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

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30+GameOvers said:
Recommend me some good games for that system.
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In no particular order…

  • Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga is easily one of the best RPGs on the system, though it also has a 3DS remake
  • The Super Mario Advance games are great remasters of their original counterparts. If you play SMA4 (Mario 3), get the Wii U Virtual Console rom since it has all the e-Reader levels built-in
  • Mario Kart Super Circuit is one of the least good Mario Karts, but it’s still Mario Kart
  • Kirby Nightmare in Dream Land and Amazing Mirror are both excellent. The former is a remake of Kirby’s Adventure on NES, while the latter is like a Kirby Metroidvania
  • Metroid Zero Mission and Fusion
  • Zelda Minish Cap (I haven’t played much of it, but it’s well-liked)
  • WarioWare Inc. If you’ve never played a WarioWare, you owe it to yourself to play this
  • Same with Wario Land 4, probably the best platformer on the entire system
  • Mother 3 (shocking, I know). It has one of the most professional-looking fan translations out there, and there’s another patch that improves audio quality
  • Fire Emblem (the first localized entry)

  • The original Rhythm Heaven, called Rhythm Tengoku officially or Rhythm Heaven Silver by fans, is great
  • The entire Mega Man Battle Network series, with 3 and 6 being considered the best (though you can also just start with 1)
  • Mario vs. Donkey Kong, which recently got a Switch, is pretty good but not for everyone. It’s a sequel to Donkey Kong ‘94 on Game Boy
  • Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow is a fan favorite
  • Sonic Battle is a unique 3D fighting game with a long (albeit filler-heavy) story mode
  • The Sonic Advance games if you’re craving a new Sonic (they’re all liked more or less equally depending on who you ask), but there are better 2D Sonics out there
  • You already mentioned Pokemon, but the original Mystery Dungeon, Red Rescue Team, is excellent. Though since you have a DS, you’re better off playing Blue Rescue Team on there (or better yet, Explorers of Sky)
  • I haven’t played Golden Sun, but it gets recommended a lot
  • The F-Zero games. I think Maximum Velocity and Climax are the fan favorites?
  • Mario Party Advance has great art and music, but the gameplay is questionable. It’s Mario Party in name only
  • A lot of SNES games got GBA ports. They’re generally not as good as their console counterparts, but they’re still perfectly serviceable

  • Bookworm has a great GBA port if you like word puzzle games
  • Yu-Gi-Oh: The Eternal Duelist Soul is a nostalgic favorite of mine with great music
  • Pac-Man Collection has a few games including Pac-Man Arrangement, which didn’t get many home ports
  • Alien Hominid got a great GBA port
  • Same with ChuChu Rocket
  • Dr. Mario & Puzzle League
 
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30+GameOvers said:
I'm looking to buy a GBA flashcart in order to play some Pokemon ROMhacks on genuine hardware(you can follow my autistic journey with those in the Pokemon thread). Obviously, I don't just intend to buy one to play nothing more than Pokemon, and I happened to miss the entirety of GBA lifespan pretty much, outside of whatever used carts Gamestop had for my DS Lite(my true portable GOAT). I was still playing games on my GBC you see, and didn't need a need to switch, especially since DS Lite came with two consoles in one.
Recommend me some good games for that system. They can be foreign games too, I hope that there is translation patches for those by now. There have to be some hidden gems or good remakes I must have missed. Hell, if there is any homebrew, feel free to throw that at me too.
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Surprised nobody said it yet (unless I'm retarded) but Golden Sun is a fantastic JRPG.
 
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30+GameOvers said:
Recommend me some good games for that system. They can be foreign games too, I hope that there is translation patches for those by now. There have to be some hidden gems or good remakes I must have missed. Hell, if there is any homebrew, feel free to throw that at me too.
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Advance Wars 1+2 were my big favorites and Napoleon (localized L'Aigle de Guerre in French) is another Nintendo game I was fond of as a kid. There is an English patch available on cdromance.

 
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斯尼 德之王 said:
retarded ai they included in Windows Defender
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This AI-pozzed shit is getting on my nerves. I don't get people praising ai and then crying censorship, considering it's the same algorithm that has been used for decades by google et al to censor the whole web. To me, this AI craze is comparable to crack in black neighbours or hrt in the videogame community.

Also MalwareBytes has it, so not only it acts like an adware, it also false-flags shit because their Artificial Dementia can't understand the concept of roms and romhacks.


Anyways, I recommend you all try Fightcade if you're itching for some online "multiplayer" arcade thing. It uses final burn neo and you can also use it to download roms directly, but it requires a minimal setup and for you to download a file and put it somewhere where the executable is. Although it's as multiplayer as the old Kaillera (or Parsec now) is, at least this one only locks you into either player 1 (if hosting) or player 2 (if guest) and makes so you can't fuck with the other player's controls. Because while is it fun for you to watch, it becomes AIDS very quickly and devolves into people calling names and sabotaging each other instead of playing. Ah, i miss kaillera's chat rooms.

