When it gets that bad, I'd rather burn a copy for free and print out a cover for it rather than support commercial piracy. Sega CD has no copy protection, so you can just download, burn, and go.
The only emulation I'd do is for games that will never be on Virtual Console, because you need to save space when cartridges take up so much room. Games like Addams Family Values, Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park Part 2 The Chaos Continues and any other title that was produced as a license game that wouldn't necessarily be worth picking up again like Hook or Pirates of Dark Water... The Tiny Toon games and stuff of that sort, licensing fees apparently mean old licensed products will never appear on VC because of the red tape headache it would mean to get them. Sure some of those titles aren't really any good or great, but they're still decent enough nostalgia pieces that would interest somebody like me.
Will vouch for that as well since I use it on my TV setup, although RetroArch's UI also seems to be pretty divisive. Folks could also use the last version of Higan with it's old UI and still be more accurate then SNES9x, that was somewhere in the 0.70s IIRC. No problem, always willing to point folks in the right direction for old games. Don't let that burn you if it was the quality that put you off rather then the legality, GBA emulation was super early back then and it's only recently gotten really good with MGBA. Agree with Panther on this, just burn it yourself. Paying other people to do your piracy is the worst and it's not like the company that owns the game is going to get any of that $400 you'd pay for a second hand original copy. If you really feel dirty about that, then find some other way to give the rights holder some money to compensate. What game is it?
The UI should be less of an issue now that RA has more than one. The new one is pretty much a PS3 menu. But the best thing is to learn just enough about your system's command line to set up a nice front end. I personally recommend Attract Mode, which is similar to Hyperspin, but infinitely easier to install and configure. Then you get a slick interface that you can tweak to your liking, and you get to use it with any emulator you want.
Had a serious look at Attract Mode last year for MAME purposes. Looked really good, but had to pass on it personally as it didn't have a multiple monitor option I needed for my setup. Would defiantly use it if I was building a cabinet or console though. Marvelous ended up buying Victor, so you could buy one of their current games to make up for it.
i just remembered in the late 90s, there was the Tickle Me Elmo toy craze. the long line of people in front of toys r us who wanted the toy badly. i heard a few people were shot. i don't know if any died but damn people be batshit crazy. at the time, i had a game pre-ordered at TRU and my dad went to pick it up while i was in school. he walked pass the line when this crazy ass woman started yelling that my dad was cutting in line but he yelled back saying he is not there for a doll, he was there to pick up a game. showed a receipt from a month earlier. got the game, and as he walked pass the line, the woman who yelled earlier apologized to him. when i went to Gamestop to pre-order the Wii, there was a line and 2 guys started fighting on who was gonna enter the store first. eventually they were separated and the store manager said that he was cancelling the pre-order. i got the wii at launch at Target.
I was out of town this afternoon and stopped in at a GameStop. No surprise, their pre-orders were sold out. The guy I talked to said that they were probably going to get a few additional units on release day that weren't part of the pre-orders and it might be possible to get one that morning if I was willing to drive out there early and wait for them to open.
So preordering this thing was a shit show. I did manage to get that mystery Amazon page that went up for 3:00am. As of yet that order is not canceled, so does anybody know if those Amazon orders are legit? Did Amazon ever release a wave of orders on their regular SNES Classic page?
For me personally, playing the nes classic with a vintage controller on a tv is pure nostalgia gold. I don't use steam. I have played many games using emulators (mame, nestopia, virtual colecovision, stella, regen). On my pc, I only enjoyed a few arcade games on mame, Qbert and Ms. Pac-Man, maybe a few others out of all of them. Playing nes games on my modded classic immediately brought the same enjoyment that was felt many decades ago. Mike Tyson's Punchout (not Mr. Dream), Blades of Steel, RBI baseball, Bad News Baseball, Castlevania, Zelda, Mario 2, etc) is an absolute blast. I have no doubt the snes classic will entertain nostalgia the same, with a mod available shortly after release to manipulate memory and install all games.
At least according to several users on Reddit contacting different customer reps on Amazon the weird listing is official for now. And no, a wave of POs for the regular page have not gone out yet.
I just found out there are now videos on this thing. I saw a couple of kids, probably in their early 20's, camping out at a video store for Switches. I wanted to take a picture of them and just couldn't believe my eyes but then my wife talked some sense out of me. Anyway, I've never camped out for anything before and not gonna start now. I'm 38 bitches. Oh those switches and most games are shelfwarming in my area. have you guys camped out before for anything? Concert tickets perhaps?
Just bought a used SNES off of eBay. For me, I think it'd be better to have the original than wait in line for a product that Nintendo can't meet demand for. I'm almost in my 30s and even I know when to walk away from a shit show. Also got Donkey Kong Country and Goof Troop along with it. Good times.
I've gone out for midnight releases (Beatles Anthology, Ocarina of Time, Phantom Menace toys, a Beck album, Force Friday stuff) but I've never actually camped out for anything. I though about camping out for the Phantom Menace back when I was young and spry and people I knew were doing it, but I decided to just go at 11:00AM the following day and was glad I did because I walked right in and there were maybe a dozen people in the theater. I HAVE digitally camped out, meaning waiting up all damn night not knowing exactly when a preorder for something I want is going live online.
If I had an extra NES mini, do you think there maybe someone out there who will trade that for a SNES Classic?
