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>Bionic Commando for pedos
>good

>is it the best snes platformer?
Nah, that would be Castlevania 4 or Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts.

How did this go from obscure 6/10 oddity to every hipsters favorite game?

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>>4175235
Australia-kun pls go and take your poopy taste with you.

Getting' real tired of the age Olympics

>be oldfag
>guardian of /vr/
>notice youngfag trying to discuss video games from before their time
>ohhellno.jpg
>readjust trilby and leap into thread, katana drawn
>(there's no actual katana, but bear with me, it's a metaphor)
>"RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE YOUNGFAG RRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
>the plebeian youngfag stares at me in disbelief
>"How dare you shit up my board! These games are sacred to us, not to be sullied by the likes of you!"
>"b-but..." the youngfag stammers, moronically, "I like old v-video games..."
>I scoff at him, euphoric in my superior age
>I remind him that he must only like old video games because it's trendy, and that e-celebrities told him too
>"b-but..."
>remind him he will never understand what it's like to be a "true" retro gamer in the '80s and '90s, sexless and ostracized socially
>the youngfag, his thread sufficiently derailed, hangs his head and leaves in shame
>i shit myself and proudly bask in the fumes
>"Thank God that /vr/ has proper retro gamers like me to ensure only *quality* discussion"
>I proceed to start an Genesis v.s. SNES thread, only oldfags can truly appreciate

my first console was a famiclone, when I was a kid I tried out Mario64 in the store and my reaction was "this is boring, why do I have to walk everywhere, I want the other console" and that's how I got my playstation
don't remember anything about announcements, but I do remember the playstation being the talk of the playground

oh also, if anyone is interested, i have some extra consoles that are either broken or i dont use them anymore. i'll give them to anyone for free if they just pay the shipping/packing costs. they include two ps1s (launch model and later model), a psone (broken, but modchip included lol), broken snes, broken super famicom, and a working wii (homebrewed and ready for retro emulation, etc). if anyone's interested i'll make a gmail to do business thru.

just feels wrong to throw them away solely because theyre broken. someone might be able to fix them or use them for parts, and i just dont know anyone that'd want the working stuff.

I dont have nearly as much stuff as you. But i move quite often. Only stuff of mine that got broke where figurines that where gifts and i didn't care for that much anyway.

All in can say is i bought heavy duty plastic boxes with good lids on for moving and just stored everything in those. Cheap plastics ones will break.

Also ebay is good for getting rid of broken stuff.

>>4175069
what part is broken on the psone? if the laser is still fine i'd like to cannibalize it since the laser in mine just died.

>>4175025
then why not get the original guncon instead?

Well, I forgot to add that I also want to play Time Crisis 3.

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Any particular reason you can't just use one of these and any old RCA cable to act as an extension?

>>4174964

yeah

The easiest way to use is with a modchip. Just werks.

The cheapest way is with the swap trick. Jam the lid sensor, boot one game and at the magic moment yank the disc off and cram the burned game on

Cheat devices and discs are a step between, simpler to "install" but basically just make the swap trick easier to perform by giving you a "press a button to continue" window to swap discs.

>>4174989
They also stop you pulling the spindle off the CD drive, busting the bearing and putting a scratch right through your disc when you get it wrong.

That said, OP should ditch the 1001 immediately for a 5501 as it's vastly superior in many, many ways.

It's pretty clever from a technical point of view, but it was obsoleted by a combination of disc piracy and cheaper ROM chips rather quickly. The entire library (even though containing some groundbreaking titles like the first Zelda, Metroid and Castlevania) is actually surprisingly small compared to the amount of ROM cartridges.

Still, Nintendo turned quite a profit, being the hardware manufacturer, belt replacing aside.

>>4174357
How does piracy make it obsolute?
It was a milestone. Without it we may not have flash carts nowadays.

>>4174392
Piracy reduced profits for games released on disk, so Nintendo shifted back to releasing them on cartridge again, even though those were more expensive to produce (but falling ROM prices helped them with that).

>>4174392
>Without it we may not have flash carts nowadays.
what

>>4174279

OP here. In case you ask, I discovered I had a brand new boxed Firecore in the shelf. Got it for 9 dls 6 years ago, but never used it. I just tested it and the thing works. I plan on getting some games, hence the question...

>>4174305
ATGames stuff is trash dude. If you want a good bootleg Genesis get one of the HDMI MegaDrives from Aliexpress, they are much better.

>>4174279
That clone is trash. Sound quality is utterly fucked and frame rate isn't too good

Philips cdi

>>4174203
>>4174326
PS1 you dingii

>>4174203
I have Amiga 500, CD32 and PSX versions and they all have similar loading times.
I'd so with the SNES but don't expect nice prices

Sry bro, never played it

I loved it even though I knew it was shitty while I was playing it. Nightmare Creatures 2 at least gives you a payoff for slogging through all that clunky early 3D beat-em-up gameplay.

It's been over a decade. What I remember were two protagonists one was a priest, I wanna say, the other was a girl so I didn't play her. The priest was named something like Ignacius. I also remember years later when we got the internets finding codes to play as the monsters. A fireball shooting flying imp sticks out the most.

>>4174083
>1988
>61 colors (4x15+1)

No.

Even worse, the VPD itself actually supports color expansion, but Sega didn't connect the VDP expansion lines to the cart slot or expansion slot.

>>4174105
Compared to other console's weaknesses 61 colors is pretty minor, especially considering the other consoles that could theoretically display many more colors rarely ever did in game.

>>4174083
The Genesis would have definitely have been one of the smartest console designs ever had its expansion capabilities been thought through better. But I agree with your general points. The fact that the 1988 Genesis can equal or exceed the 1990 SNES in terms of power was a very significant achievement.

That being said, when defining what is 'smart' console design you need to establish some parameters since each console may have been designed with different goals in mind. For example, by the relative raw-performance-per-manufacturing-dollar metric the N64 would be the smartest console design of all time. But that design came at a cost of programmer-friendliness and storage medium space. And so on.

You cannot.

>>4173872
worked at a used vidya store for a while when i was in highschool/college. cigarette smoke stains plastic. it's horrible. try cleaning shit with soap and a toothbrush. i don't know of any chemicals that can be used to neutralize the smell.

Start smoking

> Told 2600 is cheap
> entered rediculous snipe of $40 for Flashback 2 with AV ports and cartridge port switch
> ends at $47, where the fuck do these rich people come from?

> went to local retro store
> standard 4 switch woodgrain = $66
> Sears Tele-games system = $77

WTF is happening?!

>>4174195
That's still cheap as hell compared to anything Nintendo. Once you have the console, finding games for <$5 is ridiculously easy.

>>4173864
>Games you like to play.
Joust is the fucking shit, even if it's not as good as the arcade version

Probably bullet hell shooters or really just shmups in general. They seem like they'd be really sweet to get into the groove on but I just can't.

>>4173747
I love Galaga 88 but I always end up pissing myself off when I fuck up getting the triple ship on the first stage.

>>4173747
Fighting games.

>>4173556
if virtual fighter's so good why does no one play them?

>>4173556
Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter, Tekken...all good fighting games in the 32 bit era. The first game I owned on a Sega Saturn was Virtua Fighter 2. I knew of the arcade game & that's what drew me to buying this game.

Maybe you should play it and find out idiot.

>>4173512
If you want a GCCX thread, you just need to ask for it.

>>4173512
That was really weird, I played the Japanese version all the way through and never got those. Maybe the game cart had dirty connectors.