Retro Gaming Megathread: Disconnect from the present, and Go back to the nineties.

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TVs Ian: Jun 1, 2000; Such graceful, delicate creatures.

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

Hell yeah

It would be rad as gently caress if I could figure out how to convert it back to a mortal combat thing to have for when I have parties or kids

Thanks for all the tips, guys

There's always something like this adapter to plunk a PC in there.

# ? Oct 14, 2017 21:46

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 17:20

GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

Bloody Wolf for TG16 is pretty fun. I love that life energy upgrades are called "muscle emphasis tablets". The music is especially good. It's worth buying cheap or sticking it on an everdrive.

# ? Oct 14, 2017 22:26

Luigi Thirty: Apr 30, 2006; Emergency confection port.

Yeah sell the lovely golf game PCB on eBay (someone will buy it and fix it) and slap in a non-garbo game such as Mortal Kombat II. Arcade cabinets have essentially been plug-and-play since the mid-80s so you could theoretically slap any trackball-based game in there. You already have a horizontal monitor so essentially all you'd need to do is buy a MK2 PCB and swap out the trackball control panel for one with two joysticks and 5 buttons for each player.

Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Oct 15, 2017

# ? Oct 15, 2017 00:33

Pastry of the Year: Apr 12, 2013

GutBomb posted:

Bloody Wolf for TG16 is pretty fun. I love that life energy upgrades are called "muscle emphasis tablets". The music is especially good. It's worth buying cheap or sticking it on an everdrive.

T H E P A I N I S G O N E

# ? Oct 15, 2017 02:39

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

Mortal Kombat Golf game?

# ? Oct 15, 2017 03:20

Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

GutBomb posted:

Bloody Wolf for TG16 is pretty fun. I love that life energy upgrades are called "muscle emphasis tablets". The music is especially good. It's worth buying cheap or sticking it on an everdrive.

All the dialog in that game is wonderful:

# ? Oct 15, 2017 03:27

Rollersnake: May 9, 2005; Please, please don't let me end up in a threesome with the lunch lady and a gay pirate. That would hit a little too close to home.; Unlockable Ben

I think that's the arcade version under the title Battle Rangers. The TG-16 version, if I remember correctly, is unfortunately much more coherent.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 04:11

GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

Rollersnake posted:

I think that's the arcade version under the title Battle Rangers. The TG-16 version, if I remember correctly, is unfortunately much more coherent.

I don't know about more coherent but I do know it's infinitely more playable. The arcade version is choppy as gently caress.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 04:48

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Semi-retro, give or take a few years, but I found an Xbox 360 HDD transfer cable for all of $5 today and ordered a 250GB hard drive off eBay (from a legit and known store, rather than a random seller) to transfer my 120GB one to. (I've been meaning to do it for years).

What I want to know is if there's anything important to know in regards to opening the 120GB drive shell and sticking a bigger 2.5-inch harddrive in it. I figure I either get a 500GB drive into the old HDD case, or even if I gently caress it up I've got a shiny new 250GB drive anyway.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 17:06

xamphear: Apr 9, 2002; SILK FOR CALDÉ!

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Semi-retro, give or take a few years, but I found an Xbox 360 HDD transfer cable for all of $5 today and ordered a 250GB hard drive off eBay (from a legit and known store, rather than a random seller) to transfer my 120GB one to. (I've been meaning to do it for years).

What I want to know is if there's anything important to know in regards to opening the 120GB drive shell and sticking a bigger 2.5-inch harddrive in it. I figure I either get a 500GB drive into the old HDD case, or even if I gently caress it up I've got a shiny new 250GB drive anyway.

If your 360 itself is modded, just throw the new drive in and go. If your 360 is not modded, then you're looking at using hddhackr, which needs a motherboard with SATA ports, and a DOS boot device. And hope it works with modern equipment, I guess. I had no problems using it on WD Blue and Black drives back in the day, but maybe newer drives or SATA chipsets are different enough to throw hddhackr off.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 17:26

Sir Tonk: Apr 18, 2006; Young Orc

Wamdoodle posted:

All the dialog in that game is wonderful:

Was just playing it and man you aren't kidding. It's like if Dan Rycket made his own version of the NES Metal Gear.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 17:58

fishmech: Jul 16, 2006; by VideoGames; Salad Prong

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Semi-retro, give or take a few years, but I found an Xbox 360 HDD transfer cable for all of $5 today and ordered a 250GB hard drive off eBay (from a legit and known store, rather than a random seller) to transfer my 120GB one to. (I've been meaning to do it for years).

What I want to know is if there's anything important to know in regards to opening the 120GB drive shell and sticking a bigger 2.5-inch harddrive in it. I figure I either get a 500GB drive into the old HDD case, or even if I gently caress it up I've got a shiny new 250GB drive anyway.

