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

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Pissmaster said:
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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Arcade Archives Pac-Man (for example) is 37 MB, and AA actually trends on the lighter side as these things go. I challenge you to find a single modern rom + emulator "port" that doesn't have a flagrantly retarded install size and system requirements. Maybe, somehow, there's even a decent reason for it, not that I can imagine it.

$12.50 a pop for as-is NES/Gameboy roms doesn't have much precedent though, even the laziest most cash-grabby bullshit seldom goes over $8. Most charitable explanation I can cook up is that the Felix IP holders wanted an arm and a leg and Konami's just passing along the cost to the cucksoomer. I don't think that plan works if nobody buys it though, but hey, it's Konami, I'm sure they know what they're doing.
 
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Enig said:
Every new calamity that befalls Star Wars games is just one step closer to someone defiling the Rogue Squadron games
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To be frank, everyone is calling out Aspyr for being incompetent fucks, and this giant flop has rekindled the interest in the classic Battlefront games. There is also a mod that should come out whenever is ready called Battlefront 3 Legacy, it turns the original SWBF2 into basically Battlefront 3*, it looks neat.

*: Which isn't a hacked-in portable version for the PSP
I think we should have a Chucklefish General thread.
Plenty of reason to laugh at this:
Starting with Starbound: (AKA: "Reverse No Man's Sky")
Tyi (Finn Brice), the lead dev didn't paid most of the Devs and Artists working on this game and called them ungrateful for having the priviledge of working at such revolutionary game; They kept overselling the game and basically scammed their consumers, providing a vastly inferior product to what it was advertised; Refused to refund people after the first "beta" (which was more of a Tech demo, according to Finn himself) was released and people were disappointed by it; They fucked with Stardew Valley's dev by promoting stuff that wasn't in the game and by (allegedly) working on a game that was a bootleg of Stardew Valley itself.

There's so much more to this story, but pretty much think of discount store's Star Citizen but with furries, bronies, retards and space.
Also if you go on their forums and steam community hub, you can see they all took the Stockholm pill. "N-No, the game was finished. See, it has a 1.0 release! It's not that they took what they had and scrapped all the other promised features and QoL improvements. Install Frakin' Universe (FU mod, a bit on the nose lol) and shut up.

Most articles and posts still aren't deleted, so I think it could be done.
 
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Pissmaster said:
They're only 64mb and look like this:
Those GIFs were recorded at 24fps, so they well represent the actual framerate of these videos.
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These look way better than any online videos I've seen or emulation I'v attempted of them.

30+GameOvers said:
Recommend me some good games for that system.
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Black Belt Challenge, Dual Blades, Guilty Gear X, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance and Tournament Edition, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Tekken Advance. All VS fighting games and surprisingly well representative of their respective series, except the first two which are exclusives.
If you want something with more wow factor, other than the fpses @Judge Dredd recommended, try Drive3r or Big Mutha Truckers, 3D open world games on a "16 bit" handheld.

Quijibo69 said:
I finally got PS3 games to emulate on my mini PC. Why are PS2 and PS3 a pain in the ass to emulate?
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Rodrigo Copetti has some good explanations: https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/
Both are better than Saturn though.
 
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Koi Fish said:
Starting with Starbound: (AKA: "Reverse No Man's Sky")
Tyi (Finn Brice), the lead dev didn't paid most of the Devs and Artists working on this game and called them ungrateful for having the priviledge of working at such revolutionary game; They kept overselling the game and basically scammed their consumers, providing a vastly inferior product to what it was advertised; Refused to refund people after the first "beta" (which was more of a Tech demo, according to Finn himself) was released and people were disappointed by it; They fucked with Stardew Valley's dev by promoting stuff that wasn't in the game and by (allegedly) working on a game that was a bootleg of Stardew Valley itself.

There's so much more to this story, but pretty much think of discount store's Star Citizen but with furries, bronies, retards and space.
Also if you go on their forums and steam community hub, you can see they all took the Stockholm pill. "N-No, the game was finished. See, it has a 1.0 release! It's not that they took what they had and scrapped all the other promised features and QoL improvements. Install Frakin' Universe (FU mod, a bit on the nose lol) and shut up.

Most articles and posts still aren't deleted, so I think it could be done.
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I was unaware that the Starbound rabbit hole goes this deep down.

I always assumed that it failed because of the overlap with Terraria, and the fact that Terraria is a much better game in general. I mean, check out the mods people make for it:


I've got a modded playthrough going, and honestly, it's insane how much unpaid modders have added to the game.
 
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Koi Fish said:
To be frank, everyone is calling out Aspyr for being incompetent fucks, and this giant flop has rekindled the interest in the classic Battlefront games. There is also a mod that should come out whenever is ready called Battlefront 3 Legacy, it turns the original SWBF2 into basically Battlefront 3*, it looks neat.

*: Which isn't a hacked-in portable version for the PSP
I think we should have a Chucklefish General thread.
Plenty of reason to laugh at this:
Starting with Starbound: (AKA: "Reverse No Man's Sky")
Tyi (Finn Brice), the lead dev didn't paid most of the Devs and Artists working on this game and called them ungrateful for having the priviledge of working at such revolutionary game; They kept overselling the game and basically scammed their consumers, providing a vastly inferior product to what it was advertised; Refused to refund people after the first "beta" (which was more of a Tech demo, according to Finn himself) was released and people were disappointed by it; They fucked with Stardew Valley's dev by promoting stuff that wasn't in the game and by (allegedly) working on a game that was a bootleg of Stardew Valley itself.

