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@Diamond Frieza My one gaming hot-take that I will die on a hill for is that piracy is a human rights issue in a few ways, much beyond just an intellectual property crime, including the one as you mention. But that's neither here nor there.
No matter how hard Nintendo complains about emulation being synonymous with piracy, people will always find ways to preserve older video games via emulation. Also, Nintendo can shut down all the rom sites they want for now, but it will not stop people from getting these games one way or another. Emulating Nintendo games is morally correct.
@Special_Operations Correction, native Americans are genetically traced from two mass movement events into the continent via the land bridge. Even the foxes ancestral genetic history can be traced down and around the Andes mountains. Very interesting. Essentially they’re estranged Asians.
Agreed. Emulation is the one of the thing I enjoy the most in the current times, with the geniuses around the world. Thank you to the people who made these Emulation possible.
There should be a onipresent memorial of everyone that translated, subbed, modded, patched and/or did a primordial job for everyone, fruit of hours of labor, passion and no immediate monetization.
It's just incredibly convenient too. My steam deck is now my switch, wii u, 3ds, etc. I don't have to go through the hassle of individually charging my handhelds, manually inserting games, playing with the bad peripherals. It is nice to go back to the original hardware every now n again, but my sd is just so accommodating.
Demon Souls runs like butter on RPCS3. Has patches for unlocking fps, disabling motion blur, write color buffer fixes lighting issues, and you can scale it to your current monitor (1440p, 4k, etc).
@@prisonjazzz It was awesome to play it through fully. I never owned a playstation past ps2 and am a huge FromSoft fan. Now, I just need to pray for Bloodborne.
It’s so weird because you can run Demon’s Souls at 4k60 on a Ryzen 5600H but then a game like Last of Us requires a flagship i9 to run well, and even then it dips to 20fps in difficult areas.
@@aeparaflux did you play Eternal Ring? I played it last year, was fantastic if you liked Kingsfield but asked yourselves, what if i was a jewelry crafter
We are dedicated to the Uncensored and Accurate Translation of Games and preserving Japanese Games. It's a niche thing, but we feel the language barrier stops it. Power to emulation!
Emulation IS normal gaming! It's the best way to experience the games of yesteryear with quality of life improvements, mods, texture packs, and without the limitations set by consoles of the time. Games are just games! Who gives a shit if the game is old? :)
Dunno about bigger because you’ll still have current tech running current games always, and PC has such a large and flexible catalogue already without emulation, but emulation isn’t going anywhere it’s needed to preserve and enjoy classic games.
I think the thing that makes emulation defacto normal gaming is the fact that it's the closest thing to a traditional console experience. No long game installs, no signing up to a million accounts just to play a single player game, no online activation, no DRM, no content removal or changes. Once an emu is setup you just pick your game and play it
switch emulation is so good that I think you get a better experience that way shortly after launch. it's been getting better so fast, you can see improvements in compatibility and performance nearly daily.
Of course its better the switch isn't great, even giving it the benefit of the doubt with 1st party stuff it can still run terribly. I couldn't stop laughing when I heard they we're going to try to put MWII on it when it still runs poorly on PC sometimes.
I simply cannot get Switch games to run well on my hardware, and I'm not running a potato, so I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I've tried Metroid Dread and Link's Awakening, and they both have a lot of emulation problems for me.
I agree 100%, games need to be preserved, especially since scumbag developers love to cut content after release, for example playing GTA Trilogy on pcsx2 is unique experience that no other remaster or a remake will ever give, and that applies to every game that has ever came out whether it's NES or Wii or PS3 or Xbox or even every handheld. We deserve to emulate and play our games however we want. Edit: to clarify I'm not saying that every developer is a scumbag, and I understand the difference, however that doesn't mean we should only blame publishers (and yes I get it that publishers are to blame for 90% of everything that happens) but still if devs can't code or cut songs/materials/textures and then blame others for their mistakes or poorshame people for not having the latest hardware to run their precious games, I mean look what happened to Saints Row even from technical standpoint that game is a shitshow or Battlefield which wasn't even that playable at launch. So not everything is black and white. We need look from different perspectives.
Yeah, Crapstar Games can pizz off with their bug-infested garbage "definitive edition" of the GTA Trilogy they've been trying to shove down onto gamers' throats.
Plus, the price of retro game now is stupid and don't benefit the artist,studio, or publisher of the old games, all that filthy profit goes to ebay seller pocket
I beat Demon's Souls 2009 at 60 fps as well as the God of War Trilogy + the two PSP games with RPCS3 and I am immensely thankful to that emulator for letting me experience those games
Used to be the only way to play persona titles too a few years back, it was pretty smooth back then. Thankfully atlus ported most (persona 2 and 3 pending) to pc
Yeah remastered games don't keep the whole original experience. It's quite disappointing to see how part of the soundtrack disappears and other modifications are applied too.
Just want to say thanks Muta, it was you who put the idea in my head to emulate. I was always worried that I would lose my WiiU and Xenoblade X (along with the hours sunk into it). Especially since it was never remade for the switch. Set it all up and it looks and plays better than on the original WiiU. I now have multiple emulators up and running on my PC.
Muta being an emulation lover yk this is some exciting news for him, it's nice whenever people brings back ways to play old games nostalgic times are the best times
As a diehard fan of emulation and preserving games, software, and history, I agree 100% that this is the right thing to do. I've been emulating since Nesticle came out, back in the Windows 95, Windows 98 era.
It is, i found arcade classics that were lost to time since the 80s thanks to MAME. Talk about edge lords, some of those arcade games you would find at a strip club that had nudity and everything else.
The real concern humanity should have is how much knowledge and pretty much everything modern is ONLY being stored digitally. If some event, celestial or man-made or environmental were to cause digital storage systems to lose their data civilization as we know it could be set back decades and decades, and if an event were to cause digital devices to lose functionality in general, most of civilization would collapse immediately.
Here's the good and bad truth, those games ABSOLUTELY can get totally restored back to their former glory long after the servers have gone down. The problem is that it's an extremely difficult and long process. RPCS3 and Pretendo are doing a great job but not every console or title is standard and may never garner enough attention to get it up and working.
@@ClokworkGremlin Sure. There is no reason not to preserve them, even if just for posterity's sake. We preserve bad movies, no? The problem is most of those live services will likely not be worth someone figuring out how to preserve them.
Online only I don't know if it would be that difficult, in nintendo for example people can play Mario kart Wii online with fan servers and even sm64 that had no online capability (even the n64) can be played online
6:40 the fact that I can play that game without sacrificing much of it's graphics while also occupying 8-16 gb of storage instead of 115gb (cuz that's what my game downloaded from epic games takes right now, with online included, feature that I don't use ) is more than enough for me to emulate it if you only want to experience the story.
To that I answer that Online also contains a lot of content beyond GTA V story mode that is also enjoyable. Also, cars. Cars, cars, cars. There's modding possible to include all the Online cars in the offline component. That's not really possible on console AFAIK. There is certainly bloat. But is it all bloat? I disagree. I'm also fairly certain there's no need to run servers due to how networking works in GTA:O (there's no dedicated servers beyond login, matchmaking, account status including all your prized possessions aka savegame, and paying for sharkcards!) to play the Online content even with friends, so if R* shuts down their servers we should still be able to come together and play. If anything, I'm sure someone will pull off a FiveM "Vanilla GTA:O" server content preset when they do shut down GTA:O.
