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

meleu

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

does the snes ninja gaiden have achievements?

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

hooperre

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.

rig

@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 :(

Capeman

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.

edmaul69

@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?

backstander

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.

Capeman

@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

meleu

@Capeman looks fun!! Thanks for sharing!!

rig

@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.

PetroRie

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

Capeman

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.

edmaul69

@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.

Turgon

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.

A Former User

YES! WE GOT ANOTHER LINK TO THE PAST FAN!

gorgar

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

edmaul69

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

rig

@gorgar said in My All Time Favorite Game is... and Why?:

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

Yeah nestopia looks and sounds great, at least it did on Battletoads. That's the only game I tried it with. The problem I had with it was the input lag. If I was going to play an rpg I would use it ...Speaking of rgps I'm playing Shining Force cd right now on the pi. Shining Force was one of my favorite games as a kid. Totally stoked I can play it without having to buy a Sega cd. The game is good. It's like a poor mans Shining Force, but still good. It has that fantasy anime art style, just like the Genesis games

edmaul69

@rig i loved the shining force series. I beat all 3 parts of part iii. Luckily i knew the controls from beating the first part since the last 2 parts were only in japanese. One of the best rpg series.

Spiky

Lost Vikings... as a child, I played the DOS version. I spent hours and hours playing through it. Never managed to finish it, though.

There is also a sequel named Lost Vikings 2 with ugly graphics. I was amazed when I found out that there is SNES version of this game with the same graphics style the first game had.

rig

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

@rig i loved the shining force series. I beat all 3 parts of part iii. Luckily i knew the controls from beating the first part since the last 2 parts were only in japanese. One of the best rpg series.

I have never played shining force 3, I don't particularly care for 3d rpg graphics. Have you played shining force 2?" There is a "hard type hack" for it that is really good. I recommend it. It makes the game much much harder and the characters more balanced. The last boss is almost unbeatable.