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What is retro? Anonymous Board owner 04/19/2025 (Sat) 14:38:26 No. 187 [Reply]

We might as well have this conversation now. I know most people feel that the term "retro" as it applies to games should be cut off after 5th gen. This is fair, since after that point games really did start to get smoothed down and corporatised. Not to mention 3d graphics got much better in the 6th gen. A lot of people with this mindset usually suggest a /v2k/ board. I have to say though, if you want to talk about dead boards, a board dedicated to only two console generations would definitely be one considering the traffic we get around here. On the other hand some people use a simple rule of if console is 20 years old then its retro. This makes things simple and let's face it, none of us are getting any younger. Even GCCX has accepted the PS2 and Gamecube as retro though they are played rarely on that show. I think the 20 year rule is good but the problem is you will inevitably face the issue where you end up talking about the 360/PS3 and at that point you're very clearly not in any sort of world where things feel retro. That gen had its own fads and expectations that are clearly different from the ones that game before it. So another option, and one I'm pulling a bit towards and I know some people won't like, is that "retro", at least as far as this board would be concerned, will include 6th gen + DS and PSP and that is the absolute cutoff. The 20 year people will have their stuff and it is nice to be able to talk about Sega's entire hardware lineup on one board. And there are definitely a good amount of ps2 games that still have a experimental retro feel to them. The DS and PSP besides the 20 year rule, their major benefit is that they received a decent amount of retro game remakes and it just makes it easier to talk about those games when no one has wonder if they're allowed to talk about them. HOWEVER, in the event that the board does actually get a lot of traffic or there's too much talk of Halo, then a /v2k/ split at that point would definitely be justified and enacted. But tell if you have an opinion different than what I laid out above.

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Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 02:50:05 No. 223

>>222 Or better yet, just take into account what console the game was originally developed for. Though the Wii version of TP came out first, it was primarily a GC game and only came out a few weeks later because Nintendo wanted to promote it as a Wii launch title.

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 04:37:19 No. 224

>>223 That could be a little harder to identify depending on the case.

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BANNERS Anonymous 05/04/2021 (Tue) 21:04:26 No. 18 [Reply]

If you have any cool banners, post them here and i'll add them. Maximum size is 640x140 and filesize of 1mb.

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Anonymous Board owner 04/19/2025 (Sat) 14:01:10 No. 186

/vr/ is under new management.

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 01:41:20 No. 220

>>186 OH, yes indeed!

Retrocomputing game thread Anonymous 05/09/2021 (Sun) 02:14:25 No. 55 [Reply]

So /vr/, what's your favorite retrocomputer? I'm fond of the MSX and Amiga.. Both have some great games (especially the Amiga, check out Turrican). What's your favorite

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Anonymous 09/08/2024 (Sun) 20:01:39 No. 183

I do appreciate the Commodore PET line to some extent, as well as the Vic-20, Apple ][ family (including the later 16-bit ||GS), Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, and some models of Kaypro. I am also interested Tandy TRS-80 Model 1 Meh for the most part for the unrelated Model II and Model 12, and Model 16. Yes to the TRS-80 Model III, Model 4, COCO1, and COCO 2. Also quite interested in the Atari ST line, MSX,Acorn BBC Micro, Amiga line, as well as the ZX spectrum (save for the +3 and some of the hardware clones), and TI-99/4 and TI-99/4a, even.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 09:21:02 No. 185

>>55 >your favorite C64 because I owned one but now see Japanese 8-bit units as more interesting because of the cases and better video hardware.

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 02:34:37 No. 221

>>185 Japanese 8-bit computers from best to worst imo: Fujitsu FM-7>>Sharp X1>MSX>NEC-PC-8801MKIISR>>Fujitsu FM-8>>Sharp MZ-line>>NEC PC-8800 OG model>>>NEC PC-8000

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 21:40:40 No. 204 [Reply]

I got both of these lately, which should I play first?

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 00:28:31 No. 214

Embrace your autism and fire up bubsy.

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 00:37:37 No. 216

>>214 this is perhaps the worse game I have ever played, I made it an hour before I wanted to snap the controller in half

SEGA Channel Anonymous 09/08/2021 (Wed) 01:33:04 No. 142 [Reply]

Anyone every play?

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Anonymous 10/17/2023 (Tue) 00:29:54 No. 177

>>142 For some reason, Nintendo never seriously thought about bringing the SFC Satelliview service to North America, UK, Netherlands nor Scandinavia as a way to go toe to toe.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 17:44:41 No. 192

>>142 Legitimately never heard of it until I was an adult. Amazing concept for the time but was expensive and games were locked behind it for years like golden axe 3. Which is a great game.

