Backwards Compatibility - Scott The Woz 

This is truly underrated of a statement.

thats what i said

Must have been a mistake.

Can he file a court case on it.

i made like 170, sorry for ruining 169

But at what cost

It's more "it's just not profitable for us so we won't bother"

In company lingo, "feasible" just means "profitable". Yeah some guy in a basement did it, but it probably wasn't incredibly optimized for the platform. If software doesn't run great on your hardware, then there'd be no reason to market and sell it other than something like convenience. All because people can play Doom Eternal on a Samsung fridge doesn't mean people should or that Samsung should use it as a selling point.

**cough** ps3 backwards compatibility **cough**

A NECKBEARD BUILT THIS IN A BASEMENT WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS

Scott does so much for his jokes even though they’re usually only a few seconds. So much respect

This man has a stupid amount of dedication to his jokes

Free sea of thieves item for every chips ahoy! Well don’t mind if I do.

@@aubreyh1930 Isn’t your profile picture from a Chadtronic video where he asked everyone to put that as their profile picture

i hope he enjoyed the rest of the lasagna~

Yes

its the best flex bro

The best flex is flex tape

haha emulators go brrrrr

@@CosmicFox2007 emulation gang rise

Emulators go

Recently watched the video where he browses the hard drive of the internet and you where he goes "I just felt like wasting $3,000" and thought to myself damn how much money does he make from youtube lol

Money

Probably 50 cents with how RU-vid would treat him lol.

Ayeeee go Rangers

*Here before the comment blew up 🙏*

It said on the box, but then again I doubt they would read it.

That's going to be me in due time:)

Probably very few. The GameBoy was a much larger thing than the SNES, not to mention the Super Gameboy. :)

Everyone knew Gameboy

the gameboy is one of the most sold gaming devices in history

my social skills will always make me mess up no matter what

Weeks of practice

Because they're simplistic reddit humor

@@chad9166 why are you replying to 9 month old comments on videos you clearly dislike

@Faken Namel I cringed looking at my comment because I don’t watch him anymore, sorry, I wanted to express my feelings but that was rude.

if he just stopped playing donkey kong barrel blast he could have kept his virginity and grown a wizard beard way sooner

2:55 "this was the peachfuzz era of Scott the Woz videos"

He must have been inspired by Linus over at LTT!

It’s the alternate reality remember he broke reality.

I’m not going to.

Everyone else, we are losing soldiers fast though. It’s almost like they don’t care.

His girlfriend.

Nobody, he already defeated it.

He got it out of his system for 46 minutes, don't worry. He finished the fight.

Adult Scott, probably.

Sony even has a working PS2 emulator running the PS2 on PS4 range.

@@MuchWhittering really?

Phantxxm Yeah

Sony are scumbags

Fixed. Sony: "Lol no, pay for 144p gameplay with our all new PS Now"

Huh. Really? 🤔

On what part? Is it the bonehead decision to use quad polygons instead of the traditional triangles which made it difficult to emulate?

@@Web720 the part with Minecraft and Dreamcast discs

@@Web720 I think it was with the hardware or smth. I heard it from Didyouknowgaming.

@@SomeoneIDKK Thanks!

The Woz Scott

Watcha doing here?

Hi Lithium!

Speak of the devil

All hey Woz here

I you're willing to spend some more and do some futzing around, it is by far the best game platform in my opinion.

Pc is the best gaming platform objectively but the price especially now is kinda steep.

@@Wab2007 yar har fiddle dee dee

@@rxzd_ diddleee dee indeed

Pc is only better for fps games

So then the emulation is for you

Like the dude said just emulate it on your own terms. For a company that’s too expensive in some cases. People bring up ps3 emulators working then shit talk Sony as if the ps4 could run them lmao. Modern PCs still struggle with some ps3 emulated games so no matter what some consoles just can’t go backwards. Plus less than 1% of the user base is gonna be emulating at any given time. It’s a neat feature but to a company it’s just useless. Ps4 and ps5 are pretty similar and have hugely shared fanbase since the games and diminish returns has kicked in there’s no huge graphical or hardware developmental difference like with the ps1-2-3 anymore.

