Comment on End of an era?
marighost@piefed.social 1 day agoPlenty of old, cheap games and consoles to pick up second hand. Don’t need PlayStation’s slop.
Comment on End of an era?
marighost@piefed.social 1 day agoPlenty of old, cheap games and consoles to pick up second hand. Don’t need PlayStation’s slop.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The carts, discs, and hardware will unfortunately eventually stop working, but fortunately most of them can also be emulated on PC really well, sometimes better looking than on original hardware.
64bithero@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Disc systems are mostly built like shit especially from the early 2000s but ROM based cart systems if well taken care of will run for a long long time.
Have my OG N64, Dreamcast and GameGear all run perfectly fine. Well my GG has a dead spider in the screen but it still runs.
PlayStation 1,2, Saturns , the first 2 Xbox’s might be a different issue all together.
But to me this is connected to the growing eshitification of the industry
bilb@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
Yeah, it’s popular to mod systems like PSX and Saturn with a disc read emulator so you can load ISO files from solid state media like SD cards.
64bithero@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
People do this with operating systems as well. Neat stuff
rozodru@piefed.world 1 day ago
eventually but that will likely be long after most of us are dead. old consoles and carts are built like a brick house and most of them are repairable even games that have batteries. Just look at the N64 for example. that thing is like the Toyata truck of consoles.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Could be. Video game consoles are a young medium, so hard to say if the old consoles will still be going in 30 years or so.
addie@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
I’ve found that the real problem is having a television to plug them in to. Still got my old NES and SNES from when I was a kid. But no modern TV has the RF input to connect them to, they’re all digital only. Emulation is much easier.