This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games, including consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games. Retro gaming means platforms launched in 2001 and earlier, and official game titles for those platforms released no later than December 2007 (homebrew console games made after this date will be permitted). The Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, and Sony PlayStation 2 will now be considered "retro". Helpful links: Game Tech Wiki Emulation General Wiki
The beginning of the end for GTA.
>>12906738No.
>>12906729I actually did gamble away all of CJ's money by Las Venturas, just to see how my experience plays out differently by having to earn money for safehouses.The thing about GTA, to me in particular, is that it's kind of a roleplay game. Sure you can speedrun the missions, but I've already done that millions of times. Driving around is enough to tickle my fun when I've turned off the radar and blips.
>>12906745>honestly don't understand why it gets shat on so muchBecause it's so boring and Nico is so unlikeable
>>12906815and? imagine saying the side quests in an RPG are "useless for the story", or any non-meta car in a racing game is a waste of time to use. why are you only applying this standard to San Andreas?
>>12906738>better driving and car handlingMost unfun dogshit handling in any driving game. Thank God real cars handle nothing like IV's. They feel like boats more than cars.
This would have revolutionized the video game industry.
>>12904339The disc drive needed to be at least 8X to be acceptable to Nintendo but those drives cost too much at the time; It also needed to use SDRam (16MB of SDRam was the same cost as 4MB of RDRam), dedicated video ram (8MB) and a dedicated sound chip with it's own dedicated ram (4MB) as well.And that ram (al 3 banks) being quad channel running at 150MHz (600MBs) as well.>>12904636It had 4KB, it needed at least 64KB, but with 8MB of shared video ram that won't be a issue.>>12905824They did care about the load times, otherwise they would've used a 2X CD drive like everyone else, but the games they were making needed a 8X drive and those were too expensive at the time.If those 8X drives were cheaper the N64 would've ben a CD system like the PS1 and Saturn.
>nintendo discy four
>>12906834>They did care about the load timesNot at all.
>>12906974Yes they did, they wanted a 8X drive but those cost $200 per drive at the time, if they were $50 at max the N64 would've been a CD system... Using Panasonic developed CAV discs like the Game Cube, Wii and Wii U and wasn't able to play normal CDs like the Saturn and PS1.
>>12906974>They didn't care about load times at all.I don't know why you say that. They made sure load times were non-existent on their GC games despite using discs.
Halo: Dreamcast Evolved running on real Dreamcast hardware >Here's what I'll say. These are Halo's real Xbox models, whole.>The Dreamcast has no vertex shader, so every single vertex goes through a CPU from 1998. The Xbox looks up a reflection mask per pixel on the visor. The PVR can't, it only takes a colour per vertex. So the visor is cut ahead of time into 4x and then 16x the triangles, and I refit the mask on every new vertex. That drops the error against the Xbox's per-pixel reflection to about a third. Smaller triangles, less lying.>Cortana's chest is two separate springs, one each side, three axes each, underdamped on purpose. Spin her on the D-Pad and let go and... well. That was purely for science. It costs about 150 floating point operations a frame and no video memory. Blue Cortana is Best Cortana.https://x.com/JiltedValkyrie/status/2113130391041085512https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZLUsIrmD8
>>12906843>play console shooter>but use the kbnm insteadThen you might as well just play on a fucking PC jesus.
>>12900123>through a CPU from 1998WOWIE! FROM 19 HECCIN NINEDY EIGHT? LIKE 1900 with 98 after it? Were people even ALIVE then!?
>>12900123looks like garbitch
>>12900123Turn it into an onrails lightgun shooter.
I had a dreamcast when it was new, and I had an xbox not long after it came out. This is a very interesting tech demonstration but you'd have to be crazy to say you'd prefer to run this game on a dreamcast with a single analogue stick controller, I even remember feeling like Unreal Tournament was a big let down when I got it on dreamcast due to the controller limitations despite not really being old enough to think ahead of time "how would this game actually play with 1 stick". I think the phenomenon with the dreamcast is that it clearly had a lot of juice to squeeze which would perhaps have made it more relevant than it was, but it had integral issues which were never surmounted which permanently lowers its ceiling for potential. The dreamcast was not an xbox and if it were it wouldn't be remembered as fondly; sometimes the story of "what if" is more compelling than another real event. Still, this was an interesting video, sort of reminds me of those shenmue clips running on the saturn.
In retrospect, was it good?
