Why is the Gradius series so underrated amongst modern shmup fans? The shmups forum doesn't even have a Gradius game in its top 25 anymore. Easily one of the most fun and soulful series of all time. If you're turned off by its infinite loops and lack of a central scoring mechanic then you have Parodius which is arguably even better in multiple ways. But good ol' Gradius ought not be forgotten. Gradius 1 in 1985 was probably the first scrolling shmup ever released to still be fun in the modern day. The power-up system and the weapon loadouts are still remarkably fun.
>>12167773>buying roms
>>12184894I said "get", not "buy".
>>12184660He should have been fine anyway since the cube should have stuck to the upper wall. He just happened to be in the perfect trajectory for it to stay between the hitboxes the whole way.
>>12167773How's Salamander 3?
>>12185257A lot easier than the rest of the series (at least on the first loop) but a true work of excellence anyway
Wish me luck. I know it's a pain in the BALLS because I played it long ago. Really it's the next best thing once you've seen all the TNG episodes. Most of the TNG movies were meh. And I didn't care for DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, or any of the newer crap.Nope, for me it's this game.
>>12181926Only if you have a poop wound.
This is an extremely comfy game. There are no real time limits on most of the game, you can just chill and interact with the ship and crew if you like. The whole thing is non-canon though evidently, you can't find much about the Chodak or this game's plot points outside the game itself.
>>12181893Oh Will...
>>12183624>poop woundrofl I’ve never heard that one, will use it on my local troons
>>12183626I think the chodak appear in a couple other tng games, but yeah, all that lore is self-contained within a few games. Cool things like that don’t happen anymore.
>>12183002kirby games
>>12183002Any 3D Mario game. As long as there's something fun to do or play around with you can have a good easy game. That's usually sandbox games, games with physics that feel good to control, games that allow you to create your own challenges, things like that.
>>12183002Kirby's Adventure/NiDL
Kirby's dreamland.>>12183002>piss easyI always struggle at the ice skating Pete boss. I never know when he's going to do a flip.
>>12183002Bonkers is cool too
Just got filtered
ok thx 4 telling me ill let ur family no
>>12184557I was able to play this as a 14 year old with no internet guides available.You didn't get filtered, you gave up on yourself.
>>12184640True, but I'm old and evading reality with vidya, give me a break
That the first game? I gave up on that one as well. Star trail on the other hand was great. And shadows over riva was serviceable. I got the "remakes" that are janky as fuck and might play them one day.
>>12185183>I got the "remakes" that are janky as fuckPSA: Nobody else should do this. They are truly awful.
With homebrews, there is now likely over 1000 games in the Mega Drive library, and it's growing everyday, now with major releases from mainstream studios. The Mega Drive is essentially revived and a "current console" of sorts.Yet we don't see anything even close to this on SNES, despite it being "more popular". Why is that?
>>12183191>still no retort from the double loser
>>12182646Based
>>12183191Lose some weight.
>oh hey cool homebrew games discuss-- >look inside >40yo console warring
>>12184968i'm leaner than you faggot>>12185234>implying auster op didn't give it away
>Mortal Kombat Gold>is shit compared to Killer Instinct GoldWhat did boonbias mean by this?
>>12176860Sales dont make a game good, sales only reflect how hard the game was shilled. tekken 3 was a dogshit game.Are you going to tell me mcdonalds is the height of cuisine next?
>>12183157Stop paying attention to cocks.
>>12183158I know you're not dissing my boi Tekken 3 like that
How nobody would play MKGold if DC has Dead or Alive 2 and SoulCalibur?
>>12175674Netherrealm should buy KI
>27,000 KNOWN games>estimated tens of thousands of homebrew games we'll never seekneel to the greatest 8-bit computer there will ever be.
oi mate me speccy !
>>12182913Terrahawks annual on the floor, lol.
>>12183128Graphics aside, this looks perfectly fine though. Smooth gameplay, mostly accurate stages aside from the second one, challenging without being unfair.
>>12183128Dude, KONG was a cheap ripoff, at least post the official port (also published by Ocean, funnily enough)https://youtu.be/taAGMoFDUwMBonus recent homebrewhttps://youtu.be/wrF2j5RuDdo
Play Aliens:Neoplasma!
