/vr/ - Retro Games

Forgo both and buy a MiSTER.

>>8389573
This.

>>8389581
My wife's son agrees wholeheartedly.

Why would you get a GBA everdrive instead of spending 20 bucks on an EZ flash?

Also, buy a cheap flagship from a few years back for under 100 bucks. You don't need a 500 dollar phone, retard.

>>8389621
I have an S8, but At&t are being kikes and saying it won't be able to make calls on the new 5g service.

>>8389667
Switch to a provider that still offers 4g or something?

>>8389680
Everyone is switching to 5g onry.

>>8389691
There is zero chance 5g is going to feasible in a lot of places simply due to the limited range the towers have.

>>8389704
I'm sure it's going to be a clusterfuck due to the fact that poos are probably working on the cellular data infrastructure or whatever.

>>8389723
No, we are talking longest range of a tower is a couple kms at most at lowest speeds and 500m at max speed.
5g is a city thing at most.

Don't buy the latest model cell phone, that's a waste of money.
And don't bother with the expensive flash carts, get a Chinese knock off.

>>8389797
I got an S20Fe.

>>8389797
but if you buy that no money goes to the people that did all the work to create that

>>8389831
Also the chink item will fail due to being cheaper. I work retail and I fail to understand why people buy the cheap ship and then act surprised when it stops working. Also, fuck all these flat screens tvs.

>>8389568
Why the fuck would you buy flash carts if you can’t afford them
Use emulation

>I need every game
U fuckers are so spoiled

>>8389843
>I work retail
Opinion discarded, shut the fuck up and stop posting, there's a reason you work in retail retard. You're literally subhuman.

>>8389875
No u lol. I do have a degree, but with stuff that keeps happening ever since I graduated I've been at living at home helping my family.

>>8389797
>get a Chinese knock off.
Literally never a good idea.

>>8389875
And you post in the same board as retailfags. Whats that say about you?

>>8389863
Every game? No. Romhacks and fan translations on oem hardware? Hell yeah.

>>8389875
Not thay anon but I was a video game tester for 12 years. They required the vaxx to continue testing so I got a retail job. :(

>>8389568
GBA Everdrive is overpriced and underwhelming. Get either an EZ Flash Omega or EZ Flash Omega DE. The standard omega is fine if you read the instructions and wait 5-10 seconds after saving before turning the GBA off.

>>8390087
Good on you, m8. Your body, your choice.

>>8390087
based

>>8390087
I'm proud of you.

>>8390097
>>8390101
>>8390197
are you guys trump supporters?

>>8390101

How is it his choice? He has no control over an infectious disease

>>8390282
and?
do you assume the vaccine does anything but lessen symptoms?

>>8390275
Careful, now. TrannyJanny is far more tolerant of shitposting than "wrong" opinions.

>>8390285
oh you're one of those "people", I see

>>8390320
but that is what it does

>>8390325
He thinks the government should have the power to force you to get it.

>>8390282
>>8390275
informed consent is a fundamental tenet of ethical medical practice

just because you lack an internal monologue doesn't mean everyone does


ANYWAYS,
OP just get the super everdrive and easy flash
there are only a few carts for snes that the SE cant run

you can always coomlect those specific carts, doom mario2 etc

>>8390534
>there are only a few carts for snes that the SE cant run
I read that the super everdrives can't do romhacks/english hacks.

>>8390282
Well, why is it an issue if others get the vaccine and he does not? Is he risking getting those that took the vaccine sick?

>>8389875
Based on my experience, anon here probably has a phd in a hard science.

>>8390584
they can
i have one and it handled everything i threw at it
its a krikkz product you don't need to overspend for the latest and greatest

ex n64 legacy carts etc

>>8390708
Not that anon, I know you're probably just shitposting, but typically, there's a certain amount of the population that can't get the vaccine, and it used to be even bigger before it was allowed for kids. Generally, the more people have the vaccine, the easier it is for people who straight up can't get it at all.
Also, yes. Even with chickenpox, you still have a small chance of getting it even after the vaccine. It's just that it's a much smaller chance with much milder symptoms. By doing your part, you reduce the chance of spread by a lot. Doesn't help that those who don't get the vaccine tend to not care about spreading it, either. I hope that whichever choice you do take, that you do self-isolate.
Again, I'll probably get a meme response back, but it's fine. Behind all the jokes, I believe that most people on /vr/ are good people. I'll get back to less serious posts, though.
>>8389568
Everdrive Omega would be a much nicer prospect for you, anon.

>>8390738
If you had to choose between a gba and snes cart, which would you get?

For the SNES the FXPAX PRO is good if only because it works with 99.9% of games that use this special enhanced chips. Otherwise getting chink shit for the other consoles is ok.

>>8389843
You're fucking retarded. I literally bought this same knock off over a year ago and it works great, get off 4chan and go back to suckin krikkz off, faggot.

faggot mods banned me

god forbid someone question your tranny worldview


anyways
the super everdrive will run just about anything you throw at it sans the listed incompatible titles

>>8391081
The sd2snes clone will also, for half the price

>>8389568
FXPak IMO. In terms of long term "investment" pirating SNES games will save you tons.

