Gameplay and development discussion:What homebrew / hacks are you playing /vr/? Are you working on anything? Would you like to learn? Projects and questions welcome.Active Communities:romhackplaza.orgretrohackers.netsmwcentral.netmetroidconstruction.comromhacking.netromhack.inggbatemp.netsonicretro.orgmariopartylegacy.compokecommunity.combaddesthacks.netComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>12076345https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdyK2oZPr4c
>>12076345>SoTN on SNESYeah right
>>12080084I love this game, and this is probably the main reason. Hidden paths, visible but not accessible ledges and doors, puzzles and mystery, all with a combat system unlike anything ever before on the NES. Peak stage design, from layout to appearance to sound to enemy encounters.Full Quiet is 10/10. I knew it was something special when I got stuck but refused to put down the controller. Before I knew it I had filled two pages with notes, and by the time I beat the game 15 hours had passed. In many ways a richer game experience than even Super Metroid or SotN despite the relative simplicity.The game is both a testament to the genius of the designers and a love letter to the NES.
It is absurd that there are no hero mode/difficulty hacks for windwaker and tp on gamecube. Should be a toggle in the randomizers given the target audience.
>>12080280Seems like a good cause. We should care more for one another.
Looking for some NES games. Based on what I got, what more would you recommend?>Mario 1-3>Zelda>Metroid>Kid Icarus>Contra>Kirby's Adventure>Mega Man 3>M.T's Punch Out>River City Ransom>DK Classics>Dr. Mario
>>12081251>The graphics, sound, and general intensity are toned down, but the NES has more RPG elements with the player finding points that can be spent on stats throughout the game.>RPG elementsSign me the hell up.
>>12075673>8 EyesBest played with two people and 2 controllers so one can fly the bird. Difficult game.
>>12081285Yeah that's extra fun, and potentially extra effective since controlling both characters at once is difficult to do well. It works fine in singleplayer mode though.
It's four games in one nobody can beat that
>>12075282Thanks so much for all of the recommendations. There was some junk in there for sure, but I discovered so many new games to add to my wishlist. You also convinced me to ignore the haters and try Street Fighter 2010. Cheers!
What's the final arcade game tailor made with custom hardware that looked better than anything on PC or console? Is it Virtua Fighter 3 and the Model 3?I think that was the last big investment in custom hardware before the price of RAM dropped way down and 3DFX made a ton of headway with PC graphics cards. Even by 1998-99, PC arguably had the best and most ambitious games and anything it couldn't do, Dreamcast did just fine (running games like 3rd Strike)
DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD - Last thread: >>12068267Doom/Quake/Duke/Heretic/Hexen/Unreal/Sam/Half-Life/etcGameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source PortsAll other 90s FPS welcome~ Let's post like gentlemen ~FAQ/GENERAL GUIDEhttps://rentry.org/vrbinSO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME FUCKING DOOM(or Quake, Duke, Marathon, Deus Ex)https://imgur.com/a/wWS8zXzSame thing, in video format:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>12080593>and I can't help but think about the anon who said that almost every encounter is pick up key -> monster spawn regardless of the mapperIt's something I'm considering with scrutiny as I go through AD here again.
>>12082195Sheesh. I think this comparison was posted here before.>>12082258>Bunker looks even worse than it ever did.Pretty sure there were some comparisons for Quake 2 as well. Maybe even with that map specifically.>>12082259>They increased Wraithverge mana comsumption to 20/20 in the latest patch.Yeah, and it's dumb because that should've been the first thing you do in trying to "rebalance" Hexen. But they remember that and Fighter only after a patch.That's the nonsense you get when project is both rushed to shit and developers have no idea what the fuck they are doing.
>>12082275>Sheesh. I think this comparison was posted here before.March of 2024, it seems.KexQ2 looked offputting when it was first out, I'm hoping that got changed. I wasn't a fan of how they used a lot of the fog.
>>12082275Imo almost no one who makes Quake maps can use colored lighting moderately. It's like a kid who got a new toy and can't stop playing with it. It's like the moment they see .lit file they erase the word "subtlety" from their brain completely. All the aesthetics go straight out of the window. I don't know what's the deal with it, but it's like that almost every single time.And the thing that irritates me the most about the colored lighting is not even the mappers who use it aggressively, but the fact that it applies on the players weapon with x10 intensity for some fucking unknown reason, so even if the lighting is subtle, your weapon will still change colors like a Christmas tree. Just look at the gun >>12082195 why the hell is it so orange, it's like it has underbarrel torch or something.Picrel is a nice usage of colored lighting, just some red near the lava.
>>12082280>I'm hoping that got changedIt only had one update. They unfucked some of the outdoor areas that got blown out with sunlight, but that's about it.
