>fc/ nes version>soulful graphics and sound, large screen>no battery save>gbc version>battery save>looks like ass, need to get past two title screens, tiny screen that makes it impossible to navigate the overworld>snes version>battery save, large screen>looks like soulless ass, need to get past two title screensi guess i need to memorise passwords...
Whatever you do, gamers, make sure you play the game with the manual in hand. It's how they expected you to play it. Read through it, it's got good advice, not to mention it explains what some spells and items do more clearly. I'd even go so far as printing out the hint books. I did that with DQ1 and had a blast. It's a great little game, but yeah, the combat eventually becomes an afterthought you get through to level up enough to go to the next area. The puzzle box world is the real draw.
how am i supposed to find the sun stone? i found an npc telling me it's in the castle and some guy in the castle talks about a hidden cellar but can't find anythingis there another hint i missed or am i supposed to search every tile?
>>12601552Remember what you had to do to find the keys in Rimuldar?
>>12601596oh damn thanks, i thought about that but assumed i had to hug the wall
>>12601552>>12601596I like that you can deduce that there's walkable space outside of the castle by being observant of the water surrounding the castle. You see there's more water so you can infer there's more to it
/vr/ was pretty divided on the AES Plus after it was announced. Now that the hype has died down a bit, what do you think? Still getting one? Still think it’s a waste of money? I’m not sold on those $90 cartridges. They obviously won’t be mask roms, but I may still cave and buy a few, since it’s the closest I’ll ever get to owning official copies of Garou and Metal Slug.
>>12601557>established in 2011 by Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misk_Foundation#Video_GamesMaybe anons have been editing wikipedia again to make you have another schizo attack?
>True Factory Mask ROMs: Traditional mask ROMs are rarely sold individually; they require expensive photomask tooling (often costing thousands of dollars) and are only economical for massive production runs in the tens of thousands.>https://www.globalspec.com/learnmore/semiconductors_electronics/memory_chips/mask_rom_memory_chipsYou wont be getting mask roms. You'll be getting 3.3v 128MB Flash rom chips (with voltage translators) that are 50 cents in bulk. So all in all the manufacturing cost of a complete AES+ cart with print materials would be less than $5 USD.Wild speculation but do prove me wrong here. Trust me bro isnt a valid source.
>>12601543It ultimately comes down to who owns the rights to something. If Nintendo went out of business, an American company bought the rights to their IPs and rereleased their old games, those too, would be official releases. You don’t have to like it, but AES plus cartridges are official releases and will be collector’s items in decades. There’s not much else to be said on this topic. I don’t know who you’re confusing me with, but you sound like a typical 4chan-brand schizo that’s too obsessed with particular “board personalities”. Are you that guy on /v/ that also calls anyone critical of Nintendo: “Eric”? Maybe you’ll accuse me of being “Auster” next.
>>12597062It's real albeit shrunken down, consolidated hardware. Like the SNES Jr, Genesis 2&3, PsOne, and PS2 Slim.
>>12601561>>They already said they're using mask roms>What else would they use? It's the cheapest way of shitting out games in large numbers.If that's the case, then why are Switch games flash? If anyone wanted to turn out stuff at the lowest cost en masse it would be Nintendo, and it would avoid the criticism over Switch games having a finite shelf life.
Never before has the phenomenon of people buying shit and only playing it for five minutes been more obvious. This thing so clearly needed active cooling, it only takes about an hour to overheat and stop working. Never had this happen in the thousands of hours I've used my standard MiSTer setup, because that actually has a fan. It's bullshit that it has so much coverage yet not a single person has played long enough to experience this, do people even play video games anymore?This has been your public service announcement, you're welcome.
>>12591567works on my machine
>>12600015>Meme flacid unimaginative response
>>12586214You're literally posting on a social media site you DENSE N-WORD
>>12585008This thread probably would have given me buyers remorse or at least made me constantly paranoid about it overheating if I hadn't already gotten mineI played the psx port of duke3d on it the other day for hours with no issues
The final game with the soul of old Square
>>12597180MY SANCTUARY MY SANCTUARY NOWWHERE FEARS AND LIESWASH AWAYYYYYYYYY
>>12597208>shounenHow to tell an American is explaining this since they never watched actual shounen beyond DBZKingdom Hearts is more akin to Kodomomuke with serious themes than shounen/shojo animanga.