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 00:31:28 No. 215

>>177 Wasn't it that the internet infrastructure wasn't up to snuff? Like they wouldn't have enough potential customers?

/CRT/ general Anonymous 05/07/2021 (Fri) 21:51:08 No. 54 [Reply]

/CRT/ general This thread is for the spirited discussion of CRT displays - Televisions, monitors and projectors used for the playing of retro games!

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Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 17:14:09 No. 190

>>59 No.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 19:12:13 No. 195

>>54 Some places there's an absolute drought and some places have a few. The problem is some people buy them up from random people for normal prices and then sell them on ebay as Retro Gaming TVs for 100+ dollars. I got mine for 20 bucks from a regular person on facebook marketplace like how it should ideally be done.

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 00:26:58 No. 213

>>62 Composite is all you need my friend. Though s-video can be nice sometimes.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 21:03:35 No. 203 [Reply]

Anybody here like bob?? I think it's a pretty good game and the colors look great

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 22:27:11 No. 205

Sorry man I only have a black and white crt. Describe those colors for me.

Anonymous 04/20/2025 (Sun) 00:11:53 No. 210

>>205 Kys >>205

Nintendo 64 thread Anonymous 05/19/2021 (Wed) 19:47:18 No. 114 [Reply]

Figured I'd make a thread about the mediocre console with a handful of great games. What're your favorite N64 games /vr/? I've been playing the english patch of Custom Robo and Donkey Kong 64 recently, been having fun with both of those games although I wish DK64 wasn't super autistic about collectables.

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Anonymous 07/16/2022 (Sat) 05:27:30 No. 158

test

Anonymous 12/03/2023 (Sun) 06:48:57 No. 178

>>114 Conker's Bad Fur Day was surprisingly good. I went in expecting it to be mediocre and forced but it actually was pretty well put together and got a few chuckles out of me.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 19:41:13 No. 197

>>117 I know I'm asking this 3 years late but whats the control scheme? A d pad can't be that different from one thumb stick.

Anonymous 05/04/2021 (Tue) 20:14:52 No. 3 [Reply]

this is my favorite retro game it came out two years before i was born

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Anonymous 12/18/2024 (Wed) 23:34:51 No. 184

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>>128 I never cared much for final Fantasy games after FF X.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 16:44:27 No. 189

7 is actually one of the lesser games in my opinion. All the hype comes from the nostalgia and people thinking the fmvs looked cool as a kid.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 19:33:14 No. 196

>>189 >thinking the fmvs looked cool as a kid Honestly even as an adult the bits where it smoothly transitions from gameplay to fmv are still pretty cool.

Game Music thread Anonymous 05/24/2021 (Mon) 17:16:15 No. 118 [Reply]

Post some tunes

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Anonymous 05/26/2021 (Wed) 17:24:43 No. 127

Baroque for the Sega Saturn and Playstation 1 what super cool for its time. It has a really great aesthetic of machines and flesh, distortion, and so on, it's a rogue-like with a story that is also quite cool, and it really just nails it at being memorable for me. Sinful Eyes is my favorite track across all the ports.

Anonymous 08/12/2021 (Thu) 21:08:34 No. 139

Super Castlevania IV ending theme is one of my favorites. It really hit home for me once you finish the journey and you get those flashback animations of the places you've been.

Anonymous 04/19/2025 (Sat) 15:47:19 No. 188

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6_owx_Fmts I thought this was pretty good.

Bomberman Anonymous 05/04/2021 (Tue) 20:12:43 No. 2 [Reply]

What's your favorite Bomberman game? Also definitely check out Power Bomberman, a massive Bomberman fangame with hundreds of characters and an active online community.

Anonymous 05/06/2021 (Thu) 05:12:58 No. 48

I'm not a big Bomberman fan, but I have a lot of nostalgia for Bomberman 64. I like the music especially.

Anonymous 05/17/2021 (Mon) 01:25:59 No. 103

link to Power Bomberman, which is completely free https://mega.nz/file/iXwxVAxa#MPs9PN9MhxBjPWnsDdwd9st56lMr0NchUtAxWa2DtGs If anyone is interested, a gamenight could be arranged

Anonymous 04/01/2024 (Mon) 23:38:56 No. 180

>>2 the psp game

Romhacks Anonymous 05/04/2021 (Tue) 20:35:13 No. 12 [Reply]

Any cool romhacks or translations you know about? I recently played Rockman CX, a massive MM2 romhack with plenty of crossovers and cool new bosseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5WejVCT2pI

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Anonymous 08/06/2022 (Sat) 00:54:02 No. 161

>>160 So did the PSP version of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment. Not Iwakura's, someone else's: https://github.com/sayucchin/P2-EP-PSP

Anonymous 09/14/2022 (Wed) 16:12:54 No. 162

Anyone know some decent halloween romhacks? Kirby's Halloween Adventure was nice visually but not much else.

