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
Could going with an x86 processor save the Amiga?
>>10884507all the engineers that made the amiga great were already left or got fired after the amiga 500commodore died because it was just run by out of touch businessmen whose big idea to save the amiga was the cd32
I've wondered how Amiga would have fared if Tramiel's Atari had gotten the tech. My belief is it would have been more successful. The ST form factor and price at the time made for a more successful system, it had a ton of games and was targeted by publishers, it was way more affordable than the Amiga 1000 too. While the AmigaOS was nice, there was little commercial value to it at the time and those who were after workstation OS were buying Unix.So in my alternate universe, Atari launches the Amiga based ST with GEM-based OS. Commodore manages to get out their Unix workstation but like everyone else they make their money from PC clones.
>>10885839AKA: Amiga 500, but released in 1985? That would have made it more popular. Not a C64 Killer, but maybe closer; like eight to ten million units sold, intead of five.Now imagine, the engineers got their wish and updgraded the custom chips according to plan: small steps in 1987/1988 = AGA chipset, big steps in 1991/1992 = AAA chipset. It would have murdered the early 5th gen likes of 3DO and Jaguar.But then the Playstation and 3d accelarators on PC would have steamrolled it anyway. I would give the best case scenario an extended life expectancy of 2-4 years and double sales for the Amiga. But it wouldn't have changed its fate.
>>10886514The ST was pretty popular at the time, the A1000 didn't really sell too well, the A500 definitely did and it could have been released many years earlier if Atari had the rights. I'm not sure how much Atari would have improved it in the future though but to be fair they did do some incremental updates to the ST. In many ways Commodore was hamstrung by their increasingly crusty in-house silicon fab and design where Atari had the advantage of using the market.
>>10884507the amiga was an absurdly successful computer in europe dude and was in basically every US TV station>>10884581didn't seem like it
I'm looking all over for it but I cannot find it. It is scrubbed off the internet. It would be amazing to actually find it again.
I have a 2 pirated GTA3 copies, i remember them looking different than each other. I’ll update later when im near them
>>10886509How would you even play this? Were there mod chips or swap tricks in 2001?I owned one but I was like 9 so I wouldn’t have had any idea it was possible.
What's wrong with going on local ads and looking for people selling GTA3 copies? If you can't see the CD ask them to take a pictureI used to have a demo disc for the PC and finding that shit has proven to be impossible. I don't remember anything about it, just that the box was red maybe and it had tons of demos. "That"'s a fucking nightmare to find
>>10886482>>10886509So let me get this straight OP you want an iso of gta 3 with all the clutter files removed and some of the raido stations smashed together (combined basically). I mean I know you specifically want the KALISTO version but it just seems like your looking for gta 3 ps2 compact version.
>>10886482why do you want a scene release with the music scrubbed out dude>>10886689>Were there mod chips or swap tricks in 2001?yeah
is picrel worth it?
>>10886479I don't get why you wouldn't just get a chinkheld.Why murder a GBC with mods?Why bother with FPGA for a system that emulates perfectly as it is?Yeah, the screen on the Pocket is nice, but the thing is practically irreparable given Analogue doesn't sell parts. Not to mention the support on their side is absolutely garbage. It's 2024 and you still can't remap buttons, letting you put start and select on the X and Y buttons for GBC, something OpenFPGA lets you do.Hell, the base functionality is there, on GBA you can choose to make X and Y the L and R buttons.Then there's the issue with wiping Pokemon saves. I put FireRed cart into sleep mode by accident instead of turning it off and my save was deleted. Latest firmware too.Luckily I keep regular backups but that was half a game's worth of progress gone because I accidentally used a stock feature.
>>10886702I thought there was custom firmware and you can load your own roms from SD now.What’s even the point of using carts?
>>10886704There's OpenFPGA which is basically a ROMloaderThen there's their stock option to load your cart's ROM. OpenFPGA doesn't replace their OS, it's just another option on the menu.>What’s even the point of using carts?Using carts is nice, I guess. Especially if you already have your childhood carts. I also have this weird autism/OCD with Pokemon where I like to use carts or it doesn't feel 'legit', which is fucking weird because I don't have that attitude towards anything else.
>>10886479If you have a GBC lying around get the OLED kit off Aliexpress.If you don’t, get the Analogue Pocket.
>>10886479modded gbcif you want an fpga device that plays a bunch of portable games analogue
Post a cropped pic of any game screen and anons try to guess where it's from.
>>10885169maybe Fantasy Zone
>>10886649yes sir (or madam)
>>10886651correct !! Fantasy Zone 2 on SMS. Extremely colorful game
>>10886567I've only completed the SNES version that looks worse but the white grass and torches are iconic.Still, I played the arcade version a bit as a kid. They had a cabinet where I lived with Street Fighter 2, KoTR and pic related. Coming from Amstrad CPC and Master System, the graphics of these games were truly mind-blowing.
well this is rubbish
>>10886602You're right, instead it has the most grating soundtrack and sound effects on the console.
>>10886663>instead it has the most grating soundtrackYou have to be utterly soulless to have this opinion. Yoshi's Story has a ton of objective flaws but its soundtrack is absolutely not one of them.
>>10886591Gay baby game. Game is for fucking babies.
>>10886602unironically stop getting hitnot a meme reply i mean stop getting combo'd because you shouldn't hear it for longer than a small moment except on the bosses if you're going for 100%
>>10886694I sincerely hope you're joking. Most of the songs regurgitate the same damn melody over and over song after song. Yoshis' shrill choruses can sod off too. Loved Yoshi's Island as a child, and Yoshi's Story might have been my first major gaming disappointment. In fact, I think it was. I couldn't believe how bad it was.
