So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Retr0gamer

I've all 3 collectors editions but not played any of them until now. Decided to take a break from Valkyria Chronicles 2 with it. I hear Oath in Felghana is far and away the best of the bunch.

johnny_ultimate

Fair enough. Ys Seven was one of the nicest surprises I've played - very engaging stuff altogether, with the best non turn-based battle system I've seen in a (more action based) JRPG. Story was a bit crap at times but picked up in the second half when the threat was significantly increased. If Oath... is better than it should be something very special indeed

ghostchant

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The battle system is excellent. Instead of pressing an attack button you jus bump into enemies to do damage but the trick is you have to bump into them slightly off centre to not damage yourself.

All I can think of when reading that is 'Joust'. Interesting battle mechanic!

CiDeRmAn

Somebody mention Joust?
I have that on the 7800, very good it is too.
Have it on the IkeaCab as well, the first one was a vertically orientated game while the sequel, despite looking very similar, was horizontal.
Still love the skipping trick when you hit the edge of the platform and your steed skids along on its nethers.

Retr0gamer

ghostchant wrote: »

All I can think of when reading that is 'Joust'. Interesting battle mechanic!

Lol never thought of it like that. I thought of a better name though, bump and grind mechanics.

landsleaving

Retr0gamer wrote: »

bump and grind mechanics.

Sounds like a dodgy hip hop album title :P

Augmerson

Was playing Road Rash II and then Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit last night, and then some Tetris Blast. That's about it.

pdbhp

Tonight ladies and gentlemen I be mostly playing Zelda Links Awakening on GB

Cots1

pdbhp wrote: »

Tonight ladies and gentlemen I be mostly playing Zelda Links Awakening on GB

Pretty good i'll be playing battletoads in ragnaroks world on gb

pdbhp

Cots1 wrote: »

Pretty good i'll be playing battletoads in ragnaroks world on gb

It's all about the GB round here:D. realised last night that I've totally forgotten how to play links awakening and had to stop after an hour from embarassment

o1s1n

Playing Links Awakening myself. Never played it before. I didn't know that the design was so similar to A Link to the Past. If I did I'd have played through it a lot sooner.

I couldn't believe the first boss is Moldorm from LTTP! - I hate that bastard so much! When I first played through LTTP back in the day, he was the one boss I got stuck on for ages.
Luckily though, being able to jump made it a lot easier. And while I'm on it, Link can jump?! Side scrolling sections?! Yoshi?! Goombas?! this is odd!

Retr0gamer

There were side scrolling sections in the original zelda and sure Zelda 2 was mostly side scrolling. They also returned in the excellent Oracle games.

Optimus Prime

I just got two hours of Link to the Past in, still remember the map inside out!

Optimus Prime

keithgeo wrote: »

I just got two hours of Link to the Past in, still remember the map inside out!

On my new (well second hand) 29" Sony Trinitron i should add!

o1s1n

keithgeo wrote: »

On my new (well second hand) 29" Sony Trinitron i should add!

Yay! How you finding it?

Actually to both yourself and Ciderdude, does your Trinitron automatically come on at 16:9 with widescreen bars?

Every time I turn mine on I have to press a button on the remote to turn it 4:3 and fill the whole screen. Tis a little bit annoying!

J_E

Retr0gamer wrote: »

There were side scrolling sections in the original zelda and sure Zelda 2 was mostly side scrolling. They also returned in the excellent Oracle games.

And in Links Awakening.

johnny_ultimate

Rez (in high definition)

I finally found out how to get high scores, and I feel stupid for not realising sooner.

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Rez (in high definition)

I finally found out how to get high scores, and I feel stupid for not realising sooner.

Let the bad guys fire missiles?

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Let the bad guys fire missiles?

8x Lock-on. I never realised how vital it was to the scoring system, mainly because I'm an idiot.

Retr0gamer

If you let the enemies fire you can lock on to their bullets and score more 8x lockons.

Just finished Ys 1. Credits are literally rolling as I type. Thank god they included a min walkthrough for it in the manual because it's very obtuse sometimes. I hear Ys 2 though is the real star of the package and a much better game, which is good because Ys 1 was loads of fun.

7sr2z3fely84g5

Dusted it down and played it yesterday again,great fun,pity nintendo didnt do a sega and release an 32bit adaptor for snes to play it-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV6gCro8UIs

pdbhp

Lilith Small Hardware wrote: »

Dusted it down and played it yesterday again,great fun,pity nintendo didnt do a sega and release an 32bit adaptor for snes to play it-

Great game, thanks for the reminder I'll play some of it tonight:D

tjones64

just finished Earthbound for the snes. it was cool.
here's a screen:


ehehehe. im a child.

valleyoftheunos

Just started Super Mario Bros. 3 on the GBA, its great for filling 10 or 15 minutes here and there. the levels are waaaaaaaay shorter than I remember them back in 1991 but its certainly challenging, its the only Mario game I've played and never managed to complete.

