Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2024?

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:13 this Thursday (GMT):

On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 15:20:15 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 14:52 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 18:40:08 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

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Well, I've been kinda all over the place this month. Mostly was on the
3DS tho. I did beat 3 of the Rhythm Heaven games, got past the terrible
terrible case in Phoenix Wright, and some Mario Kart 7 (Modded, CTGP).

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At first I thought you wrote you were playing games on the 3DO and was
surprised not only that you were playing games that old, but that you
had the hardware!

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Lol, that would be cool. I could be wrong, but I think the 3DS has a 3DO
emulator.

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I don't know what that surprises me. It shouldn't. But every time I
run into another example of just how powerful our computing devices
have become there's this moment of shock. Emulation is hard,
especially if the underlying hardware is significantly different (and
I can't imagine there's a lot of similarity between a Nintendo 3DS and
the 3DO). So learning that a simple hand-held toy console can manage
to emulate something like a 3DO - presumably running at a playable
framerate - just reminds me again that we're living in an age of
(computing) wonders.
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The 3DO got a bad rap when it was released. It wasn't entirely
undeserved. Lacking a single manufacturer, it entered the market
fragmented and without a single standard. Its controller was awful, it
was far too expensive, and its release game was terrible. Worse, its
hardware was only /slightly/ ahead of its competitors, and at the rate
technology was advancing in the 90s, that sole advantage quickly
disappeared.
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But...
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On its release, it was - at least in terms of its tech - one of the
best gaming platforms around. With a CD-ROM drive and (admittedly
limited) 3D support, it was better than pretty much any 'high-end' PC,
and the years ahead of consoles. It had - eventually - a number of fun
games (many of them enhanced versions of PC classics), including "Need
for Speed", "Shockwave", "Super Wing Commander" and "Road Rash". It
help push forward the 'multimedia wave' and seeing it play full-screen
video smoothly (well, smoothly by 1993 standards) was amazing.
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Or maybe I'm just looking back at it with rose-tinted glasses. But
while the 3DO was never a /great/ console, I think it deserves a
better reputation than it currently has, as a laughingstock.
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I'm sure it was good, but I've never heard of it. On a similar note of
"controversial console being emulated", there's also a VirtualBoy
emulator which does the 3d stuff suprisingly well.
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