Ancient (Yuzo Koshiro's company) just released a free famicom game:
http://www.ancient.co.jp/~game/mamotte_knight2/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwpX9cmMLNA
https://twitter.com/AncientGames_JP/status/905965713692622848
Is there a difference between the English and the Japanese versions?
>>4248732
simple game, but pretty cool. graphics are impressive for NES
>>4248732
her fat anime pussy probably smells great
I hate having shit taste. Like most of the games I like most are unpopular, and often considered shit. But to a degree the opposite is usually true, as well. The most popular games are usually very 'meh' to me or might even be my least favorites in a series.
Favorite Mario game? SMB2
Favorite Final Fantasy? FF9
Least Favorite? FF7
Favorite non-FF RPG? Chrono Cross
Favorite Classicvania? Bloodlines
Least Favorite? Super IV
Favorite Resident Evil? REmake/Director's Cut
Least Favorite? RE2
Favorite Contra game? Hard Corps
Least Favorite? The original (which I actually hate)
Favorite Beat 'em Up? Golden Axe III or Hyperstone Heist
Least Favorite? Streets of Rage and Final Fight
Favorite TMNT Game? The original TMNT on NES
Favorite Toejam & Earl Game? Panic on Funkotron
Favorite Sonic Game? Sonic 3D Blast
Least Favorite (of the classics)? Sonic & Knuckles
I also love the NES Jaws, Treasure Master, Roger Rabbit, and Pagemaster for the Genesis.
It extends into non-Retro games as well... and movies, but that's not for here.
>>4248591
>Favorite Classicvania? Bloodlines
>Least Favorite? Super IV
>Favorite Contra game? Hard Corps
>Least Favorite? The original (which I actually hate)
This isn't contrarian
>Favorite Sonic Game? Sonic 3D Blast
>Least Favorite (of the classics)? Sonic & Knuckles
This is
>>4248596
Not intentionally. I like Sonic 3D Blast the most because I find it very cozy, I actually love the new playstyle to it, and I just think it's very unique. I've also always liked isometric games.
Sonic & Knuckles, however... I think it's just the first act that REALLY puts me off from it, and the fact that by the time I got to S&K I'd already binged Sonic 1, 2, and 3 so much that it just didn't feel different enough to invest me. But it's probably mostly that fucking mushroom act.
>>4248605
You are supposed to play Sonic 3 & Knuckles together
What are some mediocre or outright terrible games in otherwise enjoyable franchises?
Pic related: Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage (aka: Warriors Rage 2). How SNK didn't go bankrupt faster is anyone's guess.
Holy shit, this is bad
>awful graphics
>lame roster
>lousy soundtrack
>boring story
It came between two amazing games, too.
>lousy soundtrack
I don't think so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmYipbk2UNA
(I don't remember the other songs, though)
>>4248551
>Saya
The only redeeming feature of this game.
Amazingly, she does not have any lewds of her. I've looked.
Yep, that's a hamburger alright.
Hamburger? I could have sworn that was a donut.
>>4248238
Probably a rice ball, like in Alex Kidd in Maracle World, the jap version he eats a rice ball but in the western versions it's a hamburger.
Why does the west hate rice balls so much?
Anyone here unironically liking Hexen? As in you actually played them recently instead of just pretending to like them for cool retro gamer points?
I mean, I love the 80's dark fantasy aesthetic. I tried to get into Hexen 1 & 2 many times, but I always get exhausted and drop them. The weapons just don't work. Melee weapons are rarely fun in an FPS, much less on a Doom/Quake engine, and the ranged ones are mostly rocket launcher type that you quickly run out of ammo to use with. The level design is the epitome of the 90's "key hunt" trope. Could anybody here tell me what was so fun about the Seven Portals hub? Okay, I actually completed it, and Shadow Wood was almost okay, the foggy swamp levels were kinda cool. But Heresiarch's Seminary? It's just the same Dark Bishop enemy with that repeating voice clip and homing projectile attack copy pasted at least 9000 times. Fuck, this game is trash.
