My child-self would have died from pure excitement at the mere prospect of getting their hands on a RPi filled with emulators/games. Now I'm just an old fart and cant appreciate shit anymore.

[–] Toes@ani.social 40 points 10 months ago

Oh man that's me

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's why my projects tend to be things that end up being more like art pieces or something I will actually use.

I'm definitely aware I don't have enough time for classic video games.

[–] Toes@ani.social 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

there's something satisfying in perfectly tweaking a emulator play zelda but I never get past clock town in my testing.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I know the feeling, but I'm doing Switch emulation for games I haven't actually played a thousand times already.

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were a blast on PC.

I played the hell out of the originals enough, the nostalgia replays have worn off.

[–] MetricIsRight@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

I tried playing through TotK on original hardware, After a week or so when the emulation was better I switched to PC and restarted. I found it so much better, the constant frame rate drops on original hardware drove me crazy.

[–] illah@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I even went to the trouble of putting mine in a mini snes style case with functional power and reset buttons. Still have it ready to go…in the garage 😅

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 17 points 10 months ago

Play a game and you’ve played a game once. But prepare for yourself the means of playing games, and you have the potential to play them infinitely.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Got a PC built, have done nothing but install games for the last few nights. Who needs to sleep anyway? I'll get around to playing one eventually...

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really wanna try building a MintyPi but I know damn well I would use it for a day then set it on a shelf forever

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Just think of the building process as the game. Lots of people build things for enjoyment. Nothing wrong with that.

[–] casmael@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

Oh thank god I thought it was just me 😮‍💨

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is how it always is with tinkerers. We enjoy setting stuff up and tweaking to perfection more than actually 'using' it.

We also spend days writing scripts and programs that will save only hours at best in the span of our entire lifetimes, and feel happy doing it.

And we're also the same people who spend about 20 hours messing around with getting the perfect combination of mods on Skyrim without even 'playing' a single real minute of the game.

[–] Granixo@feddit.cl 5 points 10 months ago

Me, porting OpenBOR games to new platforms: