What I was working on today:
The Atari 7800 ProSystem has the worst controllers ever devised by a man. They just SUCK. The original Atari 2600 controllers are worlds better. But what's best? Sega Genesis controllers.
A few people may not know this, but Sega Genesis controllers work perfectly with an Atari 2600 and an Atari 7800. Use the B button as your fire button. Those are *so* much better.
The only problem with this method on a 7800 is, the 7800 controllers had two buttons and about half of the games for that system require the use of button 2. Obviously the Sega Genesis controller has 3 buttons, so this should be no problem, right? On the two button games, yes, there is a problem. There are some differences between the way the Sega and 7800 treat that second button, so you have to build a circuit for it to work correctly. Well, here is the solution I made this plug this wire into the 7800, then the Genesis controller into the other side of the wire. The 7404 inverter chip takes care of all of the rest for you, I got the plans online.
Now when playing a 7800 game, Buttons B and C on the controller are working. I can now play Choplifter, Pole Position II, and Commando the way they're supposed to be played. (Choplifter is nearly impossible without button 2).
Awesome work! Love stuff like this. I wonder if its possible to make the 'A' button read as B+C simultaneously.
>>4235602
Thanks man, I appreciate it. Took me about 45 minutes to do the first cable because I had to probe each wire to figure out what color wire corresponded to which pin. Now that I know what I'm doing, I can probably make one of these in about 20 minutes and I bought enough supplies to make 10 of them.
Wire: 3 foot 9-pin female to male D-sub from Monoprice item 4880
Chip: 7404 IC from Mouser
Project box: Hammond 1551NBK from Mouser
Plans: www94.pair.com/jsoper/7800_gen_adap.html
I bought a Game Gear of of craigslist. Wasn't working, just powered on. I recapped it and tried it again. This was my result. Any idea what I can do? Every game does something similar.
What are some programs that could be used to make retro-inspired games?
I'm aware of RPGMaker, Unity, not trying to do actual Z80
Anything like RPGToolkit? If anyone is aware of that program
I want to implement my own sprites, have a very, very large map (but it will look like an Atari 2600 game) and RPG is or is not necessary.
I understand some very, very basic concepts of programming because of Z80 but I'd like to avoid coding as much as possible
Any suggestions? Thank you
>>4235508
>RPG is or is not necessary.
It doesn't have to be an RPG-maker*
>>4235508
What kind of game would you want to make?
OHRRPGCE
How do I git gud at this?
Also JA2 general
U play dumy
use guerilla tactics
if some bug happens that gives you an advantage, don't hesitate to use it
savescum until you get good enough that you don't have to anymore
Save. A lot.
If you're outdoors, you should basically always be prone unless you're retreating.
If you're indoors, find the room with no windows and and camp the door.
Hey guys, I want to get into Daggerfall. What is the best way to play this game? Any mods you would recommend on a first playthrough? Does the .zip on Bethesda's website work on Windows 7? Help me out please.
The best way to play the game is to install it, load it into memory, and interact with it. Mods are unnecessary. DOS games do not natively run in non-DOS operating systems. All of these questions are answerable with 30 seconds in any search engine. There is in fact an entire FAQ page for this which will show up immediately upon doing so. You spent more time finding that screenshot than it takes to learn this information on your own.
>>4235381
the release on bethesda's website comes with full instructions how to set it up with dosbox.
also this:
>>4235495
>You spent more time finding that screenshot than it takes to learn this information on your own.
the pic is a semi-rare prerelease screenshot. while it's easy to find if you know where to look, it certainly doesn't show up on google image search when you google daggerfall.
>>4235381
As a fellow newfag, I have to recommend this anon's advice:
>The best way to play the game is to install it, load it into memory, and interact with it. Mods are unnecessary.
Also, the installer that you can find on UESP does all the DosBox-to-Windows work for you during the install leaving you with a neat little icon on your desktop to double-click.
It also includes bugfixes. The game is complex and challenging enough without mods, but god damn do you need the bug fixes.
I thought about adding a game to my Retropie library and I normally don't have any trouble with this, but this one has me stumped.
I'm trying to play a MAME arcade game and none of the emulators seem to work for it on Rpi3. I can try to start it but it immediately backs out into the previous menu. Anybody know what Retropie emulator I need to play this?
