So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Andrew76 · 19-04-2012 12:44pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Legend of Grimrock really is enjoyable isn't it? How many levels down are you? I think I'm on 5 now. Those damn spiders drove me mental!

Not that far yet. Just onto lvl 3 I think, fookin hate the sound of those guards marching about the place in the background. I stupidly got stuck in a corner with two of them stabbing from both sides at one point, poor ole Minotaur took one for the team. Think I'm going to stick with Fire for my mage. /nerd

Hey have you noticed the Win XP shutdown sound in the game? I hear it constantly: http://www.gog.com/en/forum/legend_of_grimrock/is_that_sound_a_bug_guys

Retr0gamer · 19-04-2012 12:52pm

EnterNow wrote: »

Didn't Retr0 use savestates to clear Ninja Gaiden & Contra? I just felt it was worth raising that point for no apparent reason.

Pah, Contra was simple didn't need save states at all. If you think it's hard then you're a patsy. All I can say is that if Arino from Game Centre Cx can beat it then anyone can.

Ninja Gaiden I just used them for bug on the second form for the last boss. Since I have his attack pattern nailed down though I could easily beat it without save states, it's just with the bug it doesn't give you a chance to learn his pattern.

As for the NES, I have one, a PAL NES. I'd rather have nothing than a PAL NES though. PAL NES owners are the lowest form of scum :P

Of course I have a Wii as well! Bought one on launch day. It's what I play my NES games on, in 60 mother****ing Hz!

As for the CDi CD-R king... some of the later and good games have poxy copy protection. They have music tracks less than 4 seconds long and nearly every CD writer picks that up as an error so it's kind of hard to actually get the good games on the system. Either that or every website has bad dumps of the games and are sharing the same ones just nobody is stupid enough to waste a CD-R on the games.

Myrddin · 19-04-2012 1:01pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

They have music tracks less than 4 seconds long and nearly every CD writer picks that up as an error so it's kind of hard to actually get the good games on the system. Either that or every website has bad dumps of the games and are sharing the same ones just nobody is stupid enough to waste a CD-R on the games.

Option for ignore read/write errors?

Retr0gamer · 19-04-2012 1:53pm

EnterNow wrote: »

Option for ignore read/write errors?

Nope, doesn't work. Tried everything and it's a problem with these games. I've tried every work around that people have put online. Either I need a better CD burner or else the dumps that all the rom sites are using are all bad dumps, which could be very likely when you look at the amount of downloads of these games and see that you're the only one that has tried it. It's kind of annoying because I really want to play Zenith which looks like one of the few actual good games for the system but can't get it to burn. It was the last release for the system to so doesn't exactly appear on ebay very often.

Steve X2 · 19-04-2012 2:47pm

If you must play games illegally get the TOSEC set for CDi and burn them. It could also very well be your cd burner as some are not good at burning ISO's and BIN and CUE files for older consoles. I've a few burner drives and the older ones are best for this purpose.

And of course, burn at the slowest possible speed(4x if you can, 8x if you must). I use ImgBurn and it works every time.

CDi games are mostly dirt cheap though, so just buy them

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Retr0gamer · 19-04-2012 3:22pm

Steve SI wrote: »

If you must play games illegally get the TOSEC set for CDi and burn them. It could also very well be your cd burner as some are not good at burning ISO's and BIN and CUE files for older consoles. I've a few burner drives and the older ones are best for this purpose.

And of course, burn at the slowest possible speed(4x if you can, 8x if you must). I use ImgBurn and it works every time.

CDi games are mostly dirt cheap though, so just buy them

Thanks, I'll look into that TOSEC set. I think it is my drive that's the problem. I've two CD/DVD burners and they just refuse to write the files or write them with errors. It's a common problem with CD-i games. apparently the <4 sec length tracks helped some way with the stupid limitations of the machine.

As for buying CDi games, they may be cheap but they are all crap. All the good ones are expensive or at least go for more than I'd pay for them. Most also ship from europe and the sellers there charge stupid amounts for postage/

Myrddin · 19-04-2012 3:55pm

Steve SI wrote: »

CDi games are mostly dirt cheap though, so just buy them

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Totally agree, it's a tool used for education & 90's porn.

