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Chinese Emulation Handhelds are Weird
There are plenty of reliable, tried and true solutions for taking your favorite video games and playing them on the go. This is not one of them.
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Game Console Homebrew is Weird
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You could just play video games on your video game console. For me, that's just not enough. Too boring! I want to do horrible things to my game consoles. Thankfully, there's a whole community built around the idea of making game consoles do things they were never supposed to do. Homebrew has been around for the longest time, and the communities around these hacked systems have been producing so...
Why was Apple's Coolest Laptop so... bad?
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The PowerBook G4 was not only Apple's finest PowerPC system - but, in my opinion, it was also a staggering example for the entire industry to follow. The compromise of form over function at its best... at least, given it didn't snap in half easier than an iPad Pro. But can it run Minecraft? I really enjoyed messing with this hardware and I hope to dive into even more PowerPC stuff in the future...
Early Video Game Emulation was Weird
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Emulating video games is a pretty cut and dry thing these days - there's usually just one (or maybe two) great emulators for a system that are as easy as downloading off GitHub and throwing in an ISO file... but it wasn't always like that. The current emulation scene is only a mere imitation of the chaotic and rapidly progressing ecosystem of the late 90s and early 2000s. So I decided to talk a...
Deceptive Simplicity | Understanding Kirby Air Ride
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Kirby Air Ride is probably one of the most misunderstood games in the GameCube's game library. It's been the subject of many discussions over what even constitutes a "racing game", and I feel like it's worth taking a deeper dive into the thought process behind it. I personally LOVE Kirby Air Ride. City Trial is probably one of the most infinitely replayable game loops I think I've ever seen, an...
The 3DS is dead | here's why you need one in 2023
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It's 2023, and the age of the Nintendo 3DS is finally about to come to an end after a very healthy 12 year lifecycle filled with exciting new hardware revisions, solid games that have stood the test of time, and I'm sure there's plenty of eye strain bundled in there too. Time to pick one up? Join the Discord server here: discord.gg/ghR7vZusqM Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:40 Welcome to 3DS 3:04 Revisio...
Playing osu! on a cash register
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Turning an old HP Point of Sale cash register machine running Windows Vista into a really janky osu!arcade machine using a special old build of osu. I thought it would be funny and I wanted to make a video about it. Enjoy. I actually did this a couple of months ago, but just recently I decided to take that old footage and put it on this channel for your viewing pleasure. It's a bit different fr...
Why you NEED a GameCube in 2022! | Games, Hardware & History of the Nintendo GameCube
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The early 2000s were a time of technological advancement and excitement - but for some players in the console industry, things weren't going all too well. With SEGA's eventual fall from the hardware market, and murmurs of a new competitor taking the reigns, Nintendo had their work cut out for them when they launched the GameCube - but as hard as it might have tried, their little Dolphin couldn'...
The PS Vita is Better Today | Games, History & Homebrew on the PlayStation Vita
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A portable PS3 might have sounded like a dream back in 2011 - and I'm sure Sony's hardware engineers were excited to bring some revolutionary hardware to the market with the release of the PS Vita... but unfortunately, Sony didn't realize that their handheld would be facing a quickly emerging market that sought to dominate the mobile gaming space. It took me far too long to get this video out s...
Why you NEED A Wii U in 2022! | Games, Hardware & History of the Nintendo Wii U
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After Nintendo's revolutionary success during the Wii era, the higher-ups in Japan that brought you systems like the Virtual Boy got a little stoned and made one of gaming's most notorious successful failures - the Wii U. In all seriousness, I do really enjoy the Wii U. Even being a relatively new owner, having not had a whole lot of time to buy/build a thorough physical collection, I can see w...
Why you NEED A Wii in 2022! | Games, Hardware & History of the Nintendo Wii | Retrospective & Review
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Check out Matt's video here: czcams.com/video/aeu4mfFUbhw/video.html Nintendo had a pretty rough time competing in the 6th generation of Video Game consoles. Their GameCube just couldn't keep up with the retail powerhouse that was the PlayStation 2, and even Microsoft put up a fight with their brand new Xbox console. Something was going to have to change if Nintendo was going to stay competitiv...
Using Apple's $3,300 Mac from 2003
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The PowerMac G5 was launched sometime around June of 2003, and at the time it was touted as being the fastest personal computer in the world. Personally, I think it's one of the coolest systems that Apple has ever released... and one of the worst computers you could buy as a retro computer enthusiast. So let's talk about it! Let me know how I did on this video in the comments. Your feedback is ...
Why you NEED A PS3 in 2021! | Games, Hardware & History of the Sony PlayStation 3
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Riding high off the immense retail success of the PlayStation 2, Sony, and the father of PlayStation - Ken Kutaragi - envisioned a next-generation game console that could deliver some of the most impressive and immersive experiences possible at the time. So, they came up with the PlayStation 3. Here's my quick look at the console that I've put countless hours on playing games like LBP and Gran ...

