Shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUP!!! :matt-jokerfied:
Just get a fucking rom!!! Go to Google and you can have the game on your hard drive in 5 minutes! Chances are your “incredibly rare” cult classic is playable with a high degree of accuracy. Even if you dislike emulation, you can just burn a disc, put the game on internal storage or use an Evercart depending on the system.
We don’t have to pretend we need to hunt down decades-old pieces plastic to access old video games. What’s that? Kuon for PS2 is really rare and expensive? Well I’m going to go download it right now to spite your collector brainworms… AND IT WILL BE 100% FREE OF CHARGE
Collectors are a scourge on the hobby, the drive the prices up and gatekeep retro gaming from new generations to enjoy. Death to consumerism, pirate everything, perfect emulation now!
That’s kinda the thing though, they don’t. Because emulation exists :chad:
I’d love to own a physical collection of retro games and systems if prices were reasonable but thanks to collector bazinga brains it’s hard to do. But yeah, thank god for emulation. And emulation has come such a long way in recent years, with major gains being made in the field.
Even original Xbox emulation is finally coming along. Soon, everyone can play, uh… Blinx the Time Sweeper?
So you would be a collector if it weren’t for all those other pesky collectors buying stuff?
The transfer chaining is pretty cool but… as soon as pokemon bank services go down (and it will quickly be a matter of when, not if), everything pre switch era will be cut off from the newer games… forever. :deeper-sadness:
Unfortunately that guide kind of proves my point. That guide covers all the generations present on the 3DS, 1-7.
You can’t transfer those pokemon into the gen 8/Switch era of games with those instructions. Your only option without pokemon bank is to pkhex in pokemon on a hacked switch, basically recreate your gen 1-7 pokemon and put them into a switch save file.
Honestly it’s pretty messed up that the only rickety bridge between the generations is fucking pokemon bank. I hope TPC or Nintendo has SOME backup plan even if it’s an abomination of an amiibo or an amiibo-like peripheral. like, they WANT to sell Home subscriptions, right? Those Home subs are going to be a lot less appealing in a sandbox made up of four Switch games with a shitload of box space in each one.
This is interesting, I amassed most of a Living Dex and a fair Dream/Apriball collection before I lost interest in Pokémon a tad. What’s a Masterdex?
This was a fairly standard console game though. I just get annoyed when people don’t even mention the possibility of roms and emulation when talking about the availability of an old game.
Gamecube to the Switch
There’s no GB/GBC-to-Switch pipeline? You mean I can’t transfer the Mews and MewTwos me and my friends cloned with the link cable glitch in 2000 from my Silver cartridge? :sadness:
I just get annoyed when people don’t even mention the possibility of roms and emulation when talking about the availability of an old game.
In the game review space, that’s because it’s anywhere from an unwritten rule or straight up a written rule about talking about roms and emulation depending on how said reviewer is getting their money. Despite the fact that both are completely legal.
The only ones that do mention emulation are usually the ones that also have a bunch of contempt for big publishers to begin with.
i havent had much issue transferring mons using a save editor on PC. My living dex is actually entirely stored in a folder on my harddrive lol
tbf, on sites like Resetera, it’s literally a bannable offense to acknowledge piracy, so everyone has to pretend the only way to play old games is to buy extremely expensive old copies or wait decades for a re-release. There’s some wink-wink-nudge-nudge at work here.
I’ve been downloading roms for games that my parents were too poor to get me for about 25 years, bunch of fucking nerds buying physical media.
