/v/ - Video Games

clean the contacts on the controller board or inspect it for faults and see if there's anything wrong with them.

>>15467862

If you don't play via emulation, you deserve to be scammed.

The controllers probably have dirty contacts. Take it apart and clean them as well as the contact pads. Look for broken/lifted traces on the boards.

If you really want to keep older consoles around consider learning some basic soldering. Kiketube has lots of videos to learn from. Electronics from the 80s and 90s are fairly easy to work on as long as you aren't retarded. Look into replacing the electrolytic capacitors in the console, too. They go out of spec over decades and can leak a fluid that damages the boards. You can pay people to do it but you may end up with a hot glue special so I would suggest you learn to do it yourself, it's a handy skill and not very hard.

>>15467878

>>15467936

That's the thing, the controllers work fine on my friend's genesis, and normal genesis controllers work on mine

Been trying to learn it but I have really shaky hands

>>15467911

Emulation is the video game equivalent of eating shit, so it's no surprise a torpedo is advocating for it.

>>15467976

Tornigger is a faggot but so are you.

>>15467976

You're mentally ill or a retarded nostalgiafag if you actually believe accurate emulation (Like Snes9x or Higan/Bsnes) isn't objectively superior to the original hardware. You can say its your opinion or that you like it better because youre touching the actual hardware and thats valid, but it doesnt change reality.

Even innaccurate emulators like PCSX2 offer a much better experience by the sheer fact that they arent limited to a single tiny iterlaced resolution or the original hardware limitations.

I just use my Master System

>>15467949

Your console may have a bad pin connector in the controller port, or there is a bad connection from the controller port to the main board.

Also you shouldn't have to worry much about shakey hands on older stuff, the larger component size gives you a margin of error, and you'll end up holding steady once you're applying the tip to whatever you're heating up. Just don't make shitty cold joints, use giant gobs of solder, or burn shit like a retard.

If you're super nervous practice removing components on a junk board or buy some cheap soldering project kits.

>>15468311

Emulation never has better latency timing. You'd need a CPU running at a perfect multiple of the clock of the hardware and to be running it on the bare metal, not in a multitasking OS.

>>15468365

What, like every console past 6th gen?

The American version of the Master System was a notoriously busted piece of shit.

My slim PS2 time (from system configuration) resets when ever I power it up. Does it uses a internal battery or something else?

>>15468004

>even inaccurate emulators offer a much better experience

>ignoring the numerous amounts of bugs, glitches and issues that come up when you fuck around with the configurations and resolutions

>failing to provide any reason why emulation is superior besides "you're a nostalgiafag lmao"

You are cancer

>>15468365

>Emulation never has better latency timing

It literally does

>>15468935

It was funny how before run ahead the latency difference didn't matter, now that run ahead exists, it somehow addresses the dozen other problems with emulation over real hardware and latency is ultra important.

>>15468903

>Failing to provide any reason why innacurate emulation is superior

>When I literally give two examples, in better resolutions and graphics and overriding hardware limitations

>Thing like skipping terrible control layouts, ass backward save schemes that rely on hardware with very limited space or widescreen mods are not upsides

>Completely ignores the existance of cicle accurate emulators

You could at least try not to look like an idiot

I still use my PS2, N64 and Xbox and theres not one day that I wish I wasnt limited to the blurry awful slow mess that is N64 games or the equally blurry but not as slow PS2 and its fucking memory cards. Even the Xbox needed expensive component cables, a modchip and a huge ass hard drive to not be a painin the ass while playing games, and I still wish I could widescreen patch more of them and run them at not terrible resolutions.

Good thing its the one console I can't just emulate on my computer, otherwise I would just give up having a TV on my room altogether and play everything emulated, only three of all the games I want to play dont emulate properly between the N64, SNES, PS1 and PS2. Playing on the original consoles has as many downsides as it does upsides, and most of those are non issues if you can get over not using the original hardware and having most likely not game impacting glitches, if any at all.

>>15469194

People tend to cling to whatever they think makes what theyre defending superior, without any regard for how that affects the reality of its use. Just llike latency, cicle accuracy never mattered for anyone but speed runners or people looking to mod or make games, but its used to shit on emulators even when theyre glitch free and almost completely compatible.

>>15468508

Where is this information coming from? I've never seen anyone have a problem and mine works perfectly fine and has for years. It's one of my most reliable systems, certainly more than my NES, SNES, and Genesis.

>>15468737

It may be using a cmos battery to track the clock, yes

>>15468615

Particularly true for the SMS

>>15467870

If you can use the hardware you sohuld, emulation isn't perfect. It's not even a collecting thing because for the cost of a fraction of the cart based games you can throw out for a flashcart and still come up roses.

>>15470923

Rescue Mission is an awesome light gun game.

>>15468311

>Bragging about emualtion being off

>>15468508

How is it any different from the euro and Jap model 2 master systems.

>>15470935

> It's not even a collecting thing because for the cost of a fraction of the cart based games you can throw out for a flashcart and still come up roses.

That was a joke post, but exactly. Emulation is primarily a hobbyist tool, and should stay as a secondary until the consoles no longer exist.