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As someone who has spent thousands of hours archiving documents related to certain old computers and writing a few emulators, I have to admit your comment is ir
by tasty_freeze 7y ago
As someone who has spent thousands of hours archiving documents related to certain old computers and writing a few emulators, I have to admit your comment is irritating to me.
Of course, emulation is going to lose something compared to the original experience; nobody knows better than the person writing the emulator. But nobody is stepping up to build the exact reproduction that you are holding out for. Even if someone came along and built reproduction controllers and cabinets, would you be willing to spend the money for them?
It is far better to capture the ROMs and 90% of the experience than to let it all slip away because of purity issues.
Besides, part of the TRS-80 experience was unreliable behavior. I'm quite glad that emulators don't attempt to reproduce it.
- jimmaswell 7y agoHow about a VR game where you play games on these emulators as if you're using their original consoles with a TV/etc appropriate for the time? Get a game off a virtual game shelf and put it in the NES/Atari/etc, maybe even emulating the cartridge not registering at first. Theoretically you could even emulate things like the crooked cartridge trick in N64 games (if you're unfamiliar: https://glitchcity.info/wiki/Nintendo_64_crooked_cartridge https://glitchcity.info/wiki/Nintendo_64_crooked_cartridge )
- CmdrKrool 7y agoIt's being worked on, see EmuVR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAqUos4MYmc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAqUos4MYmc Not to disparage emulators (I use them all the time myself, and would be absolutely on this if I had a VR headset), but there is an amusing bottomlessness to the rabbit hole here, seeing the posters on the walls and so on. Now we only need to emulate having friends, parents that love you, etc...
- IgorPartola 7y agoReady Player One this whole thing?
- scrollaway 7y agoNo kidding. It's like trying to preserve Pokemon Go. Sure, you can get pretty far with it, but how do you intend to "preserve" experiences like this crazy thing?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLdWbwQJWI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLdWbwQJWI0