r/MadeMeSmile • u/SMUDGEONTHEWALL • Nov 04 '20

Wholesome Moments Dad play goldeneye after a long time

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u/Elriuhilu Nov 04 '20

How did he make it look decent on a modern tv? I tried to play star wars racer on my flat panel and it looked like a kaleidoscope.

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u/SMUDGEONTHEWALL Nov 04 '20

He probably had a HDMI conversion cable

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u/Columbus43219 Nov 04 '20

Do you know of one that has a playable lag????

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u/iSeize Nov 04 '20

My Retrotink from retromania is great. Although the volume has a peaking problem that's mildly annoying

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u/SMUDGEONTHEWALL Nov 04 '20

They have lag?

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u/Columbus43219 Nov 04 '20

Not a lot, but some reviews of different ones say it makes the game unplayable. It takes a fraction of a second to convert then upscale the signal. Some are apparently faster than others.

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u/ShowBobsPlzz Nov 04 '20

Only the very expensive ones

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u/midwestraxx Nov 05 '20

Probably one that's over $10

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u/m_antis Nov 04 '20

Perhaps he’s running it on an emulator using something such as /r/retropie

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u/Columbus43219 Nov 04 '20

My retropie 3b+ can NOT push the N64 emulator to work with GoldenEye. It comes up like a 386.

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u/ACantabrana Nov 05 '20

What's a 386

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u/_Aj_ Nov 05 '20

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80386

Intel cpu from the late 80s. Ie very slow

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u/racinreaver Nov 05 '20

They were snappy at the time, especially when you got the Turbo Button! I could load up Commander Keen off a floppy in mere seconds.

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u/_Aj_ Nov 05 '20

Ayeeee. You can get Keen on android too now if you want to relive it!

Turbo button was trouble too. Poor Pac Man went at about 1000x speed on our system.

That's what happens when you tie game speed to the cpu clock

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u/racinreaver Nov 05 '20

I remember my brother and I would screw with each other by hitting the turbo button when the other least wanted it. We took turns based on lives, so the sooner they die, the sooner I get to play!

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u/ACantabrana Nov 05 '20

Thank you friend!!

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u/_Aj_ Nov 05 '20

You need more power.

I had this issue on starwars racer. My 2A usb wasn't enough. You need 3A and a good quality USB cable for it to run in high power mode.

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u/Hanzburger Nov 05 '20

You can run retropie on your PC

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u/Doctologist Nov 05 '20

You can see the 64 just behind him, when he steps to the side. Both controls are plugged in and it’s powered on.

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u/anonymity012 Nov 04 '20

The emulator looks great and plays just the same

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u/TinyHomeGnome Nov 05 '20

Some modern TVs have a setting to “dumb down” the resolution to work better with older consoles.

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u/LearnedIgnorance Nov 05 '20

I play this all the time on a large flat panel TV through an HDMI into a raspberry pi 4 running retropie. No lag, hi res and multi-player works fine.

There's also a really fun VR game called Pavlov where you can play the N64 GoldenEye maps in VR and it's just as awesome as it sounds.

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u/aallgod Nov 05 '20

I have my console modded for RGB SCART and feed the signal through the OSSC to the tv. Works great, hardly any perceptible lag outside of the TV's signal processing.

Mr. Dink voice ~very~ expensive