Wasn't that because they made a full version of the game for every language it was translated into, instead of working translation into the same copy of the game code? So it's 115gb because there are 6 or so full copies of the game, just translated into different languages
Love you Muta. I love that you are going to war for us. Emulation is absolutely a needed topic from a bigger youtuber, and you are growing into one of my favorites!
Sorry you got hit by the Bots, Nord, they're getting out of hand. But, yeah, emulation needs to be talked by more people and become a bigger topic, and I'm glad we have Mutahar as one of the people that does it.
I would like to say that emulation is the National Video Game Registry of which all of classic/current games can be preserved for eons and be played in any given platforms owned by players.
It's truely scary how preservation seems to be a foreing concept for modern of gamers. I confess that game preservation was not in my priority list either in the 80's and 90's but now I understand how bleak things would be if everything would have vanished to a puff of "internet smoke" like live service games these days.
@@acrane3496 bruh, that “overwhelming positive” is kinda useless when compared to 20x more reviews of Sekiro's "very positive" rating. heck when you hover on the very positive rating, it says 94% positive rating which is only 1% away from overwhelming positive... its already best game 2019.
So you’re saying you want every game to be open source, ruining the market for gaming as an industry and causing developers to lose motivation to make games as their software, by your expectation, should be profitless and usable on every platform. I’m not against preservation of games, but I believe that a game has to be old enough for its shelf life to pass before emulation should be used. As for the legal part: emulation (piracy) is a breach of the data protection act (2018) and the computer misuse act (19something), which these are criminal offences, however the internet is what prevents legal action, as you cannot possibly know if someone has emulated a game from a website. I recommend you don’t show off your emulated games to an officer as there are still charges for having downloaded pirated software, but you yourself did not upload the code to the internet so you are not going to actively be hunted down for downloading something from the internet which cannot be proven easily. That’s my two and a half cents.
@@KirBYEonyt eh its just too hard to say after 10-20 years or some other ruling that it should become legal? its not like after 20 years after a game dropped i can purchase it from the Developer, u only buy it from 3rd Party which doesnt support the dev
@@DensenBro well that’s only partially true. You haven’t considered that a developer may release their software themself, after all the point is to keep the game then I do not see why the developer would not make it available. There is also the possibility that these 3rd parties must be licensed therefore giving royalties to the developer for their game, however the developer still owns the rights to the intellectual property so this also resolves the issue of game preservation. Personally if i made a game and it was 10+ years old i’d probably make it open source, since it’s no longer going to be updated. (Open source games != free automatically but im not microsoft so i wouldn’t sell it at the original price)
Emulators are so sick man, I’ve been able to play through the entire Monster Hunter series with them, and that’s already great, but with Citra and PPSSPP, I’ve been able to play most of the games with friends, and the multiplayer is relatively seamless which is completely crazy for games that came out upwards of 10 years ago. Massive hugs and kisses towards those who make all of that work
Emudeck has made the emulation scene so plug and play for me. It automatically configures the emulators to work on whatever youre playing on. Fucking love it.
I just started emulation and I'm lost in a word of nostalgia, a lot of my childhood favorites are running amazingly on rcps3 and psx2, I just backed up Dante's Inferno and minus a few minor graphical errors, it runs really well!
I agree. Ratchet & Clanks community is pretty active too. They made server emulators for the old ps2 classics and emulator players can play online with ps2 players. Everyone can connect to the DNS. They even host tournaments and make custom maps/modes. So awesome to see
I wouldn't have my vast knowledge of game history without my uncles teaching me about emulation in like 2005. Love emulation and how far it's come since those days.
Anyone that appreciates emulation for historical preservation, take a look at EmuVR. Even if you don't have a vr headset, the level of historical preservation this group is producing is incredible. 90s rooms, TV sets, consoles, cartridges, even multiplay with friends in the same room.. You can virtually sit in a room and play split screen goldeneye and Mario Kart, etc. It's beautiful. And it's free, which blows my mind because they're constantly adding things.
I've been playing old school Phantasy Star Online recently and have to say i'm always blown away by the fact that I can still play a decades old game online, with other players, from an era when online gaming was in its infancy. Thank god for emulation.
My older brother set me up with an old windows laptop with a bunch of emulators and roms installed. Emulation is how I experienced incredible games like the Mother trilogy (I name that series cause Nintendo pretty much never re-releases those games.) I hacked my switch just so I could play such games on the go. Now I have a Steam Deck that's pretty much the ideal portable emulator device. So yeah, 'purism' can blow me.
Big steps towards us taking the game industry BACK a bit. Back to the people that actually kept it alive this whole time. OMG, that Small Soldiers footage took me WAY back @_@
I think if many of the older games were released today they would receive praise, especially from those who love indie games and the feel of the 70s-90s. I still play old Sega games and love them.
Emulation is incredible. Some games that were released in past generations are still incredible and they hold up well even by today's standards from a gameplay perspective when made well. Even more incredible, is a lot of the games had very few serious issues sitting on cartridges and discs that have much less storage than the Blu Ray discs of today and didn't need many GB worth of patches often to run as originally intended.
Absolutely 100% with you on this, and as a proponent of emulation myself I've heard so many of the same arguments about how "old game = bad" and "but it's piracy". Some of the classic games I have I've bought half a dozen times on different consoles just to be able to play them again. So I feel ya' man. I'm loving where the emulation world is going right now, despite companies like Nintendo basically trying to nuke it out of existence. Here's hoping this trend continues.
Still my favorite FF, played it on SNES as a kid, and to this day I still load it up every year or two to play. I really hope it gets a remake at some point before I die.
i love emulation i almost have my dream setup. i think a hacked ps5 would really be it tho. stream my pc as every console to the ps5 and have access to plex type server the shield lets me incorporate everything in one area to an extent. i really like using hand held devices like a switch or phone as a controller for ds 3ds wii u games... doubles as a decent mouse and keyboard too lol. dont forget that switch controllers are also wii nunchucks... there is this cool thing that turns any monitor into a touch monitor that could be cool from the couch and the sunglass with augmented reality for me extra monitors. endless amounts of Mario kart tracks homebrew
I know that my current rig (RIP the old one) can now run a ps4 or ps5 without issue considering how it cost 2.5 times as much to build lmao. But the emulation aint there yet it seems.
@@TKUltra971 I'm wondering what the state of PC gaming will even look like by the time 4k 60fps emulation of PS4 games is possible. Probably $4,000 GPUs with a 1,600w TDP. You'll need it plumbed up to your air conditioning system just to stop it from igniting the oxygen in the atmosphere around it.
Muta it is 12:40 am in my country, I am commenting this to wish you a Happy new year, may the emulation gods praise your endeavors greatly this year, and I wish you and your family the best
Considering what Soyny... I mean Sony has become as an overall company over the past several years, I'd rather all of their classic game franchises(Jak & Dexter, Twisted Metal, Syphon Filter, etc.) all be just left alone.
For the case of GTA V, instead of emulating, you can install an older version of the game through *various* of means.. though i'm not sure if there are special content for ps3 that you can't have on pc.
@@MrHydra12 good thing that p2p networks and torrent trackers exist. There are forum posts from trackers that were made 16 years ago that have the op still seeding their games to this day at acceptable speeds.
One of good examples of game preservation is also Resident Evil Outbreak. Original servers died and players managed to create their own server and there's a whole community of players playing daily, you mostly run into the same bunch so in the end we're one big family and I love it.
Dear Mutahar. You have genuinely inspired me to make a server specifically to back up my games. all of my ps1, ps2, ps3, and ps4 games are preserved thanks to the information you have given me. I am THANKFUL that I can enjoy these games even if i cant play online. Thank you.
