2023-08-14 00:35:50
Legal emulation finally available on our Xbox consoles!
The streaming of your father’s or grandpa Riggs’ games accessible at any time via a subscription of 29.99€ per year or 80€ for unlimited release, this is something to dream regarding! Especially following the summer soap opera that animated emulation fans with the ban on hackers installing many emulators on their Xbox Series X|S in order to enjoy Gamecube, Dreamcast, Playstation games… illegally. . In the closet the bigoudènes of Tipiak!
A neat interface
The offer is tempting: 1300 games at launch and, among them, jewels of video game culture such as Operation Wolf by Taito, R-Type by Irem, old pre-94 SNKs and a few nuggets from the time Megadrive/Snes or even computers such as the Amiga or the C64.
The catalog with the mention of the original Hardware
We are faced with a rather clear interface. Fit 1300 games in a dashboard is not easy but you quickly get your bearings. The presence of categories Shooting, Driving, Puzzle… are readable. The first disappointment is that the application (I will call it that even if it installs in the game part of your console) is only available in the language of Shakespeare. Nothing to complicate but for a solution to transmit to the younger generations what made us vibrate during our tender years, it remains a brake.
Orders before each game
Antstream Arcade allows you to participate in regular challenges in order to capture the player that we are. The dashboard also allows you to like your favorite games and allows you, for example, to make “save states” in order to resume your game at any time! One of the mandatory functions of any emulation, rest assured, it is present. It lacks the rewind option which would have been a plus, especially when we tasted emulation via Nintendo Switch Online, but let’s not be choosy.
So I’m launching my first games. A pre-game screen shows you the controls for the title you requested. Great but I hope they are modifiable or re-mappable as they say in the jargon and well NO. It may be due to a technical constraint, what do I know, but the ba-ba of accessibility is simply infeasible.
Not possible to put it in Tate mode but the shoots are there
I chose to launch Gunbird 2 which I know well via my Dreamcast. The game starts fine. But the same, no option that allows you to adjust the difficulty via the terminal’s internal menu, but what a pleasure for Psikyo. We also notice that rapid screen changes, artifacts or pixelation due to streaming that lasts a small second. What a pleasure to replay slalom between all these dumplings.
Star Wars 90s
Star Wars 80s… the problems are not very visible.
The experience being satisfactory, I decided to take a leap into prehistory by launching a few Amiga, Arcade 80s, Atari or even Super Nes games. No defects to note. The Stream artifacts are less present or in any case less visible because on one of the first Star Wars all in black background and composed of a more than reduced color palette, it is difficult to see this inconvenience. However, I had the impression of a slight input lag on a pinball game, but nothing really bothersome.
This beauty !
Then comes Metal Slug X, a cult game for me and there it is once more visible with each change of table, when the screen is teeming with details, you can clearly see the limitations of the system. Better to play it natively with the many promotions of the Store.
Atariggs games to lose the ball
I want to clarify that I am equipped with fiber. I dare not imagine what gives a classic connection in the depths of Montcuq. Although Montcuq can be fiber. I admit that the accessibility of Montcuq remains obscure for me in terms of the internet.
Challenge Accepted
The games are renewed periodically. Recently they lost the contract with the publisher Namco so no more Pac-Man and others… there will be, I think, never Mario or Sonic. So what’s the point? The interest is to play in a legal way, to have everything centralized in the same interface, to stop fattening the makers of remakes or HD ports done in a hurry and who only serve to fill the coffers of unscrupulous publishers to make money on nostalgia, put an end to speculators of all stripes who make nostalgia a lucrative market where an NES game can be sold for 200€.
A product sheet with the year, your “save state” and the Hardware
A wolf in the bergeriggs
Is it worth investing? It’s up to you to see according to your expectations, which games are available according to your affect (the list is available here: https://www.antstream.com/games) and the quality of your connection. For this time, I will not give you a definite opinion because it depends entirely on YOU! And I won’t endorse “alternative” means either… We can only salute this audacious risk-taking, this desire to provide the public with a piece of history, to renew the catalog and to bring a beautiful project to life. . Too bad that not everyone plays the game, which limits the offer. When we see in recent years, the releases of consoles or mini computers that are just bought for the collection or to spend one or two evenings at most, Antstream Arcade can take on its full meaning!
Mortal Koooombaaaaaaat !
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