Play some Doom

Over at xtdos.com they have a massive selection of DOS games available for those nostalgic times in your life! The beauty of xtdos is there playable directly on the website. so check em out. FUCKING DOOM RIGHT HERE!  

android for gamers!

There’s a lot of selection when it comes to android gaming. From the casual to the hard-core, all aspects seem to be covered. The stunningly well received Angry Birds has opened the casual market as well as other notable games such as doodle jump and fruit ninja bringing light hearted gameplay mechanics to the simple folk. I’m not going to focus on those types of games. I’m going to focus on the games to appeal to the console/Gamer market.

Gameloft seem to be doing fantastically well with mobile gaming  as well as EA taking a cut with the mobile version of dead space and the ever so popular FIFA games. Gameloft still takes the crown with their selection of amazingly detailed FPS games such as NOVA and the rainbow 6 games. Both showing good gameplay and well thought out combat systems.  konami have ventured into the market with their PES series of games (hopefully one day a metal gear!).  and glu have made a few good games such as Gun Bros. these are all fantastic games!

There is also a new wave of MMORPG’s appearing spanning from the pocket legends game. Similar themes to most pc online RPG’s. Expect massive popularity as people grinding levels on their way to work!

Another fantastic reason android is becoming an infamous gaming platform is the bewildering array of emulators to available for you to play games from the spectrum to N64 all beautifully faithful to their stone age oversized counterparts! 

playstation emulation made simple!

In a previous post I demonstrated how to emulate cartridge based systems of the 90’s. what if your time wasn’t the 90’s what if you only ever play tomb raider III on the ps1? Well in this post I’ll tell you how to get a Sony PlayStation emulator running. Lara croft will be jumping endlessly in no time! So assuming you know the basics, if not read up (link to cart emu) if you’re ahead on class I shall begin!

To make life really simple and take loads of the headache out of playstation emulation emuparadice put together a little zip file with all necessary files included! - http://www.emuparadise.me/emulators/files/epsxe160_full.7z

Download that file and unzip it in your emulators folder. Now you have a PlayStation on your pc! Now for games. Games on cartridge based machines like the snes use “roms” were as a cd based system will use a virtual copy of an original disk. A really good place to get hold of these files is - www.theisozone.com there is a wealth of games to explore!

After downloading your game and placing it in a folder for your psx games. Open up the emulator. Then click on file, then “run iso” navigate to were you placed your disk images an select a game to play! It really easy. As with any app take your time to explore the menus and options to make it run to you’re liking. Hope this gets you playing some of your old favourites again.

emulation high-end fun on low-end computers

Okay, so you have a crappy old computer or low end notebook, you're sick of Farmville and you think your computer's not much good for much more than YouTube and Facebook?

On most counts you're probably wrong! Using a process called emulation it's possible to have a retro buzz! How about some Sonic or some Street Fighter... for free?!

  Here are some easy to understand instructions on how to do just that! To make things easy for now I'll stick to cartridge based machines, but as you know your original copy of Zelda isn’t going to fit in your SD slot... To play your games you're going to need two things; an 'emulator', which is essentially an app used for mimicking the hardware of your favorite old school system. The second thing you will need is a ROM of your favorite game(s). A ROM is a virtual copy of a cartridge. So now you know what you need, this is how you get them. A good point of reference is www.emulatorzone.com they offer the best range of up to date emulators to choose from, organized by console. 

1. you decided upon the epic mega drive and fusion Download the zip or exe file (if file has a weird extension like .rar use a program called WinRAR (www.winrar.com) and then get your emulator!

2. Place the downloaded files in a nice little folder called emulators anywhere you like. Making a folder called 'roms' helps for organizations sake.

 

3. Now you need to get your games or 'roms'. I'm a big fan of www.emuparadice.com

for the sake of my example I'll download Earthworm Jim for the genesis/ mega drive.

 4. Now you have the ROM, place it in your ROM folder. Next, open up the emulator and press file-> open-> now go to were you stored your ROM. Double click and you're ready to go! ... Nearly.

 5. It's a good idea to have a little click about and familiarize yourself with the options within the emulator. You can set your own keys and if you have a USB gamepad like that of the PS3 or 360 they're easy to set up as your main controller (usually via an option menu).

Now you're all set! Hopefully my introduction to emulation got you going. if my really bad screen shots and steps dont help here is a "little watch me do it"

There's a lot of really nerdy things to play with and happy gaming memories to live over... highest score on pac-man gets after me!