What games are you playing this week? 2017-05-08

[celly]

@obsidianspider I found an english translation and timer fix for BS Zelda Ancient Stone Tablets Week 1 and I've been plugging away at it. It's got the whole Link to the Past feel, which I really enjoy.

[meleu]

I'm trying to get all the achievements for Donkey Kong (Gameboy).

[mediamogul]

@meleu

Nice! DK '94 is easily one of the top ten original Game Boy titles. How far through it are you? I'm finishing up 'Famicom Wars' myself and then it's onto 'Super Famicom Wars'.

[meleu]

@mediamogul said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-05-08:

DK '94 is easily one of the top ten original Game Boy titles. How far through it are you?

Fully agree. It's a great game.

I'm currently at stage 6-7. The achievements are pretty much just a "progress log", there are only two challenging cheevos: get 50 lives and get 99 lives. I think I'll need to start from the beginning and play better to get them, but for now I'm focusing on finish the game.

[meleu]

Phew!

Edit well, there's something wrong with the image upload feature. I tried to post that I finished Donkey Kong (Gameboy).

[mediamogul]

@meleu

Nice! Any plans to play the 'Mario vs Donkey Kong' followups? They're pretty good too.

[meleu]

@mediamogul well I started with that, but I prefer the old style graphics of the '94 version (retronerd 🤓).

[mediamogul]

@meleu

That's understandable. It's a definite classic.

Fun fact; It's also the first time Donkey Kong wears his now famous red tie. Nintendo was looking for a way to better market his appearance. Previously, without Mario at his side, it was impossible to distinguish him from any other cartoon gorilla you might see on the street.

[meleu]

Now the image was correctly uploaded:

Let me dedicate this week to the gorilla theme... :-)

Now I wanna try to get the badge for Toki (NES). But beat the game without dying is quite challenging... I think I can reach the last boss without dying, but I always lose some lives in it...

[obsidianspider]

@meleu What exactly is this "RetroAchievements" thing? I went to the website and it looks like it's some sort of leader board for older games?

[meleu]

@obsidianspider said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-05-08:

@meleu What exactly is this "RetroAchievements" thing? I went to the website and it looks like it's some sort of leader board for older games?

It's like those trophies in PlayStation Network.

There are some conditions you have to do in the game to "get the achievement". In some games the achievements is just a progress log: "finish the stage 1", "complete the bonus stage", "beat the game". But there are some really challenging achievements, like "beat the game without dying", "beat the game in less than 2 hours", "defeat the boss without being harmed".

Do you get it?

[obsidianspider]

@meleu I think so. Neat idea.

[meleu]

@obsidianspider Why not try? Create an account an then configure it in your RetroPie: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroAchievements/

[meleu]

@obsidianspider There are some funny achievements too. Like in Contra (NES):

• Hydrophobia: don't touch the water on stage 1.
• Don't press left in the stage 1.

In Super Mario Land (Gameboy):

• Coin Allergy: reach world 2-1 without collecting a coin.

As you see, it's just a funny way to revisit those games in a way you would never play if there were no achievements... :-)

[mediamogul]

@meleu

Those are the ones I prefer most. It's a bit like 'NES Remix'. I wish every game had more of them.

[backstander]

@meleu
Yeah, I also prefer the funny ones. These remind me of the "Little Rocket Man" trophy/achievement for Half-Life 2. There's a garden gnome near the beginning of the game that you have to carry with you through most of the game and put it in a rocket just before you blast it off into space lol. I accomplished this on my 2nd play-through. I remember taking screenshots of the gnome along the way!

[lilbud]

@meleu said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-05-08:

Hydrophobia: don't touch the water on stage 1.
Don't press left in stage 1.

I actually got both of those on my first run, unknowingly.

[meleu]

@lilbud you didn't press left "accidentally" or did you think "I'll go all over this stage without touching left on the d-pad"?

I think the part where one may have a strong desire to press left is while positioning to shoot the boss.

[lilbud]

@meleu I just didn't press left at all, never thought about it.

[meleu]

I think I'm done with gorillas for this week...

I don't have enough patience to try to complete the game without losing a life. So I think I can survive without that badge. :-)

Now I'm going to try to focus on eliminating an old item I have on my "things to do before die" list since I was 12 years old: finish Little Nemo - The Dream Master (NES).