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

[Xarpho's Return]

I've mainly used this site for recommendations, it has a good mix of both heavy hitters and niche titles

https://vsrecommendedgames.miraheze.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance

I am pleased that they mentioned The Tower SP, though Yoot Tower is the Western name for The Tower II.

 

[Deejay]

They then post 5 extremely long screenshots that I'll try to crop for kino content

lol i'm in these screenshots (kushy.BLVD) this whole thing was extremely raped from the start. the whole server was a cesspool full of that shit.
surprised i made it onto the farms. props.

if there's any insight people want on this shit, i'm free to answer whatever/whenever.

 

[Captain Quazar]

The GBA’s sound is great imo. It never really bothered me for some reason.

 

[gayguywithaids]

lol i'm in these screenshots (kushy.BLVD) this whole thing was extremely raped from the start. the whole server was a cesspool full of that shit.
surprised i made it onto the farms. props.

if there's any insight people want on this shit, i'm free to answer whatever/whenever.

To add to this, I was also in this community. If you look in the highlights dropdown and see something mentioned called "OSK" this was a thug pro trolling group that I founded around 6 years ago that Zedek was the core contributor to. It stood for OpenSpy Killers (the thps games used gamespy which shut down in 2014 and openspy was the replacement all the mods use) and we would all crash peoples servers by finding out exploits in the games engine including new ones that the frankly incompetent developers of Thug Pro introduced themselves all while fucking with the people hosting and recording the reactions and outcry. Zedek and I had previously met in 2016 on Thug Pro when we were harassing a pedophile that was known on the game and found our first crash exploit where you would spam the chat and itd run out of memory (because one of the devs tried to increase the limit and it was broken but nobody knew until we fucked with it.) After this, one of the openspy admins named Krad stepped in to defend this guy we had proof on (and has defended ever since), and ever since he's hated us. Fast forward to 2020, we're kinda dabbling with Thug Pro and realize hey these guys are kind of shit lets make our own stuff, and then we came up with a mod of a mod, Zedek added a ton of new features (some that still arent in thug pro but made it into rethawed) but it kind of faded, in that time though we kind of made all hell break loose and it was funny to see that towards the end here, OSK had the last laugh as a TON of people switched from Thug Pro to this once infamously hated (and i guess now again) guy's work. Some people might say (including yourself) that the last part isnt right and that Zedek wasnt really that important to rethawed but if we're being honest here and look at what it was before and after, its not even comparable. He had more experience with THAWs engine than anyone. To loop back to the OSK days here, me and a friend asked Zedek if he wanted to play Clone Hero, a remake of guitar hero in unity, and he kinda had an autistic meltdown about how he would NEVER touch anything on the Unity engine... so he went and created Guitar Hero World Tour: Definitive Edition for us to play instead, which gave him that THAW engine experience. I have always known Zedek's real personality. He was never down with any of the woke stuff even at its peak when we talked the most in 2020. Honestly, I lost a bit of respect for him when I saw how much of a face he was putting on for the projects he worked on, not being himself and pandering to people I knew he disliked for the niche fame. However now I see what happens the ONE time he breaks and shows himself LOL.

 

[FrogMinutes]

People did not think this was funny and to make a long story short, all three people involved have apologized and have stepped away from the project.

missed opportunity not demanding "post hands" to the guy who snitched

racists would handle this situation better, they'd ask the Tony Hawk community "is there even any black people here?"
then make the point. "blacks would hesitate,"

 

[Computer Guardian]

It doesn't seem like the mod will be stopping development anytime soon as there's still 8 other active contributors who've already been helping to make updates, however it will definitely be a bit longer for updates now that 2 of the original devs are gone. Already their names have been removed from the credits on the main website.

ReTHAWed was something I was going to give a whirl... but given how fast the two main devs folded with the raycism... i think i'll hold off in case they attempt to add any tranny shit that wasn't from the THPS 3 and 4 demake, or some absolutely pathetic anti-racism additions

 

[Baraka Obama]

was filled with people who were cringe 4chan edgelords that probably havent gone outside since 2014

These are the kind of people you'd expect to make a huge mod adding hundreds(?) of levels.

The GBA’s sound is great imo. It never really bothered me for some reason.

It's very crunchy and low fi. Has it's own appeal even if not being up to the standards you might expect on everything else post-2000.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

GBA sounds fine if you've ever played an original gameboy or SNES etc. It's that weird polyphony thing that came out after Midi so there's more texture even if it is basically an advanced midi file. Compromises have to be made for a game to fit in a 32mb cartridge.

In fact unless you're incredibly autistic, everything up until the 360/PS3/Wii generation runs perfectly. Wii runs great but the 360 and PS3 still have a few teething issues and WORK but not in the same way Dolphin or PCSX2 works. I literally do not care if some SNES games have inauthentic textures, I'm playing them at 2x speed at like seven times the native resolution so I don't care if the emulators never get updated again.

In fact it's real funny to go through Dolphin patchnotes expecting some major fixes but it's just "oh yeah we fixed the ghosting effect in the 3 second loading screens in the korean version of FIFA 2003" there's like five fucking games we all play on Dolphin and that's that.

 

[gayguywithaids]

ReTHAWed was something I was going to give a whirl... but given how fast the two main devs folded with the raycism... i think i'll hold off in case they attempt to add any tranny shit that wasn't from the THPS 3 and 4 demake, or some absolutely pathetic anti-racism additions

It's all fake news and nobody folded, the code repository is private. When an update is pushed you wont know who did or didn't work on it.