K.O.Kiki · 20-04-2012 2:03pm

I should've put a trailer in the post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3gKyF5Muw8

DinoRex · 20-04-2012 8:41pm

Playing through Sly Racoon HD at the moment.

Had forgotten that it's a pretty damn tough little game. Urgh... that final boss took me forever to beat all those years ago.

OwaynOTT · 22-04-2012 1:53am

Super Sidekicks. It's actually a lot of fun but maybe the few beers in my system is improving the experience. Auto correction rocks as I splet most of that wrong.

Ah crap.

The funny think is I think I use to play that in my Grandads arcade. Would that have been an game that was in Iteland in the early 90s. Bubble Bobble, golden axe and some other ****e. All out in the side of the house. Still had to fork coins in!
I'd a gameboy and a Snes and my uncle, who is 6 months younger, had an arcade at the side of the house. Something not right there I say.
Oh there was a turtles game as well and a super pang. Was it called super pang though? Or was it regular pang

CiDeRmAn · 22-04-2012 7:36pm

Not retro but having a blast playing Lost Planet 2 at the mo.
Not liking the short mission chapters, 5 mins long or less some of them, but it does feel like a cross between Gears, Resi 4 and Vanquish to be honest, and that's no bad thing, plus the monster design is outstanding, lots of fun, not too hard though, but quite a spectacle over all.

Retr0gamer · 22-04-2012 9:01pm

I played a bit of it in co-op with my friend that had to review it. Found it so dull. It had a really disjointed mission structure and feel. Although you do seem to have a perchant for the dull FPS games :P

CiDeRmAn · 23-04-2012 12:09am

Hmmm, not too dull, feels quite cinematic tbh, creature design is nice and, while it is obviously built with multiplayer in mind, I am enjoying playing it solo.
Some of the bosses are spectacular mind you, and with their areas also being, in part, multiplayer maps, gives one more interesting spaces to do battle in, rather than the blank arena with boss in the middle or typical corridor with boss at the bottom that you see in so many games.
The bite sized missions with loading in between is a drag, as is the insistence to wait for other players that don't exist, but while it is a not a minor complaint it is not a game breaker and, while I couldn't recommend anyone spending €50 on it, you can get it for a tenner now and it's got plenty of campaign in there for that sort of money, 6-8 hours at least, and feels a better game than, say, Bulletstorm which was anything but dull-looking but very dull to play.
Might go back and wrestle with the nasty, weird controls of the first game when I get this finished, the snow bound title looked amazing but the controls were this side of Tomb Raider/Resident Evil madness, how I wish there was an update to change them completely, they really broke that game, taking another cinematic blockbuster and hobbling it, Misery style. Again, more nice creature design from Capcom.

Retr0gamer · 23-04-2012 1:04am

I finally finished Landstalker. I was enjoying it but the end just became a slog. There was some absolutely awful isometric platforming later on that wasn't helped by dodgy controls. If you miss one jump you are plonked back to the start and have another 10-15 minutes to get back to where you were. The last dungeon takes the absolute biscuit though, some really awful dungeon design that punishes the player. I did kind of enjoy it but I never want to see or play this game again. It would have a great game centre CX charaity run type game though, perfect length and just hair tearingly annoying enough to get some laughs.

johnny_ultimate · 23-04-2012 1:17am

Ugh, have discovered that Fez hides one of the most complex and in depth cipher systems in gaming history. I'm kind of addicted to solving the more obtuse puzzles now. Say what you will about Phil Fish, but his game has a depth that's wholly unusual, with some ingenious puzzles that even break the fourth wall.

Have to have a pen and code cracking sheet beside me at all times

Mr.Saturn · 23-04-2012 3:02am

I'm half/three-quartersway through a few games, but I got the Mother bug again, so I'm giving 3 another whirl. Forgot how foreboding the soundtrack can be, especially with the nostaliga-twinged score to the prologue, which only serves to further extrapolate the misery later on. Although, have to say, one thing is irking me:

Why did the residents of Tazmily insist on having Hinawa's funeral while Flint's in jail?

