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This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games, including consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games. Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier, and official game titles for those platforms released no later than December 2007 (homebrew console games made after this date will be permitted). The Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and Sony PlayStation 2 will now be considered "retro".

Helpful links:
Game Tech Wiki
Emulation General Wiki

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>Then there's no time to waste.
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>>10785560
Clocking in my reply!
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>>10785560
Perhaps things can be objectively bad, zoomanon.
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>>10787694
Name the things about Superman 64 that are OBJECTIVELY bad
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>>10786698
Chris was actually held hostage by superman while he was writing that review.
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>>10787318
>Then my cat died.
Did Superman 64 kill your cat somehow?
I'm confused.

I am going into battle and I require your best retro posters.
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Do you guys get repro or fan made shirts posters etc off Etsy? Or is there a better site if not there?
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My posters are too strong for you, anonymous.
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>>10787770
Sick

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What are some of VR's favorite flash parodies of /vr/ games? For me, it's SoBe Dragon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Azb_leVQc
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>>10787676
https://youtu.be/X4UQfmO3wvo?feature=shared
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>>10787653
man it was the first thing that came to mind when i saw this thread lol newgrounds was the fuckin shit back in the day
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Here's a parody of a parody of retro vidya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F028FBVdrjs
Also contains one of the earliest outside mentions of 4chan that I can remember. I was already here at the time, but I imagine this was many a newfag's first introduction to it.
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There was a series of Mario Land GB flash vids that I thought were the funniest thing in the world when I was about 10. Can't remember what they were called
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Maybe someone in this thread will know what I'm talking about. I remember many years ago watching a flash video starring Mr. Pants and, I'm pretty sure, a fish named Mr. Trout. In one scene Mr. Trout gets knocked down a hill and spins out of control while the song
>KEEP ROLLIN' ROLLIN' ROLLIN' ROLLIN'
plays in the background, until he finally hits the bottom. That's all I can remember, I haven't seen it in like 20 years so if anyone knows more about it I'd love to revisit more of the cringe stuff I thought was hysterical back then.

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One modern gaming trend I don't understand is that so many people believe nowadays that videogames should be easy at the start and get harder over time. ie the first level and first boss should be very easy, the second level and second boss should be easy but not effortless, the third can be modestly challenging, etc. That wasn't a thing with older games. Back in the day games were difficult from the very beginning, we didn't feel as though we were entitled to being babied just because we were new. "Difficulty curves" are more of a 2000+ concept, it had no real presence in the 80s or 90s.
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>>10786793
>"Difficulty curves" are more of a 2000+ concept, it had no real presence in the 80s or 90
You dipshit zoomie pseuds need to fuck off back to V. A game progressively getting more difficult as you played wasn't some thinktape eureka concept invented in the 6th gen. You are the Dunning-Kruger generation.
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>>10786793
List examples

Every game I can think of starts out easy and gets harder over time. Like literally every game
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>>10786865
Op here. No anon you don't understand, I was born in 2007 and I watched a youtube eassay state that "difficulty curve" was a term first used in 2001.
I canbberely conceive of anything important happening prior to 2015, let alone 2001. Therefore all NES games were produced without difficulty spikes.
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>>10787186
>Therefore all NES games were produced without difficulty spikes.

Well that's obviously not true, NES games were full of spikes, many of them difficult.
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>"Difficulty curves" are more of a 2000+ concept, it had no real presence in the 80s or 90s.
That's the most retarded fucking shit I've ever heard and you should be banned for saying it.

Fucking Tetris has a difficulty curve, and that's a really simple (yet smartly crafted) puzzle game. The vast majority of games have a difficulty curve of some kind, the curves may very well vary between different games, but they typically have one.
MOTHERFUCKING SPACE INVADERS HAS A DIFFICULTY CURVE TO IT, FUCK YOU, I HATE YOU. I HOPE YOU DIE.

>>10786812
>Difficulty spikes are not objectively bad by design
I don't think I ever see difficulty spikes described as bad design unless they're like a really sudden and extreme one (like the game being babbymode for over an hour but then goes nuts). I do agree though that you typically do not want a fully linear curve, peaks and valleys are better and offer a lot more nuance and variety.

