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

[斯尼 德之王]

Nintendo showing us once again that copyright laws protect not the authors, but big corporations' legal offices.
The more I see this stuff going on the more I wish for a modern Ted Kaz.

2024 is the year of shit DMCA it seems, CDRomance has to take all downloads for translations and romhacks off-site.
I fucking hate lawyers.

The admin of CDRomance only did it because of Google flagging the links. You can still download stuff from cdromance.org by copying the ticket number in the game's page.

 

[Kirklandwarrior]

Kind of want to get the remastered Dark Forces but $30, that’s fucking steep for a 30 year old game.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Kind of want to get the remastered Dark Forces but $30, that’s fucking steep for a 30 year old game.

I played Dark Forces 2 for the first time last year, so I had no nostalgia going in to a PC game from 1997 (almost always a recipe for disappointment) and had a great time with it.

I'm sure the John Williams score does a lot to carry it, but it's still a lot of fun and I'm surprised those games are rarely talked about on the same level as Half-Life and other shooters from the late '90s.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

The bootlickers celebrating Citra's destruction, I hope their 3DS breaks and their games get corrupted saves.

It's doubly fun when even GBAtemp mods called these bootlickers out. That place is pozzed as shit, but it can still get a couple of laughs out of the idiocy and hypocrisy of some users, especially when the mods remind them what GBAtemp is.

 

[Kirklandwarrior]

I played Dark Forces 2 for the first time last year, so I had no nostalgia going in to a PC game from 1997 (almost always a recipe for disappointment) and had a great time with it.

I'm sure the John Williams score does a lot to carry it, but it's still a lot of fun and I'm surprised those games are rarely talked about on the same level as Half-Life and other shooters from the late '90s.

The classic Star Wars games are all great fun. Empire at War is still one of the greatest RTS of all time. Republic Commando is an underrated shooter that deserves a remastering, and of course the battlefront games as well. Star Wars had a golden age of games till like 2007.

 

[Pissmaster]

 

[Carpenter Trout]

The classic Star Wars games are all great fun.

Speaking of, have you seen that Star Wars Battlefront 2 remaster they're doing? it's basically this:

But for 30€.

 

[Kirklandwarrior]

Speaking of, have you seen that Star Wars Battlefront 2 remaster they're doing? it's basically this:
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Yeah, I’m still going to buy it so I can play some multiplayer games/ galactic conquest with my buddies. For Star Wars I just kind of pretend it all ended in 2007. Enjoying my stuff in blissful ignorance.

 

[HONKHONKTIME]

bros im butt-frustrated right now.
that MTG game for DC hasnt been patched yet. has a guide been made for it atleast? i would have thought game faqs would have one but maybe me being butt-blasted about not being able to read japanese has made me retarded? and i just can see it on the screen?

 

[Carpenter Trout]

Speaking of, have you seen that Star Wars Battlefront 2 remaster they're doing? it's basically this:
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But for 30€.

I can't edit my own post but this aged like wine. It's not only that the textures are upscaled but the models aren't, showing all sorts of art direction conflicts and they weight 10 times more than they should, but the devs managed to fuck up in the most spectacularly way possible.
tl;dr: get the original 2005 Bf2 and use a mod instead of wasting 40€ on some unfinished garbage "remaster".
I bet they'll blame the ever entitled gamers not buying this definition of goyslop remaster, and I don't even care for star wars that much.

 

[Enig]

Every new calamity that befalls Star Wars games is just one step closer to someone defiling the Rogue Squadron games

 

[Lone Wandering Courier]

I found out recently that it was FINALLY possible to play Midtown Madness 3 through emulation. The moment I have been waiting for off and on since I was very young finally came and well....

It's alright I guess but I don't know. If xbox emulation existed when I was younger and of course had the PC for emulation I would've been way more excited I guess. If I want to drive around a city and causing mayhem these days, GTA5/GTAO is just a far better option.

I also tried Halo 2 online via emulation and well I'm not used to the vomit inducing low FOV and gamepad controls.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

This and GBA video was an interesting rabbit hole to go down. The sound in particular is surprisingly good. Are there video players for other retro systems?

