What are your top 10 favorite consoles?

1. Dreamcast
2. SNES
3. GameCube
4. Genesis
5. PS2
6. N64
7. PS1
8. Turbografx 16
9. Saturn
10. NES

Top 10 is a little hard without going outside of /vr. So here are my top 5.

1.Saturn
2.NES
3.Genesis
4.DC
5.SNES

I guess I rank them by how much time I spend on games for them.

1 Super Famicom
2 PC Engine
3 Playstation 1
4 Mega Drive
5 PC-FX
6 Saturn
7 3DO
8 Family Computer
9 Mark 3
10 Colecovision

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1. Genesis
2. PC Engine
3. Dreamcast
4. NES
5. Playstation
6. SNES
7. Master System
8. SG-1000
9. Atari 2600
10. Vectrex

1. Dreamcast
2. PlayStation
3. GameBoy Colour
4. Genesis
5. SNES
6. NES
7. PC-FX
8. N64
9. SMS
10. Saturn

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1 neogeo
2 megadrive
3 ps vita tv

4 nothing else

>>3425750
>5.
Your an assfaggot, aren't you?

>>3425749
>OP trying to be sneaky about bringing 6th gen into the discussion.

>>3425768
>5 PC-FX
>7 3DO
Just... Just whoa. I'm impressed.
What nice do you find about PC-FX?

Top 5 since top 10 gets really into "not retro" territory.
1. GBA
2. SNES
3. PS1
4. Mega Drive
5. NES

1)n64
2)nes
3)ps3
4)gamecube
5)gameboy
6)ps2
7)genesis.

SNES
Genesis
Dreamcast
TG16
ps1
3do
GG
GBC
Lynx
n64

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>>3425804
The games. It may turn normalfags off but it has a certain appeal for Japanese 2D maniacs.
It's not quite a PC98 in console form but I can't hate a system with a mascot like Rolfee.

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1. Saturn
2. PS1
3. PS2
4. Genesis/Mega Drive
5. GBC

>>3425828
I'm jealous. I wish I could immerse myself in that vast world of obscure Japanese PC gaming but I don't know enough Japanese. I bet being a teenager during the late 80's and early-mid 90's in Japan was magical.

1. NES/Famicom
2. Genesis
3. Dreamcast
4. PS1
5. Tied between SNES and Xbox OG
6. Saturn
7. Neo Geo
8. 360 And PC Engine
9. N64
10. Colecovision

>>3425749
1.Gamecube
2.Dreamcast
3.Sega Saturn
4. ps2
5. Snes
6. Gameboy advanced
7. n64
8. Mastersystem
9. Megadrive
10. Nes

N64 was my first system (my older brothers owned the master system and megadrive) so it makes the list, in spite of being a system that I almost never play at this point and actively hate as a piece of hardware (awful video output, rubbish controller, tiny library).

Master System gets props because it's a system that I've always hung onto, megadrive is great but I only just started collecting for that system again. Dreamcast has been a console I've played at least a few times a year consistently since 2004.

Gamecube gets 1 because I absolutely love the hardware itself, the controller is fantastic and the gameboy player is a must have, it also has a relatively small library but many of the iterative titles on the system are the best of the entire franchise (Best Mario Kart, best smash brothers, Best paper mario game, arguably best metroid)

>>3425768
What are some good PC engine games?

>>3425903
Not him, but Bonk, Blazing Lazers, Devil's Crush and Alien Crush, Castlevania Rondo of Blood

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Only doing top 5

Mega drive
Dreamcast
Saturn
Master system
Xbox (coinops)

1. Genesis
2. NES
3. Dreamcast
4. NeoGeo
5. GBC
6. SNES
7. SMS
8. GG
9. PS1
10. PC Engine

1. NES
2. Tie: SMS/GG and GB/GBC
4. SNES
5. Genesis/Sega CD
6. TG16/PCE
7. Taito F2/F3 System (do arcade boards count as consoles?)
8. I don't think I like any others all that much beyond these.

I'm old. )-:

-N64/Genesis
-PSP/PS2

>>3425749
Do your own research for your shitty top 10 video.

