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

[Bonesjones]

I know archive.org had romsets up from a few years ago, which for everything but recent systems and maybe some obscure MAME stuff, will have everything

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I know archive.org had romsets up from a few years ago, which for everything but recent systems and maybe some obscure MAME stuff, will have everything

They used to have the entire MAME romset dumped/formated for different versions of MAME. That was really, really useful because a lot of things around MAME, like version dumps, sucks fucking huge horse dick. MAME and RetroArch is the perfect coupling.

 

[Bonesjones]

They used to have the entire MAME romset dumped/formated for different versions of MAME. That was really, really useful because a lot of things around MAME, like version dumps, sucks fucking huge horse dick. MAME and RetroArch is the perfect coupling.

Luckily the format is more stable than it used to be in the 90s. Nothing like an update invalidating every rom you have because they renamed some files out of autistic retardation. Oh I just have to run a program to automatically detect and rename every subfile in a set of 10k roms, thanks for wasting hours of my time every other month you fucking idiots.

 

[HexFag]

Who's dick do I have to suck to get a halfway decent DS emulator with multiplayer support? I just wanna play DQ9 with my bros.

 

[Gru]

Who's dick do I have to suck to get a halfway decent DS emulator with multiplayer support? I just wanna play DQ9 with my bros.

The only DS emulator I consider to be even remotely good is melonDS, it's not perfect but it's a far cry from desmume and others in terms of quality and settings (and also active support).

It has multiplayer but it's a work in progress. (I haven't used the multiplayer so I can't tell you how good it is.)

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Trying to use the Citra 3DS emulator to get credits for Tenkai Knights: Battle Brave. Damn, is this game slow.

 

[HexFag]

The only DS emulator I consider to be even remotely good is melonDS, it's not perfect but it's a far cry from desmume and others in terms of quality and settings (and also active support).

It has multiplayer but it's a work in progress. (I haven't used the multiplayer so I can't tell you how good it is.)

The multiplayer on melonDS is not good enough unfortunately. I had been checking and looking at the forum as well as testing myself for literal years and the closest I got was running 2 instances of the emulator and getting it to connect locally. Not exactly ideal.

 

[Pissmaster]

Found an interesting article on the development of M.C. Kids on NES. It's pretty well written and gives a nice look into how exactly NES games were made back in the day.

https://games.greggman.com/game/programming_m_c__kids/

 

[Pee Cola]

I know archive.org had romsets up from a few years ago, which for everything but recent systems and maybe some obscure MAME stuff, will have everything

The thing with IA is that many of their romsets are from TOSEC. That's fine if you want every single image* ever preserved for a vintage platform. The downside is that this makes many of the files enormous, and it can take a very long time to sort through the images you want to keep. Some of them run to the tens of GB (IIRC the Amiga TOSEC archive is nudging 100GB) and/or have over 100k files in them (the C64 TOSEC archive has something like 130k files in it).

*I refer to them as images as I'm thinking of games that were distributed on disk, cassette, cartridge etc... technically speaking those aren't ROMs... well maybe cartridges are ROMs... fuck it just give me the puzzle pieces already

They used to have the entire MAME romset dumped/formated for different versions of MAME. That was really, really useful because a lot of things around MAME, like version dumps, sucks fucking huge horse dick. MAME and RetroArch is the perfect coupling.

I had a rant about this in the Smarmy Assholes thread in the I&T forum, but MAME devs are nearly as autistic and faggy as RetroArch devs... although I get the feeling that without autists and/or faggots in the dev community, we wouldn't have any emulation at all.

Who's dick do I have to suck to get a halfway decent DS emulator with multiplayer support? I just wanna play DQ9 with my bros.

idk but it probably has a furry and/or a troon on the other end.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Found an interesting article on the development of M.C. Kids on NES. It's pretty well written and gives a nice look into how exactly NES games were made back in the day.

https://games.greggman.com/game/programming_m_c__kids/

If you can find it the dev diary of the guy porting Lemmings 2 to SNES is really interesting.

 

[Pee Cola]

If you can find it the dev diary of the guy porting Lemmings 2 to SNES is really interesting.

Speaking of Lemmings, a two hour documentary about its history has just been released. I've not watched it yet, but by all accounts it goes deep into the dev process. It's well worth the two hours of one's time. It covers the dev process more as a story rather than as a coding checklist. The pre-Lemmings tech demos are very cool, and it revealed a few interesting nuggets about why Lemmings ended up the way it did.