@@georgec9384 Emulation just isn’t the same tho. Every single time I’ve tried emulation it doesn’t feel good, at all. The first time I played Super Mario 64 was through an emulator using a Ps4 controller. I had to bleach my hands afterwards because of that.

Do not get the switch then. No backwards compatability is one of many Ls for the switch.

@@waled7564 Yeah, emulation is often the only way to truly play prior-gen games. Rarely can a new system natively play its last gen games. Going back to more than one gen is basically out of the question. When emulation is necessary it is far better, in most cases, to either play on the original system or use a PC with the horsepower to run the game well.

You're right, they probably have multiple.

Does Scott face time them

He calls twice a day to report lasagna on the console

Funny story that's basically me with the private server Toontown Rewritten's support team... I uh... Forced an IP ban and uh maybe emailed them one too many times to appeal it and uh... Yeah... They REALLY don't like me anymore. I mean they hated me while I still played for literally no reason but like they really hate me now...

@@FusionFall20 Ah, so your the Brandon that Steve from Customer Service was going on about... JK I just wanted to make a funny comment.

i watched the video, you don't need to quote it.

Bababooie

He is not wrong.

@@tubegerm6732 so ppl cant comment their favorite quotes from a video?

@@tubegerm6732 still funny though lol

I never knew it until a few years after I gave away my wii for a wii u

I had like 50 euros on a game shop and most of the new wii games were of that price or even more,, the store employee told my parents that with that money i could buy a gamecube controller and like 3 used gamecube games, i was really happy

Shoot the Gamecube controller ports aren't just there for GC backwards compatibility. Wii games can use them too.

my family didn't realize it until a decade after we got it and I wanted to use my GC controller for MKWii

@@techy804 at that point just play mario kart on the gamecube

Our little boy is growing into a little man before our very eyes! We need to cherish these moments ... I wish I knew how to scrapbook!

WHERE

@@PorkpieJohnny On his face?

@@Dargonhuman AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@@Dargonhuman This was unnecessarily funny lmao

Honestly, in both cases, I don't understand the issue.

Fortunately that capacity of playing GBA games natively makes a hacked 3ds the perfect handheld for playing all nintendo's handheld catalog

Not really, the homebrew community literally ripped Nintendo's emulator out of the ambassador gba games and figured out how to put arbitrary gba ROMs into it, complete with fancy home metadata and home screen icons

@Jayden oestreich yes

if you say so

It exist on Xbox One

Scott's wallet dies constantly on every purchase he's ever made .

Collecting lifestyle

I never found that to be my preferred way to play DS games, it was worth getting a DSi XL to utilize the full screen ratio imo

Oh, thanks for the tip!

Bruh you only need start or select

Does that include newer models or just the original 3DS?

@@starryrose6168 every 3DS has that feature as far as I know

What's cool is if you have a scratched disc, if the Xbox One can just barely read it and see what it is, it'll download.

Except it doesn't work with every game

Some games have been delisted digitally unfortunately. So they're only playable through a disc.

i know it's completely unrelated, but i love your profile picture

Bruh

Thats a fun fun fact

What does that have to do with this video?

Dam lmao

@@zachatck6567 Well Scott is in it. And he is talking about video games

I mean you can play dark souls whit potatoe graphics

It isn't emulated: the Wii U just has a Wii inside it. They even share the CPU.

Cool but I don’t think anyone asked

Useful information is useful information

I didnt know that, might try that out even tho i prefer the bigger aspect 👌

I can confirm this

@@brandonlewisgaming6982 Useful information is useful information, doesn't matter if someone asked or didn't ask.

*12.9 million

*12,999,999 The last one was sold to me

I have a Wii U

@@LeynosJehuty shan shiro!

*looks in closet * he took my wii u!!

I have rewatched the dark age of Nintendo comp over 5 times now and there is no way I am stopping until at least 20

Fully agreed, dude! 😎 I hope that the "switch 2" or whatever is backwards compatible with my switch games. That way I can play Mario 3D All-Stars for years to come instead of keeping fingers crossed that Nintendo would re-release them...

