A 10 minute long discussion of literal umbrellas is something I've come to expect from you guys at this point.

This needs to be a “this thing I own” episode

"there are only eight umbrellas in the world and they just float around changing from owner to owner" That was the funniest quote of ever heard about umbrella's

Fun night vision story. I was in my backyard messing with nods, looking around and staring at stars. All of a sudden, I see flickering of a dim, but decently bright light behind me. I then noticed my neighbor was sitting in the backyard smoking under candle light. I then started waving at him and for a solid 30 seconds, I was wondering why he wasn't waving back. I then looked at him sideways instead of through the nod, and I realized that I could barely see him because of how dark it was. I then proceeded to feel like an idiot and laugh at the absurdity of it for a few minutes

I find it humorous that in order to get new RF shields for his copy of RE2, which was ported to N64 by Angel Studios, Zach bought a used copy of Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball... WHICH IS ALSO MADE BY ANGEL STUDIOS.

this is the most autistic discussion I have ever sat in on. it beats "Free Milk Crate" I never thought something would beat "Free Milk Crate"

When I was a kid we took a game that wasn't working to the store and the guy there said that the reason blowing in the cartridge works is because your spit gets on the contacts and temporarily makes the connection stronger. He said that it also corrodes the contacts and that you should only use rubbing alcohol. I then went home and cleaned it with peroxide, because in my dumb child brain it was basically the same thing.

All roads lead to a Gun Rant. Even a conversation that started with Retro Game Consoles.

I'm going to have to come back to this video when I don't have 400 mg of THC in my body. That red circle is freaking me out.

I've been keeping my gamecube and its games as a treasure of my childhood... You just made me realise it's one in a much more straightforward way ahahahah

From what I understand, Japan has been cracking down on pachinko, hence why it looks like Konami is actually doing something. Also, as someone who had a copy and played the shit out of it, the randomizer in RE2 is really simple. It just randomizes some consumables. Otherwise, key items and guns are set

I agree with Zach's feelings about .22LR. You can get pistols that hold 20-30 rounds of .22LR. Sometimes you can find something using .22 Magnum (really wish that round was the standard .22 that every bought). Put all of those in the face of an attacker will work really well. Also the body will work depending on what organ you hit. Most times when someone is attacked and the defender has a gun, the defender will just unload on the attacker.

The ultimate combination of splinter cell and MGS. Zach outside in his underwear with his nogs and mk 23

Yo being a Canadian hearing them mention the woman from big comfy couch is also in resident evil blew my fucking mind. Would have never pictured the goofy clown/mime girl i grew up watching also fought zombies

One day we'll tune in and Zach will just say "I built a robot out of my stuff. He is my son"

Basically what they're saying *"Game preservation is awful"*

When Zach said "I'm really excited to get that" 35:26 i thought he was referring to dementia

Thanks guys for giving me some laughs on my first night stuck at Fort Johnson

The whole alternate costume key on classic Re2 can also be obtained in the original play station copy with the same method. Though claire only gets 1 costume but gets the colt saa. Another thing with classic Re2 if you go to the options and controllers and hold L1+R1 and press square 20x till the logo turns red you get infinite ammo

A company managed to cram 1.2 GB into 64 MB in the 90's but nowadays no one optimizes their files so you can hold like two games on your modern console.

The fact Zach actually remembers the clown show is bizarre for me

.22 LR applied to a number of vital areas can be quite fatal. These areas include: Jugular veins Femoral arteries Temples Eyes Back of skull Back of skull through the mouth And more! .22 LR! For when you need to prove a point!

And here I was thinking I didn't need to upgrade my umbrella game, Thanks Zack

Great, now you made me put a 120€ self defense umbrella on my "to buy" list.

Starting with the memory cards for the GameCube, Nintendo switched over from battery based saves to flash based saves on their cartridge based storage media

Zack spending waaay too much money on very specific items that fill a very niche application he will probably only use once or twice in his life? Relatable. These very niche objects with secondary properties just give one peace of mind. Better have a second or third option for self defense that not!

The hot clown from BCC was in RE?!?!?!

When I was younger I got to try a thermal scope or something like that that was mounted to the top of an APC at a carnival of some kind

Night vision now comes in 3 differnet flavors! white, green, and halo 3 odst outline, i shit you not, the new ones look like that.

for some reason if Zach ever got into PC building or into Aliexpress he would have talking subjects for days.

I'm have recently found yall from your gun rants and then camp fire stories and have enjoyed yalls content and only wish I had found yalls content sooner, but good thing is I can binge yall

HELL YEAH AROUND THE CAMPFIRE, BABY! LETS GO!

