/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1691

awesome

>>968

lmaoing@yourlife

The Lens Of Truth DOES work you nigger. Your cartridge is probably glitched.

That being said, I did actually beat that place without the Lens when I was a kid. This was before I even entered the Well or knew about the Lens.

I also backflipped over that spiky log in The Great Deku Tree the first time I played because I didn't know you were supposed to dive. It's cool when games have unintentional hard ways of doing things like that.

>>4498

>Your cartridge is probably glitched.

no

The length of time between console generations increased. The 6th gen didn't truly die until about ~2007, and the the 7th gen didn't really die until pretty much this year.

http://boards.4chan.org/vr/thread/3043018/dc

A few to name:

Qwak

Worms: DC

Fuzzball

Lotus II/III

Atomino

Ishido: The Way of Stones

Hmm. I'm considering making an Amiga gamepad. Would this be something people would actually use? I'm still in the process of designing the board for fabrication, but I'm not sure if I should invest the resources in even making a prototype.

>>3563

I just bought a chinashit mega drive and modified it to work with the 9-pin joystick port (I'm on Atari ST though, but the joysticks the same).

Could be useful I guess if it gives the option to remap up to a button for platformers, etc.

>>3563

m8, you might be good with a soldering iron, but you're terrible at marketing. You shouldn't be asking us if we want the damn thing, you ought to be telling us why we need it. Why was the Amiga pad the most ergonomic device to grace a player's hands? Why was it the only choice when you were all that stood between humanity and an invading alien force hellbent on its destruction?

I know my generation is cancer, I just want to forget about them and play some decent video games. Is that too much to ask for?

>>4168

So are people who love music/movies/books/television shows from decades/centuries ago posers who shouldn't be acknowledged?

Some people are snobs about being "oldschool" and that's a shame because the best way to keep good games alive is to invite younger generations to try them.

Hah I always end up feeling left out of most of those "only '90s kids will understand" things even though I was born in '91 because my parents were too poor/stubborn to pay for cable back then. My childhood TV memories are mostly of fiddling with rabbit ears and watching static-y reruns of '80s sitcoms. Makes me feel more like an '80s kid than a '90s kid in some ways

>>4305

Part of that could be a legit backlash to the accelerated trend in recent years to appropriate "retro" stuff by people who only want to utilise it to status signal ("such nerd, much vintage").

Part of it could simply be people being "muh sekrit club" dickwads.

It's a scam

>>4489

No it's not. I even know what you're talking about and both of those claims are bullshit.

>>4488

Yeah, I'm mostly intending to use it as a better Retron 5. For $150 they could easily make some sort of much more powerful Android dealy so the hardware is going to be less efficient than it could be but that's fine, it doesn't need to be high end. I think it has some sort of ARM chip on it. And maybe it'll have internet connectivity.

Since we are on the topic of roms, where do you get your translation patches?

>>4456

Didn't mean to quote 4435.

>>4456

Instead of clicking the link try right click > save as

Does anyone happen to have SD Snatcher Project Melancholia retranslation patch?

>>4425

>So ina nutshell, you don't like games that are about pacing yourself?

pacing yourself is what you do when you you first start playing smb. then, when you git gud, you can go fast. later mario games force you to go slow. and so do many of the stages in sonic, btw.

>>4425

>>4426

I have to second this. The states of platforms and other movable objects when you first meet them in most Mario levels are done in such a way that you never really have to stop and wait for a platform or whatever if you know what you're doing. You can just rush through the levels entirely.

I remember the first NSMB having pretty good level design towards this too, which is why I liked it.

>>4428

great game. i think maybe i should revise my list:

1 > 2 > W >>>>>> 3

>>4429

Lost Levels is better than Doki Doki Panic. Lost Levels is best Mario.

>>4169

You may have heard of Radical Dreamers -Le Trésor Interdit-, Radical Dreamers -Nusumenai Housenki-, or BS Radical Dreamers, yes? You can download it and a fan translation by now and play it through an emulator, though there is no saving and you'll have to make use of savestates.