10 GBCs

>>3425750
>spoiler PS2
>keep Gamecube
Dumbass.

1. PS2
2. PS1
3. N64
4. SNES
5. PS3
6. PS4
7. Wii U
8. Dreamcast
9. Gamecube
10. Saturn

>>3426261
>6. PS4
>7. Wii U
Are you fucking serious?

1. NES
2. SNES
3. PS2
4. PS1
5. Game Boy Color
6. Game Boy Advance
7. Mega Drive
8. Nintendo Wii
9. Nintendo GameCube
10. Nintendo 64

1. SNES/SFC
2. Mega Drive (+Mega CD)
3. NES/FC
4. Saturn
5. PC Engine (+CD-ROM2)
6. N64
7. PS1
8. Dreamcast
9. Game Boy
10. 3DO

1. Genesis
2. Dreamcast
3. Saturn
4. NES
5. Turbografx
6. Playstation
7. Neo Geo
8. SNES
9. Master System
10. Atari VCS

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1-SNES/Mega Drive+Add-ons
2-PC-Engine/PC-Engine CD
3-PS1
4-N64
5-Dreamcast
6-Game Boy/Game Gear
7-NES

>>3426626
PS4 is just a shitty PC
Wii U has some great unique games but the NES and especially Mega Drive have many more.

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>look up xbox elite
>it actually exists

Anyway, consoles have also had upgrades, especially in Japan: FDS, Mega CD/32X, Satellaview (more like a streaming pioneer rather than add-on to the hardware).

>>3425782
>your

>>3426135
Oh well.

1. SNES
2. NES
3. Genesis/Sega CD
4. 3DS
5. DS
6. GB/GBC
7. GBA
8. PS1
9. PS2
10. N64

Never played a Dreamcast, no one around here had one, same thing with 3DO, Neo Geo, Amiga, C64, CDi and Turbografx.
Never played Atari, Intellivision or Colecovision enough to really care.
Only played Saturn once. Only played a dozen or so games on Game Gear and the Master System.

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>>3426696
>3DS better than DS

>>3426702
I like the DS library of games more, but honestly I play 3DS games (and eShop games on it)a lot more often than DS, that's why I put it ahead of DS.

>>3426702
>>3426713

Both DS and 3DS are god-tier handhelds, they have enough original games and remakes/ports that they make for a must to anyone who likes video games.
I'd also say I like the 3DS a tad bit more, just because of the emulation and dat god damned Soul Hackers remake.

Oh yeah, also M2 ports.

>snes this low on all these list

Why, is this troll

>>3426713
1. SNES
2. NEO GEO
3. NES
4. SATURN
5. ATARI 2600
Honorable mention: DREAMCAST, I love this system and the games, but the control ruins it for me.

>>3425749

>top 10

here is my top 5 in no particular order, 6th gen included so cry about it, dweebs.

1. SNES
2. N64
3. Gamecube
4. Gameboy/color
5. NES/Genesis tied

>>3426735

wut

>>3426696
>>3426508
>>3426464
>>3425819
>>3425768

lotsa love for the Super Nintendo.

>>3425749
1. PC
2. PC
3. PC
4. PC
5. PC (with emulator)
6. Amiga
7. PS4
8. XBOX one
9. PS2
10. PolyStation

1 Atari 2600
2 Sega Genesis
3 NES
4 Neo Geo
5 Sega Dreamcast
6 N64
7 Sega Master System
8 Super Nintendo
9 Intellivision
10 Game Cube

>>3425749
1. Genesis
2. SNES
3. Saturn
4. PSX
5. DC
6. Master System
7. NES
8. N64

For /vr/.

>>3425749

1. PlayStation 1
2. Gameboy Advance
3. Gameboy Color
4. Super Nintendo
5. Neo-Geo
6. Neo-Geo Pocket Color
7. Dreamcast
8. 3DS
9. PlayStation 2
10. Gamecube

1. PS2
2. NES
3. SNES
4. Genesis
5. PS1
6. Gamecube
7. PSP
8. GBA
9. DS
10. NGPC

>>3425749
>2D
NES
Genesis
Super Nintendo
Sega Saturn
Neo Geo
>3D
Dreamcast
N64
PS1
>Handheld
GBC
Game Gear

1.PS2
2.PS1
3.PSP
4.Sega Saturn
5.Original Xbox
6.Dreamcast
7.Gameboys (all of em are great)
8.Famicom Disk System
9.PSX (really good system for traveling)
10.The average Computer (You can literally emulate anything on one of these and computers have been around longer than everything else on my list)

Who deleted my Xbox funpost?

