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Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by rkagerer »

voidfunc wrote: post #10
brabel wrote: post #2

Before reading this I didn’t realize how today gaming is different from 80’s and 90’s gaming , to the point Kazeta is a thing! I thought that mostly, CDs had replaced cartridges and loading games became slow, but apparently subscription plans, online chat and “micro transactions” are now accepted as standard gaming?!

Have you been living under a rock for the last 15+ years? I haven't touched a CD since the late 2000s.

Have you been living under a rock for the last 15+ years?

Yes, and I'm not coming out until projects like this finish scooping up all the crap MBA's have excreted all over the place in that time.

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by vunderba »

Neat concept. I had to dig through a lot of the docs before I could get a good grasp of exactly how this works, though. It's an OS that mounts/searches all drives (such as an SD card reader) for the first available KZI file which is a format that describes how a specific game is run (the runtime, additional gamescope options, etc).

While the idea of essentially mimicking old school carts by having a dedicated SD card per game is intriguing, I'm not sure I personally see the appeal of something like this over a Steam Deck + EmuDeck installed - particularly since you'll probably need to build/buy a miniPC that is compatible with Kazeta.

Another concern would be controller compatibility, from what I can see only one controller is listed as being officially supported (8Bitdo Ultimate 2C Wireless Controller).

https://github.com/kazetaos/kazeta/wiki/Requirements

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by serf »

sd card contact wear is pretty radical on constant insert/removal.

second: one of the things that made cartridges great was that they were human-sized. as were CDs. An sd card inserted into a more handle-able/human 'cartridge' would be cool, maybe gameboy sized was about perfect imo.

fiddling with sd cards and slots isn't great.

an snes/genesis cartridge falls into the thing, you can't miss or do it backwards without reeally trying to. They give an affirmative 'clunk' when fully engaged.

(also the contact wear on those was horrendous too.. maybe the SD card IS authentic..)

Re: Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

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Post by darkwater »

serf wrote: post #16

sd card contact wear is pretty radical on constant insert/removal. second: one of the things that made cartridges great was that they were human-sized. as were CDs. An sd card inserted into a more handle-able/human 'cartridge' would be cool, maybe gameboy sized was about perfect imo. fiddling with sd cards and slots isn't great. an snes/genesis cartridge falls into the thing, you can't miss or do it backwards without…

An SD card is not that different from what the Switch uses, at least size wise. Use micro-SD for the actual data and a cheap SD adapter with a full size SD slot and contact wear should be an easily solvable issue.
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