>>8390097
This.

EZ Flash Omega DE is better than the krikzz one and cheaper.

The cheaper EZ one likes to corrupt SD cards though, don't buy it.

>>8389568
>satellaview
>240p test suite
>Super game boy 2
>pretty much all snes games

Vs.

>snes ports on gba
>and like that one good gba game that wasn't a port.

>>8391247
With your advice, and the fact that the pak pro plays CD quality music as well, I decided on getting the pak pro.

>>8389831
This fuckin' guy

>>8390078
Why is buying a Chinese knockoff made in the same factory as the official version at a fifth of the price a bad idea?

>>8393501
Because one has QA testing while the other is made by chinks for the biggest profit margins possible.

>>8389568
I have the sd2snes and really theres only a few good fx chip games, I brought it on the promise that you could make fx games faster but that update has not happened, felt I was lied about that point. Mario rpg, Yoshi island, Dragon ball z and Stunt race fx, thats really all the decent chip games you are getting and you can just buy the cartridges for not that much.

I did buy the krikkz gba cart because my old flash cart doesn't seem to work and the old ones didn't support big sd cards anyway.

>>8391231
I was thinking about that but the menu and all that seems real old, makes me think the rest of the cart is outdated.

>>8393581
Well I already bought the pak pro as >>8393359, but also that has a better discount with it of $40 while the gba version is $20 off now. So I figure I get the pak pro now and just get the gba one in a few months. Plus, I have a lot of the gba games I would want to play, minus the castlevania games, so I can wait on that or just use my 3DS.

>>8393581
>>8393614
Also I looked up a video review and found this one here that enables the SuperFX setting and it seems to make Starfox a bit faster. https://youtu.be/BcEe9wKB36g?t=594

>>8393581
as long as you have the Rev X of the SD2SNES, it should be able to play everything fine

>>8394265
>take opensource revision F gerber-files
>change revision letter to X
>produce black pcb
>???
>PROFIT

>>8393581
You can "overclock" the FX emulation in the options however you need to curb your expectations. The limiting factor on superfx was the transfer of data from the cart to VRAM more than the specs of the chip itself. Even if you had a 10GHz SuperFX chip you can't get 60fps stunt race fx. What you can do is get a more stable but still low framerate.

>>8389621
>20 bucks on an EZ flash?
Where do they cost that?

Not really flash-cart related, but what do you guys recommend with regards to setting up a PS2 to play backups?

>>8394698
If you have a PS2 that is compatible with Mechapwn you can use that to play burned retail games without any patching thus bypassing any potential compatibility issues. Just launch the games from the uLaunchELF menu and it'll work.

>>8394698
A is what I use, what the fuck do you mean a "good quality" adapter? It's fucking bare metal, no components. I got mine off aliexpress for like 2 bucks.

>>8389589
Why does he need any input?

>>8394638
it has all the chips mate

>>8394698
500gb - 1tb hdd, sata adapter. You do not need an ssd.

>>8393501
real ones are made in ukraine, not china. they used to be made in china, until they copied his design and made bootlegs of it.

as to why its a bad idea? you cant update the firmware on the chinese ones, and the chink knockoffs are an ancient version now with compatibility issues.

>>8389568
A <$10 mount to attach the PS4 controller you already have to the phone you are already going to buy is cheaper than an FX Pak Pro or GBA Everdrive. Modern phones can run CRT filters too if that's your thing

>>8397120
I think you're thinking of the wrong thing mate
the SD2SNES is open source

>>8396725
no idea what you are trying to say.
it's the same as revision F sd2snes (not pro), just with an X for Coolness.

>>8394705
>>8394706
>>8396741
Wait, no, okay -
Better idea:

My PS2 is now a cartridge-loading console, via a CF<>ZIF adapter.

>>8398852
Hilariously embarrassing

>>8397546
>no idea what you are trying to say.
That It runs everything with no problem, including SA1 and SFX 2 games

>>8389831
>but if you buy that no money goes to the people that did all the work to create that
What do you mean? Money goes to people that had to reengineer and produce a cheaper but competitive product, do you hate capitalism anon?

>>8397546
then how does it play Yoshi's Island and MSU-1 games?

>>8397182
>the SD2SNES is open source
is it? when did that happen?

>>8400242
since its conception

>>8398909
Don't be hating on my high-capacity, high-speed, high-compatibility, highly convenient, pure IDE-based setup just because you're jelly.

>>8400519
>compact flash
What a waste of money for inferior performance

>>8389573
fippy bippy

>>8400526
My nigga.

>>8400521
CF cards run on the same type of data bus as the network adapter.
Yes it's fucking stupid, but I wanna see if I can make my dumb idea work. The most expensive part of this is the CF card though, you're right, I'll probably get a 32/64GB use the low capacity as an excuse to actually play and rotate games, unlike my gigantic MiSTer collection I never touch because of paralysis from the choice overabundance.

