what games are as awesome as Splatterhouse, or almost
Harvester
Blood
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
that's probably it right
>had Splatterhouse 3 CiB and sold it for a couple bucks in the early '00s
>almost immediately regretted it but oh well life goes on
>Been getting back into Genesis gaming lately
>tfw I recently looked into buying it again and saw the price it's going for
I looove Splatterhouse. I've played through the original arcade game many times until I 1CC'd it and its home port was a deciding factor in my picking up a PC Engine a years back. I mean it's not really necessary with the better version on MAME at your fingertips, but hey!
I have 2 and 3, but I have yet to beat 2, sad to say (beat 3 tho). 2 I like a lot but for some reason I find it harder - and a little harder to get in to - than the first. I think it's the elevator rides, or the reaaaally long "fall down in a pit and walk through this corridor" segments, that irritate me. I feel like it lacks the "let's play a horror movie" vibe the first has, as well as the cogently-designed and taught third game.
THAT BEING SAID, I guess you don't wanna talk about Splatterhouse, but games like it!
As far as gorey horror [action?] games go...
-The Immortal (Genesis): more of an adventure game with a really weird combat system, but man is it heavy-metal!
-Phantasmagoria (PC): way better than Harvester, and is actually a finished game instead of random shock scenes thrown together! Fun and creepy, though a point-n-click. Sequel is pure schlocky cheese.
Monster Bash has, I think, a similar grimy, gorey, splattery aesthetic. Pretty neat DOS platformer too
Zombie Shooter is a great one straight out the old childhood, but I don't know if 2003 counts as "retro". I'm never sure with you guys
mentally replace with Chiller if it isn't. thank you
So what component cables are good for hooking up a psx to a modern hdtv?
I see a bunch of chink cables but they seem pretty sketchy
>>3969909
PSX does not support component, only RGB or svideo. However, PS2 supports component even when you play PSX games.
>>3969909
Do not buy a component cable for PSX it will not work, it is meant for PS2 and looks exactly the same.
So I need a Ps2 component cable instead?
Does it even matter what brand I use?
Don't know much about it. I like shock troopers and this looks fairly similar but more like cabal. should i get it?
>>3969865
The soundtrack is excellent
I like how early Neo Geo games sounded like a mix between Genesis and SNES, really gave it a unique sound
I'll let the webm do the talking.
I feel a lot of the early Neo Geo titles were generic and derivative, but this one is actually a lot of fun to play with a really great atmosphere.
Definitely one of the best in their library when it comes to non-Fighting Games.
Cabal-likes are also a rare genre so any entry in it is worth a look.
Today's May The 4th Be With You Day or something. Anyone wanna play some Star Wars? I'm personally playing TIE Fighter again because that game's just so good.
Pic not really related, I don't have a lot of Star Wars images.
No thanks, I don't participate in Jewish celebrations.
I watched Star Wars on my CRT and played some Dark Forces.
Dark Forces is great, and even though it has some cool and unique level design ideas for the tiem, it's still rooted in pre DN3D Doom-clone era level design.
Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight is fucking amazing though. It's very underrated imo. Fantastic game all the way through.
ITT great retro games with bad modern sequels
>>3968185
Yo, wtf? You calling a 2001 game a modern sequel!?! To a 1998 game?
Anyway my vote goes to Postal III or THPS.
First two postal games were pretty good for what they were. Postal III was just so shit.
THPS was always a well liked series. It had some misses but overall nothing was as bad as THPS 5
>>3968221
He means "modern" within the context of /vr/ and its board rules.
I suppose I'd vouch for the Sonic games, but even then there's plenty of good non-/vr/ Sonics - but there's still stinkers like 06, and I won't deny that.
>>3968185
Is Jade Cocoon actually good? I heard it was kind of blah
What do you think of these mixes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLHgNWfIuDY
Also some of the demos were recorded in 50hz instead of 60hz. Is there an easy way to speed up the track without messing up the quality?
>>3967856
>Is there an easy way to speed up the track without messing up the quality?
Yeah youtube has a speedup function.
If this is supposed to be a Work In Progress, why does the beta sound so different?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SzBJe-NDMs
Reminder that Plunder Island is the comfiest Monkey Island island.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f556u4K0ijc
>not Booty Island
I love Blood Island.
Gazing out into the cloudy sea at night...
>>3967718
I really like curse
I don't care if people say it's not a "real" sequel
Would I mitigate all the problems with old games, lag and whatnot that you homomen always talk about, if I hooked a CRT TV to my computer through an adapter and set the display to 240p? Or are the problems also tied to emulation as opposed to real hardware?
>>3967598
Emulation isn't perfect and it introduces input lag, but a CRT would still be beneficial.
Contrary to popular belief, lag is most often due to un-optimized programming rather than "the console not being able to take it" like a lot of people say.