I've only recently started to use retroarch on a regular basic because of my frustration with older games being stuck on old hardware, or costing an arm and leg on ebay. My laptop can only handle up to gamecube at a stretch, but I'll back up every rom and bios file, and update my hardware every few years to catch up. I like having the consoles and physical media like most people do, but I'll also be emulating alongside them 👍
I think you should seriously consider investing in a steam deck. I have one, and it's super easy to set up all your downloaded game copies with a program called EmuDeck. Yeah it'll cost you anywhere between $400~$500, depending on how much you decide to spend on SD cards, peripherals, and/or other expandable media, but it's so goddamn worth it in the long run.
@@MastaGambit I have heard many good things on the steam deck, it's definitely something I'll consider in the future. Also the whole handheld pc approach is appealing. I also have a series S and X and have considered installing retroarch on the S to run roms on that too, but I've watched a few videos on it and it seems more complicated than a the more straightforward laptop/pc retroarch set up. Either way it's an option.
Emulation is a genius creation to relive old memories. Me and my wife love emulation. We play two player games on retroarch. The best thing ever happened !
As a new game developer I applaud the emulation scene because someday down the road 20+ years from now my game may not be playable without emulation or intervention by me or my team, and while I want to make money at the end of the day video games are art and meant to be experienced. Not all devs will have the time or ability to patch their software forever.
every single game should be emulatable in it's original form, not a kilobyte of code/ost removed or added. It's a part of history and we need to keep history together and accurate. Copyright licenses should expire and move any type of content to the Open Domain of content after 15 years of existence. or after the original creator's death. Companies should NEVER be able to own any copyright license for any longer before something passes to the open domain. They are still the name behind making it huge if they are successful.
ESP with software. code. something that u cannot physically touch. only reason why we emulate is because the OS cannot read the format of code used for said game. always some weird program/app they used to develop these older games. app/programs they do not release to the public.
I get upset when people say old games suck. Theirs nothing like the feeling of playing your old childhood game on a emulator with the resolution upscaled.
I've been emulating games for the past 20+ years. I was a little kid going to PC game clubs (when I didn't have a PC myself), I was taking down their custom OS, then downloading emulators and ROMs from my email and I was playing games like Marvel VS Capcom 1 ALL day. Some PC clubs had CD-Roms so...a 700 MB disc with MAME 32 and a few HUNDRED old games...we had fun. And there's NOBODY that can change my opinion that games like Breath of the Wild or Pokemon Arceus are not best experienced on PC. I've modded those games to the level that they look like next-gen games and they run smooth at 4k 60 FPS and I have motion controls. When I give you the Switch Pro controller and make the game full screen, you won't be able to tell if this is the PC or the Switch, the only thing you will notice is "wow...I don't remember this game looking and running this good...what the F*?!"
The thing about the emualtion, there is such a market crying out for games publishers to sell ROMs, images and ISOs legally specifically to play in emulators but for some reason games publishers just won't do it.
I don't even understand why people cry about pirating like bro even IF I buy a 10 year old game the company still isn't making money because they don't sell the game anymore I would just be buying an overpriced game from some dude , either way pirating or not they won't make a buck
Pokemon fans, at least in my country, were so snobby about this. What was the point of paying 3x the price for a DS game in 2012 unless you wanted the damn poke walker?
@@SilentProti The thing is you can buy a pokewalker separate from the game so that makes the point of buying the game from someone else price gouging even more moot. I backed up my own copy of Pokemon Soul Silver onto my 3DS XL and run it through Twilight ++ so that way i dont have to carry the main copy and I unfortunately broke my Pokewalker so I just bought a new one and it works just fine with my emulated copy of Soul Silver.
I had to rewind and hear it again when Muta said "Tomba 2." I thought I was one of the only people left on this PLANET that remembered the Tomba series! So damn good! I still have my copy of Tomba 2 I bought when an old rental store was shutting down. Still works too!
Tomba’s great! I’m glad I bought both of them when I was a kid and they were still cheap to obtain. I still have dreams about the series continuing years later lol
I also was shocked when I see tomba, I haven't played 2 yet, but I enjoyed 1st one, I remember first playing the demo version on one of those jampack discs
i got into emulation during the Bleem! / Connectix VGS era - mainly because my parents would NEVER have bought a console. to be clear, our PC back then was a POS Mendocino Celeron with no dedicated video card, but dang, the Megaman X's, the Final Fantasies, the Metroidvanias of that era with practically unlimited memory card space? beautiful.
You basically said why I play San Andreas on my pc, the soundtrack is extremely important to the atmosphere of the game, appreciate you bringing light to this tech
So glad I have a good PC and good Android device... I'm in my mid 20's. The amount of money I'd have to spend to get half my childhood back and that's just the stuff that isn't available to buy new or digital. Emulation FTW!!!
I wish Copyright Law would also update, so that software that is no longer sold by any legal publisher in any form can just be considered true abandon-ware and be essentially public domain once again. If a games publisher wants to sell the game on some sort of nostalgia digital only market on some device, that's fine. The game is being sold in some capacity by the legal rights holder, but if there is no way to legally get a copy, it should just be considered abandonware
One of my favourite aspects about emulation is how you can upscale and enhance games beyond their native resolution. For instance, I was recently playing Super Mario Galaxy via the Dolphin Emulator and it looked absolutely stunning when upscaled to either 1080p or 4K with anti-aliasing enabled. I believe the Wii was only capable of running games in 480p, so it's really cool how you can push past the original hardware limitations that the console had with emulation.
I’m trying to get into emulation, I want to be able to play the GameCube version of Legend of Zelda Windwaker but i’m apprehensive of what site to download a rom from. Could you help?
Games, music, movies, preservation should be key. The past was once our reality. It's what made us into who we are today. It's *worth* preserving. The fact that I can't go back and play some of my favorite childhood games today, because of stupid licensing issues, is, well, stupid.
When it comes mgs 3 I was one of the lucky ones able to grab the 3ds version when it was available. Considering how iconic it is and many other iconic games that are so scarce it's nice to see emulation get a win
18:28 Thank you for mentioning Earthbound. If there was a series of games that I could describe as being on the top of the endangered media list, the Mother series would be it.
As you have said hundreds of times, piracy happens for most people when they don’t have a better option. If companies started a service that I could buy iso files and buy a psx emulator I would! Especially if it was more convenient, the hardest part of emulation is the troubleshooting and going to dozens of websites and dozens of Reddit posts to be able to get it running. If it were easier and behind a pay wall of like $9.99 a month get access to the complete library of ps1-ps3 iso files with an emulator included I WOULD… companies don’t care about this tho, and since they don’t care I see no issue downloading a game that 20-30 years old from the internet.
I love emulation, I would just like Switch games to not get leaked early every time so Im more likely to get spoiled. So people who play these games early, please no screenshots until after the game is out, thank you.
the ppl who get it early are also the ppl who get it early physically, even if it werent playable trough yuzu day and date ppl would still share it on their modded switches
I did this when Splatoon 3 wad gonna release, i played on Ryujinx and run flawlessly, i played all the story on 1 day and then 100% the story and play online the day it released.
Maybe you should just cut back on the social media usage, if you're seeing content that you know you don't want to consume. Don't blame this on other people, this is a personal problem that you can easily solve yourself.
Emulation is literally only a positive thing when it comes to old games and out of production games. Especially when hardware only becomes available second-hand and online game storefronts like eShop die out, it becomes the ONLY feasible way to play old games without spending increasingly large amounts of money.
