>dat calm, soothing voice
>informative, well researched, put together videos
>lack of zany randomoness xD
Is there a better retro video game channel than The Gaming Historian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCvIZ80RIhE
>>3434490
>Is there a better retro video game channel than The Gaming Historian?
>three updates per year
>two are dedicated to him doing something irrelevant in some irrelevant convention
yeah, plenty of better channels than him
don't get me wrong, i like the few content he has. but he does too little and most of it is crap no one else but him cares (i'll be at fuckalhoma's retro convention! please give a shit about it!)
also he's obviously another nintendrone retro reviewer so most of the stuff that he covers was already discussed elsewhere
His videos SUCK!
He needs more zany skits and tryhard humor.
Also he should have a cartoon co-host.
>>3434494
Any youtuber recommendations that are LGR or CGR?
How do you feel about new games that mimic the graphical limitations of retro consoles (none of that awful mixel/rixel/voxel garbage most people seem to think is genuinely retro), or new games developed for old consoles?
Have you ever tried to make your own authentically retro-styled video game?
Do you think faux-retro games are all lame nostalgia-bait, or occasionally worthwhile extensions of the past?
I think when they nail it, the game is great (depending on gameplay of course). Shovel Knight did a great job imo. I remember not buying it because I thought it was just on the fad train of that was pixelated dogshit, but then I heard a few of its themes on YouTube and decided to give it a shot. Glad I did, but that is about the only one I can think of that really achieved a NES feel to me. If there are any other ones that were well done, I'd love to know.
>>3434150
>If there are any other ones that were well done, I'd love to know.
Maldita Castilla
but they're pretty much the exceptions, yeah
The company that made that game in the op is great. Oniken is awesome except for the switched around controls
>he's going to take you back to the past
>when beavis and butthead kicked ass
new episode. it sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZ9-MxVPNM
>>3433124
I'm ok with the fake cartridge burning. It's just a show.
But the episode sucked ass.
Awful episode.
WHAT WAS HE THINKING!
>>3433124
>new episode. it sucks.
No. Unless you think all of his episodes suck. In which case, why are you even posting? Fuck off.
New to Rogue. It is great.
What are the best clones out there?
What are the best Rogue-likes, and why so?
>>3428158
Most people are going to tell you that Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and/or Brogue are your next move. They're then going to proceed to talk about them and not shut up for the next three days.
Angband will get mentioned and discussed for about three posts until the the Poschengband crowd shows up and starts spamming screenshots and shitposting for the rest of the thread.
Dwarf Fortress will inevitably get brought up. Someone will try to claim it's not a roguelike. The DFfags will respond with "muh adventure mode tho!" and then try to convince anyone listening that only hardcore and mature gamers such as themselves can actually play DF, and casuals should die in a fire.
All this elitist nonsense will, of course, attract the NetHack faggots, desperate for anyone to be impressed by the fact that they play a game infamous for not being solvable without heavy spoilers, and actually kinda boring once spoiled. (Naturally, they've all done it spoiler-free, and they've been replaying it for about twenty years longer than it's existed.)
The rest of the thread will be nerds trying to shoehorn any discussion they can about roguelikes no one cares about.
There. We had a roguelike thread.
>>3428158
>best clones
That's a whole genre.
There's a Roguelike general over at /vg/, which mostly plays Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Postchengband at the moment.
Their what-to-play pasta here, though most of them are not retro.
http://pastebin.com/yfUKx35f
>What are the best Rogue-likes, and why so?
It depends.
On a lot.
Give them all a try, really. The general control is mostly the same.
So there's a new PSX emulator called PGXP that fixes geometry and textures. Now PS1 in HD looks more like old PC games.
https://www.youtube.com/results?q=pgxp&sp=CAI%253D
>>3427406
Thanks?
Aother example.
Left is epsxe.
Right is pgxp.
>>3427408
>4chan textures
How?
Where did the meme that ZX Spectrum and Amiga have good games come from?
>>3426492
Was there Eve such a meme? They never had any good games...
ZX got them epic Rareware games tho...
>>3426492
Superior Spectrum Castlevania coming through.
Dragon Quest Thread - best girl edition
Previous thread: >>3395847
>>3424773
Stop.
I'm running through as many DQ games as possible in order, about to start 3.
NES, SNES, or GBC version?
