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What went wrong?
>>3225671
absolutely nothing.
>Outsourced to another company because Technos was too busy doing Combatribes (which turned out to be rather meh anyway)
>Literal pay2win system where you can only get certain power-ups (including additional characters) by credit feeding (removed in the JP version mercifully)
>Globe trekking plot that starts out fine, but becomes pretty ridiculous when it ends with the good guys fighting Cleopatra's reanimated corpse in Egypt.
>The Rosetta Stones are a bunch of Dragon Ball-like McGuffins that's nothing like the real Rosetta Stone. Research much?
>Sloppy animation that looks like its skipping frames.
>Is the series was called Double Dragon, why is there suddenly three Lee brothers?
The music was nice I guess and I like the JP flyer, but that's it. It's interesting to watch the superplays online and witness how easy it is to break the game.
The NES version was better, but it's still shares some of the same stupidities.
>>3225671
Simple...
The rushed out ports of the lame version, instead of taking the rocksolid NES game and first doing basic transfers of it first to 8-bit computers, and then just doing what they already proven to turn out nicely with the PCE-CD and made a graphically enhanced version for the amiga, ST and genesis, and then either also transferred that directly to DOS and genesis, or made enhanced CD versions for them.
They didn't have to do anything new&complicated, simply what they did with DD2 except now they had a selection of worthwhile platforms to target.
Can you really call a game "retro" when you've probably never played it until it got popular 10-15 years later?
>>3225504
Yes. It would still be a retro game. It just wouldn't be nostalgic to you specifically, which seems to be the word you are looking for.
>>3225521
gud post, /thread
>>3225504
Yeah, if a game was released 20 years ago but I'm only playing it now does that somehow mean it wasn't released 20 years ago?
Wasted a $1.99 and about 2 hours on this utter piece of shit after hearing it was an intriguing hidden gem reminiscent of RE2. It played like RE1 in space with no weapons and glitchier textures.
69 will decide what I do with this disc because it sure as hell isn't going near my games
Anyone have a reason why this flat circular turd was distributed to anyone who would play a videogame?
>>3225496
Wrap it and give it to a hobo.
Nah, just sell it.
>>3225496
Just use it as a cup coaster
>>3225496
>I played it for 15 minutes then gave up on it
Some games in that era are harder to get into.
I've never heard anyone call it a hidden gem, but it does some interesting things.
Give me some cool historical retro vidya, please
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1-6
Civilization
Fuckin Oregon Trail
https://www.mobygames.com/game-group/koei-historical-simulation-series/offset,0/so,1a/
>>3225450
Liberty or Death
Looking to increase the size of my collection so what is your personal top 10 n64 games?
1. Sin and Punishment
2. Majora's Mask
3. F-Zero X
4. Star Fox 64
5. Goemon's Great Adventure
6. Mystical Ninja starring Goemon
7. Mischief Makers
8. Wave Race 64
9. Wonder Project J2
10. Paper Mario
>>3225363
Ogre Battle 64
Harvest Moon 64
WWF No Mercy
Super Smash Bros.
Ocarina of Time
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Majora's Mask
Super Mario 64
Jet Force Gemini
Goldeneye 007
here's a man holding every single good n64 game
How fast can you swing that Cipher?
>>3225332
Faster than Sonic the Hedgehog shitting out a turbo turd after eating a shit load of chili dogs.
Pretty goddamn fast, you commie motherfucker.
>>3225332
I already did, asshole
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Kg1OuXskI
How did a series so terrible get so many games?
>>3224787
Don't remember anything like it when it first came out. Was pretty frightening & the 3d engine was cool.
The first one was pretty decent for it's time and Resident Evil was a Alone in The Dark clone.
Because it's good, it's just been imitated and drastically improved
Just discovered this series and holy shit is some of the cover artwork beautiful.
Should I get this? I've got a 2 hour commute there and back to class twice a week for the next four years and I need my phone to not die before I get home.
It's in my price range, I'm really considering it.
>>3224658
If I see you riding my bus with this shit, I will not hesitate to scream 'nerd' at the top of my lungs.