If I ever learn how to properly emulate my collection, I don't just want to preserve my games, I want to try and dig into the guts of my collection to see if I can mod them. Like trying to increase the grid count in Gran Turismo 4 and modding in additional cars. Wishful dreaming, I know, but that is the beautiful nature of emulation.
Game decompilation is another thing, too. Being able to bypass even emulators and have every facet of a game or console's code right there is amazing, even if it's much more intensive of a process than emulation
Emulation is great and I’m glad we have this alternative to playing our old games again. People are forgetting that a lot of the games we grew up with are very pricey especially if you’re a JRPG and horror fan. I think the steam deck and the other “retro” handhelds that were released in 2022 are pushing many more people toward emulation. I know the steam deck has changed my collecting habits.
What he said about Metal Gear Online. Please, if youre listening to this; gamers MUST preserve the online mini games of the old Minecraft Console Editions (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, etc). I cant stress enough how amazing those minigames were. Battle, Tumble, and Glide were some of the best experiences I ever got out of Minecraft, and the servers on PC just dont hold a candle to it.
That’s illegal and will draw attention from basically every game dev. Even Valve, who is known for being kind to creative fans doesn’t allow stuff like this purely to ensure that they have full control of their IPs.
5:47 they even removed songs from the Midnight Club: LA X360 Version as their License of some songs went out, they even "reuploaded" that game without those songs into the Market Place on Xbox Live.
@@asyereal had to end the great emu war somehow! Do yourself a favor and look up Australia's emu war, it was a real thing and yet somehow humans have a death toll in that war, it's my understanding that the emus we're not even remotely responsible because gee idk emu but the humans were dying through their own stupidity, falling on their own weapons and shit.
Did you ever make a video on how to back up all your console games? I want to do that with my switch games and all my other older consoles but I don't know how. Would like to learn.
Generally you need a modded console to do it properly as mostly all modern games are encrypted and need a system key to decrypt the roms for them to work.
@@shay_3859 In terms of steam games, it depends. Some don't have piracy/DRM protection, and you can just copy the install folder no problem. Others require steam to launch, though.
@@elevatorz89 Hm, so some games, typically retro games, can be pirated with no problem, but most modern games require decryption through purchase to function?
I agree with your stance that people need to back up their legally-purchased games when emulating, rather than resorting to finding ROMs/ISOs online. However, especially after the pandemic-induced price spikes of used video games, I think there comes a time when piracy is necessary to preserve old gaming experiences. You mentioned Earthbound - I'm sure you're aware how expensive that game is second-hand (IF you can find a legitimate copy! lots of fakes on eBay). I don't think it's fair that someone should have to pay hundreds of dollars just to enjoy a game. My personal rule is that if I want a game that is out of print, and the price on eBay is higher than its original MSRP, I find a pirated copy online.
15:18 fucking murdered me i loved this video from start to finish. Also when you said fable 2 is the best fable i just went "wow i didnt know muta could get any more BASED"
I miss my Socom Combined Assualt!!! Man those were the days where you stayed up late “all night” and had no worries as a kid. Life back then was great. I’d pay for that multiplayer server if it was still up. Just to get back some good memories.
I pirate games for emulation that are no longer possible to buy or ones I owned at some point or another. ''Gun pointed at head'' I NEVER pirate or emulate nintendo games...
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Emulation is the one thing keeping most of gaming history from becoming content for lost media youtube channels.
@Diamond Frieza My one gaming hot-take that I will die on a hill for is that piracy is a human rights issue in a few ways, much beyond just an intellectual property crime, including the one as you mention. But that's neither here nor there.
No matter how hard Nintendo complains about emulation being synonymous with piracy, people will always find ways to preserve older video games via emulation. Also, Nintendo can shut down all the rom sites they want for now, but it will not stop people from getting these games one way or another.
Emulating Nintendo games is morally correct.
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Also, it preserves the fact that games before came COMPLETE and came FEATURE FULL.
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Correction, native Americans are genetically traced from two mass movement events into the continent via the land bridge. Even the foxes ancestral genetic history can be traced down and around the Andes mountains. Very interesting. Essentially they’re estranged Asians.
Emulation is another example of how the biggest heroes go unnamed... Thank you all for preserving the past and you are heavily appreciated by everyone
Agreed. Emulation is the one of the thing I enjoy the most in the current times, with the geniuses around the world. Thank you to the people who made these Emulation possible.
There should be a onipresent memorial of everyone that translated, subbed, modded, patched and/or did a primordial job for everyone, fruit of hours of labor, passion and no immediate monetization.
@YeaMan paige from gta online lol?
It's just incredibly convenient too. My steam deck is now my switch, wii u, 3ds, etc. I don't have to go through the hassle of individually charging my handhelds, manually inserting games, playing with the bad peripherals. It is nice to go back to the original hardware every now n again, but my sd is just so accommodating.
Except by the greedy companies that dmca the community. Lmao
Demon Souls runs like butter on RPCS3. Has patches for unlocking fps, disabling motion blur, write color buffer fixes lighting issues, and you can scale it to your current monitor (1440p, 4k, etc).
Just literally discovered this on my own last night and i love it :-)
@@prisonjazzz It was awesome to play it through fully. I never owned a playstation past ps2 and am a huge FromSoft fan. Now, I just need to pray for Bloodborne.
It’s so weird because you can run Demon’s Souls at 4k60 on a Ryzen 5600H but then a game like Last of Us requires a flagship i9 to run well, and even then it dips to 20fps in difficult areas.
Me and my bestie play through it the other year, was lots of fun, co-op works with private servers :p
@@aeparaflux did you play Eternal Ring? I played it last year, was fantastic if you liked Kingsfield but asked yourselves, what if i was a jewelry crafter
We are dedicated to the Uncensored and Accurate Translation of Games and preserving Japanese Games.
It's a niche thing, but we feel the language barrier stops it.
Power to emulation!
Doing the world a favor honestly
Without folks like you id never have experienced mother 3 which ive gotta say is one of the finest games ever made. More power to you and others
Emulation is here to stay and needs too. Emulation can legit be bigger than normal gaming one day tbh
Emulation IS normal gaming! It's the best way to experience the games of yesteryear with quality of life improvements, mods, texture packs, and without the limitations set by consoles of the time. Games are just games! Who gives a shit if the game is old? :)
Dunno about bigger because you’ll still have current tech running current games always, and PC has such a large and flexible catalogue already without emulation, but emulation isn’t going anywhere it’s needed to preserve and enjoy classic games.
That will never happen because fascist gaming corporations with all their money/power will never allow that to happen
I think the thing that makes emulation defacto normal gaming is the fact that it's the closest thing to a traditional console experience. No long game installs, no signing up to a million accounts just to play a single player game, no online activation, no DRM, no content removal or changes. Once an emu is setup you just pick your game and play it
@@talibong9518 exactly that’s how I see it
switch emulation is so good that I think you get a better experience that way shortly after launch. it's been getting better so fast, you can see improvements in compatibility and performance nearly daily.
Of course its better the switch isn't great, even giving it the benefit of the doubt with 1st party stuff it can still run terribly.
I couldn't stop laughing when I heard they we're going to try to put MWII on it when it still runs poorly on PC sometimes.
I simply cannot get Switch games to run well on my hardware, and I'm not running a potato, so I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I've tried Metroid Dread and Link's Awakening, and they both have a lot of emulation problems for me.
