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My Video Game Collection

By Collecting, Gaming, Music No Comments

Well, it sure has been a minute here. Outside of work, COVID-19 and just general life things I haven’t had much of a chance to post things on here. To break myself into the habit of writing again, I thought I’d do an easy one and catalogue my video game collection. I think I’ve built up a nifty little collection over the years, mainly focusing on quality and not quantity.

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RetroArch and CRT EmuDriver Setup Guide

By Emulation, Gaming, Tutorial 42 Comments

I find bad documentation really annoying. If you want to setup RetroArch and connect it to a CRT display, instructions are pretty weak. You have to jump around 3 different sites to get some cohesive information and the official libretro wiki doesn’t mention anything. This guide will cover getting RetroArch connected to your CRT display, pumping out glorious 240p or whichever natively resolutions you’ll be using.

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How to set up DEMUL properly: Part 2

By Emulation, Gaming, Tutorial 10 Comments

In the first part of our DEMUL guide, we covered prerequisites and some basic knowledge needed to get the emulator running. In the 2nd instalment we’re going to concentrate on the meat and bones, the emulator itself. DEMUL is easy, if you know whats exactly needed, something that isn’t really explained in detail anywhere. By the end of this guide you’ll be playing Marvel vs Capcom 2 in no time.

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How to skip long game intros in MAME

By Emulation, Gaming, Tutorial 5 Comments

Ever had a MAME game that has an that takes ages loading up? You’ll be happy to know that these are entirely skippable. As I was picking out games for my MAME setup, I noticed a handful of titles that just took ages to load and figured, surely there must be a way to skip these. Not we’re not using frame skip or speed up, we’re gonna be using save states – here’s how we do it.

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Someone who wants to ramble on about games, arcade, emulation and design. Maybe a few other things too.

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