I’ve done this and I agree, it’s way better looking than real hardware.
As to why it hasn’t affected my real collection one bit, mainly it’s because I like manuals and art and every other aspect of a video game as much as I like the code. Also, It takes genuine effort to get two good joysticks working at the same time, every time, which pisses me off. Also, as is the case with EVERY f*ckING EMULATOR the CDs take extra effort to get going and I’ve never figured it out.*
On a real system if the joystick is plugged in and nothing is physically broken...it works. ALWAYS. Same with CDs. There are no settings on a TG-16. There are so so so many in an emulator. Every time you turn it on you’re f*cking with something. Yeah I’ve played this f*cking thing 13 times, I don’t know why it forgot my button config that I’m pissed off about having to make in the first place because real hardware never needs it.
If I spent a few hours screaming at the internet about how it sucks now I could probably get CDs going but then when my Wii died I’d have to figure it out all over again, when even more of the info has expired and even more of the tutorial links are dead, and frankly I’d rather kill myself.
You have to understand. I’ve been doing this for decades. I sail the ship straight, I do not fall for fads.
* emu authors: do no ever make another TG emulator that doesn’t run CDs out of the box. It isn’t needed. Don’t make any more like that. Time to step up, we’re like 20 years into emulating this 30 year old system and still zero progress in this area whatsoever as far as I know. I’m a complete tard about these things so I could be wrong. I know about copyrights. Just don’t make a new program that’s ultimately going to send 100,000 otaku to forums trying to figure out how to play half the f*cking library. Again. Like the last 20 PCE emulators did.
