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Had it released in the US, would Final Fantasy V have been more popular than VI?
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>>12680154
>>12680045
The layer removal in ZSNES wasn't to cheat but because most people played it on a pentium 90 where it needed to run in 8-bit mode to get 60fps, and transparency effects simply did not work on that. Which made some games have a permanent graphic overlay that made them unplayable, unless you removed a certain background layer.

It wasn't transparencies being broken, people just played on machines that couldn't display them. On 16-bit graphic modes this was not a problem but it required a way more powerful machine that most people did not have.

t. actually used ZSNES on a pentium 90.
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>>12675980
5 is absolutely great, nearly limitless gameplay depth.

6 is a rom hack of 6 where they put every class into a different character.
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>>12681504
contrarian
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>>12681498
>pentium 90
>in year 2000
I still have my old PC from then and amd 900 mhz with 392 MB ram and 16 MB gpu, never used 8 bit color for that since was capable of 32 bit color and the monitor had high resolution 8XXX x 4096 that needed a driver and ran quite well at 800x600 which was the normal to use filters, don't know were you saw older cpu but by then pentium 3 1.4 ghz was already released so is not a thing you ran zsnes on shitty PC, the first time i played zsnes was on an intel celeron 333 mhz with 32 bit color without issues (copying it was a pain in the ass).
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>>12681567
>year 2000

ZSNES came out in 1997 and not everybody upgraded every year, especially not in the 90s when PCs cost as much as .... well, today. They actually became cheaper in the 2000s and 2010s.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I've been trying to practice this god damn game for YEARS and my scores are still complete dogshit(best score is like 68k points). I've played platformers all my life, watched pro highscore playthroughs on youtube, saw king of kong at least twice, even nearly FRAME PERFECT dodged a crazy barrel before its bullshit hit my back toe

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG
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>>12676537
>There are very specific routes you have to take through the barrel boards past about the 3rd go around.
I KNEW it was rigged
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It's a very hard game to master, I doubt most people on this board can get to your hi score, OP.
I got picrel in one extremely good streak once but I think I also average in the 60~70k
I remember another anon that got something like 200k or 300k
And to think pro players can get to over a million.
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>>12676305
My best is 128.4k on the Switch. I was getting really into it for a while, it's got crazy depth and it's not hard to see how it became an obsession to some people. Theres a ton of skill and concentration needed to put up a decent score.
I think to break your plateau consistently, you need to understand barrel steering, understand the flame spawning on the rivets stage, and understand the spring patterns in the L3+ spring stages. Theres no shame in watching videos on this. Theres just no way youre going to figure out L4 spring patterns on your own.
Great game, I wish there weee more kongers or classic arcade gamers here. I actually like DK Jr better though.
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>>12680981
>understand the flame spawning on the rivets stage
its not random?
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DODGE TWO FUCKING CRAZY BARRELS LOCKING ON TO MY X/Y COORDINATES AT THE SAME TIME

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is Rise of the Triad the most advanced raycasted first person game ever made? I'm trying to research what can be accomplished in these types of rendering engines but perhaps there are other games like this with more advanced features I'm not aware of

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Launch Special & № 1-2
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12625667
№ 3 & 6
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12635915
№ 8 & 10
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12641303
№ 9 & 11
>>12644586
№ 12-14
>>12652715
№ 15-17
>>12659141
№ 19-21
>>12669315


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That's enough for today, new thread tomorrow!
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>>12680668
Yes, gladiator was a popular movie in the 2000s.
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Blaster Master (1990)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12385312
Metal Gear (1990)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12432498
Ninja Gaiden (1990)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12502216
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1990)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12508526
Wizards & Warriors (1990)
>>12655814
Bionic Commando (1991)
>>12669594
>>Junior Worlds of Power
Mega Man 2 (1990)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12590470
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PREVIOUS BOOKS

>Donkey Kong County
The Novelization (1995)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12290443
Rumble in the Jungle (1995)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12306660
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12308681
Rescue on Crocodile Isle (1997)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12323756

>Doom
Knee-Deep in the Dead (1995)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12355427
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12366430

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Mortal Kombat (1995)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12558478

>Sonic the Hedgehog
>>Virgin Books
Sonic the Hedgehog in Robotnik's Laboratory (1993)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12575252
Sonic the Hedgehog in The Fourth Dimension (1993)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12611906
Sonic the Hedgehog and the Silicon Warriors (1993)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12631525
>>Fantail Books
Stay Sonic (1993)
https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/12597731
>>Troll