OwaynOTT · 23-04-2012 10:37am

Not studying for exams but playing King of Fighters 96 on the Neo Geo. Never played them before. Liking it more than Fatal Fury Special as it doesn't have the two plane crap.

megaten · 23-04-2012 12:04pm

Mr.Saturn wrote: »

I'm half/three-quartersway through a few games, but I got the Mother bug again, so I'm giving 3 another whirl. Forgot how foreboding the soundtrack can be, especially with the nostaliga-twinged score to the prologue, which only serves to further extrapolate the misery later on. Although, have to say, one thing is irking me:
Why did the residents of Tazmily insist on having Hinawa's funeral while Flint's in jail?

MASSIVE SPOILERS

Presumably from the way they act erasing their memories of the real world removed their common sense as well.

raven999 · 23-04-2012 12:35pm

shining wisdom for the saturn arrived this morning will give it a go later anybody played this and is it any good

Retr0gamer · 23-04-2012 12:50pm

It's got a rotten prerendered art sytle that needs to die in a fire. Played it but didn't give it much time because I thought it was a bit crap.

ghostchant · 23-04-2012 2:34pm

With Ciderman's preaching of its virtues in my head, just picked up Lost Planet 2 for €6 in HMV there. Relatively risk-free purchase anyway.

CiDeRmAn · 23-04-2012 10:23pm

Great Zombie Jebus!
Don't blame me when you think it sucks!
The breaks in the missions, just when it's getting a head of steam is a little hard to put up with, but it is nice while you're in mission, plenty of variety to the environments, well plenty of shades of brown and green at any rate!
Just give it a couple of episodes before you judge it, I'm in Episode 3 and enjoying the whole thing, the rough edges make it a little less "produced" than some other titles, not sure if that makes sense, Uncharted and the like are very over-produced by way of comparison.

CiDeRmAn · 26-04-2012 5:32pm

Still hammering away at Lost Planet 2, a lot of fun tbh, the train scene from Episode 3 is pretty great, best train combat I have seen since Goldeneye. And the boss is epic and took a good 15 mins to complete, definitely a quicker prospect if I wasn't Billy-No-Mates, but good never the less. Half way through now!

unky chop chop · 27-04-2012 7:43pm

I'm giving Strider and Hellfire a good go at the moment.

Both games are soooo bloody hard but I will prevail.Playing Hellfire and Thunder Force today just reminded me that The Megadrive sure had some good Shooters.

CiDeRmAn · 27-04-2012 9:13pm

unky chop chop wrote: »

I'm giving Strider and Hellfire a good go at the moment.

Both games are soooo bloody hard but I will prevail.Playing Hellfire and Thunder Force today just reminded me that The Megadrive sure had some good Shooters.

Of course, you know Shinobi is exactly like Strider... apparently

Jack burton · 27-04-2012 9:18pm

Playing hellfire the other day myself, when i get killed with a fully charged ship I feel so horrible and guilty!

unky chop chop · 27-04-2012 9:36pm

Yeah Its a great power up mechanic.
One minute king of the world..next,you lose your power ups and then in quick succession all your lives and turn the game off in a massive rage.
"sh1t game,grumble,grumble"

unky chop chop · 27-04-2012 9:39pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Of course, you know Shinobi is exactly like Strider... apparently

Strider is God...sure look at him:pac:

MMMMm...purple spandex

CiDeRmAn · 28-04-2012 8:34am

What a smashing outfit...
It says "By day I can slaughter the officers of evil, by night... D.I.S.C.O.!!"

o1s1n · 28-04-2012 5:00pm

So I was moving a load of my gear into another room and decided to test out the Vectrex again. I think I mentioned before that the vector games were messed up.

Plugged it in - nothing. Wouldn't power on. Dead. I could have cried. It was bad enough not being able to play any vector games, but this was a million times worse.

I cursed a lot. The houses fault for being damp. Etc.

Brought it downstairs and plugged it in again, fingers crossed - still nothing

Hold on! After about 10 seconds of nothing, it suddenly burst into life! I've never been so happy to hear a jingle.

So I booted up a vector based game - absolutely perfect.

It's like some magical vectrex fairy appeared and suddenly started making the thing work again 100%.

Spent a while there playing Protector just to make sure it wasnt a fluke, but it runs fine. The relief!!

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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