I was impressed with Ship of Harkinian, the PC port of Ocarina of Time. Namel, you can mak everything have the appearance of Twilight Princess if you install enough mods. Then again, even unmodded Ship of Harkinian has a lot of options that would make your experience fabulous.
No chance on the arcade version. I just tried, died for the first time on 9, game overed on 14.
No, all the YouTube videos and articles saying “Animal Crossing now has a native PC port, here’s the source code and a download” are just guys in costumes using practical effects.
Having done this on a fresh PC i bought a few weeks ago, i think that's more an emulation thing as the logs show it having a "sys_metux_destroy" CELL_EBUSY error that tends to stack up quickly, usually when you go into menus, and only gets a little worse the deeper into the game you get, alongside the occasional 'fault in uniterruptible code' error for seemingly random parts of a level.
Yep, I get those errors. It didn't happen from the first couple hours. It does chug from too many enemies on screen or whatever visual effects occur from some weapons. I haven't tested it on other games.
Disagree, retro was when you HAD to get out the old console and the physical games, hook everything up and play it. No other options if you wanted to play previous gen games like Faxandu in 1999.
I forget where I read it specifically so I can't link, but yeah these are known problems with emulating the ps3 r&c games. The whole series is notoriously hard to emulate, even the ps2 ones have pretty rubbish performance. Have been playing through the entire series myself lately; fortunately I had an old ps3 I dug out and got HEN set up on so I can just play the ps3 entries on that.
I made a Ratchet & Clank thread here if you're curious. I'm looking to revisit the series as well, but the performance hitches on my current computer is dismaying me from doing so.
Um ackshually, NESticle already existed back in 1997, so you could have emulated it without original hardware.
Yeah but what if you had actual friends and wanted to play multiplayer and not share a keyboard which was the way most people played games on Nesticle? I know, I know... Or Super Bomberman on the SNES using the multitap and four players? Or four player Goldeneye in the PS2 era? You needed the original hardware and cartridges.
What does that even mean? Every console has to be hooked up. Handhelds don’t have to be hooked up, even old ones. Does it stop being retro if its games are rereleased in a modern digital fashion? Does emulation make it stop being retro? Did you mean to say it’s only retro if the system didn’t have downloadable games? If so, then what about systems that some downloadable games and others retail-only? How does PC factor in? Why is Faxanadu the first game you thought of? Who are you and what are you doing in my house?
Followed that thread so fast.
The apparently minor differences are enough to make the game pretty distinct: no killing enemies before they join the big swarm, no double ship, etc. Galaxian is all about shooting guys as they dive at you, the thing you try to avoid happening in Galaga. So I think it's still worth a look. But what's really nice, is Galaga '88.
If you ask me Splatter House is pretty much the best game on the console, and the unreleased RPG is pretty baller too:
Xevious is better than it sounds. In Druaga you can actually pick up an item to increase your speed within the first couple of stages. One of the few games where I'd say yeah just use a guide for everything, it's not even worth attempting to figure it out without outside help.
My modest run above is about the best I've ever done tbh. One nice (?) thing about the zillion Bubble Bobble inspired games out there is that most of them are a whole lot easier than the original.
It's been a while since I tried PS3 emulation on my M1 Air but it didn't run games that well for me. I dunno like on paper the M1 should be ok, but maybe it's the lack of the fan or something with how it governs power I was just never able to get very impressive performance out of that thing.
Did you finish it? I got a few areas into it and lost interest, it's a pretty samey RPG.
It does help that in the many sequels, the first secret room is actually easy to reach:
Yeah, rawdogged it without a fastforward option even, which I would not recommend. Seemed basically typical of the era (very late NES). It met my #1 criterion for a good classic-style jRPG: it's pretty short.
Taito never toned them down much though. Like Joe & Mac Return, Nightmare in the Dark etc, pretty much anything else along those lines that I can think of... all way easier than actual BB games.
Gunlord X is pretty much unlicensed Turrican and I think they did good.
