Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity"

cyperghost

Do you think it is possible to port Flashback - Quest do Identity to Raspberry Pi. The game was ported to several plattforms (Amiga, DOS, SNES, Megadrive, PSX, 3do....) so why not for Debian?

For all who don't know that cracker:

As you maybe know... there's a SDL-port for windows available. So the chances are not bad for successfull porting.
Here we go :)

http://cyxdown.free.fr/reminiscence/

Brigane

@cyperghost
The port has already been made :)
https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/

Riverstorm

@Brigane said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@cyperghost
The port has already been made :)
https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/

That's really slick! Several classics there. There's another one from that era/genre that I always liked called "Heart of Darkness". It's similar to Flashback and Out of this World/Another World.

Riverstorm

I guess it's the same guy behind it. Out of this World/Another World and Heart of Darkness. No wonder it had similar elements. That might be another good addition since the other two games are already ported. :)

Programmer:
Eric Chahi

Game:
Heart of Darkness

cyperghost

@Riverstorm
Wow didn't know about the collection.
So thank you. It would be fine if some of these ports will be native available in RetroPie.
I saw that "Chocolate Doom" is also installable. So instead of "Crispy Doom" we can run Heretic and/or Hexen - I was able to run it via PiKiss (search via Google)

Thank you for the info

Brigane

@Riverstorm
Heart of Darkness is available for the PS1 too :)

Riverstorm

@Brigane said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Riverstorm
Heart of Darkness is available for the PS1 too :)

Thanks for that information. It's one of my favorites. True classics for sure. :)

Riverstorm

@Riverstorm said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Brigane said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Riverstorm
Heart of Darkness is available for the PS1 too :)

Thanks for that information. It's one of my favorites. True classics for sure. I remember playing it via Windows but I imagine PS1 would be just as good. Does the Playstation emulator work good on the Pi? :)

Brigane

@Riverstorm said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Riverstorm said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Brigane said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Riverstorm
Heart of Darkness is available for the PS1 too :)

Thanks for that information. It's one of my favorites. True classics for sure. I remember playing it via Windows but I imagine PS1 would be just as good. Does the Playstation emulator work good on the Pi? :)

It should work just fine on both Pi2 & Pi3 in my opinion :)

Riverstorm

@Brigane said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Riverstorm said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Riverstorm said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Brigane said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

@Riverstorm
Heart of Darkness is available for the PS1 too :)

Thanks for that information. It's one of my favorites. True classics for sure. I remember playing it via Windows but I imagine PS1 would be just as good. Does the Playstation emulator work good on the Pi? :)

It should work just fine on both Pi2 & Pi3 in my opinion :)

Thanks Brigane, I never used the Playstation emulator but now I have a good reason to test it out. :)

Brigane

@Riverstorm my pleasure :)

cyperghost

Thanks Brigane, I never used the Playstation emulator but now I have a good reason to test it out. :)

Really? I think the PSX emu even on the RPi1 ran fine

Riverstorm

@cyperghost said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

Really? I think the PSX emu even on the RPi1 ran fine

Yeah it wasn't a performance thing or anything like that. I grew up mainly with the Commodore VIC-20, 64, 8086, 8088, 386, 486, Pentium, II, etc. but not so much consoles until later in life except like the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision . I'm a bit of a PC guy at heart but still very much enjoy consoles. This thread kind of sparked the idea of replaying some of those old classics via console vs. DOS so I am trying to get it up and running on the Pi. :)

cyperghost

To be true I am not a big fan of the PSX. There are some really good games available but most they are pumped up with video and audio.
Video format is in most cases a SMK format and audio is red book. So the PSX games are often bloated with unnecessary data.

So for me the best game devices/consoles were the arcade and the SNES/Genesis. I possesed one Atari 2600 even with PACMan .... in my memory the games were much better :) I think it's the emulation that lacks here, not the games :D

I grew up with an Amstrad CPC 6128, of course the Commodore 64 game titels were much better.

But if you want to play PSX: The conversions of Syndicate Wars, Hi-Octane and XCom are close to the PC versions. So maybe you can deal with them.

Riverstorm

@cyperghost said in Port "Flashback - Quest for Identity":

But if you want to play PSX: The conversions of Syndicate Wars, Hi-Octane and XCom are close to the PC versions. So maybe you can deal with them.

Some classics, I will definitely check the conversions out. I have a soft spot for the C64 that was smack dab in the middle of my adolescence. My brother was more of a console guy so I do remember hanging at his place playing NES, SNES and the N64. Castlevania was a big one for me on the 64 but there's still something wrong with the overlays or something in emulation at the start but it's plenty playable.

I agree there's something to say about simpler times, simpler graphics & just simpler game play that works for me to this day. I suppose it's more tied to my youth and the guys I hung out with playing than the actual game, probably both, but either way I still get a lot of enjoyment out of the simple plain blocks & shapes of some of those games back in the day. I sure miss arcades. :)