What are the top 5 games you currently enjoy playing the most on your Pi and why?
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@BillyH said in What are the top 5 games you currently enjoy playing the most on your Pi and why?:
5 - Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis (ScummVM). I think it's my second favourite point and click game (after Day Of The Tentacle), yet it will probably never get a remaster.
4 - Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace (PS1). Okay, so it's not exactly a great game but it's got a big nostalgia factor for me (and I'm young enough to initially like the TPM movie when it was released). Never got through the entire thing back in the day.
3 - Grand Theft Auto 2 (PS1). I never had a PS1 (I had the N64 then) but I bought a few games to play on my brother's PS1; GTA 2 is definitely my favourite even though it has less of a nostalgia factor for me than The Phantom Menace.
2 - Donkey Kong Country trilogy (SNES). The first game was a great experience back in the day. Played through it again last year but I really began to notice the downside of RCA output to HD screen, and I'm getting increasingly afraid of the batteries in the cartridges dying on me. I've recently bought the second and third game of the trilogy, never really got into those as a kid, but haven't played them yet on the SNES so I hope I'll take the time for them soon, to get into the mood for Tropical Freeze on the Switch.
1- Super Mario 64 (N64). One of the N64 games that the Pi 3 can reasonably handle, and about the only game I've already played more than a few minutes of on RetroPie. I doubt if I'll be able to get through the game before it's rereleased on the Switch though (sorry RetroPie, but any game on you that comes to the Switch, I'll play on there instead).And @Impman66, I thought the movie Pixels was pretty funny, though, as one of my geek friends put it, seeing as the movie is in 3D it should have been named Voxels.
That was my list over a year ago. I've put my RetroPie aside for a while, with what little gaming time I had going to either the Switch or the N64, with some room to play the newest Assassin's Creed and Hitman games on PS4. I've returned to RetroPie recently though, and find myself playing several games again.
I've put GTA 2 beside me for now, and as for Super Mario 64, since last year I've bought an N64 so I can play my games regularly again. For PS1 and SNES, I really appreciate the RetroPie shaders so the games look good on my big modern television, but for N64 I feel the most comfortable way to play is with the original controller, and it helps that the N64 emulation isn't perfect. It also helps for PS1 and SNES that I think those original controllers are less comfortable, so I have no problems with swapping those for the Switch wired controller that I've bought for the RetroPie.
That being said, I guess this would be my current list:
5 - Donkey Kong Country trilogy (SNES). The first game was a great experience back in the day. Played through it again two years ago but I really began to notice the downside of RCA output to HD screen, and I'm getting increasingly afraid of the batteries in the cartridges dying on me (these are two big reasons of why I've bought a Pi and installed Raspberry on it). I've recently bought the second and third game of the trilogy, never really got into those as a kid, but haven't played them yet on the SNES so I hope I'll take the time for them soon. I've played through Tropical Freeze on the Switch by now, but I still want to finally play through the original trilogy.
4 - Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace (PS1). Okay, so it's not exactly a great game but it's got a big nostalgia factor for me (and I'm young enough to initially like the TPM movie when it was released). Never got through the entire thing back in the day.
3 - Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis (ScummVM). I think it's my second favourite point and click game (after Day Of The Tentacle), yet it will probably never get a remaster.
2 - Asterix & Obelix (SNES). So I've actually beaten this on cartridge contrary to DKC2-3 and JP, but I still find the ease of continuing where you left off with save files makes games like these so much more fun to replay than with passwords.
1- Jurassic Park (SNES). I've even quite recently turned on the SNES to try and play this again. Next to Super Castlevania IV, Jurassic Park on the SNES is probably my favourite game that I never actually finished. I've found that I just don't have the time to figure everything out, but I've started using save states now and I'm a few hours into the game, hopefully I find enough gaming time to finish this by the end of this month. I might go for Jurassic Park 2 afterwards, which is another game I like but have never gotten through. -
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actually, downloading ROMs is not illegal IF you own the games for the ROMs you download and IF you do not sell them.
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@the-doctor Where do you get this right to download ROMs? These are digitized data of hardware you do not own. You are free to make a backup of the individual game you own. Its a different ROM file than the one you would download. So, just owning a game does not give you the permission or right to download ROMs from internet. You never paid for a digital copy and if you did, you were only allowed to download the digital copy THEY give you.
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@thelostsoul First, you don't have a "right" to download ROMs, just like you don't have a "right" to buy or own games or movies, and second, if there so illegal, then how come when you look up "ROMs" there are 8 ROM websites ON THE FIRST PAGE, plus, almost ALL ROMs are of discontinued games that you cant buy from Nintendo or SEGA or whoever the heck made them in the first place because the consoles are all discontinued and they don't make the games anymore either, so what harm is it doing to ANYONE anyway, and plus, copyrighting is not illegal IF you are not making ANY profit from it.