Times you acted like Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura?
>>12080968>boot up game>filtered by jank and faggotry>uninstall>repeat every so oftenEvery day.
>>12081176>t. Chris Avellone
What's that one classic you don't understand the love for?Pic related for me. It's so stiff and dull. Gameplay aged like dogshit. Music and art are cool though.
>>12079797Banjo Kazooie. It's just an okay 3D platformer, nothing special
>>12079950Then why do I like the ghouls series?
>>12081138That series has so much more absolute bullshit than Castlevania
the Zelda franchise
Final Fantasy
I'm almost done with this, can't wait to play 3 since it seems a lot better
>>12080054>youre Wasn't me, schizoid Also finished a few hours ago>the ending of 2 is 100 of earths remaining men attack you in a big cliffhanger Yeah Ill be starting 3 later, not worried about 2s "plot" being continued really
>>120800581 was great
>>12078604No one gives a shit about the plot of 2. 3 is just pure garbage down to every pixel and every single line of it's code.
>>12080770I am a Phantasy Star 3 fan. I will defend the game's honour. It has...- god tier music- multiple routes and endings - a fantastic SF storyline - good pacing, no grinding needed- inventive and thematically appropriate enemy designs- WREN - robot mother-waifuYes it's graphically sparse but that aside it's no more lacking narrative than PS2 and no more linear than PS4
>>12081152Wren was aweome in 4. (I know he’s different from 3, but still)
childhood is liking ffvii and thinking viii is weird and ix was a return to formadulthood is realizing ffvii is an all time classic, ix is a highly flawed mess of a game with some bright spots, and ffviii is not only the best final fantasy but the best jrpg ever made
drugs are fucking lame
>>12080740So are you.
>>12077834>AI upscaled background changes coordinates to gibberish
CRT>>>>>>CRT filters>>>>>>raw pixels>>>>>>>>>>>uncanny AI slopscaling. you "people" literally disgust me. not to mention the entire scale of the game is designed around short chibi models, slapping fully proportioned battle models on the field map is beyond stupid. literal man made horrors beyond my comprehension ITT.
>imagine being so braindead retarded you need to have a 20 level advantage on the enemies to get through a fucking final fantasy gameBut I like to kill time by fighting tons of random battles while drinking. Leveling up is just a byproduct of that.
>another night grinding in the caverns of Angband while listening to black metal
>>12074785WHAT DOES THE REDDIT FROG HAVE TO DO WITH THAT?
>>12079878*4chan frog
>>12080154no, please keep calling it reddit frog, I insist
Always bump the 4channel frog
>>120777973 options:>CDs again instead of spotify or other gay music streaming services>exercise the slightest amount of self control and put the phone down>develop an amphetamine habit
Hi, can you guys please help me fix my favourite controller? It's not that it is expansive but i really care about it and i broke it like a dumbass, today i bought a ps2 hub (to have 4 mc / controller ports), when i was going to test it i accidentaly put the dongle upside down (the controller is a cheap 2.4g bluetooth controller from Aliexpress) and from then on the controller stopped working, i may provide as many details, photos or videos that you need about it, i really need help with this becouse i love this controller and i would be so sad if could not fix it, thank you all very much in advance if you're willing to help me
Some things are meant to end, OP.
>>12080912i feel your pain. my cheap chink controller also died suddendly last week. it served me well and i miss it.
>>12080991Sorry to hear that, it's always a shame when it happens, i was so used to use it
>>12080912What really needs fixing is (You)
>>12081045reddit
fromsoft's pre-demon souls masterpiece. skip all the KF games and just play this.
Just skip Fromsoft entirely and play Elder Scrolls.
Before looking it up just now I didn't realize there was a translation patch for this. Thanks OP
I played this about two years back with the translation patch the atmosphere is unbelievably good, it gets off to a strong start but reveals its hand too quickly even with the translation it's hard to understand what any of the stats do, or what any of the save / shop crystals or whatever they are do either around the mid-game it starts to shower you in equipment and weapons, but none of it makes any tangible difference. all sword weapons attack the same for example compounded on the loot showering it has some kind of durability system that sucks too, but I can't even remember how it worked anymoreoverall it's pretty clearly rushed and generally unpolished. it somehow feels too long and also not long enough, probably because it's just so repetitive after a certain point
>>12080834Too late
>>12080834fuck off poser
Its lack killed the performance to an unacceptable degree. Heck even the TurboGrafx CD had up to 256KB cache.
