What games are you playing this week? 2017-05-15

[space cadet]

I need to check out the psx version of diablo. I played the pc version way back.

[obsidianspider]

I just stumbled across Mariachi Entertainment System and it's incredible

[Omnija]

Turns out after playing bubble bobble part 2 and reaching level 24, we (as in me and my g/f) went into donkey kong and beat king k roll.

[meleu]

Just to keep the same feeling, I've started Contra Advance: The Alien Wars EX (GBA). Really fun and has cheevos: retroachievements.org/Game/2424

[Darksavior]

I just got a free pi3 from ordering ~$20 worth of stuff from arrow.com (deal's over if anyone was interested), so I can finally run a couple games my pi2 was incapable of running at fullspeed like the sega system32 games Arabian Magic, Golden Axe 2, and Spider-Man. Demon Front as well. Though, I had to downgrade to fba2012 for that one because even with an oc'd pi3 @ 1.3ghz, it still wasn't fullspeed in lr-fba.

[lilbud]

@meleu Are you just going to play all of the contra games and get achievements?

[meleu]

@lilbud something like that. Are you coming too?
I still have "Beat Contra (NES) without using Konami Code" in my ToDo list.

[lilbud]

@meleu no, I'm planning on running through the Dragon Quest games.

[meleu]

@lilbud it's a pity they don't have cheevos...

[pjft]

Metal slug 2, with the slowdown fix. Came up as a random game suggestion yesterday, and played it for a bit. Going for just 1 credit, I'm currently getting to the middle of the second mission.

It's great fun.

[mediamogul]

@pjft

Metal slug 2, with the slowdown fix.

It's funny, I was using the 'surprise me' feature of Emulation Station last night and this came up. I thought I'd play it for a little while before moving onto something else, but I ended up playing it most of the night.

[meleu]

@mediamogul , @pjft
If you guys like sidebars only overlays, don't forget this one made by @UDb23 : https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5798/metal-slug-2-overlay-for-lr-mame2003-and-lr-fbalpha

It's a good oportunity to use the rpie-art script ;-)
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/9686/rpie-art-easy-way-to-install-art-on-your-retropie

[mediamogul]

@meleu

Very nice! I need to start looking at adding those. Is there an option to install them all at once in the script?

[meleu]

@mediamogul said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-05-15:

Is there an option to install them all at once in the script?

Well, you just have to check all the options when you see this screen:

When there are more than one option you will see a screen to choose which one you want to install.

I hope you enjoy. :-)

[pjft]

@meleu Thanks for the heads up. I go through phases in regards to the overlays - at some times I really love them, and at other times I just want the clean look.

I will certainly look into it, though, even if just for fun :)

A question: will your script overwrite any per-rom overlay configuration we may have, or will it back them up and restore them when you remove them?

Thanks!

[meleu]

@pjft

A question: will your script overwrite any per-rom overlay configuration we may have, or will it back them up and restore them when you remove them?

When you install an overlay the script adds overlay-related configs to the rom config (if the file doesn't exist, it'll be created). When you uninstall the overlay, it removes only overlay related lines.

[pjft]

@meleu nothing short of spectacular. Well done!

A question, then: is there's already an overlay, will it add a second one on top of it, or replace it?

I'll test it out later anyway, but just curious:) I use overlays for my scanline effects.

[meleu]

@pjft said in What games are you playing this week? 2017-05-15:

A question, then: is there's already an overlay, will it add a second one on top of it, or replace it?

Replace it.

Feedbacks and suggestions about the script is always appreciated. ;-)

[pjft]

@meleu no need to, I suppose it's a minority use case :)

Thanks for putting this together!

[A Former User]

I've been watching a lot of ROM Hack videos lately. So I want to try some of them.
How do I do that?