Can confirm...

I dislike game subscription services on principle, but at least the other guys have new games on their subscription services, not just ancient ones. Nintendo being the first to charge $80 makes it an extra kick in the balls.

i had an nes emulator on my ericsson phone in 2005. good times.

Me too. I feel gross giving Nintendo money, but at least I split a family plan with a bunch of friends

And a JPN N64 to play import games without having to drill out the region lock blocks!

I got good at it back in the day. Still found the controls awkward as hell, but that game (and later on its successor Perfect Dark) had hours and hours of gameplay because it was one of the best fps games of its time (that wasn't on PC where wasd and mouse was already a thing right from the Doom days).

Halo was revolutionary. One stick moved, the other rotated, plus grenades were always a button away (in GoldenEye, the rare times you had them, they were selected like any normal weapon, which limited their versatility. Proximity and remote mines were way better.)

Metroid Prime also had a really awkward control scheme on the GameCube.

There was no standard for how FPS games were played on a controller at the time. Dual sticks weren't even a thing yet. You learned the controls and it was fine. Nowadays it's awful with the default scheme, but you can actually get pretty modern controls by choosing the 1.2 Solitaire setting in the options and binding the left stick to the C buttons, the right stick to the analog stick, and rebinding the rest to whatever feels comfortable. This is even possible on the Switch using the controller remapping feature.

My buddy still prefers the golden eye control scheme, now called “legacy”. I remember him emailing a developer because they didn’t offer legacy sticks as an option in their game. They had no idea what he was even talking about lol

It was so nice being able to rent games and never having to pay a subscription

Lucky. I have my PS3, and I'm having a horrible time finding decent replacement controllers. You can't use the new DualShocks, and compatible controllers you can buy are built so cheaply they don't work very well.

SNES. The sound chip slightly degrades, and since the CPU waits to sync with it, the overall timing of the system is affected.

You can get a flash cart if you want to play a game you don't have a cartridge for on your console. Not particularly cheap, but far cheaper than buying them individually.

Falls into the 3rd panel since you have the original console.

There are hdmi mods for basically all pre hdmi consoles including n64 but they tend to be fairly pricey

N64 has pixelfx retrogem which has 2 models for 100 and 190 dollars, the more expensive model has 4k and additional scalers, the cheaper model is 720p

N64advanced v2 is open source, 4k output, and pricing depends on the group buy you can get in, 150-250

Highspeedido is on AliExpress, 720p output, and is 40-50

There’s also a few that aren’t sold anymore that you can sometimes find on ebay for $$$

I still play the snes i got for $20 because games world at chaddy were dumping all the stock from their trade-in offers for n64s