Komentáře

  • @padelboys7628
    @padelboys7628 Před 12 dny

    steamdeck is a pc

  • @ryangardner7709
    @ryangardner7709 Před 13 dny

    Best console gen

  • @goldam1986
    @goldam1986 Před 23 dny

    But I still love the Kirby game series.

  • @goldam1986
    @goldam1986 Před 23 dny

    I never really understood the goal of this game. I just know that I find it really, really fun.

  • @SkylineFTW97
    @SkylineFTW97 Před 29 dny

    I played both Kirby Air Ride and Mario Kart Double Dash as a kid and I still love both games. I don't see much overlap in practice beyond surface level similarities.

  • @Tonba1
    @Tonba1 Před měsícem

    Holy shit snes9x is that old

  • @Tonba1
    @Tonba1 Před měsícem

    Funny thing is depite being significantly better than consoles at games since the mid 90's Pc gaming never really took off till the 7th gen, by 2004 sure you had half life 2 doom3 and a few other but thats really all you had EVERYTHING was on console then for whatever reason in 2006 all of a sudden devs started making games on pc then using the dev kits to port them after the fact leading to a huge rise in games available on pc. I should note valve making steam a requirement for half life 2 and the very existence of steam in general absolutely helped spear head this movement. Now in the year of our lord 2024 people at large are finally starting to move over to gaming pc's realizing theyre a wiser investment over console ironically killing the pc market by driving up prices 100% which is infact not an exaggeration infact its an under exaggeration the number is closer to 129%

  • @yellowlanterncore352
    @yellowlanterncore352 Před měsícem

    Early emulation fascinates me, considering how archaic hardware, software and the internet was in the mid 90s.

  • @henriquearroxelas1510
    @henriquearroxelas1510 Před 2 měsíci

    Wii is still great in 2024

  • @garydobis6395
    @garydobis6395 Před 2 měsíci

    10:42 you read the same paragraph TWICE lol.

  • @Great-Documentaries
    @Great-Documentaries Před 3 měsíci

    11:28: "You can play every single Nintendo game using just a Wii U and a Switch." Sorry, neither can play a SINGLE 3DS game. That's a pretty big library you just left out. And my PC can run 100% of all Nintendo games. Now THAT'S "really, really cool."

  • @Great-Documentaries
    @Great-Documentaries Před 3 měsíci

    10:40: NO! The Wii U did NOT fail because of "poor marketing!" That is COMPLETE BS! They could have had the best marketing ever and it would not have sold even ONE more console! The Wii U was the console NO ONE asked for. It had this stupid tablet, which meant that the 60 million of us who bought Wii's for the motion controls were not interested at all, and it was vastly underpowered, only being about as powerful as a 2005 Xbox 360. And because of that, 3rd party devs couldn't easily bring the games they were making for the MUCH more powerful Xbox One and PS4 to the Wii U. THAT is why the Wii U failed. Literally no one but Nintendo fanboys wanted it. But fanboys being fanboys they want to make excuses for why it failed. Well, sorry. Wii know the truth.

  • @Great-Documentaries
    @Great-Documentaries Před 3 měsíci

    10:15: Not one person on Earth spend the 6 long, dreadful years of the Wii U's life thinking it was an accessory to the Wii. If such a person had existed, they hardly were in the market for a console or they would have known what the Wii U was. Microsoft has named their consoles: Xbox, Xbox 360 (?), Xbox One (!??!!!?) and Xbox Series X/S (???). No MSFT fanboy has ever tried to claim they lost to Sony because of the confusing name. It's only the child-like Nintendo fanboys that try to use that as an excuse. Here's reality: Everyone knew what it was and STILL didn't want one because it had this useless tablet (that even Nintendo couldn't find a good use for) and it was previous-generation in terms of power vs the mighty PS4 and Xbox One. It's really and truly THAT simple.

  • @Great-Documentaries
    @Great-Documentaries Před 3 měsíci

    6:30: "And now you have a regular Wii with an incredibly clean HDMI output." No you don't! LOL! I guess you don't know, so I'll inform you: *A Wii with OEM component video cables will ALWAYS and 100% of the time look BETTER than a vWii (Wii running on Wii U) with the Wii U's HDMI cable.* Google it or search here on CZcams. It's true.

