07-07-2014, 01:52 PM
For me, I gotta go with actual consoles over emulation, but if I do emulate I'd prefer it to be on a console/handheld to get as close to an authentic experience as possible, especially with controllers. The biggest things for me are my lack of good USB controllers , and how my laptop monitor is fuck-awful and suffers from hideous screen-tearing plus a bit of input lag (the latter of which is only a problem with emulation; I don't have this issue with actual PC games). I'm a dirty bastard and legality has little influence on my decisions.
However, N64 emulation is especially of concern and disappoint to me, since
-the better hacks pretty much leave you no choice but to emulate on PC (since some games/hacks have compatibility problems or are too big to WAD for Wii) and IMO N64 emulation isn't pretty (but most texture packs look like pure shitola to me-I can't win); I can play every commercial release just fine on my Everdrive 64, but hacks as a whole don't work on real hardware
--particularly Super Mario 64 hacks; can't Wii WAD them due to size, can't play on actual N64 hardware (I've tried), and won't work quite 100% right on PC emulation (Star Road has bits of slowdown and Peach's Christmas Invitation won't budge beyond ~15FPS on my PC)
-N64 emulation as a whole is a tricky scene since it's a difficult system to emulate correctly; the only reason it's where it is now is because up to this point N64 emulation has required tons of per-game trickery to play as close to 100% as possible (hence why some games won't WAD on the Wii)
However, N64 emulation is especially of concern and disappoint to me, since
-the better hacks pretty much leave you no choice but to emulate on PC (since some games/hacks have compatibility problems or are too big to WAD for Wii) and IMO N64 emulation isn't pretty (but most texture packs look like pure shitola to me-I can't win); I can play every commercial release just fine on my Everdrive 64, but hacks as a whole don't work on real hardware
--particularly Super Mario 64 hacks; can't Wii WAD them due to size, can't play on actual N64 hardware (I've tried), and won't work quite 100% right on PC emulation (Star Road has bits of slowdown and Peach's Christmas Invitation won't budge beyond ~15FPS on my PC)
-N64 emulation as a whole is a tricky scene since it's a difficult system to emulate correctly; the only reason it's where it is now is because up to this point N64 emulation has required tons of per-game trickery to play as close to 100% as possible (hence why some games won't WAD on the Wii)