/vr/ - Retro Games★

>>5253

I disagree. Yes there are those in the series that come of as shallow in some says, especially most of the titles in the series after X.

>>4885

Shit is so cash. Just got into World 3 for the first time, rolling with a:

-Gladiator Bartz, previously mastered Knight & Mystic Knight

-Black Mage Lenna, previously mastered White Mage

-Samurai Krile, previously mastered Chemist, Monk and Berserker

-Dragoon Feris, previously mastered Thief & Ninja

And everyone's mastered Blue Mage, because that makes learning Blue Magic far less of a headache.

>>5249

>soul of rebirth

First off, consider getting the Mod Of Balance Hack. Makes magic leveling more balanced.

Here's some other strats:

-Have Minwu cast Shell+Wall+Protect+Barrier in pretty much every battle in the Unknown Palace. The first two increase your Mag Def, the third ups your Phys Def, the last ups your Spec Def. Enemies there LOVE to cast Lv8 spells like Death and Curse against the whole party. And for anyone who might be confused, levels of spells aren't like FFV, where any character whose level is a multiple will be affected. Here, spell level just means how powerful it is/likely it is to connect. A Level VIII Death spell can mean a instant Game Over if you've not cast Shell+Wall, and even then, a character might die.

-In battles with 'easier' enemies, constantly use spells; the aforementioned Shell+Wall+Barrier+Protect, and also Cure, Life and Esuna. In Soul Of Rebirth, you simply can't afford for Minwu to spend four turns removing status ailments through single-target casts of Esuna. The monsters will just cast those ailments again, faster than you can clear them, and you can quickly find yourself in an unwinnable situation. You need to train up Esuna so it can reliably clear all four characters of ailments in one cast.

-Wherever possible, whether in the regular game or SoR, caPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I've never seen that much hate for that game tbh.

>>5588

Agreed. FFV is fantastic, I have just started playing a while ago, I just got Ifrit.

Leveling system, see the game revolves so badly arround it being an RPG, the bad leveling system naturally manages to kill the fun of whole game.

Batman for NES (1998) did a great job creating atmosphere with limited resources.

http://pixelation.org/index.php?topic=9173.0

>>5717

Because sprites already have the max amount of detail in them, whereas 3d models can also be more in-depth detail.

>>5717

I think it might have to do with fact they all were 2d, and the designs were great, then 3d came which changed a lot, I mean in 2d you see what you see and imagine rest of it, it kinda works like how it's in illustrated books, you see the good bits and then the other things are left to brain's imagination, same can't be said about 3d, as same feel can't be given with 3d fighters, now on the other hand 3d fighters can be good too, I mean tekken was pretty cool, but it just . . . Does not gives the same feel 2D game do.

Dynamite Headdy Part 2 is finally up!

https://nyaa.pantsu.cat/view/948583

>>5920

Well, it didn't, but at least the wait is over now.

>Areeno

>>5934

I wouldn't trust your fucking lies because that post spoke truth and now in the currently-available part 2 of Dynamite Headdy (which you claimed wouldn't come out in a timely manner) you can see tons of Japanese text popping out from under the translations for single frames all the time

>>5990

I never said anything about Dynamite Headdy. If you're coming here to whine about your feelings getting hurt then you should go back to halfchan.

Wait, coolrom got shut down?

>>5527

No, but it was plundered of Nintendo ROMS because the BIG N threw a fit about it.

>>5530

Emuparadise got hit now as well.

>>5506

>Go to rom-world now

>HTTP 301 site crawl error and redirect on all archive.org sites past January

←This faggot starts rapping on youtube whenever I try to access the site no matter what browser or search engine I choose.

Fuck

>>5607 (OP)

btw, silent hill discussion thread

>>5607 (OP)

They're not out to kill her at first; Claudia believes that a God born from "pain and suffering" (such as they inflict on Heather throughout the story) would be "more sympathetic", so it stands to reason that Claudia's toadies would want to maximize Heather's pain and suffering prior to the God's birth.

Also, if you've ever seen the occasional special death cutscene(s) where Valtiel drags Heather's body away, that seems to imply that they don't need her alive to complete the process (or that they can return her to just enough of a state of "living" to complete the God's gestation).

>>5733

Scariest and greatest? Subjectively, not for me but I did enjoy it all the same. It was nice to finally get the payoff on the Walter Sullivan lore from SH2, in the form of a twisted, evil Kurt Cobain look-alike. And yes, I took the Shabby Doll and put it into my item chest during my first playthrough. Never. Again.

In 2017, as far as being user friendly goes, probably Kega Fusion (Even though it hasn't been updated since 2010). Although Genesis Plus GX is easily the most accurate and has surpassed Kega Fusion, but unfortunately is Libretro exclusive, which means you can either use RetroArch (which is fucking terrible), or BizHawk (which isn't too bad, though if softpatching games is supported, I'd love to know!). Somebody seriously needs to port Genesis Plus GX to Windows instead of having to deal with Libretro bullshit.

