a funny thing about emulation is that it proliferated save states as a feature, which i never used? which apparently makes me 'hardcore' even tho its literally just playing most games they way they would've been played on release? like not intentionally i just never knew how to use them growing up so i never did and now i found out that's apparently kinda weird
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in reply to @margot's post:
yeah i really never used them , arguably they're just user defined checkpoints but they don't feel right a lot of the time. although for a game that's just packed with filler random encounter like megaman battle network, i enjoyed really overusing them to just keep moving through the map without as many pauses lol
that's the thing-- i don't even think about save states, like a muscle memory has been developed to (almost) completely forget they exist
oh yeah, i was playing cyberpunk recently and it let me quicksave and quickload so easily and i tried it like Once and was just like... this is hacks? is this allowed??
This is total speculation, but it's probably a relic of when emulators were a lot less stable. Save anywhere is a lot more useful when the emulator might just crash for reasons outside your control.
oh i mean it’s objectively good for a LOT of games. it’s just funny to me how normalized it’s become meanwhile