Why aren't you just jamming a large USB hard drive off the back of the 360 for bulk storage? Microsoft changed the USB volume capacity limits back in 2015, so you can use any drive up to 2 terabytes.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 18:39

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/919631370338496512

What are some cool Sega CD games that aren't Sonic or SNATCHER?

# ? Oct 15, 2017 19:49

Dave Angel: Sep 8, 2004

Heart of the Alien.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 20:04

Alucardd: Aug 1, 2006

Although not as good as the original Turbo-CD version: Lords of Thunder.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 20:08

Sir Tonk: Apr 18, 2006; Young Orc

The Kins posted:

What are some cool Sega CD games that aren't Sonic or SNATCHER?

Night Trap!

All the FMV games are worth playing through at least once, although they were typically done better on the 3DO and PC.

Shining Force, Lunar, Final Fight, Ecco, and Eternal Champions if you want to see Sega attempting to beat Mortal Kombat.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 20:17

fishmech: Jul 16, 2006; by VideoGames; Salad Prong

If you have a 32X, always burn the 32X CD version of a game. Much better video quality and higher color depth in general.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 20:19

Turbinosamente: May 29, 2013; Lights on, Lights off

The Kins posted:

What are some cool Sega CD games that aren't Sonic or SNATCHER?

Panic and Road Avenger

# ? Oct 15, 2017 20:23

absolutely anything: Dec 28, 2006; ~As for dreams, she has enough and more to spare~

Slam City With Scottie Pippen

# ? Oct 15, 2017 21:18

lets hang out: Jan 10, 2015

The Kins posted:

https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/919631370338496512

What are some cool Sega CD games that aren't Sonic or SNATCHER?

# ? Oct 15, 2017 21:57

falz: Jan 29, 2005; 01100110 01100001 01101100 01111010

Turbinosamente posted:

Panic and Road Avenger

Yes. Panic may be best played w/ :420:

absolutely anything posted:

Slam City With Scottie Pippen

No. Maybe once just to laugh.

Also no one is saying Sonic CD? I agree w that silence.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 22:05

FAT32 SHAMER: Aug 16, 2012

Sonic CD was the first sega game I played (because it came bundled with the windows 95 system that my parents bought)

# ? Oct 15, 2017 22:23

fishmech: Jul 16, 2006; by VideoGames; Salad Prong

I loved that whole thing Sega did where they released tons of their games on PC in the late 90s, because that's how I played most of them for the first time and Sonic CD and 3D Blast especially were great ports (Sonic R was an almost perfect port but dropped a few things like how the Saturn has some better transparency). But you kind of wonder why they were bothering, it could only have hurt the Saturn further, and then the Dreamcast.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 22:27

Breadallelogram: Oct 9, 2012

falz posted:

Also no one is saying Sonic CD? I agree w that silence.

The Kins posted:

What are some cool Sega CD games that aren't Sonic or SNATCHER?

c'mon man

# ? Oct 15, 2017 23:12

Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

The Kins posted:

https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/status/919631370338496512

What are some cool Sega CD games that aren't Sonic or SNATCHER?

If you want a decent port of a great shmup then Night Striker. It's like Space Harrier and has :krad:

tunes done by Zuntata.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 23:18

GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

The Terminator for Sega cd is great. The music is awesome and the gameplay is really fun too. The video sequences are poo poo but it's to be expected.

It's a different game than the cart version too.

The driving levels in the batman game are pretty fun too. You can even change in the settings to not have the sidescrolling levels in there at all and just play the driving levels.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 23:20

Drowning Rabbit: Oct 28, 2003; YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Sir Tonk posted:

Night Trap!

All the FMV games are worth playing through at least once, although they were typically done better on the 3DO and PC.

Shining Force, Lunar, Final Fight, Ecco, and Eternal Champions if you want to see Sega attempting to beat Mortal Kombat.

No love for Sewer Shark?! I loved that game as a kid.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 23:24

falz: Jan 29, 2005; 01100110 01100001 01101100 01111010

Breadallelogram posted:

c'mon man

Oh well. I anti recommended it then.

# ? Oct 15, 2017 23:54

azurite: Jul 25, 2010; Strange, isn't it?!

Drowning Rabbit posted:

No love for Sewer Shark?! I loved that game as a kid.

A complete cranial evacuation! It's a no-brainer, Mr. Ghost!

# ? Oct 16, 2017 00:15

d0s: Jun 28, 2004

I got a PM saying there's a problem with the forum and this thread needs to be re-posted, is this still the case? I can see it fine but I will repost it if necessary.

# ? Oct 16, 2017 00:40