Spoiler

The character design process was especially interesting. It was really hard work to get the lemmings animated in a 7x10 pixel grid, and the reason they're blue with green hair is because this colour combination worked best with EGA video.

It's also the first and probably only time you'll get to see Larry Bundy Jr and Peter Molyneux in the same video.

 

[XYZpdq]

Any suggestions on free TG16 emulators for Android?

 

[Captain Syrup]

I swear by the gamesir X2.

I finally got a Gamesir X2 this year.

It's working out well so far. The buttons are extremely delicate, so you need to keep it as clean as possible, preferably inside the carrying case. Failing that, some WD-40 should fix it.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Speaking of Lemmings, a two hour documentary about its history has just been released. I've not watched it yet, but by all accounts it goes deep into the dev process. It's well worth the two hours of one's time. It covers the dev process more as a story rather than as a coding checklist. The pre-Lemmings tech demos are very cool, and it revealed a few interesting nuggets about why Lemmings ended up the way it did.

Spoiler

The character design process was especially interesting. It was really hard work to get the lemmings animated in a 7x10 pixel grid, and the reason they're blue with green hair is because this colour combination worked best with EGA video.

It's also the first and probably only time you'll get to see Larry Bundy Jr and Peter Molyneux in the same video.

Why do channels hide their subscriber count?

 

[Probably An Autist]

just spent an autistic amount of money on the most retarded of video game abominations, a sega 32x.

Most of the games are rare and expensive as fuck, but god damn it I wanted one. Looking forward to dropping another few hundred for one of the ~26 games made for it thats almost guarenteed to be awful.

 

[Billy_Sama]

just spent an autistic amount of money on the most retarded of video game abominations, a sega 32x.

Most of the games are rare and expensive as fuck, but god damn it I wanted one. Looking forward to dropping another few hundred for one of the ~26 games made for it thats almost guarenteed to be awful.

I enjoy my 32X but I got it for way, way below asking price for what they go for especially the games. I shudder when I see a copy of Championship Motocross go over $5. I still have mine attached to the Sega 32x along with the 32x since there are some game I have that I do enjoy like Metalhead, Space Harrier, Afterburner, and NBA Jam.

If you have an Everdive you can run 32x games on it as well. I been wanting to try that Doom 32X Resurrection on my everdrive to see how it improved on the actual release.

 

[Probably An Autist]

I enjoy my 32X but I got it for way, way below asking price for what they go for especially the games. I shudder when I see a copy of Championship Motocross go over $5. I still have mine attached to the Sega 32x along with the 32x since there are some game I have that I do enjoy like Metalhead, Space Harrier, Afterburner, and NBA Jam.

If you have an Everdive you can run 32x games on it as well. I been wanting to try that Doom 32X Resurrection on my everdrive to see how it improved on the actual release.

I got a boxed one that looks basically new. I already have a boxed console and cd unit so figured i needed to complete the set lol.
I don't have an everdrive, but in fairness I'd likely just reluctantly buy the game if I wanted to play it. I can always burn CD games myself, as I don't believe it has copy protection.

 

[Billy_Sama]

I got a boxed one that looks basically new. I already have a boxed console and cd unit so figured i needed to complete the set lol.
I don't have an everdrive, but in fairness I'd likely just reluctantly buy the game if I wanted to play it. I can always burn CD games myself, as I don't believe it has copy protection.

Can't blame you there. Something cool about seeing a Genesis/MD with all the attachments. Sega CD don't have any copy protection so you can explore the entire library if you can download the ISO and have a CD burner and some blanks. Not only you can play released games but games that been hacked/translated, or never released so its cool to have one to mess with. Problem with Everdrives they were made in Ukraine and they are indefinitely ceased production.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

just spent an autistic amount of money on the most retarded of video game abominations, a sega 32x.

Most of the games are rare and expensive as fuck, but god damn it I wanted one. Looking forward to dropping another few hundred for one of the ~26 games made for it thats almost guarenteed to be awful.

Virtua Fighter is a nice port, and Knuckles Chaotix isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, so you'll have SOME sort of fun with it Doom 32X has better graphics than the SNES port but the music is ass cancer.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Nah son, Knuckles Chaotix sucks dick.