>>3427154
Saturn is retro famtasia

>>3427229
the autistic easily triggered janitor

1. PS1
2. PS2
3. PSP
4. PS3
5. PS4

>>3425903
Dorabian Nights
Dragon Egg
Dragon's Curse
Adventure Island and Bonk games
Parasol Stars
it goes on and on

>>3427250
I know but I hid it because it'susually labeled as 3D

>>3427368
The saturn is a 2d system, it can do 3d games but come on, nobody picks up a saturn to play 3d games.

>>3427514

VF2 was the best selling Saturn title

>>3427368
Nothing wrong with Saturn, it's retro

>>3426789
Is there a reason you like the 2600 above all else? Genuinely curious.

>>3427523
Probably nostalgia. In reality there aren't many good 2600 games that hold up today, and if they do there's usually a better arcade version.

>>3425749
>SNES
>N64
>Game Boy/GBC
>NES
>Dreamcast
>GBA
>Genesis

After that, it's hard to pick /vr/ approved systems.

>>3427514
To be fair, whenever some thinks of Saturn they think of Panzer Dragoon Saga.

>all these people not listing OG Xbox in their list

Poor souls, they never experienced the power of a fully modded Xbox with tons of emulators and movies and all shit you can think of.

>>3427759
Dreamcast, Wii, PSP, PS3, Vita, N3DS are all better for that.

>>3427759
>>3427772
none of these are on topic for the majority of posters

>>3427759
>have to play those emulated games with shitty Xbox controller

no thanks...

>>3427793
The devs were lazy and USB was used for the controller ports, just with different connector.

>>3427808
>The devs were lazy and USB was used for the controller ports
how is using a standard being lazy? Just how player-hostile are you?

1)Saturn
2) PS2
3)Sega master system
4)Genesis
5)SNES
6)PS1
7)N64
8)PS3
9)Dreamcast
10)Gamecube

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>>3427815
>>n64 better than gamecube

>>3427168
>2. PS1
>9. PSX
What made them separate?

Thread should be purged because of all the /v/irgins including non-retro systems in their lists, but /vr/ is dogshit.

1. Xbox
2. Dreamcast
3. PS1
4. GameCube
5. PS2
6. GBA
7. PSP
8. Genesis
9. PS3
10. 360

>>3427517
>VF2 was the best selling Saturn title
I thought it was Sakura Taisen.

Sorry, but there aren't 10 PlayStation consoles out yet.

1.- PS2
2.- MegaDrive
3.- PSX
4.- NeoGeo
5.- Game Boy Advance
6.- SNES
7.- NES
8.- GameCube
9.- N64

10 consoles is a lot
who would own that many consoles, you can only play one at once anyway

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>>3427716
For me the Saturn was a PC-98 port machine.
I'm not sure if I'm a Saturn fan or a proxy PC-98 fan.

>>3427772
Considering there's no viable Xbox emulator yet, and the fact that Dolphin runs flawlessly, I would say you get more content with a modded Xbox than a hacked Wii.

>vita better than Xbox
Vita is in the current state as PSP because henkaku hasn't exploit all it's potential, so yes, snes sucks donkey dick on vita/psp (and psp can't run n64 properly whereas Xbox can, so, yeah)

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>>3427827
>>gamecube better than n64

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>>3427929
>>3427827
>giving a shit about Nintendo post-4th gen

top kek

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>>3427934
>>Posting Kaz "599 US dollars" Hirai

>>3427810
It's not standard. You can't use normal USB controllers without modification.

>>3427938
>that was already 10 years ago

How does this even happen.

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>>3427952

>>3425749
Well if we go by total playtime.

