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What is the best /vr/ platformer?

My vote is for DKC

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Is there anything comfier than an evening in your PJs playing old school point-and-click adventure games?

I maintain that there is not. Aside from an evening in your PJs playing old school point-and-click adventure games while watching Bob's Burgers on a second monitor. There are some upsides to the 21st century.

Anyway, adventure game thread. Text adventures also welcome but not what I'm focusing on.

And a topic to start us off:

>I dare you to name a point-and-click adventure game better than Day of the Tentacle.

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This collection pisses me off. It's so lazy and half assed. It could have been GREAT. They could have rebuilt all the games using MM9's engine. Instead it's just lazy emulation. A god damn NES emulator and roms and it's only the first six games. It's not even the entire classic series. That you pay 20 dollars for. They could have even done something neat like rebuild MM7-8 in the MM9 engine and include both versions of the games.

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>Sega: oops xD hehe we forgot to fix the music speed for the PAL version, sorry it runs 20% slower
>yes we know it's the year of our lord 1995

Why is this allowed?

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ITT: casual filters

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Platforming is such a bitch in this game. You have no feedback from your legs, so you have no clue where they are. So there's a tendency to want to jump prematurely. You instead have to jump right when you think you're past the edge (but aren't).

I can't even imagine how insanely frustrating this must have been on the N64.

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So /vr/, what's the current best handheld for emulation?

My hacked PSP of 5 years is finally dying, and I looked into things and discovered the strange possibility that the best emu-handheld may still possibly be a PSP running CFW, which is really odd.

Problem is all I give a shit about are results. Sure, there are handhelds out there with way better specs, but the reality is a hacked PSP can still play everything Generation 4 and below IN ADDITION to the fact that it also plays PSX games near perfectly and of course ISO-loaders for PSP games perfectly. If you give no shits about piracy it still seems like the best device for a pure "what it can actually do" perspective. Especially for GBA emulation the PSP is absolutely GOAT, the only time I ever preferred playing an emulator over the original.

So my question is this: Am I wrong? Because I actually want to be wrong. Is there a handheld out there that actually matches this thing? How is 3DS emulation in comparison.

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Anyone have one of this? Thinking of getting one since it's cheaper then getting an AV Famicom and a working FDS.

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Hello and welcome to Retro Shmups General, for all matters related to classic 2D scrolling shooters.

Discuss your…
>favorite shmups
>recent acquisitions
>latest accomplishments

Previous thread:
>>3377091
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Current happenings:
M2 has released Battle Garegga rev.2016 exclusively for PS4.
http://www.play-asia.com/battle-garegga-rev2016-premium-edition/13/70aj2z

Trizeal Remix and Exzeal are available now for computers.
http://www.gamingcypher.com/trizeal-remix-now-available-steam-exzeal-arrives-july-14/

You can now play Konami's unreleased STG, Dive Bomber Squad, in MAME.
http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Number=354912

Taito opens up a Darius-themed aquarium.
https://www.taito.co.jp/20160401
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Miscellaneous:
New to the genre of shmups? Read "Full Extent of the Jam".
https://www.uploady.com/#!/download/9t48Idu136P/JquqhdRgzcbzmZPz

Shmup Collection containing over 9000 MAME romsets.
https://www.mediafire.com/?48812jiax8m1c#nz0227tzb9zor

Decide the greatest shmup developer of all time here.
http://strawpoll.me/4496713

For a real-time chatroom, check out the shmups discord.
https://discord.me/shmups

List of the hardest clears, ranked in order of difficulty.
http://www.wikihouse.com/stg/index.php?STG%A5%E9%A5%F3%A5%AF%B0%EC%CD%F7

Play Twinkle Star Sprites online with fellow shmup fans.
https://www.fightcade.com/game/twinspri

Livestream aggregator for when you wanna watch some shmups.
http://stgrillz.appspot.com

Highscore tables for several shmups. Post your own!
http://www.restartsyndrome.com/boardlist.php

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This is an improvement.

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YOU GOT THE POWER

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Are there still any lost prototype or unreleased games out there in the wild that we haven't discovered/dumped yet?

Pic sort of related.

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Welcome to the Retro Game Gauntlet, gentlemen.

Start at NES, and work through in the following order:
NES
SNES
GB/GBC OR Sega Game Gear
Megadrive/Genesis
Turbografx16
DOS
NeoGeo
GBA OR Sega Master System
Commodore 64 OR Commodore Amiga
Playstation 1 OR Nintendo 64
You have three days to complete the game without assistance (each game gets three days, though RPGs are allowed a week due to length).

Select your system here:
http://s3kr.it/gauntlet.html

You can also do it manually if you don't trust the random number generator:

http://s3kr.it/systems/

AND BRING ME SCREENSHOTS PARKER

Rules:

1) Savestates are allowed ONLY for the purpose of taking screenshots and ONLY if your emulator/game in question does not have a pause function.

2) Rerolls are allowed under the following conditions:
The game you get requires some sort of hardware functionality that cannot be accurately emulated to complete (eg, Boktai)
The game would otherwise require cheats, hacks, or alteration of the software to complete due to a bug (eg, Cheetahmen II)

3) Playstation 1 games can be given up to 2 weeks to complete if the game is more than 2 discs.

4) If you lose / give up to a game you have to go back one square instead (ie if you gave up a Genesis game, you go back to GB/GBA and continue frome there)

5) For Rule 4, if the game you fail is on the same path as another console, you have the choice to roll for that console instead of dropping down a level.

For games that have a high score or no end, the rule is:

If no high score has been established, set a goal and beat it
if you're playing something another anon already has a high score on, beat their high score

If you are playing extended rpgs/pokemon/whatever you get a week [Depending on the game needs to be asked in thread]

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What is the best controller to use for an emulator?

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Pentium, Pentium 2, Pentium 3, or Pentium 4?
List the pro/cons of each and any alternatives you know of.
Are there any old laptops that are capable of handling the graphics and sound of these games (I will be outputting to a CRT monitor of course)?
What soundcard, videocard, and 3D accelerator card do you reccomend?
Is there any advantage to running Win95 instead of Win98SE? I know 98 has niggernet exploder bloatware built in. Can 95 and 98 run Win3.1 games?


Also I will need an older system for PC-booter and CGA shit that will run too fast on the former PC.
What should I use:
IBM 8086 or clone ,Tandy, 286, 386, or 486?
List the pros/cons of each and any alternatives you know of.
What version of DOS should I use? What about CP/M and DR. DOS?


What is the best place to look for old computers? Craigslist and G-sales in my area only have WinXP machines at the oldest.