>>12906778I do remember that Socom 2 and 3 were seen as great online games for the PS2 but I didn't even get into online gaming until the 360. I remember you can give voice commands to the squad. I wonder how many used that.
there are people who still play socom 2 online todaythey are probably playing it right now as I type this
>>12905371it's a military operation in wet dry world
>>12907076Mario crossover when?
>>12905161Unc humor sucks
This is a legit call for help>do tutorial/first dungeon>easy>do second dungeon>easy>try third dungeon>monsters kill me in one attackWhat's up with this difficulty spike?It feels like I'm missing something. Like, maybe I overlooked some core mechanism of the game that I should be using.
here's the core mechanic that you should be using>a guide
>>12907096Fuck no.No games should require a guide.I know there's a secret ending that pretty much requires a guide, but I'm not doing it in my first playthrough.
What is THE best PS1 game, no pleb answers editionNo JRPG's please
>>12907063Etrian Odyssey is a dungeon crawler through and through sure but Phantasy Star and SMT before Nocturne are all jrpgs that happen to have first person dungeons>no single giant dungeon but many small ones>no single town thats just menus but many towns with npcs and story events>no party creation but you go through pre-made characters Jrpg
>>12907063>nooo d-d-doesn't count as JRPGs because it has dungeon crawling...because dungeon crawling is western-inspired...but not JRPGs....which are also inspired by western tabletops like Wizardry, D&D and Ultima! LOGIC!!!!!!111!!Damn. Even SMT Nocturne or the DDS games that has no dungeon crawling at all? Those JAY ARR PEE GEES are designed to "appeal to a wide audience unfamiliar with the genre, and video games in general"????>he invented JRPGs.Ah yes. The founder of a genre gets to decide the limits of what counts as both parts of that genre and what the genre is designed to provide. Genres never outgrow their creators. Nor is anyone working on those genres allowed to take them in different directions than what the founder intended, else it doesn't count as part of that genre. Just like how the (I can't even say these blasphemous words) J....R.....P.....Gs I listed that aren't designed to "appeal to a wide audience unfamiliar with the genre, and video games in general" AKSHUALLY aren't JRPGs!(You).
>>12906782Symphony of the Night
Doki Doki Panic
>>12906819>>12906840The way you view JRPGs is how the Japanese view shooters. Click button to go bang bang, guy falls over dead, repeat for thousands of hours across countless games. Wow, so fun.
Does it bother you that normies and zoomers have completely taken over the retro VG space?
>>12906930That's probably due to her looking like a teenager rather than an adult woman. Would have asked her for ID before dating her just to be sure she's over 18.
zoomba bad reeeeeme badd ass bloomber me play doom
>>12906878I don't understand how they've taken over and I don't understand why it should bother me if they did. I like playing old games, kids also liking that also is cool with me.
>>12906965They haven't because there is no such thing as a "retro VG space". OP is living trash and will probably never be anything more than that.
>>12906878No
Is it the most overrated third party developer. It's two claims to fame leaned on nostalgia rather than quality, and later additions like resident evil and devil may cry are modernslop
>>12905917That's most companies you tosser. They also made some Jarpigs, alternative fighters, and puzzle games. Not they have to make zillions on everything. Americans have the weirdest hate boners.
>>12905746Resident Evil is the greatest series in the history of gaming though.8bit gamed were okay and 16bit stuff is awesome but RE1 releasing on the Playstation is when gaming truly arrived. Absolutely my favorite series ever.I love the original games,I love the remakes, I even like the movies. Just a fantastic series
>>12905917>The only successful games they had were mega man, street fighter, and their derivativesIs this bait?
>>12906780Monster Hunter doesn't count because it's good
>>12906206You are really annoying, retarded namedropper.
Winning? Editionhttps://shauninman.com/utils/screens/Handheld Comparison - https://retrocatalog.com/Google chart - https://tinyurl com (slash) AllHandheldshas anyone asked my question before? - https://4search.neocities.org/vrCompare handheld sizes - https://retrosizer.com/Handy Handheld info - https://handhelds.wikilast thread>>12892839
>>12907010Yeah, gotta second this. They're starting to realize there's demand for specific niche things and so they're capitalizing on it.>Anbernic is capitalizing on clone systems so people get the same form factor just with the ability to be arguably better than buying a modded OG system like with the RG SP and RG34XX. Even the RG DS Plus is now flourishing due to CFW.>Retroid is capitalizing on higher end devices that ignore people's want for a one-and-done machine but instead does stuff like the Nova explicitly for people who just want a 4:3 machine or doing experimental stuff like a high spec device like the Thor now that they've settled in on the Pockets essentially being strong Vitas.>TrimUI is capitalizing on a sort of low budget but good build quality market.At least when I got into this a few years back everyone was just flinging a device out every few months just for the sake of it and we still had weird stuff like the Retroid Pocket Classic or the random stuff Anbernic was doing. Miyoo was also still alive as a brand instead of endlessly making worse SP clones than Anbernic. Now the worst things we tend to see are Anbernic being stupid with the RG Vita?It's like everyone has to be more deliberate except for Anbernic who either goes full retard like with the RG Vita and RG DS or somehow lucks out into smash hits like the RG DS Plus, SP, and 34XX with the DDS potentially also being another hit for the market that just wants 3DS.
