Are any of these official retro collections, such as pic related, preferable to just downloading an emulator and the ROM file? Be it for the bonus content or for having a translated version of a previously Japan-only game or something like that.
Or are they all scams?
whats wrong with downloading emulators? its literally the same shit. retroarch gives them a "professional" feeling UI so you arent drag and dropping files out of folders buried deep in your hard drive if thats your issue.
>whats wrong with downloading emulators?
Nothing, been doing that for decades. Just wondering if some of these official releases offer anything worthwhile.
>little zoom zoom
Yeah, I'm sure zoomers are interested in documentaries and behind-the-scenes stuff about 30+ year old games.
>retroarch gives them a "professional" feeling UI
Frick off SP
Digital Eclipse is real good about the bonus content. Check out what the Atari Collection actually comes with, little zoom zoom.
They've just announced a Jeff Minter collection. While the dude has always been fine with people pirating his games, having all of his games, usually dispersed between a dozen of computers. under one roof with extra contextual material is certainly handy.
The problem is the emulalors in these packs are invariably normie-satisfying slop. Lag and scaling are way behind free solutions.
They literally hired a guy to create the best Atari Jaguar emulator known to man. We are lucky they let him release it for free afterwards. Without that compilation it might have not even existed.
The guy probably had to wheel and deal and insist to put it out for free or not work on it at all.
>we're lucky corpo homosexuals weren't COMPLETE corpo homosexuals this time
Whatever man. Plenty of shit has been emulated with zero strings attached to some shitty product. For every one of these we have have like 10 needlessly tied down products.
>Turrican Director's Cut
>Duke Nukem 1 Remaster
either way I don't want gigs of pretentious videos just to play something.
Turns out Jaguar kind of sucks anyway and Tempest 2000 has been emulated fine since the late 2000s.
neat, shame it'll likely have some little exclusive you have to sacrifice 10gb for because it just HAS to be sold with HECKIN MUSEUM stuff.
>Check out what the Atari Collection actually comes with
It's really well done. What I liked was how it wasn't censored either, the videos talk about drug use and all that stuff. Told an honest story about Atari
In news related to Atari 50, the game which was present on the switch, but an update removed (Warbirds) was by another update recently added back. Along with 11 others.
Still no Atari ST representation. Jeff Minter collection will feature ST games, so they've probably settled the legal issues by now.
TOS has a FOSS clone that's quite compatible, I can't imagine what else could be getting in the way of emulating the ST legally.
How the frick are they allowed to remove games in the first place?
Atari ordered a print run of their game compilation with a Lynx game they had no legal rights to, effectively creating illegal copies of that Lynx game. They had to either delay the compilation until the rights situation was settled (like it happened now with this update) or destroy the whole run of the game. Atari chose a third option and pushed a mandatory day 1 patch which disabled that Lynx game for everybody.
Have emulators ever regressed long term? That seems to be the way to go, but if you want to support Atari or whatever Chinese company owns the name now go for it!
Current owners are trying to shake that reputation, this compilation was kind of the first way of showing that. They still have access to archival stuff that no one else has, and ancient legal rights to more easily release things.
They've also been on a buying spree regarding rights to ancient software like Mattel's Atari 2600 games. Back in late 1990s Harbro wanted to build the Atari brand into a hub for classic arcade franchises. It seems like the current owners want to do the same with ancient console games.
>Have emulators ever regressed long term?
yes, modern emulators try to be as cycle accurate as possible, at the cost of raping your computer's CPU
The entire point of Atari 50 is the timeline, it's a documentary of sorts of the business of Atari over the years, with interviews with the people involved.
It's not just ROMs and emulators either, it's all about the presentation, the information, and some games also get straight up modernised remakes that keep the vintage arcade aesthetics whether that's vector graphics or pixel based.
There's also some acclaimed homebrew in there.
If you're just gonna pirate everything, why buy anything at all?
Big time scams. Wow neat overproduced and priced wiki/youtube video. I wish you could just download the new games from this and Karateka separately and cull all that fat data.
If you like really old SNK games and especially Ikari Warriors, SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is very well put together in several ways. Unfortunately, two thirds of the collection are Ikari Warriors games and/or ripoffs (which it turns out I'm really not into), and of the other third, I only really liked Fantasy, Vanguard and Crystalis. Still, Digital Eclipse are really good at what they do.
FB Neo core implements the dual stick changes in a much better emulator.
I liked the TMNT collection. I’m normally sensitive to input lag but I was able to beat TMNT 1 on the mushy Switch D-pad so it can’t be that bad. Pretty good gallery mode in the game too with lots of design documents.
Actually, the last two Digital Eclipse releases have been great, even if neither of them is exactly my dream project. This should be the future of old video game re-releases, and old video games should have free access like a book in a library. Which they already sort of do, which just clears the lane for something truly boutique and special. I'd love to see a Namco Museum game in this vein.