Conker's Bad Fur Day ROM for Mac

[Trainman]

God I love roms so much. I download them for every system. Personally, I don't own any consoles or console games at all; I just play roms. It's far better since you don't pay money and you can save wherever you want. I can't see why anybody would ever pay money to play a game on a console.

Well, I do have ZSNES only because I wanted to play a few games that brought back memories or are hard to come by, but for every system? So, lemme run this by you of why consoles typically are 'better':

1. Not to be the goody-goody here, but it's 100% legal.
2. You own physical copies of it...so no possibility of "OH DUR ALL YOUR ROMS GOT CORRUPT'D LOL" or having your computer crash from it. Also, you may be missing tons of key features that the system offers; aka. system menu, etc. It may just play games and that's it.
3. You own consoles or handhelds from a a variety of companies which will more than likely become collectors' items one day. Have an NES and the computer you use now for roms in another 20 years and see which one would fetch more money.
4. You don't have to play crap on your computer screen or use the keyboard to play games that shouldn't be keyboard-y, e.g. Mario platformers.
5. You don't have to go through tons of procedures or worry about which plug-in works for each game or anything like that. You just put the cartridge/disc in, and it runs. No glitched sound, no glitched polygons, no transparencies, no slowdown, you have system menus and all features within those, etc., etc.
6. Gameplay of newer games will almost undoubtedly be slow or feature no sound, etc.
7. Having rewind, slowdown, savestates, etc. etc. typically makes the game easy as hell...so you wouldn't get the actual challenge that the creators wanted you to experience. Also, I doubt that you can connect to wi-fi and play online with with your games running through an emulator.

8. Since you claim to have emulators/roms for "each system," I'm beginning to think you just can't afford any of the real systems/games and/or you're too lazy...so basically, you'd rather sit around and scour the internet for ROMs of hit games.

You say, "OH DUR how cna ppl not play ROMES?" Well what the hell man, why would we play with emulators save for hard-to-come-by games or super old games? Glorb, I think it's about time you just bit the bullet, and went and paid the "un-Godly" amounts of $50.00 for a SNES, $30 for a GCN, $249.99 for a Wii, $199.99 for a 360, $299.99 for a PS3 slim, etc. (don't forget game costs), and play the games as they were meant to be played.....THEEEEN go try and find a ROM of it.

[CrossEyed7]

Maybe it's just me, but I feel a lot safer having digital copies of games than physical. I can make infinity extra copies of my games and put them in my camera, in my DSi, on my three hard drives, in my pen flash drive (which unfortunately ran out of ink a long time ago), all over the place. All my hard drives and SD cards aren't going to fail at the same time. With physical copies, I typically only have one. If it breaks or gets lost or stolen or the internal save battery dies, it's completely gone. I can buy more physical copies, but there's an increasingly finite number of them in existence, all of them becoming more expensive and less likely to work as time goes by, and if it's a cart, I can't transfer save files.

Also I'm pretty sure Glorb was being a little facetious.

[WarpRattler]

A little.

Tell you what, Trainman: I'll get rid of MAME if you'll spend thousands of dollars to buy me the arcade hardware and games I'd otherwise never get to play without it.

That $30 GameCube will definitely be a collector's item in a couple of decades. Too bad the media for it will have deteriorated.
A left-handed arcade stick would cost me a couple hundred dollars, because I'd need to get one custom-made. Instead, I use the quite comfortable arrow keys and ASDZXC configuration for my fighting games, because my netbook's keyboard doesn't suck for that purpose.
With some emulators, you have online play for systems that didn't have any online capabilities whatsoever.
There are PSX games that don't work properly on a PS2, Xbox games that don't work on a 360, GBA cartridges that don't work on anything except an actual GBA (meaning no Game Boy Player or DS), and the whole deal with region locks. So much for just putting the disc in and it running, eh?