None of what you said refuted him. Sure the wii u had backwards compatibility. Still sold like shit

@@lakitudude7577 None of what *you* said refutes *my* claim. Plus it does. I didn't directly say that backwards-compatible consoles sell well, yet the 3DS and PS5 are titanic examples. My argument is that backwards compatibility is a great selling point and is widely used. Scott claims backwards compatibility is rarely used. I never once even claimed it makes them sell better. But also, don't go there if you don't know what you're talking about. Scott may also partially wrong about this. I don't know if he despites backwards compatibility being a *reason* consoles sell well or if they sell well at all, yet still. But to reply to you, the WiiU is one of the worst performing mainstream consoles. Meanwhile: #1 PlayStation 2: >155 Million units sold. All/most units backwards compatible with PS1. An undeniable factor in its success, documented everywhere, not to mention the PS1's preexisting >100 million units. #2 Nintendo DS: 154 Million units. A lot of units were not backwards compatible, but the Game Boy Advance was so popular (80 million), Nintendo banked on it playing Game Boy Advance games in case it flopped. #4 Game Boy/GBC: Can't find specific numbers on each model, but arguably the Game Boy was *forwards* compatible with GBC games, lengthening its own lifespan and contributing to the success of GBC games, so it arguably counts at least a little. You can go down the list to find even more. 7 out of the 10 top selling systems had it, and most, including the No.1, was influential to its success. Backwards Compatibility might not guarantee success, but can bolster a well-known brand ten fold. Final (anecdotal) point: You assuming backwards compatibility has no correlation with success reeks of privilege. Most can't just buy the new consoles. Often, you sell your old one and games to buy a new one, with around only half the money you put in, ergo you lose all your old games and can only buy very few. Meanwhile, buying a console backwards compatible with your old one makes selling the old one carry no weight, and raising money to get the new one. You assuming it carries no correlation to success makes me think you never had to *make* that choice.

@@Morhamms357 let him cook

@@PotionMaster21Dawg had 5 months to come up with a counterargument and did nothing. I think I gave him enough time to cook.

It wasn't a huge success all over Europe. In Scandinavia for example, it failed pretty hard and NES ruled supreme.

@@Real1Gaming Well here in brazil even in the early to late 2000's some people still were buying it for some reason

Depends on where in Europe, really. Here in Germany, the NES lead the market next to the Commodore 64 on the home computer side of things. Over in the UK however, the MasterSystem was the shit. And actually, I agree as I have a couple of MasterSystem games that I still like to play every once in a while.

@@Real1Gaming Meanwhile in Poland, we had bootleg NES clone called Pegasus lol

The reason data says it sold more than the NES in Brazil is because it doesn't count NES clones

I’m confused

@@crackerjack0349 The third generation of Xbox includes the Xbox One and the Xbox One X; the fourth generation includes the Xbox Series X. The difference between the names don't make it sound like a generational leap forward

@@uncannyplatypus2131 They should have called it the Xbox Z.

@@ninjabluefyre3815 YBox

@@uncannyplatypus2131 didn't they say it was just an ultra buffed Xbox One X

The man knows funny

Indeed

Like that image that Nintendo sent to the guy who asked about SNES games on the 3DS

Kayla, are you okay

@@skerpy of course they are cooking mama fucking slaps

@@aubreyh1930 indeed, especially shop and chop but i hate toast and eggs recipe, i always fail it even if it's only two steps

Yeah I grew up on GB/GBA/DS and PS2/PS3. Backwards compatibility central

i think this is my favourite comment ever

I wish I could get a PS5

Even more, imagine if the only thing you could play would be PS5 games and had to buy again all PS4 upgraded games?

I use it! I used my 3DS to play DS games before I had a DS Lite, and I got a DS Lite specifically for the GBA backwards compatibility! That and the ability to transfer my currently-hypothetical Pokémon from Emerald to Platinum when I eventually get the former! I also used my Wii U’s backwards compatibility quite a bit.

Many phones can play ps2 games now.