Nintendo
Playstation
SNES
Genesis
Saturn
Dreamcast

>>3428058
Everything in your list is nintendo

>>3427941
anon said it's standard, you say it's not. Make up your minds

>>3427793
Manlet hands detected, perhaps you're the shitty one?

>>3427687
>In reality there aren't many good 2600 games that hold up today

Not true at all.

1. Dreamcast
2. SNES
3. Xbox
4. Gamecube
5. Genesis
6. Saturn
7. TG-16
8. ColecoVision
9. SMS
10. NES

I didn't include any Sony systems because the playstation brand name is pretty terrible. All the best games on those consoles were available on better consoles and PC. Playstation is a brand that exists solely on 3rd party games.

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>>3427793
Gee i wonder if anyone ever decided to hook up an arcade stick with that thing?

No, everybody plays emulators with the duke.

>>3430189
What are some that do?

>>3430190
Top taste.

>>3425749
>top 10 favorite
>posts 5

>>3432886
>>3425785
It's a Google image.

>>3430238
The duke is a pretty based controller though, 6 button layout>4 button for platformers

>>3432893
The problem is that back and start are hard to reach and there are two annoying expansions for memory cards. And there's a lot of wasted space in the middle.

>>3432892
Then... put "times 2" over the image. Jeese, do I have to think of everything?!

>>3432946
>caring this much

Jeese indeed.

>>3430190
Except Playstation became the only relevant console since the first one.

Mega Drive
Snes
Dreamcast
N64
PS1
GB/C
Master System

>>3433041
>Playstation became the only relevant console since the first one.
You're right, only the first Playstation is the most relevant console in the entire brand.

1. SNES
2. PSX
3. Genesis
4. Sega Saturn
5. Nintendo 64

>>3433478
>PSX
so far we have two systems with that name. Anybody else looking forward to the successor of the PS9?

>>3433041
Ps3 had slow sales, ps 4 is only at 40 million.

Ps1 didn't outsell ps2.

Tbh ps2 is the most popular system they made, but the brand has peaked with normies and Japanese over time.

>>3425749
NES
SNES
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Wii
Atari 2600
TG-16
Genesis
Saturn
PS2
Gameboy

Order is approximate and doesn't count arcades or PC. I also left off Neo Geo because it's an arcade board and I don't really think of it as a "console".

>>3426741
Best taste in the thread.

1 SNES
2 N64
3 sonic
4 ps1

1.psx
2.nes
3.dos pc
4.nds
5.n64
6.saturn
7.genesis
8.snes
9.2600
10.ps2

>

1. Genesis
2. OG Xbox
3. Dreamcast
4. SNES
5. GBA
6. GBC
7. Saturn
8. PS2
9. PS1
10. NES

>datamining thread

Retro only:

1. SNES
2. PS1
3. NES
4. Genesis
5. Game Boy Color

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Pointless list thread and also most posts include non-retro systems, even OP.

REPORTED.

>>3435738
announcing reports is against the rules

Enjoy your ironic ban, bootlicker

01. SNES
02. NES
03. Playstation
04. Sega Genesis
05. Nintendo 64
06. Windows
07. Game Boy
08. Playstation 2
09. Arcade
10. DOS

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>>3435742
>being this mad your shitty sixth gen STILL isn't allowed on /vr/
>thinking people actually get banned over announcing reports

PlayStation
Gameboy
Gameboy pocket
NES
Super Nintendo
Game Gear
N64
Gameboy Color

>>3435752
I had zero sixth gen consoles in my post, fucktard

Stop projecting this hard

1. PS4
2. Xbox One
3. PS3
4. Xbox 360
5. PS2
6. Xbox
7. WiiU
8. Wii
9. GBA
10. Gamecube

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>>3435773
>implying you're not OP trying to defend his garbage thread

>>3435782
I'm not though

This is why we need IDs

>>3435853
>IDs
Fuck that shit.

>>3425749
>having 10 favorites
Fuckin how

>>3433481
You mean PS10?

>>3435973
I meant PSX. You know what happened to Mac OS after OS 9, you know what happened to Radeon cards after the 9xxx series, it's inevitable

>>3436062
The Japanese will call it PS十.