@@themement3616 A bot account just trying to keep hate circulating.
Every game so far runs great on my steam deck except Pokémon sv but that’s because it’s a new game
Anyone know if pokemon snap 2 is fully playable yet? Haven't checked in a while, it would inevitably freeze at the same point early in the game
I agree 100%, games need to be preserved, especially since scumbag developers love to cut content after release, for example playing GTA Trilogy on pcsx2 is unique experience that no other remaster or a remake will ever give, and that applies to every game that has ever came out whether it's NES or Wii or PS3 or Xbox or even every handheld. We deserve to emulate and play our games however we want.
Edit: to clarify I'm not saying that every developer is a scumbag, and I understand the difference, however that doesn't mean we should only blame publishers (and yes I get it that publishers are to blame for 90% of everything that happens) but still if devs can't code or cut songs/materials/textures and then blame others for their mistakes or poorshame people for not having the latest hardware to run their precious games, I mean look what happened to Saints Row even from technical standpoint that game is a shitshow or Battlefield which wasn't even that playable at launch.
So not everything is black and white.
We need look from different perspectives.
Yeah, Crapstar Games can pizz off with their bug-infested garbage "definitive edition" of the GTA Trilogy they've been trying to shove down onto gamers' throats.
@fours02 🇬🇧 fatherless behavior
Plus, the price of retro game now is stupid and don't benefit the artist,studio, or publisher of the old games, all that filthy profit goes to ebay seller pocket
@@fours02 relatable
@@bdabab1esaeas Clearly that guy is not a San Andreas enjoyer.
I beat Demon's Souls 2009 at 60 fps as well as the God of War Trilogy + the two PSP games with RPCS3 and I am immensely thankful to that emulator for letting me experience those games
Used to be the only way to play persona titles too a few years back, it was pretty smooth back then. Thankfully atlus ported most (persona 2 and 3 pending) to pc
Dude how do i run GOW3 on rpcs3?
@@igotnothingbettertodo472 you got to look at the wiki it'll tell you what changes too make in order too run
@@jessehouse5466 Thanks dude
@@igotnothingbettertodo472 your welcome happy new years!
Yeah remastered games don't keep the whole original experience. It's quite disappointing to see how part of the soundtrack disappears and other modifications are applied too.
Just want to say thanks Muta, it was you who put the idea in my head to emulate. I was always worried that I would lose my WiiU and Xenoblade X (along with the hours sunk into it). Especially since it was never remade for the switch. Set it all up and it looks and plays better than on the original WiiU. I now have multiple emulators up and running on my PC.
Muta being an emulation lover yk this is some exciting news for him, it's nice whenever people brings back ways to play old games nostalgic times are the best times
I care not how long it takes, I will make it known where bots are present!
6 comments that are just bots, jesus christ please go outside and find a woman
I’m worse than Muta
@Red Star 🅥 I love them too
🇳🇪 Niger
As a diehard fan of emulation and preserving games, software, and history, I agree 100% that this is the right thing to do. I've been emulating since Nesticle came out, back in the Windows 95, Windows 98 era.
same im an emulation nation founder myself lol
I always love hearing Muta talk emulation! It really is important from a preservation perspective, as without it there'd be so much lost to time.
@fours02 🇬🇧 no we still have those, however I'm sure there's some games that are no longer able to be played.
It is, i found arcade classics that were lost to time since the 80s thanks to MAME. Talk about edge lords, some of those arcade games you would find at a strip club that had nudity and everything else.
The real concern humanity should have is how much knowledge and pretty much everything modern is ONLY being stored digitally. If some event, celestial or man-made or environmental were to cause digital storage systems to lose their data civilization as we know it could be set back decades and decades, and if an event were to cause digital devices to lose functionality in general, most of civilization would collapse immediately.
@@johnr797 If any god decides that I can't play the old FE games anymore I gotta take that as a sign...
I'm interested to see how emulation will move forward with the increasing numbers of online only or service games with paid items tied to those games.
Here's the good and bad truth, those games ABSOLUTELY can get totally restored back to their former glory long after the servers have gone down. The problem is that it's an extremely difficult and long process. RPCS3 and Pretendo are doing a great job but not every console or title is standard and may never garner enough attention to get it up and working.
Let's be real.
Do those games deserve to be preserved?
@@ClokworkGremlin yes. preservation is preservation. ET roms exist despite the infamy.
@@ClokworkGremlin Sure. There is no reason not to preserve them, even if just for posterity's sake. We preserve bad movies, no?
The problem is most of those live services will likely not be worth someone figuring out how to preserve them.
Online only I don't know if it would be that difficult, in nintendo for example people can play Mario kart Wii online with fan servers and even sm64 that had no online capability (even the n64) can be played online
6:40 the fact that I can play that game without sacrificing much of it's graphics while also occupying 8-16 gb of storage instead of 115gb (cuz that's what my game downloaded from epic games takes right now, with online included, feature that I don't use ) is more than enough for me to emulate it if you only want to experience the story.
To that I answer that Online also contains a lot of content beyond GTA V story mode that is also enjoyable. Also, cars. Cars, cars, cars. There's modding possible to include all the Online cars in the offline component. That's not really possible on console AFAIK. There is certainly bloat. But is it all bloat? I disagree.
I'm also fairly certain there's no need to run servers due to how networking works in GTA:O (there's no dedicated servers beyond login, matchmaking, account status including all your prized possessions aka savegame, and paying for sharkcards!) to play the Online content even with friends, so if R* shuts down their servers we should still be able to come together and play. If anything, I'm sure someone will pull off a FiveM "Vanilla GTA:O" server content preset when they do shut down GTA:O.
Wasn't that because they made a full version of the game for every language it was translated into, instead of working translation into the same copy of the game code? So it's 115gb because there are 6 or so full copies of the game, just translated into different languages
@GTX_LordBacon235 yep!! This was deemed OK because "bah, storage space"
Love you Muta. I love that you are going to war for us. Emulation is absolutely a needed topic from a bigger youtuber, and you are growing into one of my favorites!
Sorry you got hit by the Bots, Nord, they're getting out of hand. But, yeah, emulation needs to be talked by more people and become a bigger topic, and I'm glad we have Mutahar as one of the people that does it.
🇳🇪 Niger
I would like to say that emulation is the National Video Game Registry of which all of classic/current games can be preserved for eons and be played in any given platforms owned by players.
@YeaMan Friggin' bots
@fours02 🇬🇧 funny slaves
It's truely scary how preservation seems to be a foreing concept for modern of gamers. I confess that game preservation was not in my priority list either in the 80's and 90's but now I understand how bleak things would be if everything would have vanished to a puff of "internet smoke" like live service games these days.
@@acrane3496 bruh, that “overwhelming positive” is kinda useless when compared to 20x more reviews of Sekiro's "very positive" rating. heck when you hover on the very positive rating, it says 94% positive rating which is only 1% away from overwhelming positive... its already best game 2019.
FINALLY! Emulation should 100% be more supported / legal
So you’re saying you want every game to be open source, ruining the market for gaming as an industry and causing developers to lose motivation to make games as their software, by your expectation, should be profitless and usable on every platform. I’m not against preservation of games, but I believe that a game has to be old enough for its shelf life to pass before emulation should be used.
As for the legal part: emulation (piracy) is a breach of the data protection act (2018) and the computer misuse act (19something), which these are criminal offences, however the internet is what prevents legal action, as you cannot possibly know if someone has emulated a game from a website. I recommend you don’t show off your emulated games to an officer as there are still charges for having downloaded pirated software, but you yourself did not upload the code to the internet so you are not going to actively be hunted down for downloading something from the internet which cannot be proven easily.
