So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

o1s1n · 01-09-2014 09:54PM

Both TVs are in 16:9 mode ... >_>

Yeah unfortunately only one of my PS1s has a mod chip at the moment, so we are currently locked at 50hz.

CathalDublin · 01-09-2014 11:40PM

I'm back on bubble bobble on my newly acquired bootleg(Custom aladar roms) and I have to say much harder than on mame, on the original BB in mame I can get to level 20 every play on a single lifed and score over 1,500,000 every coin, struggling to get over 1,000,000 on PCB. anyone else notice games played on mame seem to be easier?

The Last Bandit · 02-09-2014 09:37AM

Check the DIP switches settings ? Yours might be different to the Mame default.

MrVestek · 02-09-2014 09:57AM

o1s1n wrote: »

Both TVs are in 16:9 mode ... >_>

Yeah unfortunately only one of my PS1s has a mod chip at the moment, so we are currently locked at 50hz.

Why would you do that on a 4:3 screen? Whyyyy?

o1s1n · 02-09-2014 10:00AM

MrVestek wrote: »

Why would you do that on a 4:3 screen? Whyyyy?

What would 60hz at 16:9 look like on a 4:3 television?

I'll let that sink in for a minute

Andrew76 · 02-09-2014 10:55AM

It wasn't those borders that caught my attention, more so the precarious balancing act you've got going on! That Dreamcast is going for a short trip down the back of the monitor sometime soon. :eek:

Actually, is that shelf attached to the wall or just resting on top of the Sony with the PS1s weighing it down?

o1s1n · 02-09-2014 10:57AM

Hahaha!

If the Dreamcast worries you then I won't fill you in on the details of that shelf...

Lets just say you really wouldn't want to pick up those PS1s :eek:

Andrew76 · 02-09-2014 11:01AM

o1s1n wrote: »

Hahaha!

If the Dreamcast worries you then I won't fill you in on the details of that shelf...

Lets just say you really wouldn't want to pick up those PS1s :eek:

:pac:

Christ, one of these days you'll forget and... crash! Feck!

MrVestek · 02-09-2014 11:02AM

o1s1n wrote: »

What would 60hz at 16:9 look like on a 4:3 television?

I'll let that sink in for a minute

It'd have borders which is why I'm asking.

Unless of course you're shamefully running both in 50hz in which case I'll get Retr0 after ya!

Retr0gamer · 02-09-2014 11:12AM

Ever since o1s1n admitted to never beating Super Mario World with 96 exits nothing would surprise me

MrVestek · 02-09-2014 11:15AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ever since o1s1n admitted to never beating Super Mario World with 96 exits nothing would surprise me

Neither have I. In my defence though I only got a SNES about a month ago. :P

o1s1n · 02-09-2014 12:21PM

Andrew76 wrote: »

:pac:

Christ, one of these days you'll forget and... crash! Feck!

Not to worry, the only console that would fall is a Jaguar, so no loss!

MrVestek wrote: »

It'd have borders which is why I'm asking.

Unless of course you're shamefully running both in 50hz in which case I'll get Retr0 after ya!

Yep, it would have boarders - so that means someone can't accuse you of running a game in PAL 50hz based purely on boarders :pac:

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Ever since o1s1n admitted to never beating Super Mario World with 96 exits nothing would surprise me

How do you think I felt, not even knowing there were 96 exits until recently. :eek:

Myrddin · 02-09-2014 12:23PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Yep, it would have boarders - so that means someone can't accuse you of running a game in PAL 50hz based purely on boarders :pac:

C'mon...nobody is buying that...you're a closet PAL lover aren't you :P

o1s1n · 02-09-2014 12:23PM

Myrddin wrote: »

C'mon...nobody is buying that...you're a closet PAL lover aren't you :P

I just can't handle full speed games in my old age

I'll have the last laugh though when we're all older and everyone is looking for PAL games so they can play with their arthritis.

Myrddin · 02-09-2014 12:25PM

o1s1n wrote: »

I just can't handle full speed games in my old age

I'll have the last laugh when we're all older and everyone is looking for PAL games so they can play with their arthritis.

I see...that explains why Ciderman only really bothers with a black & white pong machine these days...

o1s1n · 02-09-2014 12:38PM

Word has it his eyes can no longer handle the vibrancy of RGB

Star Lord · 02-09-2014 12:59PM

Myrddin wrote: »

I see...that explains why Ciderman only really bothers with a black & white pong machine these days...

If you'd attended the beers you'd know the Super Pong machine displays in a glorious rainbow colour effect.

And that I'm much better at Pong than Ciderman.

:pac:

CiDeRmAn · 02-09-2014 03:37PM

Can you not save this for my Wake?
Shouldn't be long now , given my advanced years and failing senses

o1s1n · 02-09-2014 10:49PM

Mate came over at 8pm, started a link cable game of Final Doom Co-Op.

2 and a half hours later we stopped playing due to one of the discs freezing.