It's basically a text adventure starring some Chrono Cross characters. The basic story is that Serge, Kid, and Magil (or just Gil, depending on who's talking about the game, but the fan translation says Magil) are sneaking into Viper Manor to steal the Frozen Flame.

Magil/Gil is who Guile was supposed to be before heavy editing, by the way.

A few Chrono Cross songs originate in this game, too.

Out of the many JRPGs I've played, this and Grandia II are the only two JRPGs I've actually finished

I played the original SNES version of Chrono Trigger only a few years ago for the first time. One of the things it reminded me of is how I asked for a goddamn Genesis with Mortal Kombat for my birthday. If I had asked for this, maybe my school years would've been more imaginative.

Same with Terranigma.

>>4476

I asked for Genesis too, for Christmas. I wanted Toejam and Earl and Sanic in the worst way, those were the definition of "cool."

My father kept trying to sell me on SNES, leading up to Christmas, because he loved Zelda. I didn't buy into it, Genesis was still the coolest thing to me, but thanks to his shilling I put Genesis at the top of my Christmas list and then at the bottom I put "or Super Nintendo" and I made it clear Genesis was my preferred choice.

Santa brought me an SNES with Super Mario World on Christmas morning. The rest was history, after Mario Kart, World, LttP, Super Metroid, FFIII, Chrono, DKC, the list goes on and on, he made the right decision.

>>4152

I never played this game but there is a lot to be said about playing an arcade game with a complex cabinet.

A long, long time ago there used to be a place near me called Virtual World where you could play a MechWarrior game in these pods along with other people and the experience was pretty immersive even though it wasn't exactly cheap.

MechWarrior 2 came out on PC around that time, though, so most of us preferred to throw home LAN parties when that happened so that place went out of business fairly quickly.

>>4144

I think I rented T2 for the NES and it was pretty good. This was the one that Ocean released, correct?

I liked the Midway arcade version also and I think they ported a version for the SNES too.

>>4218

lol when they first came out I went through three of them within two years. Only console I ever bought a Best Buy warranty for, I still have my fourth one around I bought sometime in 2004ish. It barely works.

Lots of games I like, but what a piece of garbage.

Tron: As a young kid, I couldn't resist the blue-light joystick. It was badass.

Final Fight: Nobody else at the time (it seems) knew you could pile drive people with Haggar.

Karate Champ: I wasn't sitting in the corner stacking buckets repeating "California" to myself but I remember being less than 8 years old and knowing how the control scheme worked.

Crime Fighters, Double Dragon II, Operation Wolf, P.O.W.: While my mother shopped for groceries, I had to make 2 quarters go a long way. I was pretty good at Crime Fighters and P.O.W, though.

>>4450

Didn't even know this existed until now, but the store pages on Play-Asia and Amazon have disclaimers in japanese saying it doesn't work on all FC consoles (official or compatible).

>>4462

Yeah, I saw those before getting it. But just hoped that was more a "warning" that in a very rare chance it might not work. So I guess I may be out of luck then. Unless I could find a cheap converter that may actually be able to play it.

>>4457

Does the Sega CD need laser calibration over time? What kind of discs are you reading? Burned discs need to be burned in a slow speed since the Sega CD only reads in 1x.

>>4458

Both. Legit copy of Sonic CD reads and can be played, then hangs and disc can't be read again. Exact same with burnt. They both work fine after 20-30 mins again.

ifixit.com/Answers/View/26113

You've probably already come across this link, but…

>>4134

Absolutely, though I was 15 when Syndicate was released. I'm old.

Some games always remain fun no matter how old you get.

>>1911

My nigga, I had just fired this up the other day. Fucking good times, man.

>>19

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>>402

Did old computers with DOS have scanlines in their display?

I thought they used standard PC CRT 31Khz monitors that have no scanlines.

>>4460

All CRT monitors have scanlines, but they're also much brighter than the impression that pic is giving.