>>3424779
SNES is you like the graphics
GBC if you want the extra dungeon + Pachisi board
Hey everyone, I've just been getting into the Umihara Kawase series and I wanted to have a general discussion thread. Does anyone have any tips for how to get good at the games? The grapple mechanics are really cool but also really tough.
bump for a god tier platformer
PRACTICE
That's really it. Just play and you'll get the hang of it. It happened very naturally for me. If you have a specific question ask, but UK is a game that you won't pick up immediately.
>>3389143
I've been playing on emulator with a keyboard and I think that's complicating things. I have the hardware to play original copies so I might just bite the bullet and buy them.
This thing's kinda shit if you're not into STG's.
>>3450646
pls no
Shit yes, but I still want one.
That CD add-on though
Games that pushed the system to its limits.
Mayhem In Monsterland was one of the last commercial releases for the Commodore 64 and there was some digital wizardry involved to squeeze everything out of 64k of memory.
>>3450430
They just meticulously designed each tile for the best colours, same as in Creatures, and threw in some hi-res sprites. The scroll speed was impressive, but the game felt crap other than that.
Check Flimbo's Quest instead. It has silky smooth multi-layer scrolling, and very impressive looking and well animated sprites. Also good palette use - they maximize a given colour theme on each stage, instead of trying to be super colourful at all times.
>>3450497
oh, and I forgot, it also has some super huge enemies. The hidden dinosaur on stage 3 is almost the size of half the screen, and the later levels have huge dragons and demons running around, all of them well animated.
The game uses the C64 limitations to drive its aesthetics extremely good, so much that it looks and sounds better than the Amiga original even.
>>3450430
Ah, imagine if they'd coded it for the C128 instead. All that extra memory.
anyone got a link to the pc-98 rom of wizardry: proving grounds of the mad overlord? I've been looking everywhere and i cant find it.
If by ROM you mean disk image.
https://mega.nz/#F!jIgkXQDY!hE3FQNWl77DkzKErGdz35g!7VhjlQRJ
The folks at Tokugawa Corps are slowly creating a new pack for PC98 games. They're sorted by publisher and currently up to C.
Boot with the Master Disk and then press S to start the game, after that you get the language prompt. Creating further duplicates shouldn't be necessary since you can just copy the disk image.
It's possible that the game doesn't offer the Kanji option and runs at a lower resolution, in which case you can try to reboot and possibly raise the clock speed.
what pc98 emulator should i use famalam?
>>3449993
Neko Project 2 fmgen is normally recommended for Windows, otherwise get regular Neko Project 2. It won't make much of a difference in a game with beeper sound.
You can get the newest build for fmgen at http://ux.getuploader.com/emu/ with the password 9801.
You can also add ROM images for Kanji and sound samples but they aren't needed in this case
The different emulators represent different models of PC-9801 and PC-9821 but any of them should work.
Am I the only one who enjoys playing retro FPS without saving?
If I die I take the punishment and restart the level without weapons.
>>3449408
Probably not, but why do you care what people other than you do when playing video games?
Use the dewnm thread.
>>3449410
Why? This isn't Doom specific
Hi guys, my PS3 broke along with all my save data. I'm resorting to emulation to try and get my game back.
It was the Japanese version of Xenogears and I got to the place called 'Sky City Shevat'.
I've never downloaded a save file before. How do I do it? Also, does anyone know where I might find the Japanese save file?
Thanks
>>3449387
Why were you playing the Jap version? Don't you think a Jap site would be a better place to ask for a Jap save?
Better yet consider yourself lucky for missing out on the ending of that game. Spoiler alert, the dev team ran out of time and money and the second disk is nothing but filler and Fei sitting on a black background describing the various dungeons and story segments they cut for time. Ohh yeah and when all the revelations are said and done the whole thing is a nonsensical mess.
>>3449393
>Why were you playing the Jap version? Don't you think a Jap site would be a better place to ask for a Jap save?
I really don't know ay place where I can ask this question. Also I don't know how to download and play a save file.
>>3449396
Well if you're playing a story based game in Japanese, one presumes you are at least semi-fluent in the language. Looking on Japanese sites may well help you better.
Has anyone tracked down Akira Kitamura?
>>3448952
There's a CEO with the same name. Is this him?
>>3448952
>you'll never be as cool as these guys
>>3448952
>Has anyone tracked down Akira Kitamura?
Why? Pretty sure he doesn't want to be bothered.
Are there any retro games that you would actually pay a monthly subscription to play now in 2016?
>>3448908
I don't like paying a monthly fee for modern games
>>3448908
Not for anything. Not games, not software. At most I'd pay for a Netflix or Hulu subscription, but that's it.
>>3448908
The Sims online.