MKC
Garra! Força! Tradição!
I got started with football video games on Winning Eleven 10 (PES6) because my cousins used to take their PS2 to my grandparents' house when we'd go on Sundays, with a copy of this classic of course, and my dad loved playing with them, I played too sometimes, but I wasn't very good at it, though I still loved it. I didn't have a PS2 at home, but my dad got us a used PS1 to play around that time, with Winning Eleven 2002, a bunch of copies of it to be more specific, the counterfeit market was huge in Brazil, alongside patches, one disk had national teams, the other had European clubs, and the last one had Brazilian clubs... I loved those disks, especially the one with Brazilian clubs, and to my surprise the editing community for Winning Eleven 2002 is still strong, though that tends to be the case with installments that ended their console era... Winning Eleven 2002, PES6, PES2013 and PES2021... I love the editing community so much!
Over the last few months, I got more into handhelds, as I really wanted a PSP as a kid, and got a GBA that never did much for me because the screen was a real pain to see... anyways when I replaced my smartphone, and was thinking of what to do with my older one, whose battery was already failing, I decided to get one of those smartphone controllers that pretty much turn them into a knockoff Nintendo Switch, a console I'm really interested in... and it's been working.
When I was thinking of what ROMs I could play to really take advantage of my new MOCUTE-060 controller, I decided that it made sense to go for something that I struggled to play with just the on screen controls most emulators have, and football video games are among those, I just need buttons, I can only play a ROM with on screen controls when it's something slow or turn based, otherwise it's quite uncomfortable, no idea how mobile football video games took off...
Anyways, PS2 didn't run very well, at all, this is a 2019 mid range smartphone though, so I shouldn't expect much... though thankfully PSP ran well, and most PSP PES stuff is really similar to the PS2, so it's been good. However, where I'm really having fun is with Winning Eleven 2002 ROMs, it's incredible how the community for this installment is so active, dedicated and creative even today, I've found patches for quite obscure tournaments, retro patches, even for some Brazilian youth team competitions, there's so much to unpack here! I'm mostly playing the 2021 Brazilian clubs patch by the WE Legends team, it's really well made and it has my favorite Coritiba F.C. squad from the last few years, and my favorite kits too. I'm surprised at how this 20 year old installment does such a good job at replicating football, the A.I. closing down spaces and scoring varied goals, how it forces you to do different things, how stats matter... everything!
Over the last few months, I got more into handhelds, as I really wanted a PSP as a kid, and got a GBA that never did much for me because the screen was a real pain to see... anyways when I replaced my smartphone, and was thinking of what to do with my older one, whose battery was already failing, I decided to get one of those smartphone controllers that pretty much turn them into a knockoff Nintendo Switch, a console I'm really interested in... and it's been working.
When I was thinking of what ROMs I could play to really take advantage of my new MOCUTE-060 controller, I decided that it made sense to go for something that I struggled to play with just the on screen controls most emulators have, and football video games are among those, I just need buttons, I can only play a ROM with on screen controls when it's something slow or turn based, otherwise it's quite uncomfortable, no idea how mobile football video games took off...
Anyways, PS2 didn't run very well, at all, this is a 2019 mid range smartphone though, so I shouldn't expect much... though thankfully PSP ran well, and most PSP PES stuff is really similar to the PS2, so it's been good. However, where I'm really having fun is with Winning Eleven 2002 ROMs, it's incredible how the community for this installment is so active, dedicated and creative even today, I've found patches for quite obscure tournaments, retro patches, even for some Brazilian youth team competitions, there's so much to unpack here! I'm mostly playing the 2021 Brazilian clubs patch by the WE Legends team, it's really well made and it has my favorite Coritiba F.C. squad from the last few years, and my favorite kits too. I'm surprised at how this 20 year old installment does such a good job at replicating football, the A.I. closing down spaces and scoring varied goals, how it forces you to do different things, how stats matter... everything!
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