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

[Friendly Primarina]

I'm gonna shill Ares as far as multi-emu goes. It's my go-to for anything N64 related and anything 2D (except PC obviously).

 

[Gingervitis]

I enjoy Rumble Roses (inb4 deviant ratings), so I figured I’d try Rumble Roses XX for the 360. XX is pretty bad, honestly. It’s not irredeemable- it added 3 and 4 player modes- but I think the big killers were the lack of story mode and the slower gameplay. I don’t like the bloom or lack of new characters either.

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[Calandrino]

The thing about Retroarch is you learn how to use it once, and then all the weirdness is (mostly) abstracted away. Not that the Retroarch UI is great, or even good, but it is consistent.

My biggest pain point in LaunchBox is that it's using RetroArch as the default emulator for most old platforms. I've been using MAME for consistency when possible (it also works for certain consoles), not that I'm in love with MAME by any means, but RetroArch found a way to make usually-trivial tasks like button config and save states annoying.

I enjoy Rumble Roses (inb4 deviant ratings), so I figured I’d try Rumble Roses XX for the 360. XX is pretty bad, honestly. It’s not irredeemable- it added 3 and 4 player modes- but I think the big killers were the lack of story mode and the slower gameplay. I don’t like the bloom or lack of new characters either.

They modelled breast veins in that game. Indispensable for anyone with a blood vessel fetish.

 

[Gingervitis]

They modelled breast veins in that game. Indispensable for anyone with a blood vessel fetish.

Why can’t we have thirstbait games like this anymore? Instead we have this.

 

[Tour of Italy]

I just nabbed 4 OEM Super Nintendo controllers at a local thrift store for $4 a pop. Grabbed a few OEM PS1 controllers too.

Good deal. I’ll keep one or two then flip the rest. I enjoy cleaning them up.

This same place had a working SNES for $50 a few months ago and like an absolute moron I didn’t buy it on the spot.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

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Considering Konami allows music from trannies ( that also joined the 41% ) in their DDR games, it's not surprising they aren't touching Rumble Roses anymore

 

[Gingervitis]

Considering Konami allows music from trannies ( that also joined the 41% ) in their DDR games, it's not surprising they aren't touching Rumble Roses anymore

But it’s a coom game. I thought trannies loved gooning to the point of erectile dysfunction, as all real women do.

 

[Pissmaster]

Considering Konami allows music from trannies ( that also joined the 41% ) in their DDR games, it's not surprising they aren't touching Rumble Roses anymore

Maybe you're onto something. Rumble Roses and Cusimo & Co.'s DDR debut were both in 2006. They still made at least one coomer game after that, but it's a game for pedophiles.

Not that it's much of a loss, anyway. The last compelling Konami game was MGS5, and that came out almost a decade ago.

 

[Gingervitis]

They still made at least one coomer game after that, but it's a game for pedophiles.

>game for pedophiles
>link shows a woman with large breasts

 

[Pissmaster]

>game for pedophiles
>link shows a woman with large breasts

Do you have the kind of autism that makes you blind to faces? You really don't see how her face looks like a child? Okay, fine, here's a row of images from searching for that game:

 

[Fascist Frederick]

Do you have the kind of autism that makes you blind to faces? You really don't see how her face looks like a child? Okay, fine, here's a row of images from searching for that game:
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All I see is a 6000 year old demon or whatever.

 

[Judge Dredd]

I enjoy Rumble Roses (inb4 deviant ratings), so I figured I’d try Rumble Roses XX for the 360. XX is pretty bad, honestly. It’s not irredeemable- it added 3 and 4 player modes- but I think the big killers were the lack of story mode and the slower gameplay.

Them trying to make it more of a fighting game really hurt it as well.

Why can’t we have thirstbait games like this anymore?

I agree with you. There's Steller Blade, obviously. Abyss School was good if you're into Resident Evil puzzles and any of the fetishes it appeals to. But D3 is the only company making these kinds of games now and they're mostly anime.

But this is the retro thread, not the adult games thread. A few I remember back in the day was Stolen, which was MGS with a sexy female lead. Death by Degrees, which is like Arkham Asylum before Arkham Asylum existed. It's fascinating in hindsight, and the main character is hot, but the game is not great.

There's also Metroid Zero Mission. I remember watching the trailer at the time and someone behind me thought I was watching porn.

