9 ms·
Rise of the Triforce
- butlike 8mo agoThe local arcade/bar has two Mario Kart GP 2 cabinets (so you can play linked head to head). I'll have to go check it out after reading this.
- bigstrat2003 8mo agoI have seen Mario Kart arcade cabinets, but had no idea about the history behind them. Thanks to the Dolphin team for a great article, and hats off on the emulation work!
- xnx 8mo agoFor all the thousands of slop coders trying to cash in with low effort app store clones of better (often free and open) apps, the Dolphin team does amazing quality archival quality code and documentation for free. Bravo!
- rtpg 8mo agoTo anyone who has an opportunity I highly recommend taking any chance you get to try and play any of the bigger "moving" arcade machines like the AX Monster Ride shown in the video. Even for really old stuff like Space Harrier the feeling of moving along with the screen gives you a more visceral experience than almost any VR setup. Hard to fake the effects of gravity! [0] has a list (in japanese) of moving arcade machines. Mikado in Takadanobaba has some of these. These things are getting older and older of course so the window of opportunity is unfortunately shrinking as time goes on. (EDIT: just realised that list itself is over 10 years old at this point so YMMV) [0]: https://www.space-harrier.com/arcade.html https://www.space-harrier.com/arcade.html
- pezezin 8mo agoYes, that list is quite old and lists some games that are not available anymore, while missing some others like the retro floor of Gigo 3 in Akihabara. Anyway, Mikado in Ikebukuro has the standard F-Zero AX cabinet, and it is great. I have never visited their game center in Takadanobaba though, it is still in my TODO list...
- rtpg 8mo agoIs there anything worthwhile in moving games at Gigo 3? Even back in the Sega era it felt like it was mostly those generic Taito cabinets running most things.
- pezezin 8mo agoIf my memory is correct, they have OutRun, Rad Mobile, Sega Rally, and a few other classic racing games.
- derr1 8mo agoThat's correct, last time I was there they had those games. Zenius: https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcade.php?id=2701#games https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/arcade.php?id=2701#games has a list of the games, please bare in mind that this is a community driven database.
- derr1 8mo agoThere's Sega Rally 2 and Dirt Dash which both have motion cabinets.
- kgwxd 8mo agoA friend of mine had the moving After Burner machine. Thing was dangerous as hell, could easily break a bone or sever a finger, but soooo cool.
- mattbee 8mo agoRight?? There is a working original After Burner in an arcade in Leeds - on free play and just open to kids of all ages. Sooo many places where it could trap a finger, and it moves pretty violently.
- jonplackett 8mo agoThis is where arcade machines should have all gone. More interesting experiences with hardware that are really difficult to replicate at scale. The best arcade games sell did this - it doesn’t take much - like the pedal for time crisis. Sure you _can_ buy one at home but most people don’t and even then it’s a crap placid pedal.
- ErroneousBosh 8mo agoIn Codona's Amusement Park in Aberdeen in the late 90s, there was a Ridge Racer "cabinet" with three massive rear projection screens and an ACTUAL REAL MAZDA MX5 TO SIT IN. WHAAAAAAAAAT Seriously insane levels of money-no-object zero-fucks-given design.
- threetonesun 8mo agoThis is painful to me on three levels: 1. Real estate costs have gone up so much it’s prohibitively expensive to do something this grand. 2. Advertising is now a race to the bottom where showing car ads on websites has almost zero cost with all return compared to something novel like this. 3. It’s impossible to find a car like a 90s Miata these days because manual transmissions are almost dead and every car had to get heavier to have enough safety features to survive being T-boned by a Cybertruck.
- kipchak 8mo agoAgree on the rest, but thankfully for #3 a modern base ND Miata with the 1.5 is pretty close to in weight to a NA due to a lot of weight saving work by Mazda.
- jonplackett 8mo agoI remember our arcade having one of these too! But I never had enough money to use it - and probably was too short anyway
- Forgeties79 8mo agoThey’re being made but I just don’t think there’s a whole lot of demand/spaces for them. People sure don’t want them in their homes and arcades barely exist in many countries now. I’ve seen a couple of bars open up that try to have an arcade as well but they never take care of the machines/drunk people break them, so after a few months half the games don’t even work. There’s only so many times I can lose a quarter or a dollar before I decide it’s not worth it anymore and I just go drink somewhere else with friends. The only real arcade left in my city is attached to a laser tag, it would be super weird for a bunch of grown men in their 30s and 40s to roll up during kids’ birthday parties they weren’t invited to lol
- raverbashing 8mo agoThanks though last time I tried that it gave me the mother of all motion sicknesses
- BHSPitMonkey 8mo agoI'm always left in awe by not only the Dolphin team's work, but the quality of their articles and release notes. This was no exception!
