Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

[Samuel Fuller]

Cope. The VMU? It was a joke. If you pulled your controller out while saving, guess what? Your save file's gone. Poof. Like it never existed.

The only thing it was good for was sports games. Normally, your opponent has to close their eyes while you pick your play. But with the VMU, you wouldn't know exactly what play was coming.

It also kinda broke the Resident Evil games and Dino Crisis, as you could check your health without going to the menu screen.

 

[HexFag]

It's a shame the guys who worked on it never finished the HD textures for Skies of Arcadia. Unlike most of them, theyre actually hand done and don't look like AI slop and the ones that they have edited really stick out compared to the ones that are vanilla. Also I really like the fixed camera angle views when you go inside the buildings. I've always liked fixed camera angles in 3D games more than a free camera, I feel like you can do a lot more ironically.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Anyone here have thoughts on the Atari 7800+ that was just released?

 

[LifeAlert]

Anyone here have thoughts on the Atari 7800+ that was just released?

Yes I do. Download an emulator and play the two or three good 7800 games for free, or pay $130 to use the same one but with an Atari logo, zero built-in games, and a tranny-made homebrew game to justify the pointless cartridge slot while also getting ass raped by speculators if you want actual physical 7800 games from back in the day. Tough choice

 

[Calandrino]

Anyone here have thoughts on the Atari 7800+ that was just released?

Looks like it has a sequel to Crystal Castles. We all need to purchase one to support the Crystal Castles series.

 

[Never Scored]

Anyone here have thoughts on the Atari 7800+ that was just released?

I think it would have been cool if they recreated it with some kind of a system on a chip or FPGA, but as it stands, it's emulation and so realistically the My Arcade Game Station Pro or the Atari Super Pocket are a better value for you money if you want to play some officially licensed Atari games.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Anyone know some good tips for DVD era game and box restoration?

Back in the day, there was a local shop that offered a disc polishing service with a big machine with special chemicals. That closed long ago. Cleaning a box with wet wipes was good enough for minor dirt and buying another game and swapping the sleeves was good enough for major damage.

The other day I pulled the trigger on a Vita game I wanted for my collection. Not the best price or the best condition, but I saw it only sporadically. It's okay condition. The box isn't chewed or water damaged or anything. But the case is a little faded (the label is fine, just minor scuffs on the case) and I'm expecting residue from all the pricing stickers.

I'm also tempted to start growing a physical media movie collection, but it's the same issue. Many discs seem to have been used as a hikers flip flop left out of the box and have developed varying degrees of damage.

 

[Baraka Obama]

Anyone know some good tips for DVD era game and box restoration?

Back in the day, there was a local shop that offered a disc polishing service with a big machine with special chemicals. That closed long ago. Cleaning a box with wet wipes was good enough for minor dirt and buying another game and swapping the sleeves was good enough for major damage.

The other day I pulled the trigger on a Vita game I wanted for my collection. Not the best price or the best condition, but I saw it only sporadically. It's okay condition. The box isn't chewed or water damaged or anything. But the case is a little faded (the label is fine, just minor scuffs on the case) and I'm expecting residue from all the pricing stickers.

I'm also tempted to start growing a physical media movie collection, but it's the same issue. Many discs seem to have been used as a hikers flip flop left out of the box and have developed varying degrees of damage.

I'm not buying much lately but the best thing you can do is be picky with what you buy. If it has sticker residue do not buy it, it makes it take 10x as long to clean.

I had a process where every incoming game case would get stripped apart, the paper sleeve & outside of the manual would get a light wipe with "all purpose" spray (I make this myself with mostly water, a few drops of soap, and a tiny bit of alcohol), the case would get a really thorough wipedown with that plus pure alcohol, and the discs a careful clean along the ridges and lighter wipe on the sides.

Disc condition tends to be the main thing reflected in ebay condition listings. If it's 100% perfect odds are the seller used a resurfacing machine. Generally light to moderate scratches aren't noticeable in game. What you really want to watch out for are cracks, check around the hole in the middle if it's showing signs of cracking from wear which can cause the disc to delaminate or snap. This seems to hit GC games worse than anything else I guess due to the age of the audience at the time and the console having the snap in DVD drive.

I'm not sure how viable it is anymore but for a while you could really easily find a lot of PS2 and Xbox games new-old-stock. These were the best because zero cleaning was required and the games don't have any shelf wear. It's probably still workable for Xbox 360.

For PS1 games depending on how bad cases are you can replace jewel cases altogether.

 

[Captain Syrup]

It's a shame the guys who worked on it never finished the HD textures for Skies of Arcadia. Unlike most of them, theyre actually hand done and don't look like AI slop and the ones that they have edited really stick out compared to the ones that are vanilla. Also I really like the fixed camera angle views when you go inside the buildings. I've always liked fixed camera angles in 3D games more than a free camera, I feel like you can do a lot more ironically.
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Lucky for the game, the interiors have some genuinely interesting flavor text that’ll keep you coming back for more.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

A 1995 Mobile Suit Gundam Game For The Sega Saturn Has Just Got A Fan Translation​

This patch is tested to work with both the original and the "Rev A" release.

