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So how the fuck did the monkeys breathe underwater?
I have played this game for twenty years, but it never bothered me until my wife pointed it out today.
Now I can't sleep good
Help
My dreams are plagued with drowning monkeys
Donkey kong country general
Is your autism triggered by every other platformer with underwater levels?
Was the PAL-version of Donkey Kong Country better, like with Rareware's N64 games?
>>3368420
How does Mario jump so high? people ain't supposed to jump that high.
Hello fellow 4channers
I was wondering if any of you can help me remember the name of a rather old game, that could possibly belong to the SNES list. Here are the tips (bare with my format, please):
* The game scenario was something like an arena in open outter space.
* There were two fighting sides, each with their own type of spaceships.
* Each side had 12 battle space ships, if I remember correctly.
* The only game mode, I believe, was a 1v1 match that pitted spaceship vs spaceship until one of the fighting sides had last all his spaceships.
* Among the "good guys", there were three spaceships that I remember:
- Siren, a rather yellow and cylindrical spaceship with the ability to steal health from the enemy and give it to herself;
- A round spaceship, small and agile, that aimed the shots by itself, but was low on health, range and damage;
- The good guys' capital ship was green (and, of course, huge).
* The bad guys had a violet spaceship as their capital ship. It drawed health from itself in order to fire.
* Each ship had two status bars: one would show remaining hp, and the other would show remaining energy that could be used to move, shoot, and use a special ability.
* It was incredibly fun. :D
Does this rings a bell to someone? I've tried google for a long time without success.
>>3368405
Star Control. You remember some things right(Syreen ship, Arilou ship, Ur-Quan ship), but there were more game modes than just the melee(though that IS the most popular mode to play). The first one's on the Genesis(as well as PC and a few other systems), not the SNES. Also, the Ur-Quan(big green ship) are the bad guys, not the good guys(though you learn more about them if you play the sequel and find...they're not THAT bad, comparatively).
>>3368405
don't use zsnes, it's shit. there have been better emulators for over a decade
use snes9x or higan
Anybody ever play this? The most expensive super famicom game, It's half Turrican, half Thunderforce, with some gorgeous graphics.
It has a reputation for being very difficult, but it's pretty fair.
>>3368208
>but it's pretty fair.
Fuck no. A good part, not all, is memorisation in the worst kind of way. But I still liked it, just wished it had good music.
>>3368337
>A good part, not all, is memorisation in the worst kind of way
I'd argue only one of the shooter levels requires a lot of memorization, the one with the hordes of missiles and waves of enemies.
You can bust your way through most of the game with the spread shot or the bouncy shot.
You can mostly beat the bosses just by abusing the smart bombs, especially the green bomb or the blue super laser. Not only that but smart bombs recharge over time.
>>3368527
https://youtu.be/LUH32GRqqHI?t=52m36s
Do you think the combat system is a product of its time, or was it worse than its competition?
It was just Dragon Quest with PSI instead of spells. And the added rolling HP mechanic which kinds of adds a sort of "tension" time limit to it, but still pretty much DQ. It's fine.
>Attack
>Item
>Magic
>Run
That's literally every JRPG ever made. If you want good combat, you don't play JRPG's.
>>3368161
Plenty of JRPG's have good combat. None of the good ones are related to final fantasy.
What are the best gameboy and gameboy color games?
GBA is cool too but I just found my old GBC and I wonder what the essentials are that I missed out on as a kid.
Dragon's Lair
Mortal Kombat 2
Mario Land 1 and 2
Link's Awakening DX
Metal Gear Solid:Ghost Babel
Resident Evil:Gaiden
Metroid 2
Pokemon Gold or Silver
Castlevania II:Belmont's Revenge
Megaman:Dr. Wily's Revenge
Killer Instinct
Megaman Xtreme 1 and 2
Super Mario Land 2 (first one's not a great Mario game)
Zelda: Link's Awakening
Wario Land series
Pokemon Red/Blue and Gold/Silver
Donkey Kong '94
Game & Watch Gallery series
Kirby's Dream Land
Final Fantasy Adventure
Metal Gear: Ghost Babel
What is the best GB emulator if I want to play links awakening on a PSP?
Nintendo brought dishonor unto Sony, and Sony restored its honor by dethroning Nintendo within a single generation.
kiss the ring
The Pokemon Go butthurt spillover from /v/ is pretty comical.
I don't see a thread based on this so I guess here we go! Best Final Fantasy game before X?
