/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10924593
not until the xbox two comes out

>>10924629
>"faster, FASTER!"

Donkey/Diddy cus it's icahnic

>>10924523
Any good romhacks for this series?

>>10924523
Diddy/Dixie has the best abilities and controls but DK/Diddy is probably the most balanced
>>10924780
DKC 2: The lost levels is fun as long as you don't get fucked over by the bug on one of the final levels that nukes your save file

>>10924641
Remember, Kiddy was originally supposed to be Dixie's son, not cousin. The DKC trilogy is really about Diddy coming out of the shadow of DK (originally intended as his father), finding love, and starting a family. You better believe Diddy and Dixie had hardcore jungle sex after surviving DKC2. This based story of the circle of life unfortunately censored got and Dixie was demoted from mother to babysitter.

>>10924517
there was supposed to be a pc engine port, never released
https://www.gamesthatwerent.com/2020/08/paradroid-90-and-total-recall-graftgold/

>>10924520
damn thats a shame, especially since the article says it was "almost finished".
some Graftgold employee has the source code and should let it out in the wild

I never understood why the Amiga version had such janky scrolling considering it had hardware chips especially for smooth scrolling. was this an Atari ST port?

C64 version is arguably one of the best games on the system, its so well designed and coded.
https://youtu.be/o1J7BPMhrAY?feature=shared

>>10925503
I'm hoping for a steam deck mini to blow out the halfassed chinkshit and save us from vulkanless arm linux systems and abandoned android emulators

>>10925243
Yes

>>10925243
If you want us to go into detail it's because the og hardware is quite frankly not very good. No battery, no backlight, and forced to pay for the games themselves (or a flash cart, which is still extra money). Combine that with the ridiculous reseller prices for any handheld at this point and it's just not worth it. As other anons have also demonstrated, even after proper IPS mods the screens don't look as good.

>>10925503
>>10925508
Completely different market. I personally buy handhelds for fun five minute minigames or at the most 16-bit titles, not full on modern console titles.

Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of an Anbernics power

>>10925523
How many of them can you buy at this point if it's just for mini games?

>>10924473
>dmg-01
tetris and mario
6yrs old, birthday
>gameboy pocket
pokemon in full swing
saved money on batteries
>GBC
"i need it for pokemon crystal and zelda mom.."
birthday again, played the SHIT out of gold version
>launch gba
soulful clear blue
used it for basically only gb\gbc titles for years
>not into nes rereleases in middleschool\highschool
>sell gbSP
"it sucks and the ds is coming soon"
>give my launch advance to my sisters
>GAMEBOY CHAD MICRO DROPS
>HELLYA.PNG
beat leafgreen on it
carry it in secret all of my junior\senior year
still miss it to this day

>>10925535
>gb light
adult with more money than sense
eventually resold for more than i paid due to hard times
>various "modded" gba\gbc\dmg
only bothered keeping the dmg with LED backlights as the default screen is still there
the ips "mods" for gbc\a are hot trash and a ripoff
use the fuck out of my analogue pocket instead

>>10924473
Nintendo DS Phat on launch day

My first and only OEM handheld, played it for years before switching to Chinese handhelds

>>10925540
>>10925535
i should clarify that i am VERY thankful
i got lucky with my mom, she was a gamer too
got to try all the cool games right on the cutting edge
lot of good memories

had the launch fat ds and ds lite when it dropped too
i skipped dsi until it was cheap as an adult

Didn't get one until the SP.

>>10925224
neither did scenarios 2/3 on saturn, is there a fan translation?

>>10924389
I did not care for the GBA version. It adds a few missions but they were more annoying than engaging. Also why was the GBA era so gay for cards? I swear they did the same shit in the crappy Lunar port. Gotta cram cards into everything.

>>10925385
I don't know, I ignore card games to this day.

>>10925385
Because Yu-Gi-Oh! was at the peak of its popularity and all the kids at my school was obsessed with it and the Pokémon tcg

That’s my guess anyway.

>>10925274
There's a fan translation for Final Conflict, yes. Not for Gaiden 1 Game Gear originl version though.Only the official translation in Sega CD's Shining Force CD exists for that.

>>10924385
Do they wiggle? This is a very important question.

20 cent store lina inverse bootleg ripoff

>>10924487
bah - slayers is the lamest manga ever conceived

>>10924487
Right down to her seiyuu in the Japanese version. And that's a good thing. She's quite a bitch anyway.

>>10924385
Id rather scrape the crust from her big elven feet after a long, tiresome journey.

>>10924745

>>10925314
Are we sure this isn't Fist of the North Star?

>>10924943
thats awesome

>>10925376
>ryu making lainey face

>>10925375
>Sonic the Fighters was apparently being ported to the Saturn, but it was scraped at some point.
Yeah it's rumored there was a development build privately demoed at some point. Most likely it's lost forever given Sega's track record with losing source code for basically anything from the early 2000s and back.

>>10925070
They could have at least nerfed the graphics a bit

>>10925375
Bean and Bark look virtually the same as they did in Sonic The Fighters. They could have easily done a port. Not a flawless one, but a good one nonetheless

>>10925496
>Yeah it's rumored there was a development build privately demoed at some point. Most likely it's lost forever given Sega's track record with losing source code for basically anything from the early 2000s and back.

