Hello, everyone!

[HarmonieGirl]

I've been playing games since I was a little girl (for over 30 years), but this whole world right here is very new to me. I refused to emulate/use ROMs until late last year, when I got into playing old Pokemon games modded. I've played The Sims games on the PC for over two decades now and got very used to the modding and custom content in them and naturally I began wanting that in my console games, as well.

Also, I am sick of the gaming industry's treatment of old games. Watching Nintendo go from Virtual Console (which didn't even really transfer from system-to-system) to now only a subscription service that doesn't even allow you to own the games is really frustrating. So I began seeking archiving my own games and playing them how I like... I mean, isn't that what we've always been allowed to do with music CDs? We can burn those to our PCs and use them on any device we dream of. But games are gated and they want us to keep buying them over and over again or subscribe to a subscription service, of which we have too many nowadays.

Very recently I modded my old 3DS and dumped my copies of games in anticipation for my AYN Thor which I will be getting in the coming weeks. I now would like to do that with everything. lol. But I'm scared to do it to my Switch. All of my other consoles are back at my parents' house which is all of the way across the country, so... Someday, though.

 

[Kems]

Hello, welcome here

 

[MPRTwice]

Welcome.

"Also, I am sick of the gaming industry's treatment of old games. Watching Nintendo go from Virtual Console (which didn't even really transfer from system-to-system) to now only a subscription service that doesn't even allow you to own the games is really frustrating. So I began seeking archiving my own games and playing them how I like... I mean, isn't that what we've always been allowed to do with music CDs? We can burn those to our PCs and use them on any device we dream of. But games are gated and they want us to keep buying them over and over again or subscribe to a subscription service, of which we have too many nowadays."

An accurate statement. I remember when Skyrim first came out, that it was absurd that every PC game I saw listed "requires internet connection to play". As sharp as my memory is, I omitted remembering that Generation X gaming, which I was on the tail end of, was very different.

In the seventies and eighties, one absolutely had an advantage if they put video games on their resume; it meant you were a nerd (not a geek per se), and therefore you were capable of math, science, literature comprehension (one game manual directly assumed you read the voyages of sinbad beforehand), and engineering. Much like a black-belt, it meant the public at least somewhat respected that you put in some effort, before the bandwagon collapsed from everyone winning a prize by doing absolutely nothing.

I would have enjoyed living in the nineteen sixties, even during the peak of the U.S. draft. Safely crash landing planes with unexpectedly failing engines in a field just past the ocean with sharks visible below and keeping your passenger unhurt in the process, being at base camps throwing and being thrown around on hard concrete in between bare-handed bunker raids, evading evil agents and putting a spanner in the works for a dictatorship coup, and working with Sanders on the formula in the KFC vault. _That_ was their video games, but in this era, people worry about me going out in subzero temperatures barefoot in the snow for training. they want monotone educators, not dynamic ones. Robotic kata or no forms at all, not emotionally packed, explosive yet controlled actions.

The other big thing is the monotone color scheme that was introduced as the new millenium color. Just a bunch of soulless atmosphere, not the wild west color schematics of earlier times that led to greater innovation. These days I get scoffed for being "like deadpool if he were an educator" with my engineering commentary, despite the outstanding world record-breaking results and dare I say it: _Fun_ with professional and beyond learning.

How many video game manuals/intros started like this, with an Emerson quote?:

 

[jeannotte]

hello,

welcome on Gbatemp

 

[AncientBoi]

 

[pudingman]

hello, i'am new here too

 

[Jordie404]

I've been playing games since I was a little girl (for over 30 years), but this whole world right here is very new to me. I refused to emulate/use ROMs until late last year, when I got into playing old Pokemon games modded. I've played The Sims games on the PC for over two decades now and got very used to the modding and custom content in them and naturally I began wanting that in my console games, as well.

Also, I am sick of the gaming industry's treatment of old games. Watching Nintendo go from Virtual Console (which didn't even really transfer from system-to-system) to now only a subscription service that doesn't even allow you to own the games is really frustrating. So I began seeking archiving my own games and playing them how I like... I mean, isn't that what we've always been allowed to do with music CDs? We can burn those to our PCs and use them on any device we dream of. But games are gated and they want us to keep buying them over and over again or subscribe to a subscription service, of which we have too many nowadays.

Very recently I modded my old 3DS and dumped my copies of games in anticipation for my AYN Thor which I will be getting in the coming weeks. I now would like to do that with everything. lol. But I'm scared to do it to my Switch. All of my other consoles are back at my parents' house which is all of the way across the country, so... Someday, though.

Yes this is why I've also recently got into emulation and modded games, the current gaming industry is so corporate and stale. It's been nice being able to experience old games in a new way with so much freedom to change the way you enjoy them. I have two 3ds console and I've been looking into modding them and add new life to them.

 

[sorah]

hello, i'am new here too

 

[08k]

3DS was the bees knees and still has its place for many Good luck with your projects