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>>3995985
i don't think most people got that far

wasn't it in the final part of the castle?

>>3995985
I can't recall any

>>3995985
I like this snow level better than the first one.

>>3995650
Nah there are way better ones, like no one said PSX or Sness and Bloodlines wasn't garbage.

Ofcourse Sony didn't hate 2D. A shit ton of 2D games were released in Japan. Shooters, RPGs and platformers were still made with sprites for a quite a while.

>>3995094
>revisionist history
>almost as bad as Saturn
N64 sold around 12 million in Japan and Europe, and over 20 million in North America.
Saturn sold 9 million worldwide.

Every time I see a thread complaining about anyone liking the N64, all I hear is "All my friends wanted to play N64 instead of my system at parties waaaaaaahhhhhhh"

>>3995110
N64 was in the market for a longer time and generally sold better, I wasn't talking about raw numbers. The point is that is was a flop everywhere but America. And maybe Canada, dunno. I only had a single friend with one and he sold it to buy a second hand PSX in late 1999. We would go to his place to play Goldeneye and SM64.

It's the same mediocre famiclone system-on-a-chip hardware they've sold before, but now with a dirt cheap composite-to-HDMI upscaler stuck in it.

>>3994160
>Hyperkin

No thanks. Stick with original hardware or a rPi/PC.

That is ugly as shit.

Like everything else Sega has put out, they're mediocre at best.

They generally feel like they're a generation behind as far as "interesting developments in JRPGs" go.

They're too depressing for me. Phantasy Star IV is the only one really worth playing, you can read up on the back story.

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>>3991549
Zilla sends his regards.

>>3991594
Oh, look, you coming apart!

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I thought you meant shadow dancer at first

>>3988552
I mean

prolly not

It's real good though. Loved me those advisors and wonder videos

Second only to Alpha Centauri.

I love this game. I've got a VM with Win XP only to run this game.

And the advisors ... I like them.

nah, go look in the archive this shit just post posted

You should check out this series called Final Fantasy. It's pretty under-the-radar.

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MediEvil. Total hidden gem, dude!

>>4002306
Meh.

Why? You got enough old games to last you a lifetime

>>4002306
You mean with crippling bugs, PAL-slowdown, flickering sprites, wiggly textures, loading times, scratched disks, massive delays in worldwide releases (IF you get a release), and terrible design issues/interfaces?

Sure do miss the 90s.

>>4001000
>What was C64's mascot?
None? Why would it need a mascot?

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Not even the Spectrum has one if you're going to discount multiplats.

>>4001020
I'd say Miner Willy is the iconic Speccy character even though indeed his games were ported to other micros.

>>4000975
Grow the fuck up? Only children get upset over childish things.

Right after you redpill me on original releases.

Gran Turismo 2 non greatest hits print is impossible to 100%, one of the events just will not count as cleared.

I use mednafen to play virtual boy games. Not sure how accurate it is or how it compares to other emulators, but I didn't care too much about finding the best emulator for a system with three worthwhile games.

mednafen + medGUI reborn

you're welcome

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After fiddling with it a bit more, it just freezes if I happen to push both direction keys at once when I'm trying to switch sides. The audio continues, but the game goes to shit. Is this a Virtual Boy thing? Maybe the console wasn't ready to handle having both directions at once pressed?

>>4000978
It stutters and lags a fair bit. I'm not looking for peak performance or anything it's just that bothers me a fair bit.

>>4000982
I can't get mednafen to work at all, actually, I downloaded the emulator directly from their site and I get an .exe file that doesn't do anything at all. I don't understand.

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-https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zlfb2U2VCeS70uS6Klc2ZEOC9KtnYyCyBXEmeetjh0c/edit
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp_ZqCZPJKk

=== NEWS ===

[5-16] Jimmy's jpg.pk3; a jokewad that gives all textures and sprites shitty JPEG quality
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=56322

[5-16] Trailblazer update
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=47494&start=1020#p997715

[5-15] Temple of the Lizardman 4 released
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=49164&p=996529#p997009

[5-14] Zanieon's Akzos City, a conceptual resource map
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=56444

[5-14] Project MSfiX'd Beta; fixes up
http://www.mediafire.com/file/3f2rkrodhlaaraw/projectmsfixd_vr051417.pk3

[5-14] DFRetro released a Retrospective of Quake II and how it changed the FPS genre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYjSkUdfb4

[5-13] Blender now has an addon for the creation of Quake 1 models
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Import-Export/Quake_mdl

[5-12] Marathon Skins Pack updated to 1.0.7
https://zandronum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=5897&p=80510#p80510

[5-12] Castlevania-style mod Nightmare of the Sin updated to 1x1
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=51404

[5-11] Source code for Amiga FPS Gloom has been released
https://github.com/earok/GloomAmiga

[5-10] Anon release; a mod with a tackle feature
https://www.dropbox.com/s/txsp7xx7wxcvln6/nighttrain.pk3?dl=1

[5-8] BloodGDX nearly finished
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXp94HQKKOg

[5-8] Evolution of the WAD Episode 4
https://youtu.be/AwkCJQZlf8M

[5-3] Intermission E2M3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf1Aq6mw68g

[5-2] GZDoom 3.0.1 released; bugfixes
https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=56219

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>>3999816
What's this mod? Looking interesting.

Also, anyone mind helping me get Doom 4 Doom working? I found a download link for it but dragging and dropping isn't working. Maybe the files I grabbed are bad? Anyone have a working link?

>>4000476
That's Harmony, a standalone IWAD. It's OK.

>>4000372
you never actually played Crash, did you. Here's a hint, watch the footage of more than the first stage, game eventually opens up with more complex levels that extend in several directions.

As for the topic - it's an autorunner. If you consider autorunners subgenre of platformers, then technically it kinda is? Except I guess not really. While graphics have depth, gameplay doesn't - you don't really move forwards and backwards.

If you're looking for progenitors to 3D platformers, probably looking at isometric platformers like Knight Lore, Head Over Heels, ZX Spectrum Batman, and Super Mario RPG is a better choice - hell, several concepts and mechanics (like lava boost) were translated directly from SMRPG to SM64.

>>4000372
the reason they tagged 3D to the title was because if you pressed Select, it changed to stereoscopic red/blue 3D.

>>4000372
>backward when you hit a column
doesn't count
>you also move up (jump)
doesn't count
>and down (falling down pits)
doesn't count

It was the gateway drug that casualized the point & click adventure game and created the market that now guzzles "hidden clue" games like intoxicated hippos.

>>3999898

If it did anything it's that it pushed the world-building aspect of games, and to a lesser extent, the story telling.

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>>3999898
It was pretty huge and influential

>Killer app for the CD-Rom, convincing millions to buy the devices
>Was one of the best selling games of all time, without any violence or heavy conflict elements, legitimizing a huge and untapped casual market
>Made huge strides in immersion and presentation, with beautiful, lived-in environments, ambient audio, understated soundtrack and great worldbuilding
>At the time, it was a pioneering use of 3D rendered graphics
>Due to it's success, it inspired dozens of clones, all with varying degrees of success

It's easy to forget that for a long while, Myst was the single bestselling game there was. I think it's influence is undeniable, especially at the time.