What are you playing?

senkun

@senkun said in What are you playing?:

@gamer85 said in What are you playing?:

Hey there. Won't work with mame4all, too old. G. Parodius runs perfectly with lr-mame2003, no special settings needed. Make sure you have the proper .78 romset.

Under lr-mame2003 I am unable to get .78 romset version of gokuparo.zip to work. When I launch it, just shows black screen and returns back to Retropie. What is your zip file size? Any ideas?

Tried another rom source? Or rebuilt one just to be sure? It's been a long time but I just double checked and played the game again, works perfectly on mine. fwiw my gokuparo.zip is 5,632 KB

I'll check everything again later, got some time to spare and we'll get you sorted.

senkun

@PetroRie said in What are you playing?:

@senkun said in What are you playing?:

@PetroRie said in What are you playing?:

@senkun said in What are you playing?:

I just can't stop playing Metal Slug, the whole series in sequence is such a gem to replay.

Haha DUDE! That is exactly what I'm doing now! I have all the Neo Geo roms and going to play ALL the Metal Slug titles.

Haha it's gonna be way fun. There's this continuity when you start from the first and work all the way to X. And watch out for all the little details, so many I never noticed when I first played them all those years ago, you can tell they really put a lot of love into the series. And somehow it still feels so current, what with the aliens and the zombies and the mideast themes. Probably my all time favorite title. My reflexes are not what they used to be so I cheated and went free play, hope you're doing better!

For some reason it really reminds me of Indiana Jones. An another fun fact is I rescued a POW, and when I was done with the stage I got to see his name, it was an Asian name... While all the POW's in the game are all blonde and have a Caucasian appearance haha.

Ha. It's been all the rage since the '80s to bleach blonde and do plastic...

senkun

@senkun said in What are you playing?:

@gamer85 said in What are you playing?:

@senkun said in What are you playing?:

@gamer85 said in What are you playing?:

Hey there. Won't work with mame4all, too old. G. Parodius runs perfectly with lr-mame2003, no special settings needed. Make sure you have the proper .78 romset.

Under lr-mame2003 I am unable to get .78 romset version of gokuparo.zip to work. When I launch it, just shows black screen and returns back to Retropie. What is your zip file size? Any ideas?

Tried another rom source? Or rebuilt one just to be sure? It's been a long time but I just double checked and played the game again, works perfectly on mine. fwiw my gokuparo.zip is 5,632 KB

I'll check everything again later, got some time to spare and we'll get you sorted.

Dug around my system for a bit and bingo! Found it, completely forgot about it but thankfully the filename isn't cryptic so that jogged my memory. You need a bios file named konamigx.zip - Gokujyo Parodius is one of the few Konami games that came on a Konami GX JAMMA main board. There were a couple of sub-types of that board, now what I don't remember is where I got my working bios from, so look for one that is 8712 Bytes.

gorgar

Columns 3 with the wife and Xybots!

whsiung

This thread is so long ...

Did anyone mention Game & Watch :)

mediamogul

@whsiung said in What are you playing?:

Did anyone mention Game & Watch :)

I play Donkey Kong II, both physically and through RetroArch, whenever I get a chance. I recently came across my old Mattel 'Masters of the Universe' LCD game from 1982. Seeing as how it's a clone of the extremely popular 'Dungeons & Dragons' from the year before, it might very well be the best He-Man video game of the era. Good stuff.

Edit: I've also recently been hooked on 'Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters' Arcade game. The gameplay is fantastic and the graphics are so perfectly of it's time that it looks like an idealized parody of an 80s arcade game from a movie. I highly recommend it.

gamer85

@senkun That was the problem, thank you for the solution - rebuild and that extra bios.

kikinaak

Zelda 3, and Uncharted Waters: New Horizons. Absolutely epic game for the SNES.
What else have I played today? Hm. Zelda (NES), Zombies Ate my Neighbors (SNES), Dungeons and Dragons Tower of Doom (mame)
Probably going to be firing up some Wizardry soon as I beat those. I am a sucker for dungeon crawls.

Meneer Jansen

@mediamogul said in What are you playing?:

Edit: I've also recently been hooked on 'Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters' Arcade game. The gameplay is fantastic and the graphics are so perfectly of it's time that it looks like an idealized parody of an 80s arcade game from a movie. I highly recommend it.

Wow! What a great game! Runs too slow on my Pi 1B but it's great! Voice samples, isometric (one of the first?) and great music!
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mediamogul

@Meneer-Jansen said in What are you playing?:

Wow! What a great game!

It's a lot of fun. Definitely one that I'll be revisiting for years to come.

BenWlson

Recently beat Zelda II (NES).
Currently playing:
Mega Man (NES).. Can't beat the first boss in the first Dr. Wily stage.
Legend of Zelda (NES)
Castlevania (NES)
The Guardian Legend (NES)
Super Metroid (SNES)
Final Fantasy Origins (PSX)
and trying for 100% in Super Mario World (SNES)

drake999

Lately I'm really enjoying Snatcher for the Sega/Mega CD. I'm quite proud of the fact that I'm nearly done the game and did not use any kind of guide. Of course some clues took me up to 20 mins or so to decipher. There really needs to be more games like this.

PetroRie

Going to play Fear Effect 1 and Fear Effect 2 on the PSX. I owned a copy back in the 90ties but I never managed to beat them. After this I probably play the Resident evil series on the PSX.

BenWlson

I recently beat Mega Man and Mega Man 2 for the first time ever. The original Mega Man is insanely difficult, and I could not get past the Yellow Devil in the 1st Dr. Wily stage without using the Select/Pause trick.

Mega Man 2 was a little easier, and I can see why it's widely considered one of the best games on the NES.

I now have to continue my way through the series.. I think it goes all the way to 10. This will take a while.

meleu

@BenWlson
You can add a spice to your playing using the RetroAchievements feature. There are some cool achievements for all the mega man series.

thrussmeister

@PiDad my favourite multiplayers are Knights of the round and sunset riders

indalecio

I'm playing Secret of Mana! It's been a good decade since I last played.

I had some atrocious slowdown similar to emulating it on my PSP, but after my canakit power supply came in the mail, the slowdown vanished thanks to no longer using a 2 amp cellphone charger.

mattrixk

I had a mate over for the weekend and we played through the Punisher arcade game on Final Burn Alpha. He loved playing as Nick Fury, smoking a cigar whilst kicking mobster butt.

We tried playing Metal Slug 1 on FBA, but we had some major slowdown when there was a boss onscreen. It was annoying but still playable.

However, the constant slowdown in TMNT and Turtles in Time were so bad as to be unplayable.

meleu

@mattrixk said in What are you playing?:

However, the constant slowdown in TMNT and Turtles in Time were so bad as to be unplayable.

I think the SNES version of Turtles in Time is more eye-candy than the arcade one. Unfortunately we don't have infinite coins... :-)

mattrixk

@meleu
I was playing the Turtles games in Final Burn Alpha. I should try them in MAME (after I eventually set up the controls. I'll get around to it some day), but in the mean-time I'll give the SNES version a go. Cheers.