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Retro Battlestations thread.
>>3130659
Looks good but what's with all those yo toy figures
Didn't move or display anything.
I've lived in the UK all my life, and as such 99% of my games are PAL.
This shouldn't be a problem, but sadly a majority of the games run in 50Hz, have borders around the screen, run slower, and don't support progressive output.
I can easily pick up US consoles and games for most of my systems. I'm wondering, does /vr/ think it'd be worth it for me to switch my collection to NTSC?
I mostly play everything from NES - GameCube eras on various platforms.
The games don't run at 50hz, the system does. If it didn't you wouldn't get colour on a PAL tv. Modding the console is piss easy, so do that. Most games are identical to the NTSC-U versions. Only a few like Gunstar Heroes and Shinobi III have a lockout that prevents them from running on a non-50hz system. If you play NES for whatever reason (it's a crap system with hardly any good games) import an American system or a Famicom. The clockspeed is either tol fast or too slow on PAL systems depending on the model. Famicom is the better choice as it has more good games and no censorship.
>>3141504
>(it's a crap system with hardly any good games)
That's a hot opinion.
He is right about modding your console instead of buying a new one though. Make sure you mod it with a 50hz-60hz switch though, because like he said, some games won't run on 60hz.
>>3141517
Games made for NTSC are better played in NTSC format, but the same goes for PAL games in PAL format.
Why did the Genesis have such trouble replicating realistic sounds? For example:
Actual Aerosmith Dude Looks Like A Lady
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQ6jLe3R8E
SNES Dude Looks Like A Lady
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TRIUXzUrCY
Genesis Dude Looks Like A Lady
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k7Tq0XgfLI
and
Actual Aerosmith Rag Doll:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udgSerJSubk
SNES Rag Doll:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eipzunVGIm0
Gensis Rag Doll:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn7eogs6Tgc
Question is, why did the Genesis have such laughably shit sound capabilities?
Michael Jackson even demanded his name be taken off the credits for the music he wrote for Sonic 3…
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_3#Michael_Jackson.27s_involvement
“In a 2009 interview with French magazine Black & White, Buxer stated that Jackson was involved with some Sonic 3 compositions, but chose to remain uncredited because he was so unhappy with the sound capabilities of the Genesis. He also said that the Sonic 3 credits music later became the basis for Jackson's 1996 single ‘Stranger in Moscow’ “
Thread theme:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-lo298icj8
Yeah I agree, the Genesis is groovy.
>>3136895
There was nothing even remotely "realistic" about the 16-bit era. Too bad, because nothing ever came close to that sweet Sega Genesis sound.
>>3136895
If that's true, then MJ was a faggot.
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
>those people who threw out their PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn etc. jewel cases in favor of these.
I never knew anybody that retarded.
I kept my music CDs in a binder but always kept the jewel cases in a box. I never knew anyone that just went and threw the jewel cases out.
Did Ness deserve a spot?
More than Captain Falcon did.
Does Earthbound deserve to cost 300 USD?
>>3127102
Its on the Wii U shop now
So... probably not
Post the weakest character in a game.
When the best thing you can do is die then you're a pretty crap character.
I've been thinking, did the fifth generation of consoles really have any 3D platformers? A good majority of them, at least the ones on the N64, were more like 3D exploration games/scavenger hunts. There was lots of jumping around, sure, but I would not be comfortable calling Donkey Kong 64, for instance, a platformer, since the areas were huge flat surfaces for the most part with very few platforms and timed jumps required.
Pacman World, Crash and its clones, Rayman 2...
I agree, collectathons were their own thing.
>>3137873
Tonic trouble for the N64 is an underrated platformer.
>>3137873
Super Mario Land 1 and 2 not 64
This piece of fucking shit is emblematic of everything wrong with retro videogame scene today.
1) People who think that something that's rare should be more expensive because it's rare. No purpose whatsoever, never going to play with it, they just automatically think it's worth more because it's rare. "herp derp, well that's RARE so gee it must be worth more".