That’s my two and a half cents.
@@KirBYEonyt eh its just too hard to say after 10-20 years or some other ruling that it should become legal? its not like after 20 years after a game dropped i can purchase it from the Developer, u only buy it from 3rd Party which doesnt support the dev
@@DensenBro well that’s only partially true. You haven’t considered that a developer may release their software themself, after all the point is to keep the game then I do not see why the developer would not make it available. There is also the possibility that these 3rd parties must be licensed therefore giving royalties to the developer for their game, however the developer still owns the rights to the intellectual property so this also resolves the issue of game preservation. Personally if i made a game and it was 10+ years old i’d probably make it open source, since it’s no longer going to be updated. (Open source games != free automatically but im not microsoft so i wouldn’t sell it at the original price)
I mean, emulation is legal. Getting the games on the other hand, is the more legally iffy part.
Emulation (in and of itself) is legal.
Emulators are so sick man, I’ve been able to play through the entire Monster Hunter series with them, and that’s already great, but with Citra and PPSSPP, I’ve been able to play most of the games with friends, and the multiplayer is relatively seamless which is completely crazy for games that came out upwards of 10 years ago. Massive hugs and kisses towards those who make all of that work
Emudeck has made the emulation scene so plug and play for me. It automatically configures the emulators to work on whatever youre playing on. Fucking love it.
I just started emulation and I'm lost in a word of nostalgia, a lot of my childhood favorites are running amazingly on rcps3 and psx2, I just backed up Dante's Inferno and minus a few minor graphical errors, it runs really well!
I agree. Ratchet & Clanks community is pretty active too. They made server emulators for the old ps2 classics and emulator players can play online with ps2 players. Everyone can connect to the DNS. They even host tournaments and make custom maps/modes. So awesome to see
I wouldn't have my vast knowledge of game history without my uncles teaching me about emulation in like 2005. Love emulation and how far it's come since those days.
Do you know connectix vgs? It's the first emulator that I used
Anyone that appreciates emulation for historical preservation, take a look at EmuVR. Even if you don't have a vr headset, the level of historical preservation this group is producing is incredible. 90s rooms, TV sets, consoles, cartridges, even multiplay with friends in the same room.. You can virtually sit in a room and play split screen goldeneye and Mario Kart, etc. It's beautiful. And it's free, which blows my mind because they're constantly adding things.
I've been playing old school Phantasy Star Online recently and have to say i'm always blown away by the fact that I can still play a decades old game online, with other players, from an era when online gaming was in its infancy. Thank god for emulation.
My older brother set me up with an old windows laptop with a bunch of emulators and roms installed. Emulation is how I experienced incredible games like the Mother trilogy (I name that series cause Nintendo pretty much never re-releases those games.) I hacked my switch just so I could play such games on the go. Now I have a Steam Deck that's pretty much the ideal portable emulator device. So yeah, 'purism' can blow me.
W brother
Big steps towards us taking the game industry BACK a bit. Back to the people that actually kept it alive this whole time.
OMG, that Small Soldiers footage took me WAY back @_@
I think if many of the older games were released today they would receive praise, especially from those who love indie games and the feel of the 70s-90s. I still play old Sega games and love them.
Ojisan? Is that you?
old games had much more personal feel to them, much more love put into them
@@0Blueaura Because less people made them on a team and it wasn't just about shareholders and day 1 revenue
Emulation is incredible. Some games that were released in past generations are still incredible and they hold up well even by today's standards from a gameplay perspective when made well. Even more incredible, is a lot of the games had very few serious issues sitting on cartridges and discs that have much less storage than the Blu Ray discs of today and didn't need many GB worth of patches often to run as originally intended.
Absolutely 100% with you on this, and as a proponent of emulation myself I've heard so many of the same arguments about how "old game = bad" and "but it's piracy". Some of the classic games I have I've bought half a dozen times on different consoles just to be able to play them again. So I feel ya' man.
I'm loving where the emulation world is going right now, despite companies like Nintendo basically trying to nuke it out of existence. Here's hoping this trend continues.
Name one game you have bought three times, let alone 6.
@@kaydog890 Streetfighter II.
As someone that has been emulating since they were 9 this is amazing news to hear
I started emulating when I was around 9 or 10, and yeah, this stuff is great to hear!
@fours02 🇬🇧 most sane british “person”
As someone who was born when they were 0 this is amazing
@@SpoilerAlert__ impressive, and sobering. 🫡
One step closer to a future dream of building a monster pc that can emulate all game console's from Generation 1 to 7th or 8th
If not for emulation, I would never have gotten into Final Fantasy 6/FF3(USA)
The older turn-based FFs were just great. I disliked when they moved to action and battle timers.
Well done
Hey, a place without bots!
@@RoseKindred Because Square Enix kuh-k'd out to the "global audiences" and are now just only pandering to Westerners in California.
Still my favorite FF, played it on SNES as a kid, and to this day I still load it up every year or two to play. I really hope it gets a remake at some point before I die.
Time to emulate under a Virtual Machine within a Virtual Machine
Within a another virtual machine
@@jenkathefridge3933 running a virtual machine
@@johnyang799 running a quantum computer virtual machine
hosted on a virtual server.
in a simulation in the matrix
Thank you for spreading this message. Much love to you, and anyone reading this. Peace and love for the new year.
If you ever see someone ask “Why do you play old games?” Just rebuttal with “Why do you watch old movies?” It causes their brain to lag
i love emulation i almost have my dream setup. i think a hacked ps5 would really be it tho. stream my pc as every console to the ps5 and have access to plex type server the shield lets me incorporate everything in one area to an extent. i really like using hand held devices like a switch or phone as a controller for ds 3ds wii u games... doubles as a decent mouse and keyboard too lol. dont forget that switch controllers are also wii nunchucks... there is this cool thing that turns any monitor into a touch monitor that could be cool from the couch and the sunglass with augmented reality for me extra monitors. endless amounts of Mario kart tracks homebrew
I know that my current rig (RIP the old one) can now run a ps4 or ps5 without issue considering how it cost 2.5 times as much to build lmao. But the emulation aint there yet it seems.
@@TKUltra971 I'm wondering what the state of PC gaming will even look like by the time 4k 60fps emulation of PS4 games is possible. Probably $4,000 GPUs with a 1,600w TDP. You'll need it plumbed up to your air conditioning system just to stop it from igniting the oxygen in the atmosphere around it.
sadly ctgp isnt on emu for obvious reasons
@fours02 🇬🇧 Jogger 🏃🏿
Muta it is 12:40 am in my country, I am commenting this to wish you a Happy new year, may the emulation gods praise your endeavors greatly this year, and I wish you and your family the best
I'm so glad Syphon Filter got mentioned. One of my favorite franchises that I want to come back so bad.
Great game. Sorry you got hit with bots and offensive people.
God damn 3 bots, rip
@@RoseKindred it's alright it's annoying.
Considering what Soyny... I mean Sony has become as an overall company over the past several years, I'd rather all of their classic game franchises(Jak & Dexter, Twisted Metal, Syphon Filter, etc.) all be just left alone.
🇳🇪 Niger
For the case of GTA V, instead of emulating, you can install an older version of the game through *various* of means.. though i'm not sure if there are special content for ps3 that you can't have on pc.
