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

Judge Dredd said:
I also don't see a mention of Blue Stinger. It's not a good game, but a cult classic.
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I mentioned a few of Dreamcast's original (non-arcade) titles when I did a post-mortem of the Dreamcast, citing the fact that they never really had a hit that knocked it out of the park and a lot of it was arcade ports.

Brief summary:
Blue Stinger - Did better in the U.S. than in Japan but fell into complete obscurity
Seaman - Memorable and was part of those weird Japanese games that got ported stateside, but not a good seller
Shenmue - some impressive features but not really fun or sold enough copies to make anywhere near its budget
ChuChu Rocket! - used online features but visually unattractive
Sonic Adventure - tended to come off as a knockoff of Mario 64 and started Sonic's long decline in the 3D era
 
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Forgot to post it a while ago. But if the guy who wanted help with his ps2 is seeing this, you can use these memory cards and never have to worry about losing saves or switching cards.

These ones use a micro sd and can create a different virtual memory card for the game you are playing. They're also available for the gamecube and soon, the dreamcast.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Blue Stinger
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That game self destructed itself, it had a batch with manufacturing problems when it was pressed.

Affected copies started to show coffee stain splotches that made the disc to be unreadable by the console as time went on. Activision keep replacing the discs to whomever asked well after the Dreamcast was discontinued because it was a persistent issue.
 
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斯尼 德之王 said:
Forgot to post it a while ago. But if the guy who wanted help with his ps2 is seeing this, you can use these memory cards and never have to worry about losing saves or switching cards.

These ones use a micro sd and can create a different virtual memory card for the game you are playing. They're also available for the gamecube and soon, the dreamcast.
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Yeah I ordered one a couple of weeks back, just waiting for it to ship. Really am happy that I got the PS2 as a console, there are so many great games you can fit on to a 1TB hard drive. The only thing that sucks is that there's no way to load PSX games on OPL without using Popstarter (which can barely run half the PSX library).
 
Baraka Obama said:
He seems very down to earth. He's one of the only people who makes pre-patched PS1 translation eboots for PSP that aren't fagged to shit.
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Completely forgot about CDRomance. Awesome to still see it alive. Also, recently went to a local retro game convention. A fat ps2 is going for around 90 bucks, comes with cables and controllers. It's honestly the handhelds that cost the most, console wise. A clean oled vita is around 200 bucks. There was a brand new sealed ps2 controller going for 100. Silent Hill games and other nip horror games are in the triple digits. Most of the games being sold were for ps2 and gamecube. The rest of the place was fun, though. Setups to play for free everywhere of consoles and pc's from all eras.
 
Judge Dredd said:
What are some arcade sports and simple arcade style action games worth checking out? Preferably from the GBA and earlier, but anything will do.
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Well that's kinda broad but perhaps:
  • NBA Jam - basketball, featuring Bill Clinton
  • Neo Turf Masters - best golf, featuring announcer from Metal Slug
  • All those Kunio-Kun spinoffs like Super Dodge Ball and the basketball one and so on, in which you beat your opponents to death with the ball
 
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I finally got around to playing that Pokemon Crystal Legacy romhack that's quite popular. It's very good. I agree with almost all of the little changes. The game has a lot more mon variety early on, the gym leaders have been buffed in intelligent ways(but not to challenge rom status), and the post game(Kanto) is waaay more fun. Would recommend to any zillenial looking for a gen 2 nostalgia trip.
Gravityqueen4life said:
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Its all gone.
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No it's not. There are still a bunch of games on there, though there have been a bunch of takedowns courtesy of the ESA. Would still recommend anyone looking for a rom or iso to check vimm before resorting to the sketchier sites. Or digging through Myrient, though it's quite trustworthy as well. Just kinda set up esoterically.
 
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Calandrino said:
Well that's kinda broad but perhaps:
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Sorry. I'll risk power leveling a bit.

Working on a game dev hobby project. A small game-jam size game, preferably with multiple distinct characters. A friend suggested Super Dodge Ball. This got me curious about non-traditional sports and action games. I know of Windjammers, and Game and Watch Gallery, but I was wondering where else I should look.
 