1-PS1
2-SNES
3-GBC
4-Dreamcast
5-genesis
6-N64
7-NES
8-Game gear
9-Mastersystem
10-saturn

>>3435782
mad as hell

>>3425749
1. PS2
2. Super Nintendo
3. PS1
4. Genesis
5. NES

>>3425749
>that notretro console on the far right
Triggered. Crop that shit. Also...

1. NES
2. Intellivision
3. Playstation
4. Genesis (Including Sega CD)
5. SNES
6. TurboGrafx-16 (Including Turbo CD)
7. Atari 2600
8. 3DO
9. Gameboy (Including Color)
10. Sega Master System

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Don't worry guys, I fixed it.

>>3436624
Much better, thank you.

>>3436624
But then there are 2 consoles from the same gen
change n64 to dreamcast

1. Genesis
2. SNES
3. NES
4. Dreamcast
5. PlayStation
6. N64
7. 2600
8. Game Boy Color

>>3436635
I consider N64 part of sixth gen. It was the first proper 3D console and years ahead of PSX/Saturn in terms of hardware capabilities.

>>3436646
>I consider N64 part of sixth gen.

Are you fucking stupid? gens aren't based on graphical power.

>>3426758
snes had great rpg's and they weren't so hokey when I was 11. my list was in no particular order though

>>3436664
If you don't base them on hardware, what do you base them on?

1. Original Xbox
2. NES
3. SNES
4. N64
5. GBA
6. Game Gear

>>3436673
Console generation, when they were released.

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1.PS2
2.Dreamcast
3.SNES
4.DS
5.PSX
6.PCE
7.NES
8.GBA
9.Xbox
10.Saturn

Top 5

1. SNES
2. PC Engine
3. Genesis
4. N64
5. GBA

PCE tends to get the most playtime...but I understand the SNES is better except for shooters

1. PS1
2. Genesis
3. N64
4. NES
5. SNES
6. Saturn (if it was cheaper to buy games for it'd be top 5)
7. Dreamcast (ditto)
8. GBC

Not Retro Tier:
9. PS2
10. GCN

Although I'd take a decent PC and MAME cabinet over any of those.

>>3436635
How about adding something from the first generation instead?

>>3437252
literally who owned an odyssey

1. GBA
2. DS
3. Saturn
4. Playstation
5. Mega Drive
6. SNES
7. Gameboy/Color
8. PSP
9. NES
10. Wii

>>3437261
There's more than the Odyssey. Pong or Telstars weren't that uncommon.

>>3437265
>7. Gameboy/Color
why don't you put NES/SNES on one line as well?

>>3437332
because those are totally different
the gb and gbc aren't totally different

>>3437335
dmg and gbc are about as different to each other as gcn and wii. Just because one is a binary compatible superset to the other, doesn't mean the new features don't vastly change what you can do. Unless you're suggesting a 80286 is not much different from an i7, in which case you're on your own.

>>3437340
fine good point
i'm changing it to just gbc then
add that to your list of won internet arguments

>>3437341
that'd be the only entry then. I'm not into arguments. I'm just a hobbyist gbc dev and player, and know to stay the hell away from the dmg because of the differences, and it annoys me when people group these two different systems together, as it's dismissing the actual potential and capabilities of the gbc. It's consistently ignored as a stepping stone between the one and only dmg and the gba. I don't like either, for various reasons, but the gbc is like the perfect setup, and the few games that understood that, are held in high regard for good reason.

>>3437348
Oh I know how much more powerful the GBC is (and how badass the sound is) I just grouped them together since that's what most people do I think. I don't really blame them, they do have very similar designs and names, but I know the differences. Why do you dislike the GBA?

>>3436062
Are you saying that after the 1999 goes 199X?

>>3437360
a few reasons. The inclusion of a framebuffer/pixel mode lead to pretty bad engines, the inclusion of the triggers, plus video modes borrowed from the SNES turned what could have been a creative handheld into a port victim. It also came way too early in the lifecycle of the GBC, suffocating it. I like the micro from a design point of view, strongly dislike though that it was the GBA where they switched from reflective to transmissive LCDs. The NDS (lite) is a great system again, second only to the GBC, but I can do entirely without the GBA. It did more harm than good.

