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It's that time of year again (at least for us in the most rockin' hemisphere) where the weather's nice and sunny. I used to have a load of songs some Anon put together downloaded, but this youtube playlist will have to do.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdqsiDnC3vh0GIEAPaOu1IMGzFRCAxael&si=zxnsU089yc6OLtaE
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>>12553468
Looks like one of the videos didn't link...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkk6f817nNU
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>>12551476
If you make it and link it here I’ll give you a view
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Kirby's Dream Course - ~30 tracks
Golf games seem to really have that happy, feel good tone, huh? Here's a midi file retro game with extreme perkiness~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xde8tYkdej0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GID4kDJDxaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXN2KM-qMKo

Congratulations on tuning in to your Local on the 8s!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KtD--P5EWc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry-87fg7ing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQPF_s2Eal4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90XBsggQ0lk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTm38Yn1bkM

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Why were CRPGS (Blobbers) so god damn popular in the 80s and 90s?
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>>12557785
you meant goldbox games and their clones.
and it's cause Diablo clones and Ultima Underworld/TES clones haven't mogged them yet.
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>>12558153
>real-time combat,
EOTBs were realtime. many of the goldbox-like games had realtime combat, which kinda suck with the crap controls and UI.
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Would you consider The Lords Of Midnight to be a blobber? What's a blobber? If you move in "full" non-tile 3-D is it not a blobber? Blobber is a troon term anyway.
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>>12557785
>Why were CRPGS (Blobbers) so god damn popular in the 80s and 90s?

They were well suited for the home computers of their time, more so than consoles?
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>>12558824
>JRPGs can be CRPGs too.

Most of the CJRPG's were on the PC88, PC98 and MSX computer, I would imagine.

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Why was it so bad compared tot he first game?
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>>12559108
yes please more dungeon crawler threads lets fukkin drown these nintendoddlers
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>>12559118
shame they never make these anymore like they used to. Grimrocks jrpg levelling system made me puke.
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>>12559108
I fuckin hate when sci fi gets mixed into old timey fantasy shit
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>>12559108
>compared tot he first game
because 4chins latinx are bad at spelling.
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>>12559404
I fuckin love it when sci-fi gets mixed into old timey fantasy shit

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Are the SA1 and SA2 GameCube ports really as bad as /vr/ says?
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>>12558540
>Also I will never play SA1 with unskippable cutscenes
That's one of the reasons why the modded PC version of DX is considered one of the best ways to play the game
You basically get the Dreamcast version except you can skip cutscenes and it runs at 60 FPS
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>>12558546
GC Final's lighting system is pretty interesting. The game probably could have run at a steady 60 FPS if they didn't force per-pixel lighting, and it'd look less shiny which a lot of people might have enjoyed.
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>>12558160
sa1dx is worse in basically every way. even if you mod the pc port to resemble dreamcast, you'll never get the sa1 chao system back.

sa2b has missing lighting, missing big the cat in levels and missing a shitload of 2 player costumes. however it added chao karate, chao stats on chao pickup, more rouge boob polys and heavily expanded the 2 player mode.
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>>12558160
>>12558241

it is profoundly mid just like every other Sonic game
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>>12558545
Don't you fucking talk to me like that!

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i guess they forgot the target audience for this game was 7 year old girls because it's really way too hard, not to mention rather creepy (one of the bosses is some disembodied clothes that attack you?). the bottom line is this is just more cheap crap from Hi Tech Expressions.
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>>12559457
>And the OP text always feels like some tweet from some random faggy twitter account trying to
wait how would you know what a Twitter account reads like unless you've been reading Twitter, in which case get out.
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>>12559485
Everyone posts twitter screencap shit on 4chan anyways.
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>>12559356
You're right, OP. This is shit and I should play something I'll actually enjoy like Manic Miner or Dizzy instead.
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>>12559424
they were ex-Atari guys who didn't really understand game design after about 1984
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>>12559356
>it's really way too hard
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What do we know about RE0 N64?
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awaiting for the day in which the Hard4Games niggas find and dump the rom
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>maxresdefault.jpg
>posting the actual video
>captions it like a "content creator"
hello "video" gamer. Hows your playlist backlog going?
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>>12558462
Tbf its a pretty cool idea
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>>12558462
Train levels are cool, if I made a game I would add one.
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>>12558558
>Escape the first train
>Turns out it was just riding on an even bigger super train

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What am I in for?
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>2026
>not blocking ads
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>>12559490
I do use adblock but not for 4chan.
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>>12559482
4 those residents were indeed evil, and the evil residents there were 4
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>>12559471
>PAL version
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>>12559572
The 50hz vs 60hz thing stopped actually existing after the gamecube, what difference does it make?

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POST HUEG
TALK HUEG
PLAY HUEG
MOD HUEG
REMINISCE HUEG

I'm playing Maximum Chase
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X BOX HUEG
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The Duke or the Dukess?
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>>12558469
>Dukess
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>>12558489
that's the hypenkin controller with the screen showing the XBOX boot up animation, right?
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>>12558581
Indeed.