To apply the patch, use the included SegaSaturnPatcher.exe v1.91 BETA. Other versions of SSP are not guaranteed to work.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

I bought three of these from AliExpress because I wanted to test it out on both the PS1 and PS2 that I currently have. Since I already own a FreeMcBoot on hand, it should be interesting to see how it operates.

 

[George Lucas]

The PlayStation was a great console for racing games. So I played Ridge Racer again.

Drifting in the game is very rudimentary (the arcade original came out in 1993). As far as I can tell, it was the first game to have this kind of mechanic. When the game detects a slip, you’ll oversteer, but the game doesn’t bother to simulate oversteering physics. It just puts you on a rail and has your car spin around according to the how you are steering. So you can exploit this by putting your car into a drift to avoid having to drive tricky turns on your own skill.

Normally, the game slows you down for doing this, but as long as you maintain control of the cars direction to be close to the road line, you won’t lose as much speed. If you do it perfectly, the game will actually give you a speed boost.

Once I figured out how to do this, I’ve been able to blow through all the races in Ridge Racer no sweat. I’m now on the sequel (Ridge Racer Revolution), and it still applies. I’m not sure if it applies to the later iterations as the physics started to change with the third game.

 

[HexFag]

I bought three of these from AliExpress because I wanted to test it out on both the PS1 and PS2 I have. Since I already have a FreeMcBoot on hand, it should be interesting to see how it operates.

If it works the same was as a MemCardPro2, its worth looking into templating your memory card profiles and setting it up so that when you quickreset from OPL, it loads the boot memory card automatically. If I had/find the guide, I'll link it in here but it's not extremely complex.

 

[Brown People are Gross]

I would like to play Mario in the Multiverse on Android, is that possible?

 

[Judge Dredd]

Are there any real old school strategy or tactics games? I'm thinking 8 bit systems like the NES or the Spectrum. I know of Famicom Wars, Fire Emblem, and Laser Squad, but that's basically it.

Failing that, any kind of game with tactical choices. I know JRPGs kind of fit the bill, but not really?

I'm looking for them as reference material.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Just wondering has anyone here gone through a Lightgun Emulation set up. I think it'd be so cool to get cheap PC (I think a Handheld PC can do the job) a Sinden, and a 40-50 inch screen just to play Time Crisis and House of the Dead.

But I also wonder does the novelty wear off?

 

[ExFoedere]

Are there any real old school strategy or tactics games? I'm thinking 8 bit systems like the NES or the Spectrum. I know of Famicom Wars, Fire Emblem, and Laser Squad, but that's basically it.

Failing that, any kind of game with tactical choices. I know JRPGs kind of fit the bill, but not really?

I'm looking for them as reference material.

can try King's Bounty, Shining Force 1 & 2 on Sega Genesis (Megadrive)

 

[Stasi]

Are there any real old school strategy or tactics games? I'm thinking 8 bit systems like the NES or the Spectrum. I know of Famicom Wars, Fire Emblem, and Laser Squad, but that's basically it.

Failing that, any kind of game with tactical choices. I know JRPGs kind of fit the bill, but not really?

I'm looking for them as reference material.

Is it 8 bit only you are looking for? If yes then you've named the main ones people will know, can't really think of anything else off the top of my head that was out in the west. There is obscure stuff like Romance of the three Kingdoms games on the NES but I have little experience playing any of them as found them too much for me. If you are looking at 8 bit only then maybe take a look at some hand held games like the Shining Force ports on the game gear or Crystal Warriors

Expanding to 16 bit era you'd have a larger pool of games to look at.

 

[Calandrino]

Are there any real old school strategy or tactics games? I'm thinking 8 bit systems like the NES or the Spectrum. I know of Famicom Wars, Fire Emblem, and Laser Squad, but that's basically it.

Failing that, any kind of game with tactical choices. I know JRPGs kind of fit the bill, but not really?

I'm looking for them as reference material.

NES had Koei games like Nobunaga's Ambition. Some old wrpgs like gold box D&D games could count. Pool of Radiance got an NES port.

 

[LifeAlert]

Are there any real old school strategy or tactics games? I'm thinking 8 bit systems like the NES or the Spectrum. I know of Famicom Wars, Fire Emblem, and Laser Squad, but that's basically it.

Failing that, any kind of game with tactical choices. I know JRPGs kind of fit the bill, but not really?

I'm looking for them as reference material.

Super Robot Wars for NES, there's English patches for it too. There's also Godzilla 2, but like many other Japanese strategy games it's an SRW clone