Today’s game is Mario Kart 64. I was messing around in the Time Trials mode today. I meant to do a Grand Prix but got distracted just looking around. I decided to go backwards on Toad’s Turnpike for example, and I guess the car horns bugged out or something because they kept honking at me.
There was also this section where the Race starts. It stood out to me a bit. As far as i’m aware highways don’t have this weird kind of bit here usually, so it makes me wonder what this is for? Does the road have a dedicated section just for racers? Is this a real road? (Well, i guess not since it’s just a complete loop). If it’s not real, did they just build a fake highway for them to race on? Is this what the Mushroom Kingdom’s Tax Dollars are going towards?
I also stopped and looked at this traffic sign. I never really noticed it before but it’s funny to me that the Mushroom Kingdom’s highway system has road signs and i assume laws on merging lanes too.
On jungle parkway did you know the boat will turn around? I didn’t. I stopped to follow it for a bit and just found out it will go down the river and do a 180. I assumed it just kind of popped in and out when it got a chance.
There’s this little canyon river i noticed to on Peach Circuit. It’s one of those things i knew it was there, but i didn’t know it was there. Yknow? I wonder what it leads too. Looking back i should have taken a free cam and seen if it connects to anything.
There was also this little bit behind the bleachers i noticed. I thought it was interesting that it was there, and more importantly it was a sloped surface. It would have been (i assume) easier on the system and developers to just make it a square which is interesting.
Anyways, i basically just drove around the tracks and looked at things i noticed. I kind of forgot to actually play the game. There was another thing to do with the barn on Moo Moo Farms having windows on the side you can’t see that i wanted to get a screenshot of, but i couldn’t get a chance too.
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I do actually own original hardware, it’s a bit of a headache to setup though so I really only use it for situations where I feel like its controls are really needed or just special occasions. So usually I emulate.
I chose Lemmy because I liked how small the community was if that makes any sense? Like, I won’t complain if it gets bigger, but there’s something nice about refreshing the page a few hours later and instead of getting an onslaught of new posts to consume, it’s just a few new posts stacked on top of the old ones from before.
I guess if I had to summarize it, Lemmy feels a lot less like it’s trying to shove content down my throat which I appreciate. It makes interactions a bit rarer for me, but also makes them feel a bit more authentic
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The QOL are definitely what makes it worth it. The only console I prefer OG hardware is probably the Wii and N64, and only because there’s not really a uniform way to capture the controls. Even then, there’s adapters for both controllers (I just don’t have any) and for N64 most games you can work around the controls in some capacity with only a little jank
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Ooh, yeah, now that you mention it those are two other consoles i try to avoid emulating. I have a 3DS i still use regularly, but man, it does suck that there’s no comfortable way to play the DS/3DS games emulated on a PC
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My PC isn’t anything special. I was cheap about the case (if i had my way though i wanted to put it in a old Beige PC case). Specwise it’s a Ryzen 7 3700x, 32 GB of DDR4 RAM, and a Radeon RX 7600 XT. It’s enough to run most modern games on Medium without breaking the bank.
I think in total it cost me around 900$? I remember i got the CPU really cheap (one of the pins were bent and i had to straighten it out) and the GPU i got a good deal on too.
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