
I'm still picking up PS2 games that I didn't have in my collection on occasion to this very day, actually. It was arguably my favorite era of gaming, and its library is incredibly deep and diverse. I love my Retropie for everything pre-N64.įor Dreamcast, emulation has been quite accessible and accurate for a long while now, but I still have my Dreamcast and its library in storage just because I wasn't quite ready to part with those at the time.īut PS2 is a platform that I revisit quite often on and off throughout the year.

If I really wanted to go ham and cut the input latency overhead associated with emulation of those classic games even further I can load up Retroarch on my PC with runahead enabled too.Ĩ- and 16-bit gaming can be faithfully emulated on even the cheapest, most compact hardware imaginable now.

I have a Retropie set up on my main low-lag gaming TV to cover everything from NES through SNES and mid-90's arcade (including Neo-Geo), and with CRT shaders and other niceties I am 100% satisfied with that for all of my retro gaming for those platforms. I felt okay doing so because, honestly, emulation for all of those platforms is accurate and performant enough that I can faithfully recreate the experience of playing them on original hardware via emulation. I sold my NES, SNES, Game Gear, PS1, Saturn (which I acquired later in life for collector reasons), and GameCube along with all of their respective accessories and games. One of the first stockpile of physical goods to go was everything pre-Dreamcast. As time rolled on (and a kid was born), I found myself looking to simplify and de-clutter my physical assets a bit.

without any intention of ever getting rid of them.

When I was younger I had a collector mentality that resulted in me holding on to all of my original retro gaming consoles, cartridges, etc.