@@HoangNguyen-ej4wb yeah but a lot of the good ones like San Andreas you have to pay for, I'd rather play it for free since I already have it lol

Ps2 is a really good dvd player and has many good games. I'm waiting for the ps5 to come out to lower ps4's price so I can finally afford a ps3. Ps3 is really hard to emulate and there are many good games that I want to play.

@@HoangNguyen-ej4wb yeah ps3 does have a lot of good games, I wanted one when I was younger because it had backwards compatibility, but my mother said she's rather just save up for the Ps4 since it was new at the time. Right now the only reason I would want to buy a Ps5 is for Spiderman miles Morales.

I still play my PS2 games. And PS1 games as well. Thank you, backwards compatibility

at least there's dosbox thankfully

Emulators

it still amazes me that you can boot the real deal msdos 6.22 and play those games to an extent on modern hardware (like, think today's ryzens and such), your mileage might vary and you'll likely only have beep boops for sound but still

You can with Dosbox

Still trying to get Reading Blaster(9-12) to run on my PC. Used Hyper V but no sound with Hyper V Used Virtual Box but it ran like crap I miss the windows 7 virtual pc, that shit was perfect for what I needed.

I can change that lol jkjk

@@TrevorCollin_ ................. d- oh.

@@TrevorCollin_ *oh* *no*

Same 🙃

Trevor Shute Unless.....

Only 4? Amateurs

Luckily homebrew exists, too bad Scott's too stupid to get it to work.

@@Xelical tru

I mean if you had two options to port games and one was “the system that revolutionized 3D games” and the other was “the third worst preforming console” which one would you choose

@@phet1211 They run natively, there's no port needed, other than perhaps tweaking how the triggers work.

At least we can use the adapter on the Switch!

Maybe he used it as a pot or plate? lmao

That was a way to play one of the very few GC cooking games.

Was the "ravioli" brown, chunky, and smelly?

@@jupita551 That's my best guess, haven't thought about that thing in years, I can still remember him showing it to me and being able to see where dried pasta sauce and bits of pasta were lodged into various places and just laughing my ass off.

hope it was ultra smash

@@SlyHikari03 It's actually Power Tour.

@@Mordecai0799 That explains why then

Pokemon fans:

I would buy a psp for that reason

That’s probably the reason

Honestly a smart move on their part! Both BC and gamepass actually made the console stand out

It was the reason. That and the XBox One never recovered from the 2013 reveal.

That is the reason I play GTA 4 anyway 😂

That’s probably the case and it definitely worked for me. Having the convenience of just popping my 360 disc into the one and installing the game is way better than what Sony was offering, which was charging us to play a PS3 games for weird increments of time. Like you can pay $5 for an hour, $15 for a day, and like $30 for a week of something like that. It was very strange and I hated it. Thank God they updated it to be more like Gamepass.

@Lyra Heartfold True. But if there are official first party emulators for both systems, why didn't Sony take advantage of it?

Yea ps4 is overall weaker then the ps3, that being said it would be possible to play ps3 games on ps4 (because of ps3 games barely using the power of the system) but it would take a bunch of time and resources and it would basically just be porting the games to run on the ps4 and doing that for all the ps3 games isnt cheap and generally not worth it. (Unless you were to resell the games)

I still can not believe that modders got the master chief collection on ps4

@@zachh2864 the PS3 is stronger than the PS4? Are you joking?

@@GrammerPancreas I think they just mean the Cell Broadband Engine potentially and nothing else.

yes

Lmfao

He obviously didn't mentioned it, he didn't wanted to go to Brazil

Are they still selling Sega consoles in Brazil in the present ?

@@liengandriod55 yes and no, SEGA license them to Tectoy, who keeps producing them.

@@thaismagalhaes5928 Ohh ok. Thank for the info 😊

Não achava que eu ia achar brs nesse tipo de video

It would be more confusing if it somehow added region locking to original DS games.

Some US Nintendo DS games are region locked, like the Brainstorm Series Treasure Chase.