VII for me personally
>inb4 casualfag.jpg
>>3368017
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
The others are very hard.
>>3368017
>General
fuck off
>>3368125
this
Classic 2-D Zelda thread???
Also, which should I start first:
Seasons or Ages
Whichever you feel like bro. I personally started with ages.
Seasons for action, Ages for puzzles.
You should start at Awakening
IT'S SUNDAY, BABY.
Gonna go visit the closest arcade to me tonight. Gonna play some Police 911, Let's go island, alien vs. predator... And something else too. Mostly lightgun games. God I love them.
What about you, /vr/? Got any cool arcades nearby?
>>3367965
I wish I did. Just so I can see if they have pic related and see how many times I can one credit clear it in a row.
>>3367965
The only surviving "arcades" around me are in the lobby of movie theaters and the one "bar-cade" downtown. The movie theater corner-cades only have new games from Raw Thrills--so hard pass. But both of the Cinemarks do have the newer Stern pinball tables (transformers and Family guy, I believe) that are decent.
The barcade has older games--Joust, MS. Pac-man cocktail, MK 4, Terminator 2 light gun and a mid 90s midway pinball table-- along with a MAME cabinet or two. Sadly, it's been infected with EDM kiddos sucking down expensive shots, sorting adderall and listening to the shittest music possible over the game audio. I haven't been in a year now--wonder if my Joust score still reigns.
>>3367965
I just got back from an arcade convention, California Extreme, and had a blast seeing and playing hundreds of games. Only decent arcade for the next year is an hour away though.
Thinly veiled CRT and emulation thread.
I had an old laptop with Windows 7 unoccupied, and I found an old VGA to S-Video converter collecting dust, so I turned it into an emulation machine for my CRT setup to cover the console I don't have and some older PC games on DOSBOX.
As it is, it 'just werks', but poorly. It's locked on 800x600 and a rather low refresh rate. It's playable, but the image is blurry. Kinda misses the point of using the CRT TV at all.
So I decided to research for a proper VGA converter (pic not related). Hopefully, VGA to Component cables. One that would allow me the proper resolution and refresh rate so the emulator looks on TV as nice and crispy as my consoles.
I have a couple of questions on this.
- First of all, what kind of convertor do I need? Which specific specs should I look for?
- Is this setup only possible with CRT TVs that do Progressive image? Mine is capable, but I'm curious anyway.
- Requirements on the computer side. Is this doable on Windows 7 and any integrated Intel graphics card? (If not, I may consider building another PC for this out of spare parts) I mean, proper fullscreen resolution (320x240?) so games look as crispy (and as "faithful" as the original console) as possible on the CRT TV. If I set 320x240 as the fullscreen resolution on each emulator's settings, would that be enough, or should the entire OS be running on that resolution?
Most of all, any experience doing something similar (either VGA or HDMI -to- CRT TV for emulation), and recommendations of an specific converter, would be greatly appreciated.
I could have sworn I saw you post this earlier today. But like the others are saying, use the fucking general.
Well every summer I try to play one, and I don't know which one to pick. It's either gonna he secret of mana or ff6
How does a single RPG occupy your summer? I mean, even assuming you're working a full-time job, you'd think it would only eat up one or two weekends tops.
Anyhow, for the sake of being constructive, I vote Secret of Mana.
cool, now go back to /b/ summerfag
It's not that I don't have time I just get burned out after 1 or 2 rpgs a year. What are the pros/cons of each game
Just started playing Super Mario 64. Never had an N64, so I'm having a ton of fun with it now.
Problem is I expected there would be more things to collect and have a sort of inventory.
Anyone know of games with more of a focus on collecting things? And I don't mean only platformers, could be something like Resident Evil with an extended emphasis on inventory.
The Banjo series on N64, Crash Bandicoot on ps and ps2 (not retro though) for example. There's a tonne of platformer games in which you need to collection sht for the real ending or getting the game finished 100%.
>>3367027
DK64. it actually gets shit on for having too much stuff to collect, but I love it.
>>3367027
Spyro the Dragon
So, I recently got myself an N64, and picked up a few games at my thrift store, along with good condition copies of Mario 64 and Diddy Kong Racing for a decent price.
I almost have enough saved up to buy an SNES and some games for that, but I want your guys opinion.
What are some good tips for finding places that sell good condition older games, and some overall advice on what games I should be trying to get. I am fairly new to collecting retro stuff and could use some help.
Thanks.
