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It's interesting to have game formats for which emulation does not capture the magic of the hardware. When the last DS dies how will people play these games pro
by reedf1 6y ago
It's interesting to have game formats for which emulation does not capture the magic of the hardware. When the last DS dies how will people play these games properly?
- jayd16 6y agoA portrait touch screen split top/bottom?
- reedf1 6y agoSome games even require you to close the screen! I suppose that's one of those emulation quirks you will just have to live with.
- sincerely 6y agoMaybe we will see a hardware project from the Analogue people or something else in the future :)
- saagarjha 6y agoYup, that particular gimmick in Phantom Hourglass got me for a couple seconds before it figured it out. While not at the same level as the traditional console games, the DS Legend of Zelda games have their own charm :)
- jamesgeck0 6y agoThat gimmick didn’t even last through the next console generation. Neither the original 2DS nor the Wii U have folding screens, you have to suspend/activate the system to get past that part.
- VHRanger 6y agoYeah, the nintendo DS is one of those consoles which is mostly a joy to play emulated on a modern android phone. Many games are very enjoyable with modern touch controls -- Inamuza Eleven for instance.
- anchpop 6y agoAce Attorney, too. I think on iOS you can buy the games remastered to work natively, but on Android you have no option but to emulate
- VHRanger 6y agoOne thing you'll notice is that games run through a good emulator run even better than games running "natively" to mobile ports. This has been true for a lot of Square Enix classics.
- Farbklex 6y agoFoldable smartphones are going to be Nintendo DS emulator machines.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoEmulators, as the grandparent said, do not capture the magic (or convenience, or affordability, or energy efficiency) of consoles like this though. They are an expensive, imperfect approximation. I do hope there's conservationists out there that have a way to "freeze" hardware like this in time, shield it from any kind of wear, corrosion, and idk, brittling of materials through time.
- someperson 6y agoClone hardware is becoming more popular. There have been Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis / Megadrive cloned consoles for decades, but recently there's been products like the Hyperkin Ultra Retron (which uses emulation), innumerable Gameboy clones (usually using emulation), but most interestingly also FPGA and ASIC based solutions. Checkout the MiSTer [1] [2] an FPGA-based system where the community are trying to create faithful reproductions to the original hardware in Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) like Verilog. This FPGA based approach is NOT emulation in software, but reproduction of the electrical logic of actual silicon like the CPU and DSP chips. I'll mention flashcards exist, and so do reproduction cartridges (could be called "bootlegs" but the original cartridges are no longer manufactured so if advertised clearly nobody has much issue with reproductions). That's not even getting into the world of Android-based emulation (and the myriad of phone holders + custom controller type products). In some ways the future of video game preservation is bright (but in other ways we're still settling for good enough instead of perfect reproduction) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5yPbzD-W-I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5yPbzD-W-I [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibLXWdX5-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibLXWdX5-M
- johnwalkr 6y agoNew NES, SNES and N64 games are a thing now too!
- eru 6y agoSee eg http://morphcat.de/micromages/ http://morphcat.de/micromages/
- nineteen999 6y agoI remember seeing this video on that about the clever compression tricks used to cram the sprites and map layouts into 40K. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM
- city41 6y agoThis is especially true for the NES due to tools like NESMaker http://makenesgames.com/ http://makenesgames.com/ There are so many new NES games now it's impossible to stay on top of it all.
- canofbars 6y agoIts still possible to get working original gameboys. Since the DS was massively popular you will still easily be able to source a working device. I did see a product recently that actually replicates the hardware of multiple game consoles using an FPGA. I guess something like that could be used for retro DS games in the future.