- dankwizard 8mo ago[flagged]
- kg 8mo agoEmulation is legal in the US
- tombert 8mo agoFor now at least. Given Nintendo's efforts to get rid of Yuzu and Ryujinx I think it's likely that the legal days may be numbered. All they have to do is get it in front of the right judge(s) and the precedent by the Connectix and the Bleem lawsuits is undone. Not that I particularly care if it's legal; I seriously doubt anyone is going to break into my house to seize my MiSTer as contraband, but I think it's entirely possible that emulation progress stalls because it's forced to move into the shadows.
- dcrazy 8mo agoNintendo was able to pressure RyujinX because it relied on stolen code.
- tombert 8mo agoI’m having trouble finding citation for that. Not saying you’re lying just maybe don’t have the right keywords to search for which code was stolen.
- ksynwa 8mo agoThis isn't true. They were able to pressure yuzu instead because of fixes for the leaked version of the TOTK ROM.
- dcrazy 8mo agoYou’re right, I was thinking of Yuzu.
- 8mo ago
- NickC25 8mo agoKickass article. Really took me back to the days of playing FZero AX in the arcade. Incredible game. Great work, Dolphin team!
- kgwxd 8mo agoI lol'd right clicking to "Open LINK in a new tab". Not quite as funny when I got there, but great none the less.
- jldugger 8mo agoThats a long article for what amounts to "Dolphin now supports F-Zero AX" =) Must have taken a heckin' amount of work!
- throwaway27448 8mo agoWhat does "heckin" mean? I associate it with redditors' impersonation of dogs and I was surprised to see it here.
- jagged-chisel 8mo agoIn context in this case, “hell of a lot of.” Seems we English speakers come up with myriad grammatical constructions to seem less offensive in certain forums.
- jldugger 8mo agoWell, mostly I realized my first sentence was likely to come off more negative than funny (I just like, really enjoyed F-Zero GX back in the day!), so I decided to add a folksy salute to the effort to dilute that. And a smiley face, people heckin' love those =)
- throwaway27448 8mo agoInteresting. I associate the term with reddit, not being folksy. I think the folksy term would be "fuckin lot" or "very lot" or "hella". I think maybe you were trying to cater to the "christians" or snowflake conservatives
- itintheory 8mo agoIt's linguistically a minced oath[1], and they're pretty common in all manner of online contexts. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath
- stackghost 8mo agoThe Gamecube aspect is particularly poignant to me. Splayed across my workbench right this very moment is a Gamecube that has a failing optical drive. I am currently trying to resurrect it with a RP2350 so I can load roms from an SD card. It was a pretty great console, in its own way.
- krs_ 8mo agoNot that you shouldn't put a picoboot or whatever in there anyway, but it's getting increasingly common for the caps on the drive board to fail at this point, causing the disc drive to fail.
- stackghost 8mo agoYeah I suspect that you're right and it's a capacitor issue because if I leave the Cube running in its cute little BIOS-like thing for about 15 minutes then the optical drive starts working again. I suspect the caps or maybe the laser itself just needs to physically warm up.
- pezezin 8mo agoI recently restored my old GameCube. Back in the day I installed a ViperGC (the first modchip for the GameCube) to play "backups", but the optical drive has died. But thanks to the community, after reflashing it with Gekkoboot it can load Swiss from a SP2SD2, and from there load ROMs from the SD card! Reflashing the modchip was a pain in the ass though, the programmer required a parallel port and the software only runs on Windows XP, but in the end it worked and I am pretty happy with the results.
- stackghost 8mo agoI'm also printing a new bracket to put a larger fan in, replacing the battle worn 20 year old stock fan
- pezezin 8mo agoThe fan is a bit loud, but it seems to work correctly, so I don't plan to touch it. However, the GC has a CR2032 battery to save the time and a few settings, and that battery was dead. But in Nintendo's infinite wisdom, the battery is soldered, not socketed, and the space around it is quite tight so a normal socket will not fit. Removing it and soldering a battery socket was quite a chore, I needed to try different models until I found one that fits, but in the end I managed to do it. When the new battery dies in 10~20 years it will be much easier to replace it.
- snthpy 8mo agoI was expecting this to be about The Legend of Zelda.