Has anyone played the leak?
I downloaded it yesterday and played through some of it on my 128mb xbox and it was pretty sweet.
Shame it got cancelled because even in its unpolished form it's got a great atmosphere and interesting gun play and stealth mechanics.
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>>10787584
The promo art is awesome, it's a real shame blizzard cancelled it but i guess with WoW coming out around the same time as ghost development and starcraft 2 in the pipeline blizz was short on resources.
>>10787591
This is where i grabbed it from:
https://archive.org/details/starcraftghostxbox_202002
Some people have been saying that it will only work on a 128mb xbox though, which makes sense with it being a prototype
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would have been duke nukem forever tier had it actually got released.
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>>10787625
>blizz was short on resources
The only work Blizzard did was the FMVs. Nihilistic Software was the first company developing it but after tons of delays, development was passed to Swingin' Ape Studios. The game still got stuck in development hell and just never got finished
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft:_Ghost#Development_and_cancellation
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>>10787575
Looks pretty competently made, which is not something you can say about most finished games, let alone early prototypes. I think it would've been successful had it released, and probably would have led to a neat little subseries and expansion of the StarCraft series to other genres. I imagine Blizzard or Vivendi management lost interest after the mammoth success of World of Warcraft.
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>>10787692
WoW was Blizzards last good game and first worse. It rotted them with laziness and the GaS model contaminated all of their future projects.

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Is Mario very small and grows to normal size when he gets a mushroom, or does the mushroom make him a giant?
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>>10785734
on the title screens and intros he's always shown as super mario so i think he becomes smaller when he's hurt actually.
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>>10785738
That's the way I always perceived it too.
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>>10785734
There is official art of him taller then peach when super so small size is his normal height
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Nintendo has been very inconsistent with this. It especially becomes apparent in games where there's no mushroom power up like say the 3D Super Mario games. Like in those games is Mario supposed to be little Mario or Super Mario? We've seen evidence that it could be both.
Donkey Kong 94 also fucks with our perception of what Mario vs Super Mario is supposed to be. Same with some of the RPG games.f
So to answer your question, Nintendo doesn't care and goes on a game by game basis.
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>>10785752
The interns running Nintendo today have no idea and no say over real Mario lore. Newer games don't count.

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Playing this for the first time, and I honestly find it kind of obnoxious. It's not the worst RPG I've ever played, but all the little inconveniences are starting to grate on me. It's probably for the best it was never officially released until later because it probably would have not done well and they wouldn't have brought the second game over.
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ok
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>>10787767
Never played this franchise, what are some to the inconveniences?
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>>10787773
I'm particularly talking about the first game here. The second and third are great, but the first is like a meh DQ clone.
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>>10787773
OP is a fagget

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is this the best ridge racer?
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>>10785626
I also hate the idea of the cars being direct upgrades and if you want an alternative playstyle for a stage (i.e. more speed at the expense of handling or switch from grip to drift) you have to start all over again with a different team/manufacturer combo.
Rage Racer and Ridge Racer V both have different cars for different playstyles that you are free to switch and upgrade for different stages. I wish R4 used the same system.
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>>10785650
Yeah, despite all the cool car models in R4, the regular cars are all just incremental speed/handling upgrades. Even in Time Attack, I only find myself using Squalo, Destroyer, and the Extra Trial cars. And even then, Nightmare and Vulcano arguably make Squalo redundant, but Squalo looks too cool to not use.
As much as I love R4, it's very much style over substance when you cut out the padding.
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>>10784604
>insanely negged by Outrun 2
>a game that came out in arcades, 6 years later
...duh?
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>>10784614
Grip is more fun than drift too, makes it a bit more grounded even if still arcade.
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>>10784604
Rad Mobile is the real Outrun 2 (and the only good Sonic game).

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How often do you buy games from retro game stores? What makes you go to one?
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>>10785194
Not even a collector's edition?
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>>10785904
It wasn't even a collector's edition. The guy who ran the store was really bad about overpricing everything. Prices would change on a daily basis and he'd look them up on his phone before telling you. He'd charge you extra, based if they had the manual or if they were a player's choice print. discs often were dirty or not in good condition either. I used to have a doc listing a bunch of prices just to give people an idea of how bad it was.
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last time i bought games in a store was in the summer of 1999 when a store was about to close, and I snatched up about 30 copies in total of of Shadow Warrior, Hexen and Blood. i had very problematic ocd back then.
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>>10769464
The only dude I ever found worth buying retro games from was a guy with a stall at a local flea market. He priced his stuff competitively and his stock was always changing. Every other stall in the same flea market was just loaded with the same, unmovable shit (Caesar's Palace anyone?), and maybe a handful of good games that were so overpriced that nobody ever bought them either. I don't even know if he's still in business, I haven't been game hunting in 6 or 7 years. I think I'm happy with what I own. Anything else, I'll emulate.
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My high school history teacher opened one in my town. It did good for a while until corona fucked everything up. The store closed and he lost a lot of money, not sure how much but he sold his house and moved to something smaller. I didn't see him for about two years. Then, according to his family, he had an extended psychotic breakdown. He stayed inside for months, flying off the handle over little things and screaming randomly sometimes. It ended with him cutting his cock off, he almost died. Turns out he was undiagnosed schizo for years.

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What are the most aesthetic consoles?