Anonymous 12/09/2023 (Sat) 21:21:40 No. 179

>>12 There's these Megaman 1 hacks that I have on my computer. One is Megaman Alpha, and its basically a reskin graphics-wise, while the other is Megaman, the New Lands with 6 all new Robot Masters in place of the original, such as Dynaman, Tintman, Caveman, and Hunterman, along with a different art-style. Plus, Getting hurt won't knock you back like in practically all of the Classic and X games. The default plasma cannon is now called a blaster, as can be seen from the start button menu. Then there's one I have for Megaman 3 called "the rise and fall of Dr. Wily".

What's the time limit for a game to be considered retro? Anonymous 05/14/2021 (Fri) 04:49:27 No. 79 [Reply]

It's clear at this point as the years go by systems like the ps3, Xbox 360, and the Wii would be considered retro systems at this point but other disagree. What are your opinions on this because as unusual as it feels to some I feel that it's apt for the seventh console generation to be considered retro. Pic unrelated.

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Anonymous 11/15/2022 (Tue) 21:13:21 No. 165

I would say up to the 5th gen. Games from the PS2 and onwards look and play much more akin to modern vidya without the jewry, with most of the hardware limitations on gameplay gone out of the way. You could show them to kids or someone who doesn't even play videogames and they'd think they look pretty cool, and get into them somewhat easily. But PS1, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy Color and maybe even some Dreamcast games? If i showed them to most people more used to modern vidya, they'd probably think they aged horribly and that they look and play like barebones tech demos of latter 2000's vidya. I'd have a hard time selling them to anyone who didn't grow up with those consoles or who isn't very patient without a "it was good for it's time" mindset. The only exception would probably be the Nintendo DS, at least compared with the PSP. I also dunno where to draw the line with PC games.

Anonymous 11/23/2022 (Wed) 19:48:09 No. 166

>>165 Well that settles that then.

Anonymous 10/16/2023 (Mon) 19:33:11 No. 174

>>79 >>132 The Dreamcast should be retro in terms of the time and date it got released, for sure. All other 6th gen consoles and up, no dice.

Import games and consoles Anonymous 05/18/2021 (Tue) 06:59:36 No. 110 [Reply]

What import games does /vr/ like? I've been looking forward to playing Sweet Home. I have a Famicom I got some years back, and I can use the English translation as I own a flashcart. I'm pretty fond of the PC-Engine and MSX as well, both very interesting consoles/computers in my opinion. What does /vr/ like?

Anonymous 05/18/2021 (Tue) 17:44:02 No. 111

Fire Pro Wrestling anything and most Banpresto titles of yore.

Anonymous 03/21/2023 (Tue) 21:38:06 No. 171

i really enjoyed sweet home as you mentioned and the english translation of mother 3

Anonymous 01/05/2023 (Thu) 13:47:53 No. 167 [Reply]

atari 2600 / Stella emulation thread

Anonymous 01/05/2023 (Thu) 14:02:28 No. 168

recommended atari 2600 games: dragonfire berzerk fishing derby space invaders jungle hunt yar's revenge donkey kong adventure centipede asteriods custer's revenge bank heist HERO keystone kapers frostbite galaxian

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WW3 Anonymous 05/14/2021 (Fri) 22:13:29 No. 91 [Reply]

Anybody like this game?

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Anonymous 05/18/2021 (Tue) 21:39:38 No. 112

>>93 The first and second W&W were straightforward, even if batshit chaotic hard for beginners. You just beat levels until the game is done. W&W3 stands out because it wasn't that. It's an open world game that you need to figure out how to beat by exploring and talking to NPCs. It's much more chill. I do recommend it to you if the first game wasn't your cup of tea.

Anonymous 07/08/2021 (Thu) 06:26:12 No. 138

>>91 It's the only one of the trilogy that I never played. I always liked the artstyle and music of the W&W games.

Anonymous 09/23/2021 (Thu) 22:14:29 No. 144

Never played it. In fact, the only one I played out of the trilogy was the first one.