>>12597185You don't like gay people anon?https://sissy-villains.fandom.com/wiki/Kuja
>>12600196Is simply you don't know, in fact 358/2 days is an expansion akin to chain of memories.And graphics aren't bad if you are using a DS but if you are using a PC you need a special version of desmume non official that uses the native resolution of games and not the downsized one and with that you see is a masterpiece (official tried to do something like that but zermus fucked up the emu to make sure it doesn't work with pokemon games).
>>12600801>sissy-villains wikinigga what the fuck
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>>12599106I wouldn't be surprised if its simply because when they're done shooting they have to empty everything out of the room and a crt would be heavy.
>>12599450Shut up already, faggot.
>>12600827I was thinking that too, but it it's a concern around reliability and size etc, why not get something newer which would look better and have less lag?
>>12601038>why not get something newer which would look better and have less lag?The Japanese hate having to adapt. If something "works", they stick to it until it dies. They still use faxes for normal procedures over there.
>>12601038Its possible they have a scaler hooked up and we just can't see it I suppose.
Why did sonic have so much trouble entering 3D?
>normie>"pokemon firered/leafgreen was the last nintendo game that didn't suck">glazing Heroesthe actual normalfaggot is hereBrace yourselves.
>>12596420Sonic had plenty of exploration so this doesn't really explain why Sonic had issues as a 3d franchise
Sonic the Hedgehog... or the Blue Blur, as some of us have come to know him as... had something of a... shall we say... *rough transition*, to 3D
>>12596403Those games are good
>>12600860>the actual normalfaggot is here>Brace yourselves.lick my normie buttcrack
I knocked em out over the weekend. Unironically peak Zelda once you factor in the use modern conveniences.
>>12597861She looks like shes enjoying it.
>>12597861The point of savestates is going into the boss with max health and resources
>>12597857*all Pokémon games
OP, how long did it take you to finish both games?
>>12601509You can turn them off
Dodonpachi daiōjō is the supreme game for me.
>>12600901FPBP/thread
>>12600895>infinite depth>copy route from replayThe scoring system actually forces you into the shallowest gameplay possible. If you want actual depth you would be playing JRPGs.
>>12601391nah actually if you want depth you play VNs. They have branching paths n shieeet
>>12601236Moreover, considering this i'm really interesting on doujin shmups. I think you would like, it's not really about mechanical depth or quality but creativity to try something new.
>>12601391>JRPG>DEPTHmaybe if you're speedrunning them lol
Chrono Trigger just hits me in the feels the certain way. I won't pretend that it's perfect. It's relatively short, not very challenging, doesn't have interesting mechanics, the story is rather simple. But the whole presentation of this game, from the world, to characters to the music is just so bittersweet. It's like a dream that you awake from and get depressed because it's not real.
>>12596353Earthbound features time travel as a single plot point at the very end. It's not at all analogous to the way Trigger uses time travel, and I don't know why you'd think it would be interesting to point out.
>>12595713>shortPhantasy Star 4 is shorter. Lunar and Lunar 2 are roughly the same length as Chrono Trigger.It's SNES Final Fantasy games that are bloated.
>>12595713>But the whole presentation of this game, from the world, to characters to the music is just so bittersweet.The art and music are absolute god tier. It's an insanely beautiful looking and sounding game. Any piece of art this good automatically hits as "bittersweet" because you subconsciously know it is so rare and precious and so unlikely to be matched by future experiences. Lord of the Rings is like this for the medium of novels. Even though it ends happily ever after you still want to cry because it's over. Few works of art are this good, relish them and don't let internet cynics devalue your opinion of them. Better yet, strive to make works of beauty of their caliber yourself.
>>12599327>It's SNES Final Fantasy games that are bloated.I thought IV was around that same ballpark in length. Maybe even V was too
>>12600767It's FFV and onward that started bloating play time.
Holy shit, people played video games before the NES!
>>12599463This guy was a fucking idiot. Games were not made harder to sell hintbooks. Japans hintbook industry was thriving but it wasnt nintendo publishing those books, it was the mook industry. They were a byproduct of the famicoms success.>The Super Mario Bros.: The Complete Strategy Guide (スーパーマリオブラザーズ完全攻略本) was a massive phenomenon in Japan. Published on October 31, 1985, by Tokuma Shoten, it sold over 600,000 copies in its first two months, becoming the overall best-selling book (excluding manga) in Japan for both 1985 and 1986As for north America, Nintendo only published a single hintbook for the NES early in its life.
>>12599065>brought to you by Linear Algebra™
>>12600205There were official hint magazines/hotlines too
>>12600205>The Super Mario Bros.: The Complete Strategy Guide Even if it is not published by Nintendo, they sure paid money to Nintendo to be able to use their names.