 

[Dan of Steel]

GBA sounds fine if you've ever played an original gameboy or SNES etc. It's that weird polyphony thing that came out after Midi so there's more texture even if it is basically an advanced midi file. Compromises have to be made for a game to fit in a 32mb cartridge.

I personally don’t have an issue with how the GBA sounds. The point I was getting at was when I was in middle school when it came out and people had it, I remember people complaining about the sound. Also it needing batteries before the SP revision. Don’t get me wrong, the GBA is a great system.

 

[Two Dollars]

I personally don’t have an issue with how the GBA sounds. The point I was getting at was when I was in middle school when it came out and people had it, I remember people complaining about the sound. Also it needing batteries before the SP revision. Don’t get me wrong, the GBA is a great system.

It’s funny how more than a few people prefer normal easily-replaceable batteries now, especially considering how much battery technology has improved over the years. A Game Boy on a modern set of AA’s lasts an eternity.

 

[A Deer In Headlights]

It’s funny how more than a few people prefer normal easily-replaceable batteries now, especially considering how much battery technology has improved over the years. A Game Boy on a modern set of AA’s lasts an eternity.

I remember debating about ordering one of those USB-C charging mods for my GBA until I realized I could get a set of 4 rechargeable AA batteries for only $20 and get the same effect while also be able to reuse them for my other controllers when I needed.

 

[Enig]

I remember debating about ordering one of those USB-C charging mods for my GBA until I realized I could get a set of 4 rechargeable AA batteries for only $20 and get the same effect while also be able to reuse them for my other controllers when I needed.

On top of that the charging mods require mutilating the case and most times have less capacity than the AAs since they have to have room for the charging component board, the USB-C mods are pure r/gameboy tier retardation on the same tier as the people that rammed DSi screens into GBAs for updoots.

 

[Calandrino]

Handheld systems are really let down by the fact that most of the devs, feel like the b-team, being relegated to making portable games, because the company doesn't want to use their best talent on handhelds.

The GBA got it the worst... I think in the aughts a lot of devs thought of 2D as obsolete and something that was only going to appeal to little kids from then on. Lotta licensed games, lotta obviously low budgets, lotta inexplicably bad ports, etc. Just so many games where they obviously weren't trying and just wanted to get another box onto the shelves.

 

[Captain Quazar]

The GBA got it the worst... I think in the aughts a lot of devs thought of 2D as obsolete and something that was only going to appeal to little kids from then on. Lotta licensed games, lotta obviously low budgets, lotta inexplicably bad ports, etc. Just so many games where they obviously weren't trying and just wanted to get another box onto the shelves.

Ironically, most people tend to agree that 2D holds up better than 3D a lot of the time.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

Re: GBA's audio quality. I think the system sounds fine when you're listening to music that was made for the system. I think its audio quality is "known" as bad mostly because of a ports from other system where the music quality would often noticeable worsen in the conversion.

Example:

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

Re: GBA's audio quality. I think the system sounds fine when you're listening to music that was made for the system. I think its audio quality is "known" as bad mostly because of a ports from other system where the music quality would often noticeable worsen in the conversion.

Example:

The games made for the GBA sound better than the ports, but the audio quality still sucks ass. I wish they would have invested in a dedicated audio chip.

 

[Captain Quazar]

Re: GBA's audio quality. I think the system sounds fine when you're listening to music that was made for the system. I think its audio quality is "known" as bad mostly because of a ports from other system where the music quality would often noticeable worsen in the conversion.

Example:

Mario Advance 1 and 4 actually sound pretty good imo. Advance 2 is probably the weakest sound-wise in terms of the Mario ports on the GBA. 3 kinda sits somewhere in the middle for me.

 

[Pissmaster]

NES games rarely have save files so if you're playing on real hardware (no quick save or cheating), you won't get much enjoyment out of it unless you dedicate time and energy to learning to play your favorite games. That and you need maps for half of them, so either have your smartphone out, a physical guide, or printouts.

Then again if you're playing on real hardware, you're stupid not to use a flashcart with save states. Swapping cartridges was temperamental even when NES was current.

The gba has some great games, like Aria of Sorrow. But the quantity is quite low compared to the NES? For every good GBA game I can think of two or three good Nes games.

You gotta remember that GBA was only current for a bit over three years. Some of its more sought after games dropped after the DS did. DS was November 2004, Mother 3 was April 2006, and its translation was October 2008.

NES ran from '83 (JP) / '85 (NA), was current until '90/'91, and got new releases until the very end of '94. So it was current for double the time GBA had. GBA amassed one hell of a catalog for such a short-lived system.

Oh my God, the literal farts every other measure

 

[Retarded Weeb]

In fact unless you're incredibly autistic, everything up until the 360/PS3/Wii generation runs perfectly.

I guess I'm incredibly autistic then, because saying that N64 emulation "run perfectly" sounds pretty optimistic to me. Yeah, you can probably play anything you want from start to finish, but it's still has so much awkward shit you can randomly run into like glitched graphics and stuff not working right unless you use a specific plug-in. And PS2 still have a chance of graphical or audio glitches if you're playing more niche games. And OG Xbox emulation still needs work, in fact it might still be worse than PS3 emulation.