I'm a huge Quake 1 fan so I've played most of Hexen 2's levels. It's better than Hexen 1, but it suffers from the same problems, obscure goals, way too big levels, few enemy types copy pasted all over the place (those fucking spiders), bad weapon design, very questionable enemy patterns (e.g. the jaguar warriors are invincible when they're howling for some reason), all resulting in a very uneven difficulty and a very mixed experience over all.
Quoting a post in a forum:
"I'm a shirtless Viking guy and I just punched an entire level to death and a giant flaming skull asked me if I was ready to die and omfg this game is METAL."
Game is as good as the other FPS games back then.
I don't think anyone at vr likes or plays any games at all, other than pretending doing so for cool retro gamer points.
>>4248236
hexen 2 is one of the worst games ever made hexen 1 is awesome you are just stupid.
Hexen 1 has a very clear goal
The Levels are perfect and infact still the greatest first person levels ever created in any game up untill the time of posting this
As for the enemies, Ill say it again, You just suck and are stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ht3XGhlfYs
>tfw i can finally fuck my dreamcast legally
Your Dreamcast can't consent.
>>4247993
It's just a CPU in a plastic case, it will do anything you program it to do.
Post pics
Can we get an original gameboy graphics appriciation thread?
Have some dot matrix greatness
remember the gameboy fps?
What's the point of this? I get that there are lots of original hardware fans, but this shit isn't the original hardware. It's a modern device simulating original hardware. At this point why not just emulate? What does this thing give you that an emulator doesn't, especially an emulator that can output an identical 240p signal, such as a Wii?
>>4247691
It gives you a real NES, which is what does the actual processing of the pure data in the rom on the cart.
inb4 mappers
>It's a modern device simulating original hardware
It's just a way to load ROMs, but the NES itself is doing all the work, i.e., it's original hardware.
It's not too different than having a multi-rom carts, which were common back in the 90s.
A "modern device simulating original hardware" would be the Retron consoles. You can slam your original carts in it, but it's emulation.
>>4247691
You don't seem to understand what a flashcart does. For all intents and purposes, the console thinks it's running a real cartridge. Being that the only thing we care about on the cartridge is the ROM (and a couple other chips that are described by the FPGA), the gameplay experiences should be functionally identical. In that regard, it's no different than playing burned discs on original hardware.
>on-rails shooter disguised as a photography game
Is there anything more comfy than this?
>>4247560
It's a lovely game. The problem is, there isn't much replay value once you've shot 'em all
>>4247565
Unless you play for score. Ever tried to beat the default hi-score on each stage?
It's also fun if you have someone else playing the game and compete to get the best rated shots of this or that monster.
But yeah it's rather short and it's a shame it doesn't have all 151 monsters.
What I didn't like about it is that you can beat it in one sitting.
Is Ys 5: Kingdom of Sand on SNES worth playing? It seems kind of clunky on first impression.
>>4247532
Why wouldn't you want to form your own opinion?
It's the most okay game I've ever played.
>>4247669
Mostly this. As an Ys game, it feels rushed and more like an interesting prototype than something I'd play again over the popular entries. But it's got the best premise for a remake
I know Tonic Trouble was just ubisoft testing the engine to release Rayman 2 later, but it ended up being so much better than Rayman 2 in my opinion. Why is this game so underrated?
>>4247484
>colorful graphics instead of dark muddy ones
>faster gameplay
>more platforming and less puzzles
Tonic Troube >> Ramyan 2
To me Tonic Trouble is a quintessential, middle-of-the-road, perfect grade 'C' of a game. It's competently made, all the controls work as they should, but it's just also kinda... boring. It lacks a certain spark which I wanna blame on both music and world design which isn't that interesting. I played it, beat it, didn't hate any part of it, but nor did I ever go "this is awesome!."
So it's not an underrated game, nor is it overrated. It's just not really talked about which is exactly the kind of rating it deserves.
>>4247484
Sorry but this game is not better than Rayman 2, not by a long shot. The world of Rayman 2 is lush, beautiful, light-hearted and humorous, but also dark and forboding. Conversely, this game feels extremely cartoonish and just doesn't do much to stand out from the competition. Mediocre in every sense of the word.
