/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7447

It's been years since I've played Corom, but here's a little of what I remember;

-Don't waste your money on Link and Plate Armor, just save up to buy the Magic Armor as soon as possible.

-Same with the Long and Broad Sword, you'll find the Magic Sword pretty early in the game.

-Since the only thing you really need to buy is the Magic Armor, once you have it you can spend any other gold you find on Salves and Blast and Hammer spells.

-This is the one I'm least sure of, but I think there is no maximum Strength, so rather than waiting until your Strength gets low, just use all Heal spells as soon as you get them.

>>7444

Random fact: C64 games usually use port 2 for game controllers because programs like to use the memory address reserved for port 1.

I've heard the Gameboy version of Daikatana is a lot less shitty than the shitty version.

>>7487

Can confirm, it's pretty good, but a bit short.

Hoosier City (DOS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O1kB5d13dw

>>7265

They're only monotonous if you don't use 4th-D slip.

Because there's so damn many of them. The way the game calculates random encounters is super shitty and primitive. You can literally take one step and end up in a battle, win, take another step and immediately end up in another battle.

To put it into reference, the first final fantasy game has a ~25 step minimum before the next encounter. Mother has none

It doesn't help that you have very limited combat abilities for the first few hours of the game, especially before Magicant. Ninten has no offensive PSI, making most battles before you get Lloyd unnecessarily frustrating and/or long

>>7216

because most people suck at videogames

>>7562

I disagree. I think that games should be fun even if they're an uphill struggle. Honestly Mother 1 and 2 were much might lighthearted and heartfelt experiences. I didn't have a problem with the encounter rate in Mother 1; hell it's one of the several games I consider to be a masterpiece. It's definitely not to just make the game seem like a struggle because I doubt that was the intention for Mother 1 at all; it's just the game being an NESRPG.

>>7242

>Whatever happened to the adventure genre?

The adventure genre lives from puzzles and as we can now the mainstream is to stupid/lazy and doesn't have the patience to solve puzzles.

Additionally making a game with good puzzles takes time and so its much easier for the industry to produce skinner boxes to dazzle the masses.

At last there is the fact that adventure games have in the past been used to promote graphics and technology in gaming, but they lost that function to FPS games.

>>7242

>dialog wheels

Almost no modern action-adventures have dialog wheels. Are you sure you're not thinking of RPGs like Mass Effect and Fallout New Vegas?

Also, wouldn't Dark Souls and Breath of the Wild fit perfectly into what you want? You're a dude, you have a sword and lust for exploration. Go on a journey.

>>7427

Nah, Douk is the funniest out of the build games.

>>7435

>Funny

"BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS!"

"BALLS OF STEEL!"

Vs

"What a wonderful new smell I discovered"

Blood's comedy is less up-in-your-face. But Dick Kickum does produce some hilarious moments with a soundboard.

Duke has a good campaign and is fun to play ironman, unlike Blood which demands save scumming on the higher difficulties. I mostly play solo so it gets my pick. Blood has snappier gameplay though, and is a lot better in multi.

>Out of the three (Four if you count Redneck Asspage.) games made with the Build Engine

Wasn't there a bunch of Build games released around 1998? I think a Vietnam game and one more I can't remember. Real low budget stuff.

>>5538

thanks for this bro

>>6167

>54.95

>>19

Russell Crowe on the left.

I just played through Dune 2 as the Atreides. Despite having plenty of dated interface and gameplay aspects, I enjoyed it. Dune 2000 updated the gameplay a lot more (especially the OpenRA version), but I prefer the aesthetics of the original game.

https://nyaa.si/user/Zombie_Kabuto

2 episodes done. Next one is Super C

Did the NoBS links all get deleted from that Google Doc? What the hell are those retards doing? Good thing I downloaded the old version of the doc to my PC. Any new releases pop up lately?

>>7813

Actually wait, it seems all the NoBS links are shoved inside the "old version tab" mixed in with everything else. What a mess.

Karous - New English TL playable on DC or in emulator:

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/4664/

^ While you didn't need to know any Japanese to play Karous to start some of you may be interested in checking out the release notes.

>>7814

>>7813

Feel free to fix, and to also mirror games into your own cloud accounts (mega preferred). I've sort of left it to run wild as I don't have the time to maintain integrity myself.

What's a good place to get Dreamcast CDIs these days? Been out of the scene for years, and the spreadsheet is destroyed… How is ComradeSnarky? Is he still at it with NBS-DC?

>>8031

Archive.org has tosec/trurip collections, and a kind of musical audio format romance has a decent collection of CDI.

There's also probably using your eyes, but you can look that up to confirm.

>>4734

Metal Storm and Shatterhand are both pretty good

Scott Pilgrimfags aside, Clash at Demonhead is one of my favorite single-player games on the system. A lot of it does admittedly come from nostalgia and fondness for its presentation over the actual gameplay. Some of my favorites as far as gameplay goes are Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, and Kung Fu, but those are pretty obvious.

I don't really know what counts as a lesser-known game anymore with freely available ROMs and boards like this one, but StarTropics, Faxanadu, and Golgo 13 are worth checking out.

If you're looking for fun multiplayer games, there's Yoshi's Cookie, Trog!, and Baseball Stars. North & South is really good for that purpose but way too expensive.

I'm not sure what the prices are for these games nowadays, either.

Milon's Secret Castle - hard platform game but I liked it enough to finish it

>>7527

I'm seconding Kabuki. It's a great action platformer for people who like stuff like Ninja Gaiden but want to play something else.