Link to the file: https://www.emuparadise.me/M.A.M.E._-_Multiple_Arcade_Machine_Emulator_ROMs/Mushihime-Sama_Futari_Black_Label_-_Another_Ver_(2009--11--27_INTERNATIONAL_BL)/177683
>>4235334
That game is not retro
Also no way a rpi is ever gonna run that game
Game is too powerful for a rpi
>>4235334Try downloading the game file from a different website
>>4235339
I did. Emuparadise, Romhustler, Gametronik, edgeeum, they all have the same files.
Fuck you I liked it.
fuck you that's a good preference.
It's good, just not as good as the first one.
Fuck you, it's fine.
Just not nearly as good as the first.
are these niggas just a little too good?
i made an anon ragequit just by landing some on his workers
granted he should've had cannons around his minerals but still
>>4235171
Not if you're playing against someone skilled.
they're really weak, no reason you can't take them out before they hit your forces
>>4235261
40 dmg man
40
You can replace 3 games from the official lineup
The only two games that I would have replaced would be Kirby's Dream Course and Super Ghouls n' Ghosts.
I would replace those two titles with:
Chrono Trigger
and
a tweaked version of Tetris Attack (Panel de Pon is on the Super Famicom Mini and the only reason we never got Tetris Attack re- released is due to the Tetris name in the title. They should either re- branded the game as Yoshi's Puzzle League or translate Panel de Pon)
or if they could not get a version of Tetris Attack on there
Wario's Woods (perhaps Nintendo's most underrated and overlooked puzzle games)
No other games nees to be replaced. The selection is pretty much perfect otherwise.
Parodius, Turtles in Time and Sunset Riders for Kirby's Dream Course, Secret of Mana and FFIV (I'm not big on RPGs).
33 copies of Mars Matrix
>but SNES didn't have Mars Matrix
That's why it's a shit console.
Japan was doing it in the 90s
basically says
Virgin PCE: loves anime, anime girls, wears velcro shoes, talks about Gundam, conservative, penis smells bad
Chad MegaDrive: bad boy, techno music, hygienic penis, Apple Cap, etc
Wait what
So this basically says that SEGA fanboys were already insufferable back in the day, got it.
>>4234709
Sorry, it's from an 90s Japanese magazine comparing PC Engine fans vs Mega Drive fans. Reminds me of the Virgin vs Chad memes
One of the first games I've ever got with my first PC. Haven't seen anyone talking about it here
>>4234532
its just mtg. still fun but not to much to say about it
MTG is more fun as /tg/ or Magic Online. LackeyCCG is pretty old and a good experience but I don't think it's old enough to be /vr/ material.
This is the one where you can tap your opponent's lands for them during their upkeep step, causing mana burn and effectively locking them to single mana cost spells.
Pretty fun otherwise, though.
What was Sega thinking?
This is where shit gets weird, apparently they COULD have supported more colors, but chose not to.
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?20499-The-Colour-palette
>>4234531
Is there any decision so bad that even Sega will not make it?
Also worth noting is that the Sega System C arcade board based on the Megadrive did in fact support 6 bajilions more simultaneous colors on-screen.
http://segaretro.org/Sega_System_C
Any front mission fans here? Can I just start with the third game?
First game was really slow and kicked my ass and the second game looks great but the translation is a mess
still haven't played FM2 with the patch cause of all the broken videos. The project leader LegaiaRules had the translated vids with working audio on his channel but the dick nuked his channel and disappeared.
Not to mention all the untranslated bits outside of the missions, but I dont know how jarring the experience is while playing.
Loved FM3 and that fan-translation for FM5 was a lot of better than the the afterthought that was the subbing project for 2.
1 is kinda shit
2 is the best in the series and one of the best tactics games ever made
Don't be intimidated by the sloppy patch, it's worth the trouble
>>4234254
This is really disappointing because there is a text file that has the untranslated text with the patch file but the cutscenes aren't translated and the videos are gone
Kill yourself.
>>4233960buythe arcade board?
You retarded millennial.
This game definitely has an interesting play-style to it.
>>4233886
How do you mean?
i would really prefer if you'd be quiet
>>4233920
Well, like, uh, most, uh, most games in this kinda style, are like, sort of, uh, 2D scroller-, 3D scrollers. Whereas, this one has kind of has a lot, uh, has another dimension to it.
What are the funnest retro computer games that use a mouse as the primary control method (e.g., a character follows a path to where you click on).
>>4233821
Secret of Monkey Island 1+2
Day of the Tentacle
Simon the sorceror 1+2
>>4233821Goblin's quest and Zoombinis -- at least they were fun 20ish years ago when I last played them hahahahahahah
>>4233831
FOTAQ bitch