OT: video games, waste of time & money?

[Jim H]

"Ok, but most of the old systems are emulated well enough that it's only a few games that don't work. With the PSX and N64 I've heard the rate of working games is more like maybe 50% if that."

I shouldn't of said the N64 was working so great, as I really don't have first hand experience - second hand really (I tried them when they first came out, but they're terrible on a keyboard or joystick).  ePSXe is supposed to work with over 99% of games though (I've tried about 15 games in it and all worked perfectly).  Final Fantasy 9 requires a 1 ghz processor for some reason - way over any other games requirements.

About the colecovision..  I've seen a ROM pack of every game released for the system floating around.  I didn't snag it, but it was less then 10 meg if memory serves.

[Jim H]

I do have the complete colecovision set.  It's about 3 megs.  I'll try to find a place to host it.

[JohnL]

>I do have the complete colecovision set. It's about 3 megs. I'll try to find a place
>to host it.

Back when older ROMs used to be much easier to find, I think I downloaded almost the entire set. I compared it to a list once and I think it was only missing 4-5 really obscure titles, like educational games and such. I also grabbed several of the Adam disk images.

I haven't bothered to run either emulator for myself yet, but I tried them out over a friend's house several years ago, and I wasn't overly impressed with the games. I mean, the Colecovision had this image as being an incredible game system that made me think it was on a level with something like the C64, but the games didn't look all that much better than magazine type-in games. Even the enhanced Adam games weren't all that impressive.