Fighters MegaMix feels like it was cobbled together from various incomplete AM2 Saturn projects, and unused assets. For the most part. The Virtua Fighter cast has a partial moves list from VF3, Bean and Bark models could have come from a development build of Sonic the Fighters for the Saturn. I doubt the models would have looked different, aside from a stretch and squash effect that might have been put in place. The game has Shiba, who was a cut character from VF1. The Fighters Mega Mix engine was based on the Fighting Vipers Saturn engine, with some additional tweaks. It was reported on in various magazines back then that a port was planned for the Saturn to be released in late 1996. There wasn't much information that was made public on why it was cancelled.

>>10925509
>They could have easily done a port. Not a flawless one, but a good one nonetheless

Sonic the Fighters started as a gag, when one of the AM2 developers hid playable Sonic and Tails models in the original Fighting Vipers model 2 game. They can be playable via some editing. This lead to Yu Suzuki pitching a Sonic fighting game to Yuji Naka. Sonic the Fighters was built from the Fighting Vipers game engine. Fighters Megamix also has a modified Saturn version of the Fighting Vipers engine, which was used to accommodate the Fighting Vipers cast and gameplay style. Even the FV game engine could have been used for the port of Sonic the Fighters on the Saturn.

https://youtu.be/SQY4g42pFlo

>>10924971
I did, and then I spent about 20 minutes attempting to fly up to the top of the screen to reach the goalposts because I didn't understand what I had found. I found the secret goal before the regular goal and didn't realize the red courses had two exits.

>>10924192
1. 90s kids game, secrets are cool and/or useful (most of the time)
2. QA testing. Honestly is better having something cool and optional like this instead of just dumbing down the game to DSP levels of retardation. See this retard for example >>10924976, if Nintendo hired him in the 90s as a QA tester, SMW would have been more easier than it actually is

>>10924507
MegaMan X3 has that and is boring as shit, a regular farmable enemy like those bugs in X1 or the rooms that give you infinite recovery drops in X2 are better. Also, it wouldn't be that good in Mario games, remember old Mario games have time limits

>>10925068
Pretty sure they added regenerating health to X3 only because they made health drops so low compared to the previous 2. Like many things in that game it's very unpolished and it is shit.

>>10925246
if you use the frost shield on enemies you can get health drops every time. same with ammo drops for the acid burst.

>>10925269
Lol I barely ever use enemy weapons on anything other than bosses, still finding things out decades later but I've definitely played through it a lot less than the other 2 snes games.

>>10924218
I did, right at the ass end of the 6th-gen. I got a PS2 in 2001, a GC and Dreamcast (which was my cousin's, but he let me keep it) in 2002, and an Xbawks hueg in 2003. In the 5th-gen, I never had a Saturn, but I did get a PSOne, which I later sold to get a PS2, and I also got an N64 later (which was also my cousin's, but he had two, so once again he let me have one, yes he was a richfag).

>>10924436
Correction, the Xbox was in 2004. I then sold it the year after to get a 360 near launch, which I regret.

>>10924175
If you weren't an idort in the 90s you weren't really a video gamer imo.

>>10924567
You didn't need to have everything, you just needed to have at least one console per generation AND a computer. Otherwise this is how retarded console warriors are made.

No fucking clue what idort means, but based on what i can surmise from the other posts:

Late 80s/early 90s my intro to gaming was grand pappys C64, early PC compatibles and the dawn of the multimedia era, LCD games and arcade games. My cousins and friends had consoles and throughout the 90s i bought systems secondhand. N64 and gameboy color were the first systems i would say i bought when they were still at the height of their popularity. While i have my preferences, i never really favored one manufacturer brand.

I won't but I appreciate the effort.

>>10924149
I did watch it and during the first bank sequence the fight scenes were cool, and they also add stuff to the original scenes which make sense so it's not even 1:1.

You didn't answer.

>>10924172
It's from a different time. When they were developing the nes port the idea for console ports was to be as authentic as possible to the arcade version's gameplay. So since they did that, the game was considered done.

If you want good Mario Bros gameplay just play the GBA version

>>10924172
that’s a late stage, it’s supposed to be difficult

>>10924172
>I was running for my life here.
it's just a game man calm down

>>10924176
fair enough. I'm playing through the Mario games in the chronological order listed on the Mario wiki so I wouldn't know or remember about the GBA port, thanks, I'll check it out
I wonder what the idea for the Intellivision Donkey Kong ports was. They're the least authentic pieces of crap out there
>>10924210
yeah I'm sorry I just replayed the NES port and figured out the Game A has less cancerous fireball spawn. I got to phase 16
still I think it's a little too absurd that in the vid the red fireball respawned like 5 seconds after I hit it
>>10924228
I can't man our shift is really strict. Boss has implemented some new time clock fraud policy we're literally getting drown here

>>10924084
The game should have a nuclear bomb going off on the screen once it becomes unprofitable to have the player at the machine.