Yeah, quite a few of these games are shit, but they were like $5 bundled together
>>3366681
>>3366682
You want my honest opinion? Stop "collecting" and start playing.
Or else one day you'll wake up with 17 different color N64s and 2000 games most of which are shit, and almost all of which you have never played.
If people spent less time at work saving to buy out all the world's stock of old games, and more time chilling at home actually playing the damn games we'd be a lot better off and happier in general imo.
But hey, it's up to you if you want to be the kid that plays with the toys or the adult that keeps them "mint in box". Who am I to judge.
>>3366682
>places
Craigslist, ebay, pawn shops, garage sales.
>games
N64 games?
>SM64 (which you already have)
>Ocarina/Majora
>Paper Mario - good, cheap RPG
>Mario Kart/Party/Golf/Tennis
>Smash
>Harvest Moon 64
>Mischief Makers
>Goldeneye
>Doom 64
>F-Zero X
>DK64
>Bomberman 64
>THPS2
>WWF No Mercy
>RE2
>KI Gold
Good luck finding those for a decent price, but they're staples.
SNES games?
>Mario World/All Stars
>Zelda ALTTP
>DKC 1-2
>Castlevania
>Mario RPG
>Mario Kart
>Contra
>Street Fighter II
Haha, that price -tier:
>Super Metroid
>FF III
>Chrono Trigger
>Secret of Mana
>EarthBound
>Harvest Moon
More staples, you can find most under $30, expect to pay for RPGs though. Mario RPG is good and cheap though, under $60 easily.
>>3366703
Also this. Just get the basics or the games you want.
What's your favorite Crash Bandicoot level?
>>3366678
>1
Road to Nowhere or Lights Out.
>2
Turtle Woods, Snow Go and The Pits are all maximum comfy.
>3
Didn't like 3, but the egyptian/arabian levels were pretty fun.
The levels are pretty similar, so I'm going with the look and mood of the levels:
> Crash 1
The Lost City/Sunset Vista, Slippery Climb, or Lights Out/Fumbling in the Dark
> Crash 2
Ruination
> Crash 3
This game didn't have anything as good as the previous two, so this one is tough, as there's nothing that compares.
I guess the Arab levels were the nicest.
High Time was set in the evening, so it's the most aesthetically pleasing of them.
DOOM THREAD / RETRO FPS THREAD, New one on page 10 edition - Last thread >>3359751
DOOM/II/ULTIMATE/FINAL/64
Gameplay, WADs/Maps/Mods, Source Ports
All other retro FPS welcome
~~ Let's post like gentlemen ~~
FAQ/PASTEBIN
http://pastebin.com/GnWMDhg0
SO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME...
Doom: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/vr/image/1467/42/1467421002740.png
Doom download: https://yadi.sk/d/469ydBaLndVCJ
Quake: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/vr/image/1405/27/1405272990521.png
Quake pastebin v7.1: http://pastebin.com/cpjZmazY
Quake pasta (2016-06-22): http://pastebin.com/XjBHDRFw
Duke: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/vr/image/1403/19/1403195896088.jpg
Thief: https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/vr/image/1456/09/1456095399293.jpg
== INFO/LINKS ==
OFFICIAL DOOM WIKI
http://doomwiki.org/
WHERE TO FIND WADS
Vanilla/Boom: https://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/
ZDoom: http://forum.zdoom.org/viewforum.php?f=19
/idgames: https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/
BT (2016-02-01): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13513277/idgames.torrent
TUTORIALS/UTILITIES
https://pastebin.com/7vKYWYp0
== /VR/DOOM COMMUNITY ==
IRC
irc.zandronum.com #vr (key in faq)
THREAD ARCHIVES
https://desuarchive.org/vr/search/text/%22doom%20thread%22/type/op/
IMAGE DATABASE
http://vrdoom.booru.org/?page=post&s=list
OUR WADS
http://pastebin.com/5sKRiJzS
http://pastebin.com/aiEgdB3K
COMMUNITY PROJECT
Make a Boom-compatible E1-themed Ultimate Doom map.
Status: https://desuarchive.org/vr/post/3019509
I posted some potato quality pictures of the Doom parody in Sept '96 Cracked magazine a few threads back; here's the HQ scans. 5 pages.
2/5
Wasn't somebody working on a SO YOU WANT TO PLAY SOME picture for Blood? What happen to that?
![gameboy_logo[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/6Uv3cfM.png "gameboy logo[1]")