>>12599325>And here we have anon, he's quite the contrarian.
I just 100%ed/96 exits this on original hardware (MiSTer FPGA) and it's a good game but it doesn't hold a candle to Crash or DKC
>>12596087What do you mean by “holds a candle”?
>>12596087>I emulated the game on an emulation box>this is original hardware
>>12599493savescum meaning going back to the ghost house, rebeating it to save again, meaning you only have to repeat Lemmy's Castle instead of all the stages since your last save.>>12599516It's actually a common complaint, and the Special Zone is not hard as you play it after you are much more experienced and have access to way more powerups and lives. Regardless, the stage layouts of Special Zone are just straight up easier than Lemmy's Castle which is a grueling gauntlet with the hardest bossfight in the game and zero checkpoints. Tubular is literally like 30 seconds long, and the hardest part is just figuring out where the P balloons are
>>12596087Probably the worst thread I’ve ever seen on this board. It’s even worse than the one where some guy asks if house of the dead is solved like chess.OP is a master troll or incredibly fucking stupid. Hard to day at this level.
>>12596087smw is one of the most innovative and influential 16-bit video games of all time, it’s literally perfect in every aspect from aesthetics to gameplay mechanics to conceptual framework. dkc is about as shallow as it gets on the snes, the repetitive, clunky gameplay lacks grace and feels like an after thought to undergird the flashy art style.
I hate this game. Moving is slow, fighting is slow, menus are slow, I don't know where to go, there is no map, no quest logs, I get killed easily, combat is baiting, step back, swing, repeat. I hate this game, I hate it I hate it.
>>12598747Well at least Pathologic is special
Controversial opinion. I liked Shadow Abyss more.
>>12601540The different worlds in Abyss are really good so I can understand that. Plus it has guns.
>>12598718Well the best dungeon exploration game on the ps1 is megaman legends, thats where you went wrong
>>12601412For me it was the minecart section. Boy I loved getting sniped by arrows and immediately falling to my death when I had no option to dodge!
Which romset version are you using with Shmupmame? The Shmupmame website says it's based on MAME 0.275, but I can't find the 0.275 romset to download anywhere. Will this work with the latest romset (0.287/288)?
>>12600720>in /vr/>doesn't know the 80s hit show mork and mindy
>>12600631I can't find a rom/core combo that lets me play Ikaruga on retroarch
>>12600795kek, retard.
What's the romset needed?
>>12600601>>12601087You're supposed to run it with -listxml at the command prompt to generate the datfile, then shove it into something like Clrmamepro, point it at your ROM folder and it will tell you what's wrong.
I have been playing these systems for most of my life, and it's by far my favorite gamig gen, I did extensive research to find as many hidden gems for these systems including lots of stuff that never got released in the U.S.A, but it feels like I have seen it all by now, I guess these systems are very old and well documented and researched already (except maybe for the P.C Engine?) one issue regarding the topic of hidden gems is that a game will appear in hidden gem playlists over and over again until it becomes relatively well known, a lot of what online people call "hidden gems" is not really a hidden gem.
>>12601240And what are these games on? NES? They're all bootlegs. PC-88? Bootlegs also. FM-7? I doubt you even know what FM-7 is.
>>12601265Check the ones on the Sega genesis, no idea about the NES ones, I mean they are bootleg games but good ones
>>12601189>Korean and Chinese retro gamesThey're hidden, sure, but there aren't any gems there
>>12601189>http://oldgames.ru/site is busted bro
>>12601523That's just russian hackers trying to get into your bank account, don't worry about it it'll boot once they're in
I'm the biggest Martian Gothic fan on planet Earth. Let's talk about the game.
>>12601252Based fellow Martian Gothic chad.What do you think about this >>12599549
>>12599537I haven't played it years (rented it back in the early 2000s) but the impression I got was that it was like a really good sci-fi novel that they turned into a video game.
>>12601453I emulated and beat the PS1 version. I have the PC version iso though
I was impressed when a friend of mine beat the game, I can handle the gameplay issues fine, it's not my first rodeo with broken / unfinished survival horror, but the puzzles filtered me HARD.
>>12601456Well it was written and directed by Stephen Marley, who is a novelist in the vein of Clive Barker.>>12601526The two main things that filter people is the puzzles and unkillable Zombies. The latter really isn't an issue though, as you get more than enough ammo to deal with them throughout the game. For me the worst part is the paralisys extrudes in the Necropolis which insta kill you and are hard to hit.