>>3437364
the 9 -> X transition happens on the leftmost digit/number, in an attempt to avoid adding new digits. So, 9 -> X, 99 -> X9 and so on

Arcade is better than any console, prove me wrong.

>>3438113
Arcade is not a single system. Please list your top 10 favorite arcade systems.

>>3438113
>pay to play

1. PC
2. Xbox One
3. PS4
4. Xbox 360
5. PS3

i dont know many more sry :-DD

>>3426038

He is doing it with this thread.

>>3438120
1. NAOMI
2. VS System
3. Playchoice 10
4. ST-V
5. Mega-Tech
6. Atomiswave
7. Super System
8. ZN-1
9. Hikaru
10. M2

1. N64
2. PS
3. Dreamcast
4. SNES
5. GameBoy

>>3438136
MAME.

>>3438219
BTFO

>>3438219
>no system 16
>no CPS2

>>3438219
>no Taito or Capcom boards
pleb as fuck

>>3439780
>>3439778
Do I have to explain the joke to you?

>>3438219
>no MVS
man fuck off

>>3425749
>dos
>windows xp
>xbox
>dreamcast
>PSone
>snes
>virtual boy
>tiger handheld (Jurassic park specifically)
>arcade machines
>masturbation

>>3425749
1. Genesis
2. SNES
3. N64
4. Playstation
5. Saturn

>>3441102
Actually, let's move the Dreamcast to number 3 and N64 and down move down one.

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>>3436780

>>3436646
Wasn't it kinda a big fuck up of Nintendo to not make it a disc based console? If they had, the would have gotten games like Metal Gear Solid and FF VII. I would even argue that if they had, Sega would still be in the console market and Sony would have never made another console after the PS1

>>3441126
PSX coming out almost 2 years earlier and having very easy architecture to develop for also didn't help Ninty.

>>3441126
the fuckup was making a disc based on console. The worse fuckup was idiot gamers falling for it. The workarounds and issues games went through because of disc drives are depressing

1. NES
2. PSX
3.SNES
4. GB/GBC
5. Genesis
6.N64

>>3441153
Whatever compromises that disks made were superseded by the myriad of benefits. Disk games were much larger, had much better audio and opened up game development to smaller studios because they were cheaper to produce. You wouldn't get something like LSD or King's field on a cartridge, let alone the huge library of jrpgs of the time.

1. PS2
2. Genesis
3. N64
4. PSX
5. Wii
6. Gamecube
7. Sega CD
8. Sega Saturn
9. Dreamcast
10. Xbox

>>3441218
>much larger
not a benefit for games. For interactive movies, but not games

>much better audio
static audio, yes. In the mid 90s we had games that changed music dynamically to player actions. In the late 90s that vanished, and hasn't been found again until recently, thanks in part to wave based music

>opened up game development to smaller studios because they were cheaper to produce
The "available space" lead to an explosion in asset quality, like amount of models included, musical scores; which directly translated to skyrocketing development costs. Before the disc games could be done by a small team and a low budget. The license costs of cartridges suck, but not as much as the extreme costs of non-game content like assets.

>huge library of jrpgs of the time
because that's about the only genre of games that profits from discs, because of their typically large amount of non-interactive content (cutscenes, music) and the strict linearity, allowing multidisc productions. Other games would typically be just a couple MB with the rest of the disc filled with CDDA. They did not benefit from the size, but they definitely felt the drawbacks of load times and tiny RAM. The latter was not a problem on cart systems, because the cart was memory mapped and there was little reason to load it anywhere. On disc based systems, all the model and texture data for a level had to fit into memory, as streaming was too expensive.

Am I the only one that prefers the PSX's SPU to streamed CD music?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62HoIMZ8xAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjRfnbM048

>>3441352
yes, you are. When Sony included that mechanism that had to pay developers to use it, because they hated it. People were cutting off their ears whenever that thing made noises. You are that one exception, the only person on this planet that has ever and will ever enjoy hearing the output of an audio related part of a video game system. If only Sony knew you back then. You could have warned them. You could have sent them a letter, telling them that preferring that sound is such a unique and unusual condition, it will cause serious trouble. In fact, the very developer of the SPU didn't know what they were doing. They hated the concept of these sounds, yet they went through and made a chip that would produce them, these madmen. You're truly special, and it's an honor, and a curse to have you post here.

