This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games, including consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games. Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier, and official game titles for those platforms released no later than December 2007 (homebrew console games made after this date will be permitted). The Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and Sony PlayStation 2 will now be considered "retro".Helpful links:Game Tech WikiEmulation General Wiki
STILL undefeated
>play space channel 5 pt 1 on odin>is a game i beat several times on DC to the point it became trivial >literally CANNOT get past stage 1 no matter what I do, even tried practicing segments with save states>try it on my deck>make it to the last stage with one game overalright maybe there really is something to this input lag thing. still a bit rusty either way.
>>10890732I told you bro. I warned you.Should have enough juice for runahead, right? Fuck with audio latency too, I dunno.
>>10890728*presses the standby button*heh, not so strong after all!
>>10890801When I hold the button down for a full second before releasing, it feels like it wakes up a lot more reliably. It’s probably some “hold down B to catch the Pokemon easier” placebo BS, but I SWEAR, it’s helped.
DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: >>10877520Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etcGameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source PortsAll other 90s FPS welcome~ Let's post like gentlemen ~FAQ/PASTEBINhttps://rentry.org/vrbinSO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXzSame thing, in video format:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>10890392use mega my man
So I recently played through Duke Nukem 3D, and I realized something weird. Freedooms 1 & 2 actually have better designed levels than that game. I mean, granted, the Freedoom devs have had nearly 30 years to finess their product, but it's almost insane how good it is in comparison. It even looks better than the original Dooms (1 & 2) in some ways: larger, more coherent maps, and a complete set of textures, music, and sprites. Playing Doom 2 again made me realize how insanely ugly so many of the sprites and textures really are.
>>10890763It's not that Doom 2 textures are ugly but the mappers use like massive walls of said single textures without breaks. Compare to something like Plutonia for instance where walls are often segmented with pillars / supports etc to break the singletexture syndrome.
>>10890763Another thing to consider is the advancement in technology. The maps in DOOM 2 and Duke 3D were made to work with what was then mid-ranged PCs back in the mid-'90s.While Freedoom is still constrained by the hard limits of the original engine (it aims to be vanilla-compatible), modern PCs can display levels that are FAR more detailed then what was made back then.An excellent example of the latter is the BTSX series: The maps are vanilla-compatible, but they are insanely detailed to the point that mid-'90s PCs would've struggled to render them.
>>10890810I should clarify that when I say "mid-'90s PCs", I'm referring to what the average end-user would have, not top-of-the-line stuff.
post retro vidya memes.preferably from the early to late 00s
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>>10890706is this loss?
>>10890715That's normal resolution for the period, monitors were just lower resolution back then. It's a jpg so obviously it doesn't correct itself for modern high DPI displays.
Remember that time Nintendo Power threatened to make its readers attracted to black women?
Since playing this on the PS1 as a kid that i don't truly know when you do have to press the buttons. Now i'm replaying it and i still don't know.Try pressing them when the icon overlaps the button, don't work. try to press it slightly after, don't work. Try to do it slightly before but only sometimes works. What's the correct way to play this game? Also no, i'm not emulating, i'm playing on real hardware the psp version
Get some rhythm
>>10887341it's this. Hit the arrows when the rhythm requires it. The visual cues are a mess in this game.
>>10888474Youtube is a wild place.
>>10887315you just gotta believe opit's all in the mind
>>10889486the game just looks awful, i've never played it but i've seen some clips of it and not a fan of the art style.
I originally got it for the arcade cores (I hate mame so much), but honestly I'm having a blast with the computer cores. I love dialing into BBS' from the Commodore 64 core or playing games from the MSX core (Metal Gear is such a blast). I printed a wedge case and it's fun to use it like this.
>>10888850>kinoThat's not how you spell cringe
>>10889983>cringeYou spelled "soul" wrong
>>10881317It has a cute mascot though
>>10890182Your 3D printed fleshlight will never be a real girl. It will never have a soul.
>>10881115lol. imagine spending hundreds just to play a handful of arcade cores, and a couple of 8bits, when an og xbox wil do the same and more with better compatibility.>be me<ps2>fmcb>fmsx RA core>save hundreds>profit!!??>sony msx on sony ps2>picrellaughs in crt, 240p, 15khz and rgb.
That moment when Sonic surpassed Mario on a Nintendo console
>>10890420Allowing gen 6 is such a mistake.