- seanhunter 8mo agoWindwaker. Such a fantastic game. That is the first video game where I literally had to stop because I never wanted the experience to end. So my windwaker save is there for me, just before the credits whenever I want to go back.
- deleted 8mo ago[deleted]
- whateveracct 8mo agoThis is absolutely beautiful. There's so much to be done when you stop looking forward and start looking at points in time in computing.
- larodi 8mo agoIncredible the pace gaming companies in Japan did innovate with chips and boards and everything during this era. While PCs were following a somewhat slow pace, guys at SEGA, Nintendo, Namco, Capcom and similar were literally making innovation by the hour, and commercializing it. A lot to learn from their stories.
- Leynos 8mo agoSadly, like everything, the arcades are now commodity hardware. Everyone just started putting out industrial PC based systems and shipping the games on hard drives
- jjice 8mo agoI think it's also a benefit in someways though. Preservation should be much easier and more accessible this way. Also maintainability.
- larodi 8mo agoWell what I mean is how they been printing PCBs and experimenting. Perhaps has lot to do with the then-very vivid generation. Sadly Japan is aging and very closed to outer influx, so this culture may as easily die at all.
- PlatoIsADisease 8mo agoWild to see how far they've fallen. Although I think this was basically the turning point for Nintendo. The GC intentionally avoided competing(at least on graphics) and was still a financial success. From there, Nintendo relied on gimmicks and corporate mascots/IP. I guess sega was a few years ahead of them on their own timeline.
- fredoralive 8mo agoThe Gamecube was competitive on graphics with PS2 and Xbox. It was the Wii where there console side moved away from keeping up in the cutting edge graphics race. I’m not sure how successful it was, it was outsold by Xbox and PS2. Although the Xbox was a massive money pit for Microsoft. At least in Europe the Gamecube began to disappear from retail a fair bit before the Wii was out as well. Still, got things like a Wavebird for cheap on clearance though…
- psyonity 8mo agoI played the F-Zero game recently in an Arcade nearby, it was amazing! I was so suprised when a buddy of mine went like: "Yeah, there is just a Gamecube in this".
- 2001zhaozhao 8mo agoSomewhat of an aside but I had the thought reading this that arcades would be a great format for games heavily involving GenAI. The pay-per-play model is probably the only model where you can either affordably use a lot of LLM tokens per game. Alternatively, having large commercial arcade machines is the only way to guarantee the very high hardware specs needed to run capable models locally. Perhaps as a result, we might see LLM and video model-powered games become mainstream in arcades before any home consumer platforms.
- SuperHeavy256 8mo agoA fantastic new addition to Dolphin
- mongrelion 8mo agoThe article touches a bit on how Sega basically lost. There is literally a whole documentary about this: Console Wars, where they go deep into how Sega lost the battle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_Wars_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_Wars_(film)
- frostyel 8mo ago[dead]
- pragma_x 8mo agoWhat I think is truly amazing is how truly rare it is to see a home console move into an arcade platform, instead of the other way around. Almost always, the home system was derived from lessons learned from more expensive, rugged, and elaborate arcade hardware. Sometimes, this overlap was quite profound but not 100%. NeoGeo home consoles famously use the same hardware and software as their arcade counterparts, but the game cartridges were not pin-compatible. The Nintendo VS line were technically the same as a Famicom/NES, but not the same build; the software has subtle differences. Perhaps the Nintendo PlayChoice would count but again, it's not like they used NES mainboards to build those. So, the idea of taking a Nintendo console mainboard and grafting it to SEGA-designed components so it can run in a dedicated arcade cabinet, is just wild to me.
- manytimesaway 8mo agoThings are much more nuanced than this, at least on SEGA's side. The Mega Drive derivated from the System 16, but was itself converted into an arcade system. Titan-Video derivated from the Saturn, according to sources online. NAOMI/NAOMI 2/Hikaru were derivated from the Dreamcast during development, and there is significant overlap in specs between them and the DC. Chihiro derivated from the OG Xbox.
- fredoralive 8mo agoThe era of bespoke arcade hardware died in the late 90s really. They couldn’t really keep up with consoles / PC with a declining market. By the early 2000s arcades were mostly console derived, beyond the Sega trio of Naomi (Dreamcast), Chihiro (Xbox) and Triforce (Gamecube), Konami and Namco mostly used PlayStation 2 derived hardware. By the late 00’s we were mostly looking at PC based stuff.
- hurios 8mo ago[dead]