I definitely lost it there!
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I would highly recommend emulation, especially if youāre on an older machine that canāt handle new games. Thereās thousands of games worth going back to and official means of doing so will only be fewer and fewer.
Anything from NES to PS2 will run just fine on almost anything from the last 10 years.
Iām saying this as someone who still collects retro games and systems, emulation is required for the future of these games.
One kind of deserve to be laughed at if they failed at such a simple task.
That being said it might actually be worth making a thread showing people what emulators are out there and where to get them (no not the rom/iso files). I might get around to it one day.
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How do you feel about ScummVM? There are some free games available, plus you may well have some old game discs kicking around if you were a fan of good old point and clicks.
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was searching for the ābig fat +3 for Terrariaāā¦ 
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Factorio is also a game that ran on my very old laptop.
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Ah, hereās where things get weird. I actually love the work that goes into RPCS3, DOSBox, ScummVM, dgVoodoo, CXBX-Reloaded, and all of that. I actually follow the development of many emulators, as itās impressive work they do for the sake of preservation.
Iām happy that you mentioned ScummVM in particular. Remember what I said about the āBlues Clues SCUMM games?ā That was an oddly specific example, and because I recently came across another copy by chance. Sadly, ScummVM and DOSBox have an advantage in that many of these older games were made for DOS to begin with. The hardest part of emulation for me is actually getting the games; they usually involve BIOS flashing your old consoles to get the old code off it, as well as ripping discs that have copy protection already. Iāve had no luck with this.
My problem is more with the emulation of games, or more specifically, how they are acquired. I donāt ever turn to more unapproved channels for games, even when theyāre unavailable, simply because I have no legal protection as well as a risk of exposing my computer to malware. I know that and my adamant anti-Denuvo stance is making me start to sound like one of those people who refuse any kind of shots, but I just donāt really risk it.
ScummVM is awesome, as well as DOSBox, and I love the idea of old games returning to digital platforms via emulation. Mega Man Legacy Collection and the upcoming Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection are a similar story. I would love it if companies started licensing PCSX2, Dolphin, and other similar emulators to get their old games up on PC. Can you imagine if THQ Nordic dumped Destroy All Humans! 1 and 2 on Steam with a slightly fine tuned version of PCSX2? It would be nothing short of glorious. Thatās not even mentioning the countless other gamesā¦ SSX 3 Origin release, make it happen!
Anyway, hereās the emulators I do use frequently:
- DOSBox (given lol)
- nGlide (3DFX Glide emulation, goes to DX9)
- dgVoodoo 2 (way more customizable Glide and DirectX 7 emulation, goes to DX10 or DX11)
Aaaaaand thatās about it. I have a few others installed, of course, and I still dream of using the Dolphin VR fork for Metroid Prime 3, but unless I magically find the one LG optical drive in the world that can read those discs, Iām kinda stuck here.
My other big issue with emulation is that many of the people who use it more or less ānormalizeā it, as if some games being impossible to buy somehow justified piracy in general. Just check out the new forums for Street Fighter 30th Anniversary, a $40 collection with most Arcade versions of SF 1-3; even though it touts arcade-perfect emulation of 1, 2 Turbo, Alpha 3, and Third Strike, as well as every other version of those games and online versus for four of them, the forums are full of comments essentially trying to justify stealing the games based on the fact that theyāre āoldā or āsmall filesā or anything else, as if that somehow made it unfair to charge for the games. I do want to see developers support their work, and with every new release of old games by major companies, I find these people making me dislike emulation even more.
On an unrelated note, I may just shill further and throw another one of my Youtube videos in the chat later. Iāve been experimenting with old computers again, and if itās just a CPU problem, I may have a few recommendations in video form.
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It definitely justifies it imo. If Iām completely unable to obtain a game or if itās $200 on ebay I will absolutely pirate it without the slightest bit of shame.
I would much rather see the games played than fade away.
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I think you misinterpreted what I meant, there. I was talking about some games being unavailable somehow normalizing piracy IN GENERAL; as in, because you grabbed Battle for Middle Earth or some games that were out of print, you were suddenly entitled to the Devil May Cry games ābecause theyāre old,ā despite the entire series being available on PC, PS4, and XBO.
If a publisher is selling their game on GOG, Steam, or consoles, Iād say itās only fair to pay for it. As of now, Iām happy to add Monkey Island 3 to that list 
Make sure to check out the series while itās $10 on GOG for the first three games:
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Dungeons of Dredmor will run on anything and it will give you about a billion hours of gameplay.
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Guysā¦ itās easy, just move to a 3rd world country where there 's nothing called lawā¦ i currently wear 2 eye patches and live as a goat where i eat tree leavesā¦ JKā¦
Check your country policy about copyrights, the section were software becomes abandonwareā¦
Most PSP games in the middle east are considered Abandonware, same goes for old games, therefor, no copyright infringement
( US copyright lasts 70 years post author death for example )ā¦ here ( Lebanon ), different story
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That must be a cheap third party pad because the Start and Select buttons are the wrong way round.
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*notices 3rd world country still uses ps1 controller;
-āno thx, iām okay right hereā
#1stWorldAnalogStickPrivilege 
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man the middle east doesnāt give a flying f about copyright to begin with, lol. Internet companies actually actively advertise how much movies and games, and how fast, u can download from torrents and shit with their plans.
even the government pcās all run hacked windows and everything
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wellā¦ itās true!!! XD
Feels bad man
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hahaha, y itās true, rofl, they sometimes even mention torrent sites in their ads
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I reccomend Factoria and Terraria. Both good games that I played on my horrible laptop.
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Got this in my feeds and remembered this threadā¦This should hold you for a while.
No, @Fraggles, Mark of the Ninja isnāt mentioned in the article but it is in the commentsā¦āTerraria, Torchlight I & II, Shadowrun Hong Kong, Baldurās Gate I & II, Salt and Sanctuary, Mark of the Ninja and many many more.ā
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I probably should keep this thread in my favs in case I decide to finally re-buy a windows tablet.
Anybody here whoās got THE SAFEST AND BEST WAY to make W10 run faster? I mean disabling some processes etcā¦ or should I just wait till MS released that W10 S version for weaker systems?
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I guess soon you will have your answer. Last month I borrowed a ālaptopā from a friend of mine, because I managed to wreck my stuff for few weeks and it was Lenovo ideapad T60 from like 2006 or something ā¦ it even had IBM logo on the 4:3 screen
2.(point)SOMETHING GHz Duo Celeronā¦ 2.5GB Ram and 100 GB HDD and ofc probably the first integrated GPU intel ever made. I promised the dude we will try to install windows 10 on it. Hopefully next week.
Itās needless to say it will be x86 Home version though.
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