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@the-doctor AND, when you google "roms" there are 21 pages
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@the-doctor 1. Google hits don't say anything about legality, but rather (overwhelmed) prosecution. 2. As does discontinuation, but did you notice that Nintendo & Co. do still sell older games with their Classic Mini consoles and online services? 3. You didn't answer @thelostsoul's question for your sources, so I guess you're just arguing out of your gut feelings.
@dankcushions Sorry for this (one and last) reply, but I just couldn't leave this unchallenged.
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Hard to say because I haven't tried them all yet. Although I'm pretty sure the Pi 4 I have would have zero problems with the vast majority of Sega Genesis games if what I've been told is correct. People have said and apparently shown videos of the earlier Pi systems effortlessly running old Sega games.
The only one I've tried on the Pi4 so far is Ristar, from my Genesis classics collection library on Steam, and I've got to say I am impressed with the result so far. No crashes or graphical errors are apparent, correct me if I'm wrong but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong and it seems to run at the correct speed and pace.
I got a cartridge dumping device also, for ripping cartridge games not listed in the classics collection.
It's PCB and software only, it's not a Retrode, but it's good enough for my purposes. -
@dankcushions I was just looking for good games, not trying to start arguments.
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@clyde 1: Yes, I understand your urge to not want to leave this unchallenged, 2: watch this video FULLY (WARNING, there are some bad jokes.):
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@clyde By the way, the Nintendo and whoever else mini consoles don't have EVERY discontinued game, and plus, the mini consoles are basically just emulators anyways, and plus, I am not seeing any question on sources, and third, I was never "arguing because of my gut feelings", I was just making a statement, and I am sorry that you thought that you were so smart that you could not even try to understand what I was trying to say, what I was trying to say is not that Roms are 100% legal no matter what, I was just saying that UNDER THE RIGHT CONDITIONS, they CAN not are, CAN be legal
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You guys are clearly in different parts of the world, your legal discussion is futile.
Distribution is always illegal, profit plays no part.
The laws regarding downloading copyrighted media, are all over the place, in some places it is not legal, and in some places it is.
Not making profit or the copyright owner not making their product available for sale, does not change your rights in way way.
Go to your local legal lawfirm when they have free walk-ins, if you want further information regarding your rights in your region.My Top 5 games currently are:
1 Outrun (Arcade)
2 ToeJam & Earl (Megadrive/Genesis)(played in co-op)
3 Xeno Crisis (Megadrive/Genesis)(played in co-op)
4 Soul Calibur (Dreamcast)
5 Afterburner (Arcade) -
- Pang (Amiga): I always use this game to check I have the Amiga emulator working, completed it countless times on all difficulty levels. I'd argue the Amiga version is better than the arcade one.
- Super International Cricket (SNES): I do enjoy a quick 10 over game on this from time to time. I miss sports games being simplistic in their controls.
- Gain Ground (MAME): Friend got me into this via the Mega Drive version. Great action game with added strategy of needing to pick the best person for the level.
- Rick Dangerous (Amiga): Annoyingly difficult game but addictive all the same.
- Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES): Quite possibly my favourite game of all time. Can't help but play through it again and again from time to time. The cartridge I've had since the game launched has my 102% save file sat on it (long as the battery hasn't died).
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@badfurday still, I wonder if the RetroPie system is capable of using the RTC module for battery save function on Gameboy games, because without it the time and date system does not work in Pokemon.
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@agtrigormortis I've heard of Windows based emulators that can use your computer clock, like Visualboy Advance, but I couldn't say for sure on RetroPie if they can. Maybe someone else can verify.
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@badfurday I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it does, I mean Nintendo/Game Freak managed it on the 3DS on Virtual Console so I'm pretty sure fans who are knowledgeable on programming would find a way.
the battery system on the cartridge functions exactly like the CMOS battery on PC motherboards, it retains some information about your computer, including your BIOS settings. Similarly Pokemon stored in-game progress as well as time and date. Flash memory is good at storing some data, but one thing it can't do is allow the device to keep track of what time and day it is, only volatile memory can do this because the information isn't frozen.
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@crush have you watched the video I posted on here? if you did not, here it is, again, WATCH IT FULLY (caution, some bad jokes):
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Doesn't seem to apply, and no i'm not going to watch the whole thing, i did look at all the sources he listed below the vid. it's not relevant.
Anyways this thread has been hijacked enough, i don't care what people do, just don't go around spreading bad info.Here's a definitive solution:
@crush said in What are the top 5 games you currently enjoy playing the most on your Pi and why?:Go to your local legal lawfirm when they have free walk-ins, if you want further information regarding your rights in your region.
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All, please stop hijacking the thread, especially an old one. @The-Doctor - you have been warned once already.
If you want to chat about the thread's original topic, please do. If not, please stop posting in this thread.
I'll update my list of games:
1 - Rainbow Islands
2 - Elevator Action Returns
3 - Bonanza Bros
4 - Bubble Memories
5 - Confidential Mission (with a lightgun)
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