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CorrodedCranium , in Playing GameCube classics, but in 4K on a Mac with PlayStation controllers, just as Nintendo intended.
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Adding to this you can use Playstation and other controllers with Nintendont. Pretty useful if you have a Wii and want to play GameCube games but don't have the controllers.

LazaroFilm OP ,
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Yep. And actually the DualShock 4 controller can send motion data so you could use it as a very wonky looking Wii controller. I tried it briefly on MarioKart Wii.

CorrodedCranium ,
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Whoa that's nifty might have to try it

lakemalcom10 , in I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting

I have been saying "Press 'Y' to be a weenie" for as long as I can remember

ConstipatedWatson , in Playing GameCube classics, but in 4K on a Mac with PlayStation controllers, just as Nintendo intended.
AFC1886VCC ,

Ah, Harry Picard and the revenge of the king. Big fan of that movie.

penquin , in Playing GameCube classics, but in 4K on a Mac with PlayStation controllers, just as Nintendo intended.
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I have a 2TB ssd on my PC that is almost full with all kinds of retro games. All the way up to the PS3. It's crazy how good these games look on my 4k monitor compared to those tube TV's I played those games on back in the day. Lol

LazaroFilm OP ,
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It’s amazing! GameCube with Hd textures looks like next gen I love it!

penquin ,
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And old games are actually a lot more fun than a lot of the new ones. I haven't played a new title for a long time. Still going through my retro collection. 😁

LazaroFilm OP ,
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The only thing is some old gave have very wonky camera movements and controls especially for first person like 007. Some have custom controls hacks too.

penquin ,
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Oh man, 007 is the shit

mox , in Playing GameCube classics, but in 4K on a Mac with PlayStation controllers, just as Nintendo intended.

God bless the reverse engineers and emulator developers.

gramathy ,

The dolphin team is unironically a group of some of the best software engineers I can think of, solving problems outside the scope of basically any standard industry practice for free and getting results

cheet ,

The blog post they did showing how they do a sort of regression testing is still some of the coolest devops I've seen.

Check the FifoCI stuff here.

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2015/01/25/making-developers-more-productive-dolphin-development-infrastructure/

doctorcrimson ,

The RPCS3 team who figured out how to emulate the wacky core design of the PS3 are truly mentally unwell and I hope they never get better because the world needs more people like them.

yamanii ,
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It is truly a marvel and it can run even on CPUs with less cores than it had.

The_Picard_Maneuver , in Playing GameCube classics, but in 4K on a Mac with PlayStation controllers, just as Nintendo intended.
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This is top tier parenting

tenextrathrills ,

I don’t agree. Graphics on older consoles was designed to look good on CRT displays and can look really bad on newer ones. At best this is negligence.

model_tar_gz ,

Most emulators have video rendering filters for this kind of concern; they have for a long time. SNES9X from more than a decade ago already implemented.

LazaroFilm OP ,
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This is GameCube on Dolphin which re renders the whole game is 4K. No pixels visible.

ColeSloth ,

Your MacBook display isn't 4k, buddy.

vic_rattlehead ,

Aspect ratio is off (3024x1964 MBP vs 3840x2160 UHD) but it's not exactly a low resolution display.

DdCno1 ,

SNES9X from more than a decade ago

This emulator came out 26 years ago and IIRC, it had filters by the very early 2000s at the latest.

accideath ,

That is indeed more than a decade ago

LazaroFilm OP ,
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This is running Dolphin which can render 3D graphics at higher resolution. Then you can apply high res gesture packs. It ends up turning the game into a next gen game. That only really works with 3D games. snes and other 8-16 bit consoles still benefit from a CRT.

tenextrathrills ,

honestly I’m just glad you brought gaming to the Mac

LazaroFilm OP ,
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Ha!

otp ,

I'm surprised to see this so downvoted in this community. Maybe people missed the sarcasm in that last bit, lol

FlyingSquid ,
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Considering some of the absolutely braindead honest takes on the Internet, it's hard to tell if it's sarcasm.

Dudewitbow ,

you are aware that the gamecube was one of the consoles with digital output right?

unlike its sucessor wii which only used analog output, the gamecube was capable of outputting to modern tvs due to having the digital output.

tenextrathrills ,

Yeah, I remember the GameCube digital output sucking and going back to using the composite av cable, hence the post.

Get out of here with the “are you aware” poindexter bs

Dudewitbow ,

which doesnt apply to all games on said device. an example is that viewers vastly prefer the cleaner footage that comes off of streams generated by dolphin using slippi over wathing the native crt footage. unlike a single individual (yourself) generalizong the preference, this is a real life scenario with thousands of viewers on the same content, many of which is also very used to the crt as many are also players.

coming from a person who lugged a crt just for melee in college for years.

MacedWindow , in Playing Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition on my Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
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The SNES version is more nostslgic to me but its hard to argue against the geneis 6 button controller.

SurfinBird , in Sega Mega Drive/Genesis on Sega Retro

Can we play Ghostbusters?

t3chskel , in I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting
c0m47053 ,

Was hoping to find this here, many happy childhood memories playing this one

SpaceNoodle ,

What does it say?

crushyerbones ,

I think it's "Return to a life where you don't get internal organs in your hair?"

SpaceNoodle ,

Best I can do is "literal vegans in your hair"

moody ,

I'll pass, thanks.

neidu2 , in I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting

I remember using Fasttracker2 in the 90's, and when hitting the exit button it showed a yes/no dialog box: "Was Rome really built in a day?"

And Carmageddon asked something along the lines of "Really go back to screaming kids and pets that need toilet training?"

Aatube ,

For FastTracker 2, which one's quit and which one's stay? BC it feels like if you think Rome wasn't built in a day you take a break from sequencing to take a rest

neidu2 ,

I honestly don't remember. It's been 25 years.

Lath , in I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting

I remember some parents once sued a gaming company for making such messages with the claim that it was encouraging addiction. Or not as it the article making that claim?

Tar_alcaran , in I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting

Don't go, the drones need you!

bleistift2 , in I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting

I hate Ubisoft, but I love that Anno keeps reminding you to stop playing.

sirico , in Playing Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition on my Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
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Awesome one of the biggest losses to my collection

rtxn , in I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting
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