So much fun!

It's quite a difficult game compared to the first and is absolutely manic two player. When you die you respawn, but with no key cards.

So there were bits where he'd have all the key cards but maybe 5% health, and I'd have respawned with no keys and had to act as a bodyguard while he opened the doors.

Then he'd die and we'd have to both go and look for all the key cards all over again.

There really is nothing quite like mowing down a room full of demons with a mate and two chainguns.

Retr0gamer · 02-09-2014 11:38PM

Went through all the doom games in co op on ultra violence a few years back in 4 player. Final Doom was insane. Cyber demons and spider masterminds everywhere. Played a bit on nightmare which was crazy. Enemies keep respawning so we would keep players back to clear out choke points while others went ahead to get keys. Lots of very advanced tactics needed!

o1s1n · 03-09-2014 11:16AM

We were playing on Hurt Me Plenty and even with that, it was fairly challenging. I can only imagine what Nightmare and Ultraviolence would be like in Final Doom. Especially with a controller! :eek:

MrVestek · 03-09-2014 11:29AM

Replaying the first Shenmue tonight for the first time since 2007.

Will be streaming the playthrough on Twitch too if any forumites are interested.

johnny_ultimate · 03-09-2014 11:41AM

Finally getting up to the point where I drifted away last time with Earthbound, and am determined to finish it this time. But, once again, I have to express some frustration with the actual RPG side of the game - for all its good ideas (such as rolling health counter, non-random battles), there's so much combat in the game, and the combat system is so basic at times, that I feel it sucks a lot of enjoyment out of it. I love the game world, the strangeness, the presentation, the music, the characters, the stories that develop. But the traditionally 'gamey' side of it? Not so much.

o1s1n · 03-09-2014 11:44AM

I'm playing the sequel at the moment and the combat is a bit more advanced. More interesting use of buffs, an optional rhythm based attack system (if you're that way inclined!) and the bosses seem to take a bit more beating to go down.

I won't remember Earthbound for the battles though, it's just the setting/characters/soundtrack as you said.

johnny_ultimate · 03-09-2014 11:59AM

I'll definitely try to get around to Mother 3 afterwards.

It's just frustrating that in this otherwise excellent game a considerable percentage - close to half, I'd reckon - of your time is spent playing a fairly bog-standard JRPG. It's not awful, it's just merely perfunctory. The 'dungeons' really feel like a chore at times, and it always feels as if you become powerful enough to auto-win a little bit too late for it to make much difference. (Also: this is nitpicking - especially because narratively it actually makes sense - but the fact every new character who joins your party starts on level one drives me mad

)

I can't wait to see the final chapters of the game because I've read so many good things about them. Shame it's a bit of a slog to get there, which is having a knock-on effect on my opinion of the game generally. I think those frustrations were part of the reason I didn't actually make it to the end two or three years ago.

Myrddin · 03-09-2014 12:37PM

Ah JU

I only played Earthbound for the first time properly when it was released on the Wii U VC. Admittedly now I'd be a total rpg noob, but I thouroughly, thouroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. The combat I'd imagine towards other rpg's, is basic...I guess that suited me as I'd no prior experience. But like o1s1n said, I'll remember the game not for the combat, but everything else about it

Retr0gamer · 03-09-2014 02:15PM

I found the battle system was a little bit more basic than Dragon Quest as well but the fact that the battles were pretty fast paced made up for it. There's good use of the rolling HP counter sometimes but it is kind of basic. The fact that the battles were fast paced was why I didn't mind it, it would be worse if they were snoozefests that lasted forever like in Legend of Dragoon.

It takes a while to get to Fourside but that's when the game gets very interesting.

Mother 3 is a good bit better. Buffs are more important and the rhythm sub system in the battles is really interesting and fun. The dungeons are much better designed. It's much better paced as well coming in at 20-25 hours and broken into 9 chapters.

Retr0gamer · 04-09-2014 11:45PM

Oh another thing to add the battle system is very lie dragon quest to instill the nostalgia in the player which is sadly missed by anyone outside of Japan that didn't grow up with dragon quest.

I spent my evening finishing megaman 2 and castlevania 4. Remember when konami and capcom made great games? Actually remember when they made their own games?

At least there's always dark souls which is pretty much what castlevania in 3D should be and not the lords of shadow games.

Donatron · 05-09-2014 12:22AM

Duke Nukem 3d on the xbox 360! Game holds up very well and is a blast to play with the 360 controller. The respawn feature (where you can spawn at any point from when you started the level to when you died) takes most of the challenge out of the game unfortunately

o1s1n · 05-09-2014 10:27AM

Lashed the GNET back into a cab last night and gave Psyvariar (original version, not the revision) a proper blast for the first time.

Have played many a bullet hell game in my time, but my christ, this has to be up there with some of the most complex patterns/versus hitbox size. The ship doesn't have that 'tiny, I'll dodge through rain' feeling that the likes of Cave shmups have.

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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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