Umbrellas were behind everything. Oh, and the special costumes on PS1 had the sideways gun as well for Leon

Imagine holding a metal stick with some fabric at the end of it to block rain. No, your rubber soled shoes aren't gonna help stop the big zap.

I feel like you would have loved my grandfather on my mom’s side, Zack. He was a field accountant in WW2 and Korea but what he did between the 2 wars you would have found interesting. From 1946 to 1951 my grandfather did the accounting for a few gun prototype projects. He was actually sworn to secrecy for all the projects, a week before he died he decided to tell most of the family what happened. Each gun project had a 10 years of funds for $10 to $50 million. (1) Universal M1911 Basically every possible modification to be done to the pistol including changing the actual caliber. There were over 20 M1911 turned into a .50 caliber. He preferred the rifle M1911 but the generals wanted a bigger caliber but ironically lighter in weight pistol. (2) The Thompson LMG Basically the army wanted to turn the Thompson into a belt felt machine gun and also change the caliber. (3) “Advance” M1 Grande The Navy wanted a lighter BAR so they made an M1 Grande full auto. Then they added an over head stick magazine. Then they made a bottom push up magazine. Then they started to add things like flashlights, scopes, silencers, and anything else you can possibly do to mode a gun like in Call of Duty. (4) The Spy gun The general and leaders of a government agency that eventually becomes the CIA fell in love with the Liberator. Over $50 million was spent to make the Liberator into a better gun. 19 prototypes were created, 5 worked and 2 were both mass produced and then a shelled in a military armory in Texas. The “good” one was basically a cheaper made M1911 in the style of the liberator but without all the regular annoyance of reloading each shot. You just had to manually slide the gun slide back and forth after each shot. 5,000 were made. The “bad” one was a bigger caliber 3 shot revolver with a silencer that you could not remove but the hand guard could. You also could fire the gun without the hand guard and remove the “revolver” piece for faster reloading. 12,000 were made and sent to a military armory in California. (5) America’s first assault rifle The only project my grandfather wanted to be apart of and saw actually potential. The Rangers and select OSS groups wanted an Americanize version of the STG-44. 3 prototypes were created. The FG-42 mixed with an M1 Grande basically, the STG-44 in the caliber of .30-06, and a very square looking AK style rifle. In 1948 America got their hands on an AK-47. In 1949 the second 2 prototypes were stopped being produced even though they worked fine. The second prototype had over 6,000 made and the third prototype had over 10,000 made. Both sets of those prototypes were sent to a military armory in Pennsylvania. The FG-42 mixed with the M1 grande never worked. Technically only the .48 caliber M1911 was in service for one special operations mission. There was an actual full auto .50 M1911. My grandfather said the projects that did not waste money should have been sworn to secrecy and not the tax payer money wasted projects.

Thank his this was released today I’ve ran out of podcasts and I got a day full of work alone

Hearing Zach get all giddy over the idea of shooting targets at night with night vision and a laser on a MK23, it makes me remember why I love guns so much. They're just so fucking cool.

Can't wait for Zack's RE2 classic research video

once i noticed the Discussion was about Emulation... i knew Mercenaries for the PS2 would come up. that thing is INFAMOUS to get it to run properly, and it is a very fun game.

Clarifying N64 output, all N64's natively support Composite output (Yellow, White, Red cables) and all NTSC and most PAL N64's support S-Video (DIN connector,) PAL regions did also typically support SCART format cables however these were outputting Composite or S-Video. Through hardware modding you can add RGB output supporting RGB Scart or separate RCA cables depending on what your TV supports. RGB is upscaled better than Composite and S-Video. (side note the HDMI converter thing Zach has is an upscaler) It may be possible to support YPbPr (Component, five RCA cables) output. Which outputs you would use are entirely dependent on region. In he US (NTSC) it was most common to see Composite and S-Video if you were lucky, but RGB was pretty much reserved only for studio/professional monitors. In PAL territories (most of Europe) Composite and S-Video were common, but almost all TVs supported the SCART standard of input which does support RGB, so RGB was more common when supported by the hardware. NTSC later moved on to Component as a better alternative to composite that supported better picture quality and higher resolutions. All these standards were supplanted by HDMI-compatible input. To break down how these formats work, we start by explaining the different signals sent to the TV. The most important signal is Sync, often referred to as Y. The Y signal carries sync information telling the TV what resolution and framerate to display at. It also carries intensity (luminance) this is a black and white signal. Then there is a signal for each primary color, Red, Green, and Blue. Composite sends l these signals down the same line resulting in a blurry image with color artifacting. S-Video Separates the Luminance from the Chrominance (color) which is a slightly cleaner picture. RGB separates all of he signals which results in he cleanest video and support for higher resolutions. YPbPr is similar, however the sync signal is sent along with Green, the result is effectively the same as RGB. HDMI is a form of RGB that is designed specifically for HDTVs and monitors. If you want the best picture out of your retro consoles strive for RGB or YPbPr epending on what your TV supports, though keep in mind RGB can be easily converted to HDMI and YPbPr cannot (though it is possible.) EDIT: The battery in battery backed up cartridges is to keep circuitry running. Saves are stored in SRAM rather than solid state memory like an SD card and so it needs electricity flowing through that SRAM circuit to keep the data in memory. Also it's a good idea to replace those batteries regardless of if they are still working, because batteries have a tendency to leak corrosive alkaline fluid that will corrode and degrade the internal circuitry of the board which they are attached to. Sometimes the damage can be reversed with a lot of hard work, but the damage can become so extensive that the board will be unsaveable. Edit Edit: I'm almost positive that the CRT Zach found at the end is some kind of medical monitor.