2) Marking Nintendo's decline from being at the top of the console market with a single console loss to the Playstation, to purple, underpowered consoles with no DVD/online and so on.
3) People who think videogames are a "toy". The N64 has the design of an adult machine. Anyone saying otherwise has some severe issues about trying to feel superior to others, most of the most highly successful people in the world are playing videogames now so you can kiss that fucken method of pretending you're superior to people goodbye. Nobody is a manchild by playing videogames, you are by getting this console.
4) Some stupid meme by hipsters that having a pokemon console is so ironic that it's cool again. The original Pokemon gameboy games are great, but the Pikachu console was for children. Nobody could legitimately like this as a console.
5) Resellers selling to one another in a circlejerk game of hot potatoe.
6) Millenials who were 4 when the N64 came out and this was their first console - self explanatory.
What sort of a person would want this? It disgusts me that a person would buy this when other people are having trouble paying for consoles and games.
>>3136618
I don't like it because feet creep me out.
>>3136618
Ian, relax. Although I kinda agree.
>>3136618
>1) People who think that something that's rare should be more expensive because it's rare.
Welcome to collector's items. Sorry you weren't aware this is how rarity works.
>People who think videogames are a "toy"
They literally are. If you have shame over being interested in toys that's your baggage, don't lump it on us.
>5) Resellers selling to one another in a circlejerk game of hot potatoe.
Again, sorry you got into the hobby of collecting collector's items without knowing anything about it. Can't help you though.
What is your personal cut off for what is retro? I don't mean the rules of the board don't apply but I am curious to hear about when you thought gaming had changed from what you grew up with.
Anything after 2000 isn't retro.
>>3135436
I personally believe three generations or more is considered retro in many respects. That would mean from sixth and later are not included (we're in the eighth generation now). So, PS1 and earlier are retro enough for me.
Personally, I grew up with a Model 2 and 3 Genesis and a handful of games, as well as a Game Boy. I swear, I loved the systems to death, and still have them stashed around my storage unit.
I would say everything pre-Xbox/PS2/GameCube is retro for me. I'm sort of young to be browsing this board (19), so Dreamcast feels like it was before my time.
What are some good retro games that play like Soulsborne games?
>>3135301
What makes a Soulsborne game? Can you list some criteria?
Castlevania or Metroid, maybe?
>>3135301
This is probably the closest you'll come; at least as far as 2-D games go
Gothic atmosphere, eldritch abomination bosses, combat has an emphasis on rolling and finding the right time to attack, notable for it's difficulty. It's hub world reminds me of the Nexus, too.
Getting the obvious out of the way
Does anyone else feel bad about the primitive, inferior non-games that Americans had to play on their home computers?
>>3133409
We didn't givea shit about computers when we had consoles with better games, that ran at the proper refresh rate to boot. Nice troll though, faggot.
>>3133409
This thread again? Give it a rest, OP. Your penis will remain small no matter how many times you post it.
yawn
let's hear it
>>3128437
FFV
SOM
Let's discuss the Sonic Adventure trilogy.
Primarily the /vr/ two, but Sonic 06 can lead to interesting discussions on an attempt at a continuation of the Sonic Adventure mechanics in seventh gen.
>>3102557
Am I the only one that enjoyed Heroes more than the Adventure trilogy?
>Let's discuss the Sonic Adventure trilogy.
>trilogy
What?
Sonic 06 is the worst game ever made. Don't care about your hipster ET shit. A company like SEGA has no excuse for releasing that pile of shit.
SA2B>SA1>steaming pile of shit>/v/>/b/>reddit>tumblr>9gag>Gawker>OP>>>>>Sonic 06
ITT: things that were put in games just to sell guides
>>3124406
A guide is a great companion to a game.
You get the full experience of any truly great game with a guide, graph paper, and the manual.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEc6Afj1s_c
>>3124406
That's nothing you couldn't figure out through trial and error. It's not that difficult to figure out.
Can we get a bootleg thread going? Use paint of whatever image editor.
Here's the blank cart template.
>>3124058
diff temp
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