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

Baraka Obama said:
I don't know why anyone would go to Akiba for video games. That's a place to buy JAV and Idol crap.
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That was probably true twenty years ago but sometimes old, outdated information will somehow get stuck in peoples' heads for a long time. I mean, that's why I built a PC with an AMD processor...in 2015.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Yeah, that's it.

At the time, Japan was developing a reputation for cheap handhelds.

The post is the one I made with his video.
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More than a decade later there is now a cottage industry of retro game collector YouTubers flying to Japan to buy up all the cheap retro game consoles to bring back to the states. Unsurprisingly, various Akihabara shops like Super Potato have caught on to this and have started scalping the baka giajin who turn up to make YouTube videos, much to the YouTubers annoyance.
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I have the distinct pleasure of having first gone to Super Potato in 2012, right around the time of Jeff's "the raid" rant.

Even back then those shops were a rip off:
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Around this time you could get the boxed copies of the same games for around 1000yen if you weren't in tourist town.

This really isn't a new thing, just the scale of it is higher. Just at a quick glance a boxed copy of Super Mario Collection seems to start at 3000yen today, so you could expect a Super Potato copy to run closer to 10,000yen.

A bigger issue is how this has all messed up Japan's used market which has long functioned like more of a rental market. It used to be that used stores in built up areas would have very good stock and just rotate stock out to people would then return it after a short period for most of their money back. Tourists and scalpers buying these games instead means that they never end up back on shelves. Anything even remotely rare shot way up in price, for example the entire PC Engine library is very hard to find just about anywhere and most games have become expensive collector's items.
 
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Friendly Primarina said:
Wait, what's wrong with AMD?
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Back in 2015 there was the FX-series CPUs (and Ax-xxxx series APUs) which were considered to be the worst thing ever. The higher-end FX chips such as the FX-6300 or FX-8320/8350 were actually decent and on par with like the i5-2500k and i7-2600k would've lasted you a good while. The only real issue with the FX chips was that they ran hot and drew more power.
 
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Lone Wandering Courier said:
The only real issue with the FX chips was that they ran hot and drew more power.
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Now you mention it, I think I had one of the ones you mentioned from 2016 to about 2 years ago. Hearing that tiny fan spool up every time I scrolled a web page or did literally anything (Every. Time.) is the reason my current PC has 6 giant case fans. You never think you can develop an irrational hatred for a CPU fan until you have to sit next to a stock AMD one for 6 years.
 
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Can anyone recommend some ROM hacks that add new content on par with the original game? I'm not into any that are memey or trannied up. For example I've found this video for a Super Mario World ROM hack called A Plumber for All Seasons:

 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
Can anyone recommend some ROM hacks that add new content on par with the original game? I'm not into any that are memey or trannied up. For example I've found this video for a Super Mario World ROM hack called A Plumber for All Seasons:

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IMO none of the fan content is on par with original.

You may like the BS / Satellaview games if you've not played those. The BS Legend of Zelda games in particular are well done, not as good as LttP but still neat, and there are fan romhacks to restore those to a playable state + translate into English. The BS F-Zero content was incorporated into the well made "F-Zero Final" romhack.
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
Can anyone recommend some ROM hacks that add new content on par with the original game? I'm not into any that are memey or trannied up. For example I've found this video for a Super Mario World ROM hack called A Plumber for All Seasons:

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I enjoyed the Final Fantasy 7 Demake for NES, fair warning, party members not in combat dont level, and you WILL need to have them all atleast somewhere near the same level.
 
Dr. Geronimo said:
Can anyone recommend some ROM hacks that add new content on par with the original game? I'm not into any that are memey or trannied up. For example I've found this video for a Super Mario World ROM hack called A Plumber for All Seasons:
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I've never played any ROM hack outside of translations/QoL fixes.

Half of the stuff in Super Mario World kaizo hacks are stuff that doesn't appear in the game.
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
Can anyone recommend some ROM hacks that add new content on par with the original game? I'm not into any that are memey or trannied up. For example I've found this video for a Super Mario World ROM hack called A Plumber for All Seasons:

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MMX Zero Project series, completely redoes the original MMX trilogy on SNES with playable Zero and a bunch of other interesting fixes.

Metroid Vitality is a Super Metroid hack with horror themes. It's a bit of a slow burn and the main twist is something visible well off, but the rub is how the game delivers on that premise. It's a rare thing when a game manages to change Save Points of all things into something distinctly threatening and unnerving. I won't go so far as to say it's on par with the original game, but I found myself absolutely riveted by its environment and set design and when the horror elements fire, they hit pretty well, focusing on being unnerving and distressing rather than outright scary.

If you want something more classical and still Metroid, check out Super Zero Mission or Ancient Chozo. If you want something NES flavored, Rogue Dawn is fucking amazing.

Clock Tower Deluxe, Gradius III SA-1 Root, and the Secret of Evermore Rebalance Mod all technically qualify as they fix problems with the original game while keeping the core gameplay elements of each intact.
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
Can anyone recommend some ROM hacks that add new content on par with the original game? I'm not into any that are memey or trannied up. For example I've found this video for a Super Mario World ROM hack called A Plumber for All Seasons:

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I like this one:
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https://www.mariowiki.com/All_Night_Nippon:_Super_Mario_Bros.
All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. is an officially licensed retool of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, produced in 1986 for the Family Computer Disk System. As such, there is no 2 Player Game but rather the option to play as Luigi with his unique physics. This version is based on the Japanese radio program All Night Nippon, and it was sold through a lottery system on the show itself to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the program in the upcoming year. The game was published by Nippon Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Fuji TV who would go on to publish Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, which was localized in the West as Super Mario Bros. 2.
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Dr. Geronimo said:
Can anyone recommend some ROM hacks that add new content on par with the original game? I'm not into any that are memey or trannied up. For example I've found this video for a Super Mario World ROM hack called A Plumber for All Seasons:

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Super Mario Land: Return to Dinosaur land is pretty good. I built a retropie years ago for my wife to play SMW rom hacks and Return to Dinosaur land had a actual nice ramp up with difficultly that wasn't ball busted right out of the game. There was only a few level I had to jump in and help using save states.

 
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I tried Mega Man 2 in retroarch and nearly gave up after failing on the beginning of the two squares on the left side of the top row. I then checked a guide on youtube and learned the correct order and got through the first two of them with some minor difficulty. I ended up getting part 1 of the legacy collection on Steam for $6 so I can use QoL features that retroarch doesn't have like rewind.
 
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Lone Wandering Courier said:
I tried Mega Man 2 in retroarch and nearly gave up after failing on the beginning of the two squares on the left side of the top row. I then checked a guide on youtube and learned the correct order and got through the first two of them with some minor difficulty. I ended up getting part 1 of the legacy collection on Steam for $6 so I can use QoL features that retroarch doesn't have like rewind.
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Retroarch does have it, just not on by default, if you're playing on keyboard, the default hotkey is R.
 
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