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gfcore thread
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gifcore?
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>>12676567
i have a wife and she only plays phoneshit.
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>>12676082
damn, mine beat Tetris Gaiden on Saturday

quick additional list:
>Panel de Pon
>Super Famicom Wars
>Dossun Ganseki Battle
>SMW
>Magical Date
>Bishi Bashi
>Wonder Trek
>Castle of Illusion MD
>Ghouls and Ghosts MD
>Megaman
>Kirby's Adventure

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>>12676567
Several

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Beat metroid zero mission had a bunch of fun. Was going to play sword of mana. Decided to play this next. Amazing stuff. Apparently its impossible to bomb jump in this game. I really enjoy this game alot. Just finished sector 4. About to go to the next zone. Amazing kino stuff. Im gonna keep going with metroid gonna play super metroid next or that rom hack super metriod gba edition in the zero mission engine. But read the way zero mission plays will be to easy to sequence break so just the snes edition. These 2d games are so good. Only ever played the prime games prior to beating zero mission.
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>>12681354
Gonna play super metroid after fusion. Also found a romhaxk called hyper metroid which I heard is also pretty good. I got all 3 prime games for the gamecube
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>>12681369
Prime 3 is Wii
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>>12681376
Right prime 3 on the wii. Got that too
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>>12681380
Is it good? I haven't played it.
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>>12681383
It is good. The wii controls make aiming and playing extremely easy. I do kinda wish you could play on the console with the game cube style sometimes like re4 has both options. Anyways yeah man totally worth playing. Its a great game.

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Wow this game has great aesthetics and potential but god its such a mediocre game. Why were Capcom like this?
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>>12677579
Try Rygar
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>>12677305
Dragon Quarter is one of the greatest games of all time. Inb4 that one autist shows up complaining about being "punished".
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>>12680997
To an increasing number of retards, ever bit of friction in a game is jank or punishment because paying attention and adjusting are impossible
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>>12681037
But anon, how can you say that? I just want some "QOL" adjustments that simply turn this old "janky" game into an entirely different game that sucks.
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>>12680596
Is this playable without knowing moon roons?

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Childhood is playing long drawn out RPGs with turn based combat and tons of dialogue boxes

Adulthood is realizing shmups and bullet hells are the most gameplay dense genre and are able to pack all of it into a relatively short game that doesn't waste your time.
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>>12668874
>Thought Cotton was a nice & friendly SHMUP where the skill came from scoring rather than survival
>That damn dragon destroys me every time
Great OST btw
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>>12681063
Original Cotton there barely has any real scoring mechanics, think the biggest difference you can make is getting the secret bonus for dodging the tea items at the end of a stage instead of collecting them, but it's true for the non-/vr/ ones.
But it's an easy game either way, st6 boss can be done very easily if you play it slow and dodge in the right/up corner until he returns back to the rightmost position
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Also yes, the OST is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhfMOuD4WL4
This one is the same as the arcade, but the remixes are cool too.
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>>12681081
These are objectively terrible compositions, what the hell
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>>12681373
>objectively terrible compositions
Didn't know we had /mu/fags around
idk what you're talking about, I've been listening to this stuff for weeks now(including the other versions)

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Was this the perfect level of abstraction and skill ceiling?
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>>12680806
Fixed to emulate the canonical ps2 presentation, yes.
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>>12681181
If the framerate doesn't regularly dip below 10, you didn't beat the game.
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>>12681212
If you played with uncapped framerates where helicopters and shit started acting weird as fuck, you super-beat the game.
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>>12681130
Zoomlets can't be bothered. They just emulate on their cell phones now.
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>>12681313
Can't blame them when hardware prices gone to shit and piracy gets you bad boy points in shitholes like germany

Fascinating that RE0 and RE1 Remake were duds when released on the GameCube, but they were big hits when given multi-plat releases. There's probably more people playing it now on Steam than there were people playing it on the Gamecube at its peak.
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You have 3 RE games and 2 Dino Crisis games on PS1, and this all in a 4 year window, there was serious fatigue by the time REmake came out, how many stomping around tank control in prerendered background survival horror games would have been enough for you?
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>>12677989
That part was true. They were pumping out too many games, and they got cocky thinking they had set up a perfect "formula" that they could just hand over to some b-team to pump out more games. They should have waited for proper inspiration until they made a new one. Gamers clearly liked Capcom, liked the new consoles, and liked horror titles since Devil May Cry and Onimusha were suprise hits on release. Too many of the RE games were "here we go again" but less polished. Code Veronica takes the cake for being stale and boring. At least Re0 looks good.
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Just to put things in perspective:

