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Posted on 19-06-22, 16:18 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE

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Posted by CaptainJistuce
Ooooh, I last played that sometime before 2017.
And author's notes are always nice.

"In my design concept for ChoRenSha68k, my number one goal was to make the sense of destruction fun. Second was to make the shooting exciting. "

MY HERO!


There's also an Atari Falcon port, which I never heard of...released in 1992. You can see a WIP version, looks a bit square-y.

The Falcon was produced only for a short period before the company stopped production of all systems other than the upcoming Atari Jaguar. It was Atari's final computer product.


Ah.
Posted on 19-06-29, 22:15 in Fighting and versus games thread

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Daigo (Guile) vs Dual Kevin (Rashid) - CEO 2019 Top 24 - CPT 2019

Posted on 19-06-29, 22:16 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)

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Posted by creaothceann
Summer Games Done Quick 2019


They still have the "Shh! Don't call them R*m hacks" tacit rule I noticed. Which feels silly if they're hosting speed runs on some of those hacks ( played on hardware) anyway but whatever.



Reddit thread with Twitch and YT links
Posted on 19-07-01, 22:05 in Fighting and versus games thread (revision 1)

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Ryusei (Urien) vs Dual Kevin (Rashid) - CEO 2019 Top 8 - CPT 2019
Best match by far.



There was also the Tekken tournament at CEO 2019 which I didn't see but from what I heard from the crowd sounded pretty hype:
World Tour 2019 - CEO 2019 - Pools Day 1.
Timestamps in the comment. Pretty much all the big players were there, including Lil Majin.

Twitch archive - TWT 2019 - CEO 2019 - Top 8



Posted by hunterk
that new arcsys game looks pretty cool with the cooldowns on special moves. I never got to play that game from s. Killian that worked like that. Rising Thunder or whatever it was called...?


Didn't know S.Killian worked on it. Yeah, never played it either.

Granblue Fantasy Versus looks indeed promising. Leave it to Arcsys to take any J-RPG, non fighting game franchise and turn it into a (good) fighting game. Heck, I was introduced to Persona with Persona 4 Arena. I just hope we'll get another Blazblue as I'm not a big fan of Cross Tag Battle personally.
Posted on 19-07-01, 22:43 in What are you listening to right now? (revision 2)

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Kill The Fight


edit: Better sound quality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2JF4EW_X68
Posted on 19-07-11, 20:02 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 3)

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Posted by Broseph

Startropics - NES

One of the better NES game imo. Often overlooked.

HAX!
I just clicked page 1 accidentally, and noticed this isn't authentic Startropics. You don't get the radio frequency in a cutscene in the original game.

You take an actual letter printed on an actual piece of paper out of your game box and run actual water over it. It is awesome, and a shame it doesn't translate to the modern world well.


No, it was also in the ending of the original/authentic game. Though of course, it wouldn't have been of much use to anyone that didn't had access to the paper you had to pour water on to reveal the code (most likely because they rented the game and the store didn't bother including the code somewhere) so they wouldn't have made it to the ending anyway (had to look up the code online myself).

Now that I think about it, the code probably acted as some kind of anti-rental measure. Remember that Nintendo was very anti-rental back then.


Posted by creaothceann

Well there's Angrylion RDP Plus.


Yep, Angrylion is pretty advanced from what I tested thus far (though of course, it is also considerably more demanding. Still, a modern PC can reach full speed with it). All the games that utterly fail on other emu/plugins or just show garbage runs correctly on it.

If your PC isn't quite fast enough to run Angrylion, Mupen64Plus w/ Open GL is much less demanding (but less compatible). I've been getting into N64 emulation a bit more lately as a result of it being much better than in the past.

Posted on 19-07-12, 21:46 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 3)

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Akumajou Dracula - X68000


Probably my new favorite traditional 'vania. It's basically a remake of the first game but holy crap the bosses are challenging at first. The bosses have a lot more patterns and you have to be more aware of your situation in order to beat them. Especially during the doppelganger and werewoman fight.

Also played the PSX Chronicle port/version. Afaik, the only difference is that there's 1 additional frame of lag in the PSX port but honestly, I'd say Chronicles is the definitive version -whether you emulate it or play on hardware, not to mention x68000s are not exactly easy to get.

