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What are some good retro gaming books?
I'm currently reading Console Wars which I wouldn't say is that great. There's some good history in there but it mostly reads like a very bad dramatisation. A lot of the conversations between the key players seem very unnatural and badly written.
So basically I'm looking for something better.
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Ready Player One. Might as well prepare yourself to nerd shred the movie when it comes out almost exactly one year from nowor just like some Doom novelisation
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Console Wars and Ready Player One? Already we need to nuke this thread
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A certain NES guide book is great for information on individual games and information on the stories of them.
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Overlooked platformers.
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Nankoku Shounen Papuwa-kun on Super Famicom:
https://youtu.be/8aqJDwplFkM
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umihara kawase should be played by everyone on /vr/.
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>>3862370
Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad > Mr. Nutz
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Has any studio EVER produced localizations as cringy as Working Designs' shit heaps?
>shoehorn in pop culture references every other sentence
>increase the difficulty in every one of their releases for literally no reason
Why was this allowed?
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It's been twenty years, can't you let go?
We can all play the original versions nowadays.
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because when you were the only game in town, you could get away with stuff like that.
Sometimes it worked (in already goofy games, like Silhouette Mirage), sometimes it didn't.
They folded right around the same time other companies started to give a damn with localization and produced far superior work.
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Working Designs is the Ghost Stories of video games.
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Questions regarding Famiclones
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I'm looking for a Famiclone that:
1. Is cheap
2. Runs original(or near-original) hardware, no emushit
3. That I can plug to a CRT with composite and RF inputs(I need the signal flaws)
4. Is also region-free, capable of playing NES, Famicom, and PAL games with a flashcart.
Are there some good clones that can do that? Are there any that can support light guns or microphone functionality like in Zelda 1? How would they compare in price next to a used NES off of Ebay?
Bonuses like an RGB or HDMI output, SD and Flash drive inputs, are not strictly necessary but are welcome.
And speaking of flashcarts, is Everdrive the only one people get for the NES, or are there cheaper alternatives?
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>>3858779
Been using Retro Duo, it's pretty solid. I'd recommend not using the controllers that they provide. any original controller would be much better
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>>3858786
Ooh, that seems nice. I can look past the incompatibility list, and that it can do SNES too specifically seems great to me. Can they support NES controllers?
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>>3858798
Some do, mine only does SNES controllers
some'll even do Genesis controllers
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ITT: Japanese only games we really want translated
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>>3851790
ITT: Im too lazy to learn japanese
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>>3851790
None. u mad burger boi?
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Ganbare Goemon 2 and 3.
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complain about everything edition
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>tfw the best dq isn't retro
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Am I where I should be in VII?
I just beat Cumulus Vex, but it took me a couple tries, and even then it was tough.
Hero lv. 25
Slime (SL3) -> Drake Slime -> Serial Quiller -> Berserker (SL3)
Ruff lv. 23
Warrior -> Fighter -> Priest -> Paladin (SL7)
Mervyn lv 22
Mage -> Priest (SL7)
Aishe lv 22
Dancer pre-mastered -> Warrior (SL7)
I was watching a walkthrough and that nigga had four heroes and was level 30. I think he was over-grinding but I also might be underleveled.
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>>3832150
Oh, Hero also mastered Healslime.
Are there any other fansites out there that cover a single video game system as thoroughly as Planet Virtual Boy?
The amount of press material/Virtual Boy centric media the person who runs that site has gathered is v.impressive. Would be cool if something like this existed for other platforms.
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It would be cool, but significantly harder when you have to deal with game libraries in the hundreds as opposed to merely 14 titles.
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https://www.soaringrabbit.com/kfs/index.html
This probably isn't as uncommon as you'd think.
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That's true, but the (hypothetical) site wouldn't even have to necessarily focus on the software end of things.
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What are some essential 'must play' shooters on the Genesis?
Bonus points for multiplayer.
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>>3880876
rockman X3
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Ranger X
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>>3880876
uh gunstar heroes?