Luigi's Mansion outsold REmake, Re0, and Eternal Darkness. All three are critical darlings.
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>>12677110
>Fascinating that RE0 and RE1 Remake were duds when released on the GameCube, but they were big hits when given multi-plat releases.
Not really, it had 15 years of "THE GREATEST REMAKE EVER???" and similar other things.
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>>12677115
you can just not use modern controls

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Have you taking the Tetrispill yet? It's the ultimate test of skill
It's dynamic so you can't just memorize your way through it like shmup garbage, but it's also simple to understand. You cannot blame the game for anything, it's all on you
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>TGM2 TA is playable in mister through psikyo sh2 beta core
yes
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>>12680135

Mister is a scam
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>>12680132
>You cannot blame the game for anything
The he'll i can't
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For me it's The New Tetris
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>>12680506
You can see one piece into the future and have complete placement of all blocks, there's no nonsense

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Personally, I think TNT: Evilution is >= to The Plutonia Experiment in terms of overall quality.

Yes, there are some gems in Plutonia, but the chaingunner & revenant spam is irritating.

While TNT: Evilution does have some forgettable levels, the art direction and level design is pretty good; Additionally, it has a more consistent difficulty curve.

That being said, what are your thoughts on Final DOOM?
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>>12679257
After doing a UV pistol start no save run of Doom 1, 2, Ultimate and Final, I've come to the conclusion that only Doom 1 and some parts of 2 are actually good. The rest boils down to people who loved the first game accepting dog shit for level design because they're just that desperate for more, and rationalizing to themselves that they're actually worth playing. Final Doom is the absolute peak of that.
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Plutonia's the only Doom thing in general that I'd ever play again
Evilution is for the 'muh atmosphere' faggots
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>>12679257
Outside of a small few levels (especially the secret ones), The revenant usage really isnt as crazy in Plutonia as their total numbers on doomwiki would imply, IMO.
Chaingunners were definitely overkill at times, though.
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>>12680115
>For example MAP09 is the epitome of TNT's bullshit, it's NOTHING but hitscanners with their monotonous gameplay
It's one of my favorites, I love the massive and volatile gunfights. It's just fun as hell to bowl over a whole score of zombies with the Super Shotgun, or mowing them down in droves with the Chaingun, and they keep dropping more ammo for you.
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I saw this screen as a kid and was so disgusted by its ugly that I never bothered with "Final Doom"

"Evilution" also sounded really mid 90s lame.

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I was listening to an episode of Jeff Gestmanns one man talk radio stype podcasts and a listener sent a letter talking about Marathons art scandal and this lead him down a long meandering rant about that kind of art style appearing in the 90's with games like Wipeout.

He then proceeded to go on a long rant about how Wipeout was actually extremely influential in america in terms of contributing of the spread of "jungle" and drum and bass music from the uk scene in the 1990's.

Are there any retro games you feel had a similar effect in your neck of the woods in some fashion? my school had the teachers bring in all the parents to ban the harry potter ps1 games because all the school bullies started talking with a fake british accent because thats how the slytherins would talk.
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Don't post that pedophile.
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>>12680912
Sure thing, retard, everyone you don't like is a pedo.

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Play DODGE Danpei on NES, SNES and Genesis
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>tfw danpei is now coomerbait
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>>12680403
the sequel was a mistake
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>>12680351
Hey it's the anime series that Koji Kondom stole music from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcCnuJdRPFo
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>>12680394
Did they do anything genuinely bad with Kuino Kun?
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>>12680372
>it doesn't look much fun
it isn't, just a simple turn-based battler. personally I prefer the NES ones, because why play the SNES or Genesis when you have the Kunio dodge ball games. They don't even have all the special moves.

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I can't get into this. The controls are just too bad. Should I just patch the game and play in first person?
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>>12676740
Huh? It's for finding unknown values by sifting.
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>>12676740
Not him, but Cheat Engine has a pretty nice debugger, to the point where I have to question why he bothered with OllyDbg at all.
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>>12676283
>>12676576
OP here. Thanks for the mod. You should absolutely made it more widely available and make credit for it. Also it works on Linux too.
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>>12676576
is this legit?
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>>12680267
You have two ways to check: read the asm source code then assemble it against the original exe, or compare bytes with the original exe, there's only 256 bytes of difference.


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