Genuinely, why do people hate it?The lack of an item box and having to command a second character makes the game more busy, which after playing REmake on autopilot for years, is a nice change of pace, and it's sort of why I suspect people who only ever play Jill in RE1 with her 8 inventory slots instead of suffering as Chris with his 6.Really, my only problem was how difficult some of the puzzles were, which only were difficult because I'm trying to rush the game and not spending 10 hours on finding a single solution. (For example the animal puzzle I'm sure I could have figured out if I gave it a good crack)
>Would you recommend this game to other players?>No
>>10886310>the animal puzzleThat's the only real puzzle in the entire game. Everything else is just easy as fuck
Because RE4 zoomers have to find every excuse imaginable to make their crappy franchise ruining game to look better than it actually is, so they shit on RE0 and RE:CV>>10886362>cheats
Forget the gameplay, doesn't RE0 retcon a bunch of shit from RE1? I can't be convinced to bother with RE0
>>10886310I don't hate it but the game peaked with the train section and the rest feel uninspired
This game really impressed me. It's probably as close to a flawless execution of its concept as you could expect given that it was the first of its kind.It's kinda jank in the combat department, but thankfully the combat's not too demanding, and once you learn to avoid getting stunlocked it's decently serviceable. The atmosphere's great and the puzzles are very reasonable and even satisfying overall; the only one that feels somewhat obtuse was how to deal with the evil tree at the very end of the game. I can definitely see myself replaying it at some point.Too bad the sequels are so shit.
The voice acting really elevates it. It would still be good without it, but it feels pretty modern because of that
>let's get scratchin'youtube.com/watch?v=KPcpbSgf7Po
Undumped beta build of Legend of Zelda rescued from dead hoarder, cracked out of plastic tomb and dumped.https://twitter.com/MrTalida/status/1783293071846670816
>>10886001>>10886085You don't even need the Magic Sword. The wooden one works fine. The problem is just that Ganon is the ONLY enemy in the game who's hard-coded to be immune to every item that isn't the sword (and the Silver Arrows, once he's stunned).
>>10885192based, it worked
>>10886154Well if we're mentioning /vg/, they're the kings and queens of mental illness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qBkWerZDg
>>10884060Very likely just a boomer who locked it in a safe and never took it out, and eventually died of old age.
What are the best retro visual novels or dating sims?
>>10881460
>>10883373Alfred Chicken
>>10881460Any dating sims that aren't visual novels?
>>10882290Never heard of it before, but it doesn't look like there's any fan translation so I'm not surprised.>>10883410I thought the shooting segments in Policenauts were more annoying.
>>10885110Azure Dreams, Thousand Arms, Sakura Wars. It depends how you define not visual novels though. I gave them in the order they are lightest on text.
The ancestor of Castlevania.
>>10886309>Smurf RAGC inspired this game, made by Konami, who later made Castlevania.Makes you think.Also does anyone know who developed Smurf? Moby games only lists 1 programmer but for the Atari 2600 port, which is not even close to the Coleco original.
>>10883837100% true. They can both play beat saber pretty well on an oculus but put an xbox controller in their hands with something retro and they are pretty lost and can't stay interested enough in any one game for long.The one thing with gaming I have kept a tradition is that I "borrowed" Atari carts from my uncle I never returned so I let them do the same with me. They must have a dozen of my Wii games on up, as well as a few R4's but it makes them feel cool to have something of mine.
>>10885848This game. I never had/read the manual and without it, I was so lost.
>>10885848There's always something on memeframes that was actually first. You can't beat the frame.
>>10885762anon you don't understand he was either going to be known as the castlevania guy or the dating sim weirdo I don't blame him for jumping ship from tokimemo to castlevania and plundering all the credit
What if we put a cathode into a vacuum tube haha
Fuck space furfags.Fuck magical crossdressers.Fuck effeminate swordboys.And most especially, fuck stupid gay balloons with eyes.Link is the most fun character to play in Melee, and that's a fucking FACT. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.
>>10883648>>10883737>>10883875>the archetypical heroic young boy who comes of age on a bildungsroman becoming subverted, emasculated and sodomised by pederasts and womenThink about the broader cultural implications of this. It's absolutely being done on purpose.
>>10883620>Fuck effeminate swordboysIf you insist...
>>10886296Mental help now.Nintendo people are mentally ill faggots, what the fuck is this?
>mained snake in brawl>mained simon in ultimate>would've mained mega man in 4 if i played more than the demoyeah i'm thinkin range is king ergo get super missile'd dumbass lmoathat said i would main young link if he had the transformation masks, missed opportunity not adding those to ultimate
>>10883629Sounds like you want to bum Link
played final fantasy 7 and no shit this was treated like it the second coming when it came outthe music is so good, the characters are very distinct, the story is literal insanity blowing my mind watching the northern crater fuckery go down, tifa and cloud exploring cloud's mind in this abstract as shit segment never something I would have expected from an rpg from the 90sand the gameplay is this great tried and true lego playset snapping orbs from one character to the next messing around constantly experimenting so much side content too with meaningful rewards this shit? GOODprotagonist was in a damn wheelchair and still captivated me more than most other game characters
>>10886498If a low res panty shot that's probably not even from official game art is all it takes then you might have a case of terminal peanut brain
>>10886469Based but wrong
>>10886487If you cannot appreciate FFVIII's OST you are a freakazoid.
>>10886531The official in game ones were never that hi res either.
The music still hasn't been topped by any other JRPGWhich is saying alot because JRPGs suck and their saving grce is usually the music
