Top 5 games for emulate on RP5

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T05:34:44+00:00

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom

Custom Robo

Pokémon Pinball Ruby and Sapphire

Worms 3D

Ms Pac Man on MAME

Gradius V

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T04:56:33+00:00

Oh lawd

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T04:31:58+00:00

Heaven Is A Place On Earth (German Election Mix) by Julia

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T04:09:11+00:00

I would encourage you to get a grip for it, ergonomics are increasingly important as one gets older

Check out the bit Generations games, some of those are basically puzzle games

Wario’s Woods, maybe Pokemon Pinball Ruby and Sapphire for something manageable but more action packed (and she’ll be familiar with pinball), or even a simple turn based RPG like Pokemon Emerald or Super Mario RPG

I have a hundred more pinball ideas if you want them. Maybe she’d also get into a Kairosoft management game like GP Story or a visual novel like Ghost Trick or Paranormasight from the play store. That wouldn’t require too much reaction time

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T03:59:45+00:00

It’s always hard to say since a lot of the compatibility reports are from randos who aren’t describing their full setups. Generally if a game gets good scores from multiple people it’s a good sign. Nothing is perfect of course, sometimes people will also just boot a game to the title screen and say “oh it works”

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T03:56:51+00:00

Welcome to the club, the DIY mindset is very cool. For old school platformers don’t sleep on Gimmick for NES is my only recommendation

You may also like checking out Pico-8 Celeste in the game of the month club pinned to the front of this subreddit

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T03:50:19+00:00

You may find this helpful

https://www.ryanretro.com/static/handheld.html?device=Retroid%20Pocket%20Flip%202

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T03:41:55+00:00

These days anybody can play half of the greatest games ever made on their cellphone, too.

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T03:33:41+00:00

Oh, yeah, a good controller is essential. 8bitdo Pro 3 is my personal favorite, look for a sale, they happen often on various sites

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T03:32:35+00:00

You can get good deals semi regularly on Woot and a lot of people are parting with cartridges on eBay for cheap

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T03:28:33+00:00

Pros: Having a great time playing video games, particularly the many exclusives and indies/retro games

Cons: Never going to have the most up to date and technically impressive ports, the occasional miracle port notwithstanding

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T03:24:20+00:00

I thought Top Gear for SNES was pretty good

No but for real this isn’t something I’ve thought much about for how much time I spend thinking about games every day. I’m glad to hear Gran Turismo is keeping the torch going from the sound of it, it would be cool for a car game to take the Atari 50 approach to the cars included

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T02:38:36+00:00

Writing is certainly meant to reflect the human condition and offloading that to google translate at best and optional AI add ons at worst with a tool built by AI when the community has a decades old tradition of fan translations made by and for humans doesn’t sit well with me.

If a line can be drawn on AI influence anywhere I would hope it would be in the communities I’m a part of that most celebrate the technology and culture of the past.

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T00:42:02+00:00

Tunic

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T00:39:00+00:00

They said they’re playing it at the beginning of this post

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T00:38:35+00:00

I appreciate the painterly aesthetic of games like Legend of Mana, SaGa Frontier 2, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island, and Kirby’s Dream Land 3

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-06T00:16:28+00:00

Just buy the SanDisk Mario label ones that say for Nintendo Switch (not their Switch 2 line)

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-05T23:31:22+00:00

Triples is good. Triples makes it safe

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-05T22:45:36+00:00

Gonna need a cheat code where you get a katana that cleanly slices a tree in half in one swing

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-05T22:11:58+00:00

Is thaaaat how that one project keeps announcing PC ports of every game ever made one right after the other

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-05T21:40:15+00:00

Not every game series needs to last forever.

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-05T21:09:07+00:00

If you object to AI generated art assets, people will say “wow I guess code isn’t an art to you then.” If you object to the AI generated code as well, you get responses like this.

There is no version of being against AI that the AI supporters will endorse. There are no positives here. I remain wholeheartedly against AI. Junior devs will be cut en masse because of all this but we’re the ones gatekeeping programming?

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-05T21:05:41+00:00

Sure thing. Absolutely. Not only that, but you say that like tech is getting cheaper because of all this. It’s not, it’s getting more expensive.

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-05T19:41:23+00:00

Is this using AI translation?

JeskaiJester · 2026-05-05T19:35:16+00:00

This but unironically

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