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    My All Time Favorite Game is... and Why?

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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @meleu
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      @meleu funny enough i beat ninja gaiden probably 100 times as a kid. Of course i played on a 9 ft projection screen. So that might have helped some. :)

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      • meleuM
        meleu @edmaul69
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        @edmaul69 said in My All Time Favorite Game is... and Why?:

        i beat ninja gaiden probably 100 times as a kid.

        C'mon man! It isn't april 1st anymore! No need to lie! :-)

        I thought that only those asian gamers that beat Super Mario Bros blindfolded were able to beat Ninja Gaiden.

        Why don't you beat them again and register those in retroachievements?! :-)

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        • edmaul69E
          edmaul69 @meleu
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          @meleu does the snes ninja gaiden have achievements? I might try in that one since it has game saves. I would like to do it on the nes but i dont want to have to use savestates. And i cant do long gaming sessions because of my alternating strabismus. I have problems that make me start seeing double vision or everything starts looking wavy when i have too much eye strain from focusing.

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          • rigR
            rig
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            haha, yeah no save states on the nes ninja gaiden. The only person I know who beat it as a kid would leave his nes on overnight so he could try again the next day from where he left off.

            The hardest part about ninja gaiden is the last 2 forms of the final boss. however you can use a cheap trick to beat them by using the spiral atack, it kills any boss in 1 or 2 hits. Kind of hard to make it to the boss with this weapon but still easier than training yourself to beat the boss without it. That being said, the second form of the last boss is probably my favorite boss battle in videogamedome. So I like to do this battle without the trick....Hey what is your favorite boss battle?

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            • meleuM
              meleu @edmaul69
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              @edmaul69 said in My All Time Favorite Game is... and Why?:

              does the snes ninja gaiden have achievements?

              Yes!
              http://retroachievements.org/Game/498

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              • hooperreH
                hooperre
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                Almost impossible to pick one...

                First game I played was Super Mario Bros. just for some context. I'm a 1988 baby. The biggest jump I ever saw was when I went from N64 to XBox. When I played Halo... I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Awesome single player too.

                So... For diversity's sake... I'll say Halo: Combat Evolved.

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                • rigR
                  rig @edmaul69
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                  @edmaul69 , hey buddy tried out nestopia today with Battletoads. The good news is that I did not notice any graphical glitches and the sound was much better. I am outputting sound through the 3.5 mm jack so the sound is never perfect. The bad news I died a lot more than usual and I couldn't get pas the clingerwinger stage. I tried about 20 times (had to resort to save states) and I didn't even get close. I did beat the clingerwinger stage with the fceumm emulator and I usually beat it second try with original hardware. I ran a manual lag test with the 240p test suite. I average 0.5 frames lag with actual hardware; 1.5 frames with fceumm and 3.0 frames with nestopia :(

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                  • CapemanC
                    Capeman
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                    Mega Man 3, it was the first game I bought back when i was like 6 years old. It was so friggin hard, and i got the hugest sense of accomplishment when i finally beat my first boss (hard man) after like 50 tries and multiple days. Few years later i finally beat it, NES games were brutal.

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                    • edmaul69E
                      edmaul69 @rig
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                      @rig are you on hdmi? Have you tried putting your tv in game mode? As far as 3.5mm audio, did you set disable audio dither in your config.txt?

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                        backstander
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                        My all time favorite game is River City Ransom on the NES. It is a Beat 'em up with RPG elements. Way ahead of it's time and had a cool anime art style. They also made Super Dodge Ball and Crash 'n' the Boys: Street Challenge with the same art style. There is also a port of River City Ransom EX on the Gameboy Advance with several updates and bug fixes.

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                        • CapemanC
                          Capeman @backstander
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                          @backstander If you like the beat-em-up style of river city ransom, you'd probably like Super Boss Gaiden on SNES (if you don't already have it).

                          You play as the Sony CEO who just found out the super nintendo CD prototype went missing, and you rampage through you office building, beating up everyone you see. Similar controls and art style to river city. Worth a play, it's a free homebrew so here's the link (click the logo to download, it comes with instructions, box art and moves list):
                          https://superbossgaiden.superfamicom.org

                          Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                          • meleuM
                            meleu @Capeman
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                            @Capeman looks fun!! Thanks for sharing!!

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                            • rigR
                              rig @edmaul69
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                              @edmaul69 said in My All Time Favorite Game is... and Why?:

                              @rig are you on hdmi? Have you tried putting your tv in game mode? As far as 3.5mm audio, did you set disable audio dither in your config.txt?

                              I am not using hdmi, I output rgb from the gpio pins to a crt, I also use wired controllers. I have tried my best to reduce lag. I have not tried the disable dither trick. Today I hooked up sound with a sound card through the usb port. The sound is really really good now as long as the rom and emulator are outputting quality sound i.e. st dragon on 2003 mame sounds amazing. However if the rom and emulator are outputting poopy sound i.e. bubble bobble on mame 2003 it still sounds bad...a polished turd is still a turd I guess... I don't think the disable dither trick works with a usb sound card.

                              If anyone can beat the clinger winger stage on battletoads in under 5 attempts using an emulator that looks and sounds decent please let me know.

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                                PetroRie
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                                I really cannot answer this question there are so many great retro games, I still find new good MAME games which I really enjoy.

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                                • CapemanC
                                  Capeman
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                                  Oops, im really stupid, i flagged a post for accidentally being on the wrong thread, while i was on the wrong thread... If the moderators could ignore me being stupid that'd be greaaaat... WOW, good morning.

                                  Vector Artist, Designer and Maker of Stuff: Laser Cut Atari / Pixel Theme Bartop

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                                  • edmaul69E
                                    edmaul69 @Capeman
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                                    @Capeman you have to be really careful with that. My previous username got permanently banned from one flag for the exact same thing you flagged it for and i had to set up a different email and username. So any person you flag has the potential of being permanently banned. It is another company that controls that stuff.

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                                    • TurgonT
                                      Turgon
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                                      Many favorites: Lords of Midnight on the spectrum, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Monkey Island, Civilization, Wing Commander and X-Wing on the PC and FF VII on the PlayStation. Warlords on the Amiga and Mario Kart on the Gamecube for the epic multiplayer night sessions. But looking back now and watching how all these games aged, my ultimate favorite has to be Zelda - A Link to the Past.

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                                        A Former User
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                                        YES! WE GOT ANOTHER LINK TO THE PAST FAN!

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                                          gorgar @rig
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                                          @rig I think nestopia fixes some aspect ratio bugs as well. The S of Score was cropped for me in castlevania, nestopia corrected this!

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                                          • edmaul69E
                                            edmaul69 @gorgar
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                                            @gorgar you can fix the overscan crop in retroarch to keep it from cropping in fceumm

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