old software environment. it's actually running on your computer. since the old code/software "thinks" it's running on its old hardware, it performs in the same manner it was intended to, therefore, saving the old code/and hardware for posterity. having the old software run the same exact way it was originally intended, sound and video alike, is a focus of emulation programs. the emulator emulates the various sound and video chips (hardware) of the old sytems.

MAME is the most popular arcade emulator.....http://www.pleasuredome.org.uk/ is probably the best site/forum dedicated to emulators (and no, it's not a porn site, the site name refers to the poem about gangis khan,xanadu. ect, bla bla bla)

**Nicotine** · 12-01-2010, 04:11 PM

mame
Gens (a genesis emulator)
SNES9X or ZSNES (super nintendo)
ePSXe (playstation 1)
NESter (nintendo)

and many many more

**stack_it** · 12-01-2010, 04:54 PM

Just buy a wii and unlock it. You do it all with an sd card and you cab put every game from every system on there.

**jivany** · 12-01-2010, 06:39 PM

mario kart was bad ass

**D3m3nt3d** · 12-02-2010, 06:02 AM

Duck Hunt ftw

**Brewster** · 12-02-2010, 06:11 AM

ur right
mario cart was bad ass

**JC.1987** · 12-02-2010, 06:34 AM

Just ordered mortal combat for SNES off ebay.

My buddy has all old school nintendo games burned on a disc that he plays on dreamcast, but apparently a lot of the gams lag.

**jbran23** · 12-02-2010, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by JC.1987

My buddy has all old school nintendo games burned on a disc that he plays on dreamcast, but apparently a lot of the gams lag.

Anyone have any idea where I could get my hands on one of these discs? I could probably get a Dreamcast for no more than $25 or so at this point and to have a complete library of NES games to go with it would be worth it.