• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Every few months I completely blow up a person's brain by showing them emulators exist. Every person so far has asked if the can get Mario on their phone. It's actually kind of magic.

    • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's genuinely my favorite small thing to help people do.

      The joy I've gotten to experience from people realizing they can re-play their favorite childhood games is worth it every time and usually brightens my day up as well.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Super Metroid is now available on the PC in the office at my work cause I showed people how to do it.

    • Owl [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      What emulators do you recommend on phones?

      I've used emulators for decades but I spent like 5 minutes a day on the phone, so I know nothing of this world.

      • riseuppikmin [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Android or iOS?

        If Android, for about as simple as you can go from a setup perspective, Lemuroid has solid support (through retroarch cores) for essentially everything through the PS1 era. It's essentially a pared-down version of Retroarch for people not interested in fiddling with as many settings who just want to scan a folder for roms and play games.

        If you're looking for more fine control or a broader list let me know and I'd be glad to elaborate.

        • Owl [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I'm on Android, so I'll check that one out. Thanks!

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Retroarch and Lemuroid are good frontends for a bunch of emulators. There are others if you wanna have more individual control over controls or shaders or whatever, but just avoid the SNES emulator SuperRetro16 like the plague.