Retro games and emulation - Discuss retro shit in case you're stuck in the past or a hipster

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Two Dollars said:
No idea what that is, but my first recommendation is to stop being a homosexual. My second, more serious recommendation, and what I was originally looking for, is Namco Classic Collection Volumes 1 and 2. A two-part collection of six modernized (by mid-90s standards) sequels of classic games plus their original counterparts. Pac-Man Arrangement has been rereleased a few times including through the modern Pac-Man Museum+, but the others have either been rereleased only once ~25 years ago or not at all. Despite having the same name, these are not the same as the Arrangement games from the PSP/360.

There’s also Mr. Driller G which was finally added to MAME a couple years ago. The later console games are probably better overall, but it’s still a fun novelty and has visual flair that the console games never got.
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I’d also recommend the Namco Archives volume 1 and 2.

They’re collections of the Famicom ports of the classic Namco games, with some cool extras like the previously-unreleased Famicom port of Gaplus on one volume and a localized version of Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Grafitti on the other.

The Famicom ports of most of the games were often shockingly good, especially the port of Rolling Thunder.

HexFag said:
I've seen it typed both ways for FOREVER, but yeah it is SHMUP, my bad.
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Only eurotrash and retards put the “c” in.

I realize that is kind of redundant.
 
Samuel Fuller said:
I’d also recommend the Namco Archives volume 1 and 2.

They’re collections of the Famicom ports of the classic Namco games, with some cool extras like the previously-unreleased Famicom port of Gaplus on one volume and a localized version of Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Grafitti on the other.

The Famicom ports of most of the games were often shockingly good, especially the port of Rolling Thunder.
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Don’t forget they also have a port of Pac Man CE that began as a homebrew demo video on Youtube years before on one of the collections too
 
Hentai-Semitism said:
Soul Calibur
Tekken 3
Teken Tag Tournament
The Outfoxies
Rolling Thunder 2
Dangerous S(n)eed
Fighter & Attacker
NebulasRay
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Calandrino said:
btw Rolling Thunder 2, Outfoxies, and Nebulas Ray are all Namco games, so it appears you are a slanderous casual
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Not casual, just blind apparently :(
Call me old-fashioned, but no Pac-Man, Galaga, Dig Dug, Mappy, Xevious, Sky Kid, Tower of Druaga, Mr. Driller, Rally X, Motos…
Samuel Fuller said:
Why the fuck did you put a “c” in shmup?

There is no “c” in shoot-em up, which SHMUP is a contraction of.
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Imagine rating a post Dumb because it didn’t use your preferred abbreviation for shoot-em-up.
 
Calandrino said:
A lot of those homebrews on that site look nifty. GBC OutRun!
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CDRomance (now RetroGameTalk) is usually on point with the homebrew stuff. It’s just this one time where they added troonslop.

Incidentally, this game was kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back when it came to buying the Chromatic and an everdrive yesterday. Obviously there were a ton of other games I wanted to play on it, and it’s good and healthy to carry a gaming machine that both fits in your pocket and is disconnected from the world around you, but I also wanted to play this “game” on it’s intended hardware.

I’ll post deets in… a couple weeks, I guess? Either here or on the troonslop thread.
 
Christmas Cretin said:
The main reason is because you can't update torrents after the fact, so adding new games to a collection would require everyone seeding to move to a new torrent each time.
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I still think having the games in individual torrents like a regular torrent tracker would've worked just fine but yeah I never really considered massive lump sum collections. On certain trackers, the way they handle this whenever there is a new game added is by requiring that people rejoining the torrent to scan using certain software and updating a DAT file and usually it sorts itself just fine. Torrent managers have a way of allowing you to not have to download the full release again if certain parts are missing, just the missing parts.

Screenshot below shows an example of what I'm talking about in terms of lump-sum torrents of games.
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Is this where I bitch about the Atari Skinwalker forcing GOG and Steam to make OpenTTD an odd on to their recently released emulated Transport Tycoon Deluxe?

Not that Transport Tycoon Deluxe could run on a modern hardware without some tinkering, but OpenTTD is a clean room rebuild of Chris Sawyer's game that's been developed for... like two decades now.

How can Atari (or the investment bank wearing it's face) do this?
 
breadandcircuses said:
Is this where I bitch about the Atari Skinwalker forcing GOG and Steam to make OpenTTD an odd on to their recently released emulated Transport Tycoon Deluxe?