Growing up in the era of platformers, I've never found the genre interesting. Maybe I'm wired differently, but the act of running and jumping without any forms of attacks have always seemed both boring and frustrating to me. Death by falling into a pit or spikes seems like fake, artificial ways of getting a game over, compared to falling in combat.
That being said, people always seem to treat Mario like the default these days. Every game room video on youtube is, like, "gotta have that Mario". It's a form of bizarre untold agreement that you GOTTA have that Mario everywhere if you are a retro gamer. Not Karnov, not Musha Aleste, not Rolling Thunder or even Y's, but you GOTTA plaster your shit in Mario stuff, like he was your god.
What's the appeal? I get that the first one was innovative for it's time, but is Mario really that great?
>>4247456
who cares about gameplay. i play mario for the story.
Mario controls really well, the way the levels are set up is superb, the settings are charming. It's hard for most people to dislike Mario for these reasons. Though I sense that you may not like platformers in general, and prefer RPGs and shmups.
Some people just don't like certain genres or games. It's really that simple. I don't like Castlevania, and most people tell me it's one of the greatest series in vidya history. I find the act of controlling a really slow character with a whip very boring.
There was a time when a scrolling screen was a technological leap forward believe it or not and that era was dominated by the shoot-em-up and the 2d platformer. SMB had good physics, good level design and a certain adventurous aesthetic. Truly brilliant.
has anyone played this game and if so was it good? i want to get it.
It is fine. Not as good as Ultima VII but I did not find it to be terrible and actually enjoyed playing it.
>>4247384
It's fine. I was an idiot and needed a guide to beat it when I was younger.
And sometimes I even used cheats.
I didn't enjoy the game much I guess if I needed to get through it as quick as possible?
The worst part is the fire mage magic. You need to set 5-10 items in pixel perfect positioning. Absolute horse shit.
The final patch actually cripples all the jumping puzzles because people hated them so much. Jumping is now almost impossible to mess up, you just fly to where you are pointing.
It's crap. EA released it way too early so the plot is unfinished and the gameplay extremely lacking.
They had to release a patch to make it even remotely playable by adding a quicksave button and simplifying the platforming.
They made an addon with some of the missing content but never released it.
So I just beat the first Final Fantasy game for the NES. It was surprisingly playable and fun, although I did use a walkthrough, since I didn't really enjoy aimlessly running around the world.
Should I just go directly on to the second game in the series? Is there anything I should know?
Yeah, FF2 is pretty good, just totally different in how it plays from all the rest. Of the original trilogy I thought 3 was the best. Play the NES version with the translation patch, DS version skews the difficulty in a bad way.
You may as well just watch some faggot youtuber if you need to use walkthroughs and can't make a decision without someone here telling you what/how to play.
>>4247098
Stop trying to push people into watching youtubers. The more people who do, the more eceleb threads there will be, because this site grows daily via memes.
I already own a sizable number SNES carts and Virtual Console titles. I plan to pick up the SNES Classic Edition in three weeks, and it will be coming with controllers compatible with the Wii (for comparison a single Wii SNES controller went for $50-60).
Is there any more titles I should get off the Wii Virtual Console? Here are the games I already own (either in cart or VC form) that are on the Wii Virtual Console:
Super Mario World
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
The Legend of Zelda A Link To The Past
Super Metroid
Kirby Superstar
Kirby's Dream Land 3
Kirby's Dream Course
F-Zero
Super Punch-Out
Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II Turbo
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Super Ghouls n' Ghosts
Super Castlevania IV
Legend of the Mystical Ninja
Conta III
Harvest Moon
ActRaiser
Doremi Fantasy
Final Fantasy VI
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
What else should I get that is available on the Wii Virtual Console?
>>4247083
Damn, look at all that money you've spent on ROMS. You could have bought an SNES system and a flash cart for that much and then had access to the whole SNES library.
>>4247090
*Except for the games that require chip emulation
>>4247095
There's less than about 10 games with add-on chips that are worth owning. It's still cheaper to get the cheap chink everdrive and grab whatever special chip games you want.