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

Pissmaster said:
Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is a connoisseur of dick and has his own little coffee table book about dick in his living room
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That sucks dick, I never played it because it was thrashed by everyone who played it, but I love the idea of a Sonic RPG.
 
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Knuckles Chaotix looks a slight step up from a genesis platformer and the music is great but considering you had to practically buy a whole new console for it, it's ultimately unimpressive.

As for the RPG, it's a rushed mess but from everything i've seen of it the original intention was mediocre through and through.
 
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Anyone else ever rent/own this back in the day? Probably the most mediocre fighting game I’ve ever played, even felt that way when I was a Power Rangers obsessed kid. Each character was essentially just a palette swap of the other, with one or two special attacks. Very easy to cheese the AI, green ranger was ridiculously OP’d, could only play as the monsters in multiplayer, could beat the game in roughly 10 minutes. Remember getting this for Christmas and rarely playing it

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Dwight Frye said:
Anyone else ever rent/own this back in the day? Probably the most mediocre fighting game I’ve ever played, even felt that way when I was a Power Rangers obsessed kid. Each character was essentially just a palette swap of the other, with one or two special attacks. Very easy to cheese the AI, green ranger was ridiculously OP’d, could only play as the monsters in multiplayer, could beat the game in roughly 10 minutes. Remember getting this for Christmas and rarely playing it

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Is it the same as the SNES version? If so, I liked it a lot.
 
SSj_Ness said:
That sucks dick, I never played it because it was thrashed by everyone who played it, but I love the idea of a Sonic RPG.
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I've played it. The game is clearly undercooked, the sounds are clearly place-holders, the music is god-awful, which is a sin for Sonic games. Despite all of that, I find it enjoyable to play. It's got that Action Command style of RPG to it that's reminiscent of Mario RPGs, so it's fun even if it's obviously unfinished. Shame Sega pulled the plug when Ken Penders started acting like a retard (AKA, Ken Penders being himself), as I think it's a solid foundation for refinement and expanding upon.

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The only redeeming thing of Knuckles Chaotix are the 3D special stages since they looked like they made use of the extra system graphics.
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Don't forget that the music in Chaotix is downright amazing.
 
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Dwight Frye said:
Nah I think the SNES one was a beat ‘em up like Double Dragon. This was a Street Fighter kind of fighting game
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Yeah, there was one of those on SNES too. And a racing game (Power Rangers Neo).

I just tried it, definitely not as good as the SNES fighting game, and totally different. It's aggressively mediocre.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
That sucks dick, I never played it because it was thrashed by everyone who played it
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Regarding the mechanics, when you select a special move, you're forced to use the stylus to perform actions which mostly involve poking a bunch of circles or "following" (i.e. dragging) a circle wherever it goes along with the dots. They have that "Mario & Luigi" thing where if you fuck up, they do very little or no damage. If you're using a regular DS/DS Lite (or any emulator that tracks the mouse correctly), they're easy to pull off, but for some reason I kept missing them when I played it on the 3DS (especially the big "new" one). Even when I was making my marks, I never liked the mechanic, or any game that forces you to use the stylus unless it's something like WarioWare. I always thought it was a dumb gimmic.
 
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Pee Cola said:
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.

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.

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Lemmings was some real good shit. Might be the first beyond 8bit game my dad ever got obsessed with, one of maybe two total. Sorry for the sentimentality but that game probably have a fond place in a lot of peoples memories, hearts and living rooms.
 
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Dwight Frye said:
Anyone else ever rent/own this back in the day? Probably the most mediocre fighting game I’ve ever played, even felt that way when I was a Power Rangers obsessed kid. Each character was essentially just a palette swap of the other, with one or two special attacks. Very easy to cheese the AI, green ranger was ridiculously OP’d, could only play as the monsters in multiplayer, could beat the game in roughly 10 minutes. Remember getting this for Christmas and rarely playing it

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I vaguely remember playing it on my cousins Genesis. Even at 4 years old I thought it played like shit compared to Street Fighter, and I seem to recall there were only like 3 or 4 stages? (like on top of a building for normal fights, and a field for Zord fights? maybe some kind of volcano or something too?)
 
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Pissmaster said:
Okay so, in a nutshell, it looks like Stenzek wanted to just distribute his PS1 emulator for free, but he didn't want anyone else making money off of his work royalty-free and libretro screeched and bellowed "BUT MUH GPL ALLOWS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"?


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Yes, the GPL does allow it, don't license your software under a specific license and autistically freak out when people use the license as it's supposed to be used, how is this even a debate lol.
 
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