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I don't know how to make this sound enticing, but I'd like get some help on extracting assets from the Ace Combat trilogy for the PlayStation 2, akin to how Kristy did for Ace Combat 3. In the forums he frequents, he said he won't do the same for the PS2 Ace Combat games, and the only tool to extract the 3D model, called AC4Analysis is basically FUBAR, doesn't work. If you were to extract a model (which only recognizes the Ace Combat 4's models despite claiming to be compatible with all 3 games), the result would be an unrecognizable mess of vertices. So far, the only thing I managed to find were a couple of tools to extract the Audio for Ace Combat 5, the Audio and Video for Ace Combat Zero, and that's it. Those assets would be cool to use for both animations, analysis or mods in other games, especially some of the maps.

I find very annoying that people would just be content to simply look at a game rather than figuring out internal workings, the PS2 scene is the prime example of this, for all the compatibility strives of PCSX2, there's at least 15 dropped features that would've been great to have still (one of them being Plugins support since Lilypad is the best one to use DS2 and DS3 pads). I have asked a similar question to various communities, but I've been ignored so far, I'm expecting the same here (or just to be mocked to death)

The only positive outcome, so far, is that I've got a ton more voices to use for the Soundboard.
As well as an insight on a couple of unused voice lines in Ace Combat 5 that hinted at a more direct way of controlling the team.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
What are some arcade sports and simple arcade style action games worth checking out? Preferably from the GBA and earlier, but anything will do.
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Hit The Ice (Arcade)
WWF Wrestlefest (Arcade)
Mutant League Football/Hockey (Genesis)
Super Punch Out (SNES)

Simple arcade action games is a pretty broad term. The Atari 7800 library is full of good shit like Millipede and Food Fight. Fast food for the 2600 is criminally underrated. Hero for 2600 is also very good. GBA has a very good remake of the original Mario Bros that was included with the entire Mario Advance series as well as Mario & Luigi. Honestly, look at any top games list for 2600, 7800, Master System or Genesis and it will be littered with excellent simple action arcade games.
 
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This was announced last week, but since no one has brought it up: Backyard Baseball of all things is getting a revival (with other sports being teased), and the teaser trailer looks extremely faithful to the original game, down to the character designs.
From an interview:
"We're incredibly excited to reintroduce Backyard Sports to a new generation of players," Chris Waters, chief product officer at Playground Productions, told Sports Illustrated in a statement. "We're taking great care to preserve the look and feel that made the original games so special while updating them with modern features and gameplay that today's audience expects. I can’t wait for fans to see what we’re building on the playground."
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I’ll say what has basically become my mantra for any sort of remake/remaster/revival: Don’t fuck it up.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Sorry. I'll risk power leveling a bit.

Working on a game dev hobby project. A small game-jam size game, preferably with multiple distinct characters. A friend suggested Super Dodge Ball. This got me curious about non-traditional sports and action games. I know of Windjammers, and Game and Watch Gallery, but I was wondering where else I should look.
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They made lots of those Super Dodge Ball / Kunio-Kun spinoff games, for lots of different sports: https://kuniokun.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Sports

Nobody mentioned Arch Rivals, which was NBA Jam before NBA Jam (and no official license)
 
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A bit late but a few days the Banjo Kazooie decomp has reached 100%
Another n64 game fully decomped to the list, a pc port is still a ways off but it's a start
hope Tooie gets similar treatment even if it's less popular as there isn't really a great way to play it as it runs like dirt on og hardware, it's mostly fine on n64 emus but I find those iffy, and the xbox live port has audio bugs and due to the leaderboard you're prevented from using certain cheats as the game won't save
so a definitive version and way to play it would be nice
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Dynamite Bean said:
A bit late but a few days the Banjo Kazooie decomp has reached 100%
Another n64 game fully decomped to the list, a pc port is still a ways off but it's a start
hope Tooie gets similar treatment even if it's less popular as there isn't really a great way to play it as it runs like dirt on og hardware, it's mostly fine on n64 emus but I find those iffy, and the xbox live port has audio bugs and due to the leaderboard you're prevented from using certain cheats as the game won't save
so a definitive version and way to play it would be nice
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>To extract and build everything, type make
Oh sweet, it's that easy huh?
Code: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "splat_inputs.py", line 7, in <module>
    from split import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'split'
make: *** [Makefile:355: tools/bk_rom_compressor/target/release/bk_rom_decompress] Error 127
Oh.... nevermind
 
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