There's so much more to this story, but pretty much think of discount store's Star Citizen but with furries, bronies, retards and space.
Also if you go on their forums and steam community hub, you can see they all took the Stockholm pill. "N-No, the game was finished. See, it has a 1.0 release! It's not that they took what they had and scrapped all the other promised features and QoL improvements. Install Frakin' Universe (FU mod, a bit on the nose lol) and shut up.

Most articles and posts still aren't deleted, so I think it could be done.
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Didn't the Starbound guy do graphics for Terraria at some point? I haven't played either of them but in the beginning I assumed Star Bound was the sequel to Terraria, they look exactly the same at a glance.
 
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Koi Fish said:
To be frank, everyone is calling out Aspyr for being incompetent fucks, and this giant flop has rekindled the interest in the classic Battlefront games. There is also a mod that should come out whenever is ready called Battlefront 3 Legacy, it turns the original SWBF2 into basically Battlefront 3*, it looks neat.

*: Which isn't a hacked-in portable version for the PSP
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I am so sick of discordniggers like these ones circling like vultures over the carcass of 5th/6th gen gaming. All they care about is taking credit for other people's work and not once actually adding in custom assets of their own that aren't retarded shitposts.

Im enjoying Killzone 3 on rpcs3. The multiplayer actually adds in a lot more to the story than I gave it credit for and the botzone ai is very competent. Trying to go through Operations on elite difficulty is just like fighting actual players but its fair enough to git gud quickly. The ending to 3 was just dumb. As powerful as irradiated petrusite could be, there's no way there was enough harvested over the course of killzone 3 and onboard Stahl's ship to turn Helghan into Malachor V. That was a complete asspull.
 
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Haftag said:
These look way better than any online videos I've seen or emulation I'v attempted of them.
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If you wanna toy around with it yourself, I used mGBA 0.10.3. They're barely watchable when blown up to full screen. Audio seems to be better than it should be, though.

Koi Fish said:
To be frank, everyone is calling out Aspyr for being incompetent fucks,
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Aspyr's old MacOS ports were always bad.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
Didn't the Starbound guy do graphics for Terraria at some point?
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He did. It's a good thing he left, since the new artists are killing it, the new sprite reworks look much better than Tiy's old work.

Catgirl Fucker said:
I am so sick of discordniggers like these ones circling like vultures over the carcass of 5th/6th gen gaming. All they care about is taking credit for other people's work and not once actually adding in custom assets of their own that aren't retarded shitposts.
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Indeed. It's incredible how all they had to do was basically fix the menu ui when using different resolutions but instead they couldn't do even that.
I still think the SWBF3 mod looks cool, i think that's what those people should've done instead of fucking up a perfectly working game.
 
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Haftag said:
Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance
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I remember playing that game back in the day on my DS Lite. Good times, shame I fell for the "sell your games" meme at Gamestop. The only GBA cart I have left that isn't Pokemon is Wario Land 4, great little game.
Thanks for reminding me of this, and recommending me the other GBA titles. That will come in handy.
One fighting game I will NOT be getting is Mortal Kombat Advance. That game is legendarily bad, and yet I still want to play UMK3 on the go. Is the DS port any good? I somehow haven't tried it all these years because I thought fighting games on the DS were a meme.
 
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I tried replaying Alien Trilogy on Duckstation. It really didn't age well. Aside from being an early console FPS with chunky (at best) controls, it's just not terribly fun. It's just tedious. The Facehuggers are too numerous and are just annoying enemies rather than being the instant death threat they are in most of the games. Then it adds human enemies and it just goes into the toilet from there.

I don't know why devs keep doing this but they keep adding human enemies in Alien and Alien VS Predator games (where you play as Marine). You play these games to kill Aliens not fucking humans. Android enemies get a pass and Alien Isolation did that very well. Colonial Marines is another one where they introduce human enemies and (surprise) it makes the game play like your typical no frills FPS. Even AVP 2 limited human enemies in the Marine campaign.
 
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Vyse Inglebard said:
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
Apple's for faggots, I know, but, still interesting news for emulation nonetheless.
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Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store—but with big caveats
Additionally, many game publishers use emulators to run ROMs of their own retro games, which they sell to consumers either as standalone games or in collections for modern platforms.

It's not completely clear from Apple's wording, but our interpretation of Apple's new rules is that it's likely only the last of those examples will be possible; companies that own the intellectual property could launch emulator apps for downloading ROMs of their (and only their) games. So, for example, Sega could offer a Sega app that would allow users to download an ever-expanding library of Sega games, either as part of a subscription, for free, or as in-app purchases. Sega has offered its retro games on the iPhone before in emulation but with a standalone app for each game.

"You are responsible for all such software offered in your app, including ensuring that such software complies with these Guidelines and all applicable laws," Apple writes. And it specifically says "retro game console emulator apps can offer to download games" in the list of exceptions to the rules against "software that is not embedded inside the binary"—but it doesn't list any other method for retro game console emulator apps.
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