Castlevania Chronicles


CC also adds an arrange mode (in addition of the original mode). The enemies do less damage at first (though by the time you've reached the later stages the damage reduction seems to be gone so this won't really help you beating the game) and Simon has pink hair for some reason in arrange mode.
Posted on 19-07-12, 22:58 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 2)

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Posted by CaptainJistuce
Chronicles is no Rondo of Blood, but it is probably the best version of the first game by a long shot(including Super Castlevania IV. Fight me.)

Important note:
In Chronicles, while selecting original mode or arrange mode, hold L1 + R1 to unlock the SC-55 soundtrack.


Oh yeah that's right, forgot about that. Dunno why it would be behind some kind of code but this indeed allow you to choose between the different sound modules, like you could on the original X68k before starting the game.

Incidentally, the only thing that's missing from px68k are the extra Roland GS(SC-55) and Roland LA modules so the only way to use those is to play the Chronicles version. Only the native hardware sound is supported.

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Posted by Broseph
Especially during the doppelganger and werewoman fight.
* wifwolf, surely?


Well, I wasn't exactly sure. I just went with the wiki article name.

edit:
The use of the word "were" refers to the ability to shape-shift but is, taken literally, a contradiction in terms since in Old English the word "wer" means man.[1] This would mean it literally translates to "man-woman".


Ah yes, I can see why "were-woman" would be a bit weird then.
Posted on 19-07-13, 20:48 in What are you listening to right now?

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Just found this track: Super Chase - Criminal Termination Music: Stage 4

I found it to be the right mix of being low-key enough as to not be distracting while still being upbeat enough when programming. Kinda reminiscent of some 90s film soundtrack.
Posted on 19-07-13, 20:54 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 3)

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Posted by fsvgm777
The music also has been re-arranged for that mode.....which is very hit-and-miss. There are some really great arranges like Bloody Tears and Simon's Theme.....and then there's stuff that fits better in a disco (Vampire Killer) than in this game.

That's right. Well, I guess that's one more reason to get the PSX port; you get one more soundtrack.

Yeah, not a fan of that one either. Likewise for the original x68k Roland CS and LA; it's hit-or-miss for me, sometimes they sound/feel better with the Roland MIDI sound modules, sometimes I prefer the original sound.

Also "Tower of Dolls" make its first appearance in this game (though I honestly prefer the Ecclesia version)





Speaking of Castlevania I just noticed there's a (edit: fixed link) Castlevania Anniversary Collection Released over a month ago.

Included are:

Castlevania
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Super Castlevania IV
Castlevania: The Adventure
Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
Castlevania: Bloodlines
Kid Dracula

Kind of meh honestly. But, as always, I guess they don't want to give too much content: got to milk those old franchise I suppose (the N64 'vanias probably don't need a re-release though). I might still get it (currently at $13 on PSN) just to play an officially licensed Castlevania game that was originally on NES on the PS4.
Posted on 19-07-24, 04:57 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)

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Finally, Gradius III on the SNES without slowdowns. No, but seriously this is pretty neat:

SNES Gradius III SA-1.
Many gamers of a certain age (this author included) remember the early '90s disappointment of buying the SNES version of hit arcade shmup Gradius III. In magazine screenshots, the game's huge, colorful sprites were a sight to behold, comparable to the 1989 arcade original. In action, though, any scene with more than a handful of enemies would slow to a nearly unplayable crawl on the underpowered SNES hardware.

Now, Brazilian ROM hacker Vitor Vilela has righted this nearly three-decade-old wrong with a ROM patch that creates a new, slowdown-free version of the game for play on SNES emulators and standard hardware.


Even the Bubbles stage doesn't have much, if any, slowdowns.
Posted on 19-07-24, 07:44 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)

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Yeah. Gradius games have never been a favorite shmup series of mine.

Just played the hack. It does play a lot smoother (and is much harder as a result) but at the end of the day, it's still Gradius III and doesn't suddenly turn the game in a great SHMUP or anything. I do quite like the soundtrack of III though.

Maybe more games in the future will be SA-1-ed. It should be mentioned however that, from what the article said, it's not a simple matter of slapping an SA-1 chip on top of a regular SNES game either and there's quite a bit more work involved.

Making a REAL Gradius III SA-1 Cartridge!
Posted on 19-07-24, 22:51 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE

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Posted by CaptainJistuce

It's kind of a shame. Konami has, at times, touched upon the changes that would be needed to make Gradius a great shooter. But they always stumble and then back off for more comfortable terrain.