>>10924295
>windowsill
Reading comprehension. Direct outdoor sunlight bleaches, sunlight through a window yellows.

>>10924050
Parts of my SNES look like this and it's sat in a dark cupboard for the last 20 years

I have some plastic curtain brackets on a window in my room that are piss yellow although they're not exposed to direct sun nor are they brittle at all (pliant and bend easily when squeezed). Likely oxidized discoloration of the plastic which can sometimes happen without UV exposure.

>>10924989
My SNES is only slightly discolored, the top of the shell is roughly a tan or cream shade but I see a lot of pics of them where they're a deep piss yellow. Maybe I just got lucky.

>>10924050
Would this happen with a tinted window?

Tactics is good for one playthrough but in actuality it's fucking retarded becuase you have battles you just afk in the corner spamming skills to build up jp. Also the growth and unlock curve is fucking retarded where you spend like the entire first half of game playing garbage trash like thief and archer just to unlock shit.

It's a little like ff7 where the late game is when all the fun aspects of the battle system unlocks. For how much people jizz over tactics I thought was like 20% cool but 80% gay.

Ff5 is a little different. Ff5 scales nicely and you get some cool shit early on and it's way nicer to grind the jp. Tldr tactics is surprisingly gay.

>>10924009
I think there was a thread recently saying that final fantasy 6 was so inferior to fallout. The point is the same here: FF was the McJRPG, something that had become so popular that it had to be dumbed down for the lowest common denominator.
They say that in the '90s the novelty of RPGs on consoles had worn off in Japan. People complained that RPGs were too hard and unfair. Meanwhile, FF was quickly becoming the biggest franchise in the while country that rivaled DQ and Mario in popularity. Square likely felt pressured to make the game accessible for everyone to continue being popular.
They likely understood that only good players would understand the class system; someone like kids or women would never grasp it, and so Square would lose players. So they basically made FF into this entry level JRPG for the normies, where you could just press A and win to go from cutscene A to cutscene B. In a way, this was the precursor of modern AAA games that are similarly dumbed down for your average 70IQ player. It's a very similar concept, just one interactive cutscene with QTEs.
This is what people who shit on FF don't get. After 6, it was never the same. FF became the McJarpig series for Square; SaGa was for the nerds who wanted complex and experimental mechanics.

>>10924009
The massively popular materia system is basically a twist on the FFV job system. The characters in FF7 are just templates with modestly different base stats and equipment that you can use to "mix and match all kinds of abilities."

Basically, FF7 just puts the job points into the materia instead of to the character, so that they can have a larger cast of characters without spreading abilities too thinly (FF5 has an essentially fixed party for the entire time). And then they further split up the abilities into chunks so instead of having a "black mage" materia you have individual spell groups.

>>10924009
Later games went for a style similar to FF4 but more flexible. The shift away from "Warrior of Light" centric games also likely influence that decision.
>>10924073
>4 Heroes of Light
That's more like 3's system than 5's.

>>10925483
That's an interesting theory anon. Also Aeris with KOTR will never not be funny. Frankly I think she's just not worth it even grinded up. I've played 7 a few times going back to release.

Also 7 the characters have more diverse stats when FF5 is basically boys are stronger girls* do more magic. One thing my first play thru in FF7 I was sure Vincent would be the best basic attack because he shot people and why give Barret anything that's not a gun?
I was only in 6th grade so stats and all that math was beyond me. Vincent is one of the best mages of the game. His limit breaks are trash because you lose control, but turning into a debuff chainsaw wielding Jason Vorhees is fucking boss.

Aeris I just never found it being worth grinding for I've got her lvl 4 and ult gear. I don't think her magic innate is worth it. Also meh towards her dialog.

Yuffie has grown to be one of my favorites even though she's kind annoying.

Oh this is an ff5 thread. Either way I am in a writing mood and really enjoyed the theory you posted anon.

or grand kids

>>10925184
>>10925381
it's from a SNES game

>>10923995
It looks like some filtered fps, I'm gonna guess it's either Half-life or Goldeneye.

>>10925416
exclusive snes game or was it a multiplat?

>>10925432
exclusive

>>10923967
>>10923969
What's on the Japanese version? Wondering now as they gave it a totally different name.

>>10923961
Nice.

I wonder if the sequel has this too

>>10923917
Is this game actually good? I played it as a kid but barely remember how it works.

>>10924656
It's shit and you definitely should not fucking play it.

Mania probably. I grew up in a nintendo country and quite frankly don't see why people rave about sonic so much. I did play sonic adventure about halfway through for shits and giggles.

>>10924340
>I grew up in a nintendo country
What's that?

>>10923914
Sonic 2 master system, parents chose it because it was the big release at the time. Completed the game with the good ending and secret level. Actually I remember this game was on the news and they accused it of causing epilepsy.

>>10924263
I think I was jealous that sonic 1 had bonus levels.

>>10923914
Sonic 2
Came packed in with the Genesis we got for Christmas

>>10923914
Sonic 1. My parents gave it to me on Christmas with the Mega Drive. I was 6 at the time. First console and videogame I played. Happiest Christmas in my life. Got to first Robotnik boss battle that night.