This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games, including consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games. Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier, and official game titles for those platforms released no later than December 2007 (homebrew console games made after this date will be permitted). The Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and Sony PlayStation 2 will now be considered "retro".Helpful links:Game Tech WikiEmulation General Wiki
Undumped beta build of Legend of Zelda rescued from dead hoarder, cracked out of plastic tomb and dumped.https://twitter.com/MrTalida/status/1783293071846670816
>>10887648its hard to bully nintendo but maybe if i post hard enough the collector nerds will do what i want
>everyone in this thread arguing against private property ownership, stemming from jealousy and consumerism issues.
>>10887648game developers should be legally required to turn over all development material to the government for preservation and distribution following release
>>10887654And honestly with a decent number of prototypes, the physical thing itself winds up being the most meaningful thing, since the content is often final or incredibly close.
>buy something>put it in a closet and forget about it>go on with life>this makes retards seetheHoarders are based. When that something finally does release, these same retards don't care and still seethe lmao
Post a cropped pic of any game screen and anons try to guess where it's from.
>>10887293someone finally got it, guess not as many people played that meme game as I thought
>>10883825I think I recognize this, but I don't what it is. What is it?
>>10887604it was caesar 3 on PC>>10886157
DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: >>10877520Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etcGameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source PortsAll other 90s FPS welcome~ Let's post like gentlemen ~FAQ/PASTEBINhttps://rentry.org/vrbinSO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXzSame thing, in video format:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>10887606Bet you thought you sounded clever posting this, didn't you?
>>10887687It is kinda amusing to see local teenagers thinking they're Bo Burnham or some shit after discovering what sarcasm is.
>>10887695I'm more confused over what they think they're accomplishing. They might get respect for ridiculing someone for having fun on their discords filled with similarly jaded teens who aren't allowed to like anything, but most of us here are likely 30+ and it just looks childish and a desperate poorly gauged attempt to fit in.
>>10887715Getting (you)s, which obviously succeeded
>>10887715I engage in this kind of discussion too but it's only when people actually invite themselves for debate, anon's post is only tangentially related to what he's replying to and I think he's just emulating this kind of behavior. Probably tells himself he's mature for his age.>>10887719Watch out dudes, this guy's a troller master
Well /vr/, are you a real gamer or just a little poser? Reminder that "beat" means one credit, no continues, and no cheats or rewind/save states or anything like that. Stuff like emulation and autofire is fine of course.
>>10887683>Maximo on this listPeople need to stop pretending this is a 3D GnG game. It has nothing in common with those aside from the first level and it's not hard. It's fucking tedious and boring and slow and awful.
>>10887683Its extremely clear that the original creator of this image just meant complete in any way but for some reason this /vr/ autist insists that you actually need to beat these games with no continues. Who are you even talking to go read a book or something
>>10887683Does Ninja Gaiden trilogy count as one game? I played and beat the first two but never played the third. Does that mean it doesn't count?
>>10887694Mad fag got owned, go back to animal crossing.
>Email Date: March 28, 1996>It is one thing to hear/read about how well we are doing in Japan vs. Sony, it's another to personally witness it. | just visited 10 retail stores in Tokyo (most in Akihabra); it's now spring break so the crowds of teens/college kids are huge. We are killing Sony. In every store, Saturn hardware is sold out and there are stacks of Playstation. The retailers commented they can't compare the true sales rate because Saturn sells out before they can measure accurately. Our interactive displays are better, our software displays and stocking far superior. It is not unusual to see 40-50 copies of Panzer Zwei or Virtua Fighter 2 stocked in even small stores and they are selling fast. I wish I could get all our staff, sales people, retailers, analysts, media, etc. to see and understand what's happening in Japan; they would then understand why we will win here in the U.S. eventually. How do we show that at E3? - Tom
tl;dr oh no the retailers couldn't give me numbers but trust me bro Sony just has more stocks, I mean we didn't have any stock, I mean the retailer didn't even have our Saturn, I mean we're KILLING THEM! P.S: My uncle, I mean, -I-, genuinely works at Sega so I know
Email's been posted before.in hindsight, we know that playstation was less that 10% behind in console sales after japan launch when both were $400+ at end of 1994.This does read like cope, because after a year, it would be obvious that Sega in North America were loosing their shit to Sony. So why not post an email about the success in Japan to raise morale a bit? Its not like Panzer and VF2 weren't good titles.
>>10887684Sega Saturn
ok so were they sold out or did they have 50 copies of games sitting on the shelves
>>10887729console where sold out but nobody bought any games for it
https://youtu.be/WfIcDcxrXzs?si=-S782od0t6ihtrS- ( Premiering)http://n64vault.wikidot.com/ssb-tools:smash-remix-cut-contentThoughts?
Was he even ever considered?
>>10885714I have had a similar weight change mechanic concept for Zip from FlingSmash. Except instead of using balls, it's entire body is the ball/weapon.
>>10885772At this rate, the whole "community effort" thing doesn't work. Too much bias around, low interest getting characters like Bomberman Meowth barelu finished, and not enough assembly autists to get the stuff work as should.
>>10887453*Bomberman & Meowth barely
>>10885713Only one level was made out of it sadly :(http://n64vault.com/wiki:jet-force-gemini-levels
What's the verdict?