>>10890420It’s not very fair when the only rival was Mario Shitstain.
>>10890420Of course, the Gamecube had no Mario platformers yet when this turbojank was released
>>10890805Wasn't Sunshine a launch title?
>>10890792100%
This game has the potential to be the top shooter of the year, if not the decade but it has so many glaring flaws that really bring it down.It has a good variety of levels, an ok story, good combat and cool guns.But WOW did cliffy b FUCK IT UP that fag was OBSESSED with GREEN! Seriously who the fuck gave the OK to put green water acid with green lights in a green room with green enemies and green projectiles? Ok no one actually used the shitty bio rifle so I'll give that one a pass but come on man this game is as obsessed with green as Blood was with brown it's absolutely ridiculous.Now the music, I had to turn it off and put on something else, occasionally it's got some acceptable enough sounding orchestral type music but good lord the gay nightclub techno bullshit you hear through out 99% of the game is so bad easily one of the worst in gaming they could have gotten some rock music in there to make you feel badass while you gun down those alien bastards.Lastly one of the biggest issues with Unreal and it's not exclusive to it but does Cliffy B love his fucking elevators, this fucking game is 50% elevators you go up down up down up and down multiple times in every single level of the game you could almost say it's Unreal how many it has. Plus they are either slow as piss or just plain annoying. Who wants to go up an elevator or worse down one in the middle of a firefight, it's just plain awful! Would it have hurt to put in these things called stairs??? I get it's the future but these alien dudes still raise cows and rabbits and have a handful of stairs in the game.Anyways this game is alright but FUCK CLIFFY B!
>>10889158>Unreal legitimately blew peoples' tits off when it came outEven at the time people were saying that and I was thinking "what the fuck are they talking about". Didn't look like anything special to me. It was coming out the same year as Shogo, HL, SiN, Trespasser, did it really look better than those? I guess it came out a few months earlier than them but we already saw the trailers and the screenshots for those games at that point, whose mind was blown by Unreal?
>>10890042Yes, it does. HL looks solid, but those other games are pretty ugly. SiN has better "feel" than Unreal though. Unreal looks stunning even in software render, with detail textures and great water texturing.My mind wasn't "blown' though. Great looking games were coming out all the time. It was normal.
>>10889837You must be 18 years old to post on 4chan.
>>10890042You were not born when Unreal came out.
>>10890009You must be smoking crack if you don't think Unreal is a classic. Maybe you're too young to remember but Unreal was probably the biggest shooter of 98 with Half Life and SiN being the only real competition, and it was not even close. Quake 2 was a bigger competitor to Unreal than those games.
What was your first Dualshock game
>>10889559That's the Dual Analog Controller (SCPH-1150, SCPH-1180, SCPH-1180e), not the DualShock (SCPH-1200, SCPH-110U).
I only use analog when I am really forced to like in the case of Ape Escape
>>10889559Don't remember. But I remember being pretty annoyed when I ran across a PS1 game that worked with the dual shock but not the dual analog. But I don't remember what the game was. Obviously it was a great game and very memorable.
I have one of these dual analog controllers along with the original smaller Asian ps1 controller. The small pp Asia controller isn't anything special but the hueg grip on the dual analog is comfy as hell. L2 and R2 are kind of weirdly angled but not a big deal
Ape Escape, the reason why i bought a dualshock
I need your knowledge, anons.My bf is trying to remember a GBA game he used to play as a kid, describes it as follows:>GBA>sidescrolling platformer>player character had a gold staff that could hold different coloured crystals, granting different abilities>player character was also "a long boi, not squat like Mario, Street Fighter-esque proportions?">something about collecting a dragon egg>nice background with parallax scrollingThis is all the info I could get out of him.
>>10890039This is what came to mind for me as well, It was the first GBA game I ever got, for mah SP.
>>10890039asked him and he said no, he remembers the character being lankier than thatpretty sure he just doesn't remember enough details to go off of
>>10889936>my bfGay
>>10889936Faggots don’t belong here.