Haven't really had time to actually play it but from what I saw Gradius Gaiden(PS1 -Japan exclusive) looks pretty good, as far as Gradius games goes.
Posted on 19-07-25, 06:15 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 3)

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Posted by hunterk
There was some crowd-powered thing where anyone can play through a game to help map out all of the stuff that needs to be hooked up to the chip, which the author suggested makes SA1 conversions into a couple-of-weeks task instead of a couple-of-months one.

Someone in the thread suggested running a bunch of 100% TASes to easily and automatically map the games, but I doubt anything ever came of that (or the mapping project, in general).


I've been reading on it a bit. The author goes into more details here. Don't know if anything will come out of this but it's very interesting still. Personally I think Super Ghouls ‘N Ghosts would be a good candidate as the game has some performance issues (though nothing even approaching Gradius III).

He also mentions games like Super Metroid as a possible game but I don't think it would benefit from the whole process all that much as the game runs pretty smoothly as it is (unless of course someone were to make a complete overhaul hack of the game that could take advantage of the SA1 like having more enemies on-screen and things like that, which would be pretty cool but that's way beyond the scope of the project).
Posted on 19-07-29, 03:39 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE

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Posted by tomman

I want to murder my cameraman. Lakitu, YOU'RE FIRED!

Seriously, the camera is often the Achilles' heel of ROMhacks, often leading to instadeaths just because the camera gets stuck at impossible angles, or becomes impossible to control. Some hacks have tried mitigating that by treating the C-buttons as a C-stick, but when you're playing with a keyboard, things are still not pretty.

I'm kinda in love with Ztar Attack Rebooted - lots of tough-as-nails stars, but plenty of easy ones too. Very balanced hack overall. The new Boos stage is quite awesome - for whatever reason, I enjoy Boo-infested zones, even if they become annoying as hell at times.


Oh god, the camera was by far the toughest enemy for me in my run of (vanilla) SM64. To be fair, it's actually pretty decent I think if you compare it to a lot of other 3D games of that era but yeah, this was the prehistory of cameras in 3D platformers.
Posted on 19-08-02, 08:57 in bsnes v108 released

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Great release.

The emulator doesn't just have high accuracy but is pretty great in the features department too now. The snow effect is actually quite nice, no joke, despite it being fairly simple.
Posted on 19-08-02, 09:11 in Fighting and versus games thread (revision 1)

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Evo 2019 Friday-Saturdays. Starts around 1PM eastern time I think.

Games:

SoulCalibur VI
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[st]
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Samurai Shodown
Mortal Kombat 11
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
Street Fighter V
Tekken 7
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate


Oh, and new SFV characters were leaked early.

Lucia is actually an SNES-exclusive Final Fight 3 character, of all places.
Posted on 19-08-03, 09:51 in Fighting and versus games thread (revision 2)

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Posted by hunterk
Honda's the only one of the 3 that I give a shit about, but I like Poison's hair better in this one.

I'm looking forward to Samurai Shodown. I haven't seen any high-level play from it yet, so I'm curious to see what shakes out.


A huge Genjiro army, apparently. Commentators mentionned it was like 75% of Genjiros in the Japanese tournaments, at least in top 8.


edit: Saw the Soul Calibur VI finals live. It was pretty great.
Soul Calibur 6 Evo 2019 Grand Finals

And speaking of Soul Calibur: I'm glad Samurai Showdown is back being Samurai Showdown -that is, a 2D fighting game (gameplay wise) and not the awful Soul Calibur clone it was with SS Sen.
Posted on 19-08-04, 07:02 in Fighting and versus games thread (revision 2)

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Posted by hunterk
Infiltration just ran through Samsho Grand Finals. Seems half of top 8 was half Genjiro...


There was indeed a big pool of Genjūrō players (which I called Genjiro earlier, my bad). Infiltration seem to be back, even if it's not in SF.

This match with Valle was great:
- LU Alex Valle (Galford) vs Top Fighter Didimokof (Genjuro) - Samurai Shodown Top 8
Posted on 19-08-04, 07:31 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 3)

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Solitary Fighter - Violence Fight II




Pretty bad fighting game, especially considering it was released in 1991. Violence Fight came out in 89 and wasn't that bad for its time. The sequel feels like it run on the same engine and doesn't add anything new. The game's Engrish is hilarious though:




http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/fighters/fighters9.htm
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