Hi /vr/, local DualShock 2 expert here but I'm stumped and getting crap information left and right.I have a DS2 I just repaired and can't figure out what color it's considered. It's a translucent blue one but the exterior is foggy and clearly distinct from the controller on top (Ocean Blue.) It's an earlier ALPS revision, but not a super early one, it has the white skeleton with a single 18-pin flex sheet instead of 2x9 or pressure connect sandwich style flex sheet. This would mean it's from the earlier days of PS2, but not the earliest. I think a reasonable guess would be 2002.2002 brought me to this article here, https://sonyinteractive.com/en/press-releases/2002/sony-computer-entertainment-launches-limited-color-versions-of-playstation2/ where Sony describes an Ocean Blue PS2 controller going up for sale with the model number SCPH-10010L, this controller is just regular 10010, which may not mean anything at all as far as identifying it. Being that this article calls it Ocean Blue the next logical step to me was to cross match it with Ocean Blues...which I have, and this is obviously different, down to the materials it's different.So what do you think? Is this a revision of Ocean Blue before they changed the plastic material? It may be "Island Blue" Which is another name they used for the *MEMORY CARDS* but not the controller - apparently this is a color name for the translucent blue DualShock 1! This Island Blue DS1 has extremely similar plastics to this DualShock 2. It's blue, see-through, but slightly foggy. Honestly texturally it's similar to the DS1, but it's very obviously a DS2. There's even two Island Blue DS1s, an early model and a PSOne variant.Additionally, it is not some sort of yellowing of the plastic. I have a couple of these foggy blue controllers. Anyone have any info? If it helps I believe these controllers came from someone reselling a lot from Japan.
>>12184082looks like emerald on bottom and island blue on top
>>12184183>that these controllers would have been made between 1997 and 2000?Yes for the DS1s.>Were Island Blue memory cards available at launch in Japan?Not for PS2, Those seemed to debut in 2002, but the blue texture of the PS2 Island Blue MC is extremely similar to this Made in Korea Island Blue DS2. A sort of foggy translucent blue. The DS2 is also a 3rd revision or so ALPS Alpine pad. I think this is right before they switched to the sandwich style flex sheets.>>12184213That's from the warm lighting in my room.
>>12184082>local DualShock 2 expert here>I'm stumpedepic>getting crap information left and right.Probably. But the main problem is the bit in the middle that's processing all that input. It's broken.
>>12184096What game?
>>12185005Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san
Getting this in 1996 was insane.I also got the ps1 version later so I had the best of both worlds.If MK II was the peak of the kombatmania, then Trilogy was its culmination.Then came MK4/Gold...
>>12179306Your previous question was disingenuous tbf
>>12152216I just recently played the N64 version for the first time. I grew up having it on PlayStation and then later played the Saturn version in the 2000s.The PlayStation version was definitely the way to go. The other two versions I played just didn't matter.>Then came MK4/GoldIronically MK4 was the very first game I ever preordered. I still have the Strategy Guide that my local KB Toys gave me with the preorder back then. Another game I more recently played on the N64 for the first time. All I have to say is it's absolute shitty ass AIDS.
Why has nobody hacked the damn music to be back to the arcade pitches for U/MK3? It's not even because of design choice, they just fucked it all up.
>>12184407Is this what you want? https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5074/
>>12184513NTA but no, I want more
The kinoest RR
>>12184632Uh, sorry, I posted a wrong picture. I meant this RR.
>>12184632>ridge racer 1>ridge racer 2>rage racer>ridge racer 4
>>12185153forgot something there champ
>filters gwafix whores
OI
>>12184801why did anyone think Action Biker needed a map?how retarded did you have to be to get "lost"
>>12184801>combine the C64 and speccy threadsfuck no, the C64 and speccy were deadly enemies. the first Computer War in the UK anyway
>>12184764Just so you know, the Speccy is the platform with the most known video games at ~54k known titles
>>12184801As long as we keep the c64 schizotard who likes to shit up Apple ][ and speccy threads out...>>12185160Oh no!, he's here already.PS: The other speccy thread is cooler
I found genesis, n64 and neo geo versions online but can't find gba version. Can anyone share it?
>>12184741Wish they would've made more Xeno Crisis or a Xeno Crisis 2 than the Terminator thing.
The composer of this game has a channel where he posts amazing Genesis covers of classic video game tracks.
>>12184451this game is absolute bullshit. tiny projectiles and enemies that keep spawning under you. your melee range is also minuscule and you can only hit one enemy per attack.
>>12184451Get SNES and PS1 ver
>>12184917The PS1 port isn't out, is it?
Did anyone else play the retro TF games? (Quake TF, Team Fortress Classic, Unreal Fortress, Quake 3 Fortress, Fortress Forever, etc.)
fortress forever, /vr/?
>>12184646sure when would you be up for a match
>>12184646More like Fortress Forever Alone
>>12184273Thanks anon!
>>12184646There are some pub servers there with no players, it's possible to fill em with people
>forgot to put Scorpion in the rosterWhat were they thinking?
>>12179409It was his brother in MK2 too
>>12177469Jesus christ you could chisel diamond with that jaw
>>12182685Smoke is better to play than Scorpion in MK3 because he's higher tier but character wise he's just Hydro from the comics, aka the sidekick of the second Sub Zero, eh
>>12176835that's Ziggy Stardust
>>12182198Ermac is another character, like Rain, who just doesn't look right when he's not a ninja.
This was the best one, right?
>>12182564they aren't hard at all as an adult. The Voldemort part a little more so than the stealth just because of how wonky the fight plays out, but you'll breeze through em.
>>12182587Yeah it was not nearly as hard while replaying it
I find the PS1 games to be strangely endearing, even the fever dream character models
>>12175791What a bunch of meaningless buzzwords. Try it again.
>>12178671lmao