@@fingrati That's because it's not a normal DS game, it's a DSi enhanced game

That's why you hack the damn thing

Am I alone in thinking this doesn’t sound particularly confusing? “I was able to play my games, now I’m able to play my games.” Must be more confusing for owners of an NA 3DS. But I don’t know that I’ve ever heard someone complain about it. Does Mario not come out in every region? Zelda? Insert Nintendo evergreen franchise here?

no i think he just took a photo of the micro on carpet and chromakeyed the cartridge in

I know right? I thought it was real at first and took me a second to realize it

The cartridge is chroma-keyed on. You can tell by the bottom right corner. Still cool shot!

You can just photoshop it, it's a still image

Can someone explain to me what the big deal is? Couldn't he just have taken a picture of the micro and the cartridge?

I didn’t knew the gb micro is the size of a thumb

dude that was definitely edited, it's not THAT small lol

@@TheFreakOnee woooosh

@@marmarchan69 lol That doesn't even make sense there is no woosh happening here

@@TheFreakOnee wooooshing someone is a way to indirectly tell somebody that they didn’t get the joke.

If you want even better, try gaming on PC. Very fun

Yes 😌

Well it’s midnight where you live

@@nasseemnaffaa3266 yes.

Bruh its 9pm here

It’s only 7:50 in the USA

only goodness

HUh.... thats incredible

Huh? wow just incredible

Get out of here Mario.

Hope you have some free time for the next few weeks

And I’m glad you just download an emulated version as my disc is scratched to the point it was unplayable on the 360

ALL I SEE IS BLUE!!!

It’s the SAME END CARD.

It’s just blue

He fixed it!

thank you god for fixing this

@@ayeayeayeeee Scott was talking about Xbox’s past when saying that.

"to this day" bro it's been 24 hrs

Cursed

Super Mario Galaxy 2 isn't real and never will be.

Is it real? I thought it was a meme.

The WHAT?

And our number 8 spot is brought to you by colts firearms, hmm can't get enough of those colts firearms, thou shalt not kill, and thou can not kill without the use of colts firearms, colts done is again!

wow, thats one of my favoratist of the 10 condements

timestamps

Also, there's rom injection programs around the internet. I have a pretty good library of GBA games on my 3DS thanks to that.

I miss my Nintendo 3DS 😢😢😢 But I did ask for a Switch for Christmas, so the Switch and Xbox One S have got me covered

I want nintendo to release more handhelds so the cost of the switch can be smaller so the cost of the new 3ds xl can be smaller so that I can finally afford a new 2ds xl and modded it.

@@HoangNguyen-ej4wb lol, check the official store. Refurbished 3DS and 2DS are actually quite cheap.

@@eloy40x I searched for a 3ds in Vietnam a lot and most of the 3ds I saw are modded. Also what's the normal cost for a refurbished new 2ds xl?

Like their axes?

It's Scott Day

SCOTT DAYYYY

SCOTT DAY?????

*SCAWT DAE*

SCOTT DAY BABY

If you live in a country like mine, optimal is about right. Better to buffer than to not load the video at all.

Yeah, work computers don't like the word "Optimal."

@@accountwontlastlong1 Which country do you live in then? Brazil? Tuvalu?

Man. That's early.

Mine was for having a GameCube.

Mine was for breathing

True

@@maragifalaziongarudyne7406 yare yare

Didn't ask

@@notveryniceatall L + Ratio + 9 year old😊

Oh man, I guess I’m an *alleged* tax evader now.

Always has been.

@@rita-Shi-Mi isn’t that meme dead

@@elvisking1150 not in my heart

Is that a Gex quote?

True! Also, my backlog is so huge I don't know when I'll finally play all the old games that I wanted to try.

Same, that's why I picked the next gen console I did, tf makes you think I can afford all new games.

Just dont throw your old consoles away the second a new one comes out.

@@thelegendofstonecoldstevea3205 Sadly, my apartment doesn't have room for my NES, Genesis, SNES, Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1 - 3, and all my Xbox's. Also, this doesn't include my handhelds like Switch and 3DS.

Thanks fully, many of my old consoles I gave to younger family members, so I may be able to play them again assuming they didn't sell it.