/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1274

Was the NES the best port?

I think Castlevania NES was pretty cheap, fun and addictive, but that might be a strong bias, sorry.

What about the N64?

https://youtu.be/lMD_d6dGI-U

>>1228

Unfortunately, vintage copies of Chrono Trigger have been going for yuge sums of money for a while now.

>>1060

S.O.S. (Septentrion) [SNES]

There's obvious horror themed classics like Castlevania, Ghosts and Goblins or Splatterhouse but there's a real lack of genuinely spooky 2D games, the best I can think of are Sweet Home and Clock Tower. I might finally get around to Fatal Frame 2 if I have to resort to something more recent.

Considering Dungeon Keeper. Normally I don't do all this "themed runs", but I haven't played one of my favourite games in a long while and it's a perfect excuse.

>>6204

Hellnight

>>6242

I like this game a lot, the space-station docking sequence took me by surprise when I first played it.

>>6190

Dreamweb

>>3665

Why no love for the Ridge Racer series? Also, where's Tactics Ogre?

>>5760

The closest system I've seen to Vagrant Story is Parasite Eve, but that's just from quick glances at gameplay.

>>6290

why not just post it on romhacking?

>>3692

>I'd call it the best localized and written game from Square Soft

Vagrant Story

>>3606

Koudelka

>>6490

Super Mario World - Call of Cthulhu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnaf1sp9-A

>>6735

Thanks!

>>6736

of different series'?

>>6731

skip classic megaman and go with X

start with one then 2 and 3 is okay but the quality jumps with x4 and x5 is meh

I like x6 better then x5 but its not comparable.

castlevania 1, play only 2 if you get the romhack that fixes shit

Japanese verison of 3

and four is meh, it was much easier then classic NES.

cant comment on contra only play the genesis one

dont listen to

>>6735

>>6767

fuck you, nes castlevanias are for masochists

>>6731

>Castlevania

Super Castlevania IV

Symphony of the Night

>Metroid

Return of Samus

Super Metroid

>Contra

Super C

The Alien Wars

>Rockman

Mega Man 2

Mega Man X

Mega Man Legends

>>4672

What is the point of fan translating a heavy text game that already had a stellar English translation with even GOOD voice acting? There is nothing in the PC Engine version that was not carried over to the Sega CD version.

>>4867

The first two original games have legit Russian translations for some reason. Don’t know how accurate they were given how often smaller languages get shitty translations.

>>5481

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/2457/

https://www.romhacking.net/translations/3115/

Famicom Monster Party had two English translations.

>>5667

Has character designs by him and Range Murata. Don’t know about how much they contributed to the plot.

>>6812

https://lparchive.org/Shin-Megami-Tensei-if/

If you are interested in the plot, the guy which translated Eien ni Filena and Enegy Breaker goes over all the essential dialogue in his (voiceless) let’s play.

>>6704

>Last "new" game I played was Quake II, and it was only fun for one go.

So you missed out on Return to Castle Wolfenstein, SiN, Aliens vs. Predator 2, Renegade? Man, that sucks. At least you played Dark Forces II, I guess.

>>6653

> amiga's literal doom

you're such a stupid cunt. had nothing to do with anything. amiga's downfall was bankruptcy and poor planning.

>>6672

>Amiga's literal doom was a confidential meeting held by publishers in '95 or '96 where it was agreed that they should skip to other platforms regardless of developments in piracy protection

complete and utter fucking bullshit. move where? to the psx/saturn/n64 where piracy was even more rampant? not that piracy has anything to do with anything since you're making shit up as you go.

>>6699

>t's not like they didn't try. They pushed out the shitty CD32 to send a message that they're trying to kill the floppy copying. Didn't work.

Ahahahaha. kill the floppy copying! ahahah. every cd32 game was cracked and made to work on floppy soon after it was released, you dumb cunt.

god i love this board.. full of compulsive lying cunts that make shit up.

>>6617

>Doom is shit tbh

Blow it out your ass.

I'm about to marathon the Bonk trilogy. What should I expect, /vr/?

>>4523

After playing some of the first one, I'm surprised it hasn't become more popular over time. Really fun uses of Bonk's head for combat and platforming.

Also, on the subject of platformers, The Legendary Axe is worth a try. More Castlevania-like game with very brisk levels and good music.

>>3797

>I'd still recommend starting with the first game.

I'll take your advice first chance I get, WAbro.

>translating one game, from start to actual patch release, should NOT take you twelve years

Does he legit still post about it being an ongoing thing? After that long, it's just safer to assume they gave up. But I'm also a pessimistic fuck and usually bail if there's no update after six months.

>"this is what Konami sounds like in my mind"

>embed is broken

Modern Konami, then.

Hope this one works.

