Right?? I just found out recently that the old video games on the SNES were intentionally designed to be insanely difficult so that people would buy the game instead of just renting it from blockbuster. Video game creators were losing money because people would rent their games and beat it over the weekend. Aladdin and the Lion King had me scarred as a kid.
I had Sega channel. It was so worth it.
Someone explained it to me before but I still don't get what it is lol
Basically a device that connected to the coaxial cable that streamed Sega games right into your Sega game consul.
And you could play these games? I thought it was watching tv shows or something lol
No you could actually play them. It was like Netflix for Sega. Way ahead of its time
The idea just sounds impossible to pull off. So it was like using cable to play video games?
Yes. It was like magic at the time. It worked really well zero latency. It was brilliant
The creativity of humans never ceases to amaze me
This is why people like nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg and nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg make me so excited because they’re actively solving problems with creative solutions. Notwithstanding all the complete dangle brains on here. We’re witnessing the future in real time.
I had a classmate who's parents had immigrated from Hong Kong. He had a thing called a Super Wild Card for his SNES that let you play pirated games from floppy disks. Shit was amazing.
Nice. I remember discovering ROMs via torrents in middle school and feeling like an absolute chad playing any game I wanted anytime.
I miss the ZSNES days.
remember xbox 1.0 modchips?
Yes, I had one. I was quite involved in the softmod scene too, making how-to guides and software packs to make it easy for others. I modded ~400 OG Xbox myself, didn't work a real job for a year or two thanks to the money earned 😅
Always learning new fun shit about your Ryan. Neat.
At $200 a pop it kept the bills paid 😗👌
It's also why I initially learned about Linux. Some tools needed it, and you could turn an Xbox into a capable file server for media.
In 2002 my house had a central server to store torrents, and you could watch them on any TV in the house through XBMC on modded Xboxes. I was already living in the future.
I put team xecuter chips in 4 xbox's
i was one of the early users of xbmc kodi, halo 1 via xbconnect, halo 2 was leaked to the scene before it came out
good days
I wish I had nostr as a kid
It was called IRC back then.
What is that?
Internet Relay Chat
Idk what that is either lol
Something with more users than Nostr 😂
mIRC was awesome.
Still is! nostr:nprofile1qqs8eseg5zxak2hal8umuaa7laxgxjyll9uhyxp86c522shn9gj8crspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgjwaehxw309ahx7um5wgerztnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309a3x2an09ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsvlnggv has an IRC server running with Nostr identity login.
That emulator was sick
I remember finding roms too and going back to beat super mario world for the first time haha I was just always paranoid about getting in trouble for it like I was on limewire 😂
That sounds amazing 👀
Omg I had a friend that got a PS1 from his japanese friend with something like that on it too. He had so many games but most were in japanese.
PS1 was the first chipped system I owned personally. Every console I've had since has been moddable, it's a requirement for purchase 😂
Which systems can be chipped today?
I haven't followed it as closely in years. Last I did was my Switch, bought one as soon as a bootloader exploit was announced. There is stuff for the PS4 & 5, but it's such a cat and mouse game now with online functions and updates. I game on PC now, and mostly use the Switch to stream it to my TV 😂
There is cool stuff to totally unlock the PS3 & x360 though.
I gotta jailbreak my switch but im lazy. Wish I could pay you to do it haha
I had an online business in my early teens and sold games and consoles. Had a supplier in Cali that exclusively sold Japanese imports. Somehow scored a relationship with them and was one of the only online sites in North America to publicly sell modded GameCubes through an English-only site. Had a little switch on the back so you could play between NTSC and PAL. Fun times. The GC was such an underrated console at its time imo.
Gamecube is top 2 ninentdo consoles of all time. How were you able to sell those modded systems online? I feel like fbi would be on your ass about it haha
Dunno. Just did lmao. Never got into trouble. Maybe it was some legal loophole by the wholesaler 🤷♂️
Ah, the memories…
https://web.archive.org/web/20020205054354/ http://msxboxgames.com/gamecube.html
Nice. Don't fuck with big N now. They'll lawyer up 😂
Hahaha no shit! Did not know that. Yeah could never figure out Lion King…and now that explains why haha.
Those games were traumatizing lol
The toughest part of Lion King was figuring out you had to throw Scar of the cliff just like the movie to finish the boss fight. That game was awesome though.