>>12907064The Nova is the perfect example of what these companies should be doing though. It is basically an ideal product. It captures an entire chunk of video game history (basically all pre HD games), and is designed to give the user a more or less optimal experience for playing them. I think it is a much better device than all of these halfassed products that get immediately invalidated, sometimes before they even come out. I don't even know how you could improve upon the Nova in ways that wouldn't just be almost pointless QOL features or sidegrades. If you want to play something from the NES era all the way through to a Xbox, there's nothing better.
>lagdroid>optimal experience
>>12907083Every retroid device starting with the 5 has a linux option. Except I think the classic and duo. I've at least seen rocknix was being worked on for the lite version.
>>12907085They said the Duo is going to get it too.
Was Rainbow Six the most unique FPS of the 90's?It spawned a legion of imitators and games who took influence from it later, but it was never really surpassed in its depthful-simplicity. SWAT came close.
What an incredible game. Rogue Spear was even better, also had tons of kickass mods and maps. I loved the wild west one with all the saloons and etc.
>>12906750Skiing absolutely ruined Tribes. Completely destroyed the need to the intended tactics the developers intended, what with vehicles, coordinated group attacks, and point control on the map.
>>12907065>t. slow sluggard who barely figured out how to gear up before xhe ragequit
>>12907057Did you even play the earlier Rainbow Six multiplayer? Characters were pretty commonly jittery as shit. Go look up old gameplay videos.
>>12907073>doesn't know what rubber banding isThat's not jittery movement, that's called 90's/early 2000's multiplayer, zoomer.
NES Thread
What's your favourite unlicensed NES game?
I'm trying to use this program to write to a physical FDS disk. I have a Super Mario Bros. 2 disk with nothing on Side B so I want to put All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. on it. The FDSKey part works, but whenever I reconnect the Expansion RAM to the FDS and insert a disk, it gives ERR:NO POWER. What does that mean? It has a completely useless ReadMe. Is it because I'm using batteries for my FDS? Or because my Famicom is USB-power modded?
THEY DONT WORK. 2 OUT OF 2 I BOUGHT GET GRAY SCREEN OF DEATH. WHERE THE FUCK ARE LEGITIMATE MODERN PLAYERS
>>12906412The Famicom I bought works. Probably because it's a top loader. The front loading NES has a terrible mechanism. I won't recommend the Famicom for everyone, the controller cords are a real concern. But definitely consider the AV Famicom with a converter, or the top-loading NES. Also, clean your carts with isopropyl and a qtip, that removed most gray screens for me.
I enjoy the music from NES Gauntlet.
>Season 30: Episode 11 (#427) Jikuu Yuuden: Debias {Famicom} premiered on Thursday, October 22nd.>Season 30: Episode 12 (#428) "That hero" premieres on Thursday, November 5th.https://otn.fujitv.co.jp/gamecenter/index.htmlhttps://pastebin.com/u/GCCXGeneral
>>12905317Damn. Glad they're working on it though.
>>12904715Looks like their head translator stopped translating episodes sometime last year, so their output is now slower
>>12906523based
>>12906647On what?
>>12901610>Chicago>might be the last time he comes to the USFor FUCK SAKES come to the east coast, you did the west coast last time.
The Atari 2600 always reminded me of a station wagon, while the Sega Genesis reminds me of KITT from Knight Rider. Post your console/car comparisons.
>>12906931>>12906963>>12907020I don't know cars so I can't contribute but keep going
PS triple
>>12907020nah, this has fast & furious green eclipse / supra written all over it
>>12907050KEKGood shit anon
What Retro game had the most impact in your life? For me it was Final Fantasy 7, it introduced me to drag and eventually made me comfortable and bold enough to crack out of my egg. What Retro game from your childhood would you say had the most impact on your adult life anons?
Kys tranny scum
>>12899315Fk off troon
>>12899291>>>/wsg/6261284
>>12899292Fpbp