Sparks43

playing nothing at the moment

My 7 year old wanted to play Animal Crossing on the wii

And my other half wants to play Rod Land on the amiga emu on the Pc

Time to make a cup of tea methinks:o

CiDeRmAn

My son wants to play Super Smash Bros Brawl and my wife wants to burn every single system I own, time to sharpen the axe methinks :eek:

ShooterSF

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My son wants to play Super Smash Bros Brawl and my wife wants to burn every single system I own, time to sharpen the axe methinks :eek:

Get the child to do it. They'll never convict a minor

Atavan-Halen

Played some more Gamera 2000 today and then tried out that LSD game on the PS1. Bizarre. Then the PS2 came out to play and played the bouncer. Quite liking it so far but the combat feels slow and heavy.

Pyongyang

Ketsui Death Label!

DANMAKU PORN IN MY BED!

Sparks43

Sitting here watching my Daughter playing Kirbys Epic Yarn for the Wii

She is having an absolute ball

Great game for kids worth every penny i paid............









for the blank disc

Azure_sky

Punch Out on NES, SNES and Wii. Only boxing game I really like. They should really make a 3D version of it for the 3DS.

I love the politically incorrect national sterotypes. It's like an episode of South Park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcCDX3SArNw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6IBoUU7KaI

ShooterSF

Every time I set up a nes emulator on a pc for friends the first game I put on is Punch-Out. Love the game. Never bet Mr. Dream though

Retr0gamer

The trick to Mr. Dream is staying alive long enough. After a while his style changes and he is much easier. It's just getting to that point without getting smeared on the canvas is so hard!

Azure_sky

You should try to find a version with Mike Tyson as the boss instead for the laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZChSzoYy8D8

I hear Mike's now going to endorse a certain offensive Japanese PC game.....sorry.:pac:

Retr0gamer

Finished Ys 1 and a good bit into Ys 2 now. Ys 1 was great fun and highly enjoyable but Ys 2 is a massive improvement. Really enjoying this series of games.

johnny_ultimate

Playing Ys 3 or Falghana. Just started - was really enjoying it (like Ys 7 I'm loving the high speed combat) and then the first boss showed up and the difficulty curve shot up vertically! I was on a bus so couldn't give it my full attention, but looking like a tricky game. Ys Seven took much longer to ramp up to harder levels.

It does have the most awesome feature I've ever seen in an options menu - selectable BGM from three different versions of the game i.e. chiptunes, more advanced chiptunes or orchestral It almost makes up for the lack of a Japanese language option!

7sr2z3fely84g5

Azure_sky wrote: »

You should try to find a version with Mike Tyson as the boss instead for the laugh.

Easy to find,just search for mike tysons punch out,mr dream was used in 90 onwards due to licencing rights expired

Retr0gamer

From talking to one of the guys at XSeed he said that Seven is a very easy game compared to the rest of the series and Felghana is a very tough game. You'll need to level up before the bosses but it doesn't take that long because Ys is a series were one level makes a big difference and also due to how fast and fun killing things in the game is it's not boring and relatively quick.

Ys Chronicles has the choice of PC-9801 chip music, the windows rerelease music or the orchestrated music for the PSP game

Retr0gamer

Lilith Small Hardware wrote: »

Easy to find,just search for mike tysons punch out,mr dream was used in 90 onwards due to licencing rights expired

Was it the licensing rights or the whole rape scandal, because I heard it was the rape thing?

7sr2z3fely84g5

offical story was licence,wasnt charged+convicted 1991/92 but there being numberous debates,maybe your right,not missing much anyway in dream version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2J4CJncwYU

Pic of the gold cart version,niceeeeee- http://www.gamesniped.com/2009/02/04/famicom-punch-out-gold-prize/

Retr0gamer

I'd say it was just the license not getting renewed but not renewed over the controversy. I just heard it on retronauts so no concrete proof.

ShooterSF

Started playing Earthbound earlier and put 2 or 3 hours into it on my Max Arcade setup connected to the TV. Exited out of the emulator and went back in later to see none of my saves were recorded. Not sure I have it in me to go back and start from scratch yet...

CiDeRmAn

Check the emu settings, although it should save to a default directory.
That's a strange one.

valleyoftheunos

Gave Super Mario Sunshine a spin for a couple of hours last night. Its really just a bit strange, the FLUDD mechanic isn't particularly compelling and as a setting Delfino Isle is frankly a bit dull and samey.

I never liked the GC controller but combined with the wonky and awkward camera it makes control very difficut, mario regulalry leaps over platforms and its often difficult to tell which way the water is shooting.

Havng said all that I do still want to carry on and get into it a bit, some of the ideas that were later refined for SMG are present and it is an interesting deviation from the usual Mario gameplay.

CiDeRmAn

Don't really like the GC controller at all.
In that game it seemed to damage the experience, couple with the camera issues.

o1s1n

+1 on the GC controller. I never got why people loved it so much? Always felt very clunky to me.

CiDeRmAn

I can feel some regulars choking on there coco pops as we speak!

valleyoftheunos

For me the GC controller is wrong in just about every way for me, the triggers are just weird, the sticks are flimsy and travel to fast and the button lay out (quite intentionally) makes it less convenient to use any button but A.

There is a reason why the cruciform button layout has become so popular, because its simple and realy works, glad to see Nintendo are returning to it wth the Wii U.

o1s1n

The analog sticks don't seem to last on them either. I've come across more that are broken than working.

Retr0gamer

Why has the GC controller gone from being regarded as one of the best ever made to being regarded so negatively?? Did people actually have a GC when they were released. Always found the GC controller to be great. Not without it's problems but it was comfortable to hold and the analogue stick felt great.