 

[Carpenter Trout]

My desktop is my "launcher". It was good enough in 1990 and it's good enough now.

Exactly. I use a folder where I organized emulators, tools, bios and roms in each folder. basically what these programs aim to do but don't really. Took me like, 4 minutes to organize.

Also BizHawk still reigns supreme. I can't find another emulator that satisfy me, especially with TAS features.
Don't care if it's autistic, I love those Perfect Tool Assisted Superplays, like the one from Megaman 1 where the player basically becomes Neo from matrix.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

There's also Metroid Zero Mission. I remember watching the trailer at the time and someone behind me thought I was watching porn.

A lot of the old Japanese Nintendo commercials used live actors, including for Link to the Past or Mother, but I didn't know they still did that stuff in the early-to-mid 2000s.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

They modelled breast veins in that game. Indispensable for anyone with a blood vessel fetish.

if you want to get REALLY tiddy connoisseur then the veins are an important detail
but yeah I never tried them but I always heard that although there was the obvious coomer draw, the Rumble Roses were actually a VERY good wrassle game too

I never heard of any of that. I only know it as a fighting game where the characters get visible injuries as the fight goes on. I don't remember if it was related to Mortal Kombat.

iirc it had a song that was an islam song or it said islam shit in it or something, but yeah there was some random background thing that might piss off muslims in the post-post911 world so dicksosoft paid their kuffar tax

 

[KatanaSenshi]

I forgot to mention but another notable advantage of Retroarch is how you can easily apply shaders to any game/core. This is crucial for some super old ass consoles/games which were not meant for the modern screen.

e.g. dithering filter, off←→on.

It may be not that obvious but the filter-less output can be eye gouging on a big screen.

A lot of the old Japanese Nintendo commercials used live actors

Best Nintendo commercial in human history, ever. (but today's game "journalist" would just use this the proof Link being tranny and ignore everything else. )

 

[Two Dollars]

This has been around for a few months now, but it was recently added to RetroBat so I just switched to it. RetroArch has a new DS core called MelonDS DS, meant to be a more up to date MelonDS core that includes recent features from standalone plus some new quality of life additions that aren’t even in standalone. In addition to just running better than the normal MelonDS core, here are some of the highlights:

• You can load DSiWare directly instead of having to swap between DSi NAND files that each have a few games installed
• You can swap between screen layouts with a button press, and there’s a “turn the system sideways” layout for games like Rhythm Heaven
• Microphone support
• Nintendo Wi-Fi unofficial server support, almost fully preconfigured (you just have to go into your DS’s wifi settings and add an Internet connection created by the emulator)
• I think there’s also software-based upscaling in addition to the old OpenGL option
• The “an error has occurred” message when starting some rom hacks in DSi mode has been fixed as a far as I can tell

 

[HexFag]

This has been around for a few months now, but it was recently added to RetroBat so I just switched to it. RetroArch has a new DS core called MelonDS DS, meant to be a more up to date MelonDS core that includes recent features from standalone plus some new quality of life additions that aren’t even in standalone. In addition to just running better than the normal MelonDS core, here are some of the highlights:

• You can load DSiWare directly instead of having to swap between DSi NAND files that each have a few games installed
• You can swap between screen layouts with a button press, and there’s a “turn the system sideways” layout for games like Rhythm Heaven
• Microphone support
• Nintendo Wi-Fi unofficial server support, almost fully preconfigured (you just have to go into your DS’s wifi settings and add an Internet connection created by the emulator)
• I think there’s also software-based upscaling in addition to the old OpenGL option
• The “an error has occurred” message when starting some rom hacks in DSi mode has been fixed as a far as I can tell

Does this mean that Dragon Quest 9 multiplayer can finally happen or do I still have to wait half a decade?

 

[Two Dollars]

Does this mean that Dragon Quest 9 multiplayer can finally happen or do I still have to wait half a decade?

Maybe? I only tried Mario Kart DS online but it worked perfectly. Whether your game has an active community is a completely different question, however.

 

[HexFag]

Maybe? I only tried Mario Kart DS online but it worked perfectly. Whether your game has an active community is a completely different question, however.

I don't really need an active community, I've just been trying to play it with a friend for half a decade at this point. I will try and come back later with news.