[Chupperson Weird]

This page is filled with ridiculous thinking from both extremes.
I think it is definitely more fun to play on a real console, but for stuff like MAME it's fine to play emulated, and for games you can't get in English (and can't boot on the original system) it's fine too. (e.g. Persona 2: Innocent Sin can't really be played on a PS2 in English without some kind of hardware mod.)
I've never run into a PSX game that didn't work on my PS2. AFAIK there are like two that don't.
In all though, most of my consoles can play stuff from outside their region, and it's not terribly hard to accomplish.
And CrossEyed, I just think you're plain insane.

[WarpRattler]

For the record, MAME and ZSNES are the only emulators I use at this point, barring things I seldom load on the DS.

Definitely more fun on the actual system, yes, and I'd much rather play it on the actual system, but there are just too many cases where the cost of playing it on the actual system is too prohibitive for most people (which is why I use MAME and ZSNES).
Also, Chupperson: Like two?

[Chupperson Weird]

Weird, I'm pretty sure I have a 30001 and don't have any issues with Lunar 2.

[Glorb]

TRENMEN FELL FOR MY TROLLING

[ShadowBrain]

I saw right through it. Well, okay, it was a little foggy, but I still didn't instigate a massive ROM debate over it.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure there was some other ROM-related thread around here that I mentioned this on, but the only emulator I've ever had was "JNES"+600-odd NES games (and some other stuff never really used) on my dad's now-virtually-defunct old computer, installed by an old student(?) of his who, at that point, was going to Digipen. I deleted it a while back out of a sense of guilt and the fact that I just plain wasn't using it anymore (also, the old comp was being ravaged by slowness and/or viruses, and a virtual cleaning was in order). I wish I'd kept just a few,ROMs, though... Punch-Out and Dragon Warrior 2, at least. Anyway, I'm strongly considering getting a copy of Mother 3 so I can legally get the ROM and download the English patch.

[Trainman]

TRENMEN FELL FOR MY TROLLING

Uh oh.

[Chupperson Weird]

I feel no remorse over downloading and patching something to English if it was never released here. They obviously didn't want to make money from Americans from the game.

[WarpRattler]

*coughSoma Bringercough*

[Chupperson Weird]

'xactly.

[Area 64]

I actually only found out about emulators and ROMs in May of last year. I used one to play EarthBound, but ever since, I've used ROMs almost consistently and only play console games on my GameCube (it's the only system I still have). I'd play GameCube ROMs but unfortunately I don't know a thing about ISOs, seeds, or torrents.

[BP]

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All going by the mistake that the word "emulation" means "a video game pirated and played on a computer." I play my ROMs on my Wii. Growing up on SNES controllers that had convex buttons, playing SNES games with a Classic Controller is all too real-feeling. Except, Wii64 is really slow and bad. And Visual Boy Advance GX hiccups a lot.

I still use emulators for PC if I'm going somewhere with my laptop. With it and a 360 controller, I don't even bother taking a Game Boy or a DS with me anywhere ever at all. Not that I take my laptop on drives any shorter than two and a half hours. ...Not that my laptop lasts two and a half hours unplugged where is that AC-car plug adapter

[Trainman]

Hmm, I have seen some ongoing debates about the convex vs. concave matter.

Personally, I like whatever they do with the controllers. I liked the SNES' X-Y concave/A-B convex set up. I like the Wii's convex sticks for the nunchuk and classic controller...it'd feel too low and restrict movement if it was concave. Also, I like the 360's concave setup a lot because it's almost impossible to slip off the thing. The N64 controller, however, is kinda slippery. Maybe they should've made the OEM controller concave with a thick lip (like the 360) or made it convex with rubber (like the Wii). I mean, it's fine at first, but after years of use it gets bad... especially when the stick wears down the the sides of the tabs used to keep it from getting loose.

Since it's loose, I can move the stick freely like halfway to any position, then that only leaves me with about 4 more millimeters to actually move the stick to make a character move, so more often than not I have to return it to the idle position and shunt it to the side quickly (in the same fashion as making a character dash in Smash Bros).