Do you understand that Rondo of Blood was a sixth generation video game outside of Japan?
7th gen, most people didn't play it before 2007.
>>12129735When "most people played it" does not determine a game's generation.
>>12129735Dracula X Chronicles has nothing to do with this, and Rondo of Blood was a sixth gen release *before* Dracula X Chronicles came out. So it seems you did not understand.
It's because around the time of the sixth generation is when PC Engine CD emulation became possible, and the hardware level you need to emulate it is sixth generation. Droves of Castlevania fans played the game for the first time from 2000-2006. To them it was a new release. Also got fan translated for the first time during that window.
>>12129743Also CD Burners became commonplace and so did ebay, which let people go online and buy Turbo Duo units and burn a copy of the game to play it (Turbo Duo/PC Engine CD have no copyright protection).
And all this time it kept this "legendary best Castlevania status" only because of a couple of magazines doing the usual>This Japan only game only --us--, people in the know, have played? It's the BESTEST THING EVER!!status which still endures
Dreamcast and Xbox emulation really took off in that time period. I beat the game for the first time on my modded Xbox around late 2005. I can't remember if the Dreamcast had a PC Engine CD emulator, but it ought to have been possible even if it had to use frame-skipping.
>>12129754It kept the status because it's good. I don't think it's the best game in the series overall but the visuals and music are at least as good as any other installment and the boss fights are easily the best. It's also the only Castlevania other than III that offers non-linearity with classic gameplay.
whats a rondo?
Why didn't they just make Dracula XXX?What's wrong with Konami?
Could say the same for a lot of Japan exclusives.
>6th7th, psp is 7th gen
>>12129735My favorite 8th gen game... Earthbound begins
>>12130974This isn't about the PSP version.That's two so far that didn't understand.
>>12130985Then what version?
>>12129743>game released in 5th Gen>don't play it until now>it's a 10th gen (or whatever generation we're on now) gameRetarded ass logic, I guess that means Pretty little flowers by Connie Francis is a 2020s song because memes
>>12129739I'm not talking about DXC only, also the Wii VC release and in general Rondo becoming an actual mainstream "hidden gem castlevania" (before, only CV nerds or specific collectors cared about it).It's a game majority of westerners played during the 7th gen period.I don't know what else are you trying to say and otherwise no, Rondo is a 1993 game for the PCE CDROM and it corresponds to the 4th gen, and for a while the only people that played it were importfags, since emulafags weren't having much luck emulating it faithfully.
>>12131019>>12131014Nope.Autist sit down and listen to your elders.
Did you know I never bothered watching classic Hollywood films until recently, I guess you could say they're 2010s and 2020s movies, just like Marvel movies, heh
>>12130989The Magic Engine version.
>>12131037See >>12131014And >>12131031
>>12129756>I can't remember if the Dreamcast had a PC Engine CD emulatorIt sure did, you booted the emulator then you swapped discs with burned PCE CD games, I had a huge cd book full of them. They worked great too. This was around same time you're describing, mid 2000s.
>>12131031You're conflating years of release with prominence within a consumer generation. Not the same thing. There absolutely were movies that were never released in more than one region, and then in the 1980s exploded in popularity when it became possible for people outside the region to finally watch them via VHS.
Do you understand that for many people, Dogma (1999) is a 2025 movie outside of gen Xers?
>>12129735Damn what a fucking downgrade
>>12131054You're just embarrassing yourself with that "example". It has none of the same context whatsoever.
what an autistic thread idea.
>>12131068It's the autists who can't understand the OP concept. They can't into such fuzzy logic.
>>12131064Gen X is elderly or dead now.
>>12131071no need to samefag, it's obvious. discuss the game instead, i just replayed it actually. like are there any good spots for the stopwatch? that's the one subweapon i never found a good use for since they nerfed it.
Final Fantasy II is a late 90's / early 00's game in the west, and that is precisely the problemOn a lesser extent, Dragon Warrior II being late 90 instead of early 87 for Dragon Quest 2
>>12131051Would real PC Engine CDs work as well?
>>12131159Yes.
>>12131096>that is precisely the problemHow is that a problem?
>>12131094>discuss the game insteadThis thread isn't about the actual game content. It's about the limitations in the way video game history is portrayed.
>>12131159Yeah I just didn't have any
>>12131051It had a Neo Geo CD emulator that worked the same way.
Back around the mid-2000s is when I stopped keeping up with modern gaming because retro gaming became so much more interesting (and cheaper!). That's when I played all the games I had seen in magazines in the 90s, when I built a MAME cab, bought several PVMs, stuff like that. Rom hacks really took off then too. I would consider it major part of sixth generation gaming.
>Rondo of Blood is a sixth gen gameThis is the retarded logic that gets 40 replies on nu-/vr/
>>12131279The Old World rules were subverted. Will creates reality.We can time travel in the form of changing the past.Nintendo was never good. Sega was never good. 6th gen is retro. Soon, 7th and 8th gens will be retro, too.
>>12131279Another one that wasn't there and doesn't understand. That's the real nu-/vr/.
I never bought a single retail Xbox game. But I played hundreds of hours of CPS2 and Neo Geo games on my Xbox.
>>12129728>I played pac-man for the first time today, that means it's a current gen game
>>12132220You don't understand! I bet you don't even understand Rick and Morty unlike me, a very high iq individual. You outed you'reself as a dumbass. No one understands, rondo is a 6th gen game, Pretty little baby is a 2025 song, etc.
>>12131027I'm pulling the plug on your life support, gramps.
>>12129728Originally released in 1993 for a CD addon for a fourth gen console. It's solidly fourth gen. Maybe 4.5 if you feel compelled to lump 16-bit CD addons in with consoles like the Jaguar and 3D0.
Do you understand that an actual good game was fifth-gen out of Japan?
>>12132220>>12132652>>12132957>NOOOOO MY FAVORITE RETRO YOUTUBER DIDN'T TELL ME THIS SO IT MAKES MEE MAAAAAAADDDD>>12132964Now this kind of innocent "I understood absolutely nothing from the thread" kind of autism makes me sensibly chuckle.
>>12133737Mother 1 is a 3rd gen game, just because a bunch of people played a translation in the late 90s doesn't suddenly make it a 5th gen game.
>>12133757Sorry for the loss of your brain.