True, but as the site(s) that host it get older they’ll either outdate or run out of archive space to keep things downloadable
@@MrHydra12 good thing that p2p networks and torrent trackers exist. There are forum posts from trackers that were made 16 years ago that have the op still seeding their games to this day at acceptable speeds.
@@MrHydra12 archive.lrg is always there, Also I'm wondering if there's an app for downgrading gta versions like older ones
I feel it's more important for the long run of emulation
@@Shiroi0moi right but at any point something could happen to that ONE person and their availability or interest in upkeeping it.
One of good examples of game preservation is also Resident Evil Outbreak. Original servers died and players managed to create their own server and there's a whole community of players playing daily, you mostly run into the same bunch so in the end we're one big family and I love it.
One thing I love about emulations is that you can literally keep them not on to worry to find the disk for so long
Emulation is extremely important for the preservation of old games.
Dear Mutahar. You have genuinely inspired me to make a server specifically to back up my games. all of my ps1, ps2, ps3, and ps4 games are preserved thanks to the information you have given me. I am THANKFUL that I can enjoy these games even if i cant play online. Thank you.
I've only recently started to use retroarch on a regular basic because of my frustration with older games being stuck on old hardware, or costing an arm and leg on ebay. My laptop can only handle up to gamecube at a stretch, but I'll back up every rom and bios file, and update my hardware every few years to catch up. I like having the consoles and physical media like most people do, but I'll also be emulating alongside them 👍
I think you should seriously consider investing in a steam deck. I have one, and it's super easy to set up all your downloaded game copies with a program called EmuDeck. Yeah it'll cost you anywhere between $400~$500, depending on how much you decide to spend on SD cards, peripherals, and/or other expandable media, but it's so goddamn worth it in the long run.
@@MastaGambit I have heard many good things on the steam deck, it's definitely something I'll consider in the future. Also the whole handheld pc approach is appealing.
I also have a series S and X and have considered installing retroarch on the S to run roms on that too, but I've watched a few videos on it and it seems more complicated than a the more straightforward laptop/pc retroarch set up. Either way it's an option.
Red Dead saga also includes Red Dead Revolver, so you'd have to play that too to experience the entire saga
has nothing to do with the other 2 games gameplay or story wise
@@ms_musicarchive fun game regardless so who cares 🤨
Not part of the canon. It basically has nothing to do with modern rdr except for the name and cowboy setting
@@bugingyhasawoken People who thought there would be extension on the lore when all they get was something non-canon and completely detached?
@@kyucumbear is that what was advertised?
1:51 "hardware dies, hard drives die, graphics cards die, cpus die, marriages die"
i mean, i cant disagree with that
the fact that Muta is a fellow emulation enjoyer just made him a 1000% more likeable than he already was for me
Are you new here?
I hope you like virtual machines too
@@Burns11112 they might be but that's okay
Established Titles 😅
And Linux as well.
He uses Arch, BTW.
Geez i remember that Toy Soldiers game man i feel old.
Emulation is a genius creation to relive old memories. Me and my wife love emulation. We play two player games on retroarch. The best thing ever happened !
As a new game developer I applaud the emulation scene because someday down the road 20+ years from now my game may not be playable without emulation or intervention by me or my team, and while I want to make money at the end of the day video games are art and meant to be experienced. Not all devs will have the time or ability to patch their software forever.
Glad someone else is as passionate as i am about MGS4
every single game should be emulatable in it's original form, not a kilobyte of code/ost removed or added. It's a part of history and we need to keep history together and accurate. Copyright licenses should expire and move any type of content to the Open Domain of content after 15 years of existence. or after the original creator's death. Companies should NEVER be able to own any copyright license for any longer before something passes to the open domain. They are still the name behind making it huge if they are successful.
ESP with software. code. something that u cannot physically touch. only reason why we emulate is because the OS cannot read the format of code used for said game. always some weird program/app they used to develop these older games. app/programs they do not release to the public.
I get upset when people say old games suck. Theirs nothing like the feeling of playing your old childhood game on a emulator with the resolution upscaled.
I've been emulating games for the past 20+ years. I was a little kid going to PC game clubs (when I didn't have a PC myself), I was taking down their custom OS, then downloading emulators and ROMs from my email and I was playing games like Marvel VS Capcom 1 ALL day. Some PC clubs had CD-Roms so...a 700 MB disc with MAME 32 and a few HUNDRED old games...we had fun.
And there's NOBODY that can change my opinion that games like Breath of the Wild or Pokemon Arceus are not best experienced on PC. I've modded those games to the level that they look like next-gen games and they run smooth at 4k 60 FPS and I have motion controls. When I give you the Switch Pro controller and make the game full screen, you won't be able to tell if this is the PC or the Switch, the only thing you will notice is "wow...I don't remember this game looking and running this good...what the F*?!"
The thing about the emualtion, there is such a market crying out for games publishers to sell ROMs, images and ISOs legally specifically to play in emulators but for some reason games publishers just won't do it.
I don't even understand why people cry about pirating like bro even IF I buy a 10 year old game the company still isn't making money because they don't sell the game anymore I would just be buying an overpriced game from some dude , either way pirating or not they won't make a buck
Pokemon fans, at least in my country, were so snobby about this. What was the point of paying 3x the price for a DS game in 2012 unless you wanted the damn poke walker?
@@SilentProti The thing is you can buy a pokewalker separate from the game so that makes the point of buying the game from someone else price gouging even more moot. I backed up my own copy of Pokemon Soul Silver onto my 3DS XL and run it through Twilight ++ so that way i dont have to carry the main copy and I unfortunately broke my Pokewalker so I just bought a new one and it works just fine with my emulated copy of Soul Silver.
I had to rewind and hear it again when Muta said "Tomba 2." I thought I was one of the only people left on this PLANET that remembered the Tomba series! So damn good! I still have my copy of Tomba 2 I bought when an old rental store was shutting down. Still works too!
Tomba’s great! I’m glad I bought both of them when I was a kid and they were still cheap to obtain. I still have dreams about the series continuing years later lol
I also was shocked when I see tomba, I haven't played 2 yet, but I enjoyed 1st one, I remember first playing the demo version on one of those jampack discs
What a great way to start off the New Year.
@fours02 🇬🇧 nah what💀
I prolly should research this sponsorblock thing i saw earlier. For now though, BOT ALERT 📢
i got into emulation during the Bleem! / Connectix VGS era - mainly because my parents would NEVER have bought a console. to be clear, our PC back then was a POS Mendocino Celeron with no dedicated video card, but dang, the Megaman X's, the Final Fantasies, the Metroidvanias of that era with practically unlimited memory card space? beautiful.
You basically said why I play San Andreas on my pc, the soundtrack is extremely important to the atmosphere of the game, appreciate you bringing light to this tech
yeah, there is no way I am ever playing San Andreas without the original music AND the original graphics (no matter how outdated it might be).
@@olivercharles2930 the og graphics are goated
3:29 Tell that to Brazil and Latin America, Mutahar, those guys will never let the PlayStation 2 die at this point.
As a broke dude who just likes retro gaming, I’m so glad my mid tier pc can emulate some of my favorite games ever
So glad I have a good PC and good Android device... I'm in my mid 20's. The amount of money I'd have to spend to get half my childhood back and that's just the stuff that isn't available to buy new or digital. Emulation FTW!!!
