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What video game are you surprised is under $10 in 2025?

A family member was going to throw these away with their respective consoles luckily, he decided to give them to me instead.

Hi everyone, I wanted to go back to the PS3 to play some games left behind and likely never going to be remastered for modern systems. But damn they are jaggy, my eyes ache fr fr. So I bought an upscaler called ODV-GBS-C to upscale them to 1080p which is the highest resolution supported by my 24 inch monitor.

My idea was to connect, due to the lack of HDMI in on the device, the console via component (which supports up to 1080p), set the video output to 720p (most games resolution) and upscale it to 1080p with the GBS. Sounds legit?

It didn't work, wasted a day trying to figure what is going on but with no luck. It only does passthrough and even manages to destroy the image quality doing so. Setting the console to 1080p out makes the image shaky and filled with horizontal tearing.

What am I missing or doing wrong? Do you have any suggestion on what to do, if have to change things or buy another device? I can easily get my money back, Amazon, and go with an alternative in the price range (which In couldn't find)

So, I bought this Megadrive called SD2 on Aliexpress, and I wanted to put Thumbnails on the games I downloaded, but I didn't succeed. I asked a friend for help, since the ROMs were .zmd, so he saw that I had to do it with Python, but he didn't come up with a conclusion about how the image is inserted, but it seems that the console reads it as bytes, I saw that it was like RGB16 (RGB565 Little Endian).

I found a program called Tadpole on Github, which works for another Chinese console called SF2000, and it is possible to insert the images through it, but the result was very bad when I saw it on the console itself.

https://preview.redd.it/h77r1e0d8ece1.jpg?width=1156&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48cb313738da206a3b06b5cb94a2e33953e88401

Does anyone have any ideas?

There has to be right? I mean it's not the console as a whole that got the server shut down because you can still use the internet browser.

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could tell me about the sega CD emulation on the gaming sticks/retrogame consoles (like the kinhank retro game console and a bazillion other types of similar consoles) that are for sale all over the net? I see that some devices have the sega CD games, but are they even playable?

tia

Ran across a video demoing an icade in 2011. Not sure what game is being played. Anyone know? https://youtube.com/shorts/K_oSrTWz3Z4?feature=shared

It's been 20 years since I've played video games with any consistency. But I've been thinking about the old games I used to play.

PS3 just dropped the last time I played. PS2 was my jam. Love sports games and FPS. I've been looking at PS2-PS4 and just don't know what to invest time and money into.

Buy an old PS2 and cross my fingers? A backwards compatible PS3? PS4? Use an emulator? The emulator doesn't really interest me much as I've never used one. And I'm probably not going to be pulling a machine apart to upgrade or fix.

Any suggestions are helpful especially if someone has been through the same experience. TIA!

Me and my partner and son enjoy wii every so often as i have a decent collection but the motion controls havent aged the best, so im wondering what's a good console that has a good library of 3/4 player games to get him more into retro he loves the wii games just doesn't love the controls, Not too fussed about 1st party titles like mario kart etc, We do enjoy mario party and pokemon games, He started to get into playing overwatch on his xbone so maybe something with good shooter that isnt pvp etc.

Im thinking between PS2 (i loved the ps2) Ps3 or Original xbox, but not sure what has the best games that are 3 player,

Consoles i have had i don't mind if its not one of these.
Gameboy Color
Megadrive
Dreamcast
Ps1
Ps2
Gamecube
Wii (have this now)
360
ps3

I have played kero blaster and liked this style of art and the gameplay and i need more so suggest me any retro games you liked or similar to kero blaster

I've posted this in r/retrogaming before, but the mods decided it's not fitting. So I'm posting it here ...

Hello everyone,

I've recently got gifted a game from ~2006, Warhammer: Mark Of Chaos and have been trying to run it since today morning. It wasn't my first old gane I ran; I successfully run BFME II, Diablo 1, and a Prince of Persia game on my Win 10 PC, so I figured it wouldn't be so difficult to get that one running. Well, after installation it didn't run. So I tried running on compatibility mode... Didn't run either. Then I tested with dgVoodo and it didn't work either. After some more research I found that it should be a "Safedisk" thingy that prevents me from starting it. Research said that Windows 10 doesn't support that anymore, so I can't really run it natively. So I got myself DxWnd hoping it might just run it without complications. Well, it found out what version of Safedisk is on that game (4.60.0), but still can't run it. I'm thinking of getting something to bypass that Safedisk thing, but i don't know what to search for: When I searched for the version of the disk, only some japanese and two english threads popped up, all looking for a similar solution.

What would you recommend?

So I grew up in the era of mega drive to Xbox 360

I owned c64,mega drive ps1,PS2,Gamecube Dreamcast,Wii,360

I'm wanting to start collecting retro games but not sure what console I want to collect for I spent the most time with ps1 PS2 and GameCube. Really enjoyed the Dreamcast but it only lasted a month before it broke. Loved the Wii but didn't have it long.

I'm wanting to try get my son into the older games so preferably something that has local multiplayer games he would enjoy. He's 8. I don't want emulators I want physical.

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Hello everyone, I’d like to share something that’s been happening to me recently. I’d also like to know if anyone else is going through this or has experienced it at some point in our gaming lives.

I confess that I’ve always judged those who remain attached to a specific old console or generation.

Don’t get me wrong—I’ve always thought it was cool to collect and all that, even though I don’t do it myself. But I never understood why someone would limit themselves from discovering new games or anything like that.

So... Here’s the thing, I believe I’m going through exactly that now. And it happened in an unusual way. I’ve had powerful PCs and current generation consoles. But for various reasons, I ended up selling them, with the main one being that I no longer enjoyed playing new games.

I understand that there are many good new games, but for me, I’ve recently been drawn only to indie games, which I can play on my notebook without any problems.

At the moment, I could even buy a powerful PC or a new console. But I’m simply stuck with my childhood consoles (Xbox 360, Wii, and PS2). I even considered buying a PlayStation 3 because I’ve always wanted one and all that.

Sometimes I also use GameCube and classic Xbox emulators and always find cool games that I never had a chance to play because I only had a PlayStation 2 during that generation.

So, that’s it—just a rant in search of someone who might relate to me. I guess age has caught up with me, haha.

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I was scrolling on YouTube and I found this PS2 looking indie game it looks cool, there's not a lot of people talking about it soo I decided to spread the word..

https://youtu.be/rSCI8UJc5M8?si=PIU _qJ9Nuehb4NSH

Hey guys My mom's looking for a old game she used to play on pc about 20 years ago. You have to click on flying books to shoot them down and aren't allowed to hit the flying owls. In the background there is a magical forest and a castle. It would be great if anyone could find it for me. Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone. I just bought the Nucbox G3 + a 12TB HDD of retrogames (Hyperspin Attraction). My question is: can this tiny mini pc handle most of those retrogames, maybe up to PS2? THANKS FOR YOUR ANSWERS.