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Post your favorite chiptune tracks. Please do not contaminate with fake chiptune
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>>3880819
https://youtu.be/HKfSyKQX-h4
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>>3880819
It irks me that chiptune has largely been supplanted by chipstep.
Even if you search chipstune, you'll still get chipstep horrors.
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Does chiptune mean solely things that'd run on the 2A03? Or do things like VRC6 and VRC7 count?
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What is the definitive way to play NES games on the tv?
-Modded NES Classic
-clone system + flashcart/multicart
-legit system + flashcart/multicart
-legit system + legit carts (lol)
-Emulation through something like retropi
-Emulation through another console, such as the wii
And for the tv itself
-crt, flat or not
-lcd, led, plasma, whatever modern HDTVs are using now
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NESRGB for CRTs or FPGA clone for HDTVs
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...or a regular nes hooked to an sdcrt via composite, depending on your definition of "definitive"
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>FAMICOM 2
>Original NES pad
>Everdrive N8 Flaschart
>convert to play NTSC-U games
>PAL NES for PAL exclusives
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Does there exist an example of a Game Boy port being better than the original version? Help me think of one.
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>>3880069
Zelda: Link's Awakening
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>>3880071
Literally not a port in any possible way.
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>>3880069
Dragon Quest III comes to mind, unless you're thinking strictly of GB and not GBC
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"Electronics."
"Hello, do you have a video game in stocked called 'Street Fighter Alpha 3' ?"
"what?"
"Do you have a video game in stock called 'Street Fighter Alpha 3' ?"
"What? Did you say Reek Rider?"
"No...S-t-r-e-e-t F-i-g-h-t-e-r. It's a fighting video game."
"What system is it for?"
"It's for the Sony PlayStation. There is a muscle-y looking wrestler man on the cover of the game with a mohawk wearing red tights and a yellow belt"
*audible sigh*
"ok...let me go look. be back in a minute"
*minutes pass*
*more minutes pass*
"No, we don't have anything like that."
"....ok"
*sigh* guess I'll call k-mart
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good luck
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>>3879703
That was only warming up!
https://youtu.be/QT_PfR3Llq0
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He probably thought you were a pleb for playing it on Playstation in the first place.
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so we all agree this is the greatest retro console of all time in terms of games, right?
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>>3879608
of course not
FRIENDLY REMINDER!
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Try harder
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How could Konami fuck up so bad with Goemon's Great Adventure after doing so well on Mystical Ninja 64?
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Bait? GGA is one of the better sidescrolling Goemons.
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>>3879425
But I think both of those games are entertaining and very fun?
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>>3879425
how could op fuck up a thread so easily
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This port visibly makes me angry just looking at it. It is such a half-assed cash grab. It has ZERO enhancements to speak of over the originals. They still have sprite fliker, they still have slowdown and it has additional input delay. This is completely unacceptable. Even the Anniversary Collection had no slowdown. Although the AC itself had tons of other issues (input delay).
What would have I done? I would have remade all the games in MM9/10 engine. Rip all the assets, and remake them. They're fairly simple games, and MM9 can run full speed on a Wii, so it should be highly portable. That way we'd get faithful remakes/remasters, and zero slowdown. Then, I would have included Mega Man: Powered Up. It's a remake of 1, and totally should have been included in addition to 1-6.
LC2 would have included 7-10 + Bass. Also remade in the same engine. As a bonus, 7+8 would have an additional "Famicom" style remakes.
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So... they play like the originals and this makes you mad?
>>>/v/
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And then people would bitch about it not being true to the original
Devs can't win
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If you're going to make a collection inferior to a collection from 10 years ago, AT LEAST make the additional content worth considering
>make challenges not donkey puke (really, playing through the same handful of segments strung together is just forgettable)
>put some damn effort into the museum and/or unlockables
>I want to do cool shit like use Megaman 3 weapons in Megaman 6. Why even recompile all 6 games and not have anything like this?