There's another bot it seems
@@FTGIStrongfan another 2 lol
I wish Copyright Law would also update, so that software that is no longer sold by any legal publisher in any form can just be considered true abandon-ware and be essentially public domain once again. If a games publisher wants to sell the game on some sort of nostalgia digital only market on some device, that's fine. The game is being sold in some capacity by the legal rights holder, but if there is no way to legally get a copy, it should just be considered abandonware
For real many people dont get how hard it is to find an original console and game, even from ps3 and 360 eras, outside of the US and Japan
One of my favourite aspects about emulation is how you can upscale and enhance games beyond their native resolution. For instance, I was recently playing Super Mario Galaxy via the Dolphin Emulator and it looked absolutely stunning when upscaled to either 1080p or 4K with anti-aliasing enabled. I believe the Wii was only capable of running games in 480p, so it's really cool how you can push past the original hardware limitations that the console had with emulation.
I’m trying to get into emulation, I want to be able to play the GameCube version of Legend of Zelda Windwaker but i’m apprehensive of what site to download a rom from. Could you help?
@@anglegarbiba3859 vimm lair
Games, music, movies, preservation should be key. The past was once our reality. It's what made us into who we are today. It's *worth* preserving. The fact that I can't go back and play some of my favorite childhood games today, because of stupid licensing issues, is, well, stupid.
When it comes mgs 3 I was one of the lucky ones able to grab the 3ds version when it was available. Considering how iconic it is and many other iconic games that are so scarce it's nice to see emulation get a win
18:28 Thank you for mentioning Earthbound. If there was a series of games that I could describe as being on the top of the endangered media list, the Mother series would be it.
As you have said hundreds of times, piracy happens for most people when they don’t have a better option. If companies started a service that I could buy iso files and buy a psx emulator I would! Especially if it was more convenient, the hardest part of emulation is the troubleshooting and going to dozens of websites and dozens of Reddit posts to be able to get it running. If it were easier and behind a pay wall of like $9.99 a month get access to the complete library of ps1-ps3 iso files with an emulator included I WOULD… companies don’t care about this tho, and since they don’t care I see no issue downloading a game that 20-30 years old from the internet.
I love emulation, I would just like Switch games to not get leaked early every time so Im more likely to get spoiled. So people who play these games early, please no screenshots until after the game is out, thank you.
the ppl who get it early are also the ppl who get it early physically, even if it werent playable trough yuzu day and date ppl would still share it on their modded switches
I did this when Splatoon 3 wad gonna release, i played on Ryujinx and run flawlessly, i played all the story on 1 day and then 100% the story and play online the day it released.
Maybe you should just cut back on the social media usage, if you're seeing content that you know you don't want to consume. Don't blame this on other people, this is a personal problem that you can easily solve yourself.
y'know, you reminded me of the denuvo anti-emulation they pitched to nintendo. wonder how they're doing on that front
Emulation is literally only a positive thing when it comes to old games and out of production games. Especially when hardware only becomes available second-hand and online game storefronts like eShop die out, it becomes the ONLY feasible way to play old games without spending increasingly large amounts of money.
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If I ever learn how to properly emulate my collection, I don't just want to preserve my games, I want to try and dig into the guts of my collection to see if I can mod them. Like trying to increase the grid count in Gran Turismo 4 and modding in additional cars. Wishful dreaming, I know, but that is the beautiful nature of emulation.
Game decompilation is another thing, too. Being able to bypass even emulators and have every facet of a game or console's code right there is amazing, even if it's much more intensive of a process than emulation
Loads of gamers fail to understand the history we lose as time marches onwards and these games are a great example of that
I'm super excited about this. A while ago my PS3 died and I just have an entire shelf of great games I can't play.
i love how the game is GTA under the video, cause you can literally emulate it now
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Emulation is great and I’m glad we have this alternative to playing our old games again. People are forgetting that a lot of the games we grew up with are very pricey especially if you’re a JRPG and horror fan. I think the steam deck and the other “retro” handhelds that were released in 2022 are pushing many more people toward emulation. I know the steam deck has changed my collecting habits.
What he said about Metal Gear Online. Please, if youre listening to this; gamers MUST preserve the online mini games of the old Minecraft Console Editions (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, etc). I cant stress enough how amazing those minigames were. Battle, Tumble, and Glide were some of the best experiences I ever got out of Minecraft, and the servers on PC just dont hold a candle to it.
I really hope one day they can decrypt the source code So it can be Ported to other Operating systems So it doesn't have to exactly be emulated.
That’s illegal and will draw attention from basically every game dev. Even Valve, who is known for being kind to creative fans doesn’t allow stuff like this purely to ensure that they have full control of their IPs.
what the other reply said... that would just destroy "emulation" and would be more like straight out hacking/piracy
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Muta you a bad dude, I love hearing about people doing the work. It blows my mind how people are so fucking intelligent
5:47 they even removed songs from the Midnight Club: LA X360 Version as their License of some songs went out, they even "reuploaded" that game without those songs into the Market Place on Xbox Live.
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@@asyereal had to end the great emu war somehow! Do yourself a favor and look up Australia's emu war, it was a real thing and yet somehow humans have a death toll in that war, it's my understanding that the emus we're not even remotely responsible because gee idk emu but the humans were dying through their own stupidity, falling on their own weapons and shit.
Did you ever make a video on how to back up all your console games? I want to do that with my switch games and all my other older consoles but I don't know how. Would like to learn.
Generally you need a modded console to do it properly as mostly all modern games are encrypted and need a system key to decrypt the roms for them to work.
@@Jokerwolf666 What about the steam deck?
@@shay_3859 In terms of steam games, it depends. Some don't have piracy/DRM protection, and you can just copy the install folder no problem. Others require steam to launch, though.
@@elevatorz89 Hm, so some games, typically retro games, can be pirated with no problem, but most modern games require decryption through purchase to function?
@@shay_3859 PC Games aren't really encrypted, unless the people who made it implement some sort of DRM.
there are plenty of games i would love to revist from the ps3 days a really hype one would be M.A.G if they could restore online functions
I agree with your stance that people need to back up their legally-purchased games when emulating, rather than resorting to finding ROMs/ISOs online.
However, especially after the pandemic-induced price spikes of used video games, I think there comes a time when piracy is necessary to preserve old gaming experiences. You mentioned Earthbound - I'm sure you're aware how expensive that game is second-hand (IF you can find a legitimate copy! lots of fakes on eBay). I don't think it's fair that someone should have to pay hundreds of dollars just to enjoy a game. My personal rule is that if I want a game that is out of print, and the price on eBay is higher than its original MSRP, I find a pirated copy online.
15:18 fucking murdered me i loved this video from start to finish. Also when you said fable 2 is the best fable i just went "wow i didnt know muta could get any more BASED"
At this point
Big companies should straight up hire emulator devs and officially support emulation
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"cpus die, marriges die" made me laugh for 5 minutes
Here's my hot take. Intellectual property should be public domain after 10-15 years.
after 1 year*
@@providethem I'd be on board with that too. I was just taking a middle ground.
I miss my Socom Combined Assualt!!! Man those were the days where you stayed up late “all night” and had no worries as a kid. Life back then was great. I’d pay for that multiplayer server if it was still up. Just to get back some good memories.
preserving old games in their glory i always wondered how it would be done but here we are
I pirate games for emulation that are no longer possible to buy or ones I owned at some point or another.
''Gun pointed at head'' I NEVER pirate or emulate nintendo games...
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I'd suggest you get jugger nog first
same
I would watch that, of it wasn't something that flat out can't reach here
16:56 "Computer hardware gets cheaper and more efficient over time.
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Backing up PlayStation games is so much easier because you don't need a hacked console and can use a blu Ray drive. Really nice