Expanding?

[Martin]

I've been considering expanding EmuTalk to cover all emulation, but I don't know if it's such a great idea. The forums would need some massive restructuring, but it's hardly a difficult thing to do. The question is, do we want this? Or should we stick with our Next-gen forums only? :innocent:

[Slougi]

Hey, SNES ownz So does Saturn and SegaCD =)

[DuDe]

Yeah, yeah, we want it, we do Arcade machine emulation forum would rule...

[Eagle]

Well one point of view is that not too much longer N64 emulation is going to max out like NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. People will move on to bigger and better things (GameCube, PS2, XBox, Dreamcast, etc.), but if EmuTalk doesn't it will quickly be left in the dust.

[CpU MasteR]

Originally posted by Martin
I've been considering expanding EmuTalk to cover all emulation, but I don't know if it's such a great idea. The forums would need some massive restructuring, but it's hardly a difficult thing to do. The question is, do we want this? Or should we stick with our Next-gen forums only? :innocent:

Well, you could do this in the mean time. Dreaming about Future emus are kinda dumb.

[Eagle]

I think you should have it sort of like you do for the Favorite Games section. Have an N64 Section and under that all N64 Emulators, a PSX Section and under that PSX emulators, etc. etc. This way you prevent from having a beginning page thats two miles long and General N64 Emulation can be posted directly under the N64 section and General PSX emulation directly under the PSX section etc. etc.

[Tri-Force]

if you want to do it right do what eagle says. but Yah we should have a Snes section at least becasue that is the system that most people eumlate on their own computer. the only thing is that there aren't too many BIG problems to work out with these emus so you might put a section up that just turns into a can of spam. what MIGHT work though is to have just a section called "Classics" that would cover conversation of nes and snes as well as the other clasic systems. (wow im getting old if snes is classic) but then have an arcade game secton as well.

[pj64er]

Originally posted by Eagle
Well one point of view is that not too much longer N64 emulation is going to max out like NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. People will move on to bigger and better things (GameCube, PS2, XBox, Dreamcast, etc.), but if EmuTalk doesn't it will quickly be left in the dust.

was he being optimistic or pessimistic? ???

id say just expand to arcade emu, it'll take a while to 'max out'. On the other hand once next-gen emus get hotter (and n64 gets colder) then expand to that. if u expand to next-gens now, the board will be spread to thin (who would actually go to a forum where its all speculation anyway?).

[Eagle]

I was being optimistic, in summary, I was saying Emutalk needs to move with the times.

[Martin]

Thanks for the input, it seems like a lot of people think this is a good idea. I need some more suggestions on what to cover, how to structure it etc. For instance, not every system that's emulated can have its own board. I doubt a Sinclair Spectrum emulator would get much attention, and there's nothing more boring than empty boards.

Please comment.