What's the weirdest way you've played a retro videogame?
>>12277824that game but by intermittent highway lamp illumination
>>12277826Baaaaaased
not exactly retro, but i had a weird setup to play hgssi really wanted to play it on my vita (i had no 3ds), but there was no native emulatorfirst i setup i think it was desmume back then on my pc, then i installed pspdisp via adrenaline, basically a way to control my pc remotely via the built in psp emulatorthen i had to install yet another program on my pc to actually recognize the buttons i was pressing into inputs desmume could understandall of this bullshit just to play pokemon soulsilver in bed because my pc back then had been moved to the living room, with all the wifi streaming lag you can probably imagineit was fun honestly
How did it feel peeling back the skin of your thumbnail anon?
>>12277867You're so innocent.
>>12277824Doom on GBA - honestly very fun and well optimizedCiv 2 on PSP via PS1 emulator - loved it and got me into Civ 4 eventually. It is held down by dumb and cheating AI as well as only 2 victory conditions but otherwise was great.
Played through most of Adventure Island 4 when i worked at a mall. During my breaks, there was a dude with a stand selling chink famiclones that i would go play the demo unit at and write down my passwords to resume the next day. I eventually reached a point that required button mashing and no matter what i did, i could not pass it. I tested some other built in games and determined it just wasn't capable of reading multiple rapid inputs like that, so I had to stop there.
>>12277956> eventually reached a point that required button mashing and no matter what i did, i could not pass it. I tested some other built in games and determined it just wasn't capable of reading multiple rapid inputs like that, so I had to stop there.Your strength in those mini games depends on your fruit level. Go in with 8 fruits and they're very easy. Grab one more fruit to restore HP, you'll go in with 0 fruit and it'll be impossible.
>>12277824Got 120 stars in Mario 64 using Project 64 running inside of VMWare running on macOS 10.6 back in the old days.
>>12277824I emulate Commodore 64 games on my phone, its a terrible way to play but it werks
>>12277956Good Lord, what year was that?
Playing Doom on a Sansa Clip Zip running RockBox.
>>12277824I played some of Catrap and Pokemon Silver on an old J2ME flip phone. They both ran like a slideshow, but they were mostly bearable given they don't have any realtime action. Sure as hell wouldn't want to play Super Mario Land on there.
>>12277824Ff1 and 2 on a blackberry
>>12277824Doom on a Ti-nspire graphing calculator
>>12277824Not really weird since we all did it but Tetris on the TI-83 calculator.
>>12277824I played these games for the first time emulating on a 3DS:>Policenauts>Parasite Eve>Megaman Legends>Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
>>12277959Yeah believe me i tried all that the moment i figured it wasn't tied to me sucking. I distinctly remember checking a faq online to see if it was supposed to be hard and i learned about the strength stuff and everything told me it should be easy, but it just wouldn't register every input. It was definitely something with the controller because track n field was also on it and you could not do any event that required rapid presses to any degree of success. Also played Contra Force for the first time via that mall kiosk and it grew on me.>>12278017I don't remember the exact year, but it was not as long ago as one would expect. This was at a time where these clones could run more than the earliest famicom titles, which was the most common scenario for a while.
>>12278324similarly, i played the shit out of tetris on pic while in high school math classes
>>12278319I also played a 'demo' of Pokemon RB that lasted until you choose your starter.
I beat sonic the hedgehog on an ipod nano
>>12278749I don't believe you
>>12278262i miss the pre-smartphone era when doing goofy shit like this was exciting
>>12278262I had a Clip+I think everyone that bothered to install rockbox got it running but never even passed a single levelIt is just funny doom running on that impossible display, and what's funny is that a static screenshot is just noisy nonsense but it immediately works with movement
>>12277826i remember that
>>12278752https://youtu.be/qKLnx9IHrBw?si=Me_OtGAqd8RBfP7e
>>12278917You didn't beat it
>>12278324I used to play text adventures using gargoyle on my kindle 3, the one that had a keyboard and a speaker.
Test
>>12278970NTA but what about the OP?
>>12278990What about it?
>>12278970if you beat it on a fucking ipod of all things, you have the right to tell those with a genesis controller that they didn't beat the game
>>12277824I once used an overhead projector, Nomad with pad and stereo out to old amp combo at school.
Time Crisis on a tablet touchscreen. Fucking fun, you need a bigass onscreen duck/reload button at the side but honestly a decent standin for the kind of instant shots you can't make with a mouse. I remember doing it on some android EPSXE but probably doable on anything these days.Elemental Gearbolt/Horned Owl worked great too.
Doom 2 with two nes controllers.
>>12278749This but in this bad boy
>>12277824Pokemon FireRed on a TI-Nspire
>>12277824I played a Castlevania game on a flip phone in 2007.
I once played Link's Awakening, from start to finish, on a mental model of a Game Boy that I visualized in my mind.
>>12279958How did you get past the slowdown?
>>12279958was it cycle accurate?
>>12279027Super Mario Land counts, but not Sonic?
>>12279979What are you even talking about
Beat several SMB and SMB2 rom hacks on this bad boy
>>12279958I used to do this all the time as a kid
>>12279958For me, it's playing Sonic the Hedgehog while my parents are driving me around, looking out the window and and making him run and jump from car to car parked on the side of the road and running on electricity cables jumping the lightpolesIronically I hated Sonic Adventure when it came out and made my imagination real
>>12279979Are you retarded? OP never claimed to beat the game.
>>12277824I play SNES games on my DS.
>>12277824SaGa 2 emulated on a Java beans install on a Motorola phone with only 2MB RAM.runs extra slow and the sound is bugged out.
>>12277824I played pokemon red on this thing at like 80% speed and no sound at school. It ran Palm OS, it was so fucking cool and I want one.
This is a good thread
I played like 75% of final fantasy 6 on PS2's Snes emulator. I was dented enough not to realize the game was running possibly 50% slower, maybe not as much, maybe 40 or 33, but real fucking slow. When I went to youtube and listen to the music did I realize of how braindead I was. Luckily I was able to transfer the save to another emulator on the PC and it worked.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S726qJGjwO8Also I loved that retarded intro music
>>12277824>>12277826holy sovl>tfw constantly angling gameboy trying to get just the right viewing angle during late afternoon glare on a lazy sunday
I played link to the past on zsnes on a Panasonic toughbook in a Humvee in the desert.
>>12280296Thank you for your service
