My Emulation Renaissance 

I have a steady diet of ODEs, flash carts, modded consoles, and emulation to serve my retro gaming needs. With those powers combined, there’s no game I can’t play.

This was really good! You should do more content like this dude, it really suits you

Smooth and clean editing, this channel has a future, cheers!

Emulation gave my ps2 collection a new breath of life. Seriously, my earliest memories of retro-gaming started with emulation. When I was about six years old, I visited my cousins at my uncle's hotel. While I was stepping into my uncle's office in this boiler room, my cousin hopped on to my uncle's pc, and told me, Hey? Do, you want to play Super Mario Bros? It literally blew my mind seeing this man; it was crazy! Crap, like, years later, I got back into emulation in early-middle school, but this was when I didn't know about dolphins or Mame. I remember downloading stuff like this random program named Sushi that flooded my pc with Ad-ware; about a few years later, I remember in high school, I saw a couple of kids at the school's library playing Metal Slug, like I haven't seen a metal slug in years, that's when they introduced me to the Mame emulator, and then rest is how you say history-crap, like even at the time, before discovering Mame. I found out that you can emulate GameBoy Games and NES games on your phone!

It’s wild how far emulation has come I remember when I was 11 like 15 years ago my crappy old laptop couldn’t even handle GameCube games lol

Nice trip down memory lane here. Hadn’t thought about Nesticle in DECADES, ha! Heck, I’ve been using Dolphin since the early days as well, emulation has definitely come a looooong way. Great work, glad you’re enjoying emulation again!

You’ve pleased me, very proud of you.

been watching tons of content on old games again recently and this came along- hope to see ur channel blow up and continue making more and more videos of this quality.

Algo brought me here. Very good.

You should make more videos like this!!! They're very enjoyable!

Love the personality you put into this video. Keep it up.

Wow, you're severely underrated! Subbed.

Just speaking as an emulation enthusiast ~~and also someone who talks about things like this on occasion shh~~, your content perfectly sums up the whole thing for a layman and I love it. Have a sub. Hope to see more with this kind of quality! Oh, right, emulation; fwiw, I started hearing about it when some classmates were playing VisualBoyAdvance in the computer lab in 3rd/4th grade. The Virtual Console (and Smash Bros. Brawl's timeline) got my interest, and then VBA and Snes9x were the gateway drugs and I never looked back since. In a lot of ways, emulation is essential; but on the other hand, it's depressing how some official re-releases of older games still pale in comparison to fan-made emulators. I'm not even all that picky about it, and remasters are *great* when done right; but if you're going to be charging money for a product, I at least expect it to try and match the original rather than make it look and play worse than it did in the first place. **coughSymphonia** No, I'm not bitter, what are you talking about?

I'm sorry but how do you only have 300 subscribers? this shit is professional

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us! Also, I can relate on deleting my ROMs and emulators when I was younger, and slowly getting back into emulation after. lol

I started really getting into emulation about 2 years ago since I didn't have my consoles on near me at the time and now I just sort of do that more often now than worrying about setting up anything. Not only is it just really convenient to have all your games in one place but it also let's you play things that you probably wouldn't be able to otherwise. Just last year a translation patch for this game called Racing Lagoon came out, a game that never really left Japan and now due to the dedicated work from Hilltop and his team I can play it and actually follow the story without having to look up guides. That's not even going into games that you'd have to pay an arm and a leg for now just to even get a chance at playing without emulation like Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door or pretty much any notable title from the gamecube.

Great video also that outro tho... good stuff

Awesome video 👏

Renaissance you say, Emulation you say, Mad Little Pixel you say, Retro Game Corp you say, jpsfreak you say, well I'm intrigued.

Generally, for those who wish to remain as legal as possible, it's best to emulate games you already own an original copy of. If you make back ups of your own games and play them it's VERY hard to pursue legal action because making a digital back up of your own games is perfectly legal. It's when you start downloading content you don't own that you get into a very sticky area. It's unlikely you will be pursued for playing roms, but VERY likely you will get in trouble for distribution/ sale/ hosting those files for other people.

One to run them all!

Good video you covered a. Wide range of topics. Espically emulation. I wait till consoles and games aren't being sold anymore before emulating

Lol, P4 on PCSX2 was my introduction to emulation too, I've been hooked ever since.

My thoughts on the _ethical_ standpoint of downloading stuff off the internet: * If the game or console is no longer being made: Consider it abandonware (even if the publisher is still around, the platform isn't) and go nuts. 3DS and WiiU titles officially entered this category as of Mar 27 2023. Remember, the 3DS is actually really easy to mod at this point, all you need is an SD card and an afternoon to kill. * If it's for an actively developed system you can still buy new (Switch, PS5, Xbox Series Whatever): that's actual piracy. Buy it legit if you have the means, and if you don't... eh, you do you. * If the publisher is a piece of shit and doesn't deserve money at all: Yo ho fucking ho. It's _always_ ethical to pirate Adobe products, and thank Miyamoto they're not a games publisher (EA is arguably the Adobe of the games industry, but YMMV).