Not that Transport Tycoon Deluxe could run on a modern hardware without some tinkering, but OpenTTD is a clean room rebuild of Chris Sawyer's game that's been developed for... like two decades now.

How can Atari (or the investment bank wearing it's face) do this?
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Are you asking how can they can freely distribute an open source program? Isn't the fact that it can be freely distributed kind of the point?
 
Never Scored said:
Are you asking how can they can freely distribute an open source program? Isn't the fact that it can be freely distributed kind of the point?
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No, I'm asking why GOG has a banner calling OpenTTD an addon/mod that requires Transport Tycoon Deluxe to play when that has never been the case in twenty years.

There's no longer a storefront on Steam for OpenTTD.

OpenTTD has been on GOG and Steam for years at this point, but now that Atari's released Transport Tycoon Deluxe with an emulator so it can run on modern hardware, all of the sudden you have to OpenTTD bundled with it on Steam or it's considered a Mod on GOG.

I apologize if it feels like I've got feelings about this, but Transport Tycoon Deluxe was my childhood in the late 90s (along with Red Alert and other games) and I've been playing OpenTTD for the last 15 years.
 
breadandcircuses said:
No, I'm asking why GOG has a banner calling OpenTTD an addon/mod that requires Transport Tycoon Deluxe to play when that has never been the case in twenty years.

There's no longer a storefront on Steam for OpenTTD.

OpenTTD has been on GOG and Steam for years at this point, but now that Atari's released Transport Tycoon Deluxe with an emulator so it can run on modern hardware, all of the sudden you have to OpenTTD bundled with it on Steam or it's considered a Mod on GOG.

I apologize if it feels like I've got feelings about this, but Transport Tycoon Deluxe was my childhood in the late 90s (along with Red Alert and other games) and I've been playing OpenTTD for the last 15 years.
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Then download OpenTTD from somewhere other than a storefront, and quit whining.
 
any niche/rare original Xbox games I should know about? I'm currently on X-men legends on Xemu.
 
breadandcircuses said:
No, I'm asking why GOG has a banner calling OpenTTD an addon/mod that requires Transport Tycoon Deluxe to play when that has never been the case in twenty years.

There's no longer a storefront on Steam for OpenTTD.

OpenTTD has been on GOG and Steam for years at this point, but now that Atari's released Transport Tycoon Deluxe with an emulator so it can run on modern hardware, all of the sudden you have to OpenTTD bundled with it on Steam or it's considered a Mod on GOG.

I apologize if it feels like I've got feelings about this, but Transport Tycoon Deluxe was my childhood in the late 90s (along with Red Alert and other games) and I've been playing OpenTTD for the last 15 years.
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Oh I understand what you mean now. It was listed independently before and now you can only get it if you buy Atari's version. I thought you were mad because Atari was distributing it with the original Transport Tycoon assets to make Transport Tycoon Deluxe work with modern operating systems... kind of like how a lot of games on GOG come bundled with a stripped down version of Dosbox.
 
NeonFlux said:
any niche/rare original Xbox games I should know about? I'm currently on X-men legends on Xemu.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes. It was Xbox-exclusive and it's similar to X-Men Legends as an up-to-4-player beat 'em up that's also kind of an RPG. Honestly, it's pretty mediocre, but it was good enough for me to play through it three times as a bored kid (it's not that long).
If you like rail-shooters, there's Panzer Dragoon Orta.
There's really not that many games exclusive to the OG Xbox, but we're expanding beyond that some, The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge. It's also on PS2, but I played the Xbox version as a kid and it's supposedly the better version. It was made by Capcom and it's basically like Devil May Cry but for kids.
 
Never Scored said:
I thought you were mad because Atari was distributing it with the original Transport Tycoon assets to make Transport Tycoon Deluxe work with modern operating systems... kind of like how a lot of games on GOG come bundled with a stripped down version of Dosbox.
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If they were doing that, it wouldn't be so bad, but unfortunately, that's not what they're doing at all.

There's some... other forums where I've seen the response.

A lot of people are not happy about it, yet a bunch of them are buying it anyway so they can strip the assets from it and load it as a mod for OpenTTD.

Transport Tycoon Deluxe's gameplay is unchanged from it's 95 release. All you're getting is the ability to run it on modern hardware. And from what I've seen from reviews, it's not optimized very well.
 
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