Back when GBA video was new, they seemed popular, but to me they always seemed like a bad deal. You could get a game, or 2 episodes of a cartoon you've likely already seen. I also don't know why it never continued on DS and 3DS. Especially since those could handle FMV properly. 3DS even had 3D videos you could download from the e-shop. These were mostly short videos of flowers and things like that, not full episodes of shows. I want to say there was a fan site that hosted home made 3D photos. I don't know if they hosted videos too?

GBA Video apparently had some deal to bring full Dreamworks films to GBA, Nintendo Power mentioned one of the Shrek movies specifically, but I don't think they ever did.

 

[Pissmaster]

Back when GBA video was new, they seemed popular, but to me they always seemed like a bad deal. You could get a game, or 2 episodes of a cartoon you've likely already seen. I also don't know why it never continued on DS and 3DS. Especially since those could handle FMV properly. 3DS even had 3D videos you could download from the e-shop. These were mostly short videos of flowers and things like that, not full episodes of shows. I want to say there was a fan site that hosted home made 3D photos. I don't know if they hosted videos too?

I think most of them had four episodes, and only cost $20. They were in response to those VideoNow players.

I figure they didn't continue because of the rising popularity of hard drive-based MP3 players like the iPod Video and Zune, where you could load way more episodes in good quality on your drive. GBA video's quality was rock bottom, but it also didn't have anything but cartoons, I'd imagine because you wouldn't be able to make out faces on anything live-action. You can see the quality for yourself, the roms of those carts play fine in emulators.

There is a technical writeup about GBA Video here: https://mgba.io/2015/10/20/dumping-the-undumped/

GBA Video apparently had some deal to bring full Dreamworks films to GBA, Nintendo Power mentioned one of the Shrek movies specifically, but I don't think they ever did.

Shrek 1, Shrek 2, and Shark Tale all had GBA Video releases, and there was a Shrek/Shark Tale 2-pack with both movies on one cartridge, somehow. By the time I heard about it, it was already valuable.

 

[Byte Doctor]

I think most of them had four episodes, and only cost $20. They were in response to those VideoNow players.

I figure they didn't continue because of the rising popularity of hard drive-based MP3 players like the iPod Video and Zune, where you could load way more episodes in good quality on your drive. GBA video's quality was rock bottom, but it also didn't have anything but cartoons, I'd imagine because you wouldn't be able to make out faces on anything live-action. You can see the quality for yourself, the roms of those carts play fine in emulators.

There is a technical writeup about GBA Video here: https://mgba.io/2015/10/20/dumping-the-undumped/


Shrek 1, Shrek 2, and Shark Tale all had GBA Video releases, and there was a Shrek/Shark Tale 2-pack with both movies on one cartridge, somehow. By the time I heard about it, it was already valuable.
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Just a note the video quality on the Shrek and SharkTale double pack is even worse than the other gba video movies due to having to compress both movies to fit on the small gba rom sizes.

 

[Quijibo69]

Download as many Nintendo emulators and roms quick before they sue everyone.

 

[Pissmaster]

Just a note the video quality on the Shrek and SharkTale double pack is even worse than the other gba video movies due to having to compress both movies to fit on the small gba rom sizes.

Yeah, I don't have a rom of the 2-pack yet, but I do have roms of the three individual movies. They're only 64mb and look like this:

Those GIFs were recorded at 24fps, so they well represent the actual framerate of these videos. It is a miracle they look as good as they do. Hats off to whomever worked their ass off to get these to look that good way back when.

 

[Pissmaster]

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Just a note the video quality on the Shrek and SharkTale double pack is even worse than the other gba video movies due to having to compress both movies to fit on the small gba rom sizes.

The problem is that they were dated almost as soon as they came out. By 2007, portable DVD players were relatively cheap and for the price of a video game console you could get an 8GB iPod touch, which had amazing resolution compared to anything else on the market, could play YouTube videos and with a bit of technical know-how, play just about anything.

I wonder if Majesco lost money on it, though. It was a best-seller but those licensing deals...they dealt with all the majors—Viacom (Nickelodeon, distributed DreamWorks stuff), Disney (Disney Channel), and Time Warner (Cartoon Network)—couldn't have been cheap.

 

[Two Dollars]

They're only 64mb

They’re also the largest roms on the entire system. Actual games only go up to 32, and even those are few and far between.