>>3799

He actually released his Phantasia PS1 patch on New Years Eve 2012. Big thing though is that he hasn't posted anything since posting a bug fix version for his Phantasia patch. I know Absolute Zero's been in contact with him though; while Absolute Zero's been working on fan translating Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X themselves, they've mentioned wanting to consult with Cless about the actual translation script to try to make the best translation they can (while their original PS1 translation script isn't bad, apparently Cless' feels more polished, the way a localization would) while still trying to get it released in a somewhat timely manner (to the point of it being maybe 2-3 years expected time; their Phantasia PS1 patch being an oddity that only took from August 2007 until December 2007).

Nice thing about Absolute Zero is that they have a decent track record of not taking too horribly long to fan translate, post updates on what they're working on every few months (NDX and Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut at the moment), sometimes with actual video clips of it in motion, and have a programmer that seems to know what he's doing in testing and creating the patches.

Yeah, that embed works.

let's bump this nigger up.

Installed Quake on a retro PC (Pentium II) under Win98SE and the music can't be heard (even though the game reads the music tracks from the CD, which can be seen from the CD drive activity). The music works fine under DOS 6.22 on the same PC. Anyone knows what might be wrong? Graphics performance seems faster under Win98 than under DOS so it would be great to get the music working too.

>>6658

Ok nevermind, problem solved. It turns out I had to use a DOS mixer program to set volume levels for Quake (the CD audio output channel was all the way down from the DOS mixer's perspective) even though the game was running under Windows. Then again Quake is a 16-bit DOS program, so the solution is plausible (even if confusing).

>>6669

Oh and fastvid helps immensely, with activated LFB combined writes the game runs as fast under DOS as does under Windows (with the latter probably activating an equivalent performance improvement on graphics driver level).

I noticed that Quake 2/3 engine games somehow insist on using display modes with very high refresh rates like 150 Hz. I don't want to overwork the old CRT monitor with stupidly high refresh rates which are of no use anyway (the computer reaches nowhere near the framerates), just 85 Hz (which is set in dxdiag, and which other games follow except for Q2/3 games like Q2/Hexen2/Half-Life/Q3 etc.) or even 60 Hz will be enough. I don't remember them doing this back in the day btw (or I just didn't pay attention to it), have they always been that way?

>>2946

It's very average. Drags on a bit.

It's also bizarre in that you spend the entire game shooting the X-Men.

>>6649

If you enjoyed this you may want to work your way backwards and play ff8 and then ff7, after that you may jump into ff X and x-2.

>>6602

>Why is this so underrated, yet so good?

The hype was deflated after FF8 and a lot of casual fans bailed. It's a captain obvious statement but it's true. Randoms had no expectations and would rather save the money for a PS2 while replaying FF7.

First game I ever pre-ordered, and among my favorites for PS1. Those were the golden years for Squaresoft, this game is very underrated. The blend of technology and fantasy was flawless, great richness of characters and locations, loads of side quest - the chocobo treasure hunting was great fun. FF9's soundtrack is still one I listen to (not like it's my only CD but is in the mix).

Honestly, I have forgotten the specifics, in the storyline and otherwise, but that will make it more enjoyable to replay someday when I have the time. Looking forward to it

>underrated

No, it's overrated. The game has 20 seconds long loading times before AND after EVERY battle. The reason this game has a cult following is because it was 'retro', you even said it:

>charming fantasy setting

>>6748

>it's overrated

because

>game has 20 seconds long loading times before AND after EVERY battle

>>>/killyourself/

I made this boss for a big community romhack in the SMW engine, written in assembly over about a week. Assembly takes for fucking ever.

>>3540

Yeah the problem is, if you want an extra note, everything else has to be pushed forward by that much. Like everything else in the entire sound chip's RAM need to move by a ferw bytes. And then? The game pointers that SHOULD BE pointing to the beginning of the data are now off by that much. It's a mess. That stuff always is super optimally packed like that.

>>3550

Yes I'll say you probably need a superhuman love of programming and wanting to figure out how stuff works to really get into it. Like I somehow thought it was fun to read some textbooks on assembly language when I was 16 (although I admit I only read half the book before getting distracted by shit like Starcraft) and nobody had to force me to, it's just part of wanting to know where the true power behind these amazing creations originates from. So from there, it's kind of a natural step from that point to get into romhacking. Although I don't really do romhacking anymore. It's a thankless hobby really and I'd rather make bigger, more useful things.

TLDR If you're passionate about something no matter what it is such as drawing, music, or video games, you should be able to channel that passion into putting in the time to figure out how it truly works and what makes it great.

>Has anyone here worked on a Rom Hack for a retro vidya before?

Yes, from terrible FF6 romhacks published on zophar to multiplayer trainers.

>How did you get started?

I was interested in RPGs and wanted to make my own but with the FF6 engine. It helps that you have an interest in the game you are hacking.

>Did you always enjoy programming and vidya separately? Or did you like vidya so much that you wanted to learn how to de-/re-construct things?

A bit of both. I never liked programming or math but I like games. Eventually my drive for wanting to hack a game became strong enough to force myself learning asm and C. If you want to get into it learn how to memory cheat and go from there. Slowly work your way up to learning more advance things like gameshark activators. You can do a lot with just gameshark codes.

what the actual fuck is this thread