You have your morals, I have ALL the games

You had a cool Dad. Ribbit King is the goat ruin friendshits local multiplayer game. Smash bros has nothing on Ribbit King.

The Steam Deck really is almost everything I ever wanted in a handheld (it's not pocketable being the one thing). I grew up on and NES and Gameboy and sometime around n64 I learned about pc's and emulators. They were the best thing ever at the time because video games were expensive and the best one's were hard to find. You get the internet and hear about all kinds of games like I had a copy of Final Fantasy 1 but never ever saw a copy of 2 & 3. But emulators made those games and fan translations of the real 2,3, and 5 very assessable. But what got me the most was the GBA and the fact it was powerful enough that people made emulators not of the GBA but FOR the GBA and that blew my mind. All those NES games I grew up with I could finally play on the go. Plus I learned all about the Sega Master System and Game Gear because that was pretty much all the GBA could actually handle. But at that point I started dreaming of having all the Games on the go. I caught glimpses of the idea with the PSP and homebrew and the Switch was nearly there along with weird some of the weird SBC devices like the GPD win. But it was finally the Steam Deck that managed to get there and for a decent price. It even solved the problem of not having a GPU in my computer as I managed to get a deck before the shortage ended thanks to Valve's preorder system.

enjoyable video

A pirates life is a life for me.

I realy likes this video. I love rétro games and émulation.

I have no issues downloading games that are off the market for purchase. I don't think people should pirate new games and I pay for all my games that are current and new. But retro games are fair game.

If its PS3/XB360 era and older, its okay

steam deck supremecy

My whole stance on emulation is once a console stops being sold by Said company and support drops off its fine I also don't download roms unless I own or owned the game or the game is unavailable for purchance or 90x the original price (that's just me tho)

Btw i subed i am waiting for your other video man! And i likes Every single comments

I too had an Emulation Renaissance in 2020

Ribbit king changed a whole generation

TBH I don't even think the piracy angle is that complicated if you consider piracy as part of the free market, a genuine competitor and treat it as such. For example, not emulation but am I really going to go through the effort of pirating games that I can easily play via Game Pass for £10 a month without having to jump through hoops? Or even focusing on emulation, if a casual dude wants to play some old SNES games and can find a SNES mini for a decent price, that's preferable to that kind of person than messing with emulators. If official solutions like Nintendo Switch Online or PS Plus offered better solutions then unofficial PC efforts, far more people would buy them. But as it stands unofficial methods like RetroArch offer you a far better emulation experience, even aside from it also being free

I love how someday it will be so easy to emulate games like God of war Ragnarok, or the last of us,....

im over here emulating everything on my steam deck man.. Even fucking switch which is almost perfect lol Going to try demon souls in the ps3 emulator now. I have memories of silent hill 4 on a ps2 demo disk scaring the shit out of me. I am going to play the full game on the deck finally after like 10-15 years.

Hi, I have a situation about the games I plan to emulate. I am currently unsure if I should emulate games I already have along with the ones I don’t have. Every time that thought comes back to me, I hesitate because I already have those games in my possession, which sounds like no reason to emulate them. So should I or not?

I'm weird about emulation, I'll only use them for games I can't play on official services/hardware. So basically anything on NSO I'll only play on the Switch

I love my Steam Deck. I get to play my old 10/10 games again ♥ Megaman Battle Network series (GBA) Battle of Olympus (NES) Willow (NES) Chibi Robo (GC) Batman (NES) I could go on 😅 Good times

welcome to 2023. Just wait until you try xenia, rpcs3, or yuzu.

I'm the Ribbit King

Algorithm recommended u bro

Damn haven't seen you in a long time, do you still talk to Derek?

Good video, but you don’t need to emulate wii. You basically “rediscovered” games by stealing them since you can easily buy a wii on eBay and play legally. Still this was a very good video.

based Persona 4 enjoyer

A major question for me when it comes to piracy (obviously it's illegal but legality != morality) is whether the *people* who actually made the game are still getting anything out of you buying it. Like, yeah, the company they worked for still owns the rights, but are you supporting the people who made it or just a corporation getting fat off of IP law?

Emulate Switch games. It's the correct answer

Loved it homie nintendo is trash for not preserving content.

What game on <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="134">2:14</a> time?

Heck yea emulation and most ain't making that much effort in preserving their backlog nintendo having not the best option and limited selection added every now and then *at that nintendo online sucks* emulation offers better! To emulation is legal, the getting ROM's part is piracy yes you can dump you're bought copy as many can with their switch copy of a said game.

The lack of knowledge shown here is worrisome. Are you even aware that Dolphin VR exists, that can turn old games into full 3D VR experiences and use the Oculus controllers as Wiimotes?

bro never tried emulation on anything in his whole life and now is hyping up the steam deck like you couldn't already do it on anything else in the market. whats with poverty youtuber making bad video these days?