I think the cost might have jumped up a bit since the Cinemassacre video came out a while ago, but it shouldn't be too bad.

>>7430

He probably knows more about Jewish history than his own

>>7443

I don't care. Just tell me about christian games

>>7532

Well, there's Wisdom Tree's stuff if you're desperate. Spiritual Warfare is actually a pretty decent Zelda clone. I don't think any of their other stuff for the NES is any good, though.

>>7533

Thanks. I didn't know about wisdom tree. I wish there was a true crusader sin I could play

>>411

Are you wanting to collect or you want to play?

If you want to play just modchip it, and get an Action Replay. Cause sheesh some of those games are expensive like Street fighter zero 3 + cart

Panzer Dragoon Saga is MUCH more common in Japan. It's not super expensive if you buy an import version.

It's the best game on the system. Hands down.

>>411

I remember 2 games in particular

Mr Bones wasnt a great game, but its one hell of a meme fest

there was a game made by Enix. I cant quite remember the name, but you control some big airships in a strategy game that kinda reminds me of Valkyria Chronicles, just a little more primitive

>>7231

The most worthwhile PS1 games are still very expensive and even just rare/hard to come by. Particularly, Tail concerto, silhouette mirage, Megaman legends+tron bonne. They're going for hundreds of dollars, but that's just when you're lucky enough to find a copy at all.

PS2 on the other hand will probably have plenty of cheap games for another 5 years at least due to just how popular it was around the world (until all these youtube ecelebs start bringing more unwanted attention of people who were probably born after the PS2 was launched).

Always buy after next gen is already out. That way you have kids/casuals selling off their old games they've grown tired of for new gen shenanigans. Bought infamous 1+2, uncharted 1+2 little big planet, and skate 3 for $5 each. Very very soon you'll see prices skyrocket up to $40/$50 now that the ps5 has already been teased.

>>7344

The PSIO is probably a better alternative financially at this point for people who plan on getting a ton of games and don't really care about the physical aspects of the games.

>>7351

>PSIO

Meh. It's a nice idea, but it's too expensive, needs the IO port and a chip as well.

100 CD-Rs cost $20.

For 8 and 16-bit era console games (nes, genesis) it's a matter of preference. The graphics were designed with many different monitors in mind, so display isn't an issue, and emulation is so good at this point, especially on the 8-bit side of things, that it's very hard to tell the difference from the real deal

For 32/64-bit consoles (ps1, n64) playing it on actual hardware is usually much better than emulating. Most modern PCs aren't really powerful enough to be able to emulate 3D graphics hardware entirely in software, and as a result most of them aren't really emulators as much as they are interpreters, converting the game's system calls to native ones in real time (eg. running an n64 game in openGL). You're not emulating these games as much as you are using a program that lets you run them on your own system, and as a result accuracy is obviously an issue.

Things are flipped on the home computer side of things. Most games late-70s/early-80s micros relied on some form of hardware trickery that simply can't reasonably be reproduced via emulation. The apple ][ used NTSC color artifacting to display color, as did most games for early IBM PC compatibles, and the 6581 SID used a hardware fault to play sampled audio. None of these things work quite right in emulators because they relied on a lot of non-digital hardware to work.

Later home computers like the Amiga and post-VGA PC compatibles, meanwhile, emulate like a dream since a) most hardware faults were ironed out, and the hardware itself was powerful enough that games didn't need to use hacks to get good graphics and sound anyway, and b) the bigger range in hardware being written to (a game written for the A1000 would be expected to run of an A500), meaning that emulators can afford to be looser when it comes to accuracy and still play pretty damn identically to the original system

Games written for computers with x86 processors like IBM PC clones, the NEC PC-98 line, and systems like the Tandy 1000 that were compatible with but distinct from the IBM PC are usually better emulated, primarily because most of the hardware on modern machines is compatible with them, and all an emulator needs to do is smooth out the differences

>>4101

Yes I know that they aren't /vr/ legal however they were really comfy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYMND6UQTGE

>>1787

>>3961

Stello Doussis work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnxHrqibT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRejS-izaZo

Alberto Gonzalez, but there is way too much stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlokRNcURKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQbh3gHo6Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwXl5Fn3gmo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EMG1YKD_OQ

>>1725

Darkman (NES)

Most games tim folin worked on. He did the soundtracks for us gold and ljn (the american equivalent of us gold)

>>2943

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Madness

wow you're right. she did voice something in it.

>>2667

Does anyone remember the name of game that mix pinball and arkanoid? Google give me nothing.

>>7458

Well, I would try one of two things first and foremost, the first being to check all your caps. Check to see if any are leaking or bulging. In no specific order, I would check the cable(s) that connect the screen to the logic board. Try unplugging them and then plugging them back in. Also, make sure that they are nor damaged. If none of what I said helps, then you may need to buy a replacement screen.

>>7460

i'll do this, thank you.

So it took to a retro games repair shop and he told me it was the ribbon cable, i've messed around with it, and it sometimes works and other times doesn't, i can't seem to get the picture back. If i can't get it to work, i'll just buy another cheap dmg and re-do the mod again in one shot so i'm not bending the ribbon cable from re-entry.

I got another gameboy today, and bivert modded it as well, and for some reason i can't close it completely without squeezing the backlight. When i tried the original gameboy (the one with the distorted screen) it worked without problems (so it's not the screen that is the problem it's something with either the bivert chip or the back board).