I spent the whole day flashing the MiyooCFW firmware onto it, customizing the menus, and testing which games ran well and which didn’t (and constantly trying and failing to get Doom to run on it); I think I’m pretty happy with the end results now.

  • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 months ago

    The fact that something like a Gameboy advance sp would be considered retro at this point when it was something I remember wanting a lot growing up still boggles my mind. Still don’t know how I should feel about that.

    (And yes, I do know this isn’t an sp)

    • Odelay42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      To put it into perspective, the GBA sp is 21 years old.

      When the GBA sp came out, the NES was 20 years old.

      Sounds pretty retro to me 😎

    • xyzzy@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      Don’t get ready for the nursing home just yet. You’re not that old if you wanted it when you were growing up.

    • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Personally, I consider the cutoff point between Retro and Modern as being when the sixth generation (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Dreamcast) ended and the seventh (PS3, X360, Wii) began.

      I guess I’m a bit weird in this regard, because I did grow up with sixth gen games (I never had a GBA, but I did dabble with GBA emulation at the time) and thus should probably also feel the same way you do, but I remained quite fond of them even as a lot of people moved on to newer consoles and no longer shared my interests. I guess I had an easier time labeling them as retro because it was easier to justify me still liking them as opposed to “being stuck behind the times” or “being too poor to afford the newer games/consoles” like people used to say to me.

      Like… yeah, I was too poor to afford the newer stuff, but that wasn’t the ONLY reason I liked the older games. I just thought they were neat and had sentimental value to me.

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Well, it seems to be considered retro gaming as soon as the console (or Game in case of PC) is discontinued. So the Xbox(the one older than the one out now, which I don’t know how they are called, because xbox names are strange), PS4, wii u and the 3ds are already retro game consoles per that definition.

        • SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          That’s a fair assessment, though I personally believe there should be a distinction between “previous generation” and “retro”. When the PS3 was a current-gen console, the PS2 and PS1 weren’t really seen as retro, just old and outdated.

          Then again, I guess it’s a distinction without much of a difference. ^^"

          • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            If we look only at the word retro alone, we see, that is very loosely defined 😂

            So, all consoles that were used in the timeframe of 20 years starting between 1995 and 2005 🤪 Which consoles are those, and does this imply that the earliest consoles are now not retro anymore? Are they now “ancient consoles”? Is then ancientgaming? 🤔😆