I might as well give you a rundown of the other emulators too.

Regen: Older than Kega Fusion, hasn't been updated since 2009, buggy as fuck.

Exodus: Needs a super computer to run (very very slow), really more of an experiment and/or proof of concept than anything else, which is a damn shame.

BlastEm: Aiming to be as accurate as Exodus but without needing said supercomputer, this emulator could be pretty good in a few years time, but my god is the latest version fucking terrible thanks to its rudimentary GUI, I think it was originally Linux only, which might explain alot, but I'm not 100% sure on that. Either way, this one needs more time, definitely not ready for end user consumption just yet.

So yeah, just use Kega Fusion, it hasn't seen an update in years, might have some issues with newer OS, but it still fucking works and works well. Who knows, maybe Genesis Plus GX will be ported to Windows at some point, or maybe the abforementioned emulators will get some much needed updates, just gonna have to wait and see, but definitely stick with Kega for now. BizHawk is admittedly a neat emulator in its own right, even if it is mostly geared towards TAS speedruns…

>>5755

Thank you anon.

Etsy?

What do you mean by custom game carts?

You can still find custom carts on Ali, I just ordered a fan translated Mother 3.

I have played all 3 of these games and I don't think they are connected timeline-wise. They just use similar themes I think.

>>5746

Ah, I totally forgot about that. Still, it might be just a reference. If the games are really connected, then I think the chronological order would be Soul Blazer-Illusion of Gaia-Terranigma. Then there's this game called Granstream Saga which is apparently another game in that series.

And right as I posted this I was outbid on the lot with sunset riders and tech romancer. The auction ends on the 12th and I'm still hopeful about that control panel and can now put more money towards another lot that contains third strike.

I did it for anyone who read the thread, I am the proud owner of a third strike cart and a cps3 motherboard. I ended up going with that because the parts for it are still being sold/traded on a still alive videogame forum of dedicated neckbeards. I think I'm going to end up selling it so not only I make some money off of it, but it gets into the hands of someone with the technical skill to restore it.

>>5736

Good luck with finding someone to do any electronic repairs. There's fuck all for jobs in the US for electronic engineers, and I've been working for a fucking phone company wrangling retards for almost a decade. In that time, all I've done for EE was modify a couple consoles. Still, congratulations. Maybe scrounge around some coin-op forums for advice on restoring everything? They're generally pretty friendly and helpful people around those places.

>>5737

I found that most of the stuff I'm missing on the main board for the cps3 is computer standard stuff like a specific CD ROM drive that goes for 10 to 20 bucks on eBay but I also found out that the cps3 I have is worth at least twice what I paid for the the entire lot just because of it's difficult to replace proprietary parts alone. I think I'm going to sell it on that forum but now I'm stuck with the issue of wether I should sell it as is or cobble some shit together for it and test it in order to get a better return on my money. It seems like a bad idea to keep a hold of it because there's mobs of people who would be excited to restore it instead of it just sitting on my shelf on the off chance I actually get my hands on a 6 button arcade cabinet.

>>5438 (OP)

I only have NTSC-J Valis III for the Mega Drive which I bought factory sealed around 2007.

in before Valis X

Gain Ground is an awesome shoot-em up with catchy music, I remember playing it back in the day and also later on using emulation.

>>5438 (OP)

I'm not going to pull out stuff and take pictures. Just wanted to say I love you anon because you own a Game Genie. So many hours wasted playing with that thing..

>>5495

I collect cheat devices, and I have a Game Genie for NES, SNES, Genesis, and Game Gear, as well as an Action Replay of some sort for Saturn, PSX, and Game Boy. I also collect link cables and multiplayer/multitap-type devices, despite nobody ever wanting to play multiplayer games, even on the goddamn internet.

On topic, I'm not sure if I have anything made by Renovation, and I'm more the poorer for it.

>>5603 (OP)

i'm not good at vidya but sure let's play some doom.

Can't connect to the serber for some reason

>>5561

You got Ultima 7 to run as a kid? Clever bastard.

Why is Ultima 8 so bad?

>>5563

I don't remember it being that hard. Not as hard as trying to get Ultima 9 to run at a playable framerate, Jesus. But learning to get games to run was the whole reason I ever got good at computers in general. Stupid IRQ settings.

Plus, these days GOG makes it super easy.

>>5577

>trying to get Ultima 9 to run at a playable framerate

It still ran like shit last time I bothered to try, on something like Palomino or Thunderbird with at least 128 MB RAM etc. That's an achievement in and of itself, how badly it is written.