>>3441352
The playstation sound chip is excellent, imo. Probably the best of that generation.

>>3441260
>Other games would typically be just a couple MB
Which was still too much for cartridges and annoying with floppies.

>>3441898
>Which was still too much for cartridges
N64 cartridges were 32-64MB, well within the size of quite a few PS games

>>3441918
I can't imagine Metal Gear solid or Silent Hill fitting on a cartridge, even with Resident evil 2's compression system.

>>3441920
>I can't imagine
that's your problem

>>3441918
>>3441920
I wonder; did any N64 games use cartridge swapping, like the PlayStation's disc swapping? Would that even be possible?

>>3441926
No, it might have been possible with earlier revisions, they cut the banjo kazooie stop n swop feature because of that. They could probably use the memory card to generate a carry over savefile though.

>>3441886
It's all subjective, but I prefer the Saturn's sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9BXpRxVLis

Too bad there aren't a ton of games that used it. Nights is the only one I know for certain that uses it.

>>3441926
Don't know about the N64 but in some other Nintendo cartridge system the program counter points directly into cartridge ROM, and removing the cartridge is a bad idea, the cpu is kind of busy reading from it. You might be able to pull some stunts by putting a loop routine into RAM, executing it, then swapping out the cartridges and pressing a button to exit the loop, but I'm not aware of anybody ever trying it. Sounds like a nice experiment for homebrew

>>3441930
>because of that
because of what?

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How come N64 didnt try pic related?

>>3441926
No N64 games used it. It would only be possible if the console was powered down between swaps with a save loaded from the controller pak.

There were experiments by Rare for a swap without a memory card, but later revisions of the N64 do not retain data in RAM for longer than 1 or 2 seconds, compared with the 10 to 20 seconds of earlier models.

>>3441934
The gameboy adapter for the 64 was basically the same concept.

>>3441886
Isn't Saturn's better? It has 32 channels as opposed to PSX's 24.

>>3441935
>It would only be possible if the console was powered down
why? physical lock on the cart?

>>3441918
In what year?

>>3441939
It doesn't, but removing a live cartridge is bad for the system and might corrupt the data that's in the RAM anyway.

>>3441949
>removing a live cartridge is bad for the system
>might corrupt the data that's in the RAM
how so?

>>3441952
I'm no electrical engineer, but you have to consider there's still power running through the system, and there's no guarantee that the user will remove the cartridge straight up with all the pins losing contact simultaneously.

>>3441958
that's why stuff like USB has two extended contacts. Guess they didn't feel like doing that back then

1. PS1
2. N64
3. SNES
4. NES
5. Game Boy
6. Gamecube
7. Neo Geo
8. Saturn
9. Dreamcast
10. Genesis

>>3443152
>Saturn over Dreamcast

For what purpose?

>>3445942
better controller, has the superior shmup library

>>3445952
>has the superior shmup library

debatable. dreamcast has almost a dozen exclusive naomi shmups as well as a bunch of great enhanced ports

>>3445952
Rez.

>>3445942
I saturn was actually at market longer because it was popular in japan, so assuming moonspeak doesn't bother you it actually has a very accomplished library.

>>3445961
Rez is overrated, I'd take Darius Gaiden over it any day.

>>3446096
or Panzer Dragoon II

>>3425749
different consoles for different genres

>>3446096

>I'd take a 2D shmup over a 3D on-rail shooter

OK?...

>>3446106
Rez is, at its core, a Panzer Dragoon game.

snes
snes
snes
nes
genesis
gbc

>>3446302
>NES above Genesis

10? Fuck, I don't think there was 10 good consoles. Let's see.

1. NES
2. Genesis
3. SNES
4. PC Engine
5. Neo Geo
6. ....um... well shit. Saturn, maybe.
7. .......Nope. We're done here.

>>3446610
Found the 45 year old.

>>3446615
Well, you're not wrong.