>>3224663and then we can play timespitter's 2 or something right
Get ready to have unwanted conversations with the most autistic of your fellow commuters.
Are you a fan of interlacing?
(This gif flickers in 50 Euro Hertz because gifs can't go beyond 50fps.)
>>3224620
>Are you a fan of interlacing?
Not an issue with retro games.
That gif doesn't show what flicker actually looks like.
>>3224632
>Not an issue with retro games.
Retro games have interlacing. Who said it's an issue? Weirdo.
I absolutely love shitty shaking low resolution modes! In fact it's so good I wonder why display standards even progressed past 480i.
so hear me out guys, i've got a pretty good idea for us. i've been programming/web dev for well over a decade blah blah blah ahead of time so you know i'm not just some newbie fag. anyway, i'm thinking about doing a /vr/ recommended/best of site where everyone can submit games (anonymously) to a queue for me (perhaps some of you?) to moderate and generate pretty lists based on hashes.
what i mean is... for example let's say someone uploads Sonic 3. you'll be required only add at LEAST a hash tag for #genesis and #megadrive but then you can do things like #platformer #versus #anthropomorphic etc. on down the line and we can edit those later. THEN down the left hand side of the site is just a simple alphabetized list of every major hash tag we have. you click it and it filters the games by that hash.
now it's not to catalog every fucking game in the world. it's just for the really recommendable ones we all tend to like. what do you guys think?
Alright lets reddit/twitter this shit up.
No, recommendation sites are stupid. Just look up Mobygames for tagged games.
>>3224589
Be prepared to get spammed endlessly by assholes, flooded with different spellings for each game, and redundant-but-differently-named genre categorizations (eg. "beatemup" vs "belt scroller"). Leaving it open for just anybody to submit entries is going to be hell to moderate and sanitize.
I'm looking to start hooking my retro consoles up to my laptop rather than a TV just for desk convenience (can't carry my Trinitron with me anymore, it's too big and heavy). I only have experience with an Easycap plug with looks iffy with an SNES and Saturn and terrible with a Genesis. What's recommended to use instead? Not looking to record, just to play.
Extreme U3 or whatever was at one point considered almost lagless. It uses only HDMI I believe. I would look towards something that cost more than that EasyCAP so you can get "near lagless" game capture.
>>3224574
Input lag has never been an issue for me, at least when it came to Easycap.
Someone said "get an ElGato" but I don't know how that handles retro stuff.
>>3224603
probably the same as anything else really. you would have to watch some youtube videos to see quality differences. if you don't notice any input lag then get an elgato or avermedia cheap device. im not sure but imma guess your gpu settings will allow you to black bar the picture to keep aspect ratio.
Do you guys think this is ethical? I can understand with games that are super expensive or import-only in Japanese, but the Dracula X Rondo of Blood copies this guy sells seems shady as shit, especially when you can currently buy the game on PSP or on virtual console. Since the game is available through legitimate means, I can't believe he hasn't received a C&D for it yet.
>>3224509
Why bother buying these sorts of bootlegs?
Might as well just pirate it at this point.
While I don't mind selling repros in theory (plenty of shops offer GEN/SFC/FC repros), and while I do not deny that PCEWorks' products are of high quality, I also agree that a few of the items for sale are a bit on the questionable side.
There was some type of furor in smaller game communities about how he used fan-translations for several games without the permission of the translators, and that he wouldn't split the profits with the translators either. There seems to be a lot of bad blood there, though later the guy tried to make nice by printing a lot of free copies of just the bare CDs for anyone who wanted a copy, essentially just charging for the fluff packaging.
I'm also amazed that the Dracula X package didn't receive a CnD, considering it's a high-profile game from a huge, still-active company. I guess all the better for people who wanted, uh, the "Dracula X Energy Drink."
>>3224532
>Dracula X Energy Drink.
why.jpg
what does /vr/ think of Dr. Mario?
It's alright. Prefer Tetris.
I always really liked it
lately i've just been playing columns if anything
He's a quack. Went in with the flu, he told me to take these unknown pills because "the colors matched". How did this loony ever make it through med school?
