What Are Your Retro Gaming Dream Machines?

[NeoRage]

Here's my new writeup:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/06/ ... hines.html

Lemme know what you think!

Great writeup! I think you helped sell a Messiah Generation NEX, I forgot all about it until I read your article

[Mega-Dan]

I am not sure if this counts, but my favorite retro console as of right now is definitely my gamecube with the GBA adapter. I have been playing final fantasy IV advance, and all sorts of old NES, and other old style RPGs mario, and metal slug style games on it. And what is even better, is that when your done playing, you pop out the cartridge and take it with you in your gameboy! Thats a huge advantage overe a modded xbox, you can play onthe big screen at home and on your portable on the go seamlessly. Plays NES games perfectly and has many old style games and SNES ports. And there all really cheap since the DS came out.

modded xbox is really the emulation machine though. Pair that with my street fighter gamepad (which is almost exactly like a Saturn controller) and you have a really nice retro game system. Plays SNES, Genesis NES and even turbo grafx cd and Most mame games at full speed and is a movie player to boot! Doesnt get much better than that. Its like owning the original console, I cant tell the difference in 97% of the games (some games have funkyness but you dont even have to change cartridges to play a different game!)

Never got into the dreamcast homebrew much, never got much of it to work. Tried beneath a steel sky , but it never loaded, and neither did much of the other stuff.

PS2 homebrew is pretty lame, but I guess it works if you dont have an modded xbox.

[viniciusfs]

I like to play in the original hardware and I'm a Nintendo fan so I have my NES, SNES, Famicom and Super Famicom. I would love to play Genesis, PC Engine, Neo Geo and other systems but I don't have money to buy all theses machines so I'm thinking about get a modded Xbox.

[bawitback]

Just give me a modded saturn, and i'm in heaven forever.

[Mega-Dan]

I am thinking about getting a flashrom cartridge for a SNES, they just started making them, that would be really cool! its like the GBA flash cards, it pretends to be a real cartridge and you can write to it on your computer, and then put it on your SNES. I am not sure if they are available yet or not but I think NEO is the company making them. Original hardware + rare imports = happy times.

[racketboy]

I am not sure if this counts, but my favorite retro console as of right now is definitely my gamecube with the GBA adapter. I have been playing final fantasy IV advance, and all sorts of old NES, and other old style RPGs mario, and metal slug style games on it. And what is even better, is that when your done playing, you pop out the cartridge and take it with you in your gameboy! Thats a huge advantage overe a modded xbox, you can play onthe big screen at home and on your portable on the go seamlessly. Plays NES games perfectly and has many old style games and SNES ports. And there all really cheap since the DS came out.

I actually wrote about this a while back
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/02/ ... ntial.html