My parents were together for 20 years got divorced became friends again after 7 years and when my father was diagnosed with cancer they got back together again. My dad died 2 years later and my mother still regrets their separation. I inherited my father's house and my mom bought the house diagonally across the street from me. My grandmother recently retired from the sherriff's department and moved in . I love having them so close by ❤

Memory is really weird. I recall the costumes/weps being in the ps1 version as well. But looking that up yields completely different looking costumes.

38:00 SO FUN FACT, THE MERCENARIES XBOX VERSION IS AVALIBLE ON THE XBOX ONE AND SERIES PLATFORMS

crt's also helped blend the pixels to a more intended look since games accounted for the pixels being inside crt lines so the blending effect makes you see what was intended as well.

Oh cool something to listen to on my break

55:16 so you basically had the real life equivalent of the Samurai edge

Zach may not want to play that baseball game, but Uncle Larry might.

WOOO MORE AROUND THE CAMPFIRE

Those videos are definitely my favorites from you 2

33:24 Hey I can explain: by description it sounds like the handhelds are using some type of Random Access Memory (RAM), instead of an SSD or HDD--both subsystems require significant space, and introduce new points of failure. RAM memory on the other hand is just... super light weight, replacing them is dirt cheap, just need the right kind... but they require constant power to maintain the circuit states. HDD/SSD don't have that limitation. What is probably going on, is the onboard RAM is capable of reserving a fraction to 'saves' and then references different checkpoints against the cartridge to figure out what it means. Probably doesn't require a lot of power, at the end of the day.

ZACH If you don’t mind paying for an emulator in a box, Earthbound IS on the SNES classic. To be fair tho I myself bought the SNES classic bc I just liked the concept and hadn’t played 90% of what’s on it, and nowadays I’m p sure they’re out of print so to say, so *shrug*

If you have an Xbox, Mercenaries is backwards compatible. It was a game with gold several years ago and I had a blast replaying it after 15 years

I have a copy of Twilight Princess and i got it when the GameCube was a new console

Modern BIOS chips don't need the battery power to store the BIOS, but the settings and the clock need power by design, so it's easy to reset everything. Also, the reason why old cartridges need batteries is because the memory they use requires power or it will discharge because it's not solid state. Some cartridges also used capacitors for power.

I think Zach would enjoy looking at the Submarine Photometer that I took from my university after I graduated, it’s this suitcase looking thing from the 70’s or 80’s, I got the color filters for it too

You can find Brad in the PS version and get the different costumes. The thing is you need to do it on the "hard" mode so you can get the key from Brad.

The reason cartridges have batteries is volatile memory, aka DRAM! Basically, the save data in binary is stored as a charge in a shit-squillion tiny little capacitors, with 1s being a different voltage from 0s. If you cut the power, the capacitors loose their charge, so the ability to tell if it was a 1 or a 0 (and thus read any data) is lost. It's only a teeny tiny amount of electricity that's required to maintain the readability, so a watch battery was considered perfectly adequate for the intended application. Stable memory like in an SD card or Switch cartridge works basically by having the 1s and 0s stored in a tiny transistor that can be in one of two positions, which you dictate with applied voltage. They're designed to stay in one of those two positions, like how a light switch wants to be either off or on, so you don't need constant power to keep it in place. This is an EXTRAORDINARILY reductive explanation given by someone with only the vaguest of ideas of how it all works, so take it for the broad strokes explanation that it is, but I hope it's helpful anyway 🙏

Turkish night vision is just a regular PVS-14 but it only works if you rotate it slowly in front of a propane heater like a shawarma.

Zach. You have immaculate taste in firearms and gear

Old games looking better on CRT is true. Certain artistic techniques were developed that took advantage of certain unique quirks of a CRT that actively look worse on modern digital screens.