>>8400534
If you have issues with game choice
I suggest you use a roulette wheel to decide for you

>>8400534
Check out this site. They hacked Canon DSLRs to get a raw 14 bit feed from the CCD that was writing to CF. At the time there was plenty of discussion about building some kind of HDD/SSD interface because it was writing 6GB a minute and CF was limited to 128GB at the time and the write speed was <80 MB/s. I don't know if they ever solved it, but you might find some useful info there in the forums.

https://magiclantern.fm/

>>8389573
This also I'm gay

>>8399773
original sd2snes supported them already with the latest firmwares.

>>8400696
It doesn’t matter, the thing is open source

>>8400519
that IDE to ribbon adapter won't fit

>>8389621
>100 bucks is cheap
Calm down, Mr. Monopoly

>>8400519
>embarrassment intensifies
Holy cringe! You obviously haven't put much thought into this, let alone tried it. I'm not even going to point out one of the many ways this is epically retarded. I want to see you put in the time, effort, and money and fail.

>>8389568
regular old super everdrive. You don't need add-on chip games, and you can play GBA games on a 3DS with CFW

>>8389667
sounds like bullshit to me. 4G isn't going anywhere. 5G is only even feasible in dense locations like big cities because you need transmitters every couple blocks.

>>8389667
Not necessarily, but they're disabling 3G and being fucking niggers about VoLTE compatibility. It's a scam to extort users into buying new phones they don't want or need.

>>8390085
>>8389863
Honestly if I need every game I can just emulate entire rom lists like any person can across a variety of devices like my phone or hacked Wii. Flash carts are good for allowing shit to run on the consoles the games were made for, and even better is that they're useful in testing the accuracy of rom hacks like Star Road and zsnes era translations.

>>8400874
>no Super Mario RPG
>no Kirby Super Star
>no Star Fox
>no Mega Man X2
>no Star Ocean
>mo Tales of Phantasia
>no Yoshi's Island
>no MSU1 hacks

Bad take.

>>8394698
Just skip the ide-sata adapter and get a ps2 hdd adapter that already has SATA. But if you have the ide adapter, then F is the way to go, just so you don't have to think about it ever again.

>>8401186
gamestar adapters are shit, best option is to get the bitfunx board

>>8400879
Did you pull this out of your own ass or inhale it from the ass of someone just as retarded as you?

I got a fkpak pro, does everything I want it to do. Gotta look into hacks for games like dkc and smw to see if they can fix the slowdown on real hardware

>>8400779
>>8400873
Not really. All he has to do is desolder the connector, cut up a cheap 4-pin molex cable and solder them to the pads on the PCB.

He's a retard to not just do >>8401186 but it'll probably work.

Can someone post an Ali express link to the right GBA flash cart? There is like 100 different ez flash listings

>>8403406
just go for the one with the most reviews and ratings

>>8403406
When navigating aliexpress, basically, you should almost always just sort by "Most Orders".

>>8394698
>Can access memory without ever reopening the console
Exactly how often do you plan on doing this and why? Just chuck a 128-512+GB ssd full of games in and forget about it instead of dealing with fucking compact flash of all things like it's the mid 2000s. Hell, even the microcenter brand inland ssds are competitive with sd cards once you reach the 256G mark, and they work fine with the PS2. Like what the fuck are you doing nigga?
>>8401216
Never had a problem with mine in the couple years I had it. So would the bitfunx be used with an original adapter, or is there a company the makes the ide one still?

>>8404576
>>8403557
Thank you friends

>>8403350
>if he cuts everything up and frankensteins it back together in working order without getting the tools stuck in his nose/anus it'll work fine
So...I'm looking forward to those xrays for a soldering iron cauterized into his pooper, you?

>>8400873
>>8401186
>>8403350
>>8405250
>>8405324
>Like what the fuck are you doing nigga
Sometimes it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.

>>8406294
>Sometimes I dig the stupid hole so deep I have to pretend I was trying to be deep
It is indeed getting pretty deep in here

>>8401343
5G has a range of a few hundred metres, anon. Look it up.

4G isn't going anywhere, since 5G is just a short-range high-speed compromise, not a simple upgrade as the name and marketing suggest.

>>8407096
I don't need to look it up. I do consulting for telecoms and NGOs and could list a dozen operators and what low band spectrum they're using off the top of my head. The only question is whether you pulled your bullshit out of your own ass or someone else's.

>>8389568
Buy a refurbished phone for $200 and you'll have more pocket change. That's assuming you were planning on buying a brand new phone that's the price of a gaming pc.

On the subject of Krikrap, has anyone safely received their Black Friday order yet? Support is still serving me bullshit about why they haven't shipped mine yet.

>>8389573
This, but only if OP is bald or balding

>>8406963
During the height of the pandemic I had to sit a job interview I, for various reasons, didn't want- so I used a GB Camera hooked up to a scaler via a GB Player cart to carry out the interview live in monochrome 128×128 pixel resolution.

You don't just occasionally get stupid ideas, and then just follow through and see if you can get it working?

>>8407665
My Everdrive 64 x7 is in queens NY as of yesterday. I ordered that the first night of the sale however.

>>8407665
My order shipped quickly, but is presently in transit between Ukraine and Australia.
So you might say "currently in the middle of nowhere".