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Recommend them, for any computer platform. Japanese micros preferred, though. To start things off, here's Flame Zapper Kotsujin, an absolutely gorgeous 60fps (on high spec machines) PC98 vert shmup.
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Originally sold in 1999, the dev released a version compatible with modern Windows in 2016 and it's still being sold today on DLsite, currently half-off at 165 yen (US$1.05)
I wonder if the guy would make any extra bucks throwing it on Steam or gog or something, or if it'd just get buried and not even cover the registration fee.
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>>12559281
This is the kinda shit that a small label publisher should be trying to get released on modern consoles and pc marketplaces instead of cozy life-sim #4326. This looks like a gba game that stayed in japan.
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>>12559305
Yeah, it's an incredibly overlooked and underappreciated scene. I made this thread to find more like this.
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Touhou 4
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>>12559281
Anyone have a copy of 2.11? That one can be patched to English.

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Why do mobile game (android) emulators run flawlessly like real hardware but retro game emulators are STILL laggy and buggy as fuck?
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>>12529649
What phone's specs are those?
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>>12529449
NES emulation is in a better state than Android emulation tho
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>>12530990
there are no xbox emus for android
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>>12559820
Run Xemu via Winlator.
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>>12529449
fuck off frogspammer

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whats your favorite gameboy mario game and why is it super mario land 2?
where wario would cuck mario out of his own gameboy handheld games
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>>12557682
Wario Land because of the amount of secrets and having a goal other than just beating the final boss. It was one of my only GB games and I had it pre-internet, so I got a lot more out of it searching for everything.
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>>12557687
uhm sweaty that's achtually a Wario game
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>>12557916
It says Super Mario Land 3 right there in the title.
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>>12557682
Super Mario Land 2 is probably the best Mario Land, but Wario Land 2 is the best Nintendo Game Boy platformer, and maybe their best 2D platformer in general.
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>>12557682
>americans and their constant obsession with cucking is now reaching retro vidya
just IP ban these retards

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Why didn't Japan like Xbox?
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>>12558045
Classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uACGSiN3ZkI
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>>12558045
Nope more like a inferior 2 year Korean box with all the different insideparts
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>>12555979
the japanese people have a lot of flaws, but they are also extremely xenophobic
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>>12557653
>>12557801
The Xbox could've shipped with a native version of MS Office and marketed as a work and play machine for the mature Japanese yuppie market.
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>>12555979
Because they screwed over Japanese devs again and again since day 1 in addition to not understanding what Japanese people liked in their games. No shit that their reputation would falter with the Nips and become an irrelevant third wheel to Sony and Nintendo. That's basically the story of Xbox: thinking they can brute force their way to the top by dishing out more and more money.

>>12556756
Kinda ironic since Japan is still doing fine and most of American gaming is moribund or near moribund, especially he Xbox brand.


>>12557064
NTA but yeah. Microsoft has been a net negative for gaming ever since they entered the market. It's a good thing they've lost relevance since the 360 days probably be shuttered, further diminishing their minuscule hold on the gaming market. Other than Xinput standardizing controllers and Direct X (before 12), they haven't done one good thing for gaming and infact held it back drastically.

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Did this change the perception of what games are since they were only simple throwaway arcade games until this point more or less?
Suddenly we had something with graphics and it felt like you saw something new each time
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>>12555714
I think that's a bullshit argument because pre-3D everything was done through in-game sprites already. The FMV fad was very short lived, using in-game assets to tell the story was already the established norm.
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>>12558487
>VN slop
not even a videogame fucking retard
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>>12554749
Yeah, we pretty much only had arcade games until 1998 and you're not retarded at all
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>>12554749
This game changed my life forever and it changed my view on video games.
It raised the bar too high with RE2 and MGS2 for me
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>>12555714
This anon gets it. I'm not sure it was unprecedented or anything but he character models in the cutscenes and the game itself being the same was extremely unusual at the time. If a game had a lot of story back then it used shitloads of text boxes with character portraits or pre-rendered FMV. The "movie" part and the game part being aesthetically consistent was a very different vibe from something like FFVII, which had very little consistency between the overworld models and the combat models and the appearance of characters in the cinematic clips. And now it's more or less standard practice but MGS was doing it when it was anomalous.
>>12558801
Yeah but the in-game sprites didn't allow for a movable camera. The cutscenes didn't have dramatic angles or zooms or pans or anything you could consider "cinematic." It was just the same perspective as the rest of the game with a bunch of text and maybe a few unique sprite animations.

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Why do people still love Pokémon so much?
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>>12559336
What are you talking about? You made up an argument but it's not even related to the thread.
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>>12558610
The "why are pokemon games so expensive" thread is still up dude, why didn't you use that one
Better yet why didn't you just make a pokemon general instead of having 3 or 4 pokemon threads active at once
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>>12559414
he's the janny's discord buddy so he lets him spam the board, and banned others for even telling him to go back to /vp/
there's nothing you can do about it since the feedback system is gone
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>>12559429
I thought the meme about one or two posters ruining the board was mostly hyperbolic. Is it really only a couple guys creating threads, waiting until they've lost momentum, and then making what is essentially a duplicate thread?
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>>12559472
it's impossible to know, but you can guess based on concentration and typing style that it's the same one or two posters
the favorable janny activity certainly adds support to the theory

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Was it ludo?
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It was trash tier.

Totally
Rad
And
Super
Hardcore
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>The shoes
What the hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Brotha nah nah nah nah nah nah, oh no whoa whoa


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