Continued>>12080756By the time they were ready to launch, SNK knew the gravity of the mistake they had made. They desperately delayed the US launch by a year to try and rip open the consoles and cram a 2x drive in the thing but it was financially unfeasible so all they ended doing was wasting a year. It really says something that they were willing to consider chucking tens of thousands of drives plus endure the cost of labor to do this just to avoid the reputation hit they were already taking in Japan and Europe. They also rushed out the CDZ in Japan which had overheating problems from the rushed development but by then they had already eaten the bad press and all their biggest fans invested hundred in their original console only to have the new model taunt them.Hindsight is 20:20 I guess but this whole scenario is like watching that BBQ scene from the Simpsons where Homer is desperately trying to fix his mistake while digging himself deeper. The ease of getting arcade games on the cnsoole is the reason why the NeoGeo CD can operate with a smaller install base than mainstream consoles but despite that they mostly stopped releasing new games in 97 because most people had 1x systems and the games were too big, the ones they did release had awful load times on the OG units, tolerable on the CDZ. The AES continued releasing games into the 2000's.
>>12080760>not mentioning the "neo-geo" pocket disasterThey wasted an ass ton of money on that failed garbage too.
>>12080649I just watched KoF 94 load on NGCD and it was unbearable. That was their flagship title going into the 2nd half of the 90s.
>>12070521>Saturn and PS1 were cutting frames even if there was space for them because it was still too much load time.PS1 lacked space, Saturn lacked memory bandwidth for high animation titles. Loading times was the last thing anybody cared about, as long as it was less than half a minute (see Sim City 2000 ports).
>>12075180Cache is just memory the drive loads stuff into. There's no difference whether it is main memory or cd subsystem cache memory, other than cpu access times.The presence of cache means the cd drive loads 1/2x(cache size) worth of data, signals the CPU that it can start copying data over to main memory, then starts loading the next half of the cache and repeat.Lack of cache means the cd drive puts a buffer into system memory and loads data there continuously until it is done loading, then tells the CPU that it's go time. This is assuming the cd subsystem can load shit into main memory which is the only way a cd drive could even function. But most systems wouldn't be able to do that so the drive probably does have some memory bank for loading so the cpu can DMA data off of it.Extra cache don't mean jack if the rest of the system does not use it, so the CDZ adding cache could not make older software load faster.>Caching can cover the dearth of data coming off the drive during seeking operations.The system would still need to wait for the seek to complete, and there's no extra data being added to the cache so loading will stall while a seek is going on. Cache does not magically help with that. The only place where it helps is when you are continuously streaming music or fmv assets, but those would be in a serial order anyway so they don't need any seeking done anyway.
I'm not having fun.
>>12080071OP confirmed for no (0) island courage
I hear this and just start having fun even if I'm getting my ass kicked.https://youtu.be/tz5L7hsG79I
>>12080071can't yoyo anon?
>>12080071Have you tried putting water on the map
>>12080071https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/image/pIRr48bM3Sg5TYqZZqa7iA/you're mentally ill.
Jumpin' Jubilee Edition.Post Vidya Game music thank makes you happy. Any songs or tracks that cured your depression?
If this doesn't make you want to dance, you weren't born in the late 80s and / or have no soul.https://youtu.be/yMBFdtRbFD0?
>>12073474take me the fuck back right fucking now pleeeeeease pleeeeeease god damn the time the time the time the time it's all gone never to return pleeeeeeaeeeeeese it's so dark inside i feel like a shell it doesn't feel real at all not like it used to when i had hope and promise i was so naive i fucked it all up and i keep coming back in my mind it's still there i can feel it i can feel it but it's gone like a dream that ended before it began like all my dreams they never even fucking begin i don't know what it feels like to cross the finish line i suppose i never will that's just how it is some people are just born to fail to dream big and that's it they never get what they really want i was always looking one step forward but not enough just enough to keep going never enough just enough keep going just keep going and survive one more day and you'll be ok it's ok you're doing fine fine just finehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM266DtsbMIhttps://youtu.be/M29EcdCKrN4?si=FhDQ6HyXUJpB1wMthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gBi13rCmkUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjyLd2pueighttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1k2iyDw-9s
>>12073474https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_iAmVC5GJshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WYrhgc3vvAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bylo5iC6kkY
Happy is way out of season but herehttps://youtu.be/zbGLPqs9SeQ
>>12073474I like orchestral versions of old songs. I like the original ones chiptunes too, but I wouldn't listen to the Bubble Bobble theme in my car if it weren't orchestrated honestly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCxne3ZLyIghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QTY1SvgV_0
Why did he do it?
>>12079157
>>12079528>>12079162>>12079280No you idiots, he made hit cartoons like King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead
>>12079157Probably to make Ryan laugh.
>>12079157Because they paid him. That's why he did that Hobbs and Shaw movie too despite it being gay and retarded.
>>12080028wtf is that Stan Laurel as Pinhead?
