@@LovelyAlanna Stop being a douche, I clearly remember downloading it and using it in Win98 and by the time, it did have an icon. In fact, you can even see the icon in the thumbnail of the video
Reminds me of when Vinny did "Classic SNES Games (Just Like You Remembered Them)", in where he played SNES games on an absolutely ANCIENT ZSNES, and the sound and music sounded amazing. And by amazing, I mean all over the place, but mostly hilarious.
ItZed Having now watched a bit of the stream myself, yeah, the sound is pretty horrendous, though the video doesn’t really do justice to how crappy it really was back then on our puny little processors we had back then. It would’ve run at about 1/10 of the speed, on the average computer of the time it was released.
So, some trivia about this emulator and it's creators. This emulator was made by one Icer "Sardu" Addis of Bloodlust Software. Sardu created this, _Callus,_ (the CPS-1 emulator), and _Genecyst_ (the Sega Genesis emulator) on his own. His programs and their features, such as on-the-fly tile/color editing and movie playback, really helped shape the emulation scene. It's really sad that he discontinued his projects because of the source code hacking incident with Donald "Mindrape" Moore. He truly was a pioneer of emulation and a damn good coder. I really enjoyed the Bloodlust Software games he and Ethan "Hellbent" (not _that_ one) Petty - whose name you may recognize from _Watch_Dogs_ - made, back on the 90s. I wonder what he's up to, these days. I never got the chance to meet him… or, give him my thanks. *Side-note:* v0.31 of _NESticle_ is where things start getting more accurate, for the curious. In fact, several games that were tried here - _Battletoads, __-The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy-__ 7 Grand Dad, Jeopardy!_ - work fairly well in that version.
Basically, what random lolz said. Sadru and Ethan were post-High School students, at this time, and had previously worked on games with more blood, mutilation, and midgets, than _any Mortal Kombat_ game, almost-always played for laughs. Sometimes, though, these jokes went somewhere. For example, Shitman - the self-proclaimed "the lord of the log" - was going to be a major antagonist in a Bloodlust Software run-and-gun game called "DisGRUNTled." I forget what his exact role was, but it had something to do with backing up the city's sewer system. The protagonists - two over-medicated old farts who broke out of their retirement home with Uzis - would have to gun him down. In the proof-of-concept demo, there's even a giant mound or volcano made of crap and filled with urine, though it doesn't do anything. On a related note… if anyone's curious about Buddy, his (unofficial?) story can be found in the demo version of _TimeSlaughter._ He used to be a perfectly normal guy… but, after playing the _TimeSlaughter_ demo, he sold his Chess set and registered the game, after which his IQ "increased" by "100 fractions," and made him "very special," according to his mom. That kind of humor wouldn't fly, these days, but back in the 90s, it was god damn _hilarious!_
8:36 Nesticle. A really old, broken emulator from 1997 that somehow emulates Super Mario Bros. 3 _without_ the column of mis-coloured tiles usually seen on the far right of the screen on not only other emulators, but Official Nintendo Software
Missing those tiles is technically inaccurate emulation, since the garbage is present on real hardware, but gets cropped off by older TVs. Emulating TV overscan would fix that right up.
Timestamp time! Someone would tell me if I have a mistake in my testimony right? 6:00 Super Mario Bros. 2 8:27 Super Mario Bros. 3 15:35 Dr. Mario 17:26 "Zelda" (Unplayable) 17:35 Super Mario Bros. 20:52 Karnov 21:30 Jeopardy (Unplayable) 21:44 Jeopardy 2 (Unplayable) 21:46 Jeopardy 3 (Unplayable) 21:48 "Jackie" 23:10 Knife Boy (Major spooks there) 23:16 Megaman 5 23:27 Megaman 1 24:40 BattleToads (Unplayable) 24:58 DuckTales 1 26:20 NOT scary Knife Boy 27:36 Kirby 30:30 Metroid 36:50 Super Mario Bros. (Slow, then fast) 41:07 Contra (Fast?) 43:13 RobertCop 3 (Crashes) 44:40 "Bingo" (Loud. Turn down volume) 45:20 Castlevania 48:30 The Legend Of Zelda (Drunk sounding) 52:27 Robertcop 1 54:57 Top Gun 59:43 Megaman 1 (Mixed up with Megaman 2) 59:47 Megaman 2 1:02:50 "Mike Tyson 1" and "Mike Tyson 2" (Don't work) 1:03:03 EarthBound 1:06:10 Metal Gear 1:10:00 DuckTales 2 1:10:40 7GRANDDAD (Crashed sadly)
Only 20 billion?! I don't see how 30 billion is enough for such a transgression. If you seriously think they don't owe every last one of those 40 billion shekels; you don't understand intellectual property. I say they should pay all 50 billion and be glad that's all they have to do.
Maaaan, this game... I mean Emulator is made by Bloodlust Software, the makers of Timeslaughers! Thier works are so absurd, but beyond hilarious. I really would like to see their return. Because i haven't heard them for a while. So yeah. Thank you, Shitman!
Did you know that Ethan "Hellbent" Petty works for Ubisoft, now? He was the lead writer for _Watch_Dogs._ He also has his own games going under the "Gnarled Scar Manipulations" company name. He finally got that "O'Sirus the Snip" game released, though only episode 1 is out, right now. No word in _TimeSlaughter 2,_ though.
