Was one of my fav games from last year, I've never played the original so I have nothing to compare however

The gamepad improvements will definitely be appreciated, the controller support definitely wasn't up to snuff for their upcoming console launch

Still waiting on their remaster of SS2 that I'm meant to get for free for preordering the remake. Never played SS2 either so looking forward to that.

I loved bioshock back when I played it in 2008 but now I realise it's very console like and slimmed down in comparison haha still love it though

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Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeHell, my main interest in things like yuzu is being able to play the Virtua Racing re-release that for some stupid reason is switch exclusive, and it forces me to use sideway joycon when playing splitscreen, I much rather get a bunch of xbox controllers out

speaking of emulation, if your talking about the OG Sega Virtua Racing then the best version is on the PS2.

upscaled to 4k ofc ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6hK4AbYw0 [External Link]

The switch release is very special to me as its more like a remaster, made by m2

It's very similar in concept to the rerelease of Daytona USA ON xbox 360 and ps3, based off the arcade versions but with higher resolutions and much better draw distance

The switch release even allows up to 8 player splitscreen, a call back to the arcade days with 8 cabs next to each other

But it shouldn't be locked to switch, especially with the lack of wheel support. About 5 years ago I was round my friends playing on his xbox one with a racing wheel hooked up, daytona usa through backwards compat, the wheel works flawlessly, even has forcefeedback!

It's crazy to me that sega made a really good remaster of VR and haven't added it to be pc and xbox with wheel support.

I even went as far to try and emulate the joycon on my wheel using yuzu 🤣 as you would expect it didn't turn out great

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On a other side note

I really hope this doesn't have a negative impact for switch users with Nintendos next console

98% of my switch library is all physical media, I've always gone out my way to only buy physical games with the entire game on them.

Denuvo works on switch and I feel like they might push hard putting drm on their software in the future. This is disappointing for me as its less likely I'll be willing to put down 60 quid of my hard earned money on games that will lock me out without Internet.

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Quoting: LoftyNot that i ever want to side with a giant mega corporation but i can kind of understand the perspective on switch emulation, i mean people are emulating games that are practically day one release on emulators, sometimes games that have been leaked. And there was a whole highly visible monetary aspect to it too. Emulation is meant for game preservation and nostalgia (edit* i stand corrected.. not exclusively) It's not very nostalgic emulating a current gen game on non supported hardware and it's not a game that needs preserving whilst its still on immediate sale.

The whole name of this project is obviously a troll towards Nintendo too so their reaction was to be expected.

Emulation will continue though. one way or another, which is great.

Yeah I certainly get that sentiment, I've seen some people say they buy these games even though they don't own a switch just to download them off the Internet. The vast majority obviously don't but I commend the people who do

I've always felt conflicted myself, I've had a switch for years and loved that it was small enough to be a little companion for my pc, fits nicely on a desk, I love platformer and switch has some great 1st party titles in that regard

On the other foot, I love emulation, nintendo have shut down entire rom sites before which denied people not just their own software, but other software like Japenese to English translated rpg games, or random Taiwan mega drive games that I love to collect

They even go as far to say people aren't allowed to dump their own cartridges which depending on region depends on legality but in Japan AFAIK its illegal to dump your own games and thats how Nintendo wants it :(

Hell, my main interest in things like yuzu is being able to play the Virtua Racing re-release that for some stupid reason is switch exclusive, and it forces me to use sideway joycon when playing splitscreen, I much rather get a bunch of xbox controllers out

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"Sega Model 2 & 3"

Yes! I already had model 3 setup compiled from source but was abit of a pain to setup, so this is great news

AFAIK there's no native linux version for Model 2 emulator? I'm guessing emudeck sets it up via wine?

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Pretty annoying really

I love to use emudeck on my ubuntu desktop machine, just makes setting up EmulationStation so seamless

I just hope and pray they don't pursue after other developers like ryujinx, or even worse go after older emulators like maybe go after dolphin again :(

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This is worrying for the future of emulators, and the possibility of even going after older ones like dolphin

I guess snes9x and stuff like that should be pretty safe at least 🤣 which kinda reminds me how if Nintendo had it their way, we'd only be able to play their old legacy games through their NSO subscription service

The community do this for preservation, not to take money from nintendo

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Quoting: whizse

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeSeeing the bug fix for dolphin emulator got me wondering what would be the reason to use it over the native build, I'm assuming to use the direct x api but now just makes me wonder which games work better on it because vulkan on native seems to work great on the games I've tested

You would have to ask the bug reporter exactly why, but one reason to test FLOSS Windows applications with Wine is that it's much easier to see how they use a specific API. Source code is available, so you can skip the debugger.

In this case Dolphin seems to have exposed a limitation in the Windows.Gaming.Input API in Wine.

Makes sense

Similar to why people run console versions of pc games on console emulators I guess, it helps find any flaws

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Seeing the bug fix for dolphin emulator got me wondering what would be the reason to use it over the native build, I'm assuming to use the direct x api but now just makes me wonder which games work better on it because vulkan on native seems to work great on the games I've tested

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Quoting: Oet_

Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeThis one in particular hits me in the nostalgic feels, I'm 34 this year and grew up playing these games on PC, fond memories of being sat next to my dad watching the warm glow of the crt.. and searching for topless lara on the dial up 😂

I'm also from Derby so feel very proud of its heretidge, we have a road here called "lara croft way" in her honour 😊

So did you also play Destruction Derby back in the day? :)

Sorry for the stupidly late reply, but no I didn't :(

I kind of miss only being able to play the games you were bought as a kid, these days I cam just play any game I want

Hmmm.. I might even try and get Destruction Derby running "somehow" on a certain ducky something station ;) see how it is

OH and one game I did love was Carmageddon as a kid, C2 specifically, and that game was 100% inspired by banger racing

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