However some emulators can improve some games in other aspects. For instant, some NES games will have a lot less tile flicker if you turn on the "no sprite limit" setting.
>>3968447
there's parts of games I can't beat without the console lagging
How does /vr/ import its games? What sites do you use to get your nihon fix?
Personally I use JapanGameStock.com, it looks sketchy, but the prices are pretty good for what you get. I bought a FDS and some games from them, and they were fairly inexpensive all together (roughly $80 for 6 games and the FDS).
>>3967468
I go to Japan a few times a year
>>3967616
Do you just bring a duffel bag on the plane and fill it with games while your there? sounds kinda suspicious desu
>>3967468
I take a drive over to Hard Off, or one of the specialty shops if I can't find what I'm looking for there.
favorite games you got from a cereal box.
>>3967263
Came free in boxes of Milo Cereal in Australia. Inb4 no retro it's fucking 17 years old
>>3968012
Not retro, fuck off.
>>3967263
Isn't Chex just the ultimate cereal exclusive? I don't think anything else comes close.
I'm looking to play some mid to late 90s PC games. I'm weighing the options of running the games on a modern machine or getting an old PC and monitor set up. For example games like Redguard, Thief, King's Quest 8, Tresspesser , etc
Is there any point to getting 90s period hardware over an early 2000s Pentium 4 or Athlon build?
Would you say most the of the "big" games from the late 90s run fine on modern PCs? This is something I'm getting mixed searches on. GoG seems to be the best bet?
Been awhile since I've posted here so hopefully this place hasn't gone too far to shit.
>>3967047
The OS matters way more than the hardware.
>>3967051
My modern PC is Win10. If I go with old hardware I figure I'd stick with 98 or XP depending on hardware.
I can't really use VirtualBox, VMware, etc with my modern machine. Too many incompatibilities with my set up.
If you have some spare time on your hands you can use Linux with GPU passthrough. Windows XP should work fine, windows 98 in theory should work but I haven't tried it. Just need to make sure you have a GPU with the correct drivers
What does /vr/ think about Brigandine?
I was gonna try it, eventually.
I still don't know if I should play the vanilla version or wait for a new fan-translaton of the Grand Edition, honestly.
Last week one comes here and says vanilla is best, on the other hand Grand changes some things and has more stuff which I might prefer. I really don't know.
>>3966894
I think that's the game where a mage character summons a mug of beer which I thought was cute. Actual game was kind of meh as I remember.
Say I want to cross border into one of the supposedly more developed and democratic countries which take copyright laws very seriously and coincidently I have a usb full of retro vidya on me
Say someone plug this shit and finds out that I have great taste in vidya and also, the usb is full of nes/snes/sega/psx/N64/PS2 whatever, iso's and roms.
How bad am I going to get it?
Anyone had the pleasure to present his beautifully segregated rom collection to a qt3.14 in an airport and then engage in somecasualanal exploration games?
Serious question here, especially that countries like UK are slowly reaching meme status when it comes to fight with piracy and EU has its own thing that makes me doubt in sanity of people running this shit.
How much risk is there if I want to take my usb collection to play on the tablet.
Customs/TSA isn't going to take the time to look at your portable storage unless you're already being detained under suspicion for something. Consider how many business people fly daily with laptops and large external HDDs.
>>3966760
I will search for it later but I remember some people had random control run on them.
Someone lost his notebook and was turned back because he refused to give key to truecrypt and another one had a suit for it.
I dont have the source on me now.
Assuming someone will try and look at usb, how deep will I be.
>>3966770
I mean, you could just claim that they're all your own back ups and that's only if the person inspecting it is arsed for an explanation. Alternatively, backup the USB on online storage.
PGXP is a new powerful set of features for Playstation emulation that significantly reduces the texture warping found in the games. It also includes anti-jittering features that had previously been created. This allows the models to be shown error free when upscaled to high resolutions.
Note: the PGXP features found in Mednafen "beetle" in RetroArch are far out of date compared to standalone PCSXR-PGXP. It is recommended to use the original version. Also, this particular game has a NGC and PC port, thus making the PS1 version somewhat supurflouous.
Read more:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=PGXP+
http://ngemu.com/threads/pcsxr-pgxp.186369/
Thanks uninvested individual!
>>3966516
Impressive. Very nice.
How do i make it work on Linux?
>>3966650
It's in PGXP fork of PCSXR and Beetle HW in RetroArch. both work in linux.
I just bought the Japanese version of Chrono Trigger of off Tradera. (Swedens version of Ebay)
Thing is, I only payed around $20 for it and it's in, what I consider, perfect condition. I see these go for quite alot more on Ebay, but I just got into the whole "Super Famicom" business.
Was this a good deal or what?
Pics incoming (1/7)
>>3966445
(2/7)
>>3966446
(3/7)
It got all the flyers and the commercials too
>>3966446
>sausage fingers