Daria

@hkr

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late 30s trans girl

Video Games, Retro tech,

anime and tokusatsu nerd

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Daria @hkr10/16/2023, 4:58 PM

Things that haven't been made for several decades yet still retain value as a commodity good will eventually go up in price.

The time to "get into" retro games is when the "new" generation is several years old and people are unloading their "previous" generation consoles.

The PS2 is 3 generations ago
The PS1 and N64 are 4 generations old

etc

The amazing thing about video games though is that a rom is a rom. Being on a cartridge doesn't instill magical properties.

You did miss the boat on NES/SNES/N64/GC era retro collecting. Fear not, all of those games are still playable thanks to the community! Go honor their hard work that preserved and made these games playable on a $35 computer the size of a credit card and play a super mario world romhack where the levels are all renamed after weed jokes.

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walking mirage @atomicthumbs10/16/2023, 5:03 PM

it feels remarkable that nobody is cloning old stereos considering the schematics are all in the service manuals and we have CNC machines now

Daria @hkr10/16/2023, 5:18 PM

old audio equipment nerds are still mostly stuck in the realm of magical thinking, so many of them would say that new clones of old equipment would lack the "warmth" of the older stuff with little facts to back that statement up.

We do absolutely make new stereos that sound just as good, if not better than the old stuff. That would still leave room for retro aesthetic but more modern internals imo.

walking mirage @atomicthumbs10/16/2023, 5:19 PM

ain't no reason someone couldn't build nice stuff with discrete components where it matters. somehow all the "retro aesthetic" stereos i've seen that aren't cheap piles of garbage look like knockoffs

cool ranch davidian @kuffs10/16/2023, 6:11 PM

Let me introduce you to https://www.schiit.com/products/tyr .

They have quite a few products that are “what if we took this principle to its absolute extreme”

Tokyoscarab @tokyoscarab10/16/2023, 5:15 PM

I went the best of both worlds and sold off all my games but kept the systems. I only buy consoles and flash carts anymore. I don't have the space or money for a game collection anymore. I have zero regrets with it 😃

Daria @hkr10/16/2023, 5:20 PM

I've been eyeing the space I would save by selling off my collection and consolidating down to a MiSTer and a robust Launchbox setup and nodding in agreement.

great value windows 3.1 @narunetto10/17/2023, 4:29 PM

I have a MiSTer and mostly got it for the purpose of being able to easily interface with a CRT and it's a great experience for me. I've been also staring at the space a lot of these games take up and I'm getting less and less upset about the idea as time goes on