All these talks about vintage TVs and vintage gaming reminds of back in the day when the only " television" I had access to, to play gta San Andreas for playstation 2 on was actually a commodore 64 monitor from the 80s.

I need to know who makes the battery IR chemlights. I wish to acquire a few.

the ps3 has a av multi out port and the cable for it can be from just yellow or audio to green blue red yellow plus audio. mine came with only the yellow one for video but i ran it over hdmi

I wish zach and/or mike would adopt me man…

57:41 night vision the only super power you can buy

The rare replay collection is on the Xbox series and one Is cheap It comes with banjo kazooey but idk if you can play on pc

15:31 its because CRT's dont have "pixels" in the traditional sense and are distorted to fucking hell. Any console that is optimized for CRT also is interlaced.(example ps1) Interlacing basically cuts the vertical resolution in half to double the framerate. So the playstation is in 480i but in reality is 240p with 2 frames onscreen at the same time. This combined with the distortion from the CRT makes it impossible to see seams in the model. Removing the distortion and interlacing makes the game look like shit. With some filters and messing with the settings can make it look like the original.

Mercenaries playground of destruction is also a og xbox game that is backwards compatible with the xbox 360 onwards

A lot of wrist watches still uses C3032 batteries. Specially the big digital ones

And I just finished listening to all the other campfire discussions. This is a good day! Edit GTFO ABOUT THE BIG COMFY COUCH!! No way!!! That is too good.

is PVS-7 the "Kept you waiting huh" night vision?

I bought a passive infrared night vision made by bresser (BRESSER Digital NV Binokular 1x) the display has an anemic resolution but it works, never tried it to gaze the stars but doubt it works with that resolution

Just putting this out there, mercenaries Playground of Destruction is available on the backwards conoatible marketplace for xbox one and series s/x. I was playing it just thus oast weekend lol

Well, if I go by Parasoul's fighting style in Skullgirls, treat the umbrella like a fencing weapon, like a rapier.

Zack, they ported mercenaries 1 to the modern xbox. I can play it on my series x with widescreen. It's slightly different than the ps2 version in that for some reason, some sound effects are different.

The brad vickers zombie is in the ps version of re2. I found him back in the day.

This be Nice 👌

6:03 Hazard, Zach Hazard

You know the most common and effective self defense cartridge is .22, right Zack? Stopping power is kinda bullshit because getting shot is painful and nobody likes it. Its also just easier to use and cheaper to learn with. The obly problem is when you go hiking, where bears, cougars and hogs are.

didn't they make like a fan native port of the 360 version of Banjo Kazooie?

i can only imagine that the solo tube affects your depth perception similar to a vr headset, but worse

The voice actress for Claire was Molly from Big Comfy Couch!!?

Zach should get Resident Evil 3 Nemesis so he can experience all the content that the remake left out.

Zach, 2's Arrange is not a full randomizer, it's a bit like RE1's Arrange mode, just reshuffling the ammo and healing resources with differing amounts in this case and not adding new camera angles.

If you're looking into the Analog stuff, you might want to try Mister FPGA, it's essentiallty the same thing as a jial broke analog product but as a dedicated device.

-I have many things to inflict pain on people -eh, yes *sigh I know Ah great, I gotta wash a tshirt from tea now.

Emulation isn't as risky or shady as people worry about it being. I emulate all the time because I love PS1 games but I ain't spending a minor fortune on buying equipment and games. I ain't scouring the net to look for an old CRT when I have Retroarch and screen settings that basically replicate the low resolution and blurriness of an old tv. There's also a massive community of people who are building handhelds on android systems specifically for emulating. The retroid pocket 3+ can run PS2 and GameCube games if you play around with the settings.

you could also get a first gen wii to play any gamecube game that is what i do

I live in Wale, it rains a fucktonne, so I got a posh umbrella, been like 7 years since I got it, Blunt is the brand.

YES

The N64 version is available for the PS3. Love the western pistol

talking about some of the weird coding stuff they did back in the day, Gamehut has some cool coding secrets videos, like how the fit the sonic 3d fmv on a sega cartidge

40:49 The did reused the voicelines from the original (or the HD collection)

Mercenaries is the best game ever!

I still have my game cube and a bunch of my games including Twilight princess I think

I'm glad I picked up the Gamecube version of RE2 before prices got jacked up

Most episodes are just Zack trying to justify buying overly expensive things 😂

FMV cutscenes, and they compressed the shit outta them to get them on the cartridge lol. Also the bonus costumes are in all versions though the costumes in the N64 versions are slightly different.

the liberator pistol was a ww2 thing

Honestly, when I hear ran over a tree I imagine ya just jumped then drove over a huge oak tree then drove as if nothing happened