L0wMax
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Interesting, Sony is using a open source emulator:
Good thing they didn't win that bleem lawsuit lol.
Interesting, Sony is using a open source emulator:
I cancelled my Best Buy preorder last night after taking in all of the early impressions. I’m not paying $100 for this low-effort piece of shit. It’s a cash grab, pure and simple.
I think the classic N64 will also feel dated due to how early 3D games have aged.
The NES and SNES have some lovely looking games and retro 2D has aged better than early 3D games
Well visually the 3 types of Ps1 games that held up the best are: Games with cartoony graphics (Crash, Megaman Legends, etc), Games with good pre rendered backgrounds (Chrono Cross, FFIX, etc) and games with 2D graphics (Symphony of the Night, Megaman X3-6, etc).
And this collection has almost none of them.
Jaguar had floating-point arithmetic to begin with, so the image was much more stable than Saturn/Playstation. Saturn was also a bit more stable because of the quad-rendering (instead of triangle rendering).Nah,
The issue with the PSX/3DO/N64 3d is that they try to use texture and shadow tricks the hardware was to early for. It makes the games look bad for the most part. But if you look at some Jaguar games and some pre-1995 3D arcade games where textures are limited or none they look much better and have superior image quality.
What are those two games if I may ask?
Soul Reaver and Vagrant Story, two of the best graphical milestones on the system. Vagrant even had Depth of Field (not exactly but it did the job).What are those two games if I may ask?
I agree. Sony wanted to jump into the classic system craze because of Nintendo, but have failed to realize why the NES/SNES classic systems are very popular & why they have sold as well as they did.
It was because that Nintendo had put a lot of thought, love & care into these platforms. They used their own quality emulators, they had a decent selection of games that most people wanted to play, & they even gave display & graphic settings among them.
Sony, however? Went the complete opposite. Not only did they chose a worse selection of titles, but had also went the lazy route by using a PC emulator instead of using their very own, & by also using European/PAL versions of games in which the majority of those versions are 50hz max. That's very unacceptable.
This just screamed cash grab all over, especially as they most likely put this out during the holidays just to try to get as much money out of people for their shoddy product. It's just as bad as those AtGames Sega Genesis Flashback systems. Very shameful.
Gotta disagree with ya man, Vagrant Story and Soul Reaver look a million times better than those top two games.Nah,
The issue with the PSX/3DO/N64 3d is that they try to use texture and shadow tricks the hardware was to early for. It makes the games look bad for the most part. But if you look at some Jaguar games and some pre-1995 3D arcade games where textures are limited or none they look much better and have superior image quality.
Look much better than:
What are those two games if I may ask?
Gotta disagree with ya man, Vagrant Story and Soul Reaver look a million times better than those top two games.
Soul Reaver and Vagrant Story, two of the best graphical milestones on the system. Vagrant even had Depth of Field (not exactly but it did the job).
Even with the grainy look i still think its easier on the eyes than the mess of cubes and bright unshaded geometric shapes.
FFIX used pre-rendered backgrounds otherwise it doesn't look good at all in the 3D aspect.
Legends doesn't look that good either, especially in the ruins. What makes some parts look ok is very plan clean walls or models without much on them or repeating the same basic designs. The Areas outside the city are basically bland with bright green coloring and 2D trees, the houses int eh cities are basic with not much going on. Flutter airship is basically among the most detailed things in the game outside the super tall Giant robot and he Giant green battle ship. Everything else looks like a pixelated mess that's PSX standard or are not 3D. Is still decent looking though there are worse looking games, like the ones I posted above.
Wops, it seems uMatrix hidded some pics there.Those aren't the two games he quoted.
Good thing they didn't win that bleem lawsuit lol.
The Japanese version has Parasite Eve. Why didn't they just keep it the same instead of the trash games like Rainbow 6 and cool Borders???The lineup is just not good enough even though I was massively hyped upon announcement. Wild Arms? Cool Boarders? Including games like that feels like a waste considering what was left on the table. Jumping Flash could easily go as well imo.
Crash, Spyro, Parasite Eve, Vagrant Story, RE2, Silent Hill, Klonoa, Dino Crisis, Parappa, SoTN... you could name games all day. IDK about any potential business reasons why the list is the way it is but it's just not that exciting the way it is.
Intelligent Qube? Toshinden 1?????
The game list isn't that good. Popular mainstream and cult games missing. Ridge Rcer type 4 with only a D-pad is not good. Puzzle Fighter but not one real fighting game in the series despite the many on PSX?
Persona 1???
and other analog stick games that you have to play with a D-pad and some eh games?
To be fair it may be slightly better than the Japanese line-up but this whole thing seems rushed or at the very least Sony didn't research much into what titles people would likely want and put in some popular games they remembered and drew the other games from a hat.
Battle Arena Toshinden was in many demo pods here in EU and it was THE reason I wanted to get a PSOne as it was the first game I and many others obsessed over heh. It was the first competent and graphically impressive 3D fighter.
Still, I do agree with you. The PSOne’s software library is so vast, diverse, and awesome that 20-30 games miss sooooooo much amazing stuff that is not even funny.
You assume right.I apologize for bumping a super old thread and didn't really think this question needed it's own thread but do the games on the mini load any faster? I assume not but thought I would check.