What games are you playing this week? 2017-02-20

[celly]

On RetroPie, Demon Front on FBA. Its a gem I found that plays a lot like Metal Slug, and I'm a big fan of the Metal Slug games.

Outside of RetroPie, i've been trying to make a few new songs in LSDJ. When I have time. I collect and mod gameboys. It is an addiction...

[pjft]

I've been mostly tinkering these past few days, with slight overclocking and potentially installing a fan. My oldest son (3) regularly asks me to play "scary ghosts" (Pacman), "taxi" (crazy taxi) and "ball jumping on squares with snake" (Qbert) still those have been the main games I've been playing. Had never played Crazy Taxi and I'm kind of surprised that it is such a fun game. Mindless, inconsequential, short lived arcade fun.

It's that one that's taking me through the GPU overclocking and fan for the Dreamcast emulator, though.

[obsidianspider]

I managed to complete Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Gameboy) though I will admit I needed some online help to find all of the hidden exits.

Now on to Super Mario Land (Gameboy)

[willieaames]

I wish Doki Doki Panic weren't a Famicom disk system game so I could play it on my Retron 5.

[Capeman]

I got my wife off Tetris and onto Dr. Mario, now she's obsessed with it! Im slowly getting her used to more complicated puzzle games, next might be Tetris 2 or Puzzle Bobble... i don't think she's ready for Puzzle Fighter 2 yet.

[hooperre]

Yo how are y'all getting your wife to play video games and not call you stupid for playing them yourself? Haha.

[obsidianspider]

Since I have a cold and I don't think soldering will go well I decided to spend the day actually playing some games instead of working on a Pi project. Doki Doki Panic is so weird because I grew up with Super Mario 2, so the slightly different sound effects and characters are like living in an alternate universe.

[Danorak1981]

Super Mario World on the SNES: I think it's such a brilliant game, and has still had me swearing a few times too. Loved it from the day of it's release and can't see me ever getting fed up of it...

Bart vs the Space Mutants on the NES (my first ever console game when I was about 8, and still devilishly unforgiving at times!)

Aside from a few casual Friendlies on Sensible World of Soccer on the Amiga, thats the lot. I want to enjoy each game one game at a time. I want to get stuck into The Legend of Zelda on the SNES as I never completed it when I was younger, but my original memory card corrupted about 3 months ago and I lost a huge amount of progress, so although I will start it again at some point, Super Metroid will be next (always wanted it but never had it so looking forward to that)...

[mediamogul]

@Danorak1981

Bart vs the Space Mutants on the NES

The first level of that game has some amazingly good and highly unique ideas. Unfortunately every other level, as well as the game's two sequels devolve into a pretty mediocre item collecting platformer experience with a frustratingly awkward jump mechanic. That being said, I drag each of them out to play fairly regularly, so I guess I must enjoy them all to some end.

[RumblinBuffalo]

@mediamogul said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-02-20:

@RumblinBuffalo

Beating Mike Tyson is a holy grail event for emulation due to the various causes for input lag. When you finally beat him, please come back to share it. It's an achievement that not too many can claim.

After probably a couple hundred tries I finally defeated Mike Tyson tonight. Second round TKO. It took some patience and frustration but I got him! It's amazing how fast I can key in the passcode though!

Then to celebrate I played a round of Donkey Kong (MAME), Metal Slug (Neo Geo), and Space Taxi (C64).

[mediamogul]

@RumblinBuffalo

Revel in it my friend. Like I said, there's quite a few people out there who will argue it's impossible under emulation. While I haven't done it myself, I've always thought it could happen with an adjustment of timing and quite a bit of practice. Nice work!

[RumblinBuffalo]

@mediamogul Thanks! I was starting to think it might be impossible. I know that lag exists but generally speaking the game feels pretty good. I really didn't think that was the only reason for how tough it was. I thought maybe a combination of the lag, controller (iBuffalo slightly clicky - not quite as tight/precise as the NES original), and my reflexes/nerves. But I was never able to make it clean through round 1 (which I know I had done at least once or twice on the actual NES), so I would think with the game being so hugely demanding on the reflexes, those extra milliseconds might've been a factor.

[mediamogul]

@RumblinBuffalo said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-02-20:

I was starting to think it might be impossible.

There are a lot of videos with people who have beaten it on actual hardware that give up after only a few tries and label it impossible, but to me it always seems more like they're just embarrassed to be seen on camera losing more than a few times. I might have to give it a go myself sometime soon. I bet I could get a trophy from Nintendo if I managed to beat it with a Power Glove.

[hooperre]

Got Civ 2 running on Win 3.1. Bye world.

[Darksavior]

@obsidianspider too bad retropie doesn't have the PC shaders :(. I would love to start on some gb games on the pi but i'm so spoiled to what it looks like on pc

[pjft]

@Darksavior Oh, wow.

What's that shader's name? Any reason why it can't be used on/copied over to RetroPie?

[Darksavior]

@pjft https://github.com/libretro/common-shaders/blob/master/handheld/gb-pocket-shader.cgp
There's also a green version.
I made a thread a while back about it. One guy tried to get it working but it was so slow and nowhere near as good. I'm rather new to shaders so I don't know why it's not on retropie.

[obsidianspider]

@Darksavior That's a really nice looking shader. It normally just run without any shaders, but for something dot matrix like a Gameboy I would really like that.

[pjft]

Got it, thanks.

I see, it is quite taxing on the CPU.

I'll see if there's anything I could do with overlays and shaders as well, but @edmaul69 seems to have done quite a bit of work already with little success, so I'm not going to hold my hopes up.

I love this grey one, though, more than the green one. It's wonderful.

[Capeman]

I spent a half hour or so blasting interstellar bolsheviks last night!