Archived threads in /vr/ - Retro Games - 417. page

>>3863576
Both were decent platformers for the time, better than Crash and the collectathons from Rare, for sure.

>>3863629
I see a lot of people on /vr/ bitch about the camera and "tank controls", it worked perfect on the PC. They must have played the playstation or saturn version.

brilliant game, shame that 3 never got anywhere pat early rough ideas
>>3863635
the controls were changed in 2

I wish there was a controller with GBA SP-like buttons. Those were the shit.

>>3863493
True, they were great. Not too deep, nice and clicky. The n3DSXL has buttons and a D-Pad with a similar click, which feels nice, but the D-Pad is under that circle pad thing. I didn't want to make my 3DS my main portable emulating machine for that and a few other reasons (screen isn't as good as my phone, have to fuck around with injecting CIAs, etc). I'm thinking maybe just wait for the Switch pro controller to get a phone clip, but the D-Pad is in the "wrong" spot again, like the 3DS and Xbox controllers. Does anyone here have one? How comfortable is it despite that?

I was also considering using an original SNES controller and getting the phone clip for the 8bitdo version of it, and just plugging it into my phone via USB, but I'm not sure if the original controller will fit the clip, and even if it did, I'd have to find a way to drill a hole in their clip to get the cable through somehow.

What a headache.

Just get a dualshock4...

Super cool knick knack there bro. Used to know a dude that did "stain glass" nothing like this quality though.

>>3863110
thinly-veiled guitar gore thread makes this anon a sad puppy

>>3863110
Why are you posting shit I saw on reddit?
damn, also why the captcha's getting harder

>>3862881
I don't remember my high score, but Earth Shakers was one of my favorite tables that I went to this one bar for. It was the best to me. The game had a bunch of vibrators or something in it, so when you had an earthquake happening your ball would wobble around the board. The game was propped against a wall and there were some stairs nearby that lead up to the manager's office. The manager came down and asked me to stop playing because I had evidently been rattling some of the books off his shelf in there.

He payed for my meal, though. I'll consider that worthy of whatever score I had that day.

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>>3862948
Is there a reason why they didn't move it a bit farther from the wall? Or were you one of those rare individuals who was so good that you kept the table just shaking & shaking

>>3862483
misphrased that.

This song reminds me of a song from an FPS game but can't seem to remember which.

>>3862483
Kind of reminds me of AC. These guys have had their music in a few games though, look them up on the wikipedias.

>>3862483

There's thousands of songs out there that sound just like it.

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>>3862476

It's not exactly like Silent Hill, but I think any fan of playstation horror games should check out Hellnight (AKA: Dark Messiah).

It's clunky, but the story is fantastic and the atmsophere is quite well done for such early 3D technology. I recommend having a guide available for reference since it is possible to miss items and get permanently stuck.

>>3862516
Done.

I'm out to play, thanks.

>>3862476
is it bad?

System Shock 1
Starcraft
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

>>3862423
System Shock 1 & 2
Fallout 1 & 2
Crusader No Regret & No Remorse
The Earthsiege series (including Starsiege and Missionforce)
Bioforge
Beneath a Steel Sky
Syndicate
Terra Nova Strike Force Centauri

The Wing Commander series, 1, 2 & Privateer. The latter game is incredible, but it's even better if you're invested in the game universe first.

XCOM:UFO:Enemy Unknown

Exile for Amiga.

I've also always wanted to have a go at Master of Orion 1 & 2

I believe Nintendo for example left it up to the game's publisher to run ads, sell to stores, etc., while possibly manufacturing shells and PCBs themselves with fees coming in from developers.
I say this because I recall reading that Ken Kutaragi managed to swing a lot of third parties to PlayStation on the fact that Sony controlled all of the CD-R manufacturing and since they were cheap there would be no fees, and that Sony would go to retailers and handle wholesale and even marketing for many third party games (Final Fantasy VII).