They made a bunch of absolutely amazing and disgusting games back in the day. Timeslaughter, Noggin Knockers, they even had this really old sidescrolling beat em up I can't ever seem remember the name of. There's a few channels on youtube that showcase some of Bloodlust's games and I recommend checking them out lol.
20:23 It's not the Amstrad or the Amiga. The Amstrad was around as sophisticated as the NES (it actually uses the same CPU that's in the Sega Master System, and for that matter Nintendo Gameboy), and the Amiga is a legendary 16 bit (and later 32 bit) computer that is frankly competitive with stuff like the SNES and Sega Genesis (technologically anyway). The Amiga even has a built in 4 channel chip that can play sample based music, not as good as the one in the SNES, but keep in mind this thing came out in the 80s. There's even a pretty good port of Quake 3 for later Amigas, but it needs some heavy upgrading. You're probably thinking of the ZX Spectrum or something thereabout. Late 70s and early 80s 8-bit computers were the ones with notoriously crusty graphics, even the Apple II qualifies here.
There were many emulators before Nesticle that were much more accurate. The problem with them was that they were extremely slow even on an above average rig. Nesticle was the first emulator that could be ran on anything, and it achieved that via loose approximations of almost everything.
Oh lord. I actually remember this emulator a bit. I think I was still 5-6 years old when I used for the first time? This really takes me back... I was just a baby mate and too naive to understand the joke and the severed hand.
I remember playing this on my 486DX in Windows 3.1. There was also No$gmb which worked great, but you had to exit to DOS for color games to run full speed. ZSNES worked too... at about 0.2 FPS.
@@brendan9734 My earliest experience with PJ64 was with 1.4, a lot of games looked like ass, but for some reason ran better and crashed less than with 1.6, Majora's Mask, for example, would crash when turning into a goron in all versions except 1.4, but the game lacked lighting and shading, it looked like one of those trash slenderman clones.
What's interesting to me after watching Joel for so long is that he seems to treat applications on his computer like physical items he owns, with stuff like keeping two copies of Nestopia on his computer even though one doesn't work right, or in the case of this VOD collecting old emulators. I've never seen this phenomenon in anybody else, just Joel.
The Metroid password destroying NES consoles isn't true. Mine survived me trying it with both of my copies, the normal silver and the rare yellow cartridge. Yep, I risked bricking an uncommon cartridge (because I don't think there's anything to actually break on the game). :D On a real console it just freezes on a blank screen. The GBA version (unlocked on Zero Mission) is smart enough to detect that something has gone wrong and resets the game.
blobbem WHAAAT?!? But that Nerdtendo game, classic masterpiece, has no flaws, you must get gud. That game sure ain't as cryptic and confusing as Bill n Ted and only gets praise for bs sake, no no no, no way Zelda 1 is broken ☺
Being born in 2003 i unfortunately wasn't able to experience the absolute majesty that was this, but felt enough of a part of history with my dad telling me I had to be careful playing Mario Kart 64 because it made his computer overheat. He also talked about early Dolphin, and i remember thinking "no way, your computer can't run that"
I like grinding in JRPGs yet I still didn't quite like Earthbound Beginnings, don't get me wrong there was a lot of charm to it but after 6 or 7 hours in, something wasn't clicking for me so I bailed out, honestly playing it felt a bit like a chore, I guess you need a very specific mindset and a lot of patience to play 8-bit RPGs in general, they're VERY limited, totally understandable but difficult to go back to.
Part of the crust of old emulation would have been from early rom copies as well, yes? I vaguely remember some roms weren't ripped properly or something.
23:25 Even though Mega Man 5 is one of my least favorite Mega Man games, it hurts to see Joel (or anyone for that matter) not even bother to try it and instead blindly jump on Mega Man 2 because "it's a classic". No wonder it's the most popular it's the only one people played, or play to this day. As a Mega Man fan who doesn't care too much about Mega Man 2, this bothers me to no end.
Dog, don't even worry about it, Zsnes is still good. Yeah, it has an old interface, but it was running smoothly since a long time ago... I don't have trouble with it, so why update?
Really annoying how Chat started to spam Ness = Sans in chat like a braindead pile of feces when Mother 1 showed up on screen. They are so immature sometimes.
Well, at least he's not trying to run Project64 1.7. Changing your gfx plugin shouldn't cause a BSoD, and the forums shouldn't then tell you "You have an unstable hardware configuration. PJ64 can't cause blue screens." I'm glad we have alternatives.
@spoon I don't know everything but from what I understand it goes roughly like this: Two high school kids programs grotesque and violent games as a sort of middle finger to censorship and banning of violent or mature video games. They become sort of notorious (shareware?) game programmers who make a bunch of these crude but entertaining games over the years. They end up splitting up over a multitude of issues, one of them (Icer) goes on to make some very primitive emulators under the Bloodlust software name such as Genecyst and Nesticle. That guy goes on to work at Zynga or whatever that video poker company was called. The other one of them still works in the vidya game industry to this day I think. And Icer still does programming last I checked. Again, I don't know the full story and I'm a little fuzzy as it's been a little over a year since I looked into it. Tl;dr Two kids make goofy and gross games and go on to actually become semi successful programmers.
I know, but Kirby was one to work! I definitely will have to try some games there, but I kind of doubt any of them will run. Days of Thunder, Elite, Color Dream games, Batman: Return of the Joke... and some other stuff!
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