>>10887594Very hopeful of you to assume no air could get in a brittle 25 year old plastic package
>>10887624>Heat sealed plastic clamshell packaging>Brittle, everLol, lmao. I take it you haven't handled these packages yourself; While I understand the logic of old plastic degrading, you would see far more damaged packages on the market if that logic was applicable here and yet I haven't seen even one. Have you?
>>10887661I've handled a few dozen, opened about half of them and funny enough none worked because they developed the same issue every ps2 controller does.
What's the best way to go wireless on PS2?
>>10887686Brook ps3 adapter
I ripped and converted the "Ow!" sound from Wild Woody, if anybody needs it.https://vocaroo.com/1iy0wluvd5we
Thanks anon
>>10887689cool
>capable of drawing ~300000 textured polygons a second>"saturn was not built for 3D"when will this meme end
>sir, how do we render 3d?>MORE CPUS
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>>10887513Unfortunately, simpler methods such as counting polygons with your fingers were only possible on the N64.
>>10887467Infinite?
>>10887632Yes, infinite. If you make a scene of only polygons (no shadow, shader, etc.) you can keep adding polygons until you die and it won't drop a single frame.
Ultima III comes to the NES and becomes Dragon Quest. Not surprising since it came out in Japan only ten months after DQ2. FCI were also out to one-up Enix as they used 256k ROM and a battery save instead of DQ2's smaller ROM and password saves. This game is quite an epic not so much because the world map is that big but because it's not linear like Dragon Quest/Final Fantasy--you can go anywhere you want from the start of the game, and also because it features line of sight which means you can't see a lot of stuff on the map unless you walk near it (for example mountains block your LOS and you don't know what's on the other side of them). This means many towns, themselves huge places almost the size of the overworld map, and other things are hidden from view and you can spend forever hunting for them. It will take you a while to finish, needless to say.
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>>10887512There are two moons. You need to know the correct phase of the moon to be able to use the Moon Gates, as this anon says- >>10887529. They tell you WHEN the Moon Gate will appear. You also have to know WHERE the Moon Gate will appear and some of them are in really hard to find areas. The "N" is the direction that the wind is blowing and it controls which way the Air Balloon travels. You can change the direction of the wind with magic, but if you don't have the spell then when you're riding in the Air Balloon it just takes you randomly around the map depending on which way the wind was blowing. It was a wonderful game mechanic and I've rarely seen anyone else do anything like it. My favorite hat is a blue Hurley baseball cap because it looks like the double crescent moons in Ultima.
>>10887448Why random encounters where a thing if Ultima 3 already had monsters on the map back in fucking 1983? Even Ultima 4 has random encounters.Wtf?
>>10887448>is not linear like dragon questHUH!? You can go and defeat the maou when you want in dragon quest so how is that even linear.Ultima wasn't even that good since there is no reason to play it.
>>10887527>When was the English release of the NES version? I definitely played it before final fantasy. Id actually played the commodore 64 version of Ultima 1 before this but no other Ultima games, so I had a pretty schizo understanding of where Ultima came fromThe NES version came out in 1989 about two years after it was out in Japan--it did in fact predate Final Fantasy which came out in North America in 1990. The original computer versions of U3 came out back in 1984.
Is there any reason at all to play this instead of FireRed on GBA?
>>10887307it's basically the same game to an excessive point where you can't use mons like crobat because he was introduced in gen 2. moves are better (except tms) but music is worse and magnemite/ton is now part steel, also there's some postgame but it's kinda lame. they really picked up the slack in heartgold/soulsilver though, one of the best remakes out there.
>>10887635>heartgold/soulsilversucks
Why has no one mentioned Pokemon Stadium and Gen 2 interactivity yet
>>10887665i did :( >>10887321
>>10887656Cope.
How would you rate Koei's strategy games?
>>10887089But his soundtracks are so hot. Never thought I could get amped for a turn based battle in ancient China, yet here we are:https://youtu.be/KzOTxgPtTso?si=8GF_ZU5b-7JhyKPv
>>10870417They could easily remake those old classic strategy games with some paradox style implementations. The market is there.
Dynasty Tactics 2 is my favourite. You're going to need a lot of patience though, once you're about halfway through, it starts taking a very very long time, especially planning and organizing your generals/officers and which cities/chokepoints they're attacking/defending.The enemy AI is smart (sometimes) and will usually attack your weakest group with their strongest officers, and those battles take a looooong time.
>>10887289Feels like they spend 90% of the ROTK budget on soundtracks.
>>10870417Spoonfeed me on the differences - some are grand strat others are simulation?
What important of a factor was good/bad marketing for a console's success? Did people buy consoles based off of ads in magazines or did they just go to the store and buy the next Nintendo?
>>10887698I bought the game console that had games on it that I wanted to play.
>>10887698marketing is a huge factor
It's been decades since their introduction. And little has changed since then. What do you think about them?
>>10886107its a status because usually you can get items to become immune to it
>>10881545>>bosses are immune to themThis is mostly a Final Fantasy problem, Megami Tensei, Wizardry, and SaGa do not have this problem.
>>10882008But everyone knows that you're just supposed to use your strongest offensive moves in Pokemon.
>>10885667Very clever.
>>10886107Mute, size, stop and slow are all worth using in ff4. Toad is frequently a good option also.