There wasn't any single company if that's what you're asking. Just like now, manufacturing was all outsourced to China. Some big studios designed their own PCBs and memory controllers, others licensed existing designs. I think Nintendo had some first party PCB and shells that developers could buy, but it's not like Nintendo was personally manufacturing them or anything.

Licensing is a completely separate issue from manufacturing. When developing a Nintendo game, you had to send them a copy for review and they would license the game, assuming it met Nintendo's guidelines. If you tried to release unlicensed games, they'd hit you with frivolous lawsuits that most companies didn't want to deal with, but you still saw some.

>>3862526
>Licensing is a completely separate issue from manufacturing

Yes, I'm somewhat conscious of the pre-manufacturing process, beginning with publisher <> vendor courtship all the way to the end of a game's production. (based on the official SNES developer manual)

I was more interested in the economics and logistics of things once a game was given final approval for public consumption.

Then if Nintendo didn't itself produce the cartridge shells, did they mandate a specific design so that all games would look the same, like a franchise restaurant? The only one I can think of that stood out was the red Doom cartridge.

That looks really cool and fun actually. May try this out.

Unremarkable Wipeout knockoff also available on PC but it's still amazing that unreleased prototypes like this are found. I wonder how long that guy squatted on that devkit hoping for some personal profit out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eRTRTPORdg

>I downloaded Millennium Racer and managed to get it working through lxdream on my MacBook
DROPPED

i liked it but i also spent a lot of my childhood in hot cars in casino parking lots

>>3861003
Yeah I did. Mostly for the create a character mode because I don't actually enjoy wrestling games.

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>>3861043
oh god, the ptsd is kickin in

what the fuck, i thought i was over this...

>>3860947
KMART 16 bit technology
"what else do ((they)) say?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6NJcsN8kig
5 Mario super set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ2NRe3hVlA
GEX scary movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsGHwDquJEY
Rocket Knight Adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C5-KgFuR68

>>3860954
GAEM GENIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExH0kZKCPHA

>>3860958
Boogerman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wdAzJYhOFI
Kirby Gameboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuuLLRElbXw

>>3860941
Doom.wad Init refresh damon

>some games you grew up with are now part of a mysterious hobby for the kids of today

There's a /v recommended games wiki which could be a good place to start. Another method would be just to look at the highest rated games for whatever consoles you like. Or just download a full ROM set for a console and pick games at random.

What genres do you like? That is also a good starting point.

>>3860946
I like everything except country

Great game, play the japanese version, the western port balance is kinda butchered iirc.

Saigo no nindou is the correct pronunciation and version.

>>3860717
>western port
meant western localization

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rip dad

>>3860709
>played this with my dad all the time
>haven't talked to him in 10 years
fuck
brb

>>3860678

What kind of game is that and on what platform? Looks like a budget Lemmings :P

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>>3860220
http://arcadecontrols.com

You want GroovyMAME set up with an AMD/ATI graphics card with hacked drivers. It will output accurate low-frequency RGB signals to CRT at the original resolutions and framerates. Perfect signals, cycle-accurate CPU software-based emulation. Hook it up.

What you're describing is probably 5D Monster Eye or 4D Dark Escape which have way too many gimmicks to emulate and run on special hardware locked PCs that haven't been cracked anyway, not that they're retro.

Considering arcade games were a constantly advancing technology for the entirety of the /vr/ era they're kind of hard to narrow down. You probably experienced them entirely in the 90s when they were indeed dominated by fighting games. The other most common type of arcade "classic" is the one-screen score challenge game like Pac-Man or asteroids but there's no shortage of straight forward 2D platformers including run n guns like Metal Slug.

Do you want more games like metal slug or do you want to follow into other platforms like the rail shooters you mentioned?

>>3860220
I can emulate CPS1/2 and NEO-GEO fine, but everything else requires me to hunt down specific emulators/images to work. Is there a way to emulate everything easily without googling histories of each game?