Posted: 6/7/2007 10:35:31 AM EDT
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Any here old school Nintendo players? Been tryn to find old Nintendos, SNES or N64. I miss those old games. It's not like it used to be. My friend got a gift certificate to Best Buy to get a Nintendo Wii, they have been sold out for weeks  We started to have a SNES tournament but my friends old system finally died 
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Emulation is your friend. I run a home-built arcade cabinet emulating all the following: Atari 2600 NES SNES Sega Master System Sega Game Gear Sega Genesis Atari Lynx Nintendo 64 Nintendo Game Boy & GBA Playstation Dreamcast ...plus all the arcade games in MAME. If you're into classic gaming, do yourself a favor and look into it. |
Yea we have an Xbox now we just use for an extra DVD player, I hate all the games for xbox. |
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My NES dies as well. It seems the contacts to the came cartridge either wore out or just stopped making contact. I sold the whole bunch (4 controls, wireless, pistol and all the games) in a g-sale for $60. Wish I would have kept the games. Back in the day, Ghengis Khan was $50 alone!! I still play PS once in a while... |
Yea when my friend gets his Wii we will for sure, maybe I should just get a Wii myself. That is the main + of the Wii, get all the old games you want. I really would just like to get an old system. I put an add one graigs list but I could get one and have it die in a month who knows. |
My friends SNES died last week, we were playing it and then all of a suden Mario was gone. The rest of the game was fine but you couldn't see the characters anymore 
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Listen I have all my old consoles too but I'm telling you it's much more convenient to play the old games under emulation on a PC. (no cables, RF connectors, broken controllers, etc). Emulate old consoles on Windows |
Most are what I had when I was a kid. I've been looking for Contra and Castlevania for several years but they can go as high as $50. |
Oh, I do the emulation thing, too, and it's a lot more convenient, I'll agree with that. But there's something about hooking up the old Atari, too... you can emulate the games, but you can't emulate the "old console feel". -Mark |
Do I need to have a good video card on my PC for this? |
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This guy likes playing with old video games. cinemassacre.com/Movies/Nes_Nerd_videos.html |
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Are you serious? I have an NES and 20+ games sitting at my mom's house 7 hours away. I must retrieve it soon. There could be some gun money involved. I have Contra and Castlevania. Zelda, Startropic, Joust, SMB, the second Zelda $50 for Contra? 
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Look up NES games and hardware on ebay sometime. You'd be surprised. |
NO! Only some of the later console emulators require a 3d video card (Playstation and Dreamcast). The NES, SNES, Genesis and most of the MAME classics will run on any crappy old PC. (Pac man, Donkey Kong, that era). |
Sweet I will have to check into, how much is it? |
Let me know!!! I'd take it off your hands so you can have some extra gun money lol. |
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I have: Sega Master Sega Genesis Sega CDX Atari Jaguar Sony PlayStation Sony PlayStation 2 Sony PlayStation 3 Got a pile of games to go with all of them except the PS3, which I only have one game for so far. The best thing is the PS3's SIXAXIS controller is compatible with my Mac. You haven't experienced cross platform bliss until you've played Sega Genesis games on a Macintosh using a PlayStation 3 controller. 
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No no, it doesn't work like that: 1. Procure a PC (looks like you have one) 2. Download an emulator (from my link) 3. Install the emulator 4. Find ROMS of the games you want to play 5. Install the ROMS and launch the emulator It sounds complicated but it's really not. #4 is the tricky bit where looking in the wrong places can get you porn or viruses. There is a good webring of ROM Burners out there. CoC probably prevents me from going too far here. Of course, we only download ROMS of games we already own, right? here's some good starter reading |
Thanks! |
Interesting. My PC at home is pretty frickn old but I am going to check it out. |
Do you have pics? I'm building a MAME cab and am about ready to mount my monitor and be almost finished .
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I currently have the following consoles in my room: Sega Game Gear Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) NES Nintendo 64 Atari Jaguar Sony PS2 (connected to TV) Nintendo Game Boy Nintendo Game Boy Advance I was planning on building an emulator computer inside a cabinet, but I'll have to wait until the room's redecorated. |
| Apparently, not much love for the Turbografx 16. I have the entire setup down in the basement- console, CD player, and the very advanced TurboExpress handheld (it had an adapter to play TV , also) . Tons of games, too. It's keeping company with a complete Atari 2600, and a Commodore Vic-20 (with optional cassette tape drive to play games!)-mostly all with the original boxes. Sega Genesis is down there too. |
LOL I remember emulating Nintendo64 on a pentium pro 200Mhz w/ voodoo2 and it ran smoothly as could be (i.e. about a ~10 year old system) |
Where can you find the games and emulators for cheap (or free)? |
Got any good links? I may have to pull my dreamcast out from the basement... |
its a download i think they charge a few bucks per game |
arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm |