So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

eddhorse · 03-10-2017 08:16PM

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

My dad threw out all my Japanese Dreamcast stuff a few years back. I thought he was putting them in the attic found them sitting in the rain.

Ouch, but you brought them in and put them in the hot press in a bag of rice, right?

RIGHT?

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 03-10-2017 11:11PM

Got my SNES mini over the weekend and immediately dove into two games in particular that I have been itching to play for years now, Super Castlevania IV and Super Mario World.

Finished both yesterday and today respectively.

Absolute belters of games I'm so annoyed at myself for never playing them sooner.

At the moment I'm torn between Final Fantasy VI and Zelda: Link to the Past.

I've already gotten about 45 mins into FF6 and I haven't started Zelda yet but I've never played it before and I'm dying to try it. Genuine dilemma here lol

Retr0gamer · 03-10-2017 11:19PM

You've not finished SMW unless you get 96 exits. You don't want to be another o1s1n.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 03-10-2017 11:55PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You've not finished SMW unless you get 96 exits. You don't want to be another o1s1n.

It'll be completed in my books if I do that. I'm happy with getting to the end credits.

CiDeRmAn · 03-10-2017 11:58PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You've not finished SMW unless you get 96 exits. You don't want to be another o1s1n.

He's going to give you such a slap at the Xmas Beers...

Retr0gamer · 04-10-2017 12:16AM

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

It'll be completed in my books if I do that. I'm happy with getting to the end credits.

We already have one failure in our group of regulars. Don't be like o1s1n.

Friends don't let friends wuss out at less than 96 exits.

eddhorse · 04-10-2017 07:06AM

Agreed 96 or nothing...

o1s1n · 04-10-2017 01:00PM

I now have a Snes mini to not get 96 exits in too! :eek:

CiDeRmAn · 04-10-2017 01:24PM

o1s1n wrote: »

I now have a Snes mini to not get 96 exits in too! :eek:

O1s1n the troll.... who would have thunk it....

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 05-10-2017 01:00AM

Well I will make an attempt to go for the 96 eventually but I have too many other games I want to play through first.

Retr0gamer · 05-10-2017 09:29AM

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Well I will make an attempt to go for the 96 eventually but I have too many other games I want to play through first.

It's not that hard, I did it in 4 hours last night. Just remember that red stages have 2 exits and most ghost houses as well other than the choco and vanilla one. You are missing out on quite a few levels and unique content otherwise, some secret levels have enemies and hazards unique to them.

Just remember to get the normal exits in star world as they can be easy to forget (like I did last night) and not to hurl your controller at the screen in secret world.

eddhorse · 05-10-2017 02:49PM

That secret world is a pain alright.

Retr0gamer · 05-10-2017 03:16PM

eddhorse wrote: »

That secret world is a pain alright.

Breezed through it last night but I know what is expected of me from them.

The first time I did it there was much tantrums and gnashing of teeth

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 05-10-2017 11:19PM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Well I will make an attempt to go for the 96 eventually but I have too many other games I want to play through first.

It's not that hard, I did it in 4 hours last night. Just remember that red stages have 2 exits and most ghost houses as well other than the choco and vanilla one. You are missing out on quite a few levels and unique content otherwise, some secret levels have enemies and hazards unique to them.

Just remember to get the normal exits in star world as they can be easy to forget (like I did last night) and not to hurl your controller at the screen in secret world.

Noted. It already took me roughly 3.5 hours to get to the ending with 40 odd exits lol

eddhorse · 06-10-2017 04:44PM

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Noted. It already took me roughly 3.5 hours to get to the ending with 40 odd exits lol

Dont feel too bad :

The current 100% (commonly known as 96 exit) speedrun record of Super Mario World, is in the hands of speedrunner GreenDeathFlavor, who completed the game in 1 hour, 22 minutes and 41 seconds in February 2017.

The current 11 Exit record of Super Mario World (1991) is in the hands of speedrunner Area51, who beat the game in 9 minutes and 45.630 seconds in February 2017

Also speedrunner PangaeaPanga beat Super Mario World in 15 mins and 59 seconds while blindfolded.

Gamer Bhoy 89 · 13-10-2017 10:04PM

eddhorse wrote: »

Dont feel too bad :

The current 100% (commonly known as 96 exit) speedrun record of Super Mario World, is in the hands of speedrunner GreenDeathFlavor, who completed the game in 1 hour, 22 minutes and 41 seconds in February 2017.

The current 11 Exit record of Super Mario World (1991) is in the hands of speedrunner Area51, who beat the game in 9 minutes and 45.630 seconds in February 2017

Also speedrunner PangaeaPanga beat Super Mario World in 15 mins and 59 seconds while blindfolded.

lol Well thank god I'm no speedrunner :P

14-10-2017 09:54AM

eddhorse wrote: »

Dont feel too bad :

The current 100% (commonly known as 96 exit) speedrun record of Super Mario World, is in the hands of speedrunner GreenDeathFlavor, who completed the game in 1 hour, 22 minutes and 41 seconds in February 2017.

The current 11 Exit record of Super Mario World (1991) is in the hands of speedrunner Area51, who beat the game in 9 minutes and 45.630 seconds in February 2017

Also speedrunner PangaeaPanga beat Super Mario World in 15 mins and 59 seconds while blindfolded.

wtf

moonlighting · 20-10-2017 05:33PM

I am trying to play beetlejuice on the NES but cant get it work work properly. text doesn't show and game crashes at certain events,
I am using the ever-drive. I wonder could it be an issue that I am playing a US ROM in a European NES
or is it just the flash drive mapper issue,

eddhorse · 21-10-2017 06:19PM

Playing arcade Pleaides (can never spell it) ,
For the Ten Pence Arcade podcast, really tough game but has 3 varying sections.
Top score after a few goes 13,170

brianregan09 · 23-10-2017 10:27AM

Started earthbound last night and played the 1st 2 hours still not sure if I like it or not yet

Inviere · 23-10-2017 03:14PM

brianregan09 wrote: »

Started earthbound last night and played the 1st 2 hours still not sure if I like it or not yet

Stick with it. Be sure to check back on your post in a week or two and wonder wtf you were thinking

Burzum · 27-10-2017 08:09PM

Phantasy Star arrived along with a box of graph paper so thats my long weekend of gaming sorted.
Will also be powering up the 360 and playing a few matches on Shadowrun so all in all will be a good weekend

wheresmahbombs · 29-10-2017 04:36PM

Later today I'll be playing SimCity 3000 and I'll start a 3-heart run of my favourite Zelda game, Majora's Mask, spanning over 3 days until Halloween night. I felt that it would be a good opportunity to end the run on that night since Majora's Mask is regarded as one of the more unsettling Zelda games. I have done a similar run last year, but with 9 hearts instead of 3.

Burzum · 29-10-2017 09:49PM

Electric blanket on, Tea and Fox's Cookies on tap so am good to go for the night.

99nsr125 · 29-10-2017 09:51PM

While blindfolded

Holy cow

eddhorse wrote: »

Dont feel too bad :

The current 100% (commonly known as 96 exit) speedrun record of Super Mario World, is in the hands of speedrunner GreenDeathFlavor, who completed the game in 1 hour, 22 minutes and 41 seconds in February 2017.

The current 11 Exit record of Super Mario World (1991) is in the hands of speedrunner Area51, who beat the game in 9 minutes and 45.630 seconds in February 2017

Also speedrunner PangaeaPanga beat Super Mario World in 15 mins and 59 seconds while blindfolded.

wheresmahbombs · 29-10-2017 10:28PM

Burzum wrote: »

Electric blanket on, Tea and Fox's Cookies on tap so am good to go for the night.

Cool, never played Phantasy Star. The only Sega franchises I'm familiar with are Sonic and Super Monkey Ball, and I never got the chance to own a Sega console either, which probably explains why I'm only familiar with 2 of Sega's franchises.

It's all Nintendo and Sony when it comes to the consoles I own at home. Although I did own an Xbox 360 in 2008/09 before it got the Red Ring of Death and an original Xbox, but that broke.

Burzum · 30-10-2017 12:20AM

wheresmahbombs wrote: »

Cool, never played Phantasy Star. The only Sega franchises I'm familiar with are Sonic and Super Monkey Ball, and I never got the chance to own a Sega console either, which probably explains why I'm only familiar with 2 of Sega's franchises.

It's all Nintendo and Sony when it comes to the consoles I own at home. Although I did own an Xbox 360 in 2008/09 before it got the Red Ring of Death and an original Xbox, but that broke.

If you don't have the hardware, then give emulation a go pick a few master system/mega drive games you like the look of and if you enjoy them then maybe buy the console/games to be honest I don't think you will be disappointed with either console.

BGOllie · 30-10-2017 01:13AM

Burzum wrote: »

Electric blanket on, Tea and Fox's Cookies on tap so am good to go for the night.

enjoy. it's one of the few jrpgs I played, along with Y's , back then. it's a nice old school one with quite a bit of grinding. Those dungeons animations were jaw dropping at the time.

Shapey Fiend · 30-10-2017 06:41AM

Appeal of Sega for me was always not knowing what the hell they'd do next. In their heyday they were the types to not follow up their biggest franchise with a mainline sequel. Nintendo were equally experimental but snuck the innovations into existing franchises.

wheresmahbombs · 30-10-2017 01:02PM

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Appeal of Sega for me was always not knowing what the hell they'd do next. In their heyday they were the types to not follow up their biggest franchise with a mainline sequel. Nintendo were equally experimental but snuck the innovations into existing franchises.

I know, right? We got tons of Sonic spinoffs in the '90s, with the likes of Sonic Spinball, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Sonic Drift, Sonic 3D Blast (or Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island, but 3D Blast rolls off the tongue more easily) and Sonic R.

Speaking of Sonic 3D Blast, someone's enhancing the original Mega Drive game and fixing the game's issues. Here's the most recent video regarding this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I4ZFpC6bbQ

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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