Also, speaking of emulators: SUYU.DEV is a new Nintendo Switch emulator, it's a fork of yuzu if the name didn't gave it away already, and unlike yuzu, it supports most internal applets. Apparently the whole Switch façade was due to the Yuzu emu being too obvious in video recordings, this one masks it a bit. It supports multiplayer and stuff.
Like with yuzu, you need the prod.keys and title.keys files as well as the firmware. all of which can be easily found even on that spyware that is Google.
 
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Question for DS emulator users, between Desmume and MelonDS, which emulator is better for playing standard DS games? I'd like to upscale the graphics without them looking like total shit, if possible.
 
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anustart76 said:
Question for DS emulator users, between Desmume and MelonDS, which emulator is better for playing standard DS games? I'd like to upscale the graphics without them looking like total shit, if possible.
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melonDS is my option but it really is a race to the bottom with DS emulators. When the fabled melonDS 1.0 finally comes out, it'll be melonDS for certain.

I'M STILL WAITING FOR A DS EMULATOR WITH MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT SO I CAN PLAY DRAGON QUEST 9 MULTIPLAYER. ITS BEEN 3+ YEARS SINCE MY LAST POST COMPLAINING ABOUT IT ON THIS THREAD
 
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Judge Dredd said:
I'd pass on this one, or move it lower on the list. It's pretty rough going. Especially compared to others mentioned.
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I disagree, it's pretty good. It is a little lower than the others but still worth playing for sure.

HexFag said:
I'M STILL WAITING FOR A DS EMULATOR WITH MULTIPLAYER SUPPORT SO I CAN PLAY DRAGON QUEST 9 MULTIPLAYER. ITS BEEN 3+ YEARS SINCE MY LAST POST COMPLAINING ABOUT IT ON THIS THREAD
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I hope they remaster that one.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Add Drill Dozer to the list, that one is a really fun and often overlooked game.
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That's the one with a rumble pack, right? How essential is it to the game, if I disable it? Apparently my flashcart has rumble pack built in but it has a horrible battery life, not interested in making it even shorter.
 
30+GameOvers said:
That's the one with a rumble pack, right? How essential is it to the game, if I disable it? Apparently my flashcart has rumble pack built in but it has a horrible battery life, not interested in making it even shorter.
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No idea, I played it on a flash cart myself and had a great time despite no rumble.
 
30+GameOvers said:
That's the one with a rumble pack, right? How essential is it to the game, if I disable it? Apparently my flashcart has rumble pack built in but it has a horrible battery life, not interested in making it even shorter.
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It is completely superfluous. The real cartridge can make a very subtle buzzing vibration, and also a more jerky kind vibration when you use a different kind of drill. It feels like a gentle version of a dentist's drill. It's a neat gimmick, but doesn't really add much to the game, and certainly isn't worth the steep price that cart goes for nowadays. mGBA might support its rumble by now, if you want to simulate it.
 
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>25 bucks for 2 roms
Are these assholes high out of their fucking minds???
 
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Celebrate Nite said:
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>25 bucks for 2 roms
Are these assholes high out of their fucking minds???
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Lol, I wouldn't pay that. Especially considering that's not even a cartridge version. Also, that's published by Konami, a company that is just as greedy as they are retarded.

Twenty-five bucks, man. For not too much more, you can get some Powkiddy machine that could emulate that and the entire rest of the NES & Game Boy library.

And speaking of which, it says that's 149mb. What even takes up that much space? The roms are just kilobytes, and any NES emulator on PC is usually just a few MB tops. I'll even grant them an extra 20mb for uncompressed PNG UI elements, but seriously, what the hell takes up the rest of that space?
 
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All these gorillions of GBA recs and nobody repped a single game from my shortlist:

Ninja Five-0 - Konami's spiritual successor to Sega's Shinobi series
Godzilla: Domination - Wayforward's spiritual successor to kaiju wrestling game King of the Monsters; quite a bit more playable than KotM tbh
Double Dragon Advance - a considerably improved remake of (/sequel to) the original arcade Double Dragon, probably the best Double Dragon game to date
Wade Hixton's Counter Punch - quality Punch-Out clone; beat up a gorilla, a pimp, and even a woman
Super Ghouls n Ghosts Advance - port of the SNES game; inevitably suffers from screen crunch but features a new Arrange Mode that fixes the slowdown and adds almost a whole game's worth of new stages
Mr. Driller 2 - not a platform exclusive but not a bad way to play Mr. Driller
Pinball of the Dead - House of the Dead except it's pinball
Astro Boy: Omega Factor - Treasure run and gun; haven't dug that deep into it tbh but seems potentially more fun than Gunstar Heroes. Tutorial stage eerily presages the notoriously impossible one from Cuphead, so journalists should proceed with greatest caution:

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