  • @Great-Documentaries
    @Great-Documentaries Před 3 měsíci

    2:50: That is a VERY weak point to make as one can argue that Compaq and IBM kept making PCs with the same architecture from the early 1980s right up until the very end. So what? There was NOTHING wrong with that, and it is what makes PCs running Windows so compelling. My i7 Intel processor is just the latest x86 processor that can trace its routes back though the 8086 and even beyond. Your reaction seems to indicate that it was a mistake. It wasn't. And it made for 100% backwards compatibility, which MSFT and Sony did not have with their consoles largely because they kept changing architectures for no good reason. But sure, the Wii U was 7th Gen graphics in an 8th Gen world. That's because they refused to pay for better silicon from IBM and AMD, NOT because the latter didn't have it.

  • @user-gw1rd7uc7s
    @user-gw1rd7uc7s Před 3 měsíci

    Even though when you messed up you still can play

  • @slarbiter
    @slarbiter Před 3 měsíci

    City trial online with multiple cities was a dream of mine since I first played the game as a kid. Definitely one of my favorite games, the checklist/goal structure is lovely. If Nintendo doesn’t make a new one we gotta just make an expansion mod, dolphin already has netplay and 4k graphics.

  • @HelvetesKlagesang
    @HelvetesKlagesang Před 3 měsíci

    Nintendo Wii doesn't have any flaws at all. Its my main console and the absolute no.1 of gaming consoles. Mine is home-brewed and just has it all. Ill jever grow tired of this.

  • @PluckyInc
    @PluckyInc Před 3 měsíci

    7:30 the Kirby 20th anniversary dream collection doesn't count. heck, that game proved that HAL Labs actually had HEART. the base Kirby's Return to Dreamland game itself was like 1.35GB (unless they're compressed?), however one mode in Dream Collection uses that game's engine for a mode, meaning the game is smaller than that. with Nintendo and Mario All-Stars; all of the game's content was squandered on a DVD-sized disc that's far larger than the SNES rom it contained (it didn't even have WORLD). for reference a single and dual-layered disc can hold at least 4.7GB or 8.54GB maximum respectively. Compare that to the Dream Collection where HAL placed more heart in that game's content, upto and including; localized events and dates near Kirby games' releases (in its timeline mode), a few episodes of the anime and even a video showing its orchestra. they also had no reason to go so hard on the VC games on there since the Wii covered all of them previously, but until the Gigaleak occured, was the only time that the Wii Gameboy Virtual Console emulator was actually utilized. (mostly for Dreamland 1 and 2). in a sense, HAL adding all that content made their collection make better use of that Disc's space. i also kind of wonder if the games' pricepoint just made it a no-brainer to buy, since it could be played on both Wii and Wii U systems. Nintendo pretty much dripfed VC games each generation, but then you have to consider how often does Kirby games get remade?

  • @OrdinaryGP
    @OrdinaryGP Před 4 měsíci

    No 3ds or Vita lore??

  • @give_me_my_nick_back
    @give_me_my_nick_back Před 4 měsíci

    Switch modding does great and PS5 modding is starting to be a thing now. Honestly, considering how cheap Wii u are and the vwii mode, old Wii us a bit of a waste of time if you can get Wii u for more less the same price and it can all the same plus way lot more. There is just one thing that Wii can do and not a single other console can, it can output 240p RGB, any other console that you can run emulators on only supports 480i... Thanks to that you can play all the old roms on European CRT TVs in a great quality

  • @miigon9117
    @miigon9117 Před 4 měsíci

    (Here's a sacrifical comment dedicated to the engagement god.)

  • @neptuniumfluoride
    @neptuniumfluoride Před 4 měsíci

    Ubunchu.

  • @SouthSideShorty_.
    @SouthSideShorty_. Před 4 měsíci

    Bro looks like he had couple puffs of da stuff before making the video,W clip

  • @Niosai
    @Niosai Před 4 měsíci

    brb I'm gonna put the shady Chinese SD cards into my work PC and double click every file simultaneously (great video btw!)

    • @LowestLogan
      @LowestLogan Před 4 měsíci

      LMAO yeah probably not the best idea... haha thanks for watching!

  • @JustMLC
    @JustMLC Před 4 měsíci

    Honestly, I think you're best off using your phone as a portable emulation device. It saves costs and will run those games better than most of those emulation handhelds anyway

    • @LowestLogan
      @LowestLogan Před 4 měsíci

      As far as performance and capabilities per dollar absolutely. The physical controls are nice to have but there are solutions for getting controllers strapped to a phone too, sometimes bit pricey though. Thanks for watching!

