BloodNinja

Great review of some awesome systems, here. Surprised you didn’t mention the RG351V, which performs identically but has the form factor of a classic Gameboy, with triggers on the back. I own one and it’s fantastic.

Also, if you are interested in these things, replace the memory cards with Sandisk or something, as the stock ones are garbage and 351ELEC will not install properly on the included generic memory cards. 351ELEC is still being updated, which is very nice.

Mine DID come preloaded with 600 ROMs, so I’m not sure about that part of the review. Maybe it depends on where you buy?

Also worth mentioning is that N64 emulation is very shoddy on these things, and most games will only run at about 80%, or not at all due to limitations in hardware. Saturn is unplayable. PlayStation and below are perfect. Certain MAME games have issues but most run perfectly.

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@tntswitchfan68 In a video game? A moderate challenge is ok. I prefer physical challenges to digital ones, so that I actually walk away with some level of self improvement that’s on a meaningful level.

@tntswitchfan68 I don’t think there are any fake gamers, and playing a game with a cheat or trainer doesn’t all of a sudden make you fake. Some people use cheats or saved states to practice to become better, I would hardly call them “fake,” when their real-life gameplay is on par with a TAS or something.

@Papichulo LOL

@ChakraStomps Spare me your needless and excessive negativity. Troll elsewhere.

@AstroTheGamosian Definitely a great comparison, there!

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@tntswitchfan68 Game Genie is still easily acquirable, and it’s also built into pretty much every emulator for systems that utilized it.

Also lol real gamer 😀

Very cool story, game genie was so much fun back in the day. My brother was amazing at discovering codes outside of the ones available in the manual. If you knew what you were doing, you could do some incredible things with it. To this day I still don’t know how he did it.

I hate that Nintendo has such a long history in the courtroom. I’ll be phasing them out of my game purchases this year; I don’t feel right supporting them long-term, anymore.

More articles like this, please. It makes all us old-timers feel refreshed.

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@mattmayatt What didn't you like about it?

@mattmayatt So failed I’ve never even heard of it, apparently!

@Damo Thank you Damo!

You look like The Beetles. All of them.

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VS = Virtual Store?

Does this thing do downloadable content at all?

@jobvd Not really in the mood to argue, have a great day!

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@jobvd I use a wired Hori Fighting Commander controller (love the D Pad) or a Hitbox all button controller, and I use various MAME versions (for compatibility purposes) on a PC, Windows 8 and Windows 10. I’m emulating about 85 games, mostly shoot em ups, fighting games and action games. The only games I experience slight timing issues on are Espgaluda, Dodonpachi, and Mushihimesama. The rest are running flawlessly. All my mame roms came from planet emu. I like that place because it actually lists the correct folder structure, and tells you which bios is required to run a game. (Let me know if I’m not supposed to post that and I’ll edit it out, sorry moderators, ahead of time. Seems appropriate on an article about emulation.)

Most of these games I’ve played on real hardware, or console, and I’m very sensitive to lag and can tell right away. I’m not noticing any issues with the games I'm running, other than the Cave shooters I mentioned but those are still 99% playable and I full clear them all the time with zero issue.

Games I couldn’t get running, no matter what. Virtual On, Soul Calibur, among a couple others. I emulate those on Saturn instead. Some of the Metal Slug games don’t work, so I use a Wii/GameCube emulator for those, and just run the Metal Slug Anthology, works great.

Pretty much anything else that didn’t run, I have the console port, so that’s not a big deal.

There are thousands of MAME games, and I know that not all of them work properly, but the ones I use don't have lag on my wired controllers. I only play wired, so if you use wireless that could be the cause of lag, that's why I switched to wired in the first place.

With the exception of arcade machines, I physically own everything I emulate, so I have done comparisons and emulation is fantastic. It’s been helping me preserve my physical collection.

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@jobvd That only seems to be the case with a small number of titles. I’ve emulated hundreds of arcade ports over the years with the various MAME releases and the only games that don’t play 100% perfectly are Caves bullet hell games. And even then, the timing isn’t so off that you can’t beat them game. I finish them all the time. I have their ports on PC and I barely notice much difference.

Arcade emulation has improved so much over the past few years, have you played recently?

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@Azuris Why buy it? Why do people owe you the explanation?

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