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while i wouldn’t go that far, there are people out there who would call the 3DS remakes retro now

i’ve seen a few pictures like this before but it only just dawned on me- why is the card 3dge connector for mega drive and 32X games the same? you’d think even if it was all the same signals they’d add a few duds to the 32X card slot so that you don’t try to plug a 32X into a 32X or a 32X game into a mega drive. even a piece of plastic like the ones used to keep 3DS carts from being inserted into a DS would get the job done. i guess they wanted you to always leave the 32X in even when playing standard games?

paddle controls for me. imagune an f-zero 99-style game but it’s a huge game of warlords

if the SPC is anything like most yamaha soundchips, once you write a value to it the console has to wait until a busy flag is cleared to write the next byte to the chip. unless you’re doing some very fancy multithreading, the CPU is just looping until it can do that. in this case because the SPC runs faster, the CPU is doing less waiting which leads to the game running faster

i agree with this. i think a lot of people disagree because it feels like arbitrary criteria at first, but even as someone who grew up in the 360 generation, you could feel that the leap to HDMI signaled something more than just crisper graphics. the 360 and PS3 were both chasing the PC gaming experience, whereas the Wii was the last “bring the arcade home” box. while things like the introduction of polygonal graphics, twin sticks, VR, and internet connectivity feel like bigger shifts on the surface, i think this was the most signifigant and the best place to slice gaming into two ages despite them overlapping for a generation

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