    • @JustMLC
      @JustMLC Před 4 měsíci

      @@LowestLogan True. Great video tho, I really enjoyed watching it.

  • @jsnotlout3312
    @jsnotlout3312 Před 4 měsíci

    I love these sort of knockoff devices, especially messing around with them. I think the main issue here, is the battery and charge port, they often die fast on these things.

    • @LowestLogan
      @LowestLogan Před 4 měsíci

      Thankfully it's a USB-C charging port, but yeah as far as reliability there's no telling with these things lol. Thanks for watching!

  • @amongoose1
    @amongoose1 Před 4 měsíci

    NEW VIDEO?????????????????????? ITS IMBOSSIBRU

  • @Beyley
    @Beyley Před 4 měsíci

    Channel is Lowest Logan, but the guy is High.🎉

  • @segaprophet
    @segaprophet Před 4 měsíci

    now do the Ayn Odin 2

  • @boxcat80085
    @boxcat80085 Před 4 měsíci

    the games are cheaper than ever, i got wii fit for 50p

  • @jtchoi2003
    @jtchoi2003 Před 4 měsíci

    Modded many systems here. 3DS XL, PSP, PSVita, Xbox 360 RGH, Wii U, and several PS3s. Definitely gives me more use out of those old boxes I got bored of years ago. I tried to modchip a Switch Lite but I broke it :C

  • @youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629

    saw off the handle viola a cube.

  • @youtubeshadowbannedmylasta2629

    the gamecube was the most powerful system of that gen. and I owned the xbox during this time.

  • @sonicatyt1082
    @sonicatyt1082 Před 5 měsíci

    I’ve had my Wii since 2006

  • @AdmiralBison
    @AdmiralBison Před 5 měsíci

    4:25 "The rise of video game emulators brought a massive rise of video game piracy..." This is not quite true. Massive video game piracy existed long before emulation and even consoles, particularly in the PC space with the copying of floppy discs.

  • @tonykeltsflorida
    @tonykeltsflorida Před 5 měsíci

    I still use the original wii and gold's gym with the boxing training.

  • @unlimited-6183
    @unlimited-6183 Před 5 měsíci

    Awesome 👍 good job 👏 I have just joined your channel and we are connected now 🎉 #ComputerClan

  • @Its8BitPixel
    @Its8BitPixel Před 6 měsíci

    Im suprised you didnt mention switch homebrew at all. I think the switch homebrew scene is bigger than the wii u homebrew scene

  • @GTVNewsForGamers
    @GTVNewsForGamers Před 6 měsíci

    One thing I love the most about homebrew is that it allows us to preserve things like DLC, update patches, and digital only games so we can enjoy them forever.

  • @gamerkid278
    @gamerkid278 Před 6 měsíci

    I recommend the wii u it can turn into a wii unless you want a wii thats backwards compatible with game cube Heres signs your wii is backwards compatible with gamecube stand it up and if you can still read the wii sign then your wii is backwards compatible but if its upside down then your wii is not backwards compatible

  • @Ramonatho
    @Ramonatho Před 6 měsíci

    This seems like it would be a cool use for repurposing old registers into something that could be used at any number of places. Bars, arcades, day cares, airport lounges, any place someone has down time to play some rhythm games.

  • @kosmosyche
    @kosmosyche Před 7 měsíci

    My first emulation experience was a ZX Spectrum emulator for DOS (I forgot it's name) that my friend ran on a 386 PC in 1993. I had an actual hardware ZX Spectrum back then and to me the whole idea of making something work from a completely different platform seemed like black magic. lol That same friend introduced me to NESticle and Genecyst several years later, when I already had a nice Pentium MMX 166 and again I was completely baffled by the possibilities and from then on I was actively using emulation to play games from other platforms. I remember I was one of the first to try the amazing first N64 emulator - UltraHLE, when most people didn't even believe that it was possible to emulate N64 and thought it was some sort of joke or a scam, I was already playing Mario64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time on it. Ah, good times. Of course ZSNES (or SNES9x sometimes, though it was a bit slower than ZSNES), Gens and ePSXe were my 3 favorite emulators in 2000's. I played through countless games on them.

    • @LowestLogan
      @LowestLogan Před 7 měsíci

      I can only imagine what kind of mind-bending thing it must have been at that point in time haha. Impressive how far you could get with UltraHLE considering the PC hardware available. Thanks for taking the time to comment!

