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DepreceV2
04/11/25 12:51:47 AM
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-for the rest of your life, what would it be? Side note, no emulation allowed in your library. This includes official emulation like what Nintendo is doing. The games have to have been released on that system with no emulation. Remasters/remakes/ports are allowed since they arent emulation.

My pick without hesitation would be the Gameboy Advance.

EDIT: PC is excluded for obvious reasons

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Evening_Dragon
04/11/25 12:55:22 AM
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Assuming PC is excluded: Is it cheating if I go with the Gamecube because it has the Gameboy Player?

Actually no, even then I'd probably still go with 360

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SomeLikeItHoth
04/11/25 12:56:20 AM
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Switch if ports are allowed so I can play Final Fantasy IX. PS1 if not.

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DepreceV2
04/11/25 12:58:50 AM
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Evening_Dragon posted...
Assuming PC is excluded: Is it cheating if I go with the Gamecube because it has the Gameboy Player?

Actually no, even then I'd probably still go with 360

PC is excluded because of its absurd library. I should have said that in the OP. The Gameboy player I honestly didnt consider. Lets exclude that as well

SomeLikeItHoth posted...
Switch if ports are allowed so I can play Final Fantasy IX. PS1 if not.

Ports are allowed


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El_Dustino
04/11/25 1:00:07 AM
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DS because I get the full DS library and also the full GBA library

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Enclave
04/11/25 1:01:01 AM
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DepreceV2 posted...
PC is excluded because of its absurd library.

That's a shame, even if you ignore the size of its library it also just has the best library of games in general in my opinion, not to mention the best options when it comes to control schemes.

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DepreceV2
04/11/25 1:02:51 AM
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El_Dustino posted...
DS because I get the full DS library and also the full GBA library

That is insane that this didnt cross my mind. It counts too because its built in. I change my vote to the DS LMAO

Enclave posted...
That's a shame, even if you ignore the size of its library it also just has the best library of games in general in my opinion, not to mention the best options when it comes to control schemes.

PC does have some ones I really enjoy and Im sure there are a ton I havent discovered yet. It would just be too easy of an answer

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Iyami
04/11/25 1:15:21 AM
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If you choose ps4, would any gane you can purchase on it digitally count?
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DepreceV2
04/11/25 1:27:47 AM
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Iyami posted...
If you choose ps4, would any gane you can purchase on it digitally count?

As long as its not emulated then sure

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Turbam
04/11/25 1:30:36 AM
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Probably the DS?

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Baron_Ox
04/11/25 1:42:33 AM
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I guess PS5 because of it being BC with PS4.

I would have gone with Xbox Series since you can play games all the way back to Xbox(?), but there are a bunch of PS exclusives I prefer.

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Kisai
04/11/25 2:00:17 AM
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Baron_Ox posted...
I guess PS5 because of it being BC with PS4.

I would have gone with Xbox Series since you can play games all the way back to Xbox(?), but there are a bunch of PS exclusives I prefer.
I was going to say PS4, but PS5 is a good pick. Unfortunately, Star Ocean Second Evolution is the only game I can think of that you'd be missing out on.

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Bokothechoco2
04/11/25 2:11:18 AM
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If I can include English patches then SNES probably
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Trelve
04/11/25 2:11:21 AM
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PS2 as it can also play PS1 games and it's not emulation.
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Joelypoely
04/11/25 2:16:07 AM
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Probably between either Series S/X or PS5, since ports are allowed
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ToadallyAwesome
04/11/25 3:53:04 AM
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Ive on the DS train. The library access is insane and hits so many good games/ports/remasters

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ItsNotA2Mer
04/11/25 4:27:12 AM
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The 80GB PS3 with 4 USB ports, so that I can play both PS1 and PS2 discs.

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Kisai
04/11/25 4:38:49 AM
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ItsNotA2Mer posted...
The 80GB PS3 with 4 USB ports, so that I can play both PS1 and PS2 discs.
The 80GB one doesn't have full backwards compatibility. It's the 60GB that does.

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Nukazie
04/11/25 4:40:45 AM
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switch i guess

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ItsNotA2Mer
04/11/25 11:50:15 AM
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Kisai posted...
The 80GB one doesn't have full backwards compatibility. It's the 60GB that does.

My memory fails me in my old age.

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tripleh213
04/11/25 11:52:32 AM
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Steam Deck since it'd not pc

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DepreceV2
04/11/25 7:19:37 PM
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tripleh213 posted...
Steam Deck since it'd not pc

Come on now. No obviously lol

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UnsteadyOwl
04/11/25 7:21:14 PM
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Switch

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thronedfire2
04/11/25 7:24:05 PM
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El_Dustino posted...
DS because I get the full DS library and also the full GBA library

this, easy choice without PC being allowed

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a-c-a-b
04/11/25 7:26:38 PM
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Kisai posted...
The 80GB one doesn't have full backwards compatibility. It's the 60GB that does.
I'm fairly certain that my first PS3 was 80GB and it played both PS1 and PS2 discs.

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archizzy
04/11/25 7:46:05 PM
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a-c-a-b posted...
I'm fairly certain that my first PS3 was 80GB and it played both PS1 and PS2 discs.

Yeah my early 80 gig did too. This always leads to confusion. The original 1st generation 20 and 60 gig PS3's in North America were full hardware backwards compatible. The 40 gig units were not. The 2nd generation 80 gig units that came out originally had hardware GPU but they emulated the emotion engine CPU. This was similar to the way European 60 gig models did it.

Then later 3rd generation 80 gig models this was removed. They all played PS1 games but the PS2 games is where these differences came from. The emulated CPU wasn't quite as good as the 1st generation hardware units but it still was PS2 BC and played most titles.

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thronedfire2
04/11/25 7:49:29 PM
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Sony could have easily made their entire library backwards compatible because blu ray technology can easily scale down to DVDs, but they chose not to to sell more consoles and more expensive games.

and also there was probably licensing stuff. A dev may have agreed to sell a game on the PS2, but sony would have to negotiate again to sell it on the PS3

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