>>10889936Two options.1. your a fag2. show tits or gtfo
https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/04/mega-man-legends-2s-japanese-prologue-is-finally-getting-an-english-fan-translationThe fan translation group Hilltop Works has announced that it is translating the Japanese-exclusive prologue to Mega Man Legends 2 into English.If you're a Mega Man Legends fan, you might already be aware that Mega Man Legends 2 has a somewhat unusual name in Japan, being released in the country under the title Rockman Dash 2 - Episode 2: Ōinaru Isan.This title came about as Japan actually got its own exclusive prologue to the game, which was first distributed as a bonus disc for the Mega Man Legends spin-off Tron ni Kobun (under the title Episode One: Roll-Chan Kiki Ippatsu) before later appearing as part of the 2005 PSP port.
>>10888361A project like this does sound like the perfect patreon bait. Low effort, it's just a fucking demo with 5 lines of dialogues, 2 cutscenes and 3 menus; but high advertising
>>10888370False gamer
>>10888370Based "I have never played x game" poster
>>10877041>check translation>is trannyslation Well going back to play it in japanese.
>>10888370I don't like Megaman but i like Megaman Legends
Why wasn't this ported to gog or steam?
idk why?
>>10890695ask em, you can request a game
Ok /vr/, I need you to settle this for me real quick.What is your controller of choice for emulating stuff on a PC?My favorite used to be a PS2 original controller, using a simple usb adapter. But nowadays it's hard to find an Original controller, you'll only get chinese low-quality stuff.Xbox360 Wired Controller is also very good, but I can't deal with the xbox d-pad for 16-bit platformers.Ps3 controller is also a decent option, since windows recognizes it properly nowadays. But it's a bit on the expensive side for me.Thoughts? Opinions?My controllers all died, I'm planning to buy a new one and I'd very much like you guy's input on this.
>best 2D controller8bitdo M30. The D-Pad is the best you can find in a new controller in today's market, and better than the RetroBit Sega controllers. The 2.4Ghz version has extremely low lag when wired over USB if you care about that kind of thing (and wireless has less lag than the Bluetooth version as well).>best 3D controllerDualShock 4. The sticks are incredibly precise, the ergonomics are much improved over previous DualShocks, and it has extremely low input latency on PC with a simple overclock. There's also DS4Windows, which is FOSS that lets you finetune everyhing you could possibly want to on the controller (deadzones, analog output curve, motion controls, sensitivity of the triggers, etc.)>best all-around controllerDualShock 4 as well, even though its D-Pad can leave a bit to be desired, it works well enough (and has been used extensively in the FGC, so at the very least you can adapt to its flaws). Beyond these I'd recommend getting OEM controllers for the systems you want to emulate and getting adapters, but that gets pretty pricey pretty quickly.
>>10890508I do use mine in a couch+tv setup btw so wireless is a must. Being open to strictly wired controllers opens a lot of options like just straight up ds2 with an adapter.
The Wii U Pro controller is the best I've ever had. Perfect d-pad, dual analog for 6th gen games, the gloss finish while a pain in the ass for fingerprints, it feels great to the touch. Also the battery in this thing last forever, I can go an entire month without having to recharge the thing. The bad things, no 6 button layout for fighting games, and even though you can may it work with a regular bluetooth dongle, it can be a pain to make it work, you want the mayflash adapter.
>>10890341I swear some variation of this is posted twice a month. I like the SNES controller for 4th gen and back, Xbox One or Series for any PS or Xbox game, and the Nintendo consoles from N64 to Wii kind of need their own controllers imo. Switch controller is basically an Xbox controller. I never played a Wii U.
>>10890341You won’t like this answer, but it’s the Steam Controller, with the Steam Deck in 2nd. The amount of customization, per-console and per-game, cannot be rivaled. People generally scoff at the haptic trackpads, but they are the evolution of game input, which you realize once you come to master them.
How would you rate Koei's strategy games?
>>10887478>paradox style implementationsNon-stop MTX for half-assed games?
>>10887720Most are grand stat, only a few are more simulator RPG like Uncharted Waters
>>10888243Aren't a couple of the Rot3K games more simulation/rpg?
>>10870417Rotk x is my favorite just because I like role playing and not giving a shit about conquering China
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Eye monster appreciation thread.Always tricky bastards figuring out how to beat them.
>>10890424Isn’t this think super weak? I remember one shotting it with a sabred monk
>>10890673It's only got around 150 HP, but it's first attack is often "XXXX" which almost certainly kills a party member at this point in the game. To add insult to injury, this is at end of the Ice Cave, which isn't exactly a cake walk.
