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

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I played Shock Troopers and Twinkle Star Sprites for the first time in the past week, and it made me miss shmups that were made like this. It made me thankful that Metal Slug was not the only one.
 
Koi Fish said:
Nintendo showing us once again that copyright laws protect not the authors, but big corporations' legal offices.
The more I see this stuff going on the more I wish for a modern Ted Kaz.

2024 is the year of shit DMCA it seems, CDRomance has to take all downloads for translations and romhacks off-site.
I fucking hate lawyers.
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Fuck, that was really convenient for translations because often ROMs would be prepatched. Are there any other good sites with prepatched ROMs?
 
SSj_Ness said:
Fuck, that was really convenient for translations because often ROMs would be prepatched. Are there any other good sites with prepatched ROMs?
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They were moved off-site, i guess it's still available. Also, most users on that thread are reporting that they can still download stuff just fine, so I guess that you should get what you can before it gets into effect.

Also, the android DS emulator DRASTIC is going to be taken down soon, and citra is down as well and has it's Github repo taken down (lol, why)
 
SSj_Ness said:
Fuck, that was really convenient for translations because often ROMs would be prepatched. Are there any other good sites with prepatched ROMs?
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it only really lasted for a day or two. the site owner had it set up so that you would have to copy a code for the game you wanted, then go to cdromance.org and put in your code to get a download link. he must have worked out something else because now i believe the main site redirects to the .org and the download links are directly on the page again.
 
Syikeblade said:
Anyone have a link for a good site on getting ps2 bios?
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davids877 said:
It looks like the Internet Archive has them:
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Koi Fish said:
along with r-roms.github.io & myrient.
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Thanks for the links, there's also http://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulator_files not the most up to date, but it has alt links and (in other pages) instructions for setting bios that need a bit of work (like xbox or dsi)
SSj_Ness said:
Fuck, that was really convenient for translations because often ROMs would be prepatched. Are there any other good sites with prepatched ROMs?
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When in doubt, search "query" + "archive". In this case, "translated roms archive". Sometimes jewgle could be a retard though and you have to add ".org" or even use "site:archive.org" instead of just "archive". Archive's own search might be better or worse.
Do learn patching though, not all patches and translation are available as prepatched.
 
Ibanez RG 350EX said:
"I love Nintendo games so much that I hope it becomes incredibly difficult and expensive for others to experience them."
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NOOOOOOOOOOO IF YOU PIRATE 3DS GAMES SHIGERU MIYAMOTO WILL STARVE!!!
Shigeru miyamoto's family after i pirate a 30 year old game nintendo.gif


(However, buying used copies for hundreds of dollars on eBay, where Nintendo makes no money, is perfectly acceptable.)
 
TheRetardKing said:
You thought GBA Video was strange? Check out the MovieCart for the Atari Video Computer System.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6pAQJZRUf3shttps://youtube.com/watch?v=GJVZgk9wwY8
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This and GBA video was an interesting rabbit hole to go down. The sound in particular is surprisingly good. Are there video players for other retro systems?

Back when GBA video was new, they seemed popular, but to me they always seemed like a bad deal. You could get a game, or 2 episodes of a cartoon you've likely already seen. I also don't know why it never continued on DS and 3DS. Especially since those could handle FMV properly. 3DS even had 3D videos you could download from the e-shop. These were mostly short videos of flowers and things like that, not full episodes of shows. I want to say there was a fan site that hosted home made 3D photos. I don't know if they hosted videos too?
 
Judge Dredd said:
I also don't know why it never continued on DS and 3DS. Especially since those could handle FMV properly. 3DS even had 3D videos you could download from the e-shop. These were mostly short videos of flowers and things like that, not full episodes of shows. I want to say there was a fan site that hosted home made 3D photos. I don't know if they hosted videos too?
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Actually, they did. Some Disney movies like Wretch-it-Ralph, Up and Big Hero 6 were available to buy on the Japanese eshop, as well as the The LEGO Movie. All of them supported 3D.
 
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Judge Dredd said:
Back when GBA video was new, they seemed popular, but to me they always seemed like a bad deal. You could get a game, or 2 episodes of a cartoon you've likely already seen
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they were cool if you had a flash cart, you could encode your own or download stuff
first time I saw Good Times With Weapons was on my gbasp
 
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