  • @wavedotwav
    @wavedotwav Před 7 měsíci

    id love for this game to get a remake or even an nso release, it would be awesome to play city trial online! they could even add new city maps, ranks, or new events

  • @emmettturner9452
    @emmettturner9452 Před 7 měsíci

    When UltraHLE launched I already owned a Doctor V64 for dumping N64 games and playing the resulting ROM files on original N64 hardware without the cartridge, but that was never the issue for people who didn’t. Think about it: most people playing VirtualGB, NESticle, Genecyst, MAME, SNES9x, etc typically didn’t dump their own games either. The issue for UltaHLE was that it required a 3Dfx Voodoo card. Even once Glide wrappers were a thing, most PCs didn’t have the required 3D accelerator… or had some crappy ATI Rage/Rage II or whatever that actually ran SLOWER with their special versions of Mechwarrior II or whatever and didn’t support OpenGL anyway (Direct3D Glide wrappers came later). Though I was able to play any N64 ROM flawlessly on the original hardware using my V64, I ran out and got a Diamond Monster Fusion z100 Voodoo Banshee card and upgraded to a Voodoo³ 3000 AGP immediately at-launch just so I could run UltraHLE. Of course, I also realized that my computer was now WAY more powerful than any game console on the market so I ended up becoming a huge PC gamer too. ;)

    • @emmettturner9452
      @emmettturner9452 Před 7 měsíci

      OK, I realize now that what you meant was that people were now pirating a current-gen console and weren’t backing up their legally obtained games to emulate. Regarding commercial PlayStation emulation though, I’d argue Virtual Game Station was a bigger deal than Bleem!. It came from a company already experienced with commercially emulating Windows on a Mac or MacOS on a Windows machine… and they did everything right. Microsoft ended up buying Connectix for the whole VirtualPC thing.

    • @LowestLogan
      @LowestLogan Před 7 měsíci

      Doesn't matter when, there will always be a way to find that excuse to upgrade ;) Thanks for watching! Having the Doctor V64 must have felt like a really cool investment once you were able to emulate the games.

    • @emmettturner9452
      @emmettturner9452 Před 7 měsíci

      @@LowestLogan though UltraHLE was impressive and it was cool to play Mario 64 in high resolution, N64 emulators didn’t get good enough to truly be an alternative to original hardware for more than a few games until after the console was obsolete. You had to do all sorts of hacks… like you might play all the way through Ocarina of Time only to find the bridge to Ganon’s Tower never appears. Sure, you could hack your way in but you could hack your way to the end too so were you really playing that way? I used UltraHLE for stuff like boundary breaking to see inside the guard tower across the dam in Goldeneye (from a deleted mission where Bond would’ve used a boat). There was a hacked version for Adaptoid support (emulated game interface directly with original controller and real accessories) and some fixes that also let you move the camera with the keyboard number pad. That Adaptoid was also pretty cool. You could even backup Controller Paks or dump GB/C games using the Transfer Pak! The drivers just put a folder on your desktop and you could then drag and drop.

  • @tylern6420
    @tylern6420 Před 7 měsíci

    i dont ever remember the family Wii being unmodded, it seemed to be modded the first time i saw it a few years ago the PS3 was also modded

  • @amateurprogrammer25
    @amateurprogrammer25 Před 7 měsíci

    wait that song is supposed to be lazslo - supernova? are the speakers really that shit

    • @LowestLogan
      @LowestLogan Před 7 měsíci

      Yes. to be fair it is a cash register

  • @LAM1895
    @LAM1895 Před 7 měsíci

    There were so many good titles not mentionned that I played when I was younger, here's the ones I remember enjoying: Star Fox Adventures, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon Colosseum and Gale of Darkness, Metroid Prime 1 and 2, Burnout, Freekstyle, Geist, Harry Potter 2, 3, 4 and 5, James Bond, Lord of the Ring, Mario Tennis, Soccer, Baseball, Party, Medal of Honor, Naruto, Pikmin, Prince of Persia, SoulCalibur 2, Tony Hawk Underground, Worms, X-Men, Chicken Little, Pac-Man World Rally, Crash Nitro Kart. There's probably more that I don't remember, but while I read the list of GC games ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GameCube_games ) I rediscover so many memories that I had forgotten and it made me realize that this was the console I played the most games and had the most fun on. This is the console that represents my childhood the most, alongside the handheld GBA. I still have my GameCube with the GBA port and the matching mini CD.

  • @TacosCanned
    @TacosCanned Před 7 měsíci

    The title of this video can basically go with the new M3 MacBook Pros. 😅