Feel free to post special editions as well.
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>>10786747
slick
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chad system comin through folks
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>>10786747
Huh, the PSX looks really damn good in matte black.
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>>10780424
Videogames are clearly divided into two categories. One is pixel art, the other is polygonal graphics. A few games combine the two, but that's to be expected. These two categories overlap almost entirely two other categories: 2D games and 3D games. Again, some games combine the two, but that's not a problem. These hybrid games can be talked about in either category, as well as have their own category so that their commonalities can also be discussed. There are also two other categories that sonewhat overlap the previous two: multiplayer at home VS online multiplayer. All these categories are also divided in time. The shift occurred in the late 90s and early 00s. Everything from the 1st half of each category that was published after the early 00s is a revivalist videogame. Revivalism is its own thing and can't really be discussed like the things it's trying to revive. Revivalist works are often anachronistic and ignore previous technical limitations. This shows that revivalist media is its own category. Pixel art videogames also tend to have more soul than polygonal graphics videogames. This is a consewuence of shifts in marketing and in the public's criteria for commercial appeal. This is due in part to chsnges in technical limitations, but also the area in which politics and social changes have influenced the videogame industry. That is to say that modern bullshit has sucked the soul out of most videogames.

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>Links
Retro sizer https://retrosizer.com/
Retro handhelds spreadsheet https://pastebin.com/ZyqXr19r
SoC Comparison https://versus.com/en/mobile-chipset

>Where to buy
Aliexpress, gogamegeek, litnxt, keepretro, mechdiy, Anbernic/retroid store

>What to know about brands
Retroid: Well built, powerful, but expensive (100$+)
Anbernic: Balance between price, power and build quality. Just avoid the RG Nano
Powkiddy: Cheap, low quality builds, interesting shapes (square, clamshell, big screen)
Miyoo: One hit wonder
Game Console: Copycat popular products with lower prices, better specs, but weaker build qualities
TrimUI: Good build quality, shitty software with no good CFW alternatives

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>>10787669
Mmm Charlotte is waifu..
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>>10787669
>CHARLOTTE
>JOHNATHAN
>CHARLOTTE
>JOHNATHAN
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So I decided to jump on the RG35XX H train simply for some GB and GBA games since it was on sale at a reasonable price and I'm wondering what CFW should I bother jumping to?
GarlicOS apparently just started being reasonably recommended recently based on what I'm searching.
ArcOS seemed like the safest bet and the way to go.
muOS seems like the most mature of the lot.
Batocera seems like muOS?

I'm not really sure what I should be looking at here. Also, when it comes to taking screenshots do I need to grab something on the Linux side or does their version of Retroarch allow it natively? Does it take screenshots in the native resolution or however it's gonna be scaled up for the screen? It's hard to find information on this at all, just people asking where their screenshots are.
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>>10787740
Arkos is not for the rg35xx
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>>10787740
I use the batocera beta on mine. It works great. I haven't tried the others so I can't weigh in on those. It can take screenshots from retroarch.

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PSO thread, let’s go.
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>>10787109
probably to help advertisers
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>>10787109
Fill the site with bots and then show the fake metrics to advertisers / potential buyers.
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>>10787109
It's the whole site
Election year means 4chinz is about to become Bot City.
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>>10787292
Goodbye to catching samefags
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What I hate is that no one plays the DC or GC version online anymore.

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What is your go-to for playing old PC games that cannot be played on modern Windows through any other means?
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>>10784947
DOSBox works with most stuff these days, it just has a slow development cycle. It will even do obscure stuff like serial and even parallel pass through.
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did 86box steal all the thunder from PCEM? haven't been following x86 emulation since the whole debacle where the PCEM dev ragequit
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>>10786886
Pretty much. PCem is technically still in development, but it's slowed down a lot. 86Box is a lot more active by comparison, and has more features at this point. It is, however, slower at emulating higher-end CPUs.
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Is there any reason not to use MS-DOS 7.1 extracted from Windows 98 over 6.22?
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>>10787620
Only thing I saw was some mention on vogons that you might have issues with Win3.x. Someone else said they had no problems with Win3.x on DOS 7.x. That and machines that don't have booting off the CD-ROM drive as an option in BIOS.

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Why haven't you played the superior version of TLOZ yet, anon?
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Aura Battler Dunbine?
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This is the music that plays when you perform cunnilingus on a anthro mouse girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jza22vibc0E&list=PLH1R_On9zYePWzSM8zVo08fNeCyLK-m-a&index=7

This is the music that plays when you have an anime girl ride your cock while praising Nippon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47RYvfskmTA&list=PLH1R_On9zYePWzSM8zVo08fNeCyLK-m-a&index=13
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>>10786681
I love this game so much.
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Anything is